No blame for owner
TO THE EDITOR: In the Monday, Jan. 18 Letters to the Editor, "Owner's fault," the author started with a good premise: The owner of a cat hit by a car shouldn't try to blame anyone else if they let the cat outside to roam free. Everything else the author wrote is almost laughable. I say "almost" because the author stating God should have no mercy on the owner for killing the cat by letting the cat outside just perpetuates non-Christian beliefs that people who believe in God think they are better than everyone else.
I agree the cat owner shouldn't be looking to spread any blame beyond his/her front door. But letting a cat or dog outside is not a death sentence. Our cats and dog roam freely outside all the time (the same way they would in nature). Unlike wild animals, they have the comfort of a warm, dry place to sleep and food they don't have to work for. However, unless a person ties an animal up in the road, all animals are in control of their own actions. The animal made the decision to cross the road. Unless the animal was blind, it had the ability to see the large object coming toward it and it had the ability to move. This essentially is no different than a wild animal crossing the road and getting hit because it made a bad decision or miscalculation in timing.
Dell, may God have mercy on your soul for throwing around such slanderous accusations and using his good name in such a way.
Carl LaShomb
Rouses Point
Educated but ignorant
TO THE EDITOR: The majority of Americans with college degrees now vote Democrat because they are so insufficiently educated that they support "multiculturalism" while being ignorant of their own American culture and history. According to the professors at the indoctrination and re-education centres they have attended, the Constitution is not a legal document but a blank slate for red-diaper doper dummies to scribble on.
Many educated Americans really believe that a people can survive and prosper without factories, guns, gold and grain. All they see as essential needs are government programs, regulations and higher taxes. Communism is instituted by destroying an economy while claiming to save it and American institutions of higher education have devolved into mere training camps for useful idiots.
The scientific method of experiment and observation is so little understood by people who have been given degrees without basic knowledge that they believe in global warming "science," which is based on telling government grant money dispensers exactly what they want to hear. These gullible stooges don't even believe there was a medieval warm period because there were no SUVs to cause it.
Leo J. Seney
Dannemora
Trapped by good deed
TO THE EDITOR: I am a husband, father and generally concerned and caring person.
On this past Wednesday, Jan. 13, at approximately 1:15 p.m., I was in the right place at the right time for Charles Hamm and his passenger. I work for Key Bank as a property manager covering a vast area of New York State. While traveling from Dannemora to Champlain, I parked in a plow turn-around on Route 374 east and witnessed Mr. Hamm roll his vehicle over and land in a ditch mere feet from where I was parked.
I assisted Mr. Hamm and his passenger out from the overturned vehicle once it was determined that they could safely be moved. Out of concern for the gas I was smelling, I placed Mr. Hamm into my vehicle due to the state of shock he was in and the bitter cold. Mr. Hamm had many lacerations to his scalp of which I applied pressure to control his bleeding.
This is where my concern begins. I reacted to another's needs and acted out of pure compassion. My hands became covered with this gentlemen's blood and once professional aid arrived a county sheriff was quick to give me a solution to remove said blood.
This is all fine and well, but given the time to think things through, I became concerned that I do not know Mr. Hamm or the possibility that a blood-bourne disease could have been transferred to me through the nicks and cuts on my hands, and ultimately onto my loved ones. I proceeded to your local hospital to inquire into the possible issue and due to our lovely Hippa laws could not be given any answers. The ER wanted me to be tested that day to check to see if I was already positive for a blood bourne pathogen. Then six months later be tested again to see if I contracted anything due to this incident...six months!
If this gentlemen does have an issue now and I find out in six months that I picked something up, both myself and my wife are now condemned to a death sentence and two children are orphans. No one was willing to help. I asked that Mr. Hamm be given my business card, which I was told he would be, and asked that he please call me. I have yet to hear from him.
This leaves me in a very uncomfortable position and, quite honestly, I will think twice before getting involved with this type of situation in the future, sad to say. If a person provides assistance to an injured person they should be given the answers that are at the heart of my concern. If it where a police officer or fire and rescue personnel in my present position, I am quite sure that they would know if there is a reason for concern, why not a private person?
Jeffrey A. Rioux
Cicero
The horse is dead
TO THE EDITOR: Enough with the crying baby. Does everyone have to beat this dead horse to death? The priest from this parish took care of the problem the following week. We don't need to hear from the whole congregation.
George Larabee
Chazy
Shocked at closure
TO THE EDITOR: I am a Moriah native writing in shock, sadness and confusion over the governor's proposal to close the Moriah Shock Prison.
As you know, the Town of Moriah and Essex County are economically depressed areas, a problem that has recently been exacerbated by the closure of the Champlain Bridge at Crown Point. The closure of the Moriah Shock Prison will do nothing except drown an already struggling community in unemployment, increasing tax burdens and deeper depression.
The jobs lost by the prison closure will be irreplaceable. The fact that there are no available jobs is evidenced by the amount of people who, despite the bridge closure, continue to commute almost 100 miles out of their way in order to keep their employment in the state of Vermont.
Please do not take this enormous source of employment away from the people of Essex County. To do so will destroy our community. It is a very real possibility that if our only forms of income and employment are continuously stripped away, our Adirondack communities will cease to exist.
Please support those living in Essex County by writing to Gov. Paterson and the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections to tell them to keep our prison open. We are fighting for our community!
Elizabeth Leveille
Port Henry
Opinion
February 2, 2010
Letters to the Editor: Feb. 3, 2010
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Editorial: No raise for state legislators
This is not the year for state lawmakers to look for a raise.
- Editorial: A pair of aces among the Cards
- Editorial: Nurses, aides: a breed apart
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Editorial: No raise for state legislators
- Cheers and Jeers
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Cheers and Jeers: Feb. 13, 2012
CHEERS to Peru High School teacher Kathleen Roach and Cardinal Points.
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Cheers and Jeers: Feb. 13, 2012
- Letters to the Editor
- Speakout
- In My Opinion
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In My Opinion: E'town water, sewer essential
Elizabethtown has a history of economic ups and downs, Town Supervisor Margaret Bartley writes.
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In My Opinion: E'town water, sewer essential
