Hypocrites about health care

To all who are against the government proposed health care program, you must already be receiving military benefits from our current government-run socialism programs, which you say is terrible.

Our Congress is another hypocritical organization; their health benefits are good for them, but not good enough for the majority of people who put them in office.

I also would like to see all the hypocrites who complained about the individual stimulus money give it back, but it will be a cold day in hell or Texas when this happens. With the many letters sent to the editor complaining, you know who you people are.

I appreciate all who have served and also what our government is trying to do for all of us.

Phil DeGiulio,

Denton

A safer way

What ever happened to the good old days when the worst things we had to fear on the Fourth of July were traffic jams and wayward fireworks?

According to the USDA’s Meat & Poultry Hotline, this year’s top threat is food poisoning by nasty E. coli and salmonella bugs lurking in hamburgers and hot dogs at millions of backyard barbecues.

The hotline’s advice is to grill them longer and hotter. Of course, they don’t bother to mention that the high-temperature grilling that kills the bugs also forms lots of cancer-causing compounds.

Luckily, a bunch of enterprising food manufacturers and processors have met this challenge head-on by developing a great variety of healthful, delicious and  convenient, veggie burgers and soy dogs.

These new foods don’t harbor nasty pathogens or cancer-causing compounds. They don’t even carry cholesterol, saturated fats, drugs or pesticides. And, they are available in the frozen food section of every supermarket.

This Fourth of July offers a great opportunity to declare our independence from the meat industry and to share wholesome veggie burgers and soy dogs with our family and friends.

Larry Bowman,

Denton

Cow burps

Bubba called — said he didn’t know whether to laugh or cuss over several of the articles in the June 21 DRC.

First was the global warming nonsense story on “cow burps” being left out of the greenhouse gases equation. Well, Bubba asked how you are going to keep an old cow from letting off methane gas? Which is worse — what comes out of Washington or methane from an old cow?

Second is the story on the city of Denton and UNT’s convention hotel. That should give Denton taxpayers the “cow burps.” Dallas just agreed to a billion-dollar convention hotel.

But, hey, Dallas owns the land. Denton staff is agreeing to put this one on state-owned land. How dumb is that? What happens when UNT wants to use that land for something else?

Third is the letter to the editor regarding how mean talk radio hosts are to the current administration.

Be kinder to M&M (Marxist and Moron) for what? We had eight years of “hate Bush” speech. If Bush had killed that fly on his hand during an interview like Obama did last week, you would have heard the “yuck, how gross” comments from the “drive-by media” for months.

Obama was lauded for smacking that poor old fly. Anybody see a double standard?

Bubba said he got that grass cut and baled last week. Now he can see those boys all the way to the creek.

Things are good at the ranch, methane or no.

Alice Gore,

Denton

Road to communism

Congratulations, everyone, thanks to Obama and the liberal Democrats out-of-control spending, your children and grandchildren will either see their country become a Third World nation or go completely bankrupt.

Where are all the liberals that were concerned with the deficit spending of George Bush? Obama makes him look like a piker in comparison.

But that is the least of our problems with Obama! The government now controls the largest insurance company in the world, major banks, two auto companies, and the takeovers just keep rolling on.

Now your health care is in his sights. How far down the road to communism will we allow this gang of thieves to take our country before we go to the street in protest?

If you are waiting for news organizations like the DRC or major media to shine the light of truth on the communist takeover, you can forget it. They might as well change the name to Pravda and make it official.

When Bush was in office we heard about every little flaw they suspected might be occurring. But when Obama flies a pizza maker in from Chicago to make him pizza, costs you $350,000 on a PR picture or spends thousands of your tax dollars on a date night, the DRC editorial is silent.

The only area where they have cut spending is of course, the military. They have cut the military budget by 10 percent, while we are engaged in the field. They are making us poor, weak and laughed at by dictators.

We got change, all right!

Hyme Solomon,

Denton

Denton

GOP down on its luck

With the Republican Party being only slightly more popular than fire ants now, I wonder if Michael Burgess, Dr. No, our Congress Critter, and Diane Edmondson, Republican County chair, will be pushing another Tea Party for the Fourth of July.

They really need to do something to revitalize their party here.

There was a time when Cynthia White was an improvement over Jeff Krueger as county commissioner. So things were looking somewhat better for Republicans locally. Then they blew that opportunity in the last election.

Good luck to both. They will need it.

William Trantham,

Denton