A letter from Bubba

Bubba sent me a letter, responding to mine [Letters, March 9] about his tossed beer cans, fast-food trash and torn-up lottery tickets.

He took me to task on the price of gasoline for his truck, his food bill going through the roof and some “dork of a politician” spouting off about Bubba “clinging” to his guns and his religion.

Bubba said no way was he voting for a politician who has already promised to raise his taxes. What’s my connection to any of these? Only Bubba knows.

Bubba, the price of gasoline is tied to our moronic politicians’ not letting us drill for gas and oil here in the U.S. America is sitting on more oil and gas than we will use in 100 years. Surely by then we will have a reliable alternative fuel source.

Ethanol is not the answer. It takes as much energy to produce a gallon of ethanol as the gas it replaces. Ethanol is a big pollution producer and hard to put out when it catches fire.

Bubba, Americans spend less for food than any other nation. I know that doesn’t make you feel any better about your food bill, but that’s the best I can do. At least there aren’t food riots in Texas. Yet.

Tell your mama “hi” for me, and you hang in there. Things will get better. Or we will think things are better as we learn to live with the higher prices and the moronic politicians.

Alice Gore,

Denton

Hail to the chief

Congratulations to Chief Roy Minter on receiving this year’s Gary P. Hayes Memorial Award. I was so happy for you when I saw the announcement in the DRC [Page 2A, April 25]. I read of your accomplishments with the greatest fervor and admiration.

Having seen your dedication to the department in the short time you have been on the job has made a great impact to our community.

Thank you for making visitations in the community to various organizations, churches and groups, and developing a great working relationship to those of whom you serve. This makes you more deserving of receiving this award.

Let all of Denton citizens celebrate you for a job well done and wising you all the best in all of your upcoming endeavors.

Charlye Heggins,

Denton City Council,

District 1

Who speaks for God?

Don Spaulding invited reader comments [Letters, April 25], so here they are, Don.

The Rev. Wright didn’t say he hated whites, or America. Rather, he expressed a dislike for what America has done to African-Amer­icans, i.e. slavery, discrimination, unequal rights, and, to citizens of other countries through our self-serving foreign policy, i.e. staging the coup that returned the Shah to Iran, assassinating Allende in Chile leading to repression, and 30 vetoes of U.N. Security Council Resolutions against Israel, often offering it protection from war crime prosecution.

Pope Benedict might be sad about the mess, but he didn’t offer up Sean-Patrick Cardinal O’Malley to U.S. law enforcement. 

Don, are you saying, because they are Muslim, all Muslim clerics want to kill the American infidels?

Religion can’t be defined from individual actions. If it could, Catholicism would not fare very well. And, Christianity has a history of bloody persecution. Wasn’t it Richard the Lionhearted who said, “I kill you in the name of God!”? 

If you go to a church that really denounces Romney’s religion, isn’t it because you want to be there?

Do you know, or just assume that Obama heard unacceptable things over 20 years? 

In answer to your primary question — “From which pulpit do we hear the almighty goodness and grace of God preached?” — that is one of the beauties of this country. 

Anyone can go to the church of their choice and hear the grace of God preached. They should not go to political campaigns for it! 

Ronald L. Johnson,

Denton

The New World Order

When President George Bush Sr. said, “Welcome to the New World Order,” few Americans understood what that meant, or what it would mean.

If you have purchased gasoline for your car lately; if you’ve tried to buy anything made in America lately; if you or your children have seen your job go to Mexico, India or China; if you’ve been replaced in your job by a foreign engineer or technician, then you now know what the New World Order really means, and this is just the beginning.

An elite group from Japan, Europe and America, known as the Trilateral Commission ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrilateralCommission ) began meeting in the 1970s. Their sole aim was to make the world the way they wanted it to be. They were and are made up mainly of politicians and bankers, and for the last 30 years done just that. Visit this and other related Web sites to get an understanding of how a few powerful people are now controlling your life and future.

It no longer matters what you and I want — we don’t get to vote. These people have already decided what the world is going to be — even what America is going to be — and what is coming isn’t going to be very nice for the future of America and for our people. This nation of liberty and freedom is being sold out by the Haves. Welcome to the world of the Have-nots.

It’s time to wake up, America!

John Kokalis,

Denton

Three quick notes

Please allow me three short items:

1. I was glad to see that Denton City Council candidates finally discussed freezing senior citizens’ taxes, as many cities and counties in this area already have, and as the DISD did many years ago. I hope other seniors will join me in holding the council’s feet to the fire on this issue.

2. I thank the Denton Area Teachers’ Credit Union for providing the free service of shredding documents with confidential information. It’s a great benefit to individuals and small businesses. I hope DATCU will repeat this periodically.

3. I was disappointed on this date [March 19], the 13th anniversary of the mass murders in Oklahoma City, to find no mention of it in the Denton, Dallas or Fort Worth papers. I was there when the shell of the Murrah Federal Building still stood and the crater where the rental truck exploded was still there also. The destruction was overwhelming, and it became very personal to me. Let’s never forget it!

J.L. Mitchell,

Denton

Deteriorating freedoms

Where are all these Reagan-Bush worshippers? You know, the ones who spend their lives writing to the DRC expressing their hatred for liberals.

Why aren’t they speaking up against this Soviet-style government we are experiencing at all levels? For example, the presidential dictatorship, the Patriot Act, the suspension of habeas corpus, our Justice Department and our prison systems.

It was scary there for a while; it looked as though the Chinese might pass Texas in the number of people executed. Thank God for the Supreme Court; we can hold on to our record!

Meanwhile, back here in Denton, we’ve got our garbage pickup joke and our musical-chair council, and I am still looking for a through street.

Well, got to go listen to my hero, Lush Limbo.

John Thompson,

Denton