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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: P.O. Box 220, 728Main St., Red Bluff, CA 96080 Facebook: Leave comments at FACEBOOK.COM/ RBDAILYNEWS Twitter: Follow and send tweets to @REDBLUFFNEWS It'stimeforDemocratstostopwhining about the election. Hillary has done a fine job of pretending she has nothing to do with Green Party candi- date Jill Stein's amazingly well-funded (see: Hillary) voting recount campaign in Wiscon- sin, Pennsylvania and everywhere else they usually find amiable election officials. It'sover. They should really stop whining about Russia alleg- edly hacking the e-mails that proved Hillary was colluding with the Democratic National Committee to defeat Bernie Sanders, her team colluded with major media to, ironi- cally, promote Trump as the Republican candidate, and her foundation colluded with co- lossal colluders internationally to enrich herself. Julian Assange has said the email release wasn't a "hack," it was a "leak." The Wikileaks editor-in- chief told Australian broad- caster John Pilger, "The Clin- ton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hys- teria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clin- ton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That's false — we can say that the Russian gov- ernment is not the source." Of course, Assange could be lying to protect his source(s). That's what Democrats would like everyone to think, anyway. This way, Trump would be considered the illegit- imate Russian agent who stole the election by way of Hill- ary's criminal and just plain sleazy behaviors revealed in an equally sleazy manner. See how innocent it makes her? It's kind-of like trying to convince people Barack Obama is not a legitimate President because he was born in Kenya. So much for the Democrats' "when they go low we go high" ground. After all, four leaders of the Democratic National Commit- tee didn't resign over the Ber- nie Sanders scandal simply because they wanted to take some personal time volunteer- ing in soup kitchens. It really is time for the Dem- ocrats to accept the fact that their candidate lost due to her own behaviors and voter dis- trust. Yes, the Russians were likely involved with hacking or leak- ing the e-mails that, no mat- ter the source, proved without a doubt Hillary's sleazy and at times illegal behavior. It also proves the Democrats have no authority to claim any serious concern for cyber security. It's now time to move for- ward. Let the past be past. Learn from their mistakes. Start anew. Cast their eyes to the bright future they see for America. Time for the party to get on with the important business of smearing the President-elect's cabinet picks. Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year- veteran of Goldman Sachs is Trump's pick for Treasury Sec- retary. Definitely a swamp- dwelling insider, unlike Obama's first Treasury Sec- retary, Tim Geithner, a Wall Street and political insider who showed his common touch by failing to pay his taxes. How about a fast food chain executive for Department of Labor? Not exactly the Thomas Perez model, whose new, forced overtime rules guar- antee less opportunity, fewer hours for workers and, oh yeah, was overturned by a fed- eral judge as it"exceeds its del- egated authority." Rex Tillerson is another for example. As the CEO of Exxon- Mobile, he represents every- thing liberal Democrats de- spise: leading a major interna- tional fossil fuel corporation. As Secretary of State, he likely has more serious connec- tions with more foreign leaders than the past couple of Secre- taries, but that doesn't matter. He's a dirty oil man. He has successfully negotiated in- ternational agreements with Vladimir Putin and is a re- cipient of Russia's Order of Friendship for "strengthen- ing cooperation in the energy sector." Democrats would much pre- fer anyone from the Sierra Club, no matter how little they know of foreign affairs. Let's not rehash Hillary's extraordi- nary failures here, either. That wouldn't be fair. We certainly can't have a man who knows how to ne- gotiate with Russians; he must be a Russian Agent, like Trump. So Democrats have been saying. Then there's Kellyanne Con- way, the first woman to man- age a successful presidential campaign. Trump has now chosen her as Presidential Counsel- lor, reiterating what you may have heard on my radio pro- gram: She shattered her own glass ceiling by denying Hill- ary hers. Expect much whining and griping. 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. Rick Jensen 'Tis the season for whining Cartoonist's take Several months ago, while I was futilely promoting the election of our first female President, I reported that The New Yorker ran a very funny satirical piece on Trump in which he was apparently try- ing to quit his run for the Presidency by making crazy remarks, only to find that such comments actually increased his lead with his fanatical fol- lowers. However, a recent let- ters to the editors, in that same illustrious magazine, suggested that the fanciful early jest was not so farfetched after all. The letter writer wrote, "If you look back at the footage of Trump realizing that he might actually be the next President, you will see a man who sud- denly grasps the enormity of his own miscalculation. I don't think that Trump had any in- tention of actually winning; he wanted to rabble-rouse and then move on to his next mon- eymaking venture, which would have capitalized on the lawless- ness and anger that he helped create. Now he must answer to his own rabble. The American population that elected Trump has very real problems and needs a leader to represent it, not a reality-TV star with no ca- pacity for serving others. When a political candidate is allowed and encouraged by his peers to push the hate and racism but- tons for far too long, this is the result: a man who didn't really want the job, representing peo- ple he couldn't care less about. Now he will have to slum it in Washington, answering to his own angry constituents until it becomes apparent to them that they've been duped." Signed Laura Stephan-Corio, New Jer- sey. ••• Speaking of the new admin- istration, we will need more humor in the coming year if we are to survive. A cartoon in The New Yorker depicts a guy taking a snapshot of his wife as she poses in front of one of many carved rock statues of rear ends, and the caption reads "On Keister Island." A little pun, here and there, and we will weather the current political disaster. Of course the Daily News coup on the opin- ion page last Tuesday will help. The DN featured the local col- umnist of that day versus the clever writings of syndicated Will Durst, which neatly nul- lified the ever malicious writ- ings of the former by the lat- ter. Good show, Will. ••• On a cheerier note, be aware that in 2017, the world popula- tion of humankind will hit 7.4 billion. Think of this fact when the new administration makes their move to shut down fam- ily planning facilities. ••• Speaking of populations, the city of Chicago has suffered over 730 homicides this year alone. As brutal and disheart- ening as is this statistic, it is a form of population control is it not? I mean, people get jammed up in big cities, forced to live cheek by jowl, tempers flare, turf control becomes an issue and bang, you're dead. We are awfully glad we don't live in Chicago ••• Food for thought, but not too much. My kindergarten reunion is coming up soon, but I am wor- ried about the 175 pounds I've gained since then. The pharmacist asked me for my birthday date again to- day. I'm pretty sure she's going to give me a gift. The location of your mailbox shows you how far away from your house you can be in your robe before you start looking like a mental patient. ••• Noting the difficulty of the elderly trying to open bottles such as Ensure, which pro- claim themselves "Easy Open- ing" and are not, J. Angelo re- ports he has a special wide mouth tool that he uses in such cases. However, my solu- tion is much more simplistic: I take a hammer, hit the lid sharply on the side and thence on the top, and the recalcitrant lid, yields. ••• B. Cornelius writes, "...any columnist worth a darn writes a year in review column." That statement suggests the past year was worth writing about, that readers needed to be reminded how great or how gross it was. Of Tehama County voters, 65 percent felt vindicated that their groping crass candidate prevailed, whereas 35 percent contemplated suicide or escape to Canada, or at least feared of their future being manipulated by the fellow with the laugh- able hairdo, a questionable business history and a pen- chant for saying the unthink- able. That Trump did not win the popular vote seems to be irrelevant because if you listen long enough, you may under- stand why the Electoral Col- lege vote process continues to prevail. Because of the surprising Republican victory, I found a short interview on PBS of Ralph Nader refreshing and hopefully a way out of the wil- derness. I never thought of him as a worthy candidate over the years but as merely a gadfly who siphoned votes away from candidates who ac- tually had a chance of win- ning. Maybe his recent re- marks can be found on Google or You Tube. If so, his thoughts of why the election of Trump was wrong, and what can be done to right the ship in the next go-around, are worth heeding. ••• Kevin went into a doc- tor's office. The receptionist asked him what he was there for. Kevin said "Shingles." She wrote down his name and told him to have a seat. A nurse came in and asked Kevin what he had. Kevin said, "Shingles." She wrote down his medical history and told him to wait in the examining room. Later, a second nurse came in and asked Kevin what he had. Kevin said, "Shingles." The second nurse gave Kevin a blood test, an electrocar- diogram, and then told him to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor. A doctor finally came in and found Kevin sitting pa- tiently in the nude and asked Kevin what he had. Kevin said, "Shingles." The doctor asked, "Where?" Kevin said, "Outside on the truck." Whereas the photo of his loaded truck accompanied the submitted joke, I think the di- alogue illustrates the folly of simple answers to familiar questions. 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 New Yorker reader assesses Trump election Yes, the Russians were likely involved with hacking or leaking the e-mails that, no matter the source, proved without a doubt Hillary's sleazy and at times illegal behavior. It also proves the Democrats have no authority to claim any serious concern for cyber security. StateandNational Assemblyman James Galla- gher, 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, Sacramento 95814, 916 445-2841, fax 916 558- 3160, governor@governor.ca.gov U.S. Representative Doug La- Malfa, 507 Cannon House Of- fice Building, Washington D.C. 20515, 202 225-3076 U.S. Senator Dianne Fein- stein, One Post St., Ste. 2450, San Francisco 94104, 415 393- 0707, fax 415 393-0710 U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, 1700 Montgomery St., San Fran- cisco 94111, 510 286-8537, fax 202 224-0454 Local Tehama County Supervisors, 527-4655 District 1, Steve Chamblin, 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, Rich- ard Crabtree, 527-2605, Ext. 3061 Corning City Manager, Kris- tina Miller, 824-7033 Your officials OPINION » redbluffdailynews.com Friday, December 30, 2016 » MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS A6