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Salute to Selkirk Ace Hardware
To the editor,
I am writing to salute the staff and management at Selkirk Ace Hardware.
Recently I took in my chainsaw for repair/tuneup. It just wasn’t working well and they happily took it. The situation evolved as I had to bring it back multiple times as the issue was difficult to find. I was a little irritated with having paid for a repair and parts to get it returned with the same problem. The team at Selkirk Ace kept digging and ultimately found the issue and fixed it with no additional charges.
They were committed to resolving the issue. They were (and I find ALWAYS are) courteous, helpful, and understanding. It’s a pleasure to have a local business with old school values.
-Ed Slattery
Newport
Another crack in the façade
To the editor, I cannot express in 300 words the implications I see flowing from Zuckerberg’s letter to Congressional investigators openly admitting that Facebook relentlessly censored all information unconstitutionally demanded by our government during the pandemic years. Another “conspiracy theory” confirmed conspiracy fact. It may even be a crime against humanity to have colluded with the government to suppress inconvenient factual information regarding effective early treatments and vaccine negative effects.
During at least two election cycles, Zuckerberg has also admitted that any candidate discussing the Covid response or speaking out about the most egregious attacks on liberty as a part of their platform were throttled.
This could mean several thousand US elections!
It could mean that an illegitimate government has been installed at the federal, state, and local levels.
Even more alarming, it wasn’t just Facebook; Google, Instagram, Microsoft’s LinkedIn, and Twitter 1.0 – all denied us the opportunity to hear credible alternative views about lockdowns, masking, and vaccine mandates.
And not just the US; these global corporations likely also impacted elections and health outcomes worldwide.
Take the 2022 Minnesota governor’s race that was won by Tim Walz, now running as VP with Kamala Harris. Walz was running against a highly credentialed medical expert, Dr. Scott Jensen, who made the Covid response a campaign issue. Dr. Jensen explained on X how he was denied a voice on Facebook, which banned him from all advertising, reducing his reach by 90% and likely costing him the election.
This is not a minor error in judgment by social media CEOs! I believe this capitulation to government pressure goes way beyond election manipulation: it’s part of an outright coup to overthrow an entire generation of leaders who stand up for freedom and replace them with the cabal’s minions who lust for total control.
-Kamori Cattadoris
Newport
Vote no on Initiatives 2019, 2117, 2124
To the editor,
I encourage you to vote NO on these Washington State Initiatives that will be on your November ballot.
Initiative 2109 would repeal an excise tax imposed on the sale of long-term assets by individuals who have annual capital gains of over $250,000. If the Initiative passes it would take away nearly $900 million every year from childcare, early learning, K-12 education, special education, technical and community colleges, and school construction. Vote NO on 2109.
Initiative 2117 would prohibit state agencies from imposing any type of carbon tax credit, and repeal the Climate Commitment Act, legislation that was established to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Commitment Act protects our water, farms, forests and air. It supports up to 40% of Washington’s investment in energy efficiency for low-income households. We need to keep our commitment to a clean environment by voting NO on 2117.
Initiative 2124 would decrease funding for Washington’s public insurance program that provides long-term care benefits by repealing a law governing an exemption for employees.
If the Initiative passes it would remove around $8 billion from Washington’s long-term care benefits program. People with, for example, cancer or diabetes can’t get private long-term care insurance and Medicare doesn’t cover long-term care. This initiative would take away the only long-term benefit available to them. Vote NO on 2124.
Thank you for considering the impact of your vote on these initiatives.
-Martha Nichols
Newport
Unity Party
To the editor,
Joe Biden was forced out of running for a second term by threat of the 25th Amendment. The Democrats and mainstream media (MSM) covered up his cognitive decline until the debate with Trump.
Then the whole world got to see it. They didn’t really want Kamala, but choosing someone else would cause quite a stir.
At their recent Convention, they formally nominated Kamala and she accepted. When you force a sitting President out and appoint his replacement, without a vote from We the People, some countries would call this a coup.
The Democrats claim to be saving democracy, by throwing it out the window? Our voters should be choosing our leaders.
RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard joined the Trump team. He put them both on his transition team.
Trump seems to be forming a unity party. RFK Jr’s primary task will be to go after Big Pharma, CDC, NIH and the likes to “Make America Healthy Again.” By the way, when a lifelong Democrat with the name Kennedy throws his support to Trump to save America, you should probably listen. Democrat donors are now breaking to Trump. It is a movement.
Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bomb. He wrote a letter to a congressional committee apologizing for censoring in the elections as well as censoring COVID truth. He said the Biden Administration pressured Facebook into censoring selected material. This letter proves that Hunter’s laptop was real, that they censored election and COVID truth, that Joe Biden abused his position for monetary gain and also confirms the FBI, Biden and tech firms are guilty of election interference. This is in writing.
Will anything be done?
The uni-party, not to be confused with Trump’s unity party, is losing their grip on power. As RFK Jr’s VP pick says, “this is glorious.”
-Glen Pierce
Spokane/Cusick
Tariff talk
To the editor, Strategically selective tariffs can be an important tool. They can be used to protect economic and international interests of the US. A broad statement of implementing a broad 10% tariff on all imported goods is an economic disaster. This is part of the Trump economic plan and a major element of Project 2025.
Mr. Trump repeatedly incorrectly states that the seller [exporter] pays the tariff. The tariffs on products made in China will not be paid by the Chinese. Tariffs are paid by the importer who will pass this added cost onto the consumer through higher prices.
Mr. Trumps planned tariffs raise the prices on consumer goods such as food, clothing and household items. These tariffs take a larger percentage of income from lower income families.
“Tariffs tax the poor more than the rich.” [Cato Institute]. “Tariffs are just taxes on Americans by another name.” [Heritage Foundation]. Yes, the same Heritage Foundation that authored Project 2025.
Repeating the falsehood that tariffs are good for our economy and our working-class citizens, does not make it true.
-Robert W. Schutte
Newport
Anyone with a 401 (k) relies on a global economy
To the editor, Kamori Cattadoris needs to explain what a “globalist” is in her letters.
Anyone with a 401k, pension or retirement account relies on the global economy run by multi-national corporations to gain enough wealth to retire, and then maintain that retirement by annual fund growth. Am I supposed to cash out my accounts, pay the taxes and then bury the money in my yard? Would Cattadoris be happy that I am no longer economically contributing to her thoughts about the downfall of society and harming children? The Miner reported that our PUD is making a killing on the high interest earned from investing excess revenue in globalism.
Another alternative is to vote for Trump with his weird supporters like RFK Jr and Elon Musk. That’s like giving my money to accountants that have been committed to an asylum. Perhaps I should invest in toilet paper to prepare for the next pandemic that Trump would deny up front and mishandle.
Cattadoris should look up the X interview with Trump and Musk saying that nuclear war isn’t so bad. “Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed but now they are full cities again,” the multibillionaire owner of Tesla, Space X and X said. “That’s great, that’s great,” Mr. Trump responded. Trump routinely made weird comments about using nuclear weapons when he was president.
Musk is definitely a globalist, and he will be in a nuclear bunker likely with Trump if the button is pushed. The children in Pend Oreille County won’t be in that future. They will die of radiation sickness. The young are the first to die when exposed to fallout as their cells reproduce faster. Cattadoris should pick her MAGA poison. Die poor in a collapsed world economy or die from a nuclear war. Those are our potential futures in a Trump second term.
-Pete Scobby
Newport
Ceasefire now
To the editor, Many in Eastern Washington are concerned and affected by the ongoing genocide happening in Gaza and the spread of hostilities in the Middle East. Right now there are daily bombings of schools where Palestinians shelter, and volunteer doctors cannot enter the area to help the wounded. Food and medicine are in short supply while people mostly children are starving daily.
Unfortunately our Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers attended Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July, apparently supporting the war on Gaza with U.S. supplied weapons, intelligence, and moral support.
Predictably, these hostilities are spreading and now Israel is bracing for an assault from Iran presumably due to Israel’s rogue assassination of a Hamas leader in Iran and a Hezbollah leader in Beirut.
It is not only Palestinians that are adversely affected. Besides the hostages, Israeli soldiers suffer when sent out to target and torture innocent people that they don’t even know. PTSD along with other mental illnesses must be rampant among their military.
Rear Admiral Hagari, spokesperson for IDF claimed that Hamas is an idea. Hamas is a party, rooted in the hearts of the people – anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong.
It is beyond time to initiate a ceasefire and implement negotiations. It is unbearable this war has continued for 11 months, with such high casualties and destruction as a result. We are in election season now, but we can also promote peace at the same time.
War and violence solve nothing. Demand a ceasefire now.
-Nancy Street
Cheney, WA
