Why is it OK to insult someone's creator but considered more harmful to call them overweight? Either one is being disrespectful.
School principals have a difficult time, they don't need parents and students using curse words at them. Respect is what holds society together. Everyone makes mistakes, still certain officers deserve respect: police, principals, judges.
Students themselves need respect. They need to dress and act respectful; then they will also have respect. Society says one must be tolerant of others.
Today, a one-sided tolerance is occurring. You can swear and offend me, but if I say you're overweight, that is being offensive! One can offend me while giving sexual details that I don't want to hear and find offensive. However, if I don't want to hear those details, I'm considered intolerant!
Respect has been lost. It has been given up to a belief that anyone can choose to say what they want to say a First Amendment right. What happen to my right not to hear offensive sexual details? One believes either I listen to those words or I'm considered intolerant. How do you know if one finds cussing offensive? It used to be if some one said something that might be offensive they apologized. Today, they just call you a bigot and accuse you of being intolerant.
Gay Vroble
Amwell Township
America not dead
but on life support
This Memorial Day, I found myself mourning all the young men that lost their lives in the establishing and defense of our wonderful country. I am saddened for all those brave men and women that have lost limbs, their health, their families and in many cases, their mental health. I mourn for how quickly those sacrifices are forgotten by the government and those of us they were protecting. The government is always slow to acknowledge the health consequences of serving. Remember Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome and PTSD?
They are slowly but surely taking our freedoms from us. Just like they did with smoking they take small seemingly reasonable steps at a time. They do this by regulations (mini laws) not by publicly voting into law where our legislators can be held accountable. They use little tin-god bureaucrats accountable to no one.
Politicians promise us milk and honey if we elect them. Then they give billions and trillions to corporations that squander and waste them. Fat-cat millionaires and company executives get rewarded with golden parachutes. The average worker gets a few hundred (if he is lucky). Come tax time they want many to pay it back.
Both major political parties are equally guilty. It took both parties to pass the free-trade agreements, ignore the influx of illegal immigrants, and importing goods and exporting jobs. Even defense materials are being thrown into foreign contracts.
America is not dead but is in intensive care and on life support. The real shame is that our own elected officials want to pull the plug. The multimillionaires that control the elected officials have more money than they could ever need. They hunger for power. They want to control every aspect of our lives and make all our decisions for us.
That is why I fondly remember the free America I grew up in. That is why I mourn for all the lives wasted in her defense. We are throwing away something whose value will never be appreciated until we lose it.
Terrence M. Sellers
Waynesburg
Business praised
My family and I would like to commend one of your community's businesses.
While on a recent trip from eastern Maryland to Michigan, our auto developed a problem that required repair before we could continue. Forced off I-79 at Washington by the malfunction, we found Lombardi Auto Body and Repair on Highland Avenue. Despite our arrival late in the day, the staff at Lombardi's managed to repair our vehicle and get us back on the road. We were served quickly, professionally and fairly. Their timely assistance allowed us to arrive on time for a family reunion and return to Maryland days later with no further auto problems.
To the staff at Lombardi's, we say thanks.
Wayne Bergstrom
Frederick, Md.