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Wednesday, October 25, 2000     Page: 16A

TO THE PERSON CALLING in and saying it was undesirable for this 9-year-old
to criticize Mr. Gore in an un-nice way. This is still America and as long as
the 9-year-old has valid reasons, criticism is OK. Even if he is wrong, this
is America and we do have many rights in this country. One of those rights is
the right to be wrong.
   
TRAPPING SHOULD BE OUTLAWED, period. Violence of any kind spreads, it
spreads like a virus. What is happening in the Middle East is no accident. The
violence that is perpetrated by people every day on this planet grows, it
spreads.
    THE PERSON WHO IS against Steve Corbett because she just moved here with
her husband ought to stay here a little longer and find out what she is
talking about. If she thinks that Wilkes-Barre is poised to take off, wait a
while lady. I have been here for over 60 years and I’m still waiting. And as
far the sense of inferiority, it’s not just a sense of inferiority, it is a
knowledge of inferiority. And believe me once you get a whiff of it and
realize what is happening you will probably leave by the same road that you
arrived.
   
PITTSTON HAS ITS TOMATO FESTIVAL, Berwick has its beautiful Christmas
lights and Wilkes-Barre has its Fine Arts Fiesta and so forth, and other towns
have events that draw people there and make a unique way of life and give
something to people to be appreciated. Now here we are in Kingston and the
most exciting thing that happens to us in the year 1999 is the fact that our
mayor as a lawyer defended one Kingston resident against another. When is
Kingston going to come out of the Dark Ages and do something exciting except
going around with a tea cup filling up potholes.
   
THE PERSON WHO CALLED on the Democrats plan to save Social Security, proves
to me that intelligence is not dead in Wyoming Valley. You made my day sir or
madam, because you explained it beautifully and you are intelligent enough to
see that it will work and it is the only way to work. And fuzzy head Bush
doesn’t have a clue.
   
THE DEATH PENALTY will deter one person from committing another crime and
that is the one who gets executed.
   
I WANT TO CALL in about the Holy Communion in the Catholic Church. Seventy
years ago our generation was taught that the holy communion was a very sacred
thing, only the priest could handle it. Today every Tom, Dick and Harry, every
Annie, Mary and Lulu handles it. The Catholic Church is degrading itself from
what I see is going on in it.
   
I ALWAYS KNEW THAT the Times Leader was anti-Wyoming Valley Health Care
System but now it just proves it. How could you print Mercy’s comments but
nothing from Nesbitt or General? We know where you lie.
   
I AM EMPLOYED AT Mercy Hospital and I would like to comment on the remark
in your column on 10/13 regarding Mercy staff not wanting to work with Wyoming
Valley Health Care System employees. I would like to say that the majority of
us here at Mercy Hospital do not feel this way and we are looking forward to
merging with Wyoming Valley Health Care System employees who we know to be
very dedicated and caring. Please accept our apology.
   
POLITICIANS GOT US into World War II. We used American lives and won.
Politicians got us into Korea. We used Americans lives and we didn’t win.
Politicians got us into Vietnam. We used more American lives and we lost.
Politicians got us into Iraq and Kuwait. We used some more American lives and
then the U.N. prevented us from going after Saddam. Politics is getting us
into another one in Yemen. We’ve already lost 17, let it go at that. We do not
have the leadership, the military ability or the national fiber to go any
further. All we have is politicians.
   
DO YOU BELIEVE THE NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the
Constitution while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the
Constitution then vote for Al Gore, otherwise protect our freedom and vote for
George Bush.
   
WE WANT JUSTICE FOR all, right? So why would you re-elect Judge Augello?
He’s got to go.
   
I JUST WANT TO thank the caretaker at the Hanover Green Cemetery in Hanover
Green for his fine service. Of course no lawnmower has come within earshot of
our lot since probably late July. In fact you could hide an infantry brigade
in the grass around some lots adjacent to ours. On the other hand though, the
hill across the road where no one is buried and no one has paid a cent for
perpetual care, boy that section and the one along the woods again where
nobody rests in peace, manicured like the mustache of a Hollywood playboy. Oh
well like they say, “go figure.”
   
TO ALL OF YOU in SAYSOland who think the $100,000 lawsuit over a pickle is
ridiculous, remember on election day that Gore is a big buddy of the trial
lawyers. When they win these kinds of lawsuits we all have to pay more.
   
I DO NOT FEEL the local TV stations or the Times Leader gave equal coverage
of the Episcopal Church, “share the bread” as they did for the Roman
Catholics coverage. We are not only a Roman Catholic community as many would
like to think.
   
EDITOR’S NOTE: We agree.
   
ALL RIGHT BISHOP TIMLIN. Yesterday at the Mass for the masses, you said it
was to mark the year with forgiveness and reconciliation and setting things
right. Well as a Democrat Catholic, I’m expecting you to lead the way and show
us. Set things right and please apologize to the vice president of the United
States for what you did to him when he came here.
   
I AM WATCHING 48 HOURS on television and they are talking about animal to
human transplant. I don’t know, that sounds really disgusting to me. If they
are going to start deciding what animal will die so a human could live, how
far in the future is it going to be, well let’s decide on what human will die
so someone more important will live?
   
I WOULD LIKE TO make a comment on the armed forces and the deplorable
condition they have been in, in these last eight years under Clinton and Gore.
The USS Cole getting bombed is just another thing that shouldn’t have
happened. I pray that we do not have another four more years of a Clintonlike
government in office aimed at the armed forces. Wake up America.
   
AL GORE SAYS he wants to be the education president, Bill Clinton says he’s
been the education president. My kid is taking her driver’s test for her
license in Pennsylvania and one of the sample questions is this “In what
state are you taking this test?” Dumbed down America, that is what they have
done. Get rid of these liberal Democrats, let’s get some reality back in the
school districts.
   
TO ALL YOU LANDLORDS who so admittedly state in your ads for apartments,
“no pets.” Boy you’re going to be waiting for a long time.
   
THIS IS DIRECTED TO the person who thinks that all baby boomers voted for
Mr. Clinton twice and will be voting for Mr. Al Gore in this election based on
his comments on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2000, SAYSO. Not all baby boomers are going
to vote for Al Gore. Some of us do have brains and have never voted anything
but Republican for president since we have been given that privilege.
   
I AGREE WITH THE caller about people envious about people around here. You
get a new coat or sweater and they say “oh another new one.” And yes we do
work and we are entitled to it. Also you tell people you have a health problem
around here and people actually make fun of it right to your face. Just wait
until they get something wrong with them and then they want the pity from
everyone else.
   
REGARDING THE MERCY merger. I think there is one very important thing
missing from the officials when they speak, that is the people and the affect
on Mercy Hospital, the doctors, the nurses, the staffers and the patients who
trust these caregivers. Who is listening to them? They are what makes Mercy
Hospital what it is. They deserve the credit and respect that they are not
getting. Nespoli keeps talking about duplication. He sounds like he is merging
two banks. He is using bad judgment taking a good hospital to rescue a
hospital in trouble and not a good record.
   
THIS IS FOR THE person who wrote in the SAYSO column that George Bush is a
breath of fresh air. I think he is an air head.
   
RESPONDING TO ANOTHER caller right about baby boomers. I’m one and we have
the biggest voice next to seniors. I will not vote Al Gore. We will get
everything, but not from Al Gore.
   
I SEE WHERE REPRESENTATIVE George Hasay is working on a bill to protect our
watershed lands. I would like to know where he was when the Pennsylvania
Public Utility commissioner determined that our watershed lands were no longer
watershed because our water is filtered? What a joke.
   
I AM CONCERNED ABOUT the lady who said she has pigeons on her roof
destroying it. The way to get them off of the roof is buy a rubber snake or
two and throw them up on your roof and the pigeons will not go up there.
   
THIS IS A MESSAGE to all parents of special-ed students. My child has been
attending a local high school for the last three years in the life skills
class. Her sister, who is a regular-ed student just joined that same school
this year and has come to me with some disturbing news. In particular what I
am very upset about and what other parents should look into, is the lunch
policy. The regular-ed kids get to go and pick whatever food they want, if
they are on reduced lunch, free lunch, or they pay full price, they get to
pick from the choice. My special-ed child, who pays full price, lunch is
already on her tray when she gets to the cafeteria, she has no choice, she
must sit at her table and is not even allowed to get up to go visit her sister
in the lunchroom when all the regular-ed kids are running around and having a
great normal time. I am begging these parents to band together for our
children’s sake, they have every right to get whatever they want for lunch.