Speak Out 8/21/08

Thanks for help

MY HUSBAND and I would like to thank the person who stopped to help our daughter last Saturday night. Her car broke down on Lexington Avenue, and she had no idea what to do. Luckily, while others were honking at her and yelling at her to move her car, a kind person stopped to help. We appreciate your concern and the time you took to help a frightened teenage girl.

Russia's test

RUSSIA, STILL in possession of devastating weapons, has bided its time until now. The invasion of the Georgian republic is simply a starting point, a test to see what reaction the rest of the world would have to its aggression. We failed miserably. Islamic radicals can and will continue to cause damage to the world, but they can't carry a candle to the Russians, now on the brink of integrating Central Europe into its fold. We have failed to recognize the real enemy again.

Presidential preference

I WOULD prefer a president who is nuanced, thoughtful and reflective. However, it could be that the patience of the American people demands a president who is absolutist in thought and impulsive in action as in, "I may not agree with him, but he has his principles and acts on them." I guess this is OK in 2008 America, though I would have had reservations about such an endorsement of a national leader coming from a late 1930s Berliner, a resident of Uganda during the reign of Idi Amin or a resident of Milan during the reign of Mussolini.

Self-sufficiency

OUR COUNTRY is in major trouble. We have illegal immigrants coming in by the droves, and we have politicians who want them to get Social Security benefits. We have companies by the dozens moving their production plants to China and taking jobs away from us. We have rising gasoline prices because we have to ship our petroleum products overseas to be refined and then pay to ship them back. Can anyone else see that we are quickly on our way to becoming a Third World country? Someone needs to shut the doors on immigration, raise import taxes so high that companies won't go overseas and build refineries here in the U.S. so we can work. Someone somewhere has to stop all this nonsense and get us back to where we used to be: self-sufficient. Call whomever you need to call. Let's put a stop to this.

No capacity

THE EVENTS in Georgia demonstrate the failure of the Iraq debacle. Because all our military are already tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have no capacity to pose any threat to the Russian invasion of Georgia. Of course, the invasion of an independent Iraq that posed no threat to the U.S. nullifies any moral authority we might have to speak out against the Russian invasion of Georgia.

A big loss

I RECEIVED the news that Jimmy Stubbs in Chaffee, Mo., has passed away. This is a big loss for Chaffee to lose the last member of the Stubbs family. He will be sorely missed as time passes. We will all miss him around Delta and Chaffee. God bless the Stubbs family.

More windmills

I'D LIKE to comment on Michelle Malkin's comments about wind power. She says that because wind power is unreliable, we would need to rely on supplemental carbon fuels when there isn't enough wind power. That would still be cutting down on those carbon footprints. Let's put up the windmills. Wind is free.