In my 75 years, I have dedicated a great deal of my time and money to advocate for homeless cats and dogs. Pet shelters exist in most U.S. cities in an attempt to rehome the lucky ones that are considered adoptable.
In a recent visit to the city of Mission shelter, I was appalled at the conditions. Dogs spend all day, every day, in small, concrete pens, sharing this space with their excrement. The cats are all crammed together in two of these pens with a climber in each to get them off the floor. Employees are few and far between.
I offered them a substantial check but was told they couldn’t accept it because they are supported by the city. This is not my idea of “support.”
These helpless animals are there through no fault of their own. They deserve much better treatment and much better living conditions.
Debra Bolin
Mission
Republican
movement
Not content with their 2020 anti-democracy movement, Senate Republicans today have proudly crafted a new anti-children movement.
They want to suffocate the current federal virus aid proposal, which would provide tests, treatments and vaccines, giving children a pathway to growth, health and security in an Armageddon-like world.
Polio vaccines saved World War II-era kids from debility and death. But now, as World War III looms, Republicans want to hold everyone else’s mostly poor kids hostage to their own peculiar notions of good health and good science.
The Republican “health” program seeks to immunize the ultra-luxury class from any interference with their immoral financial activities, and the Republican science program seeks to promote the science of despotism.
One example of the Republican pro-despotism philosophy is their insistence that the Biden administration “repurpose” money for the virus that is already out there in the spending pipeline.
This is essentially asking for unconstitutional “impoundment” of funds like President Nixon did in the 1970s and President Trump did to find money for his wall. It is an impeachable legal offense, but really a cool tool for dictators who want to overturn the congressional power of the purse.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
Rise up,
oust Putin
Hail to the wonderful people, the common men and women of Russia, who in the 1940s working with America overthrew Adolf Hitler and his frightened army. It’s time for the Russians to unite and overthrow Vladimir Putin and his well-paid and well-fed army.
Putin tried to kill Alexi Navalny with poison. He did not run away and now sits in a Russian prison with pride and compassion. He came back to his native land, his beloved Russia, to spite Putin, the corrupt billionaire and attempted murderer.
We have some brave Russian people running businesses with success and dignity in America. The same pride and courage that will cause a people’s revolt against the corrupt Russian regime.
Will the good people of Russia rise up and destroy with good effort Putin and his confused, frightened army? Who may revolt within its ranks with knowledge of what’s right and what’s wrong?
The common Russian people must act with haste, love, courage and regret for some that they have only one life to give for their country.
David F. Jasper
Hollis, N.H.
