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- Written by: Randy Ridgel
Some great nations, Imperial Japan for example, die with a bang. Others, like the Soviet Union, die with a whimper. The U.S. may be the first to disappear simply from going insane.
Conservatives went berserk when Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare.
In fact Roberts was right; the Constitution puts the people in charge. Nothing in the Constitution requires the Supreme Court to correct matters when the people go mad.
Clearly, electing someone with no greater qualifications than Obama to president of the U.S., armed with thousands of nuclear weapons, was an act of madness.
He became an Illinois senator when his opponents miraculously faded away while gathering qualifying signatures.
As a state senator he mainly continued his work as neighborhood organizer. He mostly voted “present,” meaning he voted neither “Yea” nor “Nay” on issues.
One salient exception was the hassle over whether he voted to save an unsuccessful abortion attempt or leave the baby to die.
When he ran for the U.S. Senate his Republican opponent’s court-sealed unpleasant divorce record was somehow unsealed and exposed in Chicago. Surprise, surprise. As a U.S. senator he spent his entire time running for president.
No one has seen his college records; no one can find an old girlfriend or even a friend. His background is jealously guarded.
Closer to home we have Congressman Thompson who flies home frequently at enormous cost, grinning and grinning at social functions while our supervisors try to tax us to raise a few bucks to fix potholes. He can’t bum a ride from Pelosi; she lost her job and her big airplane.
Thompson runs as a “Blue Dog Democrat.” What a crock. Last year he bragged that he wrote the House part of Obamacare. Go to www.taxhike-mike.com for his real record.
Finally, check out our sterling Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada.
After pushing it in committee, she just supplied the deciding vote in the Assembly to send AB2346 to the Senate, which will require farmers to provide shade and cold water within a few feet of every farm worker as they work. The definition of shade is insane; trees don’t count. This will bankrupt farmers to pay off Yamada’s labor union support.
Roberts is right; we have till November to regain our sanity and kill Obamacare by ousting those who produced it.
Randy Ridgel lives in Kelseyville, Calif.
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- Written by: Lake One-Stop Board of Directors
After many years serving Lake County, effective July 1, 2012, the Lake County One-Stop Center for Business & Workforce Development is transitioning to new management.
The recently formed Napa Lake Workforce Investment Area is now overseeing Workforce Investment Act services in Lake County and has awarded a new service operator effective July 1, 2012.
Lake One-Stop, Inc. Board of Directors would like to thank our staff, the many jobseekers, WIA participants, businesses and partners who we’ve worked with over the years. We are grateful for your support, participation and positive relationships.
The new One-Stop Center will also have a new name: WorkforceLake, but will remain at the current location at 55 First Street, Lakeport.
The new One-Stop Web site will be www.workforcelake.org.
For more information about WorkforceLake, WIA programs and services call 707-467-5903 or 1-800-616-1196, Extension 5903.
Again, thank you for the many years of partnership and collaboration in providing workforce services to Lake County residents.
Mary Becker, Mickey Burke, Brock Falkenberg, Brooks Lockhart and Nick Summerfield form the Lake One-Stop Inc. Board of Directors, which has served Lake County, Calif.
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- Written by: Nelson Strasser
A few of the Lake County Supervisors have launched an attack on marijuana. Yet, there is a drug that is used by all of us, kills more people than cancer, and yet is never referred to as a drug: food.
Foods are chemicals which may soothe the soul, dull sharp feelings, and change consciousness. Foods can be lethal: suicide by fork. Hyperbole?
In the Korean War, and again in the Vietnam War, American dead, ages 18-21, were autopsied, and a large percentage of them had advanced arterial blockage, or atherosclerosis.
In 1993, another study was done of deceased men around 26 years of age, and almost 80 percent had coronary disease, of that group, 20 percent had 50 percent occlusion (blockage) in their main arteries to the heart, and 9 percent had more than 70 percent occlusion.
This is a major health disaster and no miracle cure is needed; simply a low fat diet will do the trick. And that would mean less than 25 percent of food calories in fat (the percentage is derived by dividing the number of calories in fat by the total calories). Few labels return such a measure. (The A.M.A. says one third, but does not support that percentage with evidence).
I used to argue with my father about diet. He would quote Socrates, “All things in moderation.” I would respond that this was an issue about threshold, and that over a certain amount of fat consumed can cause people begin to have arterial blockage.
So, I would answer, “All things in moderation” including “all things in moderation.” His death turned out to be my own most eloquent argument.
An organization I belong to had a potluck recently and there was ice cream, cakes, cookies, doughnuts, and other high fat snacks of various kinds. This is not sane behavior. We see fat people everywhere and start to think that fat is normal. No, fat is not normal, it is average, and those two notions are not the same.
High fat foods stare at us from the shelves at the strangest places, even the hardware store. That stressful trip to buy a hammer evidently needs to be soothed by a chocolate bar before emotional equilibrium can return.
So, here is a bit of absolute insanity: one needs a medical card to obtain marijuana, which by all accounts is an effective pain reliever, but not for a candy bar or cheeseburger, which will kill you at worst (over time), and necessitate a roto-rooter of the major arteries at best.
So, in a blatant example of “you spot it, you got it” we have a lot of “foodies” waddling around condemning marijuana users for trying to alleviate pain while they are on the very same mission.
“Ah,” you say, “but that’s different.” How so?
Nelson Strasser lives in Lakeport, Calif.
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- Written by: Lake County News Reports
I’m writing to express my appreciation to the residents of District 1 for the opportunity to get to know you throughout the recently concluded supervisorial campaign, and for the kindness and good wishes you extended to me during the past five months.
I’m especially grateful to the campaign committee and the dedicated volunteers and other supporters who helped us create such an exemplary, issue-oriented campaign. Your hard work and enthusiasm were a model for what local politics can and should be, and it has been a joy collaborating with you.
I’m now looking forward to your continuing friendship and partnership as we move forward together to build the bright future our children and grandchildren deserve.
I also want to extend my congratulations to Supervisor Jim Comstock on his victory, and my best wishes for his continuing service to the community. I look forward to working with him on projects that benefit District 1 and all of Lake County.
Victoria Brandon lives in Lower Lake, Calif.