Sound Off for Dec. 20
Retail workers have a life outside of their businesses; please be considerate and don't stay 30 minutes or more after the store closes. Put yourself in their shoes!
Kelner's music is online
Go on Amazon.com for Leon Kelner's LPs and CDs. Just type "Leon Kelner" in the search box. They are there.
It's part of history
I am so sad about the statues being removed from New Orleans. I would like to know if people living there know the total of white and people of color who died to give them freedom. I am sorry, but that is part of history. I was raised in the channel in N.O. I lived there for over 25 years. I am an old man now. I am sorry to see history of this city done away with. This is not good for visitors or anybody else.
Closer to home
I understand the innocent people in Syria need to escape the cruel ISIS regime but all the way to Europe and America? It seems to me the oil-rich neighboring Muslim countries would be a better fit for relocation than Europe and America. No language barriers, similar customs, similar lifestyles, etc. It kind of makes you wonder why the logical answer is not resonating with those countries or the rest of the world.
Consider this
Joseph Joubert: "The aim of an argument or of discussion should not be victory but progress." May our GOP and Democrat politicians read and learn from this.
Not another arms race
A report Friday states we are again considering putting anti-missile systems along Russia's border with the very weak argument that we are doing it to protect Europe from Mideast attacks. Who in the Mideast would attack on that scale and can Europe not protect itself? Russia will simply counter this move by putting missiles directly across from ours, and then what do you have absolutely but a threat to get into an arms race which could prove disastrous.
Not what was promised
President Obama signed the $1.1 trillion omnibus budget bill the GOP-led Congress forwarded. Some media reports called it a "compromise" spending bill but Obama didn't have to give up anything to get everything he wanted. In November 2014, the GOP asked America for congressional control so it would fight Obama relentlessly. Clearly, middle America agreed and provided the landslide victory. But the GOP reneged and ran scared.
24 years of great service
Thank you, Coleen Tucker and Sharon Chancellor, on your retirement after 24 years of great, consistent and accurate carrier service delivering our Sun Herald. You will never know how much you have meant to your unseen customers -- but I have seen you hundreds of times from my window.
This story was originally published December 19, 2015 at 9:32 PM with the headline "Sound Off for Dec. 20 ."