Letters
Some people say they don’t want meddling interference from the government. However, they want the government to keep giving money and free doctors (with our taxes) to Planned Parenthood. In a speech to Planned Parenthood in July of 2007, Obama said we have got to be sure to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will never overturn Roe vs. Wade. That speech wasn’t above his pay grade, and it wasn’t God that said it.
When Sen. Obama answered "When does life begin?" he said it was above his pay grade to answer. While that sounds godly to some, the fact is that within his pay grade as a senator in Illinois, he argued against letting a baby live after it manages to get past the abortion and make it out alive. The bill he argued against was to let a baby live if it was born alive despite the attempted homicide. Instead, the baby is just placed somewhere to die. Late term abortion is performed in at least two ways. One is to induce labor and hope it just dies on during labor. Another is to make the baby come out feet first, break the spine just before it’s born and then vacuum the brains out of the baby’s head. I don’t know if the brains are saved for research or if they just throw them away. Now if you were leaving this all up to God, why did you need a doctor and a bunch of machinery?
I assume there will be a flurry of far-left liberal people here who regularly engage in personal attacks and vindictive responses, because opinions from anyone who disagrees with them will be accused of being a liar or far-right radical Christian. Never mind if they’re just plain normal people. Just think of the unborn babies if you have a soul. At least think against late term abortion. Would you purposely kick a dog in the stomach because she is pregnant and you don’t feel like puppies this month?
Bette Mueller lives in Kelseyville.
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Which is smarter, garrisoning a foreign country to ensure the source of light oil, or a concerted national effort to provide alternative energy sources not reliant on other nations? That would also guarantee us with the advantage in alternative energies for the future.
Americans used to think of themselves as compassionate, not inclined to conquer others, which itself was a fallacy of the highest magnitude. We conquered this country from the native Americans, and we absorbed half of Mexico in the 1840s by conquest; I.e. the "Halls of Montezuma" is part of the U.S. Marine Corp history and pride. We absorbed the territories of Puerto Rico and Samoa after the Spanish American War of 1898. We did give the Philippines their freedom after World War II.
The point is that America needs to redefine its identity. Either it becomes a militaristic power or it attempts an identity as a compassionate neighbor. Fear and ignorance are bedfellows, and too many Americans subscribe to this base emotion. We do not need to take natural resources from others, we need to use the many we have, to better advantage for all.
Let us listen to T. Boone Pickens and Al Gore and declare war on fossil fuels, for our own good.
Dave Gebhard lives in Lakeport.
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