Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: Did you ever notice the people that complain most vociferously about The Eagle’s editorial content and perspective are arguably The Eagle’s biggest supporters? It seems those that bitch and complain the most are often the most frequent writers in the Letter to the Editor section, and clearly read the paper weekly, in detail, helping to form their own opinions and perspectives. On that basis, The Eagle is obviously doing a pretty good job serving the community on both current event updates, as well as presenting contrasting pos...
A couple letter writers this week take me to task for printing an Associated Press article on racial issues. One said I should have featured Memorial Day. Well, on Page 1 was an article announcing the local Memorial Day ceremony presented by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5297. And on Page 1 of this week's issue is photo coverage of that event, as has occurred as long as I can remember the event occurring. The editorial cartoon last week also highlighted the sacrifices of fallen members of the armed services. Next, I have come to the...
To The Eagle: Voters in Malheur, Sherman, Grant, Baker and Lake Counties in Oregon State voted on May 18 to consider joining the state of Idaho because they like Idaho’s conservative political leadership. Of course they would have to go through various measures to reposition the border lines. The State of Washington was named in honor of George Washington. Personally, today I think George Washington would be appalled at what the legislatures have done to the State of Washington. Perhaps we should do the same as to what the voters in Oregon d...
To The Eagle: I was embarrassed to read a recent letter to The Eagle from a totally un-informed person; I will comment on it. As a European, we have always liked Americans. I came here happily and freely, joined the US Army, then proudly accepted US Citizenship. Must say, I was embarrassed when in Denmark, while 45 proposed to buy Greenland, many jokes, while repeating I did not vote for him. The writer also had trouble with math. Not sure why Georgia was on her mind, but Biden promised he would make the stimulus $2,000 for all of us, $1,400...
To The Eagle: This is a community comprised largely of “seasoned citizens” – folks who have been around the track, and through more than a few wars and disasters. We hit the road in the earlier parts of the last century wrapped in whatever skin God gave us, armed with whatever brainpower we could cobble together, and did our little part in contributing to the “land of the free and the home of the brave” that we were lucky enough to be born into. Last week’s Eagle should have been the Memorial Day issue, devoted to those of us who made the ul...
To The Eagle: "This mess has been in our soil. It's in our soul." This is a quote from the insulting and scurrilous opinion piece by the AP reprinted for the pleasure of the editor, staff and leftist readers of this little newspaper last week. It wasn't printed for the purpose of edifying and educating our little community; No it was dumped on the readership for the purpose of demoralising our mostly "white" populace. The staff wishes to educate us poor benighted white folks on the vast injuries done by us to "people of color." We need to...
To The Eagle: Has anyone spotted any third world countries clamoring for the U. S. to supply them with election monitors? Gilbert Vik Puget Island...
To The Eagle: A recent contributor expressed pride in her Swiss heritage, but her claim of “zero home invasions” in Switzerland is false. That nation’s 2020 National Crime & Safety Report states“ Burglaries remain a primary concern. Home invasion remains more common than vehicle theft.” True, the Swiss population constitutes a standing national militia but military ordnance is kept at home under strict guidelines. The weapon is in the cellar, the firing pin in the cupboard, and the ammunition secured at a military arsenal. Does "A well regulate...
To The Eagle: A lady of Swiss lineage recently wrote in to express her scorn for social activists whom she describes as “Socialist/Communist” who hate America. How dare she accuse me of hating America because I don’t believe, like her, that “ no one’s home or loved one will be safe” in this country until we all go out and buy even more guns. “Love America as I do” she says. “Let us be kind” she says. Where’s the love and kindness in her lies, that those of us who work for social justice, the Woke, seek to “divide Americans, release viol...
To The Eagle: In last week’s Letter to the Editor I truly liked what Lily Kolditz wrote: Don’t let “them” divide us. It was written with consideration, tact and common sense; I couldn’t have said it better. Toni Below Cathlamet...
To The Eagle: J.B.’s attempt to defend the indefensible last week scores zero for four: Abortion up to the point of birth and even after, and abortion for the purpose of selling baby spare parts qualifies as pretty much unlimited, and if those procedures are advocated or performed using taxpayer funds, then it is indeed everyone’s business. That “agonizing decision” should be made with input from parents and loved ones, particularly in the case of adolescents. Revered or not, monuments are public property and no one has the right to topple,...
To The Eagle: I am so embarrassed to be a U.S. citizen. I've always wondered why Europeans didn't like [U.S.]Americans. Now I know. We are easily bribed! If I lived in Georgia and voted democrat I was promised a $2000.00 check. Instead most U.S. citizens received a check for $1400.00 including the people of Georgia. Not $2000.00 as promised by our president-to-be. If you get a covid vaccine shot you can get a free donut, free beer, free french fries, and if we live in Ohio a chance to win $1,000,000.00! No wonder people in Europe look down...
To The Eagle: I’d like to address some of the derogatory comments made by the fellow who mocked our country as having “adopted self-excoriation as a national pastime.” National retrospection is not a weakness, regardless of what Republican reactionaries or the Chinese communists might think. Recognizing our nation’s past errors, expressing our “mea culpas” and acting to correct those mistakes on behalf of those affected by them, is not excoriation. It’s the progressive development of our national conscience. It’s the honing of our foundationa...
To The Eagle: We need to understand the propaganda of the “woke” Socialists/Communists for what it is. Their effort is to divide Americans, weaken our economy, release violent criminals back into the streets, demoralize good law enforcement officers making the nation unsure and less safe, destroy capitalism- and relieve us of our right to bear arms. Every civilization before us that lost the right to bear arms, lost their freedom overnight. Yet, amazingly, I have been reading in The Eagle letters stating things like, “Guns in private hands...
To The Eagle: Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin recently said distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine should have been "limited." That undermines the national push to end the pandemic. Johnson, who has no medical background, said "I see no reason to be pushing vaccines on people. If you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not? What is it to you?" What a moron. Community vaccination programs are essential to public health. If vaccines against viral diseases like Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Poli...
To The Eagle: About three weeks ago I received a letter from Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler. To make it short, she stated that the talk in Olympia is surrounding new taxes, even a state income tax. She wrote to Inslee requesting to oppose all new taxes including state income tax. Let’s see if he listened to her. Also how in hells bells would Inslee and Brown allow BLM and Antifa Activists to have its own headquarters in Portland and Seattle terrorizing people and vandalizing properties? We need law and order. The legislators should be talk...
To The Eagle: One of our PUD commissioners has started a crusade to bring city water to the folks in Deep River, and wants to dig into the two million dollar reserve fund to get the project going. Manager Dave Tramblie valiantly dug in his heels, gently pointing out that completing the project would be prohibitively expensive. He at least slowed them down to the point of deciding to discuss the matter further, but he’s a short-timer, soon to retire and be replaced by someone unaware of our rich history of water/sewer misadventures. Years a...
To The Eagle: Last week a fellow provided a long list of statistics showing why gun violence was actually rare and mattered very little, at least to him. Here’s a statistic for you from the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers found that having a gun in the home was linked with nearly three times higher odds that someone would be killed at home by a family member or intimate acquaintance. I think much deeper background checks and much longer waiting periods would be helpful in keeping firearms out of the hands of a person who wants t...
To The Eagle: The constant unceasing denigration of our country continues apace. The self-anointed holy among us decry our allegiance to basic American values. They want us to disarm and beg forgiveness from the hateful Left. We Americans are guilty of racism, sexism, and our syrupy America-First beliefs. Did you ever stop to think why so many people hate their own country and a good half of its people? The virtue-signaling gun control cries from a few of our locals and the publisher of this newspaper clearly shows their disregard for our...
To The Eagle: There were some misleading things in your April 22 article "April is Autism Awareness Month." First, demographics. Autism is not a childhood condition. It's lifelong: you don't grow out of it. You just learn to live with it. One in 54 is the current estimate of the percentage of people who are autistic, not the percent of children currently diagnosed. Most autistics (especially older ones) are not diagnosed. (I was diagnosed in adulthood.) Boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed because almost all studies are about boys,...
To The Eagle: In last week’s edition, a fellow wondered why so much ado was made about last year’s 19,370 gun related fatalities. “Cars,” he wrote, “kill more people than guns.” That is sadly true. There were 42,060 vehicular fatalities in 2020. Cars and guns are useful, dangerous tools embedded in our culture. Operating a vehicle is subject to stringent safety laws, and all cars must be registered in a national database. Guns should be also. The federal statute prohibiting a national firearms registry needs to be scrapped. Background...
To The Eagle: Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. What are the biggest threats to democracy? The answer: Complacency and the Big Lie currently being perpetrated upon us by 70% of the Republicans. Not comparing the two people, but Hitler gained his power, by way of the Big Lie, eliminating all voices against him. What is happening to Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney, promin...
To The Eagle: Through the years, guns have been assembled in different ways for different purposes; some evil some good. Even though the 2nd Amendment was ratified in December 1791, there is nothing to add to it for gun control. The gun, whether it is laid upon the table by itself or in a drawer, does not kill. But when an individual picks up a gun, aims and pulls the trigger, that is the killer, not the gun. The killer is what needs control and he/she should be put into prison. For how long in prison depends on whether that individual killed...
To The Eagle: Much ado on these pages when the county commissioners and sheriff reiterated the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Let’s look at the numbers: There are 32,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, U.S. population 324,059,091. So 0.00987% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Let’s break down those 32,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death: • 65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws. • 15% are by law enf...
To The Eagle: I am writing to encourage each person 16 years old and older to receive a Covid vaccine. The vaccines have been shown to be very effective (95-100%) in preventing death and significant complications from Covid as well as preventing Covid altogether in about 85% of people. They have also been carefully studied and underwent similar clinical trials just like other vaccines. The vaccines were able to be produced much more quickly than usual using prior research on similar vaccines and they continue to be monitored for any potential...
