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GregStevens,Publisher Chip Thompson, Editor EDITORIALBOARD How to have your say: Letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. Anonymous letters, open letters to others, pen names and petition-style letters will not be allowed. Letters should be typed and no more than two double-spaced pages or 500words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section will be published. Email: editor@ redbluffdailynews.com Fax: 530-527-9251 Mail to: Daily News 728Main St., Red Bluff, CA 96080 Facebook: Leave comments at FACEBOOK.COM/ RBDAILYNEWS Twitter: Follow and send tweets to @REDBLUFFNEWS Take a breath, America. People are only freaking out because our new president is a Republican. Today,mostAmericans agree Ronald Reagan was one of our greatest, most effec- tive presidents. Back in the 1980s, the press ran editorials and quoted "ex- perts" in news stories explain- ing why Rea- gan was sure to nuke the world. Genesis had a hit song and video, "Land of Confusion," expressing and exploiting these same fears. Instead, Reagan won the cold war and down came the Berlin wall. Genesis broke up, Phil Col- lins went on to a financially rewarding solo career and songwriter Mike Rutherford went on to write arguably some of the best songs of his life. (Yeah, even though I dis- agree with their politics, you can't deny Mike's lyrical and musical brilliance or Phil's technical skills in develop- ing a repetitive build to cre- scendo.) America went on to job growth and economic expan- sion. On January 20th, the Huff- ington Post filled their post- inauguration home page with a giant black font that filled the screen, shrieking, "Trump Gets Nuclear Codes!" Time for a Genesis come- back? Also predictable, which I did because I only make easy predictions, left-wingers are going nuts in the streets, on social media and in many other public places. The party that demanded Trump "accept the outcome" of the election refuses to ac- cept the outcome themselves, smashing windows, burning cars, assaulting police and marching in the street wear- ing costumes representing fe- male genitalia. Oddly, these costumes were featured in parades along with protesters demanding the U.S. become "gender neu- tral." Thousands didn't get the memo. An older woman was es- corted from a plane last week because she was berating peo- ple who voted for Trump, ask- ing the Baltimore travelers if they were there "to protest or celebrate." One of her verbal victims replied that he was in town to "celebrate democ- racy." She, too, was troubled that his vote might have put the nuclear codes in the hands of a Republican. Complaining that the pre- sumed Trump voter sitting in his assigned seat next to her was "in my space," police came and asked her to leave. Passengers applauded her removal from the plane. She seemed genuinely sur- prised that she, the accoster, was escorted out instead of the man who destroyed her world by voting for the candi- date she sincerely fears. During the presidency of George W. Bush, wealthy lib- erals created a nationwide ra- dio syndication they called, "Air America." It was a propaganda ma- chine, though they failed to draw enough listeners to keep it afloat. They did, however, manage to draw the attention of the Secret Service by engaging in "Assassination Chic." The star host of these seg- ments was Randi Rhodes, who created radio skits with gunshot sound effects and crude comments directed at President Bush. Recently, a Kentucky bur- lesque dancer who also worked for an insurance com- pany thought it would be meaningful to request some- one assassinate President Trump. She lost both jobs, her tal- ent agency representation and any possibility of an award for "best use of Twitter." A writer for Saturday Night Live, Katie Rich, thought it would be fun to bully Trump's 10 year-old son, Barron, as a potential serial killer. Rightfully and quite unex- pectedly, SNL suspended Ka- tie. Good to know it's still outre for liberals to target a Presi- dent's child. Still, there is more violence from the left than has ever been performed by the Tea Party. This is to be expected. Fear is rampant, funded and fueled by a number of left-wing or- ganizations, over fifty of them funded by billionaire George Soros, per research by liberal feminist Asra Q. Nomani at the New York Times. You can also expect to read "experts" predicting when Trump will nuke some feared country. How do I know? Flashback to Bush 43, when ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern toured the country, predicting exactly which month(s) Bush would nuke Iran. He was a liberal star, baby. Perhaps some are still fear- fully waiting for his predic- tions to come true. RickJensenisDelaware's award-winning conservative talk show host on WDEL, streaming live on WDEL.com from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. local time. Contact Rick at rick@ wdel.com, or follow him on Twitter @Jensen1150WDEL. Rick Jensen Stop freaking out about Trump Cartoonist's take I have lived in Red Bluff, Te- hama County for most of my life. That much is known to ev- ery reader of this column. In so do- ing I have come to love this place, and, as I tell any- one who will lis- ten, it is the great- est place in the world to do just that: live. I confess not having been in all parts of the world, but have spent time in military bases in the continental U.S. and Alaska, wasted time in Chico thinking that a college degree was essen- tial to making a living and even worked in the rug department at the once prestigious Empo- rium Department Store in San Francisco. In so doing I am em- inently qualified to pass judge- ment on our fair county, and more particularly our fair city of Red Bluff. May I count the ways? The city of my birth, in 1929, was just a small country town of little distinction except for its sheep, cattle, timber and agri- cultural production. Red Bluff counted 3,500 souls within the city limits during the start of the great depression, and was slow to grow in the years there- after. Redding, to the north, was our high school sports ri- val, and somehow that city be- gan promoting itself as the gateway to this and that until today it is the largest city north of Sacramento. Good for them. They like "large." We like "mod- est." We had a head count of only 3,500 when I was a kid and now we note signs when entering our town today indicate we are 14,000 strong, so we are still a small town. We also note on said signs that we support our veterans. Tehama County, by the way, has grown from 14,000 in 1929 to about 64,000 today. Red Bluff may not be the hub of financial activity as far as cit- ies go, but we continue to con- tain the essence of ideal small town living. After hearing much talk of our lack of commercial develop- ment — the closing of Staples, the large and still vacant origi- nal Walmart store, CVS in Belle Mill Landing, and the vacant store fronts in downtown on Main and Walnut — it is easy to predict our further decline in commerce, but I counsel oth- erwise. Small towns are always in a state of flux. Remember, we once had Montgomery Ward, Kmart and Hankins and Povey Motors and Diamond Match. Small is good. Small is inti- mate. Small is recognizing peo- ple on the street or in the post office. Judge Wetter no longer paces the Post Office, but re- tired Judge Noel Watkins is still on the scene. Proprietors of years past such as Al Horn- beck, Elmer Zuckweiler, Al Gau- mer, doctors Doane, Frey and Wood are long gone but their counterparts are alive and pros- pering. I never tire of count- ing the many movers and shak- ers I've met over the years. Or- ville Jacobs, Sterling Jones, his jeweler predecessor Wilkins and Son, insurance men Charlie Dale and Gus Hershey, druggist Bill Norvell, John Brooks, Amp Wolfe, Harold Crego and Bert Durand. And don't forget ice cream connoisseur Frank Falls and grocery store tycoons Wal- ter Wentz and Dave Minch. Enough already. They came, they conquered, they died, but their small town lives on. It lives not with the ghosts of the past but the entrepreneurs of today and tomorrow. So, let's say it again: Red Bluff, in our spacious Tehama County, is the greatest place to live; then, now and in the fu- ture. Just stand back and take in all its charm and grace. I know about these things. ••• As you complain about the bitter cold of this past Janu- ary, I invite you to consider the hands of the workers in the or- chards who are employed to trim the prune trees. They are present at daybreak and how they get their hands to work under such conditions is be- yond me. They also climb tall ladders and have to precari- ously lean out to do their job correctly. And yet I understand there is a current President of this country that would like to restrict entry of these workers into this country. ••• In my appointed title of keeper of the liberal elite fran- chise, I am often confronted by readers of writings of the Tues- day columnist which are ac- companied with the rolling of eyebrows. That he was abso- lutely correct in his prediction that D. Trump would be our next President, it is indeed an occasion to eat crow by those who felt Trump was a con man, pure and simple, and that the American people would see through his facade. However, when said colum- nist employes paragraphs — re- ferring to the plethora of wom- en's marches — such as "...but the facts remains that prof- its derived from killing babies in the womb are essential to supporting said services" and "Supporters, like Planned Par- enthood, a business that par- ticipates in human organ har- vesting and the fetal body parts trade" it would seem that the poor fellow has fallen out of a tree and is once removed from reality. There are obviously those who believe in a woman's right to choose. Those that see oth- erwise with their use of inflam- matory and faulty rhetoric, do us all a great disservice. Here is a remark by Hillary Clinton: "...to make abortion safe, le- gal and rare." With the advent of contraception, "rare" may be the operative word. ••• Several people have stopped by to ask why the Carillion high atop the Cone & Kim- ball Clock Tower no longer pro- claims the time of day and music no longer fills the air? Hands? ••• A Christian fundamentalist was shopping for a pet which adhered to their Christian prin- ciples. They visited a pet shop that specialized in such re- quests. They purchased a dog that could find certain passages in the Bible. When a friend asked if the dog could perform other ordinary feats, and com- manded the dog to "Heel," the dog promptly jumped up, put one paw to the man's head, closed his eyes in concentration and bowed his head. Robert Minch is a lifelong resident of Red Bluff, former columnist for the Corning Daily Observer and Meat Industry magazine and author of the "The Knocking Pen." He can be reached at rminchandmurray@hotmail. com. I say Red Bluff is the greatest place to live Robert Minch Rick Jensen The party that demanded Trump "accept the outcome" of the election refuses to accept the outcome themselves, smashing windows, burning cars, assaulting police and marching in the street wearing costumes representing female genitalia. StateandNational Assemblyman James Gal- lagher, 2060 Talbert Drive, Ste. 110, Chico 95928, 530 895-4217, http://ad03.asmrc. org/ Senator Jim Nielsen, 2634 Forest Ave., Ste. 110, Chico 95928, 530 879-7424, senator.nielsen@senate. ca.gov Governor Jerry Brown, State Capital Building, Sac- ramento 95814, 916 445- 2841, fax 916 558-3160, gov- ernor@governor.ca.gov U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa, 507 Cannon House OfficeBuilding,Washington D.C. 20515, 202 225-3076 U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, One Post St., Ste. 2450, San Francisco 94104, 415 393-0707, fax 415 393- 0710 U.S. Senator Kamala Har- ris, 501 I St., Ste. 7-600, Sac- ramento 95814, 916 448- 2787, fax 202 228-3865 Local Tehama County Supervi- sors, 527-4655 District 1, Steve Chamb- lin, Ext. 3015 District 2, Candy Carlson, Ext. 3014 District 3, Dennis Garton, Ext. 3017 District 4, Bob Williams, Ext. 3018 District 5, Burt Bundy, Ext. 3016 Red Bluff City Manager, Richard Crabtree, 527-2605, Ext. 3061 Corning City Manager, Kristina Miller, 824-7033 Your officials OPINION » redbluffdailynews.com Friday, February 3, 2017 » MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS A6