Show jv’-- V’ " f)r - Monday October 6 2003 A4 is ’ I The Herald Journal scandal” What about the yummy ' scandals that have been ongoing? A year ago the CIA FBI NSA and other information agencies affirmed there was no link between Saddam Hussein’s government and the 911 catastrophe nor any significant supYet the Bush port for administration continued its cam- paign of innuendo and implication counter to those findings Journalists show flag disrespect " '' To the ” editor While attending the Millville City town counsel meeting of Oct 2 2003 1 was proud to see a Boy Scout troop fully dressed in scout uniforms conduct a flag ceremony and Pledge of Allegience to start the meeting I was impressed with the respectful manner in the way the boys performed the ceremony I commend the leaders of the city of Millville for their pride and patrioatism in recog- -' nizing those who have given so much for this country and our way of life As I looked around the room I saw everyone with their hands on their hearts and noticed two people with their hats still on and had to wonder if they understood the mean- ing the flag holds and why as a city ' Mijlville’s leaders felt it appropriate f Blatantly exploiting Americans’ fears our administration led us for the first time in our history into a preemptive war condemned as unnecessary by international experts on Mideast issues That war killed ' many innocen Iraqis and continues to take American lives When the WMDs Colin Powell assured us posed a threat failed to emerge we were told that removing a vicious was sufficient cause Yet we have not yet removed die vicious dictators from Saudi Arabia Egypt Singapore or China — too handy as marirets and sites for cheap labor? How many of the 20 billion taxpayer dollars first installment will return in profits to Bechtel Halliburton and insiders? Where ' other have been the headlines for these 'V scandals? Those two people both V v- - happened to be newspaper journal-- : i I' da j i meetings ’i W ists One from the Herald Journal y! and the other I assume came from USU’s Hard News Cafe Of all peo-- V pie I would assume a news journalist having reported on recent events around the world where so many of' c V our fellow Americans have died would have understood diis more than most The more I thought about yl their disrespect the more I felt compelled to write to the editor I would V hope in the future that as journalists and citizens we can have enough Letters to ttre editor and hats our to remove shqwXy and otherpeiy respect reverence to the flag that $5 many HC'sooal columns our freedoms 'have died for to give us' to the Her? R u ' ' ' Journal Vi “v tad-exem- pt Youth revived with stolen base S By Joan Ryan and have such a great time watching happy When it happens the barriers them because they are crazy enough of physical distance and experience and inspired enough to believe they between you and the athlete you are hen memorable moments ' can beat die system And then they watching disappear : For an instant I could see in ’’W' '!- VVV' V of 2003 are recounted by newscast-- “"'v do ' On paper Galarraga shouldn’t still see': end at to I something of my forgotten Galarraga year’s hope ot self the girl who ran through Andres Galarraga’s steal of second !'v be playing baseball He is nearly old Vy V i base in the Giants’160th game oftirc enough to put a glint in Anna Nicole klers and ate and made ‘ it eye and he’s a bit over perfume out of tap water and rose £?'fighting weight petals: Watching Galarraga at that “beefy ”as one unrecog-- : 5: goes v friends He of moment was like getting a cross-secould nized earned it kindly puts it y my may express '" : back from cancer in 1999 arid from a tion glimpse of time with youth and opinions that dov dismal enough tp seasons of ? couple age layered on top of one another fcnof align exactly lesser send men car to running open making an impossible joint appear- with your own If you Miami'-iv-tin ancev:-therfr were not dealerships tetter ?: dsagree please respond with a and onetimei:''' '2 1 don’t readily admit to my weak-- ! 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and is scione them named die wake of an athlete’s experience y of base ond there with the ranks v up V ' v's entific discovery this summer that :i'c V'- ' Barry Bonds! siphoning off some of their exuberance and transcendence for myself chocolate helps reduce chronic V y So about the steal stress Vf"” :S: Galarraga had taken a lead off of Galarraga’s steal of second base first base but the pitcher barely v offered just about everything ! want : In other words it was something in an athletic performance especially : acknowledged the threat Galarraga resembling grace an unexpected hadn’t stolen a base all year He had v now that I am older and slower : even preposterous gift that it seems ' stolen just four in the last four sea X V myself Like other smart athletes at v to me is reassurance that despite the' recall campaign and die sons Old and big he can be timed V the end of their careers Galarraga is ' from base to base as the scouts like administration current US God reveling in what he still has The Christian Science Monitorto say with a calendar y v X unearthing joys in a game he has : V' really does want us to be happy But just as the pitcher released his If you arc just beginning to pay played all his life I am watching die and die of sold to out the attention baseball that the now to pitch gasps playoffs for the drama and the beauty ith economic growth that China's economy crowd Pac at broke of baseball but Galarraga’s steal have Bell not Galarraga begun you might playoffs 'defies gravity China might seem like ' second on for catcher reminded me of my real agenda I am : The underthrives with be or familiar opposing competition Galarraga a thoroughly modem state whose stawas so flabbergasted he stood with for those moments that capstand why I would make a fuss over waiting freedoms bedrock of a on rests could So its politics bility the ball in his hand and watched ture the continuum of age in a his steal I first will tell you that Yet in a reminder of how far China ' second safely We when you see the child in the reach I is baseball love Not Galarraga why Galarraga has to go the ruling Communist adult and recognize yourself him only but guys like him who give leaped to our feet and cheered aging office since last guard week to trust decided taking this only Party Galarraga’s face lit up like a kid in you everything you want from November its subjects just enough to let them his first sandlot game His teammates Joan Ryan is a columnist for the San line a and a Hu months has In recent visited soap sports: story opera marry without first gaining permisFrancisco Chronicle Send comments in the Giants dugout howled smile invites luminous that the you political eight sion from their employers to her in care of this newspaper or These are moments the wait for is the like ride you along Galarraga parties and groups that could form The decree was another sign of a at joanryansfchrorii-decosend her for: entire athlete an season an those movie of one in the for limited the And basis guys : democracy promised transition from rule by the in the act of being absolutely “Ocean’s Eleven” You root for them caught he’s made reference to the direct party’s “little emperors" to rule by elections introduced in rural villages law an iffy process that's been called ' over the past five years Still Hu’s a descent from “heaven" to “earth” goal may simply be to introduce Another sign came this week when China's president and party chief Hu elections within the party as a way Here is a list of addresses and Senate District 25 (Cache Rich and Tooele counties) — Rep EB Ander--' to weed out the corruption that’s a Jintao gave an address that used the Summit counties) — Lyle W Hillyard numbers for some of Cache Valson 8790 W Highway phone the source on and of a economy drag word “democracy” eight times within government: E 100 North Logan UT 175 UT 84337 Home 102'Tremontoh ley’s representatives popular distrust in two sentences Mr Hu asked the 3 84321 Home phone busi- 0 phone facade on of political a Putting party’s Politburo “to expand citizens’ UTAH SENATE 0 Email: At legislature: ness House District 3 (Cache County) — ' pluralism while hanging onto To call your Utah senator at the Senorderly participation in political office: Buttars 540 S 1600 DiillyardOutah8enateorg Logan Craig rule is an old trick among affairs and guarantee the people's 5 ate: (801) lawcom West Lewiston UT 84320 Home lyleOhao— ' nations Asia in But places like many To write your senator at the Senate: 5 rights to cany out democratic elecphone Taiwan Hong Kong and South tions decisionmaking management UTAH HOUSE The Honorable John Doe Utah State House District 4 (Cache Rich Korea have shown that real pluralism To call the Utah House of RepresentSenator Room 319 State Capitol Salt and supervision according to law” counties) — Loraine Pace 9 Lake City UT 84114 His words raise some hope that Hu can also create a prosperous stability atives: (801) 435 E 900 North 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