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October 20, 2006
Letters to the Editor State
Great Falls Tribune
Lobbying initiative remains on ballot
"There was never any doubt in my mind that a judge would throw out this outrageous complaint," said Jim Farrell, executive director of the Montana Democratic Party, which backs I-153.
Missoulian
Throw the Republicans out
This is but one of many levels on which Republicans have engaged in corrupt, immoral and disgusting behavior. Throw the bums out. Vote Democrat in November.
Enough with the GOP scare tactics
We are bogged down in a very expensive and tragic war that is not about democracy but is all about $400 billion and how much of that cash Halliburton can garner. Our country is not safer. Our border with Mexico is wide open for anyone wanting to bring anything across by rail or land to U.S. cities. Are you happy about the low price of gas? Would you be happy if you knew the oil companies have kept oil prices artificially high for years - and the U.S. government still subsidizes the oil companies in the amount of $16 billion a year? Wait until after the November elections: The oil companies will then recoup their loss of exorbitant profits.
Burns should withdraw from race
I have been trying to listen to what Conrad Burns has to say with an open mind, but it is difficult. When I voted for him, I gave him the right and responsibility of representing my personal and my family needs on a national level. And when he sold his congressional vote to Jack Abramoff, he sold my vote as well. He traded the votes of all Montanans.
Vote Burns to support Bush's tragic war
it is comforting that we have sophisticated statesmen, like President Bush, aided by equally sophisticated members of Congress, like our own Conrad Burns, who refuse to listen to those pesky intelligence officers, or really, anyone else. Although the war has been sold to Americans through changing Rovian marketing ploys including bogus claims that Iraq was involved in 9/11, weapons of mass destruction, bringing freedom to Iraqis, spreading democracy, fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here and other fear-based slogans, the bottom line is that regardless of the justification, old war veterans like Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney really just know best.
Money, time could be better spent
He would never let his elderly children die as a result of not receiving medical care because the facility also performs abortions. So don't use God as your excuse for violence.
If we looked at the abortion issue from a different angle we might see other ways to prevent them. Spend some of that airplane money educating youth on birth control and abstinence. Donate some of that money to young couples seeking family planning at Blue Mountain Clinic.
Religion, science don't have to conflict
The age of the Earth is not a religious matter, nor is it mere opinion: it is a scientific matter. Schweitzer, in fact, understated the age of the Earth. As you drive Interstate 90 from Missoula to Wallace, most of the rocks you see are about 1.5 billion years old. Drive the Beartooth Highway from Red Lodge to Gardiner and gaze on rocks that are more than 3 billion years old, two-thirds as old as the Earth itself.
These ages are not speculations; they are best estimates derived from fundamental processes that can be measured such as radioactive decay of specific elements. They are not irreligious rants by atheistic scientists determined to destroy the moral fiber of our youth, they are dispassionate calculations by trained professionals who share a desire to know as much as possible about our world.
Helena Independent Record
What rights does Tester want for himself that he would like to withhold from me? What "allowances" is he referring to? In this country we know that separate is not equal (please see Brown v. Board of Education). Throughout the primary Tester stated he did not support discrimination in any form. I believed him. What has changed?
Misleading ad
In one of many examples, one of the commercial’s attacks is "Jon Tester is supported by radicals that want to close bases like Malmstrom." This is not where Jon stands on the issue. In past legislation, Tester has supported and expanded Malmstrom's role in Montana.
Seldom seen Congress
...the 97 days the House of Representatives is scheduled to be in session in 2006 is the fewest since Harry Truman derided the 80th Congress in 1947-48 as the "do-nothing" Congress. The 2006 figure compares with a yearly average of 161 days in the '60s and '70s and 139 days in the '80s and '90s."
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