Show j&dncartj-fcx- opinion rxnet a c:r - SeHuiUOV Augu 10 ISA Z VIEWPOINTS A 4 Doonesbury by By Bruce Tinsley Mallard Fillmore garry trudeau wQf: A&7 0U CtitfOH AcMUy a mvy i&VL KT&ZT tflMPX & Ht&SL 2ns: LETTERS Pray for true repentance Clinton’s resignation If s time for our president to step down By the time this letter is printed Bill Clinton will have Mr President help me here hate to admit it but I’m a little confused I suppose it’s probably my father’s fault He taught me “A man’s only as good as his chief adultery is personal? If you are led by the commander in chief it is not and we will dis- It’s OK to lie to the people but don’t let us catch you lying under oath? Children of America it’s OK to lie to your parents but don’t swear on a Bible and lie to a judge? If you are commander in children nieces and nephews likely appeared before the grand jury and served up a heapin’ helpin’ of “chicken salad” How does one explain our nation’s craving for the lies of Bill Clinton? A brief examination of America's value system should shed much light on the answer In America today we loath “big tobacco" and its effects upon children while we rejoice in a president who defends the barbarism of partial-birt- h abortion Should we be surprised that a nation which embraces infanticide would be unconcerned with the “pettiness” of perjury? Today high moral character means little as an “enlightened” America has discarded the “yoke" of accountability to Almighty God and deemed nearly every sexual act as normal It appears that today only pedophilia stands as taboo while groups such as NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) work diligently to liberate us from even this “burdensome” sexual shackle Should a country that worships at the altar of sexual gratification bat an eye at an adulterous chief executive who so abuses his authority as to grope sexually exploit and cheaply dispose of his female subordinates? As the King James Bible states “Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet bitter!” The explanation is simple: America has abandoned the God of our fathers and His son Jesus Christ and embraced the lord of seif with all his desires The remedy for this sickness is prayer! Pray for national repentance and revival and pray for true repentance and resignation by Bill Clinton Ronald D Tabor South Ogiien 1 word” What’s the deal with downtown Ogden? I work in a downtown hotel and deal with visitors to our beautiful city every day Occasionally I like to refer them to businesses on Historic 25th Street Quite often they come back and tell me that they were leery to walk by the park surrounding our very own city building Who can blame them? That park is constantly bombarded What will historians say about the events of recent days? Per- lion destined fo Antelope Drive d to North Ogden's widening of 2700 North What about 2700 North which has been in that same situation for several years? It seems that your newspaper is not familiar with 2700 North long-awaite- 2700 North also known as Exit Route 184 runs from 352 to US 89 (the renowned Fruit Lane) Presently it is a two-laroad with no shoulders and no turning lanes 2700 North is used by thousands of employees working in the Weber County Industrial Park Also it is used by the 286 homes at Wasatch View Estates ne About halfway through on that stretch is the tum-of- f (Rulon Street) that not only is where all those industries are located but to that street is also a cut-o- ff DDO A Weber It is impossible to take the bus to town as we have to cross 2700 North It is also almost impossible to make a left turn to and from Wasatch View Estates with all the heavy traffic coming from or from Weber Industrial Park (especially at work shift changes) We also have to cope with all the trucks going tocom-in- g from the Industrial Park plus all other traffic using the We have waited patiently for three years to finally get the funding Our traffic is not seasonal it's year-roun- d 1 challenge the writer of that editorial to come to Wasatch View at peak hours and try to make a left turn Anne Fisher Pleasant View Fair County business hss a right to choose Its product To Earl Minshew (letter to the editor Aug 20): How interesting it is for you to complain about KSL-Tchoosing the programming it intends to present to the public Since when does a business (media or not) not have the right to determine the image and emphasis of its product that is offered to the public? Does a donut shop have to sell pizzas just because you prefer pizza? Does a V family-oriente- movie theater d have to show movies because that is what you prefer? After you complain about your right to choose you state that you have a satellite dish and can choose to watch what you want The glory of the freedom to choose is not just for you it's also for businesses including KSL Choose what you will! Richard Af Alien Layton Mr President I will gladly find you their stool Mr President it’s time to step down Tracy Lambert South WebtT vandals who litter all over and shout obscenities at people I realize that our police station has been temporarily relocated but can’t we do something about this? 1 mean isn’t littering against the law? Do we even have a foot or bike patrol anymore? We have to clean this town up soon Independent business owners are doing their part It's time for the city to step in Gregory Af Livings ion Roy with homeless drunks and young AH The editorial notes that UDOT transferred about S5 mil- have beautiful and wonderful Ogden City needs to dean downtown This is in response to the Aug 18 editorial regarding funding for Antelope Drive in Syracuse Flere at Wasatch View Estates we have signed petitions to have 2700 North improved after having several bad accidents miss you from the military? 1 2700 North deserves funding grounds and the IRS Clinton should do honorable thing: resign of Clinton’s ‘affairs’ deserve impeachment haps they will forgive and forget perhaps they will damn with faint praise and yet they may choose to relate the facts as they see them and let the public decide to believe it or not What has happened to good common sense and reason? Evil doing is evil doing no matter who does it to whom It doesn't matter whether it is a public official a neighbor or a fnend We know right from wrong Do we brush it under the rug or bring it out in the open and deal with it? Do we excuse it and say forget it just because we are reluctant to face the facts? The highest office in our land has been given a black eye because one individual chose to let his emotions get out of hand Should we not hang our heads and be ashamed not for the man but for what he has done to our country? His indiscretions have put the spotlight on the United States in the eyes of most the world His family has to deal with it as he says in private But his affair is not private When a former president got into trouble he at least had the decency to resign his office and save his family further embarrassment They were able to rally around each other in private and live the remainder of their lives with the knowledge that he did the right thing in the end even though he had brought shame to his country Hopefully one would think that circumstances present should be no different We could clean out the White House and begin with a new slate The memory won’t go away but it would give the American people a chance to know that the right thing had been done Having said all of the above it is important to recognize that Clinton's actions regarding for- eign affairs have been far more detrimental and deserving of impeachment than any results of his domestic "affairs” Doris E Bums Spanish Fork DCFS protects itself no one else With the recent lawsuit against the Division of Child and Family Services how can it be allowed to run rampant without regard to the rights of the people it is supposed to be helping? It takes children from parents abuse it has caused then sends the children into abusive situations knowing there might be danger It bands together with the courts to hide the When will it end? How many lives will be destroyed? Enola Eastman without investigating the facts In other words if your child is abused while in the care of DCFS you can kiss your family life your children and your rights good-by- e The system will at all cost to you protect itself Ogden Hey Hillary what happened to that “vast right-win- g conspiracy”? Perhaps you should order your lying husband to reimburse us the American taxpayers for the last eight months' expenses incurred by the independent counsel's investigation Oh I’m sorry I forgot that’s none of our the American taxpayers’ business It's all between you Bill and your God Never mind the fact that this idiotic and immoral stunt took place on government property on government time and with a subordinate government employee If anyone else had done this they would have been history nd you would have been leading the charge inasmuch as you have the most ethical administration m history So why don’t you climb on Air Force One at taxpayers’ expense fly off to Martha's Vineyard and vacation at taxpayers' expense and when you get back I'm sure all will be forgiven and forgotten Give me a break! Your lying husband should do the only honorable thing left: resign! Richard Porter Ogden Our foreign policy needs change In the Aug 24 issue of the Spotlight was an article about the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi Kenya on Aug 7 The story said that there were four months worth of tips by the US ambassador in Kenya Florence Bushnell and other intelligence sources that the Nairobi embassy might be bombed The article also stated that nothing was done to protect this poorly shielded facility because the FBI had to turn to the Israelis for definite evaluation of these early warnings Ignore them the Mossad reassured the US government it’s just another false alarm This information delivered to Washington just a week before the monstrous explosion was the key factor in persuading the United States to let down its guard These and other Roc Medical assistant story was misleading Concerning the Standard-Examine- r article on Aug about the Applied Technology Center accreditation of the medical assistant program- merous and very diverse) 1 Comparing medical assistants to nurses as your reporter did in this article is confusing and misleading to the public The article should have discussed the facts of the medical assistant program instead of making statements such as “The medical assistant program differs from a nursing program because graduates work in medical clinics rather than hospitals” and “trainees learn many things nursing students don't” To what level of “nursing students” does this refer? Nurses’ aides? Practical nurses? Certainly not registered nurses Of course the programs are different because the jobs are not the same Trainees in nursing programs also learn many things medical assistants do not All nurses do not work in hospitals (Jobs available to aides LPNs and RNs are nu Then there was the statement "students tend to work more with physicians than nurses do because hospital nurses take care of patients in their everyday tasks such as bathing rather than helping the doctor” That makes nursing tasks sound menial and less important than medical assistant tasks which they certainly are not My concern is that unnecessary comparisons were made at the expense of nurses The medical assistant program is probably a good one and graduates provide a valuable service but the program should not be compared to a profession such as nursing r challenge the Standard-Examinto publish an article about nursing to differentiate be1 er tween aides practical nurses and registered nurses It is an oppor- tunity to educate the public about those who care for them Glenda Day Ogden United States is in trouble Our great country' is in immi- nent danger Terrorists poison gas a global financial meltdown and a wounded president Eugene B Rollins Ogden COLUMNS President Boris Yeltsin continues to run out of time and money dear that the Russian leader is finding it harder to find support It is By MARSHALL I GOLDMAN Speori to Nowaday Just when it looked as if Russia was at the bottom of its economic and political rope President Boris Yeltsin surprised us by resuscitating Viktor Chernomyrdin as prime minister - thus proving that there is still a way to go A mere five months ago Yeltsin took a gamble and appointed Sergei Kiriyenko as prime minister and fired the same Chernomyrdin obviously dissatisfied with Chernomyrdin’s performance Yeltsin explained that he needed someone with fresh ideas and enthusiasm someone who could revitalize the Russian economy At the time Kiriyenko seemed like an unlikely choice He had been in Moscow barely a year and his most senior position was that of minister of enKiriyenko seemed like a ergy Yet the breath of fresh air He had opened his own bank and created his own oil company in the provincial city of Nizhni Novgorod He dearly was a quick learner Admittedly Kiriyenko lacked experience In dealing with Moscow’s political establishment But he L COPY I quickly demonstrated his competence and moved to deal in particular with Russian economic problems that had basically been left unaddressed by Chernomyrdin Chernomyrdin simply had been unwilling to take the strong medicine that was needed Because the Russian financial markets had been vibrant in 1997 there did not seem much urgency until recently in addressing these matters As the Indians might have said: “In a strong wind even turkeys fly” In J997 the tripling in value of Russian stocks was a strong wind And the big turkey was Russia and its festering problems But with the Asian crisis the wind shifted and the turkey crashed leaving Kiriyenko to pick up the pieces In the end he was forced to declare a moratorium on the country's debt devalue the ruble and in effect put Russia into bankruptcy This was the legacy left by Chernomyrdin and there is no doubt that if Chernomyrdin had remained as prime minister the result would have been no different With all this turmoil Yeltsin began to feel the heat Off on vacation and clearly not in Bill com- mand of his body and mind he began to look for scapegoats Under Yeltsin it is always someone clse's fault The fact that on Friday the Duma voted Overwhelmingly for Yeltsin to quit as president forced him to focus Nor did it help Kiriyenko that the Moscow oli- - the very rich - began 's to agitate for removal As Kiriyenko began to press for effective tax enforcement and the breakup of some of the oligarchs' monopoly control Kiriyenko became the enemy With a moratorium in effect on payment of the government's debt some of the industrialists were on the verge of bankruptcy As early as Aug 21 there w ere rumors that the would prevail and Kiriyenko w as on the w ay garchs Kiri-yenko- out So to take the heat off Yeltsin fired Kiriyenko his latest scapegoat and brought back the incompetent Chernomyrdin It is hard to see how Chernomyrdin will be more effective than he was before Admittedly he may be able to work out some compromises and coalitions But Russia may have run out of time It has run out of money and it has already exhausted its first installment of a loan front the International Monetary Fund We often ask if a country can go bankrupt Russia under Chernomyrdin may soon provide an answer GoUmtin is associate director of the Davis Center Russian Stmbes at Ilanard Vnhersity ( state- ments in the article indicate that our foreign policy needs change Hal Adair for - |