MAIL BAG LETTERS FROM READERS

My family and many friends and relations spent many wonderful hours at Moon Lake. For those of us who could not afford going away for vacation, Moon Lake was our home away from home.

We felt sad when we heard Moon Lake would not be accessible for the public any longer.

Thanks old friend for the pleasure we had there. May some day you be restored again and once more be a friend to us who miss you.

Sound the alarm to save language

Help! Please help me! I’m the English language. I am slowly fading away because of misuse.

This is what we hear from weather people, news announcers, radio and TV, teachers, students, general public and even newspapers in print.

MEEDEROLOGISTS predict ARTIC air will arrive in FEBYOUARY in PENNSAHVANIA and drive TEMPAHCHURES into the TWENNIES. Wow!

Here’s a local TV station: “THE SINS VOICE says that PLEECE are having PROMS with STUUUNTS…” Another: “W V YAI YAY” Yippee!

We complain that immigrants must be able to speak English. Who is going to teach them?

Thanks for reading this. Let’s all help to restore good English. It requires work and effort and practice.

Once we acquire this it will come naturally and we will all sound like intelligent human beings.

Give employees a Good Friday

Government workers need to be off on Good Friday. It is the day we commemorate the death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This should finally go into effect.

There’s still time to find peace

Throughout human history, there have appeared individuals who seem larger than life itself. They arrive to show us the way; to help get us back on the right track.

The following are some of the modern-day peacemakers who have appeared on the scene with their message only to be assassinated for showing us the way:

Mahatma Ghandi, who insisted on a unified India where Muslim and Hindu would live side by side in peace.

Our civilization is in its final cycle. And absolutely nothing can prevent this impending change.

One way or another, we will have to embrace the message of these blessed peacemakers.

Lauds Rendell’s call for prayer

At his budget address to the joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate of Pennsylvania, Gov. Ed Rendell made some important and interesting remarks.

I am not one who agrees with the governor on all of the issues. However, in the great American tradition of compassion for those in crisis both in our own country and around the world, the governor reminded the audience of the plight of the citizens of Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.

He challenged the audience to “remember to pray daily for the people of Haiti.”

In times of crisis, such as the earthquake in Haiti or the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center towers or Hurricane Katrina, our public figures are never criticized for calling for prayer.

After the remarks about the earthquake victims, the governor mentioned the family of Congressman John Murtha, who had died a few days prior to the speech. Then he instructed the audience to pause for a moment of silence to remember the people of Haiti and the Murtha family.

The moment of silence, of course, is the new politically correct way to say “let’s join in silent prayer if you believe in prayer.”

Gov. Rendell should be thanked for not being reluctant to mention prayer in public.

We ought to be more open about our need for God and His involvement in the affairs of our nation, even as our founders of the past and most presidents and great American leaders have done since then.

Instead of being fearful of offending a tiny minority, we should be more concerned about offending God, or failing to look to Him in our times of need as well as in our times of blessing.

While the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, sought to establish “a holy experiment” here, we now cater to the least holy members of society who desire to promote perversity and restrict spiritual expressions.

It is time we realize, as did Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, that a great nation never can exist without the aid and guidance of God.

Neither should we restrict expressions of the religion that directly influenced our nation, the Christian religion.

While obscenity of language continues to degrade our dialogue in America, demeaning both the speaker and listener, thin-skinned individuals claim they are harmed by having to hear the name of Jesus.

They don’t even like the reminder on the top of every page of this newspaper that it was 2,010 years since Jesus was born.

Personally, it seems much more important to America’s future to seek the blessing of God rather than exclude Him.

Obama’s change leading to ruin

In a previous letter before the 2008 election, I warned that Obama was a Socialist, Constitutional lawyer with zero experience in the free-market system.

His changes would destroy the capital system and reward cronies, unions and government workers.

This man believes in global warming, which has now been debunked by the deniers including me, and the perpetrators of this hoax (Al Gore) are now the deniers of the truth.

TARP and stimulus are huge failures and the health care reform debacle will put more debt upon our children and their children.

Next on his agenda is “card check,” which will put more companies out of business, and then free speech legislations that will leave the ignorant Americans to listen to government-run media such as ABC, MSNBC, CNN and CBS, and they will never know that their freedoms are being stolen.

Our economy is dying because of entitlements, bloated government, burdensome regulations, heavy taxes and an administration so ignorant and hateful of the free-market system that unemployment later this year will rise above 11 percent.

In world affairs, this administration is appeasing tyrants (Iran), Chavez (Venezuela), King Jong (North Korea) and the Middle East emirs.

This will result with these rogue nations obtaining nuclear weapons with the capability of delivering to the Free World.

Israel will try to stop Iran from getting the bomb, but will be condemned by the Free World and our leaderless leader will not care.

Skrep blame has been misplaced

I read your article on Big Ugly’s shutting down. At the end of the article, Greg Skrepenak’s mom blames everyone but Greg’s dad, Greg himself or herself. I know my mom and dad instilled in me the rights from the wrongs in life.

So, while Mother lays the blame on everyone else, it is her son who ruined her family name.

Sam Jones Nanticoke John Rygiel Wyoming Alex S. Partika Wilkes-Barre George Albert Jenkins Township Rev. Glen Bayly Mifflinburg Alliance Church Mifflinburg Joe L. Souder Berwick Bob Hains Dallas