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Party of denial

Editor:

A favorite tactic of totalitarian political systems is to deny the obvious. In this case, the Democratic Party and its leadership continue to tell Americans not to believe their lying eyes and ears. Parents are told that CRT is not being taught in their schools even though at school board meetings they learn about all the hateful, divisive, racist tenets of CRT that are part of their children’s curriculum. And when state legislators try to ban CRT from school curriculums, they are fiercely opposed by teachers unions for something that supposedly doesn’t exist.

According to the president, inflation is not serious and will soon go away, except in the meantime, cost of basic necessities are up by 25% or more. Not to worry though, a multitrillion-dollar spending bill will somehow reduce inflation instead of actually increasing it.

Increasing violence in cities is really not a problem and not the result of decreasing police forces but simply overstated and over reported.

The shameful retreat from Afghanistan was a huge success according to President Biden, even though images of Afghans desperately clinging to departing planes and American soldiers being murdered was not relevant.

There is no border crisis even though close to 2 million illegals will have crossed our southern border this year.

We now have an administration who cannot be trusted and willing accomplices in the liberal media who will never hold them accountable.

Igor Shpudejko Goodyear

Parlor music

Editor:

To the young man who dropped his car engine on Sundance Park Way: I have retrieved a piece of that engine and I’m hoping it’s a key piece of the engine because you are not getting it back.

There are many residents living in this retirement community who are tired of wearing earplugs. We don’t all wear hearing aids. The motorcycles and cars that you soup up to impress your captive audience have jolted us out of bed many, too many times to count but we are not impressed.

The ear-spitting problem on Sundance Parkway has always been a problem, but since the pandemic, it has really taken on a malicious note of intent.

I saw you wearing a mask and it wasn’t for the pandemic. It was to protect yourself from all the gas fumes.

The ex-Marines and women who can still throw a mean spitball ready to defend our neighborhood and put a stop on “The Road Warrior” movie you think you are making.

Now here is how it’s going down. Some of us will be out in the open the smaller and older residences will be hiding in the bushes all armed with eggs. It won’t be pretty but don’t think you can just accidentally run over any of us.

Some of our children are in law enforcement.

I won’t end this information on a funny note. I am all laughed out seeing your car engine in the street.

Vickie J. Chelini Buckeye Just head to Cuba

Editor:

The espousal propagated by the Marxists is a diatribe of ideology purporting truth but in essence demonstrates it never works. Look at Venezuela and Zimbabwe as two perfect examples of what equity defines. Both countries were exporting goods that caused them to flourish.

MARGULIES’ OPINION — jimmymargulies.com

But because rulers that believe that socialistic equity was the way to go. Venezuela raised taxes to run social programs promoting socialist equity with swelling promises of a greater life. Soon those who were working and paying the overwhelming taxes could no longer support government spending.

Producers of goods had to abandon their businesses because the economy faltered. Inflation blossomed to levels where their dollars were printed in the tens of thousands and worth a U.S. penny.

Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe took all farm property away from the British promoting socialist equity and made them the people’s farms. Soon the farms became idle. No one was able to repair the machinery used for planting and harvesting.

So it sat and rusted. Their currency rapidly became worthless because of inflation. Their currency inflated to the point they were printing bills that were in the billions of dollars. It is virtually worthless. For a U.S. dime, I bought a Z$40 billion and $1 billion note as a souvenir when I was in Zimbabwe. So, you can see the consequences of government spending by printing more money to pay for these grandiose promises of building a better life.

You will not find CRT in school programs, but you will find socialistic equity being taught and CRT is a part of equity. I would recommend that anyone who wants to flee socialistic countries like Cuba can come to America and those that want to live under socialism can go to Cuba.

Les Armstrong Goodyear

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WEST VALLEY VIEW NEWS | DECEMBER 29, 2021

Big Apple trip poses a question befi tting ‘Hamlet’

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ

West Valley View Columnist

Early on in your relationship, she confessed a semi-startling fact. While she had visited China as a little girl and walked along the Great Wall, never once had she been to New York City.

To her, the metropolis back east seemed like a gleaming trophy to life made large. Broadway, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty. Skyscrapers and a chance to stride up Fifth Avenue in spike heels, like Carrie in “Sex and the City.”

To you, the city was home once, the backdrop for a million childhood memories: a piping hot slice of pizza dripping with cheese, a walk around the Central Park reservoir, the concrete stoop fronting the old red brick apartment in Queens, the Garden for a Knicks game, a knish purchased from a street vendor and painted in brown mustard.

She dreamed aloud. You egged it on, and thus a trip was born. New York at Christmastime and for New Year’s Eve. Plane tickets were purchased, hotel, theater and dinner reservations were made.

And then Omicron showed up, which is exactly America’s luck in 2021.

The spiking pandemic gives rise to a question, one that feels a little bit like some bad “Hamlet,” given that vacation issues are a decidedly fi rst-world problem to have in the midst of global affl iction.

To go or not to go? To get on that jetliner, which departs tonight, or to cancel our plans and instead spend Christmas watching “Miracle on 34th Street,” instead of living it?

Some background: We have both been vaccinated three times, and thus have been maximally protected against the dread virus. We are both in good health. We both understand that New York City will still be there next month, next year, next vacation, or the one after that.

And yet making the trip still feels tempting, especially when you run the numbers in your head. Last week in New York City, the infection rate among all 8 million residents was 193 infections for every 100,000 people. That’s a tenth of a percentage point chance of getting sick – and the infection rate for the vaccinated is half as much.

This year in New York, COVID-19 has claimed one life for every 200,000 vaccinated residents. Put another way, I’d have a better chance of getting a hole in one (12,500 to 1) or being killed by lightning (1 in 138,849, according to the National Safety Council).

Then again, to quote Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas from “Dumb and Dumber,” “So you’re saying there’s a chance?”

Life is a series of calculated risks. Some of us have decided not to get vaccinated. Other people continue to avoid indoor gatherings and to wear masks while they’re outside walking their dogs.

There are those of us who smoke despite the threat of lung cancer, others who would never think of wearing a motorcycle helmet because they like to feel like a badass. One of my buddies went skydiving last year. I turned down the invitation, saying I avoid optional danger in all forms, including jumping out of perfectly functional airplanes.

But now here I am, contemplating risking my life for a hot dog with sauerkraut from Gray’s Papaya and the opportunity to show a pretty girl with a huge heart the Tyrannosaurus Rex exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.

What would you do: Throw caution to the wind and live your life? Or give Omicron a wide berth and avoid New York literally like the plague?

One thing’s for sure. If I go and end up in intensive care or dead, everyone who read this column and thought “tsk, tsk” sure will have one last chance to say “I told you so.”

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WEST VALLEY VIEW NEWS | DECEMBER 29, 2021

Poem is a commentary on current state

BY JD HAYWORTH

West Valley View Columnist

’Tis the week before

New Year’s, and for better or worse — The words of this column are written in verse. Campaigns are concocted, plans are made for the air, as politicians hope to show how much they know and they care. The voters are struggling, no names have been mentioned as thanks to inflation, folks can’t pay for attention! Mom was pacing the floor; Dad had joined her there…wishing they could print money right out of thin air! Then on the TV, they heard such a clatter, they both turned to watch and see what was the matter. On the screen was a show from the news folks of cable, devoid of facts and heavy on fable. The interview guest neither wanted to hear was a doctor, adept at marketing fear. He drove home his message, laying it on thick, spreading the notion the viewers were sick. “First COVID, then Delta and Omicron, too! I bet there’s a mutation that’s coming for you!!” “Now, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson… Forget “gain of function…” I’ll just redefine it! “From a bat cave to the lab…no, not a Wuhan market stall… you paid for it…paid for it…paid for it all!” As the outrage grew louder, the viewers grew mad, so convinced were they that this short doctor was bad… And fiercer and fiercer their outrage grew… at the leftist networks and the small doctor. too! And then, in a twinkling, it all went “Poof!” As Hollywood actors acted out their “proof…” So skillful were they, their scripts turned folks around… And Dr. Fauci was able to scale the rebound! He was dressed all in white, from his toe to his head, But why did this doctor seem to delight in the dread? Therapeutics? He denied folks…and with that he was fine… As if he were saying that “your fate is mine!” Oh, how he loved it! His demeanor so merry… As if he determined which poor souls would be buried. His creepy old mouth was set firm in a smirk… How could anyone deny that this doc was a jerk? He spoke lots of words, but did little work… And yet the left was enamored with each little quirk. He filled all his pockets as the top-paid bureaucrat, and no one at the WaPo could smell the obvious rat. He continues his reign into 2022…and he’ll continue to say, “No cure for you!” But the people have noticed, as he was doing thus… And they know they must stop him… it’s him or it’s us! And so, there you have it…it’s ugly but true… We must get a second opinion in 2022!

J.D. Hayworth represented Arizona in the U.S. House from 1995-2007. He authored and sponsored the Enforcement First Act, legislation that would have mandated enforcement of Federal Immigration Law in the 109th Congress.

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