Letters: If Donald Trump is a criminal, what does that make Joe and Hunter Biden?

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Don’t forget about Hunter

After reading the letter that said anyone supporting Trump was “moronic”, I expected to see the words “bazinga” or “just kidding” at the end because surely that man was not serious.

He is upset because he thinks Trump is a criminal, receiving special treatment. It’s obvious that he hasn’t been watching the Congressional hearings that have shown the illegal activities of Biden and his family.

Hunter’s business partners, plus bank statements have proven that the family (including adult grandchildren) have been receiving money from foreign businesses and governments for businesses owned by the Bidens but don’t actually exist.

This is not only criminal but may very well be impeachable. Only time will tell. Meanwhile I will never call anyone who disagrees with me a moron. It’s just not classy.

Barbara Soule, Pensacola

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Global warming stigmatized while the oceans heat up, glaciers melt

Freedom of speech went out the door when Ben Stiller in a spoof said, “Bomb, bomb, bomb ba bomb ba bomb” while on a jetliner and was thrown off the plane and detained by airport security.

Most people saw this in the ’90s and it helped our culture to create mass hysterical denial in the most basic sense. Now if it flies, quacks and has webbed feet it’s not a duck. Tell this to all the scientists that not so candidly backed down in using the phrase “global warming.”

As an air quality scientist myself after college with honors in nanoscale microscopy, I learned a hell of a lot about the atmosphere, and with a physics degree it helps in understanding how heat is dissipated from/trapped on our planet.

All the glaciers on Earth are melting faster and faster each year; snow normally at certain elevations in July is now gone by May. Worst of all, the fisheries are complaining about ocean water heating up causing fish populations to be cut drastically. When I was a kid in 1970, my dad took me to Needles, Arizona, to fry an egg on the sidewalk, stating that, “This is the only place in America you can do this son.”

Now you can fry an egg on a sidewalk anywhere mostly anytime. Oh yeah, thanks Big Oil and the right for telling us wind generators kills rare birds!

Sterling Arthur Leonard, Pensacola

Student loan ruling misrepresented

Three rulings by the Supreme Court are misrepresented by the media hourly by the unqualified without hard facts. Please first read the U.S. Constitution, Article III for what the court does.

Who has the Constitutional power to give away billions of taxpayer money and on what basis outside the fiduciary power of Congress?

Student loans are easily obtained by applying to anything the school offers for a quick and easy degree. The degrees, if one finishes, find the student earning far less than the cost of the loan. Defaults start before no employment, just abandonment of programs with no thought of repayment. School is hard and requires discipline.

An alarming number of loan recipients use funds for other than their education and dropout rates are high. Tracking these students is difficult. The loans go onto default and collection impossible or worse, not done.

Earning potential numbers are available for majority of institutions. The lower rated “colleges” fare the worst. There are success stories but are outweighed by failures and fraud.

Loans distributed do not monitor student progress and graduation numbers are laughable; follow-ups non-existent, and sanctions considered racist. We taxpayers wish it were not so as we all need an educated and reliable work force for the future. No wonder the court had to step in.

Richard Hahner, Pensacola

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Immigration must be tightened

Patricia Edmisten (July 16) opines about “birth tourism.” My ancestors migrated to this country too, some as indentured servants. After months at sea, they experienced poverty once they arrived. In the late 1800s the need for immigration laws became clear and an orderly system was established, which worked for decades and everyone reaped the benefits.

Now there is no orderly immigration. They intentionally work and abuse the system. Many come from poverty and are incapable of taking care of themselves, so the American taxpayer foots the bill. Pregnant women make the long trek because they know that once they sneak in that child will enable them to stay.

The taxpayers didn’t impregnate these women so why should we bear the costs? The train ride, the trek through the desert, and all could be avoided by just one thing. Apply for asylum at the embassy in their own country! If approved they will be welcomed just as we have welcomed immigrants in the past.

It is these people who demean us by showing no respect for our laws nor our sovereignty. We don’t need your virtue-signaling masquerading as empathy.

Delta Hixon, Pace

Don’t change children

In response to Rebecca Brooks, parents certainly can get their child medical care. What they cannot do is get irreversible, life altering treatment for underage children.

You may also go to a library or buy and read anything you like. However, children should not have access to sexually explicit books or story hour by perverts. Sensible people in the LGBTQ community agree with that but some do not and although they have their rights, apparently, they want mine.

The rest of the letter can be refuted simply by some of that critical thinking Ms. Brooks wants.

Bevie Resmondo, Pensacola

ECUA must step up recycling

According to the recent PNJ article, the failure of residential recycling rests with the citizenry. In preparation for writing this letter I checked the acceptable recycling material list and found my ECUA refrigerator magnet differing from ECUA’s published information.

Recycling here is burdensome and confusing. The ECUA magnet that I referenced indicates that plastics No. 1 through 7 are acceptable, but the internet information indicates only plastics No. 1 and 2 are acceptable. I now know that I too, am part of the contamination problem, by including plastic items no longer accepted.

We are to reduce, reuse, and recycle. It is difficult to reduce the purchase of plastics. Many of those plastic containers are reusable, which leaves us with recycling just 28 percent of those plastics.

ECUA sends a newsletter every month with never a mention of acceptable recycling items. I suggest that the authorities bear a portion of the responsibility for our failing recycling program. At one point, Mr. Jim Roberts, an ECUA executive, stated that the recycling service area stretched across the Gulf Coast. Imagine the ongoing, consistent and standardized public education that could be accomplished if ECUA and the myriad municipal and county governments agreed to cooperate to see this succeed.

Alexander Kozmon, Pensacola

Slavery ‘benefits’ revision a whitewash

The Florida Department of Education’s recent revision to how Black history can be taught in Florida public schools is an attempt to revise the truth about enslaved people and slavery. To teach the enslaved people “gained skills that could ultimately by used for their own progress” is a blatant whitewash and infers that enslaved people voluntarily participated in an “internship” or vocational education” experience voluntarily.

This decision, and those made by the Florida legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis, further serves their purpose to erase the actual experiences of Black people, and to negate the contributions made by them to the building of America. These decisions place a limitation on the education of African American, Latinx and Caucasian children, and impact their adulthood as well. How can Caucasian students educated in Florida public schools navigate in a world that is increasingly Black and brown without a clear understanding of the history and people that shaped this country.

No matter how many more decisions are made like this, the truth about slavery and its impact on America cannot be erased. Just as the Jewish community does not let the Holocaust be forgotten, neither will the African American community let the enslavement of our ancestors be forgotten.

Sandra Smith, Milton

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