- Foot In The Mouth Disease
- The Rohnert Park Bandidos
- Scandinavia Now!
- More Left
- It Hits The Fan
- Trump's Doing Fine
- Vineyard Crossing
FOOT IN THE MOUTH DISEASE
Editor,
The good news is that the president has an incurable disease: Foot in the Mouth. The bad news is that it has infected millions of supporters, anyone who has got near to him or his ideas. There is, evidently no cure or vaccine. Worse, so many Republicans have been infected that the epidemic is unlikely to abate any time soon. For those who wish to avoid being infected, only ear plugs can lessen the effect. But that does not inoculate them from the consequences. The CDC, Center for Disease Control, is nowhere to be found on this. The Council on Infectious Diseases is actually promoting the disease as a cure to everything from Nuclear Disaster to random violence on the part of those who are infected. One expert has diagnosed the disease as a pandemic that can infect the entire world if left unchecked. Only a quarantine of those infected may prove effective in limiting the casualties. The report goes on to say that the disease is especially prevalent in The White House, regions of the country subject to Fox New Propaganda, and out of work blue collar coal miners. What makes the disease even harder to control is that those who have been effective are communicable and seem to ignore any precautions to not infect others. The only optimistic prediction on the horizon is that with the cooler temperatures in the fall, especially early November, may dampen down the spread. But that is not to say that the disease will go away. Meanwhile, the president has resisted all measures to stop infecting people.
Stay tuned. And, try not to lose heart. An asteroid might just wipe out 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or a Golf course where the most infectious man in history spends so much time dreaming up more ways to disable so many.
So turns the world…
Frank Graham
Navarro
THE ROHNERT PARK BANDIDOS
Editor:
I read thorough the Press Democrat article regarding seizures of assets far beyond the policing area of Rohnert Park. What struck me was the silence of every city official and how each and every one of the City Council members remain silent. The use of “personnel issue” as a shield is pathetic.
Here we have officers 40 miles away making seizures of assets and marijuana with what appears to be little supervision and no accountability. The question begs every time I read about this fiasco: Why was this officer so far out of his jurisdiction? Where is the cash that nobody seems to know about?
What this situation needs is transparency. It’s not a personnel issue when money is missing from police stops that may have been made illegally and when the officer involved “resigns” as the investigation begins.
The Rohnert Park City Council, the mayor and the city manager need to explain to people, not just in Rohnert Park, but in Sonoma County, what’s going on here. The reason people outside Rohnert Park need to know is because Rohnert Park officers apparently do their work all over the county in what appears to be a nefarious manner. People in Sonoma County need to be leery of this force until they explain themselves. Transparency is needed here.
Murray Averick
Penngrove
SCANDINAVIA NOW!
Editor:
Most people don’t even know what socialism is.
Socialism, or democratic socialism, is a form of governing — a form of generous taxation — successful in Scandinavian countries (rated the “happiest countries on earth” by the World Happiness Report produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network). Socialism is a form of caring for all people. We have socialism but only for corporations, the moneyed and privileged. Socialism is what protected the auto industry and the banks, for example. It is helping those in need.
A Danish man once commented to me on our homeless population. He said, “You Americans force your mentally ill to live on the streets. You don’t take care of them.”
Of course not. We’re too busy taking care of billionaires. We can’t take care of the disabled, the elderly, single moms, schools for children. We can’t supply health care, housing subsidies or benefits to anyone. Well, anyone except the rich.
That’s why socialism has a bad name in our culture. Those in control want our tax dollars and benefits only for themselves. Resist! Make caring a greater value than wealth.
Marsha Taylor
Santa Rosa
MORE LEFT
Editor,
My perception is that your paper is out of balance. Not withstanding the need to report on local politics, you print far too many letters and articles about crime and criminals. You have far too few articles about national issues, especially when these days the nation is going fascist in a hurry.
You continually print letters from Jerry Philbrick, who is not only part of the solution, but is a big part of the problem. He is living proof that right wing propaganda works. Devoid of any critical thought, devoid of any respect for the rule of law, the Constitution, or truth itself, his point of view is pathetic; yet you print his rants every week. The question, then, is whether or not there is any possible way to get Philbrick to change his views. I think not. He is a lost soul in a nation rapidly losing its soul.
How about printing some articles by people on the left like you used to?
Lee Simon
from Virginia
IT HITS THE FAN
Editor,
I see where 17 people are dead on a lake in Missouri. What are the liberals going to do now? Protest against boats for killing all those people? I wouldn't doubt it.
San Francisco has stooped even lower was already as low as a snake’s belly. They are letting noncitizens and felons and illegal aliens vote. Amazing. The filthiest city in the world, the highest rentals, the highest taxes, and the most ungrateful sickening leadership — all because of Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown. How can the people allow this to happen? Sickening.
Now Jerry Moonbeam Brown has released 17 felon criminals into the public in the sanctuary area to meet up with their buddies. Right out in our society. People convicted of rape and you name it.
Things are happening in California that make me and a lot of other people sick. If we get another Democrat to lead this state the bleep will hit the fan. For a fact. How do these people get away with degrading our president, the Constitution, law enforcement, and anything that's good? Yet they claim they can vote and that they are citizens. They are not. They are illegal aliens. When you criticize the president openly like some of them do that's perjury or treason or whatever you want to call it. Okay, not perjury.
I was right when I said President Trump would win and that he would change things for the better. I will be right again when the conservative people rise up and crush those liberal idiots. I'll be very happy when that happens.
You non-Trumpers can kiss my butt. Better straighten out.
God bless Donald Trump
Jerry Philbrick
Comptche
TRUMP'S DOING FINE
Editor:
From my vantage point, President Donald Trump is excelling in his duties. He recently opened lines of communication with Russia via a sit-down session with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
Democrats and some GOP rinos seem disturbed that he didn’t issue ultimatums to Putin to stop meddling in our elections. Selected Democrats favor subpoenaing the interpreter to get testimony as to what was said in the closed meeting between Putin and Trump. Of course, contrary to radical progressive opinions, it is not necessary or desirable to disclose all matters of state to the voters.
I am OK with a soaring economy and emphasis on border security to include retention of the Immigration and Customers Enforcement agency. Peace through strength is a sound political policy favoring the well-being of all Americans.
It is my hope that the elite media that make it a habit to spin anti-Trump propaganda on a 24/7 basis cease and desist with their unprecedented anti-American obsession with presidential character assassination.
My recommendation is for voters to forget globalization, climate change and George Soros open-border-society radicalization and purchase a copy of Jeanine Pirro’s book titled, “Liars, Leakers, and Liberals.”
Do this before midterm elections; then cast your vote.
Robert D. Shoptaw
Fort Bragg
VINEYARD CROSSING
To the Editor:
Against the better counsel of my dedicated Guillon Inc. Company employees, I feel compelled to respond to persons who propagate, via newspaper, incorrect information or express unfounded allegations which are levied against my companies and the real estate industry in general. Hence, my personal comments are offered below to Don Crawford.
In a letter to the editor he mentioned that “Vineyard Crossing development, along with the current market frenzy provides nothing less than an engorged feeding ground for his (Dick Selzer’s) industry (real estate).” He states “recognize it’s self-aggrandizement” on Mr. Selzer’s part, and, “It’s all about the money.”
As we learned in 8th grade history and only reinforced with high school economics class, America is a capitalistic society. It is that system that built the greatest nation the world has ever known, with the basic premise that competition and free markets breed cost efficiencies resulting in price competitiveness (affordability) thus benefitting the consumer.
Today, we have individuals who no longer believe in a capitalistic society and would have us believe socialism is the answer to all social issues, housing included. Yes, it is “about the capital” (money), that is the point…the American dream. Capitalism is based on cost effective competition, who can best utilize money, material, labor, land and ingenuity to create the best product at the best price. What is missing from the above equation is government regulations, codes and yes, nimbyism and the subsequent impact on cost to deliver product at an affordable cost in the absence of cost benefit analysis…i.e., building homes working folks can afford in light of government inefficiencies.
His letter goes on to reference a housing summit (held April 12), in which community leaders (hospital, school and junior college, major employers etc.) attended and expressed concern about the ability to provide housing for their employees and students. He stated: “the developer assured the audience that some who might want to purchase one of his new products but couldn’t quite meet the financial requirements could be assisted with special arrangements by HIS (Crawford’s emphasis) finance department…”
I am personally offended by Mr. Crawford’s apparent bias. Guillon Inc. Companies, Savings Bank of Mendocino, along with the Community Development Commission are working on a unique approach to helping working families with one of the biggest impediments to home ownership, down payments. Please be advised our company receives no remuneration whatsoever from this program, it only costs us money. Perhaps Mr. Crawford, as a concerned citizen and evidently smarter than our company and Mendocino Bank, can “invest” some of “his own” money and come up with a better way to assist home buyers, or create more affordable housing. He can have his own “infomercial,” he could then become a productive producer of housing employing “his own money” rather than simply being a pontificator of nonsense absent any investment. He may now hopefully get back in his chair.
Regarding the conversion of agricultural land Crawford said: “poor stewardship and an ulterior motive by the owner.”
Here, he is incredibly wrong. First, the land is owned by the Dolans, one of the premier stewards of the agricultural land, who have continually demonstrated the desire to preserve, enhance agriculture and the natural environment. Further, the Dolans too recognize the housing shortage that is crippling the Ukiah Valley, hence why we are proposing the project.
I recommend that you read the studies and analysis done by professional consultants and folks in the business of farming, who are the most knowledgeable people in the room. They are available at the County.
Finally, Crawford’s letter states “there are answers and there will be necessary compromises and sacrifices to get there; let’s just remember to be sparing with the enthusiasm for every ‘savior’ who comes along.”
No one has asked to be the savior of anything, not from Guillon Inc. Companies. What we have asked is for the community to have an honest conversation about the need for market rate housing, which is undeniably lacking in Ukiah Valley. Making the developer the bad guy is an old worn out ploy I obviously take great exception to. You see, Mr. Crawford, it takes great amounts of money and risk to bring housing to the market place at an affordable cost as explained above and evidently missed by you. If projects are not produced in Ukiah at an affordable rate we cannot sell our products, we lose a lot of “money.”
As we are both City College of San Francisco alumni, I would be willing to have a beer with Mr. Crawford at Crush and have a sensible conversation about capital stacking, supply and demand, Ukiah political climate, Governmental regulations and Guillon Inc companies. After such a meeting, hopefully he will be able to then express his opinions with a certain level of knowledge he presently apparently lacks. Any other interested party would be welcomed to join us.
Douglas Guillon, President, Guillon Inc. Companies
Chico
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