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Lessons learned on the way to the store
After spending a long summer afternoon doing the circuit we are all so familiar with (Costco, Wal-Mart then some other market of choice), spending our hard earned money on essentials for our family we spotted a respectable looking couple on the side of the road holding a sign ... "Stranded, need money for gas." My husband, being a generous man, asked me to get $20 from his wallet, turned around on the highway and handed the desperate couple the cash. We drove away reminding our young children that when able, we should always offer assistance to those in need. I learned that made an impact on my children today, while driving on Topsy Lane and my son asked, "Mom, what does his sign say?" Unfortunately I had to tell him the sign said, "Stranded, need money for gas." So, we all learned another valuable lesson today.
stacie gunderson
Minden
Mexicans should respect U.S. law and customs
Nicholas Sosa's letter of Oct. 2 regarding immigrant "persecution" made an excellent point, but there is another side. Persons of all races and national origin should be respected. However, respect is a two-way street. Respect our country by not flying the flag of the country you came from. You don't live there anymore - always remember that. Despite Mexico's president saying that Mexico is wherever Mexicans are, that is treason to the United States' independence and freedom. Mexico has boundaries as do all countries. It does not extend into the U.S. Respect the environment. Overpopulation damages our air, water, and land. Mexicans must denounce having multiple children in order to respect and stridently practice the U.S. culture of birth control and family planning. Critical for the environment as well as avoiding family poverty. Respect our language. Our country was founded on the English Common Law and English language. If the French, Germans, Italians, etc. can learn English, everyone else can, too. My German grandfather was harshly punished by his father for not wanting to go to school and speak English. So he did, as should all other immigrants. People from all countries can, should be, and will be respected if they live like, eat like, talk like, and call themselves Americans with no hyphenation.
wolfgang nordmeyer
Carson City
Iraq war money would be better spent in U.S.
Robert Gates is the terror on war - $190 billion dollars to throw away in Iraq and Afghanistan while our children and seniors are starving and the majority of the American people do not have health insurance. To use $190 billion dollars in these countries is just the same as putting it in our shredders!
We must elect someone with some strong sense of what is happening in the United States of America while our money is being used to fight useless causes.
Get involved! Read! Vote!
kathleen st. germain
Carson City
No sympathy for lawbreakers
Hello! Does anyone care that the ICE raids began because of an identity theft investigation? If a white American had stolen someone's identity and someone discovered it, they would be busted too! Let's not overshadow this fraud with discussion of how sad it was that mom or dad wasn't there to pick the kids up from school. If I broke the law, I should probably consider that I may someday get caught and my kids would be left waiting too.
lacrissia locatelli
Carson City
No need to fear Max or his casino
"Argumentum ad hominem." That's a term in debate. It means you attack the person instead of the person's ideas. Never mind facts - you attack the person's character, appearance, personality, ego, sanity, intelligence, ethics, etc. You use name calling, insults and ridicule hoping your audience will believe that your opponent is a bad person and thus all his ideas are false, terrible and evil.
Appeal readers have seen a lot of this lately. Max Baer has been vilified so often that I wouldn't be surprised if small children started to cry when they saw him on the street.
Meanwhile, some facts have been lost.
1. The derrick/readerboard would be built on Topsy Lane which is the bottom of the hill Š not the top.
2. The lights can be angled downward and capping used to reduce the light in the night sky.
3. What night sky? Jacks Valley lost its night sky when Sun Ridge, Silver Crest and Target were built.
4. Max Baer's business would collect or pay at least eight taxes. Some would stay in the county and some would go to the state.
5. Redevelopment funds cannot go for casinos.
6. Now that a casino in Carson is going to use the name Bodine's, it is obvious that Max Baer needs the derrick/readerboard more than ever. He needs it to say that "This is the real Jethro Bodine's."
7. Big George should learn to make lemonade and build his RV park as close to Max's casino as possible. It will be full regularly.
8. Remember, the only people who win with those kinds of lawsuits are the lawyers.
Let's get on with the show.
laurie o'bryne
Jacks Valley
ICE tactics should not be tolerated
I am outraged as an attorney, mother of two boys, and a community member of the GESTAPO raids of ICE. These raids terrorize the entire community, including workers, of all colors, race and age. When making these raids who is targeted? Are the white workers, NO; brown workers, those legal and those maybe undocumented that have given billions of dollars to this country and have taken out little in terms of benefits. What about those who are arrested, seized, without any opportunity to defend themselves, what about their citizen children and their families? Yes, we can discuss this in meetings, BUT, we can also ACT, we can do as other communities have done, pass resolutions at the City Council level to make a clear statement that raids will not be tolerated in our community. We can encourage at every level that our local officials send a clear message to ICE that these raids are not to be tolerated in our community. We can set up a ICE Immigration Abuse Task Force led by local leaders, to bring immigration abuses to a neutral body and to prevent future raids. Terrorism is in our own backyard, ICE, first they come for the undocumented, then who is next, gays, lesbians, African-Americans, Jews, Muslims, Christians ... ?
faith sherry lessen, j.d.
Carson City
Wild horses penned in deplorable conditions
BLM, an agency entrusted to protect and "manage" America's wild horse/burros is nothing short of a travesty. Management means "attack and destroy" under your policy. BLM, controlled and guided by the public lands ranching corporation, snatches them off their legal habitat, rejects any VALID formal written appeals by the public that oppose the capture, and if any make it that far, are thrown into a facility like Palomino BLM Center under the auspices of anything BLM can conjure up to appease the naive public as the why so many deaths.
The latest victims are the Jackson Mountain wild horses, the land of the long time politically powerful Nevada anti-wild horse politicians Senator Dean Rhodes, side-kicks Assemblymen Carpenter, and Assemblymen Marvel and our governor. The culprit is salmonella, BLM says. Likely the public is exposed to as much or more salmonella from a carton of eggs or packaged chicken at the grocery store.
While at the closed center yesterday I witnessed a dead baby horse that could not have been more than 3-4 months old, lying among the other "weanlings." Yes, indeed the center is entrusted to protect and take care of America's wild horses and burros using neglect and outdated vet care/standards. It's cheaper that way, but it doesn't cost anything to allow them to stay on their legal habitats with their families and friends. The underweight mares with no milk for their babies and babies without their moms are only fed once a day, but are expected to do well.
I am confident that in the morning there will once again be a greenish hue around the feeders and on the ground where the poor mares and babies have cleaned up every bit of hay, while patiently anticipating their next daily hay rationing. God bless #0998 and #1047 and others. I have photos so you can't hide their existence if these very precarious little ones "disappear" under your horrific conditions at the center.
Shamefully, there are less free roaming wild horses/burros now than at the time the federal 1971 Wild Horse Annie Act was passed, but the captures/removals continue.
betty l. kelly
Carson City
Appalled at plea bargain for molester
After reading the article about an accused child molester in the Saturday, Sept. 29 paper, I am appalled at the actions of the District Attorney's office of Lyon County. They have decided to offer a plea bargain to the man(?) who is accused of molesting two young girls for the past two years. This, even with DNA proof of his guilt! Instead of standing trial on his true crimes he will apparently accept the charge of lewdness on Monday. Has Nevada's legal system sunk to the low held by states such as Vermont when it comes to this insane treatment of sexual predators?
Using the tired excuse of not wanting to put the victims on the stand to "protect" them is ludicrous. They have already been damaged by this vile, evil being and live with it every day. And who knows how many other innocent children will have their lives destroyed by his returning to the streets in a very short time.
But he may get two to 20 years is prison on the lewdness charge they say. Isn't that nice? Anyone care to bet how much actual time the scum will serve? Why are the very people who are sworn to protect us so gutless that they would even consider a plea bargain with child molesters and rapists?
ron kelly
Gardnerville
The Constitution is more than a piece of paper
Has America benefited from free trade? When many of us hold down two or three jobs while our standard of living still goes down? When millions can't afford their mortgages? When politicians run for office and say they represent us, yet where are the good-paying jobs? Overseas, perhaps? When we have little control over our borders, how can we say we rule ourselves with confidence? When those elected by the many continue to serve the richest few while drugs and criminals continue to cross our borders?
What has happened to America when the banks can charge more than the "loan sharks" used to? When "no-bid" contracts are given to companies like Halliburton and Blackwater with no accountability to anyone? When the top people in the administration, all coming from an oil background, start a bogus war for their own interests that, to date, is costing us half a trillion dollars, and Bush plans on asking for more but can't increase health care for our children? While the body count keeps rising: Three thousand dead, 28,000 wounded.
Our forefathers are no longer turning over in their graves - they're spinning like a top! What we need is a mental nuclear bomb to drop all over the Washington beltway, and instead of giving the oil companies a $30 billion subsidy, and alternative energy research only getting half a billion, reverse it! And watch all the big companies jump on the bandwagon, along with unemployed engineers, crawling out of the woodwork.
I'm so sick and tired of them deliberately and systemically dumping down America, instead of bring up the rest of the world to our "old" standards. "OF, FOR, AND BY THE PEOPLE." President Bush, you took an oath to the Constitution, and it's NOT just a "piece of paper" like you quoted a couple of years ago.
a. puthe
Carson City
After spending a long summer afternoon doing the circuit we are all so familiar with (Costco, Wal-Mart then some other market of choice), spending our hard earned money on essentials for our family we spotted a respectable looking couple on the side of the road holding a sign ... "Stranded, need money for gas." My husband, being a generous man, asked me to get $20 from his wallet, turned around on the highway and handed the desperate couple the cash. We drove away reminding our young children that when able, we should always offer assistance to those in need. I learned that made an impact on my children today, while driving on Topsy Lane and my son asked, "Mom, what does his sign say?" Unfortunately I had to tell him the sign said, "Stranded, need money for gas." So, we all learned another valuable lesson today.
stacie gunderson
Minden
Mexicans should respect U.S. law and customs
Nicholas Sosa's letter of Oct. 2 regarding immigrant "persecution" made an excellent point, but there is another side. Persons of all races and national origin should be respected. However, respect is a two-way street. Respect our country by not flying the flag of the country you came from. You don't live there anymore - always remember that. Despite Mexico's president saying that Mexico is wherever Mexicans are, that is treason to the United States' independence and freedom. Mexico has boundaries as do all countries. It does not extend into the U.S. Respect the environment. Overpopulation damages our air, water, and land. Mexicans must denounce having multiple children in order to respect and stridently practice the U.S. culture of birth control and family planning. Critical for the environment as well as avoiding family poverty. Respect our language. Our country was founded on the English Common Law and English language. If the French, Germans, Italians, etc. can learn English, everyone else can, too. My German grandfather was harshly punished by his father for not wanting to go to school and speak English. So he did, as should all other immigrants. People from all countries can, should be, and will be respected if they live like, eat like, talk like, and call themselves Americans with no hyphenation.
wolfgang nordmeyer
Carson City
Iraq war money would be better spent in U.S.
Robert Gates is the terror on war - $190 billion dollars to throw away in Iraq and Afghanistan while our children and seniors are starving and the majority of the American people do not have health insurance. To use $190 billion dollars in these countries is just the same as putting it in our shredders!
We must elect someone with some strong sense of what is happening in the United States of America while our money is being used to fight useless causes.
Get involved! Read! Vote!
kathleen st. germain
Carson City
No sympathy for lawbreakers
Hello! Does anyone care that the ICE raids began because of an identity theft investigation? If a white American had stolen someone's identity and someone discovered it, they would be busted too! Let's not overshadow this fraud with discussion of how sad it was that mom or dad wasn't there to pick the kids up from school. If I broke the law, I should probably consider that I may someday get caught and my kids would be left waiting too.
lacrissia locatelli
Carson City
No need to fear Max or his casino
"Argumentum ad hominem." That's a term in debate. It means you attack the person instead of the person's ideas. Never mind facts - you attack the person's character, appearance, personality, ego, sanity, intelligence, ethics, etc. You use name calling, insults and ridicule hoping your audience will believe that your opponent is a bad person and thus all his ideas are false, terrible and evil.
Appeal readers have seen a lot of this lately. Max Baer has been vilified so often that I wouldn't be surprised if small children started to cry when they saw him on the street.
Meanwhile, some facts have been lost.
1. The derrick/readerboard would be built on Topsy Lane which is the bottom of the hill Š not the top.
2. The lights can be angled downward and capping used to reduce the light in the night sky.
3. What night sky? Jacks Valley lost its night sky when Sun Ridge, Silver Crest and Target were built.
4. Max Baer's business would collect or pay at least eight taxes. Some would stay in the county and some would go to the state.
5. Redevelopment funds cannot go for casinos.
6. Now that a casino in Carson is going to use the name Bodine's, it is obvious that Max Baer needs the derrick/readerboard more than ever. He needs it to say that "This is the real Jethro Bodine's."
7. Big George should learn to make lemonade and build his RV park as close to Max's casino as possible. It will be full regularly.
8. Remember, the only people who win with those kinds of lawsuits are the lawyers.
Let's get on with the show.
laurie o'bryne
Jacks Valley
ICE tactics should not be tolerated
I am outraged as an attorney, mother of two boys, and a community member of the GESTAPO raids of ICE. These raids terrorize the entire community, including workers, of all colors, race and age. When making these raids who is targeted? Are the white workers, NO; brown workers, those legal and those maybe undocumented that have given billions of dollars to this country and have taken out little in terms of benefits. What about those who are arrested, seized, without any opportunity to defend themselves, what about their citizen children and their families? Yes, we can discuss this in meetings, BUT, we can also ACT, we can do as other communities have done, pass resolutions at the City Council level to make a clear statement that raids will not be tolerated in our community. We can encourage at every level that our local officials send a clear message to ICE that these raids are not to be tolerated in our community. We can set up a ICE Immigration Abuse Task Force led by local leaders, to bring immigration abuses to a neutral body and to prevent future raids. Terrorism is in our own backyard, ICE, first they come for the undocumented, then who is next, gays, lesbians, African-Americans, Jews, Muslims, Christians ... ?
faith sherry lessen, j.d.
Carson City
Wild horses penned in deplorable conditions
BLM, an agency entrusted to protect and "manage" America's wild horse/burros is nothing short of a travesty. Management means "attack and destroy" under your policy. BLM, controlled and guided by the public lands ranching corporation, snatches them off their legal habitat, rejects any VALID formal written appeals by the public that oppose the capture, and if any make it that far, are thrown into a facility like Palomino BLM Center under the auspices of anything BLM can conjure up to appease the naive public as the why so many deaths.
The latest victims are the Jackson Mountain wild horses, the land of the long time politically powerful Nevada anti-wild horse politicians Senator Dean Rhodes, side-kicks Assemblymen Carpenter, and Assemblymen Marvel and our governor. The culprit is salmonella, BLM says. Likely the public is exposed to as much or more salmonella from a carton of eggs or packaged chicken at the grocery store.
While at the closed center yesterday I witnessed a dead baby horse that could not have been more than 3-4 months old, lying among the other "weanlings." Yes, indeed the center is entrusted to protect and take care of America's wild horses and burros using neglect and outdated vet care/standards. It's cheaper that way, but it doesn't cost anything to allow them to stay on their legal habitats with their families and friends. The underweight mares with no milk for their babies and babies without their moms are only fed once a day, but are expected to do well.
I am confident that in the morning there will once again be a greenish hue around the feeders and on the ground where the poor mares and babies have cleaned up every bit of hay, while patiently anticipating their next daily hay rationing. God bless #0998 and #1047 and others. I have photos so you can't hide their existence if these very precarious little ones "disappear" under your horrific conditions at the center.
Shamefully, there are less free roaming wild horses/burros now than at the time the federal 1971 Wild Horse Annie Act was passed, but the captures/removals continue.
betty l. kelly
Carson City
Appalled at plea bargain for molester
After reading the article about an accused child molester in the Saturday, Sept. 29 paper, I am appalled at the actions of the District Attorney's office of Lyon County. They have decided to offer a plea bargain to the man(?) who is accused of molesting two young girls for the past two years. This, even with DNA proof of his guilt! Instead of standing trial on his true crimes he will apparently accept the charge of lewdness on Monday. Has Nevada's legal system sunk to the low held by states such as Vermont when it comes to this insane treatment of sexual predators?
Using the tired excuse of not wanting to put the victims on the stand to "protect" them is ludicrous. They have already been damaged by this vile, evil being and live with it every day. And who knows how many other innocent children will have their lives destroyed by his returning to the streets in a very short time.
But he may get two to 20 years is prison on the lewdness charge they say. Isn't that nice? Anyone care to bet how much actual time the scum will serve? Why are the very people who are sworn to protect us so gutless that they would even consider a plea bargain with child molesters and rapists?
ron kelly
Gardnerville
The Constitution is more than a piece of paper
Has America benefited from free trade? When many of us hold down two or three jobs while our standard of living still goes down? When millions can't afford their mortgages? When politicians run for office and say they represent us, yet where are the good-paying jobs? Overseas, perhaps? When we have little control over our borders, how can we say we rule ourselves with confidence? When those elected by the many continue to serve the richest few while drugs and criminals continue to cross our borders?
What has happened to America when the banks can charge more than the "loan sharks" used to? When "no-bid" contracts are given to companies like Halliburton and Blackwater with no accountability to anyone? When the top people in the administration, all coming from an oil background, start a bogus war for their own interests that, to date, is costing us half a trillion dollars, and Bush plans on asking for more but can't increase health care for our children? While the body count keeps rising: Three thousand dead, 28,000 wounded.
Our forefathers are no longer turning over in their graves - they're spinning like a top! What we need is a mental nuclear bomb to drop all over the Washington beltway, and instead of giving the oil companies a $30 billion subsidy, and alternative energy research only getting half a billion, reverse it! And watch all the big companies jump on the bandwagon, along with unemployed engineers, crawling out of the woodwork.
I'm so sick and tired of them deliberately and systemically dumping down America, instead of bring up the rest of the world to our "old" standards. "OF, FOR, AND BY THE PEOPLE." President Bush, you took an oath to the Constitution, and it's NOT just a "piece of paper" like you quoted a couple of years ago.
a. puthe
Carson City
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