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Donald seeks recommendation
Understandably, Donald Trump is depressed due to the January 6 hearings and the current FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago dwelling. In order to carry his spirits, he known as his previous good friend, Bill Clinton, to vent and get some recommendation.
Chappaqua, NY. (A groggy Bill reaches for his ringing telephone): Hello?
Trump: Hi, Bill.
Clinton (solutions): Donald, is that you just? It’s 5 within the morning!
Donald: I assumed you’d be awake.
Clinton: Well, I wasn’t. Ever since Epstein left us, I sleep like a child.
Trump: Sorry, Bill. Can we discuss?
Clinton: Well, I’m up now Donald, so I’m listening.
Trump: Everyone appears to be towards me and all this discuss of January 6 with the current FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, properly, it’s beginning to get to me. You’ve been by way of this earlier than and so I assumed I’d offer you a name.
Clinton: Well, I want you had known as at a good hour, D.T. But okay, why don’t you begin initially? Hillary is awake now, so I’ll put the telephone on speaker. (Hillary says, “Hi Donald.”) Maybe she’ll have some insights to supply; you realize, due to all of the criticism she needed to endure over that dang non-public server and all these subpoenaed e-mails she destroyed, to not point out the Steele file stuff. Fortunately for us, Obama’s DOJ by no means raided our dwelling.
Trump (begins chanting playfully): Lock her up, lock her up! Hi Hill! I’m simply joshing. Thanks, guys. (Trump begins to share what’s bothering him to the now wide-awake Clinton couple): “It all began when I was riding down the escalator at Trump Towers.”
(To the tune of “The Ballad of John and Yoko”)
Riding down the steps of Trump Towers
Announcing that I’m going to run
The pundits all stated
His fame has gone to his head
We guess he’s solely having some enjoyable
(refrain)
Bill, you realize it ain’t straightforward
You understand how laborious it may be
The day that I began
They tried to eliminate me
(stanza)
I advised Jeb his power was too low
I gave Marco his personal nickname too
Lying Ted certain had sport
But after I known as him that title
He actually didn’t know what to do
(Bill, you realize it ain’t straightforward and so on.)
(stanza)
Barack stated I’d by no means sit in his workplace
Then he dropped his telephone on the ground
The crowd cheered him with glee
You know they didn’t like me
But my title wound up on his workplace door
(bridge)
Walking with my spouse on the tarmac
They stated, “His marriage is on shifting sands”
Oh boy, The View stated, she needs he was useless
Cos Melanie didn’t wish to maintain fingers – Think!
(stanza)
Eating brunch with mates at Mar-a-Lago
Having pie and ice cream on the meal
The press stated look what he’s performed
He had two scoops, his mates one
They stated this proved I used to be an enormous heel
(Bill, you realize it ain’t straightforward and so on.)
(stanza)
Mueller searched so laborious for collusion
Tried to search out an impeachable crime
He searched laborious all over the place
Without a “there” being there
His search simply wasted time and cash
(Bill, you realize it ain’t straightforward and so on.)
(stanza)
My critics stated, “Trump’s so unstable”
While they screamed up on the sky
My base thought I used to be swell
Critics stated, “We’re in Hell”
Though I’m a genius who’s an actual secure man
(Bill, you realize it ain’t straightforward and so on.)
(stanza)
They wish to cost me with rebellion
After two impeachments have failed
They could have failed then
But they’re making an attempt once more
It appears they’ll by no means relaxation until I’m jailed
(stanza)
Now they’ve hit me at Mar-a-Lago
Agents got here to my entrance door
They got here by land, air and sea
You know they wish to get me
Bill, you realize I can’t take an excessive amount of extra
(stanza)
Bill, there’s a lot extra I may inform you
But please, inform me what I ought to do
Why is there such hate?
I made America nice
(Although I did offend an individual or two)
(refrain)
Bill, you realize it ain’t straightforward
You understand how laborious it may be
The means issues are going
They’ll lastly eliminate me
Trump: Well, guys, I really feel higher now. What do you suppose? (Donald hears what seems like loud night breathing on his telephone.) Guys, are you there? Bill? Hillary?
George Civile
Gardiner
If solely
Dear MAGAt and Republican Party voters: Taking/stealing categorised and top-secret paperwork is a no-no. TFG engaged in an unlawful act whether or not they have been categorised or not, and now’s being rightfully investigated by the DOJ for breaking the legislation. He didn’t even adhere to the subpoena he acquired to return all of the paperwork. What was his motive to retain 11 bins of paperwork when he was to return all of them after being knowledgeable and subpoenaed to just do that?
It’s time. It’s time to place down the merch, the flags, your incorrect concepts and beliefs and allegiance. It’s time to confess you’ve got been incorrect. It’s time to comprehend he’s a traitor. It’s been a very long time…however come on now. It’s okay to confess it. Move on together with your lives and settle for it. Get out of the cult. Listen to your family and friends who’ve tried that can assist you. Make amends with those that have minimize you out of their lives, all to your devotion to this man and this incorrect path.
It’s excessive time, it’s over. There is energy in acceptance. It’s the ultimate stage of grief. There is energy in being large enough to confess you made a mistake. There is energy in private progress and doing higher with extra data.
Let go
It’s all proper to cease
Time to eat all of your phrases
Swallow your satisfaction
Open your eyes
In all honesty, I don’t see this as very doubtless. Every time it’s been identified how they’re supporting evil, they double down and attempt to declare the ethical or reflexive excessive floor in some way. Laughable however unhappy – SMH as a result of that crowd is made up of fucking silly individuals!
The last laugh-out-loud second for me is once we see the ex-president’s dumbass request (“by copy of this truth” LOL), as Trump calls for the FBI give again paperwork he “rightfully” stole.
Neil Jarmel
West Hurley
Ulster County advantages
News about cash from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for particular person and financial COVID restoration disappeared shortly, so I used to be joyful to see the current information report on the persevering with advantages to Ulster County of the $34 million allocation it acquired.
In addition to the thousands and thousands already directed to Ulster’s psychological well being help, sewer and water techniques, reasonably priced housing and small companies, $1.5 million might be distributed amongst organizations that maintain our sense of group: libraries, theaters, arts teams, orchestras, social and training facilities, American Legion, nature preserves, YMCA, the United Way and extra. These non-profit organizations revenue us by enriching our every day lives.
Pat Ryan, county govt, understood this about making certain the vitality of group life. “We’re investing our federal dollars in direct support to our essential non-profits, who stepped into new roles when the pandemic created new needs in our community.”
Almost two centuries in the past, Alexis de Tocqueville was astonished by how beneficiant, variety and charitable he discovered Americans. Those federal {dollars} are our bucks, and the ARPA proves we’re nonetheless these beneficiant Americans. How unhappy and shameful that one main political celebration, the GOP, rejects (by voting “No” on ARPA) this conventional, communitarian spirit and motion, which advantages all residents.
Lyn DelliQuadri
Kingston
Just pay attention
You can’t dance to a podcast.
Sparrow
Phoenicia
Eliminate all nukes
The first decision adopted by the UN General Assembly in January 1946 known as for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The present secretary common agrees. In 1982 a million individuals demonstrated with that objective. And on August 2, 2022, I and plenty of others marched to the US Mission and did the identical. And once more, as yearly, I and others commemorated the bombing of Hiroshima with our prayers.
Clearly way more progress has been made, however extra is required. Much extra stays. Different techniques are vital. Every final nuke should be eradicated all over the place. No extra half-measures. No extra billions. Otherwise, no extra individuals will stay. The madness will persist. As has been stated earlier than: No nuclear battle could be received, and none should ever be fought!
Susan Nickerson
Woodstock
Preserve our future
Our nation is getting ready to an agricultural collapse, and this summer time emphasizes the seriousness of local weather change upon our meals provide.
According to ROCA, a web based information medium, seven states face water cuts after failing to suggest a plan to chop their Colorado River water utilization. Quoting from ROCA, but in addition broadly reported elsewhere:
“The Colorado River basin covers seven US states. It is the primary water source for 40 million Americans and generates power for millions of households. It also supports a $15 billion-a-year regional agricultural industry. The river is in the midst of a 23-year drought, leaving water levels at historic lows. States have until Tuesday to submit a plan for how to cut river usage 15 percent by 2023. There’s no longer enough water to fulfill existing water rights. If the states don’t reach a new agreement, the federal government will force cuts on them.”
A majority of our meals provide comes from these agricultural areas. Yet we proceed to disregard the dynamic warning indicators of disaster forward. Development of mega-sized houses continues, wasteful meals and water practices proceed, mindless consumerism runs unabated. All of our every day practices are dangerously draining our water assets, which in flip threaten the lack of our meals provide.
We are witnessing unheard-of drought situations in our native communities. It’s time for our area to take inventory of its assets, particularly water. Education about water utilization is equally essential. Until we all know which assets are most constrained, it’s unimaginable to take the measured steps essential to protect our future.
I really like meals and might’t dwell with out it. Can you?
Jo Galante Cicale
Saugerties
Bears
I heard that 4 bears have been just lately “euthanized” (killed, murdered in my language), together with two cubs, as a result of some people objected to them being on their property and reported them to the DEC. I received’t say what I consider these individuals, however right here’s a poem by Ellen Bass, known as “Fracture,” they could learn and take into consideration.
When the grizzly cubs have been caught, collared, and brought away –
relocated they name it –
their mom ran forwards and backwards on the highway screaming.
Brutal sound. Torn from her lungs. Her coronary heart,
twisted knot, scorching blood rivering
to the 26 pounding bones of her ft.
Just weeks earlier than
I watched a bear and her cubs run down a mountain
within the twilight.
So buoyant, they appeared to be tumbling
to the meadow,
to the yarrow root they dug, rocking
to wrest it from the laborious floor, fattening for winter.
They have been respiratory what seemed like gladness.
But that different mom…
Her large head raised, determined to catch their scent.
Each footfall a fracture within the Earth’s crust.
Tarak Kauff
Woodstock
If Noah’s Ark is a spaceship
I just lately tried to speak to a good friend the advantages I gained from isolating myself in the course of the pandemic. One constructive I got here up with was that being alone deepened my consciousness of my ideas and feelings about myself.
Isolation can turn into horrifying should you don’t like who you’re. However, having labored within the psychological well being discipline, I perceive that many endure from self-loathing. One of the methods to keep away from coping with self-loathing is thru distractions to flee into the exterior world. In different phrases, seldom sit nonetheless, go away little time to mirror, occupy your self with exterior points and look to others to guarantee you you’re okay.
I’ve a good friend who makes use of the phrase “Microcosm Macrocosm;” what I’ll write subsequent could match this assertion. I believe a private sociological phenomenon of self-loathing is happening in our tradition. This contains a fancy of harmful behaviors used to create distractions. For instance, ignoring emotional and bodily well being, perilous driving, epidemic drug use, superior numbers of suicide and releasing repressed rage on others. This is the microcosm.
The macrocosm is wars, hateful politics, intentional environmental disasters, the federal government’s lack of clear communication with the general public and racial violence. How we publicly seem to deal with ourselves as a nation is within the fingers of our authorities, the army, non secular establishments and the police. All these organizations wrestle for money; our authorities’s spending on battle stimulates our financial system. How we deal with ourselves and the way our authorities treats us are deeply linked.
Why!
The pc revolution progressively took maintain of many elements of my life, starting in my late 50s and 60s. I as soon as believed that students, scientists, ethical leaders and politicians would all the time defend humanity in our nation. Now witnessing capital being positioned earlier than human, animal and flowers and all the things changing into a commodity, from microbes to human organs, science has turn into a serious shareholder in our self-destruction.
My questions are: If in the present day’s Noah’s Ark is a spaceship, who can be chosen to float into house away from the disaster we’ve created? What animals can be introduced, in addition to people? In my creativeness, I see human house vacationers stuffing money of their socks. Some may be putting weapons of their suitcases as a substitute of garments. I can see these standing on the spaceship door making an attempt to bump one another out of line whereas the TV information movies them.
A psychopath is past self-loathing; they’re with out entry to their soul and can lie and take human life feeling nothing. There are politicians in our authorities in the present day displaying psychopathic signs, and there are world leaders who needs to be identified as psychopaths. Vast quantities of money and no consciousness about whose life you’re taking “to make it” and preserve it appears to be the system for achievement.
To return to self-loathing, I’ve discovered it helps after I look within the mirror – to ask the person taking a look at me if he desires me to face nonetheless lengthy sufficient to listen to what he has to say.
Larry Winters
New Paltz
No illustration
He moved to Rhinebeck at some point, filed to run for congressman the following, received, after which left us when Governor Hochul known as. Up that ladder to what subsequent, Mr. Ambition? So, for half of 2022, we right here within the Valley as soon as represented by Antonio Delgado don’t have any voice in DC. What, you suppose Chuck and our different senator, who Chuck known as “our little cutie,” are listening to you? We are suckers.
Paul Nathe
New Paltz
What would you name it?
In response to David Drimer and Rondavid Gold’s objections to labeling the Israeli authorities’s insurance policies towards Palestinians as apartheid, I’d level out that it’s comprehensible for observers of the state of affairs to succeed in this conclusion. After all, it’s the Israeli authorities that deprives Palestinians freedom of motion and that encroaches on Palestinian land within the West Bank, not the opposite means round. People’s sympathies don’t normally lie with the bully.
International legislation forbids an occupier from annexing occupied land. Correct me if I’m incorrect, however isn’t that what Israel is doing within the West Bank? If the Israeli authorities doesn’t wish to be seen because the bully, possibly it may give Palestinians again the West Bank land it has misappropriated and their freedom of motion within the land of their delivery.
Matt Frisch
Arkville
My opinion is…
According to an article in HV1, a “Calamar Lane property owner has proposed a seven-unit motel on property.” Additionally within the article, Woodstock Planning Board chair Peter Cross “question[ed] if it [the proposed project] needs to go to the Zoning Board of Appeals [ZBA] to apply for a variance.” He additionally thought the planners may search readability from the ZBA within the distinction between a motel and short-term rental.
According to our Zoning Law, a motel with a particular use allow is an allowed use in a HC district. The undertaking as proposed matches the definition of a motel: “A building or group of buildings containing individual living and sleeping accommodations for hire, each of which is provided with a separate exterior entrance and one or more parking spaces and is offered for rental to, and used principally by, motor vehicle travelers,” and shouldn’t be thought of a short-term rental, because the proposed use of the undertaking is not going to be, as acknowledged within the definition of STR, “in a private home or habitable accessory structure.”
Howard Harris
Woodstock
Commentary on life
Willies: Wonka, Mays, Nelson: A root-toot-tooting August salute to ya!
Be passive photo voltaic – not passive to vote. Get on the market, peeps!
Enough “wing” left/proper politics; we simply wish to preserve a roof over our heads and meals on our desk.
You can blame the mega-drought on “Flex Seal,” however you’d be denying all the actual world stuff.
Ta-ta…I’m off to a Kegel-redo workshop!
Myrna S. Hilton
Ulster Park
Thanks DPW for ensuring now we have water service
It was Friday afternoon after one other lengthy, scorching, and dry week in August. The watermain on North Chestnut Street broke for the umpteenth time in the previous few years. This is similar part the place we lastly acquired grant cash from the NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC), however haven’t but begun development. The world pandemic created delays to an already convoluted course of, and now +30% value escalations are creating extra surprising challenges.
All of the Village of New Paltz’s varied water and sewer capital tasks are costing not less than 30% greater than we estimated simply over two years in the past. For instance, the low bid for a current sewer undertaking got here in $292,630 greater than we anticipated. We at the moment are caught with the difficult process of getting to search out sections of that undertaking to take away so we adjust to our authentic grant award and the quantity we have been authorised to borrow.
For the North Chestnut watermain, we additionally submitted a pre-application to Ulster County’s Municipal Sewer & Water Grant Program in search of $500,000 in help utilizing a number of the county’s American Rescue Plan cash they acquired from the Federal authorities. Good information, our pre-application and proposed water undertaking have been discovered by the County to be eligible so we have been invited to finish a full utility. Its deadline is September 14. We hope to obtain this help and use it as a part of our +$2 million match required by the EFC that we should give you regionally in direction of +$5 million in watermain substitute tasks, together with North Chestnut Street.
It can be incredible to not anticipate our DPW to need to scramble to maintain patching temperamental watermains earlier than weekends. We are fortunate our Village of New Paltz workers are such a devoted workforce.
Mayor Tim Rogers
New Paltz
Israeli not akin to Third Reich
Comparing something to the brutality of the Third Reich, as Tarik Kauff does in a current letter (Are you doing something? HV1, 08/17/22), is disgusting; it’s unacceptable at the same time as hyperbole. When one is evaluating Nazism to Israeli authorities coverage, it’s not solely inappropriate but in addition weird.
The Jewish Federation of Ulster County can not enable such outrageous accusations to go unanswered.
Hitler’s regime herded thousands and thousands of Jews all through Europe into ghettos, focus camps and crematoria. Six-million Jewish males, girls and youngsters have been murdered. Thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholic monks, homosexuals, Roma/Sinta, and political prisoners have been exterminated, too. Precisely what actions taken by Israel counsel one thing remotely comparable?
Is it Israel’s provide to create an impartial Palestinian state, with the complete help and assurances of the United States? That’s the proposed “two-state solution,” and Israel has made that provide thrice solely to be rebuffed each time.
Is it when Israel supplies all electrical energy, water and telecommunications and far of the humanitarian help and emergency medical care to residents of disputed territory in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank)? Israel continues its help even in periods of open warfare, characterised by hundreds of rocket assaults concentrating on residential neighborhoods inside Israel correct. That’s actually the definition of “terrorism.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) can solely reply with army motion towards missile launch websites, going the additional mile in warning civilians to evacuate properly prematurely of retaliatory strikes. That’s elementary to the Israeli army’s “rules of engagement,” which has earned it the characterization of “the most ethical army on Earth.” The terrorist faction Hamas routinely locates missile launch websites adjoining to hospitals and faculties. Israel views any ensuing collateral injury and lack of life as deeply regrettable penalties of its nationwide protection. Hamas views it as a propaganda victory.
Kauff’s letter nebulously references U.S. army funding to Israel out of a Pentagon funds of “over a trillion dollars per year.” That’s value analyzing. It’s well-known Israel receives roughly $3 billion per 12 months in army subsidies. It’s much less properly understood that Israel could solely spend that allocation with U.S. protection contractors. Not a penny of these funds exits the U.S. financial system. Iran, the world’s main exporter of worldwide terrorism, has vowed Israel’s destruction. Is it an excessive amount of for the U.S. to allocate to a strategically important ally in its nationwide protection?
Finally, Kauff asserts Gaza, a tract of largely desert land Israel constructed up and developed, then voluntarily ceded to Palestinian settlers, is struggling with no electrical energy. When Israel evacuated Gaza, the Palestinians destroyed nearly all the things Israel constructed there, presumably out of spite. But though the Palestinian Authority — the ruling political entity whose dictator Mahmoud Abbas stays perennially in energy regardless of the phrases of its Constitution — routinely runs thousands and thousands of {dollars} behind in paying its electrical invoice, Israel by no means absolutely turns off the ability. Perhaps, the PA stays quick on its electrical invoice as a result of its corrupt management diverts billions in overseas help to their private overseas financial institution accounts and builds terror tunnels into Israel to additional a terrorist political agenda.
Tarak, these are details, simply researched and absolutely substantiated through respected information sources. If you don’t settle for each phrase as correct, please take a couple of minutes to look them up.
David Drimer
Kingston
Ronald Gold
Woodstock
Thoughts on the August 17 Saugerties Town Board assembly
This previous week I attended the Saugerties Town Board assembly. Here is a few of what I got here away with. The topic of significance….the Denier proposed two-bay automotive wash and the implications of similar.
The focus of the illustration by the spokesperson was how completely secure and of no concern that this undertaking may ever have an effect on the aquifer that lies under Winston Farm.
The automotive wash can be positioned in a delicate overlay space. The request was to redo zoning restrictions to permit a clearly prohibited zoning legislation prohibition.
There have been so many voters of Saugerties current that the convention room wanted to be rearranged and plenty of chairs added. There was standing room solely within the space outdoors of the room. Of all the parents to talk, not one individual was in help of this proposal, until, in fact, they have been involved concerning the public suggestions.
All that apart, when questioned about how an 100% assure that no adversarial results would possibly occur, the response was sorely missing. Nothing is 100% and the dangers to each citizen’s secure water provide are monumental.
I introduced up a number of issues:
• Property values, ought to we be confronted with polluted water.
• Does anybody suppose they’d be capable to promote? Whoever can be prepared to spend money on houses and companies in any city the place the hazards of bathing themselves or their kids, consuming the water, cooking meals and really consuming it’s the actuality?
• Once polluted, irreversible air pollution would be the destiny of Saugerties.
Does anybody in addition to the developer consider this can be a good factor?
And for what? A two-bay, automated automotive wash that’s going to rely on “alarms” as the security web? It was acknowledged there can be a part-time worker. How a lot good will that do. Not a lot.
Someone introduced up the query concerning the precise function for this zoning change and instructed, as has been introduced up earlier than, if this isn’t a ploy to get the builders’ ft within the door so they may carry up as their protection that zoning legal guidelines have been modified so they need to be capable to make extra adjustments.
Those of us who spoke made clear that we strongly object to the adjustments proposed to zoning legal guidelines.
There is an actual and current hazard to everybody who relies upon the aquifer.
And, as so precisely acknowledged, we’re in a drought that’s more likely to turn into extra extreme as the consequences of worldwide warming are simply starting.
Much extra I’ve to say, however to date I plan on dwelling lengthy sufficient to write down extra letters.
Marjory GreenbergVaughn
Saugerties
Waiting for the appropriate time
A 12 months in the past, we gave Afghanistan again to the Taliban. We additionally gave one thing else away too.
Just earlier than that dismal occasion, a younger man engaged on my property had just lately come off Army responsibility in Afghanistan. When I requested him what we have been actually doing there after 20 odd years, he replied with out hesitation: “Guarding the minerals.” So now that these minerals, wanted for all this greenery that Congress has handed, are given to China or who is aware of who else, it’s our extra loss and a acquire for our greatest adversary.
It’s a acquire too, not for us lumpen taxpayers, however for Speaker Pelosi’s son Paul. Hardly an skilled on minerology, he’s nonetheless being paid a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} to take a seat on varied boards of Chinese mineral firms. I’m wondering why. The Chinese are rapaciously gobbling up the mineral efforts within the Congo, and studies are popping out of the harshest and cruelest remedy of the miners. Meanwhile efforts right here within the US to mine for these necessities are discouraged by this administration. (Full disclosure: I personal shares in a US lithium mining firm primarily based in Arkansas, however to date I don’t hear any requires its help.)
So I’ll proceed driving my 2009 Ford Fusion till we cease coddling alien efforts and encourage home ones like reasonably priced hydrogen automobiles and reasonably priced geothermal heating for houses and companies. And till that point comes, no quasi-socialist senator from Vermont, or overmobilized congresswoman from Queens, or an adolescent going round in a $15-million yacht with a diesel engine simply in case, have something to say to me.
Ann Playfair
Woodstock
Roe v. Wade ongoing debate
Many pro-abortion writers have expressed their sturdy views, particularly after the current overturning of Roe v. Wade, together with however not restricted to a number of the extra frequent writers, Kris-McDaniel Miccio, ESQ., Marty Klein, Steve Massardo, Peter Fiorentino, and Carol Bergman. It is straightforward to see that all of them have one widespread thread — a really determined reference to our Constitution. They all cherry-pick particular sections, phrases, or paragraphs inside a number of the Amendments of the Constitution to show to themselves, and wishfully to all of us, that abortion is a “right” assured throughout the Constitution. However, since there may be completely no reference, anyplace throughout the Constitution, to the phrase “abortion,” they’re hopelessly left to placing their very own spin and interpretation into what they suppose the Constitution is saying, to make it conform with their viewpoints. I’m no lawyer, choose, or legislation enforcement officer, however the final time I researched the subject, I’m fairly certain that none of us has a Constitutional or ethical “right” to take the lifetime of an harmless human being, born or unborn.
Even Neil Jarmel has shockingly weighed in on this matter in final week’s version. It’s not surprising, in fact, that Neil has taken this pro-abortion viewpoint, however what is surprising is that Neil has truly taken every week off from his boring and monotonous TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) assaults, to handle one other subject! His article of two weeks in the past entitled “Our Partner Trump”, reveals simply how far off his rocker Neil has fallen — his thorough discourse on his Putin/Trump hallucinations/fantacies which have lengthy been confirmed to be a hoax. I suppose nobody ever gave Neil the ultimate findings of the Mueller’s 2+ years witch hunt.
Paul Nathe’s wonderful letter on “Selective reporting” will stump many readers, particularly Neil, on the subject of even the distant risk of any considerate and well-prepared rebuttal from anybody whose sole supply of “news” are the laughable CNN and MSNBC water boys and water women for the Democrats and their/our present administration. Paul did pass over one other important supply of Democratic selective reporting — The View, with its “highly intelligent” and “well-informed” panelists of comediennes. A current report has indicated that even the View’s followers have grown bored with Goldberg and Behar and the present’s falling rankings. So, they’ve shaken issues up by bringing on a pair interchangeable conservative voices to “balance” issues out. However, the producers have been very cautious to decide on two conservatives who’ve brazenly acknowledged that they’re no followers of Trump, a la Kinzinger and Chaney. Wow, what a chance by The View’s large wigs!
Speaking of rankings, we should, once more, remind Neil and different followers of CNN and MSNBC to fastidiously analysis cable information rankings. One current examine, performed by an neutral supply, confirmed that every Fox News present, beginning at 1 a.m. and working 24 consecutive hours by way of midnight has demolished their competitors, the beforehand famous joke “news” shops. If Fox was as dangerous, and even worse, than the jokesters, then how is it doable that Fox persistently dominates the rankings? Only crickets will attempt to defend the jokesters.
So, what are the possibilities of Neil responding to Paul Nathe, George Civile, or any of my letters difficult Neil to take one other week off from his Trump monotony to handle the myriad of issues created by the choices and insurance policies of his hero, President Sleepy Joe, aided and abetted by the lame stream jokesters, which have negatively impacted all voters in addition to properly because the alarming wokeness creeping into our army? We stand a greater likelihood of seeing the Pope changing into an atheist.
John N. Butz
Modena
Misconception about Covid
There is a false impression that appears to be occurring in our space and nation that it’s no large deal should you get Covid, that should you contract it, the signs might be “mild” and due to this fact nothing to fret about. Thus the development is to let down one’s guard and dispense with masks and different protecting measures.
The CDC has even downgraded their suggestions, maybe responding to “naysayers” not wanting the “inconvenience” of cautious approaches.
As an individual who has just lately turn into a sufferer of the virus, I wish to inject some actuality into the image. I attended an indoor assembly of eight people who find themselves usually clever and conscious. The masking was both non-existent or inconsistent and there was even unmasked coughing occurring.
Within two days, seven of the eight examined constructive for Covid and a number of the attendees had fairly severe signs, equivalent to fever, continuous coughing and sneezing, extreme congestion excessive fatigue and weak point, lack of urge for food, unsteadiness and dizziness whereas strolling or standing which brought on issue in even going from the bed room to the lavatory or kitchen with out risking a fall.
I’m scripting this on day seven and nonetheless really feel weak, fatigued and hesitant to renew regular actions.
I’m encouraging individuals to proceed to be vigilant and to make use of all protecting measures for their very own security and that of others. Even that’s not foolproof and people are nonetheless being hospitalized and dying from this illness.
The concept that infections might be gentle is a delusion — possibly they are going to be, however possibly they received’t. Don’t be fooled.
In my case it was not gentle and the identical may occur with you. I do anticipate to get better, however no assure that signs received’t linger and even morph into “long Covid,” a nightmare situation.
Jo Gangemi
New Paltz
The Constitution and abortion
The debate continues unabated all through the nation (and on these HV1 pages) over the current SCOTUS Dobbs determination — reversing the earlier Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. Unfortunately, ample references to the US Constitution itself are largely missing in these discussions — particularly concerning the First, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
I’ve tried to carry these amendments into these HV1 discussions with my earlier letters, however have skilled obfuscation and criticism on these pages, primarily based on different semantic points. Sadly, a small variety of male anti-choice contributors nonetheless proceed to fill the HV1 “Feedback” part with deceptive data:
• Writer #1 has erroneously claimed that our US Constitution is basically primarily based on the Bible and Christianity, and that these non secular tenets ought to correctly be the premise for our legal guidelines and future SCOTUS choices.
• Writer #2 maintains that single girls are absolutely answerable for undesirable pregnancies — apart from the “microscopic numbers” of rape cases — and needs to be compelled to hold their pregnancies to completion in these States that so require it. This, with out mentioning the equal duty of the boys who impregnated them!
• Writer #1 has additionally acknowledged that pro-choice girls ought to take into account the big variety of feminine fetuses aborted beneath Roe v. Wade — and that “if that life in the womb is female, abortion is not only a very real and present threat to female freedom, but female existence.” So, in essence, Writer #1 truly thinks {that a} pro-choice girl ought to contemplate giving desire to the lifetime of a feminine fetus, over a male fetus as a foundation for altering their views!
But alas, these secondary discussions solely create a diversion from the important constitutional points in discussing the complexities of the abortion debate; so how does the US Constitution relate?:
In regard to the present makes an attempt to carry the Bible and Christianity into the dialogue:
• The First Amendment ensures non secular freedom to all by stopping our governments from immediately adopting the tenets of any faith into our legal guidelines. The Constitution itself (not the Bible) is the inspiration for governing our nation — sustaining it as a secular republic, as envisioned by our Founders.
In regard to the rights of girls (as individuals) within the United States:
• The Thirteenth Amendment bans “involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime.” An single girl pressured by any State to hold a being pregnant to completion towards her needs, might be considered as a sufferer of involuntary servitude to that State — until changing into pregnant outdoors of marriage may ever be deemed against the law there?
• The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1, prohibits any State from depriving “any PERSON of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” It additionally prohibits any State from denying to any PERSON “equal protection of the laws.” This brings into focus the topic of “women’s rights” and the way this modification pertains to such rights. Those SCOTUS judges who’re labeled as “originalists” keep that “women’s rights” have been restricted in 1866, when this modification was handed — however the modification wording clearly says “PERSON” not “MAN” — so there may be ample proof that girls are encompassed right here.
Therefore, the “equal protection” clause can assure that girls have rights equal to males — together with bodily autonomy, and the appropriate to hunt confidential medical remedy for his or her our bodies. Thus, can girls proceed to be considered second class residents? — or slightly to be actually handled as equals, in accordance with the Fourteenth Amendment!
Peter V. Fiorentino
Rosendale
Getting older, smarter
HomeShare Woodstock is partnering with Ulster County’s Office for the Aging for a free collection protecting points essential for growing old smarter and growing old in place. HomeShare Woodstock is a brand new initiative at Family of Woodstock, bringing dwelling homeowners with additional house and a want to share along with renters who can afford modest rents and want to provide priceless companies in return. All members are fastidiously screened and the matching course of is monitored and guided by educated Family volunteers and workers. This free collection combines details about dwelling sharing with useful tips for profitable growing old in place.
The first within the collection might be Wednesday, August 31 at midday at Woodstock’s Mescal Hornbeck Community Center on Rock City Road. Sue Koppenhaver, UC Office for the Aging Director, will assist navigate key points to contemplate for growing old in place. This contains the opportunity of dwelling sharing and representatives from HomeShare Woodstock might be available to elucidate this distinctive alternative. There might be time for questions and a lightweight lunch might be served.
The collection continues the next Wednesday, September 7 with a well timed presentation by Bob Meci from the Office for the Aging to assist everybody perceive the ins and outs of Medicare. Open enrollment might be right here earlier than you realize it and this session will inform you what it’s worthwhile to know! HomeShare Woodstock will current as properly.
The third session, on Wednesday, September 14, options Gilles Malkine from the Resource Center for Accessible Living. His presentation might be about dwelling adaptation as we age. If we wish to keep in our houses, now we have to make them safer. And as with the opposite two classes, HomeShare Woodstock will add our perspective concerning the methods dwelling sharing may also help seniors age properly in place.
All classes might be on the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center in Woodstock at midday and are freed from cost. Registration is required for all of the classes so we could be certain and have sufficient good meals available. Register by emailing homesharewoodstock@familyofwoodstockinc.org or by calling Family at 845-679-2485.
Susan Goldman, Advisory Board Volunteer
HomeShare Woodstock
Supporting our democracy!
I fastidiously went over the suggestions, written by Mr. Butz, to my “Outrageous, Part 2” letter to the editor in final week’s newspaper. Here is my response to his suggestions.
Butz is clearly an clever man who has a unique viewpoint concerning the current political adjustments with regard to the Supreme Court. I’m sorry he felt the necessity to make his factors by slinging mud at me. I cannot take that method. Instead, I’ll level out the worth of getting totally different opinions within the paper. One of the items of a working democracy is that totally different opinions assist readers to contemplate either side of a problem, after which thoughtfully develop their very own concepts concerning the topic. I’m all for having individuals stimulated by our letters and responses. What readers do with that is as much as every one in every of them.
I’ll nevertheless, level out that individuals who select to trash others with the hope of constructing their factors, are literally doing precisely the alternative, whether or not they know this or not.
In addition, I discover it fascinating how two clever individuals, who seem to care about our nation, can have such totally different perceptions of actuality. Of course I perceive the thought of being supportive to 1’s celebration selection. But the place are the parents who can stay loyal to their celebration, however proceed to suppose flexibly with regard to actuality? Or is that idea even doable? I believe it’s. Maybe my humanitarian viewpoint has clouded my image of actuality, leaning persistently towards compassion for ALL individuals in our nation. But I don’t suppose it’s merely an clever selection. I consider it’s the form of outlook one develops once they work towards protecting an open coronary heart.
Marty Klein
Kingston
Attainable housing for Woodstock
Housing in Woodstock is out of attain for a lot of who wish to dwell on this city. They embody individuals who grew up right here, the work drive, younger households, seniors, artists…We all understand how the group is being squeezed dry of its variety. A gaggle of residents who’ve been working laborious to give you methods to develop attainable housing have a brand new initiative: Woodstock Housing Alliance might be launched at 7 p.m. Thursday, August 25 in the Community Center. Please come to search out out extra about this just lately established native non-profit and take part in protecting Woodstock a welcoming and vibrant place to dwell.
Susan Manuel
Woodstock
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