Straws not problem that needs stirring and more letters to the editors

Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor

Treat 'mad dogs' like dogs they are

We shoot mad dogs, don't we? There is no way to humanely deal with a mad dog. Keeping it locked up until it dies isn't humane. We don't make excuses for the dog's actions that it was mistreated as a puppy, that it has a disease, etc. We just recognize that this dog can't be allowed to live among us.

Anyone who commits a heinous crime deserves to be treated like a mad dog. Raping, sodomizing and killing a 7-year-old child are heinous crimes.

How we "shoot" such a criminal is not the issue.

D.L. Budnick

Winchester, Tenn.

Straws not problem that needs stirring

In Sunday's "This Open Road" column, David Cook blithely states, "There's a floating island of plastic, larger than Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean." Straws are plastic. Ergo, we must stop using straws. I'm stunned at such a heady, ready solution.

Bless his heart, Cook has discovered a solution seeking a problem. He cites world renown expert Kim Kardashian, no less, and suggests we emulate her in forgoing straws. Pardon the pun, but it seems like grasping at straws.

According to Angelique White, University of Oregon researcher, "the use of the phrase garbage patch is misleading It is not visible from space, there are no islands of trash. It is more akin to a soup of floating plastic."

Well, why let pesky little things like truth and facts ruin a nice liberal rant? The majority of plastic debris in the ocean is fishing gear. Stop eating fish.

Someone bring me a straw. I need to stir my martini.

Jim Howard

Protesters: Where are you on abortion?

Wonder if the people protesting execution of a cold-blooded killer who raped and killed a child will protest doctors or whoever murders babies for birth control? That's what abortion is actually, for everyone knows that. These tiny people are helpless and have hurt nobody. This is totally sick.

Herbert Braswell

U.S. Congress must account for Trump

We all know Trump, his behavior, his policies, and his corruption, so let's not belabor that point.

What's vastly more problematic and dangerous is the total failure of congressional Republicans who have abandoned their role as a constitutional branch required to act as a check and balance and provide oversight. Instead, House and some Senate Republicans intentionally cast aside their duties and slavishly provide cover for a president who enjoys dividing us and creating chaos. They have decided their political futures are far more important than the security of our country and its reputation in the world.

November's mid-term election is the most important in history. It will determine whether we will continue to be a democracy or allow this president and his congressional allies to trample on the Constitution's guiding principles and rule of law. Regardless of party, we must vote to elect people for Congress who will hold this president and his administration accountable. We must return Congress to effectively doing the duties for which it was designed. If we fail, the Republicans now in office will continue to take our country into a downward spiral from which we may never recover.

Greg Williams

Signal Mountain

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