Editor:
Gosh, what a caustic review of election season and including the fire tragedies from R. Brennan (Mailbox, Jan. 30). As an antidote, I’d love to see a copy in print of the Episcopalian bishop’s address I hear about from the inauguration.
Susan Pence, Eureka
Editor:
Rick Brennan of Eureka seems to be ignorant of the history of the Santa Ana winds (Mailbox, Jan. 30).
The horrific deadly Los Angeles fires were not the result of “neglect, incompetence and ignorance from our state/city leaders and their policies.”
The Santa Ana winds have been starting fires in southern California for over 60 years.
I remember a fire in Santa Barbara in 1964 that lit up the sky behind St. Anthony High School and church. All of the fires have been started by the phenomenon of the Santa Ana winds, which Gov. Newsom is too young to remember.
Al Gore tried to tell the world about the inconvenient truth of climate change. The only cure for ignorance is education.
Rick Brennan is suggesting that Greta Thunberg of Sweden is trying to destroy our environment.
Activism requires courage. Get some.
Suzanne Hart, Eureka
Editor:
This is an attempt at a response to Rick Brennan’s letter in last week’s Journal regarding. Donald Trump. At first, I was going to propose corralling all of the monkeys ever born in the entire history of the Earth and sitting them all down at manual Remington typewriters so that they might randomly compose a reasonable response to his chaotic ramblings. However, in consideration of trying to put together such a response, it dawned on me that no set of monkeys, or any set of sentient beings, could ever possibly form a rational response to his letter.
The one single comment I would make is that Donald Trump not only did not get 50 percent of the vote (49.8 percent), he barely beat Kamala Harris, and if you total all of the votes for Kamala Harris, Jill Stein and all of the other candidates who ran for president, save for Robert F. Kennedy, then more people voted for someone other than convicted felon and boob Donald Trump. That is not and never will be a mandate and I for one will shout that at the top of my lungs for the next four years.
Greg Blomstromm, Fieldbrook
Editor:
I find myself fact checking almost daily in this current political environment and the last collection of letters to the editor was no exception. Rick Brennan stated that “70 to 80 percent of our country” believed “we were heading in the wrong direction and voted overwhelmingly for change.” I beg to differ. Though the president continually touts his “mandate,” the actual figures are quite a bit smaller. Trump had 49.8 percent versus Harris’ 48.3 percent of the vote, not even half the electorate. At the moment, Trump also has one of the lowest approval ratings for a new president. Facts still matter.
Linda Eckert, Blue Lake
This article appears in The Humboldt County Fair is at a Crossroads.