So why weren't you at church today, Crushed?I was. ???
The confluence of a local banner story, mercury in our schools, and the national issue of drilling for oil in our own land illustrates the ignorance the media and schools have instilled in our children and older, uneducated citizens.
The public schools in the South, by all measures of comparison, have lost the race for excellence against the rest of the country.
Ecology and global warming, the former a limping science and the latter a scam, are simple and within the grasp of the participants, be they teachers or students.
Mercury has been found in most fish eaten in the U.S. since the first assays were performed, around the 1940s. Mercury was a source of amusement in every science class I have ever taken, from "silvering" dimes with your fingers to sucking up mercury to fill Warburg flasks used to determine metabolic functions in cell cultures.
Many folks about my age (77) made their own lead soldiers in their bedrooms with a block of lead and an electric furnace with molds for soldiers.
Lead smoke has a dusty taste as we hovered over the molds and inhaled the smoke. Having been raised in the depression, we could not afford chewing gum so all us guys and girls chewed tar off the roads in the front of our houses. Good tar also has no taste.
We are now entering the age of the latest scam, in the image of Obama. Everything will be free, no one pays and the world will love us. I imagine he has no taste either. I look forward to the destruction of the Democratic Party and Bush being looked at as one of the four greatest presidents.
RICHARD S. TUTTLE
This definitely sounds like someone who's logic I should trustQuote from: Letter to the Editor in today's newpaperHaving been raised in the depression, we could not afford chewing gum so all us guys and girls chewed tar off the roads in the front of our houses. Good tar also has no taste.