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6A Daily News – Friday, March 15, 2013 Opinion Condolences DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Greg Stevens, Publisher gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Chip Thompson, Editor editor@redbluffdailynews.com Editorial policy The Daily News opinion is expressed in the editorial. The opinions expressed in columns, letters and cartoons are those of the authors and artists. Letter policy The Daily News welcomes letters 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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Editor: At the risk of being "simple," please have someone more knowledgeable tell me why this administration is giving Egypt a bundle of money? Morsi is a barbaric tyrant, a dictator. Oh. I get it. Never mind. I hope this letter is short enough for the person complaining about how long articles are and by the same people. She knows our views. Well, dear lady, you can jump in and write your opinion, it's still a free country, at least for now. Better hurry. Bernice Cressy, Cottonwood Our water Editor: The Tehama County Board of Supervisors along with the Six County Northern Sacramento Valley Integrated Regional Water Management Plan have stolen our water beneath our feet to give to southern California's 80-year sustainability plan. This would ignore sustainable water for Tehama County. The Tuscan Butte aquifer, with more than 80% being under Tehama County, is now taken by calling it "Conjunctive Water Management Plan." Tehama County residents were chastised at the one and only water meeting held in Red Bluff, for being against this Nongovernment Organization (NGO) The Six County Northern Sacramento Valley Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (NSVIRWMP). By a coincidence, Butte County and Glenn County are set up to pump water south with l0,000-foot wells. Whereas Tuscan Butte aquifer is only in a small portion of Bluff and have seen the good the both counties it would have little bad and ugly and I don't think affect on those two counties but anybody in this county has been they would get the money for our kept up to date on these shenaniwater in Tehama County. When gans that are going on with our this county becomes a dust bowl water supply. I believe that even like Owens Valley, and farming four feet being taken out of that aquifer will change the and ranching as we landscape of our counknow it in Tehama Your ty forever. County is no longer susI know most of the tainable, maybe somelocals know that there body will wake up. are lots of underground By another coincirivers. I think there may dence, a Butte County board member is the head of the not be those rivers if they take our TAC committee for The Six Coun- water from Tuscan Butte. Isn't it ty Northern Sacramento Valley kinda strange that our Board of Integrated Regional Water Man- Supervisors has always said "..our agement Plan, and the chairman of ground water is protected" when the board for the Six County for quite a few years the Fish and Northern Sacramento Valley Inte- Game has been pumping water grated Regional Water Manage- into Mill Creek for the fish and then that water goes south. So ment Plan is from Glenn County. So these two counties — Butte now that Board of Supervisors has and Glenn — have very little of not protected our water, we lose the Tuscan Butte aquifer and our water and we receive no stand to make a lot of money at money in return, as do the two counties in the south. our expense. If anyone wants more informaWest Yost Associates has been in charge of running the NSVIR- tion on this "conjunctive water" WMP meetings and also has con- go to this site: IRWMStrategicPlan@WATE nections with a surface water study done in Butte County. Look R.CA.GOV or call me to answer questions at 527-6915. suspicious to anyone else? Tom Mohler, Red Bluff I'm Tom Mohler, born in Red 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 Rush to judgement In last week's effort we discussed the tragedy of the death of the high school teenager. I suggested that, until convicted, a suspect in our system of justice is presumed innocent until proven guilty. That was apparently too much of a liberal statement for one reader who chastised me, via e mail, stating a suspect had confessed to the horrendous crime and "all the other things show that he is the one who did it." She concluded with "The whole judicial system is corrupted and needs to be fixed…and if it was your kid, you would see it in a different way." As of the time of my writing, I was not aware that the suspect in custody had confessed... in fact, as far as the Daily News of Wednesday is concerned, that is still the case. The suspect has maintained he is not guilty. The police have been very cautious in putting out information, and are still asking the public for help in finding items germane to the crime. Further, even if a confession had been made, which apparently was not the case, many confessions have proven to be fabricated, coerced or emanating from unstable minds… hence the "innocent until proven guilty" codicil to the law. We also question the reader's statement regarding our judicial system being broken. We see no evidence of this. However, there is no question that emotions, in cases like this, can often override one's reason. The DN Tuesday columnist exhibited this trait when writing that the accused had a lengthy rap sheet...and in the columnist's mind, this could be a precursor to the crime of murder. Fortunately, lynching is no longer fashionable in our society. There is little doubt however, that if a child of my own were the victim, my anger would initially take precedent over reason. *** And speaking of last week's effort, K. Simpson of the Richfield Simpsons, sent a letter to the editor in which she responded to my query about the recent opening of the Cowboy Church on Antelope Boulevard. She says the minister wears a baseball cap rather than a Stetson, that services have been held for some time now at the Districty Fairground and that there are Cowboy Churches throughout the United States and at many rodeos each Sunday. Whereas she says I should have researched the subject "rather than bloviating about it as so many of our regular columnists and letter writers do," she nevertheless states Murray Clyde and I would be welcome to attend services at any time. I talked over the invitation with the big dog and he agreed that if ever we were in a church going mood, a Cowboy Church would be high on our list to attend as long as the minister did not bloviate. Murray Clyde smiled and we both chuckled over that. *** A minister went to an asylum to give inmates a moment of solace. Soon after arrival, he ran into an inmate who said he was God. Trying to make light of the matter, the minister said, "If you are the Lord, I would like to ask you how you managed to create the world in 6 days." The inmate answered, "You'll have to forgive me, but I don't like to talk shop." *** In the real estate business, on occasion, attorneys can muddy the waters... or at least delay consummation of sale. Many long time brokers have had experience with the way that some attorneys get answers to last week's quiz by statbetween agents and their clients. In ing that Jimmy Carter had a Siamese cat most cases the attornamed Misty neys are called in to Malarky, Gerald resolve disputes of Ford's pet was title, land surveys or Liberty, a golden distribution of proretriever. Reagan's ceeds in the sale of was Rex, a King real property. In the Charles spaniel, rare instance, where Bill Clinton had a an owner accepts an cat named Socks offer to sell their and George W. property ...and then had a springer dies, the whole scespaniel named nario changes. Next Robert Millie. of kin contact attorThis week's neys to handle proquiz: 100 years bate, and the commuago the top 4 popnication channels dry ular songs were up while everything is When Irish Eyes being sorted out. are Smiling, And, if a workman is hired to do repairs on a property, When I Lost You, Peg o' My Heart and the contracting owner dies, and You Made me Love You. Who then the worker's claim can lan- wrote them? *** guish during the drawn out terms A young man took a woman to of probate which can last for months. That said, attorneys are his hotel room for some dalliance. employed by their clients and ulti- At one point he turned on the mately protect all connected with water to the bathtub...and then forreal estate transactions, so we are got to turn it off until it ran over the beholden to those who are most edge and on the floor. Soon a tenant below called and loudly and diligent. profanely complained. The young *** The radio in my pickup allows man was shocked and shouted, me to also play Books on Tape cas- "Do not use that language with settes. However, if I forget to me, sir, there is a lady in my punch the right button I get FM sta- room!" The tenant below responded, tion 81.1…and if I don't change it quickly, I am treated to a mini ser- "What do you think I've got down mon. However I was pleased to get here, a duck?" in on a portion of the program Robert Minch is a lifelong devoted (no pun intended) to a bible quiz. 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