Letters to the Editor: Let's take the 'truth tellers' label with a grain of salt
Let's take the 'truth tellers' label with a grain of salt
I recently had the opportunity to read a letter to the editor in the PNR regarding devaluing the truth and liars. Imagine my surprise, and quite frankly astonishment, to see the writer use Congressman Adam Schiff as a reference for his point of view.
Congressmen Schiff has told a few whoppers in his time. Not exactly who I would quote in a letter about truth telling.
Isn’t Adam Schiff the guy I heard tell Americans on many occasions that he had uncovered a criminal conspiracy involving Trump’s 2016 campaign? Collusion between Russia and the campaign? He actually said he had the “smoking gun.”
For the record, although the Mueller Special Counsel investigation did result in numerous indictments and convictions, none of them, I repeat, none of them, related to a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the election.
Schiff has never presented any such evidence, let alone a smoking gun. It doesn’t exist. He lied.
Schiff, aided by his friends in the media, actively promoted a false story related to the Steele Dossier. This document was thoroughly discredited and found to be false. Fake, made up, lies.
In fact, the dossier was commissioned by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to influence the election. Actual election interference.
He had the nerve to read parts of this nonsense into the record at a congressional hearing. More lies.
I’m not excusing anyone in Washington for lying. They should all be held accountable. Both parties.
Is Adam Schiff someone we should look to for information on truth telling? Give me a break.
John CalabresePetoskey
'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'
Where indeed have all the flowers gone? If you are old enough to remember this anti-war ballad from the 1960s, then you may be wondering “What’s Going On?” “My Generation” had higher hopes for the future than to be still living on this “Ball of Confusion.”
The Flower Children of the '60s and '70s were the first “woke” generation (“talkin' 'bout my generation”). We rejected conventional society and advocated love, peace, and simple, idealistic values. We sought change through passive resistance and nonviolence. Our symbol — a flower. We marched, we sat, we sang and we were content with burning bras and draft cards (not cities). And we changed the world, at least for a little while.
“You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one” who had hopes that “the world will live as one.” For some, the '60s and '70s were about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Free love and communal living were certainly fads that many embraced. But for others it was about living a better life and making the world a better place. We were the ones who vowed that “only love can conquer hate, you know we've got to find a way.”
It worked, at least for a little while. The '80s and '90s were two of the best decades in American history filled with relative peace and prosperity. About the only threat we faced was from a Disco Invasion that thankfully was short-lived. But now we are facing many of the same problems as before — “segregation, determination, demonstration, integration, aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation..."
Now I see why we sang “I hope I die before I get old.” And I’m left to wonder: “Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? If we had the chance to do it all again, tell me, would we? Could we?”
Randall RousseloRoscommon
Vote to have your voice heard
A recent letter to the editor from a reader was boasting about the wonderful things the Democratic administration has done for our country. She cited the Inflation Reduction Act, the Chips Act, and big subsidies for renewable energy investments.
The writer forgot a few other achievements the Biden democratic administration has done for Americans:
Democrats (Biden) ended our energy independence on the first day in the office, which resulted in job losses for thousands of American workers and led to the highest gasoline and diesel prices ever.
The Democratic Congress passed spending bills exceeding $3 trillion, which led to the highest inflation in over 40 years. This is a regressive tax that hurts the lowest earning Americans the most.
To combat record inflation, the recent increase in interest rates is another regressive tax that hurts the lowest earning Americans the most. We’ve not seen the end of interest rate increases.
The Democrats have chosen to ignore the flood of illegal drugs coming across our southern border. Drug overdoses are the leading killer of young adults.
Lastly, the Democratic administration is now proposing to take tax dollars from hard-working Americans to pay off their neighbors’ kids student loans. Talk about enabling poor ethics. Biden says paying off other people’s student loans is fair for everyone. I disagree.
Please help end this Democratic debacle. The vote is yours. Use it wisely!
J. DalyPetoskey
Just say no to Damoose, Friske
What’s with these clueless and apparently lazy northern Michigan candidates?
Consider current GOP 107th Rep. John Damoose: Not even two full years into that term and Mr. D wants to “jump in line,” as one fellow Republican noted, and be our next MI 37th District Senator. While claiming, on his web page, that he’s “not a politician seeking to find the next step-up in politics?”
Yet a GOP source says Damoose is being recruited to replace GOP U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman in 2024. What else? Mr. Damoose:
Says his top issues include “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But when it comes to women’s reproductive rights and their "happiness" and “liberty?” Crickets.
Appears not to be a serious affordable housing advocate, given his vote to dilute local governments’ ability to restrict short-term rentals. Big Realtor PAC donations might have something to do with this?
Didn’t know the difference, in 2020, between absentee voter (AV) applications and actual AV ballots after several unsolicited applications were mailed to his household;
Markets himself as a patriot and civic-duty kind of guy yet, according to his clerk, he failed to vote in his own, hometown Harbor Springs' May 3 special school millage election (not even easy peasy absentee?) Even with his wife on the school board and a child enrolled in the district.
Next up is 107th state rep wannabe Neil Friske of Charlevoix who, in a recent Instagram post, pledges to “eliminate drop boxes” because they are “ripe for cheating and fraud.” Seriously?
Has Mr. Friske — a Trump Big Lie devotee with apparently no record of "public service" — reported any “cheating and fraud” to his own clerk? Will his mentor, Damoose, support him?
What needs eliminating here is any chance of these guys being elected in November.
Dixon DudderarHarbor Springs
This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: Letters to the Editor: Let's take the 'truth tellers' label with a grain of salt
