This week the City did not pick up my garbage on time, the mailman was two days late with my Social Security check and the landscapers did not come to clean my yard.

The only conclusion I can come to is that it’s all George Bush’s fault.

Donald Hamm

Clifton

Grasping

Robert Dalton, right-wing extremist, complains that I call his using Senator Biden’s loss of his wife and daughter in an automobile accident as a means of attacking Biden to be a disgrace. He still insists that Biden, whose two sons were also seriously injured in the accident, improperly talks about what happened. Dalton wasn’t there, I wasn’t there and Biden wasn’t there. If 10 people see an accident you can get 10 different opinions of who was at fault. The facts was that his wife and daughter were dead and his sons badly injured. Doesn’t Dalton have enough issues that he disagrees with Biden about, he has to use this tragedy to make personal attacks against Biden, just as McCain and his vice presidential nominee used personal attacks against Barak Obama instead of discussing the issues.

Paul Furlong

Clifton

Special time of year

When I behold the beautiful yet eerie autumn sky at dusk I become utterly entranced. One of the aspects of this season that I have always valued is the compellingly dark and mysterious ambiance that permeates the very air as Halloween approaches. One can almost see the ancient ghosts rising from their graves and hear the blood-curdling howls of werewolves in the distant woods. As the barriers between the known and unknown dissolve, our mythic imagination begins to seep more easily into our ordinary state of consciousness, which in turn opens the doorway to mythical experience. What essentially occurs is a "suspension of disbelief" and this phenomenon if only for a brief and fleeting period of time allows magic to once again become a potential element of our reality. Can you like the witches of old walk between the worlds of flesh and spirit and become a conduit through which parallel demensions of beings might intercept. Sometimes, especially at Halloween time, it is simply a matter of opening up your mind to the possibility. But alas, the glorious night calls to me and I must follow in her shadow, I bid thee farewell.

Phil Patti

Clifton

The root of the problem

In the late 80s liberal Democrats decided that  this nation’s mortgage industry needed to be fixed. Along with Marxist-based community groups such as ACORN, liberals decided that such racist policies such as down payments, credit histories, proof of income, were outdated.

In 1995 the community reinvestment act required mortgage lenders to loosen their standards. It also let community activists intervene at yearly bank reviews. Banks that got poor reviews from these Marxist groups saw their merger plans frustrated, others faced  direct legal challenges by the Clinton Justice Department. One group that worked with community activists and followed the most flexible lending plans was Countrywide, the nation’s largest mortgage lender. Over 600 billion dollars by 2003. no credit score needed. No one should be surprised over our current global credit crisis. While the media portrays Wall Street as the problem, it was the financial instruments backed by mortgages to individuals with no credit that has threatened our way of life. Read your Lenin , read your Marx. What was that about capitalists selling the rope. 

Rich Garigliano

Clifton

Makes no sense

I simply cannot believe the ludicrously stupid dribble that spews forth from the mouths of reactionary right wing ideologues like Seder and Warholic. After eight years of the Bush administration bleeding our country dry by hemorrhaging over a trillion dollars of our taxes into an utterly pointless quagmire in Iraq, they have the audacity to blame the Democrats for our current economic woes. Are you saying that if a Democratic administration had been in place for the last two terms and the economy is as bad as it is that you wouldn’t be blaming the Democratic party? It is true what they say, denial is not just a river in Egypt it is the very foundation of the entire Republican platform. But I’m glad to see you are so serious about bringing corrupt politicians to justice. Let’s start at the top shall we? Let us immediately impeach George W. Bush and prosecute him for multiple counts of high treason. He illegally manipulated the results of the 2000 Presidential elections and then proceeded to lie to both Congress and the American people numerous times about what he claimed was Iraq’s involvement in 9-11 and about Iraq’s alleged possession of WMDs. Both allegations turned out to be false and unfounded. American voters, I ask you this, have the Republicans done such a fantastic job in office the last eight years that you really want to give them another four years to further eat away at the socioeconomic infrastructure of our country by always giving the most to those who need it the least? Please don’t let ignorance and bigotry cause you to repeat past mistakes by voting for neo-conservative extremists like John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Phil Patti

Clifton