The author wrote this letter to several elected representatives, including Sen. Becca White (D-Windsor). In an earlier draft VDC mistakenly construed the recipient of the letter as Rep. Becca Balint. Our apologies to all concerned.
Your efforts to “protect” the environment are what is pathetic. You are speaking like the elite who mistakenly think they are smarter than the people they “represent.” Your comment reveals exactly what we all know you are, Becca: an arrogant know-nothing who thinks she knows best. You joy in picking winners (large corporations) and losers – small hard working business owners in Vermont, and pricing people who grew up here out of their homes and their state.
All your work on the environment has added up to exactly nothing except to hurt us all financially. You don’t put effort into things you should be working on: getting the teachers’ pensions under control or getting rid of overspending on programs that don’t work. Working on getting the crime problem under control. Working on getting some housing in this state to control the housing costs so our poor precious youth have half a chance at getting a home of their own.
We are all living in hell because Democrats and Progs have no clue how to come up with policies that would bring crime down and get housing costs under control. Why? Because Dems and Progs don’t know what unsustainable means and they can’t do math. They also make crime policies based on feelings instead of using their brains. We are doomed.
And now what do you do? Work on getting safe injection sites that failed in Oregon. And we follow California’s policies on the environment – again – a state that is failing miserably.
Go home Becca – we’ll all be so much better off. Aren’t you the one who made a fool out of yourself going on a morning radio program and bragged about getting an expensive, and in my view, immoral electric car while trying to convince all of us the legislature needs to have their salaries doubled?
I wonder how many children died making your car, Becca. Do you care about them? No – you want to pat yourself on the back, not caring that children as young as four years old are digging up your precious toxic materials so you can drive around in your immoral car. They are dying making your immoral car. They have to live their lives looking at stripped land instead of looking at the trees and fields you look at every day so you can have your immoral car.
Shame on you. And don’t you dare ever say Black Lives Matter to you because they don’t!
I won’t keep anything to myself. Most of our horrible VT media has their heads up the dems and progs butts so you aren’t ever challenged. However when the truth is told about how horrible you all are you can’t handle it. Your thin-skinned asinine comment proves it! Guess what – it is your job to have to listen to us. You work for us.
And here is another problem you all should deal with – Sarah George – who admits she makes it her mission to not prosecute crime. And we all wonder why we are living in hell.
Maybe you all could spend your time figuring out how to get around this idiot so we could be safe for a change instead of making it your mission to price us out of our state. – Karen Rowell, Burlington
Epiphany on Jan. 6
The day of Epiphany, January 6, is reputedly the day when the three wise men arrived at Bethlehem to see their God. This makes sense since Jesus was probably born in the fall, when the shepherds were still out there with flocks, just before winter set in. And it’s known that the Kings arrived a bit later on.
The word “Epiphany” involves a confrontation with God – that’s what it is. The wise men were no vain imagining. They happened. But such a confrontation also implies and must involve the present time, rendering distant abstractions rather irrelevant.
In other words, how we deal with the present is what matters in life. Have we sincerely received Christ as our Savior? Have we confronted the realities of our time, or instead have we embraced that mean, almost universal head-in-sand attitude?
A very cogent example is Covid. One can read RFK Jr’s extraordinarily well-documented book The Real Anthony Fauci and then realize why most of the good medical doctors in the US have by now been compelled to resign, to cash in their chips, their shoes being latterly filled by the numerous more shabby professionals trained to be quite willing to compromise ideals, to “go along to get along”.
Billionaire Fauci loves to quip that his favorite quote is from the film The Godfather: “It’s not anything personal. It’s business”. That says it all, about that man, and about the likes of his crony Bill Gates, who is wanted in India for crimes against humanity. Have we done anything about the situation in our own nation?
We have created a society in which those who favor and advocate the truth in real life, just as Jesus did, rather than only in abstract ivory towers, are sneeringly, mockingly persecuted as “Truthers” by the shamestream media and by censorship. If any clumsy, simple-minded two million bannered Patriot truthers happened to have left their hearthfires, their lands and their houses behind, risking everything to visit Washington DC three years ago on what they assumed was a protesting errand no one else would even bother to do, they were persecuted, crucified, framed as “insurrectionists”, due to their disgust with Mike Silver-Pence and with the very rude Capitol police outside the Capitol (note Patriots’ deeply respectful and quiet deportment once inside the building).
Did you know the police ordered the medics to keep their distance and not to treat those who were dying from heart attacks after having fatal bombs thrown at them by the police?? (I was there.) – Jay Iselin, East Lyndon – musician, writer, and longtime resident of the Northeast Kingdom.
Hamas, Sharia law drives Hamas
By August, Hamas will have been virtually destroyed, but Israel’s war on terror continues as a tragic Sisyphean cycle since an idea can never be vanquished. So it is with the diabolic Islamic designs gathered against the tiny Jewish nation.
It is not widely known that Islamic law forbids an infidel ( Jew, Christian, Hindi, Pagan) or unbelieving government to rule over a “waqf,” or Muslim land. It is one of the many inexhaustible principles behind this territorial conflict. Palestine, according to Islam’s Sharia Law, is an Islamic possession, a Waqf. So it is important to understand what ‘Waqf’ means.
According to Islamic literature, a Waqf is a real estate or property endowed and dedicated ‘in the name of Allah.’ Waqf: Its basic operational structure – In Focus (wief.org) It is a religious act, an obligation, a charity, and like most things Islamic, a Waqf is a good thing, but not for the infidel.
In his 2003 book Onward Muslim Soldiers, Robert Spencer writes, “If Israel occupies part of the Dar al-Islam-the House of Islam-then it cannot by rights house a non-Muslim majority. It is not enough for Israel to set aside land for a Palestinian state; in the radical view, Israel must be subsumed within–and the Jews subjugated to–an Islamic state.”
The non-Islamic world does not, of course, practice Sharia Law, a theocratic-based legal system. So, it may seem as alien to us Westerners as Japan’s Shinto religion did during WWII, when Nippon warlords nationalized that doctrine.
The building of a cemetery, a school, a hospital, or a mosque are examples of waqfs being “accumulated funds for Allah’s cause.’ The act or practice of giving, and not the property itself, brings a Muslim eternal award. However, ownership rights are terminated once a property is transferred into Waqf, and according to Sharia Law, Palestine belongs to Muslims. The giver and the state can never change the Waqf status as it is now “inalienable, irrevocable and to continue in perpetuity.”
Ergo, according to Sharia, Jews have no legal or nationalist rights in Palestine, and never will.
The Doctrine of Hamas decrees, “It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror.” Article 15 of The Hamas Charter states: “The day that enemies usurp Muslim law and, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Muslim. In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.”
According to Jonathan Schanzer’s book Gaza Conflict 2021, “Historically, Israel has endeavored to simply beat back Iran’s proxies through brief but painful wars when provoked… Israel always walked away bloodied but intact. However, Tehran never paid a price…The people who were fighting and dying were Palestinian and Lebanese not Iranian.”
All of that may change this year when Iran finally tires of the well-placed Israeli bombs and cyber espionage hacking away at and delaying their atomic designs. But Israel is not capable, considering its minuscule geography, of absorbing a full-scale pre-emptive strike from Iran, and certainly not a Tehran A-Bomb.
Israel may risk good lives and bad press when PM Netanyahu chooses again to target Iran’s underground nuclear plants. – Peter Fernandez, Northfield