Letters: No time to wait; Human kindness can’t be forgotten
No time to wait
This year is the hottest year on record, again. This “new” news feels like “old” news: We hear about it every year. Yearly record-breaking temperatures will continue for the rest of our lives because temperatures are rising. Most know this. About 80% agree climate change is happening. But it is worth the reminder because we can make it less bad.
Similar “new” news that is “old” news is that House Republicans, including our local Representative Glenn Thompson, voted to ban funding to follow the Paris Agreement, where we pledged to cooperate with 194 out of 197 countries to address climate change. Every year, Republicans in Congress block climate action, effectively aligning themselves with Iran, Libya and Yemen, the three countries who did not sign the agreement. Unlike temperatures, this does not have to continue.
Most of the U.S. supports several climate actions, some garnering 90% support. Young Republicans depart from their elders in support of actions. If Republicans in Congress listen to most of us and those under 30 in their own party, they can change.
Or we wait until older Republicans move on. But waiting is problem. Responses will be more complex and expensive with temperatures continuing to rise, causing more natural disasters, harm to agriculture, and damage to ecosystems.
Or vote them out. Vote Democrat.
Human kindness can’t be forgotten
Antisemitism is many things but first and foremost it is stupid. From anyone it is bad but is especially bad when indulged in by people who may call themselves Christians. They obviously don’t know that the man they worship was a Jew, went to Temple and probably had a bar mitzvah. Their actions are beneath contempt and I despise them. If you want an example of what comes from antisemitism come to the State College Choral Society’s Nov. 5 concert at Recital Hall on Campus. We will be doing our commissioned work “Voices of the Holocaust.” The work shows what happens when human kindness is forgotten. Tickets are available through the Center for the Performing Arts.
‘I know you are, but what am I?’
Projection. A childish taunt, deployed by weak-minded bullies, whose
insidious weapons take aim at honest heroes who quietly defend our democracy
and the American people.
The perpetrators of the crimes become the accusers,
screaming the loudest, affronted by any semblance of justice.
They control The People’s House,
collecting ample paychecks and taxpayer-funded perks.
But they do no work for the American people.
They are the the flamboyant gesticulators, the tour guides and pardon seekers, the book banners, the sycophants, the supporters of Putin — butcher of innocents. Those who remain silent among them, are complicit in the crimes of the “former guy.”
Their hero maligns our troops and mocks our wounded soldiers.
Their leader-in-chief now threatens General Milley in an tweet,
claiming that Milley had committed treason, for which,
“In past times, the punishment would have been death.”
His acolytes wage rhetorical war on the Justice Department and the intelligence community that have protected us from increasingly violent threats, within and without.
Ironies abound as the perpetrators of sedition self-identify as the victims.
And those who seek justice become targets in twisted games of seemingly psychotic projection.
Americans are better than this.
If ever there were a time to “weaponize the Justice Department,” it is now.
Lock. Them. Up.