More on Hwy. 30

This letter is in response to Adam Pomerinke and Veronica Hartly's February 20th letters who were responding to my original letter about people plugging up roads on Hwy 30. To summarize Pomerinke's letter, it states that driving under the speed limit isn't against the law, tells us all to relax and to be patient and begin our journey a few minutes earlier while Hartly's letter basically spouts the same drivel but to enjoy the country side while were stuck behind you people who appreciate the slow life. Ok.... get this straight people, we don't work, live by your schedule, get it? If you want to smell the flowers as you are floating down the road at 35 mph in a 55 with numerous frustrated drivers behind you, PULL OVER! It's called courtesy. You people are the direct cause of traffic congestion. I don't tail gate, but I refuse to sit behind you while you are oblivious to the 100 people stuck behind you while you are listening to your meditation music and burning incense in your car. You know, you call always tell who the slow pokes are because the entire backside of their vehicle's are always smashed in.

John Wilson

Saint Helens, OR.

Drivers on Hyw. 30

This letter is about some very dangerous drivers. I sincerely hope you see yourselves in this letter and change your driving habits before someone gets hurt or killed. Most of Oregon and Washington's roads are two lanes only. Like all areas that start off as rural, these two states are doing there level best not to handle the influx of population that this area has experienced over the last five decades.There are a some drivers out there that feel they can drive ten to fifteen miles under the speed limit, that this is their right to do so. To be more specific, I witness this mostly on Hwy 30. I have seen as many as 10 or more vehicles stuck behind and at the mercy of these pace cars. Now comes the illegal part of what these people do; if you try and pass them they speed up as to not allow you to pass and then subsequently slow down again once you are behind them after a failed attempt at passing. These people need to be arrested, their vehicles impounded, their license revoked and made to ride public transit, at the back of the bus where it has the overwhelming stench of urine. You do not own the road, we all own it! You do not have the right to plug up, block the flow of traffic. Sooner or later, some nut will be stuck behind you while you are showing him or her that you own the road and they will simply bulldoze you right off the road. Amen!

John Wilson
Saint Helens, OR.

We want a BIG bridge, not an Ergonomic one!

Well, the King's court, known more commonly as Metro has decided to give a reluctant nod for the new Bridge with some major scaling down from 12 lanes to 6 lanes for their fear of, (God forbid) more growth, more jobs, a stronger economy. They fear pollution and want us all out of our cars, riding our bicycles with the bottle of water and goofy looking helmet. OK, listen dammit, this is OUR money and we want twelve lanes, in fact, we would like to have sixteen but we'll settle for twelve. We're tired of congestion, we're tired of you people bottle-necking every main artery to frustrate drivers to force them out of their cars in the name of saving a tree or some plant that maybe a tenth of one percent knows or even cares about. We have allot of people we need to move around. We're not interested in riding a train that mainly ferries winos and teenagers around and smells like urine where it's average speed is 19 mph. Thanks for your input Metro, but we'll take a real bridge, not some bike bridge that you would rather build.

John Wilson

St. Helens, OR

Feminism and right to life.

After reading Diane Grumbois's September 7th letter entitled, "Palin is no Hillery Clinton", I felt compelled to respond to the following statement she made;" True feminists believe women should control their own bodies. Sarah Palin believes we can’t be trusted."

As a Conservative, I believe I speak along with my constituency when I say, we ALL agree you women or any person for that matter should have control over your body, however, that being said where the feminists and Conservatives part ways is with the 'human being" that exists inside you. The control of a certain aspect of your body ceases to exist once another human being exists inside you, that persons rights need to be taken into consideration. Liberals, feminists alike believe in the "Natural Process" of life, especially when it comes to nature, you people are all about Organic this or that, no pesticides or mankind's influence with respect to our forests, (Biscuit fire is an example;no logging of the timber). If a child is allowed to grow full term, that baby will be born in the natural process will it not? Then your interference into that gestation is un-natural, is it not? Why do you Feminists-Liberal-Environmentalists's non-interference principals apply in nature, but do not apply in the womb?

John Wilson

Saint Helens, OR

They have one of their own running OUR country!

Everyone has concerns of the thought of Obama as our next President for fear of attacks from Muslim extremists, let me assure you, all attacks will cease. Why you ask? For the simple fact that if Obama is elected, they will then have one of their own as the leader of our country and we will have the the useful idiots, the Liberal left who are placing him there, to thank. Theses same clueless fools will respond with,"So what's the problem"? The problem is we are a sovereign nation, once Obama is in office, you will see changes abound with respect to our Constitution if we even have one left by time his term is through. He is a marionette for those that hate this country and what we originally stood for. The political landscape of this country is changing at an exponential rate. Obama will bring us one step closer to a one world government where we will answer to others, and not our constitution and those "rights" we currently own, will evaporate faster than a fart in a wind storm.

John Wilson
Saint Helens, OR

Liberalism is a Cancer....

I would like to respond to both Dan Moorehead and Tina Hayden on their letters. Both raise
important issues. Issues that affect the quality of all of our lives. But they as well as everyone else that are beside themselves in disbelief because they do not understand the "why", need to come to grips with what has just happened and what has been happening for the past 50 years.It's called Liberalism. Yes, I do in fact say it like a pejorative as it should be. Liberalism is a cancer that is here to stay and has been killing this country slowly over time. It has hijacked the Democrat party and used it as a catalyst to metastasize. The Liberal mind set wants everything equal across the board, but brought to the lowest level as to accommodate all. If parts of the world live in squalor, we ALL are to be brought to that level. Personal achievement is discouraged and punished. The wealthy Liberal elites who philosophically have a monarchical or hierarchical belief, feel they should be exempt from the miserable lives of the peasants. Does any of this sound familiar? Say about 233 years ago?

John Wilson
Saint Helens, OR.