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Opinion
A4 | Thursday, August 30, 2018
In My Opinion
Idea of impeachment is H more about hatred
ere we go again! The argue, to languish efforts to impeach Donald in the doldrums for Trump began even before over a decade.
Fred Hall - Publisher Rick Curiel - Editor
his inauguration and continue unabated to this very day. Frankly, it’s an unabashed view of just really ugly hatred for a single individual can be!
Let’s stipulate, for the record,
that Donald Trump was elected President of The United States in 2016. Thats unarguable! One would surely realize that to be a fact--cut and dried--but it appears that many partisans from academia, the media, Republican never Trump haters and members of the Washington swamp that truly is the deep state are having a real problem.
All of this in spite of the fact that, under an electoral college system outlined by our Constitution, enough American citizens affirmed the fact that it was their decision that this was the man to whom they wished to place the destiny of our country for the next four years.
Immediately it became apparent there were a large of Americans who are members of the Democrat party as well as the Republican establishment who were not going to accept the results of that election. Somehow their candidate Hillary Clinton (Democrats and even some Republicans fall into this group) failed to convince enough people that it had already been ordained by the media and powerful members of her own party that she would become the chief executive by acclamation.
The hard-working rank and file that represent middle America had seen enough of the slouch toward socialism that was so apparent under President Barack Obama. Inane restrictions and regulations had become a huge drag on an economy attempting to recover. The voters were tired of a stagnant economy and were weary of hearing how “America was never that
great” and what we were seeing
was going to be the new reality
in this proud country. A fertile
field of divisive politics were being sold with increasing effectiveness by academia, the media and Ms. Clinton’s own political party.
“You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.” Thank Heaven there are enough people left in America who do have the capacity to think for themselves. Those bright lights of discernment during dark times have been instrumental in electing a man to office who displays no pretense.
Donald Trump does not “poll test” everything he says or does. When one sets aside the fact he is
a billionaire, Mr. Trump is closer
to the thinking of the average American than anyone we’ve had
in quite sometime, at least that’s
my opinion. He is a businessman who has fought the wars required to enrich an economy which had been allowed, even encouraged one might
Fred Hall
Have any of
you stopped for
a moment to analyze the results of the millions of collars spent to try Paul Manafort on charges inspired
and driven by the Robert Muller “Russian collusion” investigation? Basically everything derived from this media-driven frenzy could have been ascertained by a basic Internal Revenue Service audit. The man was convicted of tax evasion and tax evasion is certainly within the I.R.S. purview! We simply did not need all of those expensive lawyers.
Immediately newspapers, electronic news reporting services and social media exploded with the breathless reports that President Trump was on the cusp of being impeached. Lannie Davis, a Clinton sycophant and attorney for the President’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, almost fell over himself to announce that his client had “the goods” on Mr. Trump and would soon spill it all to Robert Mueller. Mr. Davis has since walked all that back, much to the consternation of CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, The Washington Post and The New York Times. It now seems the truth of the matter is that Mr.
Cohen knows nothing!
Here we are, well into the second year of an investigation which has revealed nothing which has anything to do with its original mandate: Russian collusion and malfeasance on the part of the Trump campaign. Our understanding that, at this point, the wrongdoing is with the FBI, The Justice Department and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
There certainly appears, at least
to me, enough overt evidence
of interference in a Presidential election by the Democrats and
their National Committee as well
as high-placed individuals in the government as to require more than a little scrutiny.
Two years of pursuing an individual with a group that
enjoys extraordinary power, financial resources and autonomy and one would be able to indict anyone, including the Pope! This
is personal and political and has spun completely out of control when Muller’s group have dug up charges that are ten years old to charge Trump associates. No one seriously doubts that those charges, which previous prosecutors passed on, have any purpose than place pressure on Manafort and Cohen to “flip” and invent testimony intended to tarnish the duly elected, sitting President of The United States.
But, as always, that’s only one man’s opinion.
Fred Hall is publisher of the Sentinel.
Guest Column
Meanwhile, here out West, the 'Smoke R Season'justkeepsgettingworse
ight now, much of the west is affected by evaporates faster, so the “fuel” (trees, wildfires. An unlucky minority will have to vegetation) is drier and more flammable. evacuate their homes, and some will lose their The many trees killed by drought and
homes altogether — or even their lives. But for millions more across the west, “smoke season” is a real thing.
Vast swaths of the west can be covered in smoke for extended periods, and inhaling the fine particles in the smoke is deleterious to one’s health.
This year, fires resulted in the closing of Yosemite National Park and part of Glacier National Park. The Ferguson Fire in Yosemite is just one of many recent fires within the park, including the enormous Rim Fire in 2013, the fifth largest fire in California history.
As a Californian, fires are a regular part of life.
The Cedar Fire of 2003 in San Diego was so massive that the smoke interfered with air traffic. I canceled a backpacking trip in 2015 due to the Rough Fire in King’s Canyon National Park.
I went on a road trip that summer and the sky was hazy with smoke in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado. I was told the smoke came from fires in Washington.
In 2016, I spent a few weeks staying with a friend in rural San Diego County. I loved the area, and thought I might like to live there. Then, I thought, “This place looks like it could go up in smoke.” Within the month, it did. The aptly named Border Fire broke out in Campo, and my friend had to evacuate.
All of that is nothing compared to what a friend went through last summer in Montana. She and her family (including a toddler) were cooped up in their home for ages, trying to avoid inhaling the smoke. She had to install air filters to attempt to keep at least the indoor air clean.
The increase in wildfires is linked to the climate crisis. The equation is simple. When it’s hotter outside, water
Jill Richardson
bark beetles also contribute to the dryness of the fuel.
As the effects of climate change get worse, they’re also going to get more costly — in dollars, lives, and in quality of
life. It would be far cheaper to prevent
and mitigate the climate crisis. Cheaper and better.
We’re going to end up spending money either way: whether we pay to develop non-polluting energy sources, restore forests, and take other steps to prevent catastrophic climate change, or whether we don’t, and then we have to pay for the consequences.
The costs of inaction? More wildfires and more hurricanes destroy more homes and take more human lives. Inhaled smoke from wildfires leads to increased respiratory illnesses. Sea levels rise and some parts of the world end up under water.
Unfortunately, simply leaving it all up to individuals and to the market isn’t enough to prevent this outcome. We need to act collectively — as a nation and as a world. We’ve already pulled out of the Paris Climate agreement, which was inadequate but at least it was something. Climate change is real — ask anyone living through smoke season. With midterm elections coming up, candidates should be pressed to clarify just what they’re going to do about it.
OtherWords columnist Jill Richardson is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She lives in San Diego. Distributed by
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One last salute to Senator MOcCain from local veterans
day Brother’ Fellow Vietnam Veteran John McCain. Your Brothers from the Vietnam Veterans of America War chapter # 643 Dinuba Salute and Wish you well on your way to a Soldiers Haven .
There is a saying of our tribute to a fallen brother, “ALL GAVE SOME WHILE OTHERS GAVE ALL”. Brother Veteran John McCain suffered at the hands of the North Vietnamese Army as a prisoner of War. He came back to America and served America again as a State Senator from Arizona.
HislastbattlewaswithBrainCancer. Hisdeathbringssorrowtomanybuthis suffering is over. Our war buddies names (over 58000 lost in battle) who died head of you are on our Vietnam Memorial Wall located at Dinuba Memorial Grounds . They are waiting for you!
Those of us who are still standing will offer a prayer when the meeting starts in September. Rest in peace Brother John.
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter #643-Dinuba President Ricky Brown US Navy Veteran Secretary/Treasurer George Madrid US Navy Seabee Veteran
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