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The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 13, 2008

Earl Column Refreshing

Re: Fran Earl's weekly column.

The new column by Francis Earl is a welcome addition to your editorial page. She offers a different point of view than your conservative writers, and it's a pleasure to read her articles.

Although we've been a subscriber of Hernando Today for 10 years, we seldom agree with your point of view. However, with the addition of Fran's articles, we find ourselves looking forward to the Thursday edition.

Today she addressed the problem of the medical facilities our troops have to endure upon returning home from harms way. This is a disgraceful situation like so many others that have occurred on George Bush's watch.

It is refreshing to have someone like Fran, who is willing to bring these problems out in the open and into the public eye.

Thanks, Fran, keep up the good work.

Pat Hernandez

Brooksville
Doing The Right Thing
Re: Mr. Hood's letter to the editor in the May 10 edition of Hernando Today.

Mr. Hood, in his claim that the world was better with Saddam Hussein, conveniently forgets the atrocities visited upon the Iraqi people.

Mr. Hood speaks about Saddam knowing where every drop of oil was. He also made sure that his people did not profit from it. Only he and his most trusted cronies were to profit from oil. I think the Democrats truly want to project onto President Bush that it's all about oil, but then some like Mr. Hood make it sound like a good thing - if it's an evil dictator like Hussein.

Mr. Hood ignores that the Iraqi people were under the thumb of a madman, who dictated whether or not they had enough food to eat. It also depended on whether they were Sunni or Shiite. (How's that for separation of church and state?)

I frequently must scratch my head in confusion at opinions such as Mr. Hood's. The Iraqi people suffered atrocities that Americans, in their plush, free society, could never begin to imagine. Considering that so many on the left are squeamish about the death penalty for sadistic murderers, it befuddles me why they are OK that someone in power in another country puts their people in shredders for the most minor, if not contrived, sins. It befuddles me that a dictator who not only encourages but orders the rape and murder of people in front of their family, is a good thing for the world to people of Mr. Hood's line of thinking. Yet, we are squeamish about waterboarding terrorists who wish to harm us.

The way I look at it, the cheers of the Iraqi people when Saddam Hussein was hung for his crimes is proof enough to me that we have done the right thing and that the world is much, much better off with one less evil, sadistic slime in the world.

Serena Seifried

Brooksville

Investigate

Government Practices

I am upset reading about Hernando County Commission Chairman Chris Kingsley and School Superintendent Alexander seeking raises and reimbursements.

Is Kingsley preparing himself, at taxpayers' expense, for a better position when his term is up?

With hundreds of homes for sale and so many of them in foreclosure in Hernando County, how can he, in good conscience, expect reimbursement, receiving a salary of $59,552 with benefits?

People losing their homes, many their jobs, will not have any benefits. With the high price of gas, some will not afford to be able to even look for jobs.

This year, there have been articles of how taxpayers' money was being wasted. Reading the two articles published in Hernando Today on May 1, I am not the only one who is questioning the practices going on in the commission offices.

I think it is time to investigate some of these practices and publish them.

I hope taxpayers will think of this at election time.

Jean Fennell

Brooksville

Lock Them Up

I saw on television those spiritless females from The Compound of the Lost Souls. One can take these observations from their own words "We want our children back home." I saw no husbands or father figures requested!

"See this room, where, "A child," lived with its mother?" I ask, "Where is daddy?" "See this dining room where the children and mothers ate?" Where is daddy? "In this room is where the children sang songs with their mothers." Daddy?

Thus, my mind gets this frame of reference; their minds can only see a few things:

1. These women had a child to some male, any male, who was given permission by someone in the hierarchy of the Compound, to lay with them when they were fertile. Then this male goes on his own way, waiting to be given permission to lie with a different female, only for the purpose to create a new child and get rid of their own lust.

2. There is no love for a husband because they are like the women in the Bible to whom Jesus said, "You have spoken correctly, for you have had many men, and the one you now have is not your husband!" She repented! I pray these women repent!

3. The children do not know the father, a father, or a daddy, only a mother.

4. The women do not know any husband, only lust, and to live for their children.

5. This compound and the men in it are pure evil, not knowing the simplest of God's wishes for the women or the children. If the men followed their Bible, they would now wish to die. These men know only their own flesh and its depraved longings: For the next virgin girl they can shack up with; for the next adult woman who they decide to shack up with; for the time they go to work, to give funds to the compound; and for their time in their assembly where they get praise from their leaders.

It is time to free these children from this evil religion. May the local Christians of Latter Day Faith take the children into their homes to teach them correctly. Lock up those men who abuse God's and our laws.

John N. Wadsworth

Inverness

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