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Article missed point

of senior pageant

After reading your June 5 article regarding the Ms. New Jersey Senior America Pageant, "It's no Miss America," I was left wondering if your reporter had any idea what she was reporting on.

The article was condescending and degrading to the women in that pageant. It seemed to just compare the two pageants as opposed to reporting on it.

There is no mention of what these women have accomplished in their lives, nor what they do the rest of year.

The Cameo Club goes all over the state of New Jersey performing in veterans home and senior homes. Instead, you thought it necessary to point out their wrinkles and how they walk.

Nice job ... .

STEPHEN D. LELLI

Royal Oak, Mich.

Animal cruelty

deserves jail

Regarding the June 16 story, "Police seek driver in dragging of dog," about the horrific animal-cruelty act in Vineland:

As a society, we cannot ignore the animal abuse, cruelty and neglect that continues. I support the absolute maximum penalty for the person responsible for such barbaric, stupid behavior.

This means a jail term, a significant amount of time incarcerated.

It is necessary to respond strongly in cases of animal cruelty. The message must be that there will be justice for the animals and pets. It is well documented that animal abuse is associated with incidents of domestic violence and other aggressive, criminal and violent behavior toward people. The person or people who perpetrated this vicious dragging must be identified and vigorously prosecuted. Any person capable of causing such calculated pain to a living creature poses a definite danger to other animals and to humans.

PHYLLIS HOMME KANARKOWSKI

Ocean City

Bush, not Obama,

demeaned U.S.

Charles Krauthammer's June 14 column, "Obama demeans U.S. to win applause on Muslim tour," couldn't have gotten things more upside down.

Start with his statement, "A CIA rent-a-mob 56 years ago does not balance the hostage taking."

Our CIA overthrew a democratically elected government to re-establish the Peacock Throw and install the Shah of Iran. In the 1960s and 1970s we got cheap oil and sold him, in return, all sorts of expensive military hardware. But then the shah's secret police started abducting and torturing people in the name of security. That ended in revolution, as it usually does.

What demeans the United States is false information provided to the United Nations, televised worldwide by our CIA and the Bush administration to justify a war against those uninvolved with 9/11. The tortures at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, done secretly by the CIA, demean us. It demeaned America when the CIA secretly sold weapons to Iran to fund an illegal and off-budget guerrilla war in Central America in the 1990s. Then there was the CIA's almost comical Bay of Pigs "invasion" of Cuba in the 1960s, complete with exploding cigars. It would have been funny if the policy didn't keep Cuban families separated for more than 50 years.

These acts demean America, not a president working to establish understanding and dialogue within other countries by talking to their people as much as to their respective governments.

After George W. Bush, a tone of humility in our voice will not hurt America's reputation in the world.

BOB FILIPCZAK

Linwood

4 comments:

• Yugocif (92) posts 2:03 pm

  Toady fat asks what is a Peacock Throw - it is a throw pillow. What was probably meant was Peacock Throne. It is too close of a call as to whom to blame for the error in the letter; the editors of the Press or the poor yet boring history education under Byrd and Schaeffer.

• roller137 (205) posts 1:20 pm

  Sounds like someones been having a red T-shirt day. I guess everyone forgets the Carter years? dont worry though, they're baaaaack!!!

• todfiat (0) posts 11:54 am

  What about Bob? Did young Filpczak learn nothing of postwar history from Mr. Byrd and Mr. Schaeffer at MRHS? He was studious, no doubt. What is a Peacock Throw, BTW? Oh, those poor misunderstood Iranians, so many sites to car-bomb, so little time. Their "Religion of Piece" wants a piece of you, either to cut your head off or to ransom you. It's their option. Heads or tails? In time you'll get over your disillusionment, Bob. Wait'll all those flags start flapping in the July 4th breeze along Shore Road by your house, Bob, then you can write a letter of apology to the CIA, and copy the Press editor, too. It was called the COLD WAR for a reason. Thank you, CIA. Long may it wave.

• njdlmkr (309) posts 7:19 am

  So Bob wants to "establish understanding and dialogue" ... great. While Iran is imploding and North Korea is going nuclear, Bob and Barry O will go over there and sit and talk with them. I'll put in a couple of bucks to help pay for your flight over there.

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