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EDITORIAL
"My Mother is against Nancy Modern communications like Tweets and texts allow
Reagan's 'Say No to Drugs' Twitter and cellular telephone only 140 and 160 characters
campaign," Jay Leno once messaging encourage reading (including punctuation and
quipped, "she thinks that's just and writing among our youth,spaces) respectively per use,
rude. It should be 'Say No Thank but they have also mark a new which is, in traditional language,
You to Drugs." low in written communications, about 10 words.
What has us thinking about a The instantaneous nature of In response to these
punctilious joke from the 1980s these vehicles, combined with limitations, tech-society has
is a literacy program that gives their self-imposed charactercreated their own abbreviated
away bicycles to encourage limits, continue to degrade our language. Even our potential
reading in our schools, language but more importantly, presidential candidates sound
That would be ironic if it our ability to understand each like children when tweeting. In
wasn't so necessary, other, fairness, some of them sound like
children when they're talking,
but written communication is a
higher art and is meant to have
permanence.
If Shakespeare were texting
Hamlet it would read: 2 b r not
2 b. And that is the question:
to suffer the slings and arrows
of abbreviated communication
when we know it dooms our
ability to understand each other?
There is good and bad in this.
Good in that our kids
are reading and writing
(hooray) and bad in that
such communication further
exacerbates our attention deficit
problem.
It literally (pun intended) and
necessarily eliminates words
like exacerbates and punctilious.
It replaces them with upside
down smiley faces and ignorance.
There is relief out there: buy
a book or take pen and paper in
hand and write a letter.
gift to
Letter to editor, Journal
I wanted to comment
on Larry Hager's letter
titled "Industries must be
very clean, now."
In his support of the
proposed Solomon plant
Mr. Hager makes the
following statement: "As
tbr emissions from this kind
of a system, there is hardly
none; other than steam...."
John Cox's letter to
you titled "Incinerator
would trade our health for
profits," which responds
to Mr. Hager's letter, refers
the reader to the ORCAA
website to confirm Mr.
Cox's statement "...
the proposed 8olomon
incinerator would produce
many tons of additional
pollution..."
I went to the ORCAA
website where I waded
through the Solomon
application, paying
particular attention to the
pollutants that Solomon
itself identifies as being
a by-product of their
proposed plant.
In Table 2-2: "Emission
Factors and Projected Toxic
Air Pollutant Emission
Rates" Solomon identifies
no less than 64 toxic
air pollutants (in this
one table) that will be
emitted by the proposed
Solomon plant. Some of
them are familiar, well-
known poisons, such
as: ammonia, arsenic,
cadmium, carbon monoxide,
chlorine, chloroform,
chromium hexavalent,
ibrmaldehyde, lead,
mercury, sulfur dioxide and
sulfuric acid.
I am a contractor,
not a scientist, but 64
toxic pollutants are
identifed by Solomon in this
table.
I may not be a scientist
like Mr. Cox, but I do
have common sense;
and my common sense
tells me that adding
64 additional toxic
pollutants to Shelton's
air is a bad idea. It is an
especially bad idea when
one takes into consideration
the benefit to the City and
the citizens of Shelton:
those maybe three jobs.
I think Mr. Hager ought
to go to the ORCAA website of
to familiarize himself with
some of these Solomon-
provided science-based
facts before calling someone
a liar, or suggesting that
a concerned citizen has
"nefarious purposes." I
looked nefarious up in
the dictionary and I don't
believe Mr. Hager is using
it correctly.
John Price
Shelton
leadership
Editor, the Journal
yQg for the heads-
up about the change in
scheduling for Board of
County Commissioner
meetings (Public Meeting,
5-12-11). I am sure it will
be difficult for very many
people to attend for three
days running, eight hours
each day, in the hopes that
they will be present for any
commission meetings.
This sort of leadership
reminds me of my favorite
George Bush quote: '~rhe
terrorists never stop
looking for ways to hurt
our citizens, and neither
do we." The county
commissioners continue
to seek ways to prevent
citizens from participating
in local government. This
is simply their latest tactic.
They certainly don't
lack for imagination, and
they never stop looking for
ways to hurt the citizens of
Mason County.
Katherine Price
Shelton
nterest. We will
,I don't eat meat orris, so I can't tell much about the specials.
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