There are too many people out there wanting. The villagers need money to relocate or the ones that live in flood zones need money to repair flood damages; where are their fellow Natives?
Bikers want the roads redone to accommodate them, but they are always in the way, driving carelessly. Whatever, it is your life, I just don't want to spend any of mine in jail because a bike thought it could cut me off.
The gay community wants to be accepted, which is something that cannot be forced. They want others' rights to be taken in place of the ones they're requesting.
The homeless population doubled (a lot more people taking rather than giving) and the crime rates have spiked (way too many gun carrying, uneducated, thug wannabes out there).
What is going on Alaskans?? We are falling apart here. Let focus on the majority of the people, not the needy minorities.
- Mikaela Zellweger
Anchorage
Keep your T-shirt at home and pour me a double
In the unlikely scenario Mr. Minnery describes in his Compass piece ("Homesexual agenda runs roughshod over our civil liberties," June 8), under the proposed anti-discrimination ordinance, Mad Myrna's would have the right to expect that a bartender come to work (and, by extension, to a job interview) dressed as the employer would deem appropriate for the job. In this case, that would mean not wearing an anti-gay T-shirt.
If he had dressed appropriately for the interview, if he had the best bartending skills among all the applicants, and if his references and interview indicated that he could be expected to make the bar's customers feel welcome and comfortable - a basic part of any bartender's job - keeping his "religious" views (I don't believe homophobia to be a true religious value) to himself at work, then under the proposed ordinance Mad Myrna's couldn't, and shouldn't, discriminate against him.
- Barb Clark
Anchorage
Gov needs a full-time ghost
Gov. Palin has chosen to opt out of a national program to standardize K-12 education. Perhaps she considers herself an exemplar of the best in Alaskan K-12 education.
In fact, Palin's own elementary language skills are a source of continuing amusement, as she regularly mangles standard English. The latest example appears in a email quoted on page A-1 of the June 5 Anchorage Daily News (Kott, etc.). Palin writes of wondering what "resulted in these stunning turn of events." This is not grammatically correct. One must either say "this stunning turn of events" or "these stunning turns of events." Like a newby to the language, Palin loses track of singular and plural in her statement. This is the sort of non-standard English marginally educated people use.
Another example? In her State of the State address, Palin writes "...we forge mighty rivers." Huh? Better look that up, Sarah. No time? Get a ghost writer. Already got one? Then use her.
If Lynn Vincent really intends to doctor Sarah's fractured prose for a whole book, she'd better lay in a stunning supply of red pencils.
- Diane Pleninger
Anchorage
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