Cap-trade bill will cost us all

Of all the bills that Obama and his democratically controlled Congress want, one of the worst is the cap and trade bill.

This bill sets limits on emissions that can be released into the atmosphere. If one plant exceeds that limit it can then purchase additional limits from a company that has not used its limits (such as solar or wind farm projects that are heavily subsidized by the government).

Where do you think these additional monies will come from? If you use electricity it will be you.

Do you think China will scuttle their country to reduce emissions? They are building one new coal-fired power plant a week to satisfy their needs for electricity.

And what about India?

RON CREEK

Support values in candidates

There is nothing like high school football in the South. Players, classmates, coaches and the parents all working, cheering and supporting the team. It is truly inspiring to witness all this at some small schools when there is no chance for the team to win. But there is always hope, right?

When it comes to politics many of those same good folks will say things like "why vote for that person? They can't win." Honest candidates who speak with hard truth and clarity lose to the traditional liars and corruption perpetrators because of those voters who will not support a candidate who they believe cannot win. It is a truly self-fulfilling phenomenon. Do those same voters support the football team from out-of-town because their little hometown team cannot possibly win?

Support the team because of your values. Support the candidate for elected office because of your values. The probability of victory is irrelevant in matters of principles and values.

DAN C. JOHNSON

Questions for liberals

In response to Mr. Davis' recent letter, why can't liberals understand:

a. That if Bush's economic policies were bad, Obama's solutions are like pouring gasoline on an out-of control-fire?

b. That as God created the sun on the fourth "day" (Genesis), who can say how long a "day" was? Within that context creationism and evolution are 100 percent compatible.

c. That reputable embryologists recognize that life begins at conception? The value of that life to society should begin then, and not only after the child has fully transited the mother's birth canal.

d. That labeling conservatives as racists (as we have been), teabaggers, and idiots is a subtle form of tyranny that all Americans should reject outright?

e. That the inconvenient truth is science has showed that global warming as espoused by Al Gore and environmental extremists isn't manmade but a natural cycle, and that the proposed cap and trade legislation and ratification of the Copenhagen Accords, if signed by Obama, will be a death sentence for our economy?

f. That as government grows, it becomes more corrupt, abusive, self-serving and parasitical, sucking the very life out of the society and economy that feeds it?

JOHN MUNCIE

Sunday also a pagan holiday

In the Oct. 30 "Letters" column, Mr. Raedisch observed that besides Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day are really Christianized pagan holidays. He failed to mention that the observation of Sunday was also a Christianized form of a pagan holiday, the venerable day of the sun. Easter became a paganized form of a Jewish holiday, Passover. This syncretism of pagan, Jewish, and Christian festivals was a means of attracting pagans into Christianity.

EDWIN REYNOLDS

Ooltewah

Newspaper should protect speech

As representatives of informing the people, please give time to cover the changes that will effect our elderly. We the people of the United States of America are seeing what our elected officials are doing. We are a nation that was founded upon the freedoms that our president and Congress are trying so hard to remove. Freedom of speech is at the top of what the president wants to take away! Where are you? When America needs you the most! Take a stand for your great industry that has provided us the forum of knowledge of truth!

LISA FURROW

Cleveland, Tenn.

Are some humans really 'animals'?

As we read in the papers and watch on the news all of the senseless murders and rapes and child kidnappings that humans do, one can possibly relate to the animal kingdom. Animals kill to survive, to feed their young ones. Animals will steal other animals' food -- why? To survive and feed their young ones as well. One can only surmise that the humans who do all of these horrific acts are, indeed, not humans at all. Perhaps they too, are "animals."

MICHAEL W. BLODGETT

This year's fall weather beautiful

I want to share with everyone how fortunate I feel I am to be enjoying this beautiful fall weather. This year the trees have been spectacular.

James Whitcom Riley, who is called "The Hoosier Poet," said, "Ain't God good to Indiana." It seems to me Tennessee can claim this blessing also.

Our state certainly has shown itself to its best advantage this fall. Our terrain shows off our trees and their colors magnificently.

I am so glad to be sharing this beauty with you all.

JIM TALLEY

Spring City, Tenn.

Second entry way needed for project

I would like to expand on a comment attributed to me at Monday's meeting of the Chattanooga Housing Authority regarding the expansion of low income housing on Fairmount Avenue.

A housing project containing 48 units, nearly double the size of the original complex that it's scheduled to replace, would, I suspect, have quite a few young children in it. If those children are going to walk to school or catch the bus, they have to walk several hundred yards down Fairmount to Forest Avenue. Fairmount is one of the few streets in the area with no sidewalks. Also, cars are often parked on the road, which can make dodging traffic a precarious undertaking. Constructing sidewalks wouldn't be easy, either.

Another issue is fire protection. Fairmount provides the only access for fire trucks. As a former newspaper reporter who covered many such projects in another state, I can say that in some places a site plan for a project of this size would never be approved without a second entry point for emergency vehicles. I urged that, at the minimum, the housing authority require another way into the project, preferably one that's also safer for pedestrians.

BRIAN HAMILTON