Letters to the Editor: Sock Hop a Big Hit in High Springs
Sock Hop a Big Hit in High Springs
Sun, Feb 17th 2008 Letters to the Editor
I would like to thank all my sponsors and supporters who helped me put on my "Sock Hop". You all made my dream come true. Thanks to my sponsors: The Observer ($100), Bennett`s True Value ($100), Floyd`s Diner ($100), City of High Springs and the Farmers Market ($50) and Music Junction ($25). Also many thanks to Hawg Heaven Ceramic for providing their popcorn machine and having fresh popcorn popping all evening, Hardees for donating the cups, covers and straws, Floyd`s for providing "Elvis" and ice, Servers, Cianna Yeago and her friends, and my niece, Debbie, High Springs Gardens for decorating the stage with such beautiful plants, Rick Tritsch for judging the jitter bug contest, Jim Buffington, High Springs Cruisers and Gary Bennett for bringing their Classic Cars to display, Sharon Yeago and Leda Carrero, and especially my great D.J., Ross Henderson, his music kept us all rocking and rolling all evening. Special thanks to my family, my niece, Debbie Whithem from Alaska and my sister-in-law from Georgia who help with all the deocrating. Everyone who stayed to help take it all down, I thank you all so very much. To all my friends who came to support me....I love you all. Again, My Dream Came Ture and you all made it happen.
President Bush's comparison of Democratic leaders to those who empowered Hitler is backwards. Hitler pioneered the mass media, judicial and political tactics that Bush and his Republican handlers have copied to win and consolidate power. Ordinary Germans were seduced by Hitler's nationalistic rhetoric, appeals to patriotism and attacks on scapegoat minorities (aka non-Christians, immigrants and homosexuals) for post-WWI suffering and failure of the German economy. The German people then elected rubberstamp politicians and judges who allowed the Nazi Party to "legally" consolidate power by terrorizing, arresting, detaining and killing German citizens without warrants or due process.
With the exception of Ron Paul, virtually every Republican inf the US Congress, including Clifford Stearns, blindly supports Bush Administration policies, such as extraordinary rendition, torture and domestic spying, that have subverted basic protections for individual liberties enshrined in the US Constitution. This skillfully organized attack on fundamental freedoms, civil liberties and human rights has been executed under the cover of a mass-media propaganda campaign that would have made Goebbels proud.
Hitler used his propaganda machine to convince the German people to violate international treaties and rebuild the German war machine; he then used that power to invade and occupy Czechoslovakia. The Bush Administration and its rubberstamp enablers in the US Congress enacted polices of pre-emptive war and have squandered trillions to occupy Iraq. This propaganda machine is now focused on Iran.
I thank God every day that enough Americans woke up in 2006 to elect a Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives; a majority that is now exposing abuses of power and the extraordinary incompetence and corruption within the Bush Administration. Now if only the news media could find a way to convince average American citizens to demand accurate and thorough journalism rather than shock-value entertainment that currently passes for news.
Letters to the Editor: New Nuke for south Levy County
New Nuke for south Levy County
December McSherry
Sun, Aug 5th 2007 Letters to the Editor
The Florida Public Service Commission recently approved a 3,000 acre site in Levy County for a new nuclear power plant to be built by Progress Energy PGN - http://marketwatch.com/quotes/pgn - of North Carolina.
The site is located in the water abundant springshed of Cedar Hammock, west of Rainbow Springs and east of Big Spring, seven miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.
Progress Energy will initially spend $3 billion for the first 1,100-megawatt nuclear power single reactor. They plan two reactors assuming a half million people will move into the area.
Progress just got one step closer. July 10, 2007, Progress chose Westinghouse Electric Co.`s AP1000 reactor technology. Westinghouse Electric, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is part of Japan`s Toshiba Corp.
Progress plans on filing a need case with the Florida Public Service Commission in early 2008.
Following that approval, Progress will file for a site permit from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Progress plans to fire up the nuke by 2016. The company shall store nuclear waste on site as there is no approved storage elsewhere.
The nuclear plant will require over a billion gallons of cooling water a day.
Water temperatures can be expected to rise up to 96 degrees and above in the Gulf of Mexico beyond the cooling discharge pipes.
This temperature change could threaten the 200 clam farms and one of the biggest clam-producing areas in the United States.
Letters to the Editor: Open Letter To Govenor Crist
Open Letter To Govenor Crist
Thu, Apr 12th 2007 Letters to the Editor
AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR CHRIST
Dear Governor Christ,
I am asking you to veto House Bill 7121 and Senate Bill 2784, creating the "Strategic Aggregates Review Task Force," overriding which overrides city and county mining ordinances. These bills do not provide ANY protection of natural resources from mining operations-- nor citizen due process rights to protect property. AT A MINIMUM, BOTH BILLS REQUIRE AMENDING TO STOP MINING WITHIN TWO MILES OF FIRST MAGNITUDE SPRINGS!
