YOUR OPINION

Here is my list of essential points as we navigate the coming storm.

1). There is a difference between the God of Nature and the God of Religion. How do you keep your connection to Nature?

2). There are forces that are using Divide and Conquer. What do you do to Unite and be in Community?

3). There are forces that are using propaganda, subliminal programming and mind control.

What do you do to avoid or limit: TV, social media, gaming and technology?

4). We vote everyday through our time and our resources. What do you do to avoid or limit your support of companies that are working to tighten their control on humanity?

5). It is possible that everything authentic in our life has an artificial hijack. What do you do to hone your capabilities of discernment?

6). If there is authentic euphoria, there is also artificial euphoria.

(Think Beatlemania). Would you be able to discern the difference and find your authenticity when the artificial is playing financial games and ‘making you happy’?

7). What do you do to maintain your health, family, friendships, and community so we can navigate this storm together?

Stacy Cossey Priest River

All about Epstein files

Here we are in a stupid war no one wanted, big Trump. Why did he do this? He wants people to stop talking about the Epstein Files and his involvement in it!

To all those people that still believe him you need to wake up and listen to him. It is pathetic that he wants a draft to get more young people killed.

Our gas prices are higher than ever before, Trump did it. Grocery prices are crazy, Trump did it. More people are going to homeless from the partial government shutdown.

Make sure Democrats get control of our country to save it from him.

We can’t allow these crooks to skate off after all they have done, they need to is to look be held accountable!

Jeannie Hutchins Newport

Williams has my vote

Please don’t forget our history.

The value of looking backward before going forward has been repeated to us often. So let’s talk about the Bonner County Commissioner meetings. Does anyone remember how public input was shut down by the former commissioners? Commissioner Asia Williams made countless motions to overcome this, but the other two commissioners never seconded her motion. Thus, her motion could not go forward. So frustrating!

But she persevered and now, with new commissioners on board that have the same viewpoint, public input is promoted. Presently, public input is invited after each departmental presentation as well as at the end of the meeting. Thank you, Commissioner Asia Williams.

And please don’t forget the departmental chats that Commissioner Williams instituted.

Constituents wanted to know more about each department. So she invited them to an 8– 9 a.m. chat with those interested. (the building opens at 9 a.m. usually).

Oh yes, and what about the Saturday townhalls for the departments. This is quite a bit above and beyond what a commissioner does. Yet, she is just that. She is outstanding. Thank you again Commissioner Asia Williams. You have certainly secured my vote on Tuesday, May 19!

Kristine Logue Blanchard

TDS

As our politics and economic conditions continue to deteriorate, Trump supporters are relying increasingly on the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) to dismiss criticism of their President.

No full Epstein file disclosure, foreign war, inflation jumping up, tariffs declared illegal by Supreme Court, cutbacks on social benefits - a lot to legitimately criticize.

All of this is driven by a convicted felon president who describes the opposition party as “scum, vermin, enemies of the United States”.

I think the Trump fan club has run out of factual points to debate.

Enter TDS. Each time I see this lame excuse used to dismiss criticism of Trump’s policies and vulgar behavior, I think “how silly is this”? And do you remember all those F Biden signs we had? Talk about the frying pan calling the kettle black!

Sandy Nichols Newport

Dear Congressman Baumgartner

The misdirected attack on Iran does not benefit Eastern Washington, must less the entire country.

As a farmer, fertilizer costs, fuel and anything involving the use of petroleum is already being impacted.

My visit to the grocery store today, milk has risen 60 cents per gallon in the past week.

Trump has provided an only ever-changing reasoning for this attack on Iran. The vast majority of the country does not support this war. Compound all of this the longterm damage being inflicted upon our country’s reputation in the international world. A reputation being destroyed that will take years to recover.

“Bomb them back to the stone age” is not a new comment from a misguided leader. Geneal Le-May made this statement in 1965 concerning Vietnam. We know the result.

It is time for Congress to “look in the mirror” and take control of this debacle. Supporting your party leader is understandable in normal times. Now is the time to stand up for our country and uphold the essential elements of our democracy. A “photo op” in your newsletter does not negate the negative economic impact for Eastern Washington or our world’s reputation.

No war.

Robert W. Schutte Newport

Military kills on supporters behalf

Imagine a Trump voter imitating Trump’s Iran civilization ending threat going to a car dealership and demanding they sell him a car for $$ by noon, or he will pull his open carry weapon and kill everyone at the dealership.

He then shoots out some windows. The police are called and the Trump voter says he was just negotiating and wasn’t serious about killing everyone.

To be clear, Trump can’t end the 6,000-year-old Iranian civilization in one night by blowing up bridges and power plants. That requires using hundreds of nuclear weapons to kill all 93 million Iranian people.

One day Trump is going to do what he says so outrageously.

Our military will launch nukes on Trump’s order. Dropping bombs on countries and killing or kidnapping their leaders isn’t negotiating. Trump voters have the blood of innocent civilians on their hands. You put a deranged person in office, and his bombs can’t tell the difference between combatants and children who can’t harm us. Our military kills women and children on your behalf making you complicit in the act.

Soon, America will be dropping bombs on Cuba, or another country Trump wants to claim for his personal empire of conquest.

Pete Scobby Newport

Letter writer misdirects

Over and over again, the writer in the April 1 letter, “Dying for presidential vanity,” attempts to misdirect readers using confusing analogies by assertions that are unrelated to my original statement and continues to omit consequential information.

Examples: “We recently did that with Venezuela; Trump deposited $500 million from Venezuela in a Qatar account.” The writer failed to mention that, as reported by US News, the Venezuelan people received the $500 million in February.

In addition, they write: “She can process 18-year-old boys for induction and foreign war deployment.” The statement appears to be both unsettling and misogynistic. In the context of Trump’s “Imperial American Empire,” it is perplexing why he would deny women the right to be drafted, individuals with asthma, and even those with “bone spurs.” If he assumed the role of a monarch, he could issue another authoritarian executive order without congressional approval.

The writer demanded evidence of drug cartel vessels and their occupants in their letter titled “Show us the proof.” Ironically, they consistently fail to provide their own evidence. In their letter “Money determines level of justice,” they asked if a billionaire has ever been executed or imprisoned for life. Yes, just Google it… Renee Webster Newport