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Dear John

2.6.08 @ 12:01AM

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This article is excellent. You could come to Texas and it is worse. The crime rate is terrible. Texas has to do something about it or there will be no Texas. The drug cartel on the border is very scary. Our governor Mr. Perry is doing a very poor job; it will be last time he will be governor. The laws on the books now has to be enforced and then they will go back to Mexico. Come to America legally. That's all I want. Thank you finally for a fair article about the problem.
-- Pat Denison
Waco, Texas

"Without an opportunity to work, illegal immigrants would return home, just as 60 percent of immigrants from the first great migration went home when the Depression dried up jobs here."

Really? Is there any documentation for this? I had no idea.
-- Dave Fobare

TIKI NO RINGS
Re: Neal B. Freeman's Take That, Tiki Barber:

I was wondering where the ever-smiling Tiki was at the end of the game Sunday. I remembered some of his comments at the beginning of the season after the G-men had lost two. I don't recall him sounding mean, or even petty, but he sure was wrong, "Big-time" as our VP would say. It hurt to see our Packers lose to the Giants at Lambeau but it sure felt good to see them win in Arizona! Congrats G-men, your day really did arrive.
-- Roger Ross

QUIET RIOT
Re: Patrick J. Michaels's Corn on the Mob:

Patrick Michaels imputes to Indonesia, "a land in turmoil, home to massive volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes...a brand new type of disturbance, the world's first food riot caused by another nation pandering to the global warming mob."

Surely last spring's Caribbean rum shop altercations, caused by the closure of distilleries starved of molasses by gasohol demand take precedence, as well as the violent demonstrations in rural Mexico precipitated by spiking tortilla prices that were widely reported later in 2007.

By some accounts, the Bali Climate Conference that moved UN officials and Nobel Peace Prize winners to tears and apoplexy was quite a riot in its own right.
-- Russell Seitz
Cambridge, Massachusetts

FAKED OUT
Re: Bruce F. Webster's letter (under "Salamander Slander") in Reader Mail's Preacher Bill:

I read a letter to the editor from Bruce F. Webster recently stating, "In the case of the forged 'Joseph Smith III blessing'... the LDS Church donated it to...Community of Christ." I am writing to this, as Bruce is misinformed. The LDS church traded this document. Community of Christ received the document, they received an original Book of Commandments. Now once it was found to be a forgery, the LDS archivist or historian (I can't recall right now) contacted Community of Christ's to let him know they were traveling through Kansas City and wanted to return the Book of Commandments, the Community of Christ guy offered to give back the blessing but said nah, keep it, we don't want it. So is returning payment once the item sold is found to be a fake truly a donation?
-- Sarah L. Anderson

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