Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: That fellow is still waiting to publicly debate anyone who thinks defunding the police, anarchy, riots, looting and socialism are solutions to anything. Hope he packed a lunch. It’s gonna be a long wait. First, neo-socialism actually is the solution to many things. Reactionary Republicans know this and hate it for that reason. Case closed. Otherwise, that fellow is right. Disruptive, peaceful mass demonstrations, violent riots and social disorder are not solutions. They are symptoms. They are a dynamic, necessary process. Call i...
To The Eagle: So many issues are before us and it’s all happening so quickly. I call our current national situation as a crisis. Three main areas are at the top of my list of concerns: 1) How do we help all Americans understand the Constitution? As a high school senior (1964 in Fort Worth TX), it was required for graduation that each senior pass a civics class. The time spent for half a school year learning how government works and what it does for us was so important. I have always used what I learned there as I’ve grown older and it’s helpe...
To The Eagle: I am thankful to Olaf Thomason, Sr., and his friends for their service in defending this country from its enemies. I am confused and saddened as well at this gentleman’s reference to the “hate of country as seen in this paper.” An avid reader myself of this ever interesting opinion section of The Eagle, I have yet to read any commentary expressing hatred of our country. I think perhaps he may be seeing things differently than I. The strong opinions I have read here are usually politely expressed, and others not so much. Miste...
Trump is master of distraction, deflection To The Eagle: The confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths in America are 4.4 million and 150 thousand. The highest infection and death rate in the world. Trump’s response to the pandemic? He blames China to deflect criticism for not taking the Covid-19 threat seriously back in January and February, when he was first warned about the pandemic and when we had time to prepare for its eventual arrival in America. There’s the commutation of Roger Stone’s (friend of Donald Trump) sentence that observers belie...
To The Eagle: Republican candidate Joel McEntire made a fun comment on talk radio last week. He allowed as how the K-5 sex education bill the Dems are pushing in Olympia is so pornographic in nature that he couldn’t describe the details on public radio. This goes hand-in-hand with the Democrats’ tax increase legislation (property, B&O, gasoline) to increase revenue to pay for the damage caused by their own election campaign tactics which include the unnecessary covid-19 lockdown and the rioting and destruction going on in Seattle and other lar...
To The Eagle: Our Island crier sent several people and myself ‘studies’ of dubious nature. Seems these days one can find a study to fit our thoughts and pleasures. I appreciated the mail, and support of USPS, with double stamps, though the material, not so much. Then there was his writing last week, which prompts this writing. We have a son who was, as were we, looking forward to his sophomore year, and especially football, as he had been voted most improved, so to improve even more. He is as susceptible to getting and spreading the virus as...
To The Eagle: A week ago I was driving on Puget Island. I made the stop on the bridge at Birnie Slough and saw, to my horror, a dead raccoon displayed on the top corner of the bridge, obviously placed there for all to see. It was disturbing to think that someone would do this, and I hoped that it was a one time bad idea. Last evening we passed the same area and in the same spot was a dead nutria. Clearly placed by the same person. It made me sick to my stomach. Obviously this person has no respect for wildlife. Yes I know raccoons and nutria...
To The Eagle: Thank you to The Wahkiakum County Eagle for allowing opinions. I will vote for the following candidates: Dan Cothren County Commissioner Pos. 2. I would vote for Mike Backman if I lived in his district. Jim Walsh State Representative # 19. Jaime Herrera Beutler Congress District 3. I have never voted a straight party ballot but this election I can not in good conscience vote for any Democrat since they all seem to think Socialism is the way to go and after all the many good things President Trump has done for the working class...
To The Eagle: Kids are not very susceptible to corona virus; it doesn’t do them much harm when they do get it, and they’re also not very good at passing it to teachers or other adults -- the exact reverse image of the common flu. Therefore the best and safest place for kids is in school, which allows their parents to go back to being productive citizens. We are now the only country on the planet waffling about opening the schools. Our Covid-19 data has been scrambled from the very beginning by both the medical bureaucracy and the mai...
To The Eagle: The protests against police brutality now rocking the country have many catalysts. Among the more immediate is President Donald Trump and his first Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. Trump predictably eviscerated federal police reforms of the previous administration because they were enacted by his nemesis, Barack Obama. Obama’s Justice Department had launched 70 investigations into state and local law enforcement agencies and negotiated 40 reform agreements through court enforced consent decrees with troubled police agencies, f...
To The Eagle: I’m on phase six of Covid-19, my friends also. Most of us have lived through a list of panics: Asian Flu, H3, N2, H1, N1, Swine Flu pandemic and the present flu season. What we fear most is the hate of country as seen in this paper. I served under two presidents while serving our country, along with countless other military. We love our country and support it against enemies domestic and foreign. Olaf Thomason, Sr. Where the flag always waves...
To The Eagle: It has come to the attention of the Republican and Democratic Parties that political signs are being stolen. The first thing that comes to mind is teenagers on a lark. It is hoped that misguided youth are responsible, but it must be stopped. Political signs are staples of American campaigns. If you remove political signs, you are guilty of stealing and a misdemeanor. Posting political signs is the property owner’s First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech. Political signs are also a way for candidates to reach large audiences o...
To The Eagle: Children need to be back in school, not just for the education but more importantly is that kids today hide in a room with video games when they need to socialize so much more. Maybe we all would be better able to resolve disputes if we reasoned together instead of forming our opinions in a dark room playing violent games or watching TV alone. Another reason is that for some children the school meals are the only balanced nutritious meal they may have that day but even more heart breaking is that for some it may be the only meal...
To The Eagle: The United States’ effort to reinstate a ‘reconstructed’ South into the Union after the Civil War and provide just recompense to emancipated slaves, was a failure. It only took one powerful man, a president, to help the unrepentant South sow the bitter seeds that still yield fruit poisonous to this nation. The era of Reconstruction collapsed when Vice President Andrew Johnson became President after Lincoln’s assassination. A southern sympathizer, he quickly pardoned Southern secessionists, Confederate leaders and wealthy planter...
To The Eagle: This is a most troubling time. We have an occupant of the White House who engages in unethical and questionable moral conduct, but gets little public resistance from his staff or other elected officials from the same party. The growth of executive control over our governance must have a few of the founding fathers rolling in their graves. I cannot understand why our elected representative cannot rise to listen to her own conscience. The party has put “loyalty” ahead of the oath to support the constitution. This has been har...
To The Eagle: Do our county commissioners even realize that anyone is listening to their meetings these days? Some of their statements are so ridiculous they are laughable. Commissioner Backman states that we should have had a hospital built here by now, after all they've had months to get it done. Health care is a top concern in this country today and it is obvious he knows nothing about it. I suggest he contact Legacy Health Systems. He could ask how many years, how many permits, and how many hundreds of millions of dollars it took to build...
To The Eagle: On July 13, 2020 I heard our president say about the corona virus and I quote: “When you test you create new cases.” I was astounded when I heard this. Mr. Trump had just found an answer to the decade’s long fight between the right and the left on abortion. If you do not want to have a pregnancy, you do not take that pesky test. Therefore you do not create that pregnancy. It’s been right there in front of us for all these years but it took Donald Trump to figure it out for us. Mr. President, you truly are a “very stable genius....
To The Eagle: My thanks to the Town of Cathlamet for spending the extra dollars to use skid-proof paint when they refurbished the wooden footbridge to the marina area. The slippery surface has been a problem, even with posted warnings- now much safer for all our residents. Tom Roberts Cathlamet...
To The Eagle: Recent July 4th celebrants in the South displayed large Confederate battle flags flying from private property that were visible from many interstate highways and other public locations. Those flags are an arrogant declaration of white supremacist’s values in the darkest hearts of Dixie. Happy Independence day, y’all. Our nation is remarkable throughout the world for the stability of its government, the reach of its power, the depth of its generosity and the intractable racism deeply staining the fabric of American society. In thi...
To The Eagle: The legislators did a good job using the media to spread the fear of covid to us. They mandated a law that we must wear a face mask; else we be slapped with jail time and a fine if we don’t. I’m no doctor but common sense tells us it’s not healthy to wear a mask, especially for long hours. We need oxygen to breathe in and breathe out to rid us of the carbon dioxide. No government has the right to order you to do something that violates your freedom of choice, especially when it involves your body. It wouldn’t be surpris...
To The Eagle: Well, we're finally number one! After extremely useless and questionable leadership, our country has achieved the dubious honor of having more Covid-19 cases than every other country in the world. The United States has between 4 percent and 5 percent of the planet’s population and 25 percent of the total infections! Making America first has finally come to pass. I seem to remember a 2016 campaign promise that we would be winning so much that we'd be tired of winning. Seems to be the one and possibly only thing that was true. M...
To The Eagle: Thank you, J.B. Bouchard, for the education on white privilege. I didn't have a clue. I had been going down to Jim Crow Creek for 30 years without a racist thought until someone in Olympia educated me that it's racist. No, sir, I have not experienced any of the scenarios that you mentioned, but I have been in Atlanta where I was treated like a second class citizen . . . I've been in some pretty bad neighborhoods where I felt very uncomfortable for being white. If I only knew about my white privilege then. I do feel privileged,...
To The Eagle: I have served on many boards and committees but I can say the County Planning Commission has been one of the best I have ever been a member of. So when I read that two of the commissioners resigned last week I was really sad, but not surprised because I too, was also very unhappy with how things went at our last meeting. There need to be changes and I will work with my fellow commissioners to discuss and make needed changes to bring order to how we do business in the future. I was one the commissioners that voted no on the PUD's...
To The Eagle: Of the 360,222 Union casualties who died in the Civil War, 16,000 lie cradled in the hallowed ground of Arlington National Cemetery. Each gravestone is a monument to a soldier who gave the last full measure of his devotion toward the preservation of the United States of America. The first veteran interred there was 21 year old Pvt. William Christman. On May 17, 1864, he was laid to rest beneath an arbor of Arlington mansion where Mary Lee, wife of turncoat Gen. Robert E. Lee, had enjoyed reading in warm weather, surrounded by the...
To The Eagle: Mucho stuff about Black Lives Matter in last week’s Eagle, but there’s more, or as the late newscaster Paul Harvey would put it, “the rest of the story.” Among the more amusing was Pelosi and Schumer donning colorful Kente cloth duds in support of BLM, oblivious to the fact that it came from the Ashanti tribe, who were leading suppliers of slaves to the Dutch and English slave trade for more than a century. Also entertaining was the story of Cheryl Selby, the mayor of Olympia, who supported and marched with BLM, so they rewarde...
