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I have three words to say about your font change: "Coca Cola Classic." Thank you for your time.
Dr. Janine Sabella
Cooperstown
Main Street should be brought back to glory
I noticed there were a lot of ads for shopping in Oneonta during the holiday shopping period. This is a wonderful idea to keep the merchants afloat, especially in downtown Oneonta.
The main street of Oneonta was a place where at one time people could do ALL of their Christmas shopping. There were many shops with variety and everything a person could want. That is no longer really true.
Does anyone else out there think there should be an effort made to bring back the main street of Oneonta, as it once was?
Nancy Entrup
Oneonta
Reasons given for war mask profit motive
War drums, pound, pound, pound. The war machine, grease, grease, grease. Continuous war, profit, profit, profit. It's all in our national interest, since our national interest is to keep the war industry solvent, ever creating new ways to kill people, destroy societies, take away any hope for children who experience war to grow to be normal, loving human beings.
"He tried to kill my Dad," is one of the lies G.W. Bush gave for invading oil-wealthy Iraq, a country which had done nothing to the United States. In one speech, with a straight face, he delivered the lines, "War is peace," recalling the Doublespeak from Orwell's "1984."
O-bomb-a is delivering his lines, his excuses for continuing war, in a more polished manner, bringing our focus to the job at hand.
That job is threefold: (1) defeat al-Qaida. Al-Qaida is the enemy. A member of al-Qaida tried to blow up an airplane about to land in Detroit. We must be vigilant of al-Qaida activities in Yemen. There are al-Qaida cells worldwide. Murder is a good thing if it gets rid of al-Qaida. The al-Qaida oil drum beats on.
Next, (2) break the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan. We do that by sending 30,000 troops at $1 million per soldier to the mountains of Afghanistan, where malnourished farmers from one of the poorest countries on our planet stand ready to do harm to the United States.
And last (3), stabilize Pakistan, whatever that means. Ramp up the war machine. Send silent, deadly drones being controlled from upstate New York to take out suspect wedding parties in a nasty real-life video game.
Our soldiers are told they are defending their country. They are not told that obscene corporate profits are what they are being ordered to die for. National interests, my foot.
Earl Callahan
New Berlin
