To the Editor:
You assert "no official recognition should be acknowledged for "transgenderism" because it is a scientific falsehood...without two X chromosomes no one can become female...without X and Y chromosomes no one can become a male."
Science has yet to discover a "Catholicism" chromosome, no evidence for a "Catholic" gene. Using your reasoning, no official recognition should be acknowledged for "Catholics" because "Catholicism" is a scientific falsehood.
A few Realities for you:
Transgender people exist. That is a scientific fact. Transgender people, like Catholics, are studied scientifically under the umbrella of the Social Sciences. Fields of study that include History, Anthropology, Psychology, Linguistics, and Geography to name a few.
Transgender people, along with the entire spectrum of human diversity, are studied scientifically at universities around the world including the University of Oxford in England, Trinity College in Dublin Ireland, and at Georgetown, the top-ranked American Jesuit Catholic university.
But let's be real. Your flawed argument is not your own. It was made for you, at least in part, at the recent CPAC meeting, by callous pious bigots attempting to justify their hatred for everything and everyone that isn't just like them.
Science has yet to discover a "rapist" chromosome, no evidence for a "child-molester" gene; but the scientific fact they exist is evidenced by a trip to your local Catholic church. They are the men wearing long flowing robes, sometimes adorning fancy hats, always claiming to be messengers of God.
Scott Duckett,
Fillmore

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To the Editor:
There are many subjects to discuss this week, but I can’t let last week’s Editorial slide.
I wrote that recent CPAC attendance was way down and posited some reasons. One offered by Republican non-attendees was that not every Republican still worships at the Trump altar. Another was the sexual accusation against Matt Schlapp. Is it possible he’s innocent? As a matter of law, it is assumed. I did not say he was guilty, I said that his denials were unconvincing to me, and apparently similarly received by numerous Republicans.
Your response? “The Democratic Party is so strewn with the remnants of generational sexual abuse cases and accusations are you surprised? Do any prominent Democratic politicos come to mind?” What are you talking about? This is what you think is a principled, defensible argument? Vague, incendiary accusations against “others”? You have repeatedly accused Biden of leading a “crime family,” without proof, yet you turn a blind eye to the multitude of extant criminal and civil actions filed against Defendant Trump.
In inelegant terms, Martin, you can dish it, but you can’t take it. You believe that accusations against anyone on “your side” are unfair, trivial, malignant, and prevarications, while accusations against liberals are appropriate, defensible, and ipso facto accurate.
Correct. No president has suffered the political arrows as has Trump. And no other president did all of the following: was named in multiple criminal or civil suits for sexual improprieties, attacks and payoffs, and fraudulent business dealings; and had extensive financial links to treacherous foreign governments (in the public realm right now are horrifying details involving Saudi Arabia, Jared, and Trump); and denigrated American citizens; told an estimated 30,500 lies in office; and was impeached twice, once for trying to overthrow the government.
No other president has used the Constitution to wipe his ego.
Potential presidential candidate Mike Pompeo is brilliant. He is also currently trashing Trump for running up the national debt (including 1.9 trillion just for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, 2017, without offsets) and not being a “conservative.” During his appearance at CPAC, Pompeo said that the GOP must “move away from celebrity leaders with fragile egos." Conversing with Hugh Hewitt, Pompeo said that the GOP needs “more seriousness. We need less noise….We need leaders that are looking forward, not staring in the rearview mirror claiming victimhood.”
He played the Trump card until it blocked his hand.
Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore,Ca.

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To the Editor:
Mrs Skoles,
Let’s drill down on your bizarre attempts to paint conservatives as violent by introducing information that one could call “an inconvenient truth”. This may come as a shock to some of you readers as it’s never been taught to you but it’s all true: A Democrat killed Lincoln. A Democrat killed JFK. A democrat killed MLK. The KKK was created by the southern democrat party. Democrats were the ones who lynched blacks. Democrats were for segregation and push for it in colleges today. Democrats created Jim Crow laws. Japanese internment camps were a democrat creation. A democrat president got us into Vietnam. Antifa and BLM (now known as Buy Large Mansions) violently burned down cities where they protested while their democrat brethren in public office mandated the police inaction and innocent people actually died, which is something that never occurred on Jan 6th no matter how hard you clutch those pearls (aside from Ashley Babbit, who was murdered in cold blood by a democrat capital policeman). Cities that have been run entirely by democrats for decades represent the most deadly and hopeless in America. Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco are violent, drug fueled cesspools of corruption and decay; democrats run them without exception. Democrats now push for men in women’s bathrooms and women’s sports. Democrats disgustingly advocate for transgender reading hour and lessor punishments for pedophiles (Gavin Newsome signed it into law) and insist on grooming children in every conceivable way possible. Democrats want grading in schools to be based on race. Democrats want jobs and public positions to be about race quotas as well (so much for MLK’s “content of character” speech, no wonder they had him killed). Democrats pushed for school closures and vaccine mandates for a vaccine that did nothing to stop the spread of a virus as the globalist media mislead Americans about its very origin. Democrats mandated masks that were ineffective and advocated for law enforcement to use force against mothers taking their children to the park to play. A violent Democrat shot Steve Scalise and attempted to kill others at a Congressional baseball practice. A Democrat was the shooter at the Las Vegas massacre the media wants us all to forget about. Children between the age of 1 & 14 were more likely to die from drowning, car accidents, cancer and the flu than they were Covid yet the boob tube consumers and their groupthink bought into the globo-elite mainstream hysteria and ineffective vaccine as insurance for an event that wasn’t statistically significant for that age bracket. Democrats shut down businesses, churches, schools and political rally’s while allowing millions of unvaccinated non-citizens across the border yearly and then allowed actual violent protests to occur in the big cities. Democrat politicians push for escalation into world war 3 in Ukraine while we all know that none of them will be doing the fighting…or spending their own money on weapons to kill…but they’ll sure take those MIC donations and profit off of the insider trading. A democrat president just let a convicted international Russian arms dealer (Russians were supposedly bad, until now I suppose) walk out of prison on a trade of a anti-American basketball player…while at the same time attempting to reduce Americans ability to defend themselves. I could go on for days but most people get the point hopefully. Now this is not to say that republicans are perfect, as vultures possess both a left and a right wing, but the point is that you simply sound a bit unstable by propagating the propaganda on a weekly basis as if your side is beyond reproach. It most certainly is not. The media is simply owned by the elites to control the poor and middle class, not the other way around.
Regards,
Ryan Shiells,
Fillmore

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To the Editor:
Biden cannot seem to realize that the policies he has put in place during his presidency have caused, in some cases, irreparable harm.
His disastrous removal of the military from Afghanistan contributed to the loss of the life of 13 soldiers and 100's of Afghanistan citizens. He left our weapons behind for use by the Taliban which have regained a hold in the area.
He opened our border causing millions to pour through placing a burden on communities across America to find housing, health care and provide education for the immigrants at a time when resources are stretched thin due to the pandemic. Those resources are thin due to the requirement to take a vaccine that was known not to keep you from either getting or transmitting the disease.
He cut our energy independence to the bone all in the name of climate change then turned to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela pleading for fossil fuel. His strategy caused Europe to look to Russia for fuel, then we had nothing to offer when the war in Ukraine began. When shamed by the country he took from our reserve, selling most to China in hopes it would keep them from looking to Russia for their fuel. That too failed.
In January 2021 when he took office inflation was at two percent. Today its over six percent.
Biden weaponized the FBI and DOJ. They keep J6 defendants locked up for trespassing but let those who burned down a federal building out on bail. If you pray before an abortion clinic you get ten years but we can’t seem to find you if you burn a pregnancy center to the ground.
Let’s castrate our youth and hire pilots, doctors and teachers based on race or sexual preference instead of education or experience. He is appointing members to his departments that believe a man can give birth. Women are being pushed out of sports.
Banks are failing, not due to any fault of the prior administration, but due to the low interest rates that have been in place for years. Those banks purchased treasuries and when the interest rates increased they found they didn’t have enough money to cover their debts. Biden decided to let the FDIC print more money so all depositors, even those over the $250,000 allowed by law, will be made whole.
And last week, knowing we are moving toward a recession, Biden unveiled his $6 trillion budget asking for more socialist programs. He failed to address the concerns America is facing instead targeting climate change, equity and transgender dialogue.
A leader he is not. He continues to blame Trump, MAGA Republican’s and anyone else but himself. That is the most shameful part of his entire presidency. Unless the citizenry step forward I only anticipate the loss of America and the Constitution is at hand.
Patti Walker,
Fillmore