Letters to the editor Sept. 25

Traffic lights needs

on Highway 50 East

Once again, the poor horses of Mound House are killed right here on the highway. This time three of them got hit by a truck.

When will the politicians stop looking the other way and put some lights on Highway 50 East?

They are fast enough to take from the seniors and put money in their own pockets.

Pearl Werfel

Mound House

Street needs to clearly

be marked 'No U-turn allowed'

On Sept. 15, I had to deliver some papers to the north end of Carson, and as I crossed College Parkway, I noticed two motorcycle officers who each had a car pulled over in front of Glen Eagles Restaurant. I thought it was odd that they both had a car.

I delivered the papers and pulled back out on Highway 395 North because you can only go north from where I was. I went to the light at Medical Parkway to make the U-turn to come back into Carson. Two other cars were in the turn lane behind me, and when the light turned, all three of us made the U-turn.

At the first street we came to, out came the two motorcycle officers with lights on. I pulled over to get out of his way, and to my surprise, he pulled in behind me and the other one pulled over behind the car behind me.

The reason I, like many others, were pulled over was the U-turn at Medical Parkway. When the officer asked if I understood, I said I felt it should be marked no U-turn. The officer then became insulting, saying anyone with a brain would understand it was implied.

Well, if people understood, why have they given out so many tickets this week? Our officers do a good job for the most part, but this one didn't need to talk down to me or anyone else. Anyone who got a ticket for this, fight it.

Carol Kneese

Carson City

Tea Party forced GOP

to rediscover roots

Word spread on the morning of Sept. 10 that Westboro Baptist Church would be protesting the funeral service of Maj. Heath Kelly, one of the Guardsmen killed in the IHOP shooting, at the Carson City National Guard Armory. About 50 of us assembled at the armory gates to shield the mourners from the protesters.

Around noon, the crowd waved American flags as the funeral procession arrived from Reno, protected by a Patriot Guard escort of about 200 motorcyclists. Westboro was a no-show.

Decades ago, before brooding nutcases hid behind God to trash military funerals, the Democratic Party was taken over by smelly misfits who hid behind their anti-war politics to spit on soldiers.

Now, liberals have a new target, one that doesn't come with a motorcycle escort. The Tea Party movement is made up of ordinary citizens sick of the Democratic Party policies that cratered the economy.

History repeats itself as the party of patriotism and prosperity faces off against the party of hate speech and Wisconsin-style political violence. Judging by the Republican electoral successes, most recently in the special elections that gave Mark Amodei a crushing victory in Nevada and another Republican a decisive win in New York, reason is trumping emotion on the political battlefield.

America had 1 1/2 major political parties until the Tea Party forced the Republicans to rediscover their conservative roots. Now voters have a real choice in future elections.

Lynn and Jan Muzzy

Minden