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00ournal or_Opinion: Warming shots That was quite an exchange between conservative Ardean Anvik representing the environmental ardeanists (EAs) and some more liberal folks he calls the environmental extremists (EEs) jousting about global warming in recent letters to the editor. Ardean argued that the jury is still out on the human contribution to Earth's fever while the EE politburo contended Americans should be seriously reducing their output of green- house gases to save the planet as we know it. The most intriguing theme in the EE mob's letters was that Americans should be concerned about future generations. Concerned about the next generation? In America? This is the country with the credit-card, "What, me worry?" mentality and the $8.5-trillion national debt, much of it owed to foreigners. Our kids will be paying so much interest through taxes that their government services will be slashed. Consider the air that vehicle-crazy Americans keep leaving next generation after next generation. It's so filthy it kills a percentage of the people who breathe it. If we can breed enough obstinacy into our kids, they can continue our sprawl-and.crawl commuting. We can already see the brown haze hanging over the cities, but we can give our descendants so much more: On their daily trips to and from work, urban commuters breathe air with eight times the pollutants of downtown air. And speaking of doing favors for the next generation, we're making our oil-producing enemies rich and giving their leaders more power by driving so much that world oil prices skyrocket. Americans leave their children at the mercy of an idiot box they watch four hours a day to develop their sense of morality and at the mercy of a no.limits Internes on which one out of seven girls will be solicited and a multi-billion-dollar porn industry flourishes. We provide our kids with professional athletic heroes who are hoodlums and with entertainers who model insane lifestyles. Think about the next generation? We ingrain in boys and girls an attitude that women are sex objects. We fill ourselves and our children with prescription drugs, raising them in a culture where they expect drugs to solve all of their health and emotional problems - the illusion of a free license to abuse themselves. Is it having concern for the next generation to feed our children so many calories of grease and sugar that a major portion of them are obese? We bring them up worshiping the god of materialism. This is the country whose landmark "education" bill, the No Recruiter Left Behind Act, ensures that schools will give the war machine contact information for our children. It's the nation now celebrating four years of staying the curse that is killing a bunch of the next generation, building up debt for them while foregoing more worthwhile expenditures and destroying the repu- tation of the U.S. in the world they're going to inherit. We use the next generation as guinea pigs in education. In- stead of simply vowing to find the best ways to each material and tap natural desires to learn, we talk tough and play psychological games with kids before blinking and saving face with more rhetoric. And, for their part, millions of parents are too busy, drunk or apathetic to insist that their children get a solid education. Often they're so busy destroying their own lives that they don't have time for their most important respon- sibility - the lives of the next generation. The Journal has been running stories about pollution of Hood Canal for a quarter of a century - an entire generation. That's 25 years of thumb-twiddling while we continued to pour nitrogen into the water for our kids. In some areas of Puget Sound we have given the next generation fish with chemicals in them. Shelton is a microcostm of Mafiana America. Its resi- dents pushed tens of millions of dollars worth of street work onto the next generation and made the next gener- ation drink chlorine by neglecting the water system. Fifty years ago city fathers were trying to figure out how to find $88,000 to overhaul the sewer system, which was overflowing onto the streets during rainstorms. Half of that era's Sheltonians aren't even alive to see the present generation pick up the $20-million-plus bill. The stormwater still runs off the streets of the city into Oak- land Bay, but, then, that's the next generation's problem, just as i was the next generation's prqblem when loggers got rich filling the Skokomish River with silt. So the EE horde has a lot of nerve asking Americans to think about the next generation. Showing such con- cern would be un-American, which is why EAs needn't be too worried about new environmental laws that would kill the U.S. economy or force them to drive more fuel-efficient cars. Nature will discipline Americans because they didn't discipline themselves. But that's way off in the future. It ain't our generation's problem. -CG mUllll ournal )Hason 9 usps 492-800 County POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Shelton-Mason County Journal, P.O. Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584. Published weekly by Shelton Publishing Inc. at 227 West Cota Street, Shelton, Washington Mailing address: P.O. Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584 Telephone (360) 426-4412 * www.masoncounty.com Periodicals postage paid at Shelton, Washington Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $31.00 per year in-county address, $45.00 per year in state of Washington $55.00 per year out of state Charles Gay, editor and publisher. Newsroom: Sean Hanlon, managing editor, Port of Shelton; Steve Patch, sports editor; Jeff Green, general assignment, city government, schools; Rebecca Wels, society editor, county government; Mary Duncan, police, courts. Advertising: Stephen Gay, advertising manager; Dave Pierik and Harvey Morris, ad sales. Front office: Julie Orme, business manager; Kathy Lester, circulation; Donna Kinnaird, bookkeeper; Cricket Carter, mailroom supervisor. CompoMno room: Diane Riordan, supervisor; Margot Brand, Jan Kallinen, pagination; Monica CarvajaI-Beben, pagination, darkroom; Kolesn Wood, typesetter, computer system manager; William Adams, ad builder, computer system manager; Clinton Kendall, proofreader. Pressroom: Kelly Riordan, pressman; Nick Carr, pressman's assistant. lUUlllllllllllllllllllllllllll, n tlmlanUmnllllllll uuuuuuuuuu Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 29, 2007 } / it a| ,t Readers" 00ournal: Demos here pretty normal Editor, The Journal: I would like to comment on the rambling letter from Mr. George Van Cleave in the March 22 Jour- nal ("Democrats destroy country"). This country has only two major political parties and one of them, according to Mr. Van Cleave, consists of people being communist, Nazi, socialist and ihscist. I could agree that the last 40 years were not glorious years, but Mr. Van Cleave should remember that Republican Presidents were "running the shop" for 26 out of the last 40 years. His family dates from 1600; my family dates from October 16, 1964 entering the United States. Between 1940 and 1945 I ob- served Nazi occupation in Hol- land fbr five years and my wife three years of Japanese occupa- tion in Indonesia. So I can assure you that the Democrats here are pretty normal folks, but maybe not always agreeable to your ideas. However, is that not the purpose of having more than one party? Now after more than six years of one-party majority rule, we are soon having a nationwide election coming up, with also the electio of a new President. And there are plenty of candidates this time. Now speaking of Mr. VaP Cleave's rotten apples in a barrel, let's hope that one of his candidates who is a c three-time adulterer is not ed. That would be a bad start should be very confusing to hi, At that point he may consider finding the good ship MayfloWer and booking a return passage somewhere he thinks he would able to agree with everyone. Dirk GroenhuizeP Shelt0 Hysterical crisis-mongers Editor, The Journal: In the '70s the all-consuming fear was global cooling. Today it is global warming. In both in- stances the public was propa- gandized into believing in the cer- tainty of apocalyptic doom. Hysterical crisis-mongers have made fear their religion. They ag- onize over "saving the planet" from a dubious distant doom while ignoring more immediate and undeniable problems such as world poverty, which is a .real danger to environmental ruin. Every day, 20,000 people in the world die from waterborne diseas- es and a half-billion people go hungry. Why are these zealots expend- ing so much emotional energy try- ing to "control" the climate while their fellow human beings are ing from poverty, dirty water the lack of accessible energY sources? Perhaps the."crisis" of warming is the political agenda guilt-ridden, pampered, people with too much time o their hands. Mary SwobodS Belfir Objective to gain recognition Editor, The Journal: William Eickmeyer is getting a lot of press lately, both pro and con, relating to his ability to prop- erly serve as our representative to the 35th District. The March 8 Journal front- paged his recent ethics training order from the Legislative Ethics Board, tbllowed by a letter to the editor in his defense from Neal Nogler and one from Lisa Tread- way listing what she considers his numerous misdeeds. Amid all this we are reminded of an illuminating episode back in May 2006 when Eickmeyer, in a published brochure, attempted to display his great concern and knowledge of conditions in Hood Canal by announcing the exist- ence of a mysterious tide-blocking sill "... made of solid stone rising 450 feet from the bottom." He lat- er described this "phenomenon" as a "real monolith" somewhere near Bangor. Of course no nautical chart has ever indicated anything of the sort. In response to public doubt, Eickmeyer later backed off on this claim in personal letters. While still clinging to his wo t "monolith" he admitted to its a¢ tual form being "... somethivf like a seven-mile ramp slopi down to the south." Seven mile. of mud; hardly a 450-foot tower d rock. And this while acting as the appointed chairman of the Seled Committee on Hood Canal. Loosely formed ideas like theS  would seem to reveal that hiS. main objective is to gain politic s recognition by choosing Hood Cs'. nal as simply a convenient a d currently popular target. Robert Hoi UnioS Pioneers would run into 'no' Editor, The Journal: Gee whiz, I am insane, Jack Mallinger is stupid, and the name-calling goes on and on and on. How about a good laugh? America then, America now: My story, "Oh, No, Pioneer!" Today's pioneers would never have made it and settled a nation. Upon learning of their intended journey, Uncle Sam would say, 'Tou can't take those children out of school. You can't endanger their sensitive natures by subject- ing them to the hardship of cross- ing the nation. They might get hurt, or be damaged emotionally forever, or they might not want to go." "You can't carry those guns across the territorial lines, or you'll be arrested." 'Tou can't cut down those trees to build your wagons and your log cabins, or if you do, you'll need a permit." "You can't use those other trees, because the horned 'winged bleeding heart lives in them, or if you do, you'll have to relocate every single bleeding heart." 'Tou need a special permit to lead these people out of state." 'Tou can't take those oxen and cattle across country. They'll spread disease amongst the buffa- lo and other wildlife." "You can't take those horses to pull your wagons. It's cruelty to animals." 'Tou can't cross Indian terri- tory, because you'll tempt the In- dians to want to do violence to you, or else you'll turn them into beggars or wards of the state." 'Tou can't cross the rivers, be- cause the dung on your wagon wheels will pollute the water." "If you get bogged down and leave your possessions, you'll be charged with littering." 'Tou can't have any babies on the trek without government su- pervision so as the supervisor can issue the babe a Social Security card to track you all down the rest of your life. (But if you snuck into America on the sly and are hoping to hide yourself in the vast West, it's okay. You can have as many babes as you want and no card.)" 'Tou can't cook food out there without an inspection so every- body on the wagon train won't die of food poisoning." 'Tou can't hunt or kill any ani- mals to eat without a hunting license." 'Tou can't gO"if your vehicle ii' cense has expired." 'Tou can't go if your drivi (harness and saddle horse) per $ has expired." 'Tou can't kill any of the ai the? reals you meet, because might die out 600 years down te road." 'Tou can't take those wago$ over fragile desert plants. 0 s wagon wheel track will destrOY the desert forever." 'Tou can't go #1 or #2 out the@ in the sand. It's just NOT done bY the American people!" 'Tou can't cart those cigarette# and booze across the nation' You'll get fined and jailed by the Interstate Commerce CommiS" sion, the FBI, the CIA, the Bettd, Business Bureau, the Ladies League, and worst of all, tbs Down With Everything people." s 'Tou can't fix up anyone wb gets hurt, because you can't pr s¢ tice medicine without a license." 'Tou can't hold worship vices on Sunday, or pray to for safe passage, as the Court has ruled against a preme Being." 'Tou can't, you just can't!" Norma VinceP i Star L kd 00ournal or_Opinion: Warming shots That was quite an exchange between conservative Ardean Anvik representing the environmental ardeanists (EAs) and some more liberal folks he calls the environmental extremists (EEs) jousting about global warming in recent letters to the editor. Ardean argued that the jury is still out on the human contribution to Earth's fever while the EE politburo contended Americans should be seriously reducing their output of green- house gases to save the planet as we know it. The most intriguing theme in the EE mob's letters was that Americans should be concerned about future generations. Concerned about the next generation? In America? This is the country with the credit-card, "What, me worry?" mentality and the $8.5-trillion national debt, much of it owed to foreigners. Our kids will be paying so much interest through taxes that their government services will be slashed. Consider the air that vehicle-crazy Americans keep leaving next generation after next generation. It's so filthy it kills a percentage of the people who breathe it. If we can breed enough obstinacy into our kids, they can continue our sprawl-and.crawl commuting. We can already see the brown haze hanging over the cities, but we can give our descendants so much more: On their daily trips to and from work, urban commuters breathe air with eight times the pollutants of downtown air. And speaking of doing favors for the next generation, we're making our oil-producing enemies rich and giving their leaders more power by driving so much that world oil prices skyrocket. Americans leave their children at the mercy of an idiot box they watch four hours a day to develop their sense of morality and at the mercy of a no.limits Internes on which one out of seven girls will be solicited and a multi-billion-dollar porn industry flourishes. We provide our kids with professional athletic heroes who are hoodlums and with entertainers who model insane lifestyles. Think about the next generation? We ingrain in boys and girls an attitude that women are sex objects. We fill ourselves and our children with prescription drugs, raising them in a culture where they expect drugs to solve all of their health and emotional problems - the illusion of a free license to abuse themselves. Is it having concern for the next generation to feed our children so many calories of grease and sugar that a major portion of them are obese? We bring them up worshiping the god of materialism. This is the country whose landmark "education" bill, the No Recruiter Left Behind Act, ensures that schools will give the war machine contact information for our children. It's the nation now celebrating four years of staying the curse that is killing a bunch of the next generation, building up debt for them while foregoing more worthwhile expenditures and destroying the repu- tation of the U.S. in the world they're going to inherit. We use the next generation as guinea pigs in education. In- stead of simply vowing to find the best ways to each material and tap natural desires to learn, we talk tough and play psychological games with kids before blinking and saving face with more rhetoric. And, for their part, millions of parents are too busy, drunk or apathetic to insist that their children get a solid education. Often they're so busy destroying their own lives that they don't have time for their most important respon- sibility - the lives of the next generation. The Journal has been running stories about pollution of Hood Canal for a quarter of a century - an entire generation. That's 25 years of thumb-twiddling while we continued to pour nitrogen into the water for our kids. In some areas of Puget Sound we have given the next generation fish with chemicals in them. Shelton is a microcostm of Mafiana America. Its resi- dents pushed tens of millions of dollars worth of street work onto the next generation and made the next gener- ation drink chlorine by neglecting the water system. Fifty years ago city fathers were trying to figure out how to find $88,000 to overhaul the sewer system, which was overflowing onto the streets during rainstorms. Half of that era's Sheltonians aren't even alive to see the present generation pick up the $20-million-plus bill. The stormwater still runs off the streets of the city into Oak- land Bay, but, then, that's the next generation's problem, just as i was the next generation's prqblem when loggers got rich filling the Skokomish River with silt. So the EE horde has a lot of nerve asking Americans to think about the next generation. Showing such con- cern would be un-American, which is why EAs needn't be too worried about new environmental laws that would kill the U.S. economy or force them to drive more fuel-efficient cars. Nature will discipline Americans because they didn't discipline themselves. But that's way off in the future. It ain't our generation's problem. -CG mUllll ournal )Hason 9 usps 492-800 County POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Shelton-Mason County Journal, P.O. Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584. Published weekly by Shelton Publishing Inc. at 227 West Cota Street, Shelton, Washington Mailing address: P.O. Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584 Telephone (360) 426-4412 * www.masoncounty.com Periodicals postage paid at Shelton, Washington Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $31.00 per year in-county address, $45.00 per year in state of Washington $55.00 per year out of state Charles Gay, editor and publisher. Newsroom: Sean Hanlon, managing editor, Port of Shelton; Steve Patch, sports editor; Jeff Green, general assignment, city government, schools; Rebecca Wels, society editor, county government; Mary Duncan, police, courts. Advertising: Stephen Gay, advertising manager; Dave Pierik and Harvey Morris, ad sales. Front office: Julie Orme, business manager; Kathy Lester, circulation; Donna Kinnaird, bookkeeper; Cricket Carter, mailroom supervisor. CompoMno room: Diane Riordan, supervisor; Margot Brand, Jan Kallinen, pagination; Monica CarvajaI-Beben, pagination, darkroom; Kolesn Wood, typesetter, computer system manager; William Adams, ad builder, computer system manager; Clinton Kendall, proofreader. Pressroom: Kelly Riordan, pressman; Nick Carr, pressman's assistant. lUUlllllllllllllllllllllllllll, n tlmlanUmnllllllll uuuuuuuuuu Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 29, 2007 } / it a| ,t Readers" 00ournal: Demos here pretty normal Editor, The Journal: I would like to comment on the rambling letter from Mr. George Van Cleave in the March 22 Jour- nal ("Democrats destroy country"). This country has only two major political parties and one of them, according to Mr. Van Cleave, consists of people being communist, Nazi, socialist and ihscist. I could agree that the last 40 years were not glorious years, but Mr. Van Cleave should remember that Republican Presidents were "running the shop" for 26 out of the last 40 years. His family dates from 1600; my family dates from October 16, 1964 entering the United States. Between 1940 and 1945 I ob- served Nazi occupation in Hol- land fbr five years and my wife three years of Japanese occupa- tion in Indonesia. So I can assure you that the Democrats here are pretty normal folks, but maybe not always agreeable to your ideas. However, is that not the purpose of having more than one party? Now after more than six years of one-party majority rule, we are soon having a nationwide election coming up, with also the electio of a new President. And there are plenty of candidates this time. Now speaking of Mr. VaP Cleave's rotten apples in a barrel, let's hope that one of his candidates who is a c three-time adulterer is not ed. That would be a bad start should be very confusing to hi, At that point he may consider finding the good ship MayfloWer and booking a return passage somewhere he thinks he would able to agree with everyone. Dirk GroenhuizeP Shelt0 Hysterical crisis-mongers Editor, The Journal: In the '70s the all-consuming fear was global cooling. Today it is global warming. In both in- stances the public was propa- gandized into believing in the cer- tainty of apocalyptic doom. Hysterical crisis-mongers have made fear their religion. They ag- onize over "saving the planet" from a dubious distant doom while ignoring more immediate and undeniable problems such as world poverty, which is a .real danger to environmental ruin. Every day, 20,000 people in the world die from waterborne diseas- es and a half-billion people go hungry. Why are these zealots expend- ing so much emotional energy try- ing to "control" the climate while their fellow human beings are ing from poverty, dirty water the lack of accessible energY sources? Perhaps the."crisis" of warming is the political agenda guilt-ridden, pampered, people with too much time o their hands. Mary SwobodS Belfir Objective to gain recognition Editor, The Journal: William Eickmeyer is getting a lot of press lately, both pro and con, relating to his ability to prop- erly serve as our representative to the 35th District. The March 8 Journal front- paged his recent ethics training order from the Legislative Ethics Board, tbllowed by a letter to the editor in his defense from Neal Nogler and one from Lisa Tread- way listing what she considers his numerous misdeeds. Amid all this we are reminded of an illuminating episode back in May 2006 when Eickmeyer, in a published brochure, attempted to display his great concern and knowledge of conditions in Hood Canal by announcing the exist- ence of a mysterious tide-blocking sill "... made of solid stone rising 450 feet from the bottom." He lat- er described this "phenomenon" as a "real monolith" somewhere near Bangor. Of course no nautical chart has ever indicated anything of the sort. In response to public doubt, Eickmeyer later backed off on this claim in personal letters. While still clinging to his wo t "monolith" he admitted to its a¢ tual form being "... somethivf like a seven-mile ramp slopi down to the south." Seven mile. of mud; hardly a 450-foot tower d rock. And this while acting as the appointed chairman of the Seled Committee on Hood Canal. Loosely formed ideas like theS  would seem to reveal that hiS. main objective is to gain politic s recognition by choosing Hood Cs'. nal as simply a convenient a d currently popular target. Robert Hoi UnioS Pioneers would run into 'no' Editor, The Journal: Gee whiz, I am insane, Jack Mallinger is stupid, and the name-calling goes on and on and on. How about a good laugh? America then, America now: My story, "Oh, No, Pioneer!" Today's pioneers would never have made it and settled a nation. Upon learning of their intended journey, Uncle Sam would say, 'Tou can't take those children out of school. You can't endanger their sensitive natures by subject- ing them to the hardship of cross- ing the nation. They might get hurt, or be damaged emotionally forever, or they might not want to go." "You can't carry those guns across the territorial lines, or you'll be arrested." 'Tou can't cut down those trees to build your wagons and your log cabins, or if you do, you'll need a permit." "You can't use those other trees, because the horned 'winged bleeding heart lives in them, or if you do, you'll have to relocate every single bleeding heart." 'Tou need a special permit to lead these people out of state." 'Tou can't take those oxen and cattle across country. They'll spread disease amongst the buffa- lo and other wildlife." "You can't take those horses to pull your wagons. It's cruelty to animals." 'Tou can't cross Indian terri- tory, because you'll tempt the In- dians to want to do violence to you, or else you'll turn them into beggars or wards of the state." 'Tou can't cross the rivers, be- cause the dung on your wagon wheels will pollute the water." "If you get bogged down and leave your possessions, you'll be charged with littering." 'Tou can't have any babies on the trek without government su- pervision so as the supervisor can issue the babe a Social Security card to track you all down the rest of your life. (But if you snuck into America on the sly and are hoping to hide yourself in the vast West, it's okay. You can have as many babes as you want and no card.)" 'Tou can't cook food out there without an inspection so every- body on the wagon train won't die of food poisoning." 'Tou can't hunt or kill any ani- mals to eat without a hunting license." 'Tou can't gO"if your vehicle ii' cense has expired." 'Tou can't go if your drivi (harness and saddle horse) per $ has expired." 'Tou can't kill any of the ai the? reals you meet, because might die out 600 years down te road." 'Tou can't take those wago$ over fragile desert plants. 0 s wagon wheel track will destrOY the desert forever." 'Tou can't go #1 or #2 out the@ in the sand. It's just NOT done bY the American people!" 'Tou can't cart those cigarette# and booze across the nation' You'll get fined and jailed by the Interstate Commerce CommiS" sion, the FBI, the CIA, the Bettd, Business Bureau, the Ladies League, and worst of all, tbs Down With Everything people." s 'Tou can't fix up anyone wb gets hurt, because you can't pr s¢ tice medicine without a license." 'Tou can't hold worship vices on Sunday, or pray to for safe passage, as the Court has ruled against a preme Being." 'Tou can't, you just can't!" Norma VinceP i Star L kd