Monthly Archives: June 2009

To the Editor:
While everyone on both the Left and the Right has their shorts tied in a knot over Mark Sanford’s affaire with his “Maria” in Argentina, I would like to commend the poet in the man. Anyone familiar with Robert Graves’ “The White Goddess” will quickly recognize, in the dazed look in the Governor’s eyes, the work of the Goddess. Here was a man of poetry and passion who allowed love and Eros into his soul and threw all of society’s sensibility and convention aside to see his love. Continue reading →

In answer to Scott Schmidt, “Canadian system full of flaws”, no country has a perfect health system, but some countries have better overall care while others, such as the US, offer higher-quality care to those who can afford to pay. In a single-payer, state-run system, the taxpayers pay for “health care for all”. The level of care that each individual receives depends on the efficiency of the system and the funds allotted to it. Continue reading →

What we need to get us out of this recession is a good war, and our
prosperity after World War II is often cited to prove it. A ³good war²
for America is an all-out effort of Americans – which instead of destroying the land, wealth and peoples of other countries – will build up the land, wealth and people of this country. Continue reading →

Bernard Madoff is a symbol of the financial recklessness of our times.
The judge who sentenced Madoff to 150 years said he wanted to send a message to potential imitators. It’s too bad that our judiciary has to send such messages after the damage is already done, because our legislature refuses to impose real regulations on our securities industry. But Congress isn’t entirely to blame. The people who blindly gave their money away without even asking what it was being used for were even more reckless than Bernard Madoff. Investor confidence is exactly that: a confidence game. Continue reading →

Today I observed three sheriff police cars and 5 police officers watching one stop sign at the fork of Lefthand canyon and James canyon. My neighborhood has had 2 robberies in a two year period. I requested more of a police presence but was told that the county doesn’t have the personal to be patrolling my rural neighborhood. Continue reading →

Ed McMahon, former side-kick to Tonight Show Host Johnny Carson, succumbs to complications from pneumonia. Farrah Fawcett loses her lengthy battle with cancer. Michael Jackson passes on from (apparent) heart failure. All become multiple day and mass coverage news items. 4,318…Questioning that number? It is the number of US Soldiers killed in action to date in Iraq buried on the third page of the newspaper in slightly over 1 column inch. Begging the question…Which of these lives are more worthy than the others and why? Something about misplaced priorities definitely comes to mind. Continue reading →

Dr, Hern I read your paid advertisement.
Please help me out. You used a lot of words, but didn’t say much.
I am not a rabid anti-abortionist, I’m not a constitutionalist. I am a Catholic who believes that life begins at conception. Continue reading →

As a Canadian citizen, I would like to respond to Mr. Scott Schmidt letter dated June 27, 2009.
To begin with, Mr. Schmidt, you should not believe everything you hear regarding flaws of the Canadian health system. Don’t forget that the AMA (American Medical Association), the pharmaceutical companies and the Insurance companies have a huge interest in trying to demonstrate or even exaggerate the flaws of the developed and developing world countries universal healthcare system – for obvious reasons.
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Health Care is in the news. Here is our experience with the “single Payer”system in England in 1982,83: We where in Oxford where my husband was teaching at Oxford University. I noted that the sum deducted from his monthly check was about the same amount we were paying to Blue Cross, Blue Shield in the US at that time. Being essentially healthy we did not have an occasion to visit a Medical doctor. I did visit a dentist because of a rather bad tooth ache. The British system covered dentistry as well as medical doctors. The dentist told me the the tooth was infected, that he could pull the tooth, but if I wanted to have a root canal to “save” the tooth, I would have to go into the “private system”. I did, and it cost about what I would have paid in the US for a root canal at that time. Continue reading →

Justice served in Boulder today,
As a member of the community who attended much of the Diego Alcalde trial for the 1997 rape, kidnapping, and murder of Susannah Chase, I have the utmost praise and respect for the exceptional work of the Boulder Police Department, the Boulder District Attorney’s Office, the judge and jurors, and the judicial system in general for closing the book on this tragic case.
Throughout the years, there have been have been variations of the statement that “the millstones of justice grind exceedingly slow, but grind exceedingly fine.” The verdict was worth waiting for. Continue reading →

Bob Greenlee’s “The real Cookie Monster,” printed on Sunday June 28, is a tired cliche of conservative fear-mongering about the evils of government intervention into our lives. Stemming from BVSD’s recent “carbo crackdown” on the sale of candy or soft drinks at school, Greenlee goes further to amplify his web of delusion to articulate how we don’t have a healthcare problem in this nation and a significant chunk of the 46 million uninsured can get insurance but just don’t want to. Greenlee ties cupcakes to health insurance to attempt to demonstrate how government is lurking to penetrate every corner of American life. Continue reading →

I was not surprise to hear criticism of the energy legislation the House passed on Friday. Most people criticized it as a massive energy tax. However, these claims are inaccurate and misleading. Continue reading →

I lost a friend on Tuesday when Arthur Bierman died and Boulder lost an honorable man with the integrity to speak out against hypocrisy and evil regardless of its origin. A refugee from the Holocaust who lost 27 members of his family to Nazism, and a committed leftist, he lived long enough to witness Hitler’s Big Lie resurface, including right here in the pages of the Camera’s letters to the editor and op-eds. Like I told a friend after the Holocaust museum attack, you know it’s anti-Semitism when the far-right and the far-left agree on one thing — that it’s all the fault of the Jews. Continue reading →

I really like my Medicare! It costs me less than $2,000 per year and the care is great. Of course, it costs the government about $10,000 per year per Medicare enrollee (according to the Medicare Trustees Report), so I get a good deal. No wonder many people want to expand “single payer” medical programs. Continue reading →

Kudos for Carl Forest’s clear-eyed commentary in Friday’s Open Forum on the ticketing of a woman who left her baby in her car outside Mike’s Camera. Continue reading →

The United States is the only wealthy industrialized nation that doesn’t have a universal health care system. The current administration is trying to fix the problem; however, we must remember that two of the largest and strongest lobbyist groups in Washington represent the insurance and pharmaceutical companies. So, is Congress listening to folks from Main Street or still following the lead of special interest groups? Continue reading →

George Will’s column “Taking a razor to the president’s plan” [Camera Commentary 6/23] is proof he has abandoned the ‘biased, yet fair and balanced’ ethic of journalism. Continue reading →

I find myself inspired to write as I sit here and watch the news of Michael Jackson AND Farrah Faucet dying today. I cant help but tear up. Seems so groundless to be crying over death of music and TV stars, but there is more here for me, and quite possibly, for many of you that grew up in my generation. Continue reading →

What ever happened to the good old days when the worst things we had to fear on the 4th of July were traffic jams and wayward fireworks? According to the USDA’s Meat & Poultry Hot-line, this year’s top threat is food poisoning by nasty E. coli and Salmonella bugs lurking in hamburgers and hot dogs at millions of backyard barbecues. The Hotline’s advice is to grill them longer and hotter. Of course, they don’t bother to mention that the high-temperature grilling that kills the bugs also forms lots of cancer-causing compounds. Continue reading →

First of all I am a postal employee. The Washington Post editorial writer had alot of interesting statistics about the decline in first-class mail volume and he is pretty much right, it is declining. Misinformation and missing information is the order of the day in alot of editorials. Despite modern forms of communication 2006 was the highest volume year in the history of the Post Office, so the economy has to be a major factor in the decline in volume. Continue reading →