Censoring Shirley

Comcast doubled the effectiveness of Shirley Golub’s political ad that compared Nancy Pelosi to a rubber chicken.

This ad would have come and gone, but with Com­cast’s censorship, it just grows and grows.

Nancy Pelosi hasn’t lived up to expectations, but censoring an ad only calls attention to it!

Steve Duran,

Denton

Love it or leave it

In response to “Why DHA loves us” (DRC May 1):

In addition to its extreme lack of originality, this letter indicates the writer’s unfamiliarity with the facts of the situation. The Denton Housing Authority (DHA) has to answer not only to local officials and HUD, but also to the residents of Denton. Every decision made and every penny spent is scrutinized by all of the above. 

The allegations that upkeep at Heritage Oaks is nonexistent and that employees are overpaid are, in the first instance, completely false, and in the second, make me wonder how the author knows so much about the employees’ lifestyles.

Residents of Heritage Oaks have a safe, clean and affordable place to live, for which most of us are very grateful to DHA and the taxpayers. We sincerely hope that a way will be found for this to continue for many years to come.

And, by the way, I am not an “old crone.”

In conclusion, I have just one question: If the writer or any Heritage Oaks resident finds DHA so abhorrent and is so miserable at Heritage Oaks, why are you still there?

Bonnie Allmond,

Denton

Foreign policy flaws

In reading the paper and watching the news recently, it occurred to me that America’s foreign policy may have been flawed for many years.

I see people in African and Mid-Eastern countries rioting over food shortages, and these are the very countries the U.N. and our Peace Corps have spoon-fed for years.

These countries were self-sufficient in food for millennia, and now they can’t even grow their own crops.

These are the “Fertile Crescent” guys and the people who built pyramids and invented agriculture and the plow!

The two countries that despised us the most, Russia and China, are seemingly doing very well, all things considered.

India seems to be doing well indeed, being the help-desk capitol of the world.

What’s that old saw about “Teach a man to fish?” Maybe there are lessons we as a society can learn from these results. This time, are we going to send them FFA people and farm machinery, or socialist college students bearing bags of rice?

John Harazda,

Denton

Democrats in heaven

Mr. Stodola, it’s healthier to control one’s temper than vice-versa. The two rants [Letters, May 12 and 13] contained more hate, hysteria and paranoia than the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s funeral. 

A sterile environment provides the fertile breeding ground for sterile thinking. 

Democrats = good times, GOP = bad times? Hmmm. 

What about the peaceful ’50s, mostly under Ike? The Vietnam War ’60s under JFK and Johnson? The ’70s, an anomaly under Nixon and Carter. The peaceful ’80s, mostly un­der Reagan? The ’90s were the peace dividend of the Reagan years.

The last eight years? Remember, history exonerated Truman. 

Notice “global warming” is now “climate change,” a term all of us can agree on?  They had to: Last year’s global 1 degree drop in temperature wiped out last century’s 1 degree climb.

Climate has been “changing” every millennium, century, decade, year, season, month, week, day, hour and minute since the Seventh Day, when the Almighty rested. 

Mr. Stodola: Next time, just submit a letter containing “I hate G Bush (or R. Horrell) 62 times. 

Two Republicans are reunited in paradise.

“Well, just as I thought, no Democrats here.”

“Oh they were here, but they all left.”

“Why?”

“This place didn’t please them either.” 

Roger T. Horrell,

Denton

Holland, DRC: Get a life

 Mr. Holland claims some of his “visitors” can’t find the six-story Joseph Carroll Court Building and asks the commissioners to spend money to change the address from Hickory Street to West Mulberry Street. 

If people cannot find the entrance to the Carroll Courts Building, they are either, dumb, stupid or blind, perhaps all of the above. 

This building has been occupied by the district and county courts, as well as other county offices since about 1978. 

If JP Judge Holland can’t explain to his “visitors” how to enter the courts building, maybe it’s time for a change. Or time to change the judge. 

As to the DRC editorial writer who agrees with Holland, you need to take along a 6- or 7-year old to find the entrance. 

H. Wayne Lasater,

Denton 

Defending pedophilia

Again I read recently about those who feel the children from Eldorado were wronged. It is beyond my understanding how middle-aged men having sex with girls who have just begun their pubescence have fans.

If it were not for these men professing some strange religious justification for their behavior, the public of Texas would be desperate for their immediate jailing.

Isn’t it odd that when cults get organized, somehow the most immediate goal seems to be the objectification and brainwashing of the youngest members who could not join without the assent of the parents?

Really, how can any of you profess support for these fetishists who want their 13-year-old girls and adult women to play dress-up for their sexual gratification?

If you read about these cults, one fact stands out that begs the credulity of thinking adults: young boys are chased off in these groups, thereby guaranteeing these men with their picks of the litter.

And they make sure that the litter is always producing more pubescent girls by impregnating these little girls, who should be in junior high, not becoming parents.

Which constitutional amendment protects these men from prison?

Jay Wilson,

Denton