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Radical Democrats out to disrupt fabric of the United States
The Virginia redistricting vote demonstrates the importance of every Republican and conservative independent to vote in every election, national, state, county, or municipal.
Radical Democrats are out to pack the Supreme Court, admit the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to statehood, end the filibuster, ensure rampant voter fraud by allowing unrestricted mail-in voting and voting without proof of citizenship, open the borders to a renewed flood of the dregs of other nations, human trafficking, and drugs, thereby achieving one-party rule and the end of the republic of the United States.
No election is just an election. Every single one is about the survival of the United States of America.
Bernard Sullivan, Pensacola
If gas station food is too good to be true, do more research
I stopped at one of those mega gas stations with a deli off of I-10 and filled up. Good place to grab a sandwich I thought so I picked up a turkey and Swiss wrap. I didn’t pay any attention to the ingredients because I thought it would be turkey and Swiss in a wrap. When I got back to the car, I happened to notice there were more ingredients listed on the packaging, so I read them.
“Turkey, turkey breast, turkey broth, contains two percent or less of modified food starch, potassium lactate, salt, sugar, sodium phosphate, sodium diacetate, natural smoke flavor, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, tortilla enriched bleached flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, water, vegetable shortening (interesterified and hydrogenated soybean oils) contains two percent or less of salt, baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, distilled monoglycerides, enzymes, vital wheat gluten. cellulose gum, fumaric acid, and calcium, propionate and sorbic acid (to maintain freshness), Swiss cheese, part-skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, tomato, and lettuce.”
It’s very helpful to know the contents of what the sandwich maker in Tulsa, Oklahoma, put in the sandwich. Though I had no idea what any of it meant beyond the turkey, Swiss cheese, lettuce and tomato. Reading these fast-food labels does have a redeeming benefit: It kills your appetite.
Bob Kerrigan, Pensacola
Iranians hate for ‘Great Satan’ and west runs deep
For those who may wonder why Iranians might hate “The Great Satan” and the west, just google “Operation Ajax.” In 1953 Iran was a constitutional monarchy governed by a democratically elected president.
In that year the CIA and British MI6 orchestrated a coupe that overthrew the elected government and gave the country’s monarch (Shah) compete autocratic power over his people. This was deemed necessary by the western powers in response to the rise of nationalism in the Middle East post-WWII.
Arab and Persian nationalism threatened the grip the United States and Great Britain had on Middle East oil. The Shah held power by means of a brutal secret police (SAVAK) trained and supplied by the CIA. In 1979 the people had had enough of the Shah’s dictatorship. They revolted, put the clerics in charge and formed the new Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Shah fled to the US for medical treatment and he died a year later in Egypt. His son and the heir to the Peacock Throne of Persia/Iran lives quietly in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, hoping perhaps President Trump will repeat 1953 and put him back on his father’s throne. We’ll see. And that’s the rest of the story.
Michael Finney, Pensacola
Florida becoming more diverse while college courses digress
Florida is becoming more diverse while our state colleges have decided students don’t need to learn about it. Is this because some of us don’t like people with different ideas and practices? Sociology is important part of higher education.
Shirley Knight, Pensacola
White House doing its best to spin ill-conceived Iran conflict as a success
Wrong war, flawed strategy – best describes the war with Iran. Entering a second month of ill-conceived strategy, unintended consequences, CIA and Department of State hubris and poor intelligence, and a severe lack of historical knowledge finds the White House misinforming us and spinning the massive operation as a success.
The White House labels critics as un-American, too shallow to understand the “experts” and endangering the Country with a threat of nuclear attack. General Petraeus asked his staff and civilian advisors before the Iraq war, how will this end, knowing war is unpredictable, especially to those leading it and those fighting in it.
Post war Iraq was administered by “pie in the sky” folks who thought they were experts and listened to few military experts. They grossly failed to even read the Army Civil Affairs estimate to preserve and encourage transition. The result was chaos and destruction beyond the objective of the war.
So, history is repeating itself, day by day, in the Middle East. Gen. Petraeus has said that the death of civilian diminishes us collectively. We are lied to daily as to end points, success, timelines, and worst of all, outcome. Unintended consequences are glossed over, not reported and outcomes become meaningless from the highest sources, most of whom are egotistical, without merit and qualification, and whose children will not show up in uniform to fight side by side with your sons and daughters.
Richard Hahner, Pensacola
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