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Russian President Putin: Have you lost your mind?
Revolutions, two world wars and now the prospect of another world war with the all too real use of atomic weaponry that could cause millions upon millions of casualties and deaths.
The free world calls upon you to reconsider and withdraw your troops and equipment and sit down with the Ukraine leader and other world leaders to stop the insanity of provoking a world war.
Peaceful co-existence should be the top priority for Russia.
Have you learned nothing from past tragic events? The Free World is watching.
HERBERT W. STARK
Mooresville
Putin’s tantrum doesn’t compare to 'Republitards'
Eighty percent of Canadians are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Fortunately for them, Canadians aren’t culturally hobbled by a large minority of anti-science, religious fundamentalist flat earthers forcing their foolish faith into law, the way cancel culture conservatives have traditionally attacked American democracy with their nonsense and baseless bigotry.
For the most part, Canadian truckers are lucky enough NOT to have the same well-earned awful reputation that Deep Southern redneck American truckers have here stateside, where being a trucker is generally thought of as your low-IQ, racist, white trash, man’s way of attempting to commit statutory rape on a daily basis.
And don’t even get me started on the Teamsters and their reputation! Anyone find Jimmy Hoffa yet?
Furthermore, a full 90 percent of Canadian truckers are already vaccinated, but that didn’t prevent a small, far-right faction of fat fascist Canadian trucker twits (who make the late John Candy look svelte by way of comparison) from taking their trucks, Nazi swastikas, and Confederate flags to Ottawa to harass its innocent residents by honking their truck horns all night long like the hate-filled honkies they really are.
No wonder fascist Fox “News†converted their soulless selves into Trucker Tantrum TV for the past several weeks.
Not only are 21st Century Fox Republicans irredeemably stupid and racist, they hate Canada!
While, of course, at the same time, these right-wing Republitards can’t stop themselves from performing @&# on Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for all the world to see on Fox TV.
GOP = Greedy Old Perverts.
P.S. — Donald Trump is going to prison.
JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.
Reading of ‘Rules for Radicals’ book triggers thoughts on truth, freedom
I have been reading Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals†and I have come to believe — like (Albert) Einstein said — that time is malleable.
It can be warped by the fabric of space time. Time doesn’t alway occupy the same amount of space.
This has been proven, but when we think of time, we think of it as truth, a measure that does not change.
But it is proven that time moves faster at the top of a square (above) than it does at the bottom. This is, I am told, the cause of gravity. The faster you go, the slower time moves.
I think truth is also malleable, and it is malleable by time.
As in the book “1984†by George Orwell, he who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future.
Controlling history is controlling the future.
I think it is more important than ever for a free people to monitor the truth — for we have seen lies, in an effort by the unjust, to control truth, the past, therefore to control our future as a free people… We must make “them†accountable for their lies.
Quote on local capacity for services? A true gem
I like this Asheville Blade quote (below) very much in spite of (Sage) Turner’s intent.
The capacity of local government to help the poor is quite universal at 2.5 percent of the tax base or 250 cents per hundred, much like (Donald) Trump’s assessment of NATO military capacity.
I hear Detroit may be near its capacity, but believe Asheville could probably multiply its homeless and poverty budget almost by 10.
It should also be at least 10 times the police budget.
So yes, there is a limit, but Asheville is light years away from it, exporting vastly more poverty than it imports.
Though Detroit has an art museum and any town with an art museum is not at capacity.
“Council member Sage Turner said, also blaming houseless people for domestic abuse and repeating the myth that they were drawn to Asheville for services. “I think we have to have a hard conversation about what our capacity for services for people in our community is.â€
Also, doesn’t “domestic†mean in the home?
It makes me wonder how a homeless person could possibly cause domestic abuse?
ALAN DITMORE
Leicester
Training in job skills termed a key in helping homeless
I read where Asheville is calling in the experts to hopefully find a solution to Asheville’s growing homeless problem.
We will soon be living in the metaverse that Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla Motors) and his fellow high-tech CEOs are fast at work creating.
In order to fix Asheville’s homeless problem, the experts will need to get someone to teach Asheville’s homeless how to navigate the metaverse, including job training, to teach specific skills required by the metaverse, and life skills necessary for successful day-to-day functioning in the metaverse!
Without providing Asheville’s homeless with the job skills and life skills necessary for living and working and functioning in the metaverse, Asheville’s homeless cannot permanently rise out of homelessness.
So when the experts come to town, Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer and Brownie Newman (chair of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners) and the other city leaders must be sure to insist that the experts propose a plan to provide skills training for living in a metaverse to Asheville’s homeless.
Without skill training for living in the metaverse, no plan of the experts can — or will — succeed in solving Asheville’s homelessness problem!!!
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville
Hendersonville, Hendersonofficials must look at facts
Okay, (Hendersonville) City Council and (Henderson) county commissioners — put your arguing away and look at the facts.
According to both of you: (fact #1) we need water, and (fact #2) we need waste treatment.
In reality, both of you have created these problems, not the people living here.
You both approve of more developments without looking at what it will cost taxpayers in the long run.
Both of you are greedy for more money, so you advertise for more development, industries and more retirees.
Both of you need to put development on hold until you can catch up on current needs.
Yes, water and sewage are needed, but so are more law enforcement, firefighters, EMS personnel, medical personnel, and teachers.
You need to get those numbers up to national averages at the least, before you even thinking of more development.
Every decision you both make should go through a thorough and in-depth return-on-investment analysis.For the most part neither of you nor your various committees do this, which results in administrative malfeasance, and a lack of fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers.
Remember you are elected by the people to serve them as a whole and not special-interest groups or agendas.
PHIL RASMUSSEN
U.S. Army-retired
Hendersonville
President Biden needs to reverse course
Had enough?
Gasoline prices at the pump are up 45 percent in one year.
Inflation, or Bidenflation, as some are calling it, is at a 40-year high — 7 percent — and trending up.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , wages and salaries only increased 4.5 percent in 2021.
Folks, you may have more money in your paychecks, but your purchasing power is decreasing by 2.5 percent.
Not so bad, you say?
Let’s consider the increase in gas prices by at least a dollar a gallon as a tax. Understand that affects the cost of almost all goods and services, such as groceries, and anything delivered by trucks, or moved by air or ships.
Inflation now skyrockets for most average consumers. But the rich can tolerate it. I say that because “core inflation†like the above doesn’t include fuel and food costs! “They’re too volatile†to include, according to the government.
Are we starting to get the picture, and understand why our checkbooks and credit cards are hurting every month?
It’s only going to get worse.
The administration and the media would have you believe that inflation is due to COVID-19, but the real reason is very different.
President (Joe) Biden, in his first acts as chief executive of our country, shut down the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, our neighbor and ally, stopped drilling on federal lands, slowed permits for other drilling operations, and “paused†oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil.
A year and a half ago, we were energy-independent, and even a net exporter. Now we are importing oil from Russia and asking OPEC to increase production.
Because of Russia’s war in Ukraine and our sanctions, we could lose that Russian oil.
Then what? The Biden administration keeps extracting oil from our strategic reserve for political reasons.
Its impact on the market is negligible, AND it is a “strategic reserve†that we might need to fight a war, or stem an emergency.Mr. Biden, put our energy people back to work today, by lifting your executive orders.
Stop importing oil from our enemy, and offer American oil to Europe if Putin cuts them off.
We could also offer our oil at a lower price to the world, and bankrupt Russia.
Your country and your people need relief!!
We have had enough!
RIC HUNTER
Burnsville
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