Russ Wiles

To the editor,

I so much enjoyed the "comedic piece" by Marty Valengavich on May 6. Really though, I hope you are serious about being condemned to the honest truth and the facts. Bob Meade tried succinctly to nudge you in that very direction. I would only add that plenty of evidence has surfaced to confirm that "man made global warming" has been disproved as a "liberal man made hoax". Lord Christopher Moncton is ready and waiting to have an honest debate with the elusive Al Gore. Yes, that would be the same Al Gore who just bought a nine million dollar mansion on the coast of California. Proof positive that even he doesn't believe his own goofy theory about the rapidly rising ocean waters. Oh, and Marty, regarding your warning that ice fishing may soon be a thing of the past in this state. Is that based on our past warm winter? If so, then logically, someone should be warning Washington DC that they better be enjoying their Toyota Prius cars during summer's warm breezes. Increasingly severe winter blizzards will force folks to traverse the beltway on horse drawn sleighs.

Speaking of humor, Garrison Keilor's hullabaloo column on May 8th was one hellova funny piece. Yeah, another Islamist terrorist infiltrated our shores and again, only by the grace of God and more ineptitude by a hate-filled radical were American lives spared the same fate as those poor souls at Fort Hood. So, after much humorous blatherings about "bomb experts", Garrison gets semi- serious for a moment. He expressed sarcastic concern that too much information will be gathered about the "Pakistani gentleman". I'm so glad he loves New York and Times Square. Here's hoping he makes a trip upstate to pen a column about the terrorist training camps from the liberal point of view. Let me take a stab at a catchy heading — "Harmless middle-eastern tree-huggers praise Allah for American 2nd Amendment rights".

Oh, and by the way, did the main stream media really intimate that the Time Square terrorist might be mad at us because he wasn't able to realize the American dream? If only taxpayer funded government money could have paid for his 13 trips to Pakistan. Then perhaps his house would not have been foreclosed upon and he could have continued his fine work as head of the neighborhood crime watch team.

Yes, truth really is far stranger than fiction and apparently, for the "pusillanimous, partisan press", really quite hard to find.

Russ Wiles

Tilton