Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: After reading the indignant response of “No we didn’t” by the contributor who took exception to the use of the all inclusive ‘We’ in the letter titled “Looking in the mirror,” I was inspired to imagine an 18th century discussion between two fellow American colonials in 1787. “Nathan! Have you read the latest balderdash by that uppity snit, Jefferson?” “Nay, I avn’t. Wot’s he sai?” “He says ‘We The People’ are all created equal and have ‘rights’ given by God Almighty!” “Blimey! Wot bloody peepal? Hoose this damned ‘We’ as s’pos...
To The Eagle: A previous letter was so full of contempt for the vast majority of people here in America I had to reply. In the letter the writer refers often to "We" laughed at gay kids, "we" verbally abused skinny kids, "we" made fun of girls that were overweight and so on. He adds "We" hate this and that today. I want to know who the heck the "We" is he is accusing? Allow me to set the record straight, first of all “We” sounds like you think we all did those unkind things to others, We did not, only a very small number of stupid people, bul...
To The Eagle: The “gay boy” we laughed at and punched when we were in high school; he committed suicide. The girl we called a slut because she wouldn’t go out with us; she was a virgin. The skinny boy we called lame, because he fixed his glasses with tape; he worked two jobs to support his family. The girl in math class we pushed because she wouldn’t get out of our way; she was also physical abused by her parents. The girl we called fat; she’s starving herself trying to lose weight. And the old man at the newspaper stand we called a freak bec...
To The Eagle: My husband and I have been across-the-street neighbors of Mary Ann and Rick for almost 17 years. Through that time we have accumulated many charming memories with the Nelsons. Our paths crossed regularly as happens in small towns like ours. Rick and Mary Ann are widely known for their consistent goodwill and natural fellow-feeling, through the ups and downs that invariably come. The whole family is graced with good hearts, living their fine family values through their public and private lives. This letter is prompted by a memory t...
To The Eagle: Allow me to thank Wahkiakum County and Cathlamet for the 13 plus years we lived in the Elochoman valley. Watched it grow from widely scattered farms and houses to what it is now with houses popping up like toadstools after an autumn rain. Admittedly, some are quite tasteful and then there are the others. The couple that bought our place are blessed to be surrounded by the best neighbors we've ever had. You know who you are and thanks from the bottom of our collective heart. They plan on doing what we weren't capable of and imagine...
To The Eagle: According to the May 25 article, “New laws and funding requested and supported by Secretary of State Steve Hobbs during the 2023 Legislative session will help ensure the integrity of Washington’s elections and improve access to the ballot for eligible voters.” Our legislators are hard at work; more new laws and restrictions supposedly to make our lives much easier. Whoopee! Now if they would just work together on lowering taxes for the American people and businesses; eliminate regulations, restrictions and fees; eliminate many...
To The Eagle: The $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems is the largest in US history. The FCC is proposing a $500,000 fine for FOX. Smartmatic sued Fox for defamation following the 2020 election and is seeking $2.7 billion in damages from Fox and other defendants. They’re suing right-wing TV networks Newsmax and OAN, which went even further than Fox News in their promotion of unhinged and debunked conspiracy theories about supposed election-rigging. Fox News will turn over more evidence in the Smartmatic defamation suit, i...
To The Eagle: Joel and Noreen Fitts in Grays River wish to thank The Eagle for 50 years of caring for our community. We always were treated with thankfulness, friendship and respect. Rick was very interested in our 4-H programs when our dairy and horse clubs were strong, back in the 80s and 90s. I will miss his input in Wahkiakum news and his friendly smile. We never did get to play guitar together and I’m sorry for that. So, Rick, Happy Trails! Always, Joel Fitts Grays River...
To The Eagle: About that true info; who controls the MSM news (mainstream media)? Why would we want to partner with NATO, WHO and these foreign affairs? We’re paying each of these leaders a salary of millions of dollars. What do we get in return from them? Nothing and they’re smiling all the way to their bank with our money. I recall a letter a while back that someone hadn’t mowed their lawn because of high gas prices. I did the same thing, too. It was an eyesore for my neighbors. But whose fault is that? I didn’t vote for him but you did. Yo...
To The Eagle: Dear Sir, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your loved ones every day. May you find strength, comfort and peace through these very difficult times. I hope somehow the community finds a way to keep The Wahkiakum Eagle newspaper going as I know, Sir, is your hope also. I for one, thank you and the Nelson Family for the many years you provided the newspaper with the information needed to make informed decisions about candidates in elections, letting us know what the county commissioners and town council were doing, keeping us...
To The Eagle: Sadly we are losing Rick Nelson, publisher and owner of The Wahkiakum County Eagle. The treatments he’s been enduring for some time, are no longer effective. As a friend, very sad to lose him, as a community member, sad to lose him and possibly The Wahkiakum Eagle. I have had a subscription for The Eagle since moving here in 1995. I also kept my Chinook Observer subscription, now for 40 or so years. I feel the importance of local papers is without measure, so I hope somehow, someone will carry on. You will be sorely missed when y...
To The Eagle: It was very pleasing to read letters on the 20th. Two people with differing opinions liked each other in person! I have said (written) so many times, if we sat down with a cup of coffee or a beer and spoke honestly, we would agree on most things, with few minor differences, like which side of the bed you prefer. Sadly, the other, on cancel culture by the right, is history repeating. Then Toni’s MAGA promotion is so full of inaccuracies and false facts (alternative facts), that I’ll pretend it wasn’t there. Now that the FOX bullh...
To The Eagle: "Midnight Caller": Terrified and out of breath from running, the slight figure ducked into a dark alley, to catche their breath. Fumbling for the crumpled scrap of paper, they found the hotline number that had been hurriedly ripped from the flyer, in a public restroom. A few weeks ago, fear had ended the call before it was completed. This time the number was punched-in and with trembling fingers, the "send" button was pushed, before the caller could change their mind, at 12:03 a.m., it was now or never. The situation had finally,...
To The Eagle: Nice letter last week, Paul. I imagine we're on the same page here with my week's rant. I fail to understand how the issue of sexual identity is even an issue with teenagers. Why would there even be the need for laws in regard to sexual surgery to ‘correct' what God in His infinite wisdom has made a child to be? Unless a person is born a true hermaphrodite why would surgery even be considered? Even then it would seem prudent to allow the child to grow to the age of maturity and let them decide if they wanted ‘corrective' surgery....
To The Eagle: The America that those of us that came of age in the 1950's and early '60's knew no longer exists, period. Discipline was removed from the schools because the precious little ones weren't to be made to feel bad about anything ever. Wouldn't want to damage their little egos, now would we? Now everybody gets the prize regardless of ability or effort or more precisely lack of effort. How sad. Homogenizing milk might be a good idea but not society. This lack of discipline is very much present in both political parties as neither of...
To The Eagle: Barney Bishop, head of that Tallahassee Classical School, of “Renaissance porn” notoriety, stated “school policies must protect the rights of all parents; parental rights are supreme and always supercede the rights of their children.” Give me a moment here to mute my blaring bull**it detector. Children are not livestock or pets. Kids have human and constitutional rights equivalent to those of their parents. As minors, some of those rights are conditional, and easier to violate with impunity because parents control them. Parenth...
To The Eagle: Part two. For seven years how much have the Biden Regime used and spent our money on witch hunts and Ukraine as compared to helping American families whose lives, homes and towns have been ripped apart by crime and climate catastrophe? Trump can be full of himself and he acts like a narcissist; but the regime is no angel. You’ve got to admit, when Trump was President, the USA came first. He built the Wall for security; got the Keystone Pipeline project started to supply our own oil, cut down taxes, regulations and restrictions f...
To The Eagle: This past Sunday I attended a memorial on Puget Island for Howard Brawn. While there I met many nice people in attendance. This didn't come as a surprise to me as they were there to remember a truly nice man in his own right. I have over time written many letters to the editor, usually in response to some letter submitted by a liberal opinionated writer. I must admit that I have fallen into what has become the norm for many of us; that is disliking someone for their politics without even having met them. While we went around...
To The Eagle: A contributor’s letter asking “Who’s shaking the jar?” reminded me of the parable of the 6 blind fellows who each handled a separate part of an elephant’s anatomy before likening the beast variously to a wall, snake, spear, tree, fan and a rope. They couldn’t individually encompass the whole of it. I’m not blind. I write frequently and forcefully to describe the many parts making up the whole, terrible nature of that symbolic elephant now trampling upon our civil liberties and national discourse. A different writer stated that ...
To The Eagle: Any person that shoots a child is CRAZY!!! It’s so simple. The gun didn't wake up one morning and decide it was going to shoot someone, it didn’t aim itself at a child and pull it’s own trigger, a crazy person did! Crazy people are born every day! We can’t stop that in the foreseeable future. Millions are born with all kinds of problems. We used to put them in institutions, because families couldn't take care of them, local agencies did not have the resources to handle them, and it was more humane than letting them walk the str...
To The Eagle: For seven years the Biden regime kept accusing Trump with false allegations they could never prove. The latest is unspeakable; an allegedly one time sex with Stormy Daniels that supposedly happened 17 years ago. How in hells bells did they come up with 37 counts for an allegedly one time sex as a felony? If it did happen, so what? Nothing to brag about. Let’s face it, many of our past presidents had mistresses to frolic with; only a handful of presidents were ever faithful to their wives. What has the media not reported? The CCP p...
To The Eagle: Another writer’s recent comments that “social justice as practiced is a political nightmare and a perverted concept of actual justice that artificially balances natural inequalities in unjust ways” is in many ways accurate and in some ways, not so much. ‘Woke’ initially referred only to matters involving the oppression of Black people and has expanded to include many other iterations of ‘social justice.’ Conservative Republicans have turned ‘woke’ into a Swiss army knife of intellectual laziness used to describe, deflect...
To The Eagle: Where to start; there are so many people without housing or jobs that many if not most cities have people living in tents on the sidewalks. Not enough people apparently for the GOP because not only are they against reproductive health care for women, they are against education to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Both Portland and Seattle are becoming unlivable from the hoards of street people with more on the way. Now, rather than spend the money here in our country to help fix the incredible problems, our fearless democratic leader ha...
To The Eagle: In last week’s paper there were two letters that I found interesting yet very different in meaning and purpose. The first the letter, "Who's shaking the jar" used an analogy of two types of ants in a jar coexisting until someone shakes the jar which insights disagreement and ultimately deadly violence. The letter was spot on, interesting, informative and most importantly thought provoking; a true lesson for us all in these times of extreme political polarization. Now the second letter I am referring to, "Republican C...
To The Eagle: Mr Bouchard, here is what “frightens us” about “social justice”: "Social Justice" as practiced is a political nightmare that pursues stupidity for the sake of their own agenda. Allowing men to compete as women has destroyed female sports and invalidated real women’s accomplishments. We have an obese man who thinks he is a woman as our Secretary of HHS which is the antithesis of being mentally and physically healthy. We have a Transportation Secretary who takes two months “Paternity Leave” with his “husband” instead of dealin...
