I take exception to your article in Saturday’s paper titled “Santa gets help providing for children  overseas.” I am sure the title was added by a staffer with the newspaper. You see Operation Chrismas Child is not about helping Santa. It is about reminding a child in need that God loves them and they have not been forgotten. These gifts are packaged by people who care and want to help the needy. They are not doing this because they are Santa’s little helpers.

I would like to graciously thank Joe Hall for associating me with Glen Beck. I can only wish I had the ever increasing popularity and audience of such a dynamic person, one who has opened up such large ratings on his recent exposes’ of all the corruption of the left wing, socialist and communist idealogue of the friends and associates of the Obama administration and the “Chicago Way” of doing business.

ODOT decided they wanted to use Twitter to notify motorists about traffic conditions so they hired Saxum Public Relations to set up their Twitter account and paid them $7,500 for setting up a service that my 12-year-old grandson can do on his own without spending a penny.

Every day we hear or read about another hit to the economy. The rising cost of necessary food items makes us cringe. Fuel cost continually grows more expensive as the holidays approach. Every day Family Promise of Shawnee receives an increasing number of phone calls from people in dire need of basic items such as food and shelter.Yet, during the past year, when times have been tough on all of us, the giving to Family Promise has not decreased.

I have a good friend in Shawnee that has questioned my negative attitude towards our country’s future. I can answer that question by first saying I can remember when our elected president said that we did live in a Christian Nation. I can remember when our president quoted the Bible in his speeches and not the Koran.

As a new resident to the city of Shawnee, I am finding that even though there is a police officer residence around the corner from me, there are a few people who still drive with their car stereos blasting (bass maxed out) all hours of the day and night.

These good Samaritans, the Baxter family, as well as the Shawnee NewsStar employees, took the time and effort to assist these helpless animals and their owner out of a bad situation. Now the “official animal rights groups” are up in arms and have contacted the Pottawatomie County sheriff and district attorney because they were apparently left out of the loop.

Following, I relate events which changed where I lived, and how I am able to live! In a real way, cigarettes brought Allie and I to Oklahoma.
My passion in fighting the life and vitality robbing effects of smoking (cancer, heart and lung disease) led me to working with “PATCH,” our local anti-smoking coalition. All my interests tennis, cycling and singing, demand strong healthy lungs. At 72, all are still on the table. I stopped in time, will you?

I would imagine that I’m like a lot of other people who wonder if there really is a living God as depicted in the Bible. If there is I would think that he is disgusted with his creations by now.
His world is changing fast and not for the better for my part.  We have become a very large melting pot due to our poor enforcement of the immigration laws.

One way we at times fail to develop a constructive political conversation is to think only negative thoughts about people we disagree with. The following description from a letter to the editor is an example of a negative description.

Another step closer to socialized, government controlled, Obamacare, came to pass on Oct. 13, as the Senate panel passed the sweeping health bill.
On to the debate and more wasted time by our elected representatives. This has risen to the height of unconscionable actions displayed by elected officials sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States

Fall Fest Community Outreach 2009 will go down as a great success for Shawnee and the surrounding area. Shawnee Rescue Mission/Labor of Love Charities and 100-plus volunteers from many area churches and businesses came together for a wonderful day in Woodland Veteran’s Park last week.

The lease between the City of Shawnee and the Commissioners of the Land Office (CLO) will expire Dec. 31. The city has the option to renew for another three years, or allow the current school land leaseholders to lease directly from the CLO. To date, the majority of the City Commissioners have opted to remain involved in the lease process.

In response to Joe Hall, here are quotes from Cass Sunstein and Mark Lloyd. Cass Sunstein in his own words, “The Second Amendment seems to specify its own purpose, which is to protect the ‘well regulated’ Militia.” If that’s the purpose of the Second Amendment (as Burger believed), then we might speculate it safeguards not individual rights but federalism.

Obama is no dummy. I believe he is clever and devious. The third week of October has seen 531,000 more sign up on unemployment. Obama is bound to know global warming caused by CO2 emission is a hoax. He knows over the last 11 years earth has been cooling. Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming was the headlines Feb. 26, 2008.

During both Republican and Democratic administrations, I have been disappointed at the level of support the VA has received. That is why I was very encouraged to read that President Obama has signed into law a measure designed to provide better funding stability for veteran’s programs. 
The new law will guarantee timely and predictable funding by laying out the VA budget early.

Do you believe in miracles? Well, if not, then you should have been around the Salvation Army building this past week to see the army of women going and coming as they made preparations for the big Salvation Army Spaghetti Day fundraiser cooking meat, bagging spices, roaster after roaster cooking sauce for two days, cutting squares of material to cover sauce containers, slicing bread and desserts, wrapping plastic ware and selling tickets.

One of the ways Fox’s Glenn Beck damages the U.S. is by encouraging hatred and divisiveness using misinformation and distortions. One manifestation of that damage is he fools many earnest people into believing all he says is true.

Kenneth Feinberg, the Pay Czar, announced he would be cutting the salaries and benefits of 175 employees of financial houses and companies that received bailout funds. He has decided to cut their salaries an average of 90 percent and also cut their benefits so their total compensation package is half of what it was last year. Some will say, “great, stick it to the guys who caused this mess.” Problem is most of these people came in after the mess to help clean it up.

Obama wants a health care bill passed. He doesn’t care what it cost. He doesn’t care that we cannot afford it. It’s all about control. According to budget analysis, the health care plan will cost $871 billion over 10 years to implement.