Published: August 13, 2006 03:08 pm            

8/13/06 Letters to the editor

Not wanting to chase marbles



Dear Editor:



I’ve been meaning to write for some time. So after reading the letter last Sunday I decided to. This is to let the person’s letter “chasing marbles” know that I agree with them 100 percent. I have thought that so many times. It was good to read someone else feels the same.

Also, I can add to that. It is annoying to go through the drive through and order to go. You have ordered maybe for four people. A meal with four drinks. They can see that you’re in the car alone. But most of them will start handing you out the drinks one at a time, which really gets me because it looks like any one could tell you can’t drive down the road holding four drinks.

If you order more than one to go and you’re in the car alone then they should automatically put them in a carrier. It really gets me when your order and you ask for a carrier to begin with and they don’t bring it with them and you have to ask. I think that if the place has a car hop they ought to carry the carriers on the tray some how just in case the person wants a carrier.

After a person has waited for a while because the place is busy then they have to go back in and get the carrier. It can take up a lot of waiting time.

Also, while I’m at it I have come to really realize what some handicap people have to go through just be able to go somewhere. My sister is moving here from out of town soon. She’s quadriplegic. We already knew that she couldn’t go to a lot of things with us because of transportation. When she gets here she’ll use Cletran, which I am so proud that our town has.

I had been thinking how awful it is that someone in a wheelchair life comes to and end when Cletran stops driving for the day. If they have some things they want to do, or a family emergency or they just want to attend a grandchild being born with the rest of the family they can’t do it unless it is during the hours of transportation, which is sad. But I just found out it looks like they can’t even go to church. She has been planning on going to church with her children once she’s here but after going through the phone book calling the churches, not one I have found has a lift for a wheelchair.

She is so disappointed that it looks like she won’t be able to go to church here. There ought to be some kind of transportation for these people. Someone needs to rethink and see if they could make some changes in transportation. They have lost so much. More needs to be done for the handicapped.

If any one out there knows of transportation for the handicapped after hours or on Sundays please write the editor and let them know so the ones out there who would like a ride from time to time for church or special events could attend.

Also, about the letter “government is wrong.” I know a lot of things are wrong in this world. I for one don’t know what’s right or wrong or the right way to go about this war. But one thing I know is that God wants Israel protected. That’s the chosen land. Christian’s believe this war in Israel is bringing the returning of Christ. All Christians, me included, believe special care needs to be given to Israel .

Thanks,



Janice Shivers

Cleburne







Being sold down the river



Dear Editor:



My comments may not be politically correct nor do I intend for them to be so. A while back, an article sent to your paper by an outraged citizen got my attention. He was surprised that more were not outraged at each step by which we were being sold down the river.

I feel that not only were most of us outraged but we were and still feel disgusted with our political representatives and their nearly treasonous actions. How we show our outrage is mostly by cursing our representatives, writing to the editor, kicking our dog, and the really brave ones say something ugly to their wives.

What can we do? Well, maybe very little unless we follow the pattern set forth by illegal aliens. That is, by overpowering the resisting forces. They have found that by keeping up the pressure, not giving up, that the resisting force is a pushover. Most of us, myself often included, figure that we have no power as individuals, as is evident by poor turnouts at the ballot box. That’s why so many people don’t bother to vote, yet bellyache loudly when our favorites are defeated or when things don’t go to suit us later.

I hate committees, particularly ones that have more than three members, so am not suggesting that type of organizing. I am suggesting that we flood the papers with our thoughts and send bushels of letters about things on our minds to our local, state and national representatives. My feelings are that we need immediate action on stopping all immigration while sending undocumented ones home with no amnesty (we made it without them in the workforce before), the deleting of the misused part of our forefathers’ wonderful document which allows all persons born of non-citizens within the U.S. will be citizens, doing away with bilingual everything, require medical and auto insurance of non-citizens with real consequences, doing whatever is necessary to solidly protect our borders and not voting for politicians who can’t practice bipartisanship.

The next step is to take away congressional retirement and health care benefits as is now in practice and put them on what is provided or offered to the general citizenry.

I have more for later but do want your input on these ideas.

Thanks,



Monte Swatzell

Cleburne





Thanks from Cleburne Sheet Metal Reds



Dear Editor:



The 11-and-under Cleburne Sheet Metal Reds baseball team traveled to Steamboat Springs, Colo., last week to play in the Triple Crown World Series. The team and coaches would like to thank the many sponsors who helped make it possible for us to participate in the series. We would also like to say a special thank you to Fred Couch, owner of Cleburne Sheet Metal, for his continued support and encouragement.

The Sheet Metal Reds finished seventh in Colorado and represented Cleburne well with excellent sportsmanship and play. We are very proud of them!

Thank you again to those individuals and businesses who supported us this season.



11-and-under Cleburne

Sheet Metal Reds







Congress should support views of Americans



Dear Editor:



I would like to comment on Ms. Olivia Gordon’s letter in your Aug. 6 edition if I may.

Ms. Gordon, I, too, am saddened that Congress no longer represents the views of the American people, because most true Americans, whether they be natural-born or naturalized “legal” immigrants, are appalled that our government will allow public demonstrations by people who support our enemies (namely Hezbollah), that it allows illegal immigrants (lawbreakers) who pay no taxes access to every type of state and federal assistance program in existence, will not take proper steps to secure our borders, refuses to develop our own natural resources, allows our country to be blackmailed by the Arab world over oil and, lastly, continues to send billions in foreign aid to countries that continually discredit our great nation.

As for the situation in Lebanon, the root of the problem is the Arab world’s refusal to recognize the right of Israel to exist as a nation. Yes, a great many innocent people have died in Lebanon and Israel, but have we heard the Lebanese government ask the world for help in driving Hezbollah out of its country? Have we heard the rest of the Arab world publicly denounce the actions of Hezbollah, Hamas and the rest of the terrorist organizations? War is horrible and the attrition rate of innocent civilians is always higher when your enemy integrates itself within the civilian populace. However, it was Arabs who initiated this latest conflict as well as the so called “Six Day” war in the ’60s and the Yom Kippur War in the ’70s. Israel has been the target of more suicide bomb attacks than one can count. If the Israelis stood by and did nothing, they would be slaughtered and cease to exist as a people. They have the right to defend themselves by whatever means necessary to protect their population and country. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I have never heard of Jewish, Buddhist, Protestant or Catholic suicide bombers striking in Arab countries, hijacking a civilian airliner or blowing up a mosque anywhere in the world. As for the sectarian violence in the Arab world, it would be like Baptists killing Methodists in this country over differences in doctrine. It’s just plain stupid!

One solution would be to eradicate the ignorance and illiteracy that is so rampant in most Arab countries. The more people who are educated, the less control and influence militant Muslim clerics who, financed and controlled by Iran and Syria, would have over the general population. Fanatics, who I might add, would like nothing better than to plunge the world back into the dark ages. Remember the celebrating and dancing in the streets that took place in the Arab world over the 9-11 attacks while militant Muslim clerics ranted about what a great day for Islam that was.

I do not condemn all Muslims. I only condemn those (of any religion) who engage in the killing of innocent people and wholesale destruction in the name of God. We are in a war, a war we must not lose! So yes, Ms. Gordon, I, too, am saddened that Congress no longer represents the views of the American people.



Rikky D. Perkins





Thanks from Rio Vista Post 648



Dear Editor:



The American Legion family of Post 648 in Rio Vista would like to give a big thank you to everyone who participated in the benefit for Pam Young Moore. It is greatly appreciated.

Thank you to the following for all the donations we received and to those we might have missed: Wright Tire Co., Blockbuster, Footgear, the Cleburne Times-Review, Briar Patch, Seconds, Quick Lube, J&J Pharmacy, B&B, Bob Auto, Beer Hall, Wal-Mart, Fat Albert’s, Lonestar Carwash, Chisholm Restaurant, Gary and Donna Anderson, Jason and Shelly Recer, Movie Gallery, Little Bit This and That, M&M Pawn, Burleson Power Sports, H-E-B., Ink Pusher Tattoo, Bob and Havel Baker, Investment Coin, Malcolm McKittrick, Alvarado Legion, Mustang Feed, Wendy’s, Hair Shop, John’s, Affiliated, Lavra Poque, Robert and Alex Lemon, Don Anderson for all the cooking, and all the bikers for riding.



The American Legion

family of Post 648

Rio Vista

        

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