Letters to the Editor Archive

Before leaving office President Obama commuted: (1) The sentence of traitor Bailey Manning. He leaked sensitive national security information putting our troops at risk.  (2) The sentence of Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Rivera, serving 50 years in prison for plotting to overthrow the U.S. Government, whose group killed 4 Americans in a New York City bombing in1975, and (3) pardoned and commuted the sentences of hundreds of criminal cocaine and heroin dealers. Many were outraged; I voiced mine!

s there such a thing as “absolute”? The dictionary states that “good” and “evil” are “absolutes” when using the word as a noun. Mathematics is absolute because it historically has only offered true answers to correct equations that answer many of society’s and science’s questions. Religion and mythology are not absolutes because it requires faith for their existence. Mythology is aligned to a period of time when humans worshipped Gods of the land, sea and air. The Bible is a mixed book of religion, history and moral teachings but both are associated with the history of the advancement of man. 

Before leaving office President Obama commuted: (1) The sentence of traitor Bailey Manning. He leaked sensitive national security information putting our troops at risk.  (2) The sentence of Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Rivera, serving 50 years in prison for plotting to overthrow the U.S. Government, whose group killed 4 Americans in a New York City bombing in1975, and (3) pardoned and commuted the sentences of hundreds of criminal cocaine and heroin dealers. Many were outraged; I voiced mine!

Is there such a thing as “absolute”? The dictionary states that “good” and “evil” are “absolutes” when using the word as a noun. Mathematics is absolute because it historically has only offered true answers to correct equations that answer many of society’s and science’s questions. Religion and mythology are not absolutes because it requires faith for their existence. Mythology is aligned to a period of time when humans worshipped Gods of the land, sea and air.

This past weekend, my sister and I visited the Gulf Breeze Zoo.  We had purchased two Military Adventure passes earlier in the year to use later on at our discretion due to our military related disabilities.  You can imagine our shock and disbelief when we got to the Zoo and realized we had misplaced our passes to enter the Zoo.  It was an extremely busy day at the Zoo and Venisa Stone was busy with another customer but immediately came over to assist us.  She could see the anguish and disappointment on our faces as we had waited for this one day that we both were well enough to enjoy a day at the Zoo together and our passes were gone!  Venisa so generously “Paid It Forward” by believing in us and allowing us entry when she didn’t have to. It ended up be a wonderful day at the Zoo and served to be very therapeutic for my sister and I. It was because of people like Venisa that make this community and the Zoo a great place! Thank you Venisa!!!

Congratulations and thank you for the very powerful reporting and factually accurate article on the health of our Sound today. All of my neighbors speak to their concerns over the smell of sewage in the sound on a constant basis and the negative effect it has on their homes and investment. They also speak consistently on these dangerous bacterial issues and the skin disorders their children suffer from going into the water. This article sounds the warning alarms to our community and I pray that they listen.

Lost: “no longer possessed; retained,” and “having gone astray or missed the way.” Based on recent comments regarding storm water projects related to the Local Option Sales Tax revenue tentative projects’ list, it seems District 4 Commissioner Rob Williamson is lost on the L.O.S.T.

The growth in solar power generation has nothing to do with science or real economics and everything to do with misguided “feel good” efforts by self-acclaimed environmentalists. 

A scientist, Harold Hill, authored “From God To You By Way of The Zoo.” How sad some actually believe they came therefrom!.

When Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt was kicked out of the Navy for praying “In Jesus’ Name,” the name above all others, little did it know God had bigger plans for him. Satan’s goal, to shut mouths about Jesus, failed because God’s specialty of meaning for good what Satan meant for evil, happened!