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most inconvenient snowstorm in Washington
On Tuesday, Dec. 15, the National Weather Service used the best, most advanced computer modeling available to predict that the following Saturday (Dec. 19) would be partly cloudy with a high temperature of 38 degrees. Instead, we experienced the greatest December snowstorm ever recorded for the Washington metropolitan area. Not only was transportation disrupted, the timing couldn’t have been worse, coming as it did on the last weekend before the Christmas holiday. It can truthfully be said that this historic storm was inconvenient. We need a new, easy-to-remember scientific scale based on the metric system to measure such snow events. I propose that each 10 centimeters of snow be called one standard “Inconvenient Truth” – or “I.T.” for short. The beauty of this is that it converts so easily to English measurement, 10 centimeters equaling four inches. Better yet, the “5-I.T.” storm we just experienced reminds all of us that we must re-double our efforts to reduce global warming.
Roger Johnson
Kensington
Fat cat bankers didn’t have to wail ’til 2013
Am I missing something? Even if the U.S. Senate and House can agree on a health care bill, it has been reported that the uninsured won’t be covered until at least 2013. But when the banks and Wall Street went to the Secretary of the Treasury, they got several hundred billion dollars in a matter of days. Why do the American people accept this outrage?
Jack Donner
Alexandria
Franken shows his mean, vindictive side
Most people could ignore Al Franken’s rancorous political narcissism, but there is no ignoring him now. The machinations of the Democrat leadership aside, the freshman senator from Minnesota is not a statesman, but a vindictive demagogue with a history of doing anything to get attention. Indeed, his clumsy disrespect for Senator Joe Lieberman while presiding over the chamber by refusing to grant Lieberman an extra minute to finish his remarks on the healthcare debate – because the senator from Minnesota objected – is the first sign of Franken’s inability to contain himself. The reason the Washington Post, the New York Times and most of the left-stream media essentially ignored the story is because Franken is an embarrassment to them. Minnesota voters will undoubtedly also be embarrassed until the end of Franken’s – or is it Frankenstein’s? – term. Then again, they elected Jesse Ventura as governor. When will they learn?
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, CA
