Letters From Readers, 8-7-06

By Journal Times readers

Monday, August 7, 2006 2:13 AM CDT

Don't want the card We have two daughters in the Racine Unified School District. We are appalled that we have to buy a card for $25 that allows our oldest daughter into any of the ballgames, etc. This doesn't mean that she gets in free or even gets a discount on the tickets. What's funny about this is R.U. then put exclusions on the use of the card, as well. If it is to support the sports then just raise the price of the tickets. We do not want to buy this card!!!! But if we don't, our daughter will bare the brunt of it, such as not getting her grade card. Look Racine Unified, you got your referendum passed now leave well enough alone.

Steve & Amy Davis Racine

Armageddon? Could it be what's going on in the middle east lead to early stages of Armageddon?

A battle between good and evil. Could it be that Hamas and now Hezbollah terrorists put too much pressure on Israel that Israel may in desperation nuke Damascus? Damascus has been a dumping ground for weapons of mass destruction. Could Isaiah 17 verse one in the God of the bible literally get fulfilled soon? It says Damascus would be left in a ruinous heap. If so could it be that Ezekiel 38 and 39 get fulfilled then? It describes Russia and its allied Islamist terrorist nations making a move to wipe out Israel. It's like David meeting Goliath. It's like several hundred million verses six million. After carefully meditating in Ezekiel 38 and 39 you get the impression that almighty God will protect tiny little Israel by wiping out its enemies. Israel is the apple of God's eye but Israel will still be tested along with the rest of us. Could it be then that the Antichrist comes on the scene to sign a seven-year peace pact with Israel? Could it be at this point that the rapture of the church will already have occurred? Details of rapture are found in I Thess. four versus 13-18 and also I Corinthians 15 verses 51-53. From the time of the rapture to the second coming of Christ to the earth is a span of seven years called the tribulation period. Halfway through the tribulation period the Antichrist double crosses Israel and breaks the seven year peace pact. The last three and one half years will be much more severe with several major battles fought that will wipe out over half of the world's population.

Romans 10 verse 13 says anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. My prayer is "Come Lord Jesus," come quickly and stop the bloodshed. He will according to Mathew 24 verse 22.

Frank Saeger Franksville

More than nastiness Today, during a one hour period of running errands around town, listening to our local radio station, I unfortunately heard several anti Lehman ads sponsored by his opponent. They were the typical vituprative negativism I have seen too often from the Racine Republican machine. There was not one word about what the candidate running the ad could do for the people of Racine; just slam after slam about John Lehman. Hopefully any intelligent voter will look closely at why John Lehman voted the way he did about certain "employment issues" the ads address. Golly, could it possibly be because they would only offer benefits to the corporate interests with little or no trickle down to we the ordinary people? Please, Racine Republicans, I know a lot of you are well meaning, nice people. Don't let this nastiness continue. Instead, offer us something positive.

I'm sick to death of political meanness and will instantly right off the candidate, turn off the radio, toss the paper with a negative ad and let sponsors who pay money to those media know that this garbage means I won't support anything connected with it.

Shame on you for allowing this, Mr. Opponent - B McR. Don't you have anything good to offer us? God knows we the ordinary people need more than nastiness.

Carol Wallace 1732 Park Ave.

Global warming The consensus of scientists is that global warming is here and humans are mostly responsible. However, Brian Cassity in an Aug. 1 letter cites an article by Richard S. Lindzen of M.I.T. who wrote in an unnamed article in an unnamed publication saying that global warming is mostly caused by water vapor, not human-caused CO2.

I want to do two things here: Cite impeccable authorities who say otherwise and also argue about how to handle any remaining controversy about what to do.

Dr. Jim Hansen is Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Prof. of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. On July 13, he reviewed in "The New York Review of Books" three books on global warming, including Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," both as book and as film. One of the other books is by Tim Flannery, an Australian zoologist who wrote "The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its People" (2001) which I used as a textbook in my American Environmental History course at U.W-Parkside. Hansen praised all three books and admitted that Gore sounded the alarm long before he did.� � � What if the consensus of scientists is wrong and the minority which Lindzen represents is right? The result would be that we controlled pollution more than was needed to save the world - hardly a disaster. But what if the consensus of scientists is right and we take strong actions now? Then we save the world from the greatest disaster it has ever experienced since humans evolved 2 million years ago.

So, should we listen to the minority of skeptics and do nothing or to the majority of alarmed scientists and act? Frank N. Egerton� � � � � � � � � � � � 4400 Ridgeway Ave., Racine

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