Like a friend
I, too, remember Father Ed's columns in your paper ("Beloved priest and columnist Father Ed dies," Sept. 21). He was like a friend, and I looked forward to his column each time. He reminded me of my dear friend Father Frank, who lived in Boone and was another of God's servants. He died several years ago and is greatly missed.
CHARLOTTE FULP
Boone
Happy here
In response to the Sept. 23 letter "Retirement haven?" from the former Clearwater resident, I too am a Winston-Salem native who moved from this area in 1964 and returned in 2001 to retire. Having lived in seven states during 37 years (including 10 years in Florida), my husband and I made the decision to retire to this area. What I do miss about Florida are the Gator tailgate parties and the ultimate adult tricycle races in Clearwater (I am being facetious about the tricycles).
And the
writer mentions the watering holes during lunch hour? Come on! I lived in Texas
for 12 years and visited New
Orleans many times. Even there, ice houses, including the drive-throughs,
only fill up after 10 p.m., not 10 a.m.
Activities? This weekend we had to choose among
five events to enjoy. The
writer never mentioned which activities are lacking here that he
participated in and enjoyed in Clearwater.
Restaurants? Thai, pizza, deli, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Southern (Sweet Potatoes), European, Irish, coffee shops, yogurt, hot dog carts — what more does he need or want?
"Clearwater" read the article on retirement ("City again ranks high as retirement haven" (Sept. 16) with amusement. I read his letter with the same acumen.
I love retirement here in God's country.
EVELYN GILBERT GOTTENSTRATER
Walnut Cove
Tactics
It appears that the Journal's favorite letter writer has again gone on a Kool-Aid binge. In his Sept. 26 letter, "Hostility," the writer has: played the race card, bashed George Bush and engaged in class warfare. Are these tactics all he and his progressive cohorts have left?
Let's address the meat of the matter and leave the divisionist rhetoric to the ones with the losing argument. As to political bribery, think solar panels. And as for political payback (read Chicago-style politics) think jet aircraft — those not being built in South Carolina because it has the audacity to be a right-to-work state. On the issue of addiction to money, those opposed to President Obama's failed socialist agenda are quite fond of the money they earn, unlike the president, who is addicted to other people's money, primarily that of the Chinese government, since he has spent all of ours.
No, it is not hatred of the man, but of what he is doing to our country that drives opposition. And if the writer wants to see racist divisionism, he should read his own letter.
PATRICK KELLEY
Winston-Salem
Misses the point
The writer of the Sept. 27 letter "We have forgotten" misses the point entirely. First of all, her letter isn't against same-sex marriage — it's against homosexuality. So she should campaign against homosexuality.
But until she wins and all the homosexuals magically disappear from the face of the Earth, they are going to live here, they are going to work and pay taxes and fall in love. And in a fair society, they deserve to have all of the options offered to straight people.
She's also factually wrong when she says that homosexuality is one of the causes of HIV/AIDS; it is not. One doesn't magically acquire the disease by being homosexual — it's a virus that is spread by having unprotected sex with someone else who has the disease. And unlike the letter writer, HIV/AIDS doesn't discriminate.
Lesbians have a lower rate of HIV/AIDS than straight people do. So to follow her argument, lesbians should be allowed to marry, right? Since straight people spread HIV/AIDS more than lesbians, maybe they should be prohibited from marrying. Sure, that makes sense.
No wonder she didn't argue against same-sex marriage — there's no reasonable argument against it. I've never heard a reasonable argument against it. All I've heard is, "We're against the homos and we shouldn't allow them to do anything that will make their lives better."
LARRY G. LOWERY
Winston-Salem
Politicians
Politicians running for election are expected to forthcoming with their finances, religious views, gender orientation, etc., etc. Why not require them to submit the results of a recent I.Q. test?
BERT BAHNSON
Mocksville
LTE1: Not familiar with Father Ed, but RIP.
ReplyDeleteLTE2: I never have understand the complaint that there is nothing to do here. Mrs. Stab read from the "Journal's" Relish section last night, reeled off quite a few things ongoing.
LTE3: This LTE writer is absolutely right about the misuse of government power, to the point of being criminal, IMO, to divert 787 construction from SC to WA.
LTE4: I agree with this LTE and the reasoning therein.
LTE5: This LTE writer shouldn't give his day job. Intelligent people do stupid things all the time. Voters need to look past their big screens and "American Idol", learn about the issues that affect us, then apply their own tests to the candidates and office holders.
I do enjoy October!
ReplyDeleteLte5....it's not the politicians IQs in doubt so much as our own.
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