Last Updated on 2/9/2010

Published on 11/10/2009

Boots on ground

  My father is Clifton Elliott, the Dean of Instruction at Williamsburg Technical College. And my mother is Monica Elliott, manager of the Book Bag at Williamsburg Technical College.
  With saying that I can only hope that this letter is grammatically correct for his sake. I was hoping that maybe I could get some support over here in Afghanistan. I am not joking by any means.
 I grew up in Andrews, S.C., and graduated class of 2000. Right now, I am in the Navy and have been for over 8 1/2 years. You can ask my mom at work where she has a picture to prove this.
  Anyways, right now I am deployed "boots on ground" for the Navy to work in support for the Army. I am with 12 troops that are from 4/82nd Airborne out of Ft. Bragg, N.C.
 All I am asking is that you may put this letter in the newspaper or at least pass it along to local businesses.
   We as a team here are writing hometown businesses to send us T-shirts, hats, or whatever they have with their logo on it. We will take a picture with the Afghanistan mountains in the background, and e-mail the picture back to you.
  That way you can post it up in your front windows in support of your troops.
  If not, then that is okay. Just as long as we tried to get the word out. I am just trying to bring up the morale of the troops that I am serving with.    
   Figured that I could reach out to a small town that I literally grew up in, because I am a small town country boy who is trying to make a difference.
 Everyone knows that small towns stick together, just hoping that I am not wrong. After all that is what my Dad and Mom raised me on, always look out for your family, and always give the support of someone from home.
   If anyone wants to participate you can e-mail me at my work address, Russell.t.elliott@afghan.swa.army.mil or at my personal e-mail address, trapper_elliott@yahoo.com.
 Or just mail me a package to: Trapper Elliott
Camp Stone, Herat, ARSIC-West S6, APO AE 09354
  Thank you for your time and patience.   

  Russell "Trapper"  Elliott

Re: Sanderson's "We can do better"
 
    As we have seen time and again with Sanderson, the truth is hard to find in his long winded dissertations.
 I read the report Sanderson quoted at everychildmatters.org. In Sanderson's diatribe, he talks about the relationship of spending on child abuse, to the rate of child deaths; spend more, save more children.
 Of course Sanderson uses Liberal Speak, and won't say "spend more" instead he says "commit new resources."

  He points out that states like mean old South Carolina and Maine spend the least to protect children.
 States like wonderful California and Alaska spend the most to protect children. He points out that states like Nebraska and Kentucky have the highest child abuse death rates in the country.
    I read the reports statistics, and I will use the states Sanderson listed for this rebuttal.
  States spending the most money to prevent child abuse; like California and Alaska have higher child abuse death rates than states spending the least; like South Carolina and Maine.
 States spending the most to prevent child abuse; like Nebraska-10th highest in spending, and Kentucky-13th in spending, have the highest child abuse death rates.
  How can this be? The government spending more should mean that Nebraska and Kentucky are the best at protecting children, not the worst.
 Dear readers, again we see another feeble attempt by Sanderson to justify taking more of our money "for the children;" yet the report Sanderson uses confirms that spending more does not make things better.
 Liberals using the power of government to steal our money is nothing new. These neo-Marxists can only get away with it if we don't pay attention, and don't speak up.

Tom Slagsvol
Georgetown

Health insurance
 
Dr. Crosby gave us some very pertinent and timely information in Letters To the Editor on Friday, Nov. 6. However, I suggest he took a detour with his first suggestions.

 One must put the federal government in charge to allow health insurance across state lines and "improve portability" — whatever that means. Ones insurability is already portable.
 One must buy electricity from a new provider in a new locality. One must register his car in a new state and pay new taxes.
 You can't take your Geogetown health insurance rates and transport them to New York or San Francisco. Conversely, a move-in from New York would never want to keep his New York rate. He wants the cheap (relatively) Georgetown rates.
 State law has already done its part in dictating what must be covered in health insurance policies. This has driven up the cost. One can shudder at the thought of what the U.S. Congress and an army of bureaucrats would do to cost, access, and timely treatment.
 
Dunbar Jewell
Pawleys Island


‘Forecaster-In-Chief’

Is there anything Obama doesn't know — or want to pass on to the American people?
 Is there anything the former ClintonNewsNetwork, CNN, now the official Obama network won't report in order to present their new messiah in a flattering light?
 The answer is no and no. As evidenced by a darling little weather report on CNN this morning featuring Obama as the forecaster-in-chief.
 In his never-ending quest to control the flow of information, the Obama administration has launched a cute little Web site, Obama-Weather.com

 Included in CNN's 'report' was the visually appealing Oops moments, showing how various politicians didn't dress in anticipation of the weather.
Our elected representatives are braving all kinds of meteorological events in order to make their way to the microphone to keep 'we the people' informed.
A a little rain or global cooling, isn't going to stop this hearty bunch.
 The Huffington Post chimed in also, "The Dresser-In-Chief is featured on Obama-Weather.com, a weather Web site that tells you how to clothe yourself for the coming day.
 Cartoon Obama's casual outfits are cute, but you can check out his actual weekend wear here."
They hasten to add that "other celebrities" are also available via a drop down menu.
All useful idiots should check this site out immediately, as Obama's predictions are known by some to be infallible.
 Our prediction is that it will soon start covering the next crisis du jour — global warming — in glowing, graphic detail.
 And even if it doesn't represent real science, its cute and convincing. Just Like Obama

Nancy Morgan, RightBias.com, columnist and news editor
Murrells Inlet