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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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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...
To The Eagle: As you're reading this, four students at Wahkiakum High School are on their way to Germany, where they'll be spending their Spring Break exploring northern Bavaria and the castles along the Rhine River. That they're able to experience this once-in-a-lifetime adventure is in no small part a credit to the members of our community who have supported the German Club's fundraising efforts over the last 18 months. I'm the club's advisor, and this is my seventh time taking this trip with a group of high school students. It's my first...
To The Eagle: A Florida school principal was recently forced to resign after a parent complained that students were “exposed to pornography” during a Renaissance art lesson featuring Michelangelo's iconic statue of the biblical “David.” Like much classical statuary, David is naked but for his slingshot, and lacks the concealing fig leaf mandated by Pope Paul IV in a papal bull dated 1557, declaring the Church's proscription against nudity in art. We don’t know what most offended that prudish parent- the classical nudity of the human subject,...
To The Eagle: I ran across this analogy the other day about ant behavior and thought it asked a question that maybe we should all be asking ourselves when we watch TV, listen to the radio or read our favorite newspaper or political magazine. If you collect 100 black ants and 100 fire ants and put them in a glass jar, nothing will happen. But if you take the jar, shake it violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other. Red believes that black is the enemy, while black believes that red is the enemy when the real...
To The Eagle: Whaddaya call a chicken that quacks? Bilingual! We have a parrot with a male name, Zacharia. She lays eggs. No, she’s not a cross-gender bird. She was just named before her gender became fully apparent. It happens. She has an extensive vocabulary of one word- her name. She can clearly enunciate her name, in about 50 different ways. Having had her in the family for 20 years, we can tell by the modulation, pitch, intonation, emphasis, or tone of that one word whether she wants to snack- or go to bed- or play on her perch- or that I...
To The Eagle: There is a video available on the internet about Sandy Hook that everyone should see. I would describe it as “The truth in 30 minutes.” There are very few times nowadays that you can find the truth in 30 minutes. So enjoy it when you can. The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed on Vimeo. Vimeo.com. Gilbert Vik Puget Island...
To The Eagle: Did I provide false information, maybe not. Always fact-check at the actual source, ignore false Snoops weasel wording. I’m told in an Eagle letter “From the outset and ever since, FICA taxes have never been tax deductible.” That is just wrong (another Snoops oops). On SS taxation visit “ssa.gov” “history taxation of benefits”: Original SS Act became law Aug 14, 1935. Until 1984 SS benefits were not being federally taxed. SSA “Research Note #12: Taxation of Social Security Benefits: …1938 Treasury Department Tax Rulings, and anot...
To The Eagle: State and Federal legislators need to focus on helping citizens by “reducing the burden” of unethical government regulations and oppressive taxation. Government’s role is not to solve society’s problems, but to “prevent government created problems” from occurring which hurt society by legislative design. My wife and I request that all legislators judge every bill with a mature analysis, [1] will this bill reduce or increase government regulatory burdens forced on citizens? [2] will this bill reduce or increase government...
To The Eagle: Republicans are talking a lot about pedophilia. Over the past year, GOP candidates, elected officials, and media influencers have been increasingly obsessed with conversations about children’s sexuality. Republican conservative extremists have been slandering gender support and care for kids as acts of predation, or “grooming,” as they like to call it. Such repulsive innuendoes subject loving families and dedicated teachers to surveillance, investigation, and violence while leaving kids isolated, afraid, and vulnerable. There...
To The Eagle: A Genome Association Study involving 500,000 participants from the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden, studying genes associated with sexual orientation, has confirmed that sexual preferences and behaviors are polygenic: determined by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences.* Since no single gene appears to be responsible for sexual orientation or preference, it seems reasonable then, that gender orientation, and gender dysphoria, would also share the same interplay of complex factors....
To The Eagle: It’s my opinion that the Republican party’s emblematic elephant needs to be retired. That poor pachyderm is collapsing under the weight of its party’s last straw, denialism. A suitable new logo would be a sketch of Edvard Munch’s iconic artwork, ‘The Scream.’ The haunted face in that painting, an image of howling anxiety, eerily illustrates MAGA’s jaundiced view, eyes huge with imagined fears, mouth agape as if babbling “la-la-la,” with hands locked over the ears, refusing to hear unpalatable facts. This new GOP, like the Par...
To The Eagle: To say I was shocked by Fox News being for entertainment only would do a disservice to my integrity. When they finally admitted it was when I was shocked, but only for a moment. When it was revealed that the powers that own and run the network were losing audience and money, they quickly reversed themselves and went back to telling sweet lies to the folks that wanted nothing to do with the actual truth. Of course their ratings along with audience went back to their previous levels. Somewhat along the same lines is the regrettable...
To The Eagle: If you wondered why FOX News promoted Trump’s unfounded assertion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen these last two years, the answer was recently made public by the Delaware Superior Court from evidence gathered during the discovery and deposition phase of Dominion Voting Systems Inc. 1.6 billion dollar liable and slander lawsuit against FOX News, Network LLC (CaseNo.N21C- 11-082-EMD). FOX’s internal company emails and related court depositions reveal that Rupert Murdoch - FOX Chairman, and TV hosts Tucker Car...
