Letters to the editor May 3

Carson City School Board

shows lack of leadership

Carson City School Board members need to look into the mirror and reflect if they are "good role models" for our children.

They chastised Joe Enge as being a poor role model for our children. The board is demonstrating a lack of leadership, has gone back on its word (stating last year that the issue of Fremont's schedule would not be revisited), do not respond to e-mails and do not respond to people when asked questions at board meetings.

Are these qualities we want instilled in our children? What kind of role models are they? Also, the community of teachers and parents have bent over backward researching ideas to save money and support the year-round schedule, doing all the foot work for the board and district administrators. What is the job of the school board?

The next elections can't come soon enough.

MONIQUE GIRON

Carson City

The meaning of words

Perhaps current CIA Director Leon Panetta, chief facilitator during Bill Clinton's rendition program, will testify at Congress' anti-Bush torture vendetta. Panetta could clarify if pliers and white-hot pokers administered by Egyptian secret police constitute torture.

Some old queen once said, "A word means what I say it means." Commentators of both sexes have gazed into a partisan looking glass at a training method administered to thousands of U. S. special warriors and renamed it torture. "It creates a feeling of drowning," says Ted Kennedy (D-Chappaquiddick).

Waterboarding, we're told, is now a terrorist recruiting tool. That would explain the bombings of the World Trade Center, the Cole, the Khobar Towers, our African embassies and the 9/11 attacks.

Looking forward, Obama will keep us safe with carrots and sticks. He's got a charm offensive on to appease the world's terror sponsors and Hellfire missiles to blow up al-Qaida operatives " and their families, if they're home with daddy. But no more waterboarding.

If you know someone who thinks that Islamofascist dictators are just friends they haven't met yet, and they live in a big city or fly much, tell them to get their affairs in order.

LYNN MUZZY

Minden

Let's go after the criminals in Carson City

Excellent letter from Bob Thomas in Sunday's April 5 Appeal. I couldn't agree more. I would like to add to that a little and I'm quite sure he would agree.

I'm always hearing that there aren't enough officers to take care of all the problems cities have to deal with. I believe this trickery to bust an owner who can't possibly be at his business 24/7 and some store clerk or bartender trying to make an honest living making $6 an hour is hurting everybody. Every owner wants to stay in business and most all are trying to comply with the sheriff's department. Isn't it enough that the city gets a $632 fine from the poor server or clerk who gets tricked?

Maybe the vice squad, and I use that term loosely, should get a ticket for bringing a minor into a bar. This whole scam is counter productive and doesn't accomplish a thing. All it does is put people out of business, somebody loses a job and there's another empty building in Carson City.

I understand federal grants are involved in a lot of this, which is another waste of taxpayer money, but for God's sake go after the criminals, not the poor folks trying to make an honest living.

BOB SATTER JR.

Carson City