May 10, 2008
Saturday Forum
A Los Angeles Reader Says News Of The Water Shortage Hasn’t Reached City Hall; etc.
From:
Steve Smith (e-mail
him)
Re: Today’s Letter:
A Los Angeles Reader Says His City Is “Water Crazy”
LA’s water shortage, referred
to by reader Bob Turley in his response to Brenda
Walker’s
column, is just the excuse du jour for
imposing additional regulations, restrictions and taxes
on local residents.
We have no water shortage.
In fact, LA has plans to
plant
1 million additional trees—news flash, trees drink
water—and also plans a 32-mile long multi-billion dollar
LA River riverside community development project.
That should be interesting.
The LA River is so
contaminated with feces, pollution, and lawn runoff
that it’s a health hazard. It’s dry for most of the
year.
The river development is
another immigrant-dominated union grab for more
immigrant programs. And a big portion of the development
will be dedicated to low-income immigrant public housing
too.
These
bold municipal programs come from a city that can’t even
keep its potholes filled or synchronize its traffic
signals.
Smith is a Los Angeles
resident.
Brenda Walker
comments:
A tree-planting
program doesn’t mean there’s not a water shortage. It
does indicate that the right hand does not know what the
left hand is doing in Los Angeles city government—one of
the most dysfunctional and corrupt gaggles of suits
anywhere.
Besides, you wouldn’t expect a politician like Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa to bypass a green-appearing
photo-op just on account of some natural resources
getting used up in the process.
Joe Guzzardi,
a Los Angeles native, adds: See the 1974, Academy Award
nominated movie
Chinatown with
its all-star cast led by Jack Nicholson for its
entertaining and insightful analysis of
water, politics and municipal government corruption
in LA.
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A New York Reader Say Peter Bradley Must Have Been “Born Yesterday”; Bradley Replies
From:
Tim Brand (e-mail
him)
Re: Peter Bradley’s Column:
Is Worse Better? Some Surprising White Support For Obama
Bradley must have been born yesterday.
How else could he believe that a black in the White
House will be an "eye-opener" for white liberals
and conservatives?
Blacks, dating back to the1960s and the
Lyndon B. Johnson administration, have rioted and
committed crimes against whites. They continue to do so.
When blacks created mayhem during the Los Angeles
Rodney King riots in 1992, white president
George H.W. Bush didn’t take a single step to
punish them.
If Obama becomes president, Bradley knows who his
co-president will be — his America-hating wife,
Michelle. The American people will have to put up
with at least four years and possibly eight of her
co-rule with Obama.
And remember that Obama will bring in to be the
official "First Preacher" none other than his
good pastor,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Brand is between jobs. He says
that outsourcing and reverse discrimination are the
cause of his current unemployment.
Peter Bradley replies:
I share Mr. Brand's
disdain for Obama and for the racial pandering of weak
white presidents such as Bush.
But doesn't Brand’s angry
reaction prove my article’s point?
Surely, Brand doesn't expect
a President McCain to end affirmative action, stop
immigration or talk honestly about black-on-white crime.
If anything, he will be worse than
George W. Bush on these
issues.
Four years of a black racial
chauvinist in the White House will at least open the
eyes of a lot of naive whites.
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A Reader Proposes “A Bushel Of Grain For A Barrel Of Oil”
From: U.S. Paratrooper (e-mail
him)
Re: Brenda Walker’s Column:
Food Or Immigrants? That’s America’s Choice on Earth Day
2008
First, I want to commend Walker on
her wonderful, perceptive articles that show what is
really happening in our country.
Her recent column tackles the
question of whether America will continue to provide a
welcome mat for immigrants in the face of food
shortages for our own citizens.
A story last month in the New
York Sun quoted from James Rawles, a food supply
expert:
“I'm
surprised the Bush administration hasn't slapped export
controls on wheat. The Asian countries are here buying
every kind of wheat."
Rawles
added that it is hard to know how much of the wheat and
rice shortage is caused by lagging supply or by
consumers hedging against future price hikes.[Food
Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World, By
Josh Gerstein, New York Sun, April 21, 2008]
Clearly, we cannot continue to
accept millions of
Asian immigrants into the U.S., thereby having them
become consumers in our markets, while at the same time
allowing their native countries to aggressively buy
wheat and other commodities from us.
One suggestion I make is that we
start OFEC (Organization of Food Exporting Countries)
and tie the
price of grain to the price of oil.
A
bushel of grain for a barrel of oil might be a good
starting point.
“U.S. Paratrooper” was
a Parachute Infantryman the
82nd Airborne Division and has worked as a charter pilot
as well as a flight instructor. Since 1983, he was been
employed as a technical writer.
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A Black Democrat In Georgia Wants To End “Dash-Americans”
From:
William M. Thomas (e-mail
him)
Re: Pat Buchanan’s 2000
Speech At The Richard Nixon Library:
To Reunite A Nation
I am a black American with African and European
heritage.
While recently perusing your
VDARE.COM website, I noticed that many of your
contributors have my position on ending the policy
of hyphenating names to identify ethnicity.
We have fallen into the awful practice of prefixing
our Americanism with our ethnic heritage and separating
it with a dash: African-American, Hispanic American,
Asian-American.
As I ask on the
website I developed this year to end hyphenated
America:
