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November 4, 2009

Readers' voice: Nov. 5, 2009

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This is for the West Virginia State Police and also to the deputy sheriffs: We would like to thank you for the added patrols on Cabin Creek. We hope to see you again next year.
I wish the Gazette would omit pictures of beautiful slain animals with the hunter smiling in the background like this is a great event. They talk of tracking the wounded animal until they finally find them, which I think this is very cruel. If you must kill them, then their death should be quick and accurate.
Carl Hubbard stated in a recent op-ed [in the Nov. 2 Gazette] that coal severance taxes make up 60 percent of our state's budget. I'd like to see some proof on that one.
The letter writer from Weirton is living in a dream world. People don't watch Fox News because they hate it. They watch Fox News because they love it. I don't watch shows that I hate and neither does anyone else.
Could someone tell me how a reporter from Channel 8 News can ride around in an ambulance for a story yet if have an accident requiring me to be transported in an ambulance then a family member is not allowed in there with me?
I would have enjoyed the Peter Pan performance on Friday night if it were not for the four teenage girls and the adult with them who constantly used their cell phones to text, blinding the rest of us during the first act. We finally had to move. Some people are just SO rude.
Showing how biased the mainstream media is, they made much of the fact that Republicans captured two state governorships, which is about as important as a bucket of warm spit to the rest of us, while completely ignoring the Democratic pick-up of a House of Representatives seat in a longtime Republican district of New York. The New York win was important, as it was a complete repudiation of hard-line conservative views.
We, the lovers of alternative, will certainly miss Z-Rock [94.5 FM]. It is a shame that it had to go, especially for another country station in this town.
I just got off the telephone with Mountaineer Gas and I am outraged. They are charging churches and other commercial businesses what they are calling a "customer charge" of $24.95 a month, which adds up to $299.40 a year. The Public Service Commission should definitely check on this.
I hope the Main Street sprucing up of the West Side includes raising the manhole covers level with Washington Street.
Our tax dollars fund an operation called AmeriCorps. Other than indoctrinating our youth to be liberals, what useful purpose is being served by this group?
Did they pass the law that you don't have to pay income tax on your unemployment?
I have to laugh every time I read where some right-winger complains about the press giving Obama a free ride. George W. Bush had eight years of free rides, telling some of the most obvious lies and the lap-dog press never called him on it.
Republicans keep harping about Sen. Byrd and the pork he has brought to West Virginia. Recently CBS news reported that in the last six years $60 billion was stolen from Medicare. That makes the West Virginia pork look like chicken feed.
How many millions of people would have to sign up and pay the fee for those annoying free credit report commercials to be profitable?
Bearing arms in West Virginia: Let someone try to break into my house or yours. Somehow I think they would have a little easier time taking what belongs to you than they would taking what belongs to me.
If we now know that hard, clear, plastic containers have chemicals that cause birth defects and other serious health problems, then why are staples like peanut butter, mayonnaise, olive oil, etc., still packaged in these same plastic containers?
I can understand a restaurant that charges for water if that's the only thing you are getting. However, you shouldn't be charged for it if you order water with a meal.
We really do have to do something about public health care, but this public option that they are trying to shove down our throats is just plain wrong.
Why can't our county health officials echo the obvious truth? Our government swine flu H1N1 vaccination program is a dismal failure -- a day late and a dollar short. The reason our town meeting attendance is so sparse is because everyone is home nursing the flu.
It seems that St. Timothy's wants to reclaim the name "Lutheran." I would suggest they reclaim the name "church." Maybe a little Christian kindness and compassion would work here.
The next time your mean boss goes off in the way you describe, you should just dial 911.
I don't understand the controversy over Gov. Manchin's so-called "fat tax" for public employees and school personnel. People who smoke in the public and private sector pay more for their health insurance, and obesity causes more health problems than smoking so why shouldn't those people have to pay more for their health insurance?
The CEO of Charleston Area Medical Center is doing ads for PATH. What a partnership -- poison air and then hospitalization. Profits are their hope.
I read in the newspaper where parents who give up their children to the state now have to pay to support those children. I think this is a wonderful thing. They should be made to take care of their children and pay the state back. We can sure use the money because we have too many children in foster care.
I think Gov. Manchin should do something about the president of West Virginia University. To hire 10 more professors would increase their budget by over $10 million for one year. The guy needs to understand that that he's the president of a college that is ranked 49th in Gross National Product.

This is for the West Virginia State Police and also to the deputy sheriffs: We would like to thank you for the added patrols on Cabin Creek. We hope to see you again next year.
I wish the Gazette would omit pictures of beautiful slain animals with the hunter smiling in the background like this is a great event. They talk of tracking the wounded animal until they finally find them, which I think this is very cruel. If you must kill them, then their death should be quick and accurate.
Carl Hubbard stated in a recent op-ed [in the Nov. 2 Gazette] that coal severance taxes make up 60 percent of our state's budget. I'd like to see some proof on that one.
The letter writer from Weirton is living in a dream world. People don't watch Fox News because they hate it. They watch Fox News because they love it. I don't watch shows that I hate and neither does anyone else.
Could someone tell me how a reporter from Channel 8 News can ride around in an ambulance for a story yet if have an accident requiring me to be transported in an ambulance then a family member is not allowed in there with me?
I would have enjoyed the Peter Pan performance on Friday night if it were not for the four teenage girls and the adult with them who constantly used their cell phones to text, blinding the rest of us during the first act. We finally had to move. Some people are just SO rude.
Showing how biased the mainstream media is, they made much of the fact that Republicans captured two state governorships, which is about as important as a bucket of warm spit to the rest of us, while completely ignoring the Democratic pick-up of a House of Representatives seat in a longtime Republican district of New York. The New York win was important, as it was a complete repudiation of hard-line conservative views.
We, the lovers of alternative, will certainly miss Z-Rock [94.5 FM]. It is a shame that it had to go, especially for another country station in this town.
I just got off the telephone with Mountaineer Gas and I am outraged. They are charging churches and other commercial businesses what they are calling a "customer charge" of $24.95 a month, which adds up to $299.40 a year. The Public Service Commission should definitely check on this.
I hope the Main Street sprucing up of the West Side includes raising the manhole covers level with Washington Street.
Our tax dollars fund an operation called AmeriCorps. Other than indoctrinating our youth to be liberals, what useful purpose is being served by this group?
Did they pass the law that you don't have to pay income tax on your unemployment?
I have to laugh every time I read where some right-winger complains about the press giving Obama a free ride. George W. Bush had eight years of free rides, telling some of the most obvious lies and the lap-dog press never called him on it.
Republicans keep harping about Sen. Byrd and the pork he has brought to West Virginia. Recently CBS news reported that in the last six years $60 billion was stolen from Medicare. That makes the West Virginia pork look like chicken feed.
How many millions of people would have to sign up and pay the fee for those annoying free credit report commercials to be profitable?
Bearing arms in West Virginia: Let someone try to break into my house or yours. Somehow I think they would have a little easier time taking what belongs to you than they would taking what belongs to me.
If we now know that hard, clear, plastic containers have chemicals that cause birth defects and other serious health problems, then why are staples like peanut butter, mayonnaise, olive oil, etc., still packaged in these same plastic containers?
I can understand a restaurant that charges for water if that's the only thing you are getting. However, you shouldn't be charged for it if you order water with a meal.
We really do have to do something about public health care, but this public option that they are trying to shove down our throats is just plain wrong.
Why can't our county health officials echo the obvious truth? Our government swine flu H1N1 vaccination program is a dismal failure -- a day late and a dollar short. The reason our town meeting attendance is so sparse is because everyone is home nursing the flu.
It seems that St. Timothy's wants to reclaim the name "Lutheran." I would suggest they reclaim the name "church." Maybe a little Christian kindness and compassion would work here.
The next time your mean boss goes off in the way you describe, you should just dial 911.
I don't understand the controversy over Gov. Manchin's so-called "fat tax" for public employees and school personnel. People who smoke in the public and private sector pay more for their health insurance, and obesity causes more health problems than smoking so why shouldn't those people have to pay more for their health insurance?
The CEO of Charleston Area Medical Center is doing ads for PATH. What a partnership -- poison air and then hospitalization. Profits are their hope.
I read in the newspaper where parents who give up their children to the state now have to pay to support those children. I think this is a wonderful thing. They should be made to take care of their children and pay the state back. We can sure use the money because we have too many children in foster care.
I think Gov. Manchin should do something about the president of West Virginia University. To hire 10 more professors would increase their budget by over $10 million for one year. The guy needs to understand that that he's the president of a college that is ranked 49th in Gross National Product.