Sounds similar
United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice and President Obama insist that she was simply offering the public the best information she had at the time on the Benghazi incident where four Americans were killed. Sounds similar to President George W. Bush's reason for the Iraq war, where thousands of Americans were killed.
Quite a difference in the number of casualties, but the GOP can't seem to understand this. Especially not Sen. John McCain.
R.C. MURPHY
Winston-Salem
Impressive
My husband and I in recent days were discussing the recent election and the revived angst about the King Veteran’s Memorial-Christian flag lawsuit. He said the following:
“Whether it be a man with a Bible, or a man with a buck, be impressed what they do with it ... not that they have it.”
I asked him who said that, and he said he didn't know, but stated he was saying it now. I thought at first how simple it was, but it really is not simple at all. It made me think seriously how this statement seems to say so little but, in just a few words, speaks volumes.
Think about it.
Smart man, my David.
PATRICIA R. STOCKMEISTER
Winston-Salem
Get it right
Accuracy is important. If I read one more letter to the editor, guest column or photo caption that places the proposed R.J. Reynolds High School stadium in Hanes Park , I’ll go crazy! This continuing inaccurate portrayal of the stadium site is the single most inflammatory and divisive issue surrounding the project.
The guest column “Stadium proposal is a Hawthorne curve ball” (Oct. 23) contained innumerable inaccuracies and paranoid fears. To liken this project to the deadly Hawthorne Curve, or suggest that parking lots will be built on what is Hanes Park properly, is a disservice that dissuades reasonable dialogue and only serves to inflame, and not accurately depict, the facts and issues surrounding this stadium.
Let’s reasonably discuss traffic, lights, safety and topics that have room for compromise and are not black or white facts. However, the proposed stadium site is a fact: It is on Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school property, not in Hanes Park. I do not want a stadium in Hanes Park; the RJR Booster Club and Home Field Advantage advocacy groups do not want a stadium in Hanes Park. We simply want what nearly all other area high schools have: a stadium for the benefit of all students on school property.
So please, fact-check before publication. Accurate representation regarding the location of the stadium will prevent unnecessary angst for those whose major concern is the actual location of the project. This will allow for reasoned discussion and ultimately timely progress towards making this stadium a reality.
BRIAN MYERS
Winston-Salem
Disregarding doesn’t help
As a Reynolds High School alumnus residing near Hanes Park, I support high-school athletics but can’t support the proposed football stadium.
The Nov. 16 letter “Hyperbole doesn’t help” offers nothing to those concerned about the Hanes Park area. The letter loses credibility with its disparaging tone (“typical … hyperbole,” “ridiculous,” “equally dubious”).
Further, it disregards urgent concerns of the larger community, portraying the whole matter as “simply upgrading an existing athletic facility.”
Consider the proposal’s impact on the community: Remote campus parking on Hawthorne Road leads to residential parking near Hanes Park. Old-growth trees are killed on the project site and along Hawthorne Road. Project structures destroy park vistas. Urban green space (precious resource) is reduced. Access to Northwest Boulevard, a main emergency route to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, is obstructed (cars, buses, crowds).
In the Business 40 shutdown plan for future bridge construction, Northwest Boulevard is a critical outlet for rerouting interstate traffic, resulting in years of congestion. During this time, extra congestion on Northwest Boulevard from the proposed stadium’s traffic is horribly undesirable.
Is a 3,000-seat stadium required for a 600-900 average attendance at Reynolds home football games? 3,000 seems overdone, being more than three times 900.
We still don’t know the total cost of an apparently overdone stadium and all related structures. And who will pay if fundraising fails, as before with the Reynolds Auditorium renovation?
Irony: Hanes Park allows Reynolds home-field advantage in baseball, softball, track and tennis. (Gyms offer indoor sports the same.)
BILL ALLEN
Winston-Salem
Finish the Thought
Briefly complete the sentence below and sent it to us at letters@wsjournal.com. We’ll print some of the results in a few days. Only signed entries, please — no anonymous ones.
“We'll know the fiscal cliff is real if...”
LTE #1... Sounds Similar
ReplyDeleteYes and then there was Beirut, October 23rd, 1983, where 299 people were killed, including 241 American servicemen, carried out by Hezbollah. "He bunked most of his men, who were from the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in a sturdy, four-story concrete building that had once been the PLO headquarters.
The situation fell apart quickly. Militia leaders began to view the United States and its allies as favoring the Christian-led forces of the Lebanese government. A car-bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy in April 1983 that killed 63 people emphasized the point.
“We walked into the middle of a family feud,” Ciokon said, “and they all turned their guns on us.”.
Geraghty felt the growing danger in the weeks before the barracks bombing. Artillery shells fell on his compound. Snipers took potshots at his men. But Geraghty's Pentagon superiors spiked his requests for stronger defenses." http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/terror.htm.
“We'll know the fiscal cliff is real if...we feel it. Without pictures, our society believes very little. When government is feverishly using its allies in the media to do a sudden sell of impending doom, it is also trying to use stealth to cover over something else it doesn't want exposed. Look for a "patch job" from Congress and the White House which will blow enough smoke to make the markets giggle long enough to book solid gains for the month end, quarter end and year end. When the new Congress is planted in late January, then is when the scales fall away. Meantime we have a totally new concept in DC..."open government".
ReplyDeleteA court in Argentina has convicted an Oxford educated University of North Carolina professor of attempting to smuggle four pounds of cocaine into the United States.
ReplyDelete"He has a high IQ, is well-known and very distinguished in the field of physics and other scientific areas, but when it comes to common sense he scored a zero," said former DC homicide investigator Rod Wheeler.
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Hee Hee.....AND....I'll bet he voted for Obama.
Bethlehem Fight Club...
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