Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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To The Eagle: The assault upon the seat of our government last Wednesday was an insurrection of the affluent. As key figures who invaded the Capitol have been steadily identified over the last five or six days, it’s remarkable how many had traveled from upscale zip codes. Trump’s insurgents could afford to fly in to join the rebellion. That explains a lot. It explains why the Republican Party, locked in its long downward moral spiral, lost its mind when America elected its first Black president. It explains why so many people look for con...
To The Eagle: It is troubling to see how divided we've become as a society over this past year. One half of America was trashing the Federal Courthouse in Portland six months ago because of one man's actions, and now the other half has trashed the U.S. Capitol because of one man's words. People have been killed over the mask issue. Careers, friendships, and reputations have been ruined over the election issue. Even our little community hasn't been spared the gall of divisiveness, if the war of words on these pages is anything to go by. We've...
To The Eagle: I emailed to The Longview Daily News to cancel my subscription. They replied back with the cancellation notice signed by a person with its “business card,” a circulation rep from the Mid-Valley Media Group, the Democrat Herald/Gazette-Times/Lebanon Express. No wonder, it’s a democrat newspaper and would only praise themselves but criticize the republicans, conservatives, independents and patriots with propaganda and bias. President Trump promised an orderly transition on Jan. 20. He stated: “Even though I totally disagree with th...
To The Eagle: Last week we were treated to a ponderous editorial political polemic based on the elemental journalistic principle “size matters” (18½ inches). In counterpoint, here’s a more modest factoid collection: The insurrection-style violence at the capitol was planned three weeks in advance on social media. The FBI knew about it and notified other agencies including the Capitol and D.C. Metro Police, who were nonetheless unprepared. Antifa and BLM types apparently lead the charge, and one, John Sullivan, was taped describing his Trump...
To The Eagle: I can understand why the editor has tired of political fiction. A recently published letter promoting the thoroughly disproved electoral fraud conspiracy is a prime example. Repeating over and over again that 2 + 2 = 5 will never make it so, regardless of President Trump’s hopeless arithmetic. Let’s get back to the real world now, shall we? Grace Ling Puget Island...
We lost two more this week. Subscribers, that is, upset with my choice to run articles from the Associated Press detailing the lies and deceitful statements of President Donald Trump and his supporters. We saw the results of those lies last week with the attack on Congress as both houses gathered to certify the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The nation’s Capitol was desecrated. Five people died, including a member of the Capitol Police. Senators and representatives fled or hid. The Secret Service whisked Vice-President Mike Pence t...
To The Eagle: The November election brought out record numbers who made their choice known. Biden-Harris won decisively. Biden said he’d be inclusive in his term, which I hope he can be, to get away from the sharp divide. Will, we the people, give peace a chance? That’s to be seen; 2021 isn’t off to a good start on that! The election brought out all sorts of Democracy deniers, claiming fraud, cheating, and the biggest lie of stolen election. A short time ago, I wrote here, warning of people believing The Big Lie, same as what brought Hitle...
To The Eagle: For years I purchased my prescription drugs from our Cathlamet pharmacy, obviously a local business. When I went to fill a prescription last week, the pharmacist warned me that our Cathlamet pharmacy was no longer considered eligible for the coupon that reduced drug prices and that my prescription was now approximately 10 times more than before. Apparently, our pharmacy does not bring in enough money for “corporate” and is considered “too small and insignificant” for a courtesy that it continues to extend to vendors like WalMart...
To The Eagle: I saw a movie where Comrades greeted each other saying "May the force be with you." Comrades in our government must have seen it too. But their greeting is now "May the purge be with you." I seem to recall hearing about other governments where the words Comrade and purge were used a lot. Gilbert Vik Puget Island...
To The Eagle: My, how quickly things change. For the past four years, McConnell, Graham, Cruz and many other politicos have been waxing poetic about Donald Trump. Of a sudden it seems, fueled by what appears to have been a botched coup attempt or at best a rebellious bunch of spoiled children trying for insurrection, the game changed. The gentlemen mentioned above turned around so quickly that if they were tigers, their black stripes would be lying in the dust behind them leaving their true color. American politics are a barrel of laughs for a...
To The Eagle: There is goodness and beauty all around us, yet we grow accustomed to it and sometimes fail to notice or feel gratitude. That is why I wish to extend my thanks to The Wahkiakum County Eagle for setting aside a full page each January to share poetry written by the residents of this community. The annual poetry corner invites all of us to take a break from the discord and unrest in the world and redirect our focus. It gives us an opportunity to find commonality, to see that we are not that different from each other. It lifted my...
To The Eagle: Miracles abound in Wahkiakum County. My wife and I got our Coronavirus vaccine shots on January 11, 2021, one year to the day after the first covid death was reported by China, and 10 days prior to the anniversary of the first reported case in this country, in Washington, on January 21. Our shots were administered by Wahkiakum HHS. Our doctor at PeaceHealth in Longview observed that they are still two weeks away from even making lists of civilians to be vaccinated, and most other states and counties are even further behind. Could...
To The Eagle: Enough! If anyone wrote a book five years ago about a political scene as exists now, no one would publish it as it would be considered unbelievable. Plus today all parties have a different view of what is happening. We just had an an election, so let’s concentrate locally to change our quality of living in Wahkiakum County. Wahkiakum is not getting the support for a small rural county it deserves. And this includes all parties at all levels. Wahkiakum County needs to work ardently to change this. The county is beautiful and f...
To The Eagle: According to the Scottish thesaurus, highlanders have 421 words to describe snow. You’d think we’d have quite a few words for rain but apparently one word is enough for the likes of us. We just add a lot of adjectives in front of it, few of which should be uttered in polite company. The Farmer’s Almanac is full of interesting folklore regarding the weather, little of which is based upon science and much of which invokes fanciful fictions. Hereabouts lately, the rate of precipitation is indeed approaching the realm of scien...
To The Eagle: I find it interesting but unsurprising that all the local, state and national election down ballot victories achieved by GOP candidates remain uncontested, as well as apparently immune to all those cheating election officials, fraudulent voters and persnickety voting machines. I’ll bet there were lots of mailed in ballots that all passed their signature checks with flying colors, with nary a recount needed. Funny how that all works out. Especially if you’re a Republican voter. Must be a conspiracy. Just shameful, isn’t it? Grace...
To The Eagle: We hold these truths to be self evident: That Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016 and proceeded to restore the economy, improved the lives of people in almost every racial and social demographic, raising both employment and income, got us out of foreign wars, slowed illegal immigration, enhanced the military and police, made us energy independent, and negotiated peace in the Middle East. All this was achieved without support of, and with active betrayal by, the shiny-shoe Republicans in D.C. and the direct enmity of the...
To The Eagle: Dear Mr. Nelson, I appreciate all the work you do as editor of The Wahkiakum County Eagle. I would like to ask you to reconsider your decision of not publishing letters that contain “fiction.” I believe it is valuable for each of us to have the opportunity of reading and judging for ourselves all the different points of view in the paper. I feel that it is important for everyone’s opinion, even an opinion based on false facts, to have a chance to be read. I would like to suggest that you publish the objectionable letters and i...
To The Eagle: In the 1933 German federal election, Hitler’s party captured only 43% of the vote despite massive violence and voter intimidation by the Nazis, but it was enough to slink into power and legislate the Enabling Acts which accorded Der Fuhrer dictatorial status. Seventy two million citizens, 47% of the voting population, recently failed in their bid to re-elect a clearly authoritarian sociopath who’d also failed, so far, to find a way to pass his own version of the Enabling Acts and continue our transformation into the Con...
To The Eagle: I recently read about our government slush fund. I don't know how many of your readers know about this so I thought I'd enlighten them. Here is where some of our money is going: 10 m. to Pakistan for gender studies; 300 m. to the carribean to study how many fish are in the sea; 506 m. to Central America for corruption (don't know if that’s for or against it); 500 m. to build a wall between Jordan and Syria; 1.3 billion to Egypt to buy weapons. These are pretty hard core. Now for some–levity? 1.3 m. to study if Americans would eat...
To The Eagle: Let me get this straight. The social media are not allowing you or me to say the word fraud on their platforms, but they are allowing themselves to perpetrate fraud on said platform? Gilbert Vik Puget Island...
To The Eagle: Shall we take a step back in history when a certain Roman emperor fiddled while Rome burned? Nah...what could we possibly learn from that! James Roberts Cathlamet...
I hate to do this, especially in what should be a celebratory week, but this week, I'm going to toughen our standards for letters to the editor and refuse to print a letter that appears to be largely fiction. The writer repeats debunked claims that the US presidential election was rigged and goes from there. The electoral college has done its thing: Joe Biden, Jr., has been elected president and Kamala Harris vice-president. Lawsuits challenging election results have been thrown out of court for lack of merit and evidence. An article in this...
To The Eagle: Eagle Cliffs Distillery, maker of Exalt Vodka, will cease operations effective Dec. 31. We ceased production of our high quality potato vodka and will sell as much stock as possible. Interested consumers and liquor licensees may call the distillery for special offers through the end of the month. Consumers may continue to buy Exalt Vodka after Dec. 31 from both Cowlitz Co. liquor stores until supplies run out. One is located in the Triangle Shopping Mall, the other on Ocean Beach Highway across from Walmart. The distillery,...
To The Eagle: A recent letter was rife with silly misinformation soured by a preening arrogance, sneering at anyone who “has a problem” with those who refuse to wear a mask during this epidemic. That author’s proud declaration “I don’t know squat and I’m independent” speaks volumes. Here’s my opinion on why folks who refuse to wear face masks in public venues are indeed a problem for the rest of us. We are being urged to diligently wear facial coverings and maintain distance not merely because someone might cough in our face. Covid has prove...
To The Eagle: As a loyal reader of The Wahkiakum Eagle's Sheriff's Report, I am seeing an increase in incidences of people locking their keys in their vehicles then calling 911. On the face of it, this seems like a trivial misuse of emergency services during a time of global pandemic, but if you look more closely, you see the beginnings of a social movement. This bold act of environmental activism could quite possibly stem the rise of global sea levels and lessen our dependence on foreign goods and oil. As a symbol, the act is electrifying. No...
