Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, September 14, 1993 TAG: 9309290315
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
As compensation for this massacre, Roanoke County offered the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors the use of the Smith Gap Landfill, which would have solved our landfill problems for the next 80 years. For reasons that fail to make any sense to me or 600 residents of this area, our Board of Supervisors voted not to join Roanoke County's landfill and consequently shot itself in the foot.
Now our Board of Supervisors have come up with an idea of putting its own landfill within three miles of the Smith Gap Landfill. It will destroy another 400 acres of land, potentially pollute the ground water of residents in this area, including the Roanoke River (Roanoke County residents take note), and congest our inadequate roads with trucks hauling trash every day. Does this honestly make any sense?
Come on, Montgomery County Board of Supervisors. Who came up with this not-so-bright idea? Don't shoot yourself in the foot again; you've only got one left.
JACQUI ROMNEY
ELLISTON
\ Can they plead depth perception?
GEE WHIZ, until I read James M. Bestler's Sept. 7 letter to the editor, "In defense of the Tailhook spirit," I erroneously believed that men (even Navy aviators) who committed a sexual assault were guilty of a crime.
Silly me! I am so relieved to know that these men are merely suffering from depth perception problems and night blindness (Oops, pardon me, I didn't mean to grope you. I just didn't see you.), a lack of diplomacy (I want it and I want it f+inowo!), and chronic immaturity (boys will be boys.).
I, for one, am filled with gratitude that Bestler has gotten married, fathered a child, and been forced to grow up, leaving me with one less big, drunken boy to avoid!
PAULA H. FOSBRE
ROANOKE
\ No excuses for 'boys' behavior
AFTER reading Dr. James M. Bestler's Sept. 7 letter to the editor entitled "In defense of the Tailhook spirit," it's apparent to me that he has been exposed to an excess of anesthesia.
The doctor's "boys will be boys" attitude is not only Jurassicratic, but certainly does not excuse the behavior of a group of drunken Naval officers.
If Dr. Bestler is so committed to fun and games for the fly boys in blue, perhaps it's not too late for him to re-enlist.
JOY H. CARR
ROANOKE
\ Where is Clinton's mainstream?
JOCELYN Elders' nomination for surgeon general was just another in a long line of incredibly bad nominations by Bill (or should I say, Hillary) Clinton. Do they know any f+inormalo people?
As you may recall, Candidate Clinton said that, if he were elected, his Cabinet and other nominees and appointments would be representative of mainstream America. Has Clinton nominated a single conservative or a single pro-life candidate? The last time I checked, there were far more conservatives than homosexuals and lesbians, and far more pro-lifers than radical feminists in this country. (The recent national election of officers for the National Organization of Women had less than 100 votes cast.)
The nominee for the nation's chief doctor should be a person with the highest degree of ethics and character and, of all people, should be committed to the sanctity of human life. Ms. Elders not only is radically pro-abortion but also promotes sexual promiscuity (witness her support of school-based clinics and condom distribution) among school-age children.
How could anyone seriously support a candidate for surgeon general who deliberately covered up a massive condom failure in Arkansas and put thousands of lives at risk so that the public wouldn't " ... lose confidence in condoms ... "?
It's high time Bill and Hillary quit nominating Jurassic Park-like freaks with radical social agendas and found a few Disney World-like Snow Whites, who truly represent the standards and values of mainstream America!
DON A. ASSAID
ROANOKE
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