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6A Daily News ��� Friday, March 1, 2013 Opinion Compromise Editor: Good morning Republicans. AILY EWS Good morning Tea Party members. Have you had your cup of tea yet? Did you read the tea leaves? Did they tell you that your stand on sequestration could lead to castration of your party? If not, why not? A little common sense should tell you that most Americans know Greg Stevens, Publisher that the solution to the sequestration problem is compromise. gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Yes, we need to rein in the deficit, but we also need additional revenue to balance the budget. No Chip Thompson, Editor budget ��� personal, business or editor@redbluffdailynews.com government ��� can be balanced with expense reduction alone. All budgets have two sides? expenses and income. Editorial policy Compromise is possible. The Daily News opinion is Democrats need to analyze careexpressed in the editorial. The fully where spending can be cut without destroying essential proopinions expressed in columns, grams. They should know that letters and cartoons are those there is waste and excess in many current programs. Find it, elimiof the authors and artists. nate it. A boning knife is needed, not a meat cleaver. A meat cleaver Letter policy approach can only destroy our The Daily News welcomes let- recovering economy. Republicans need to realize that their current ters from its readers on timely topics of public interest. All 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 cannot exceed two double-spaced pages or 500 words. When several letters address the same issue, a cross section of those submitted will be considered for publication. Letters will be edited. Letters are published at the discretion of the editor. 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He's entitled, he's the president. He's been re-elected but continues to avoid his responsibilities he was elected to do. He's running around spouting lies and more lies to scare people. I guess we don't have enough to worry about. I heard a perfect analogy of why he does this. If he flits around nothing sticks to him. It's Congress who has failed, it's this with we civilian workers. I can or that that has failed. Not him. It costs the taxpayer $150,000 hear them screaming now. I personally know someone, an hour to fly Air Force One, if a state worker for six they do two as I've years, gets 5 weeks heard they do, double Your vacation, is on sick that. Not a problem for leave now and will be him. Then all the scare for another tactics, we'll have no month. He's furpolice, no emergency loughed three days a personnel, teachers will be furloughed, on and on. What week, but gets $1,000 a month about the $130,000 for a study overtime. In this state that's usual on herbs that is in the budget? and customary. Look at all those Cut that, Mr. President, get your workers who didn't take vacapencil out, line-item like you tions or sick days for years, said you would and cut accumulated hundreds of thouit. Remember that, Mr. Presi- sands of dollars which they coldent? There's so much trash in lected, which is not allowed by the federal budget, we hear about the way, when they retired. And it but nothing is done about it. it goes on and on. I wonder what it would be Our congress is absolutely worthless, they should all be like if our leaders were truly profired. We borrow money to fund fessionals, courteous, and truly these ridiculous and stupid pro- working for the good of our grams voted for by ridiculous country. That's the way it's suppose to work. Thanks partly to and stupid people. I heard Rand Paul speak this president, we're a racist and today about how he cut $600,000 divided country, and when I say from his budget which was sev- racist, I mean white people are eral million, and did it by not re- subjected to it too, not just the hiring people who retired, cut- black people. So much time to do so little. ting office expenditures, etc. He also thinks federal workers��� pay On and on. Bernice Cressy, Cottonwood and benefits should be in line Turn Your officials STATE ASSEMBLYMAN ��� Dan Logue, 1550 Humboldt Road, Ste. 4, Chico, CA 95928, 530-895-4217 STATE SENATOR ��� Jim Nielsen, 280 Hemsted Dr., Ste. 110, Redding, CA 96002, 530223-6300, Fax: 530-223-6737, senator.nielsen@senate.ca.gov GOVERNOR ��� Jerry Brown, State Capitol Bldg., Sacramento, CA 95814; (916) 445-2841; Fax (916) 5583160; E-mail: governor@governor.ca.gov. U.S. REPRESENTATIVE ��� Doug LaMalfa 506 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, 202-2253076. U.S. SENATORS ��� Dianne Feinstein (D), One Post Street, Suite 2450, San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 393-0707. Fax (415) 3930710. Barbara Boxer (D), 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94111; (510) 286-8537. Fax (202) 224-0454. Commentary Happy Trails A long shuttered commercial building on Antelope Boulevard now sports signage proclaiming it a church. Not just any church, but a ���Cowboy Church.��� This is a first in my book. There are, of course, many variations on the theme of salvation. I wouldn���t know Episcopalian from Greek Orthodoxy, but there are certainly, when it comes to worship, different strokes for different folks. However, a religion appealing to folks who favor western attire is really a novelty. Q. Does the minister wear a Stetson when conducting services, or perhaps some more conventional religious headgear? Are parishioners allowed to wear cowboy hats during the services or must they park them at the door? Boots and spurs optional? Can ranch hands take their herd dogs with them while in attendance? It is accepted ritual during the Red Bluff Round-Up season to have Cowboy Golf Tournaments, but this new church appears to be a year ���round event. I hope we can get some feedback on this intriguing subject. *** Speaking of religion, I spotted a car in the Walmart parking lot with two bumper strippers: ���Jesus Died for Your Sins��� and ���Exercise Daily.��� So, we have admonitions for both body and soul, which apparently covers all bases. *** I recently lost my glasses in or about Lassen Medical. After a week, I was about to order new ones even though they cost an arm and a leg. However, a call from a Good Samaritan resulted in my retrieving them. It was fortunate that my name and phone number were on the glass case in red letters. I would urge all the elderly and careless to do the same. *** And speaking of getting old and losing things, etc., did you know that there are currently 70,500 people 100 years old or older in the U.S... and that the projected number in 2050 will be 600,000 at which time I would be 120 and still writing for the DN...assuming the newspaper is still around, of course. *** Sometime back, a disgruntled wannabe reporter and columnist berated our splendid former Sports Editor Rich Greene. Not taking the insult lightly, the latter replied he had been told by many people in the business that the unknown. *** fellow was an A..hole. It was a fitting retort Gavin Newsom, was once mayor of San and the reader has yet to get over the tag. So when I saw an ad In the New Yorker for a new Francisco and in his element as a dapper handbook titled, ���A..holes��� by Aaron James, I felt some man about town even surviving a scandal when it was revealed he slept with the that particular shoe really fits. The wife of his campaign managbook indentifies those er. He was re-elected with deserving the title in five 70% of the vote, for S.F. is a ways: Being totally self cosmopolitan city with a live absorbed, ignoring rules as and let live attitude. Now the though they don���t apply to charismatic Gavin is lt. govthem, believing anything ernor of California and doesthey want is morally justified n���t look anything physically by who they are, able to drive like his boss Jerry Brown. It otherwise coolheaded people will be interesting if, in the to fits of rage and display future ,Gavin decides to run these traits reliably and conRobert for the top spot. sistently. Yes, that���s our boy. *** *** Last week���s quiz was first Sources say the CVS answered correctly by S. Pharmacy will move and be Rodriquez who knew that open for business at 455 S. the oldest ski resort in the Main St. on the 7th of April. Sierras is Badger Pass, the The new building is already pleasing to the eye and well landscaped. It will highest base lodge at Mt. Rose, and the invencertainly bolster sales activity in that area. As tor of the snowboard is Tom Sims. This week���s quiz: Regarding the famous old timers may recall, my father built a Case Implement and General Electric store on that movie, ���The Dirty Dozen,��� directed by Robert site soon after the ending of WW II. However, Aldrich, name at least four of the actors in I still don���t understand why the company calls same, did the space ship in ���2001: A Space itself by those initials. IBM, for International Odyssey��� have a name, and what was gunBusiness Machines, is understandable...but fighter Doc Holliday���s given name? *** CVS just doesn���t seem to convey what prodDuring spring training, this horse, I believe ucts they sell. However, the amount they paid for the former building, and the demolition his name was Ed, ambled over to the manager costs that followed, suggests they are making of the team and said he wanted to try out for the team. Desperately in need of good players, money even under a questionable name. the manager gave him a shot. He gave Ed a bat *** We don���t usually promote other firms, espe- and the horse hit the first pitches out of the cially if they deal in the vagaries of computers park. The manager perked up at this, gave him and computer repair, but we can heartedly rec- a glove and hit him a few grounders. Ed didn���t ommend Michael Robertson and his A + miss a one. Now, really excited, the manager Computer Pros shop at 562 Antelope Blvd. said, ���All right, Ed, get on first base and we���ll You can tell he knows his business for the see how fast you can run!��� The horse answered. ���Who can run? If I rapidity of his diagnose of problems. And he should know what he is talking about for he could run I���d be in the Kentucky Derby!��� worked for 20 years for firms such as IBM, Robert Minch is a lifelong resident of Red Motorola, Honeywell Space Systems as an Bluff, former columnist for the Corning Daily advisor to astronauts. Observer and Meat Industry magazine and *** ���On the sixth day, God created man. On the author of the ���The Knocking Pen.��� He can be seventh day, man returned the favor.��� Author reached at rminchandmurray@hotmail.com. Minch I Say