Open carry takes pleasure from Publix
I was surprised that I was surprised at the headline, “Publix allows open carry of guns, employees say.” Suddenly the slogan, “Publix, where shopping is a pleasure,” is hollow, but what should I expect in the “free state of Florida” where freedom is measured by the number of guns and dollars?
Jim Armstrong Winter Springs
Save a dog to help animal shelter
Kudos to the Orange County Commissioners for agreeing to build a new facility for Orange County Animal Services. Unfortunately, it will be a band-aid on a human-created problem. As stated in the Sentinel’s Oct. 6 article, OCAS is currently overwhelmed with dogs. Adoption, fostering, and rescuing has slowed. Every week OCAS publishes a “Last Chance List” with dogs that will be euthanized for behavioral or health issues that OCAS is not equipped to deal with. Think about that for a moment … every week. It is relentless. Many of these issues are minor and are a result of being in an overcrowded and very stressful place. If you can’t adopt, then foster these “Last Chance” dogs through a rescue organization. The rescue organization will cover all costs and there is a shortage of fosters. If you can’t do that, please pledge on Facebook at Urgent Dogs of Orlando, where you can help OCAS-approved rescue groups save these dogs and provide needed medical or behavioral care. This week’s list has four dogs; the deadline to apply is 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14. Next week there will be another list. Go adopt, foster, or pledge, and as always, spay or neuter your dog.
Terri Mellich Tangerine
Editor’s note: There is also an Urgent Cats of Central Florida Facebook group.
Kirk road-naming bill erodes free speech
State Representative Kevin Steele (R-Dade City) is clueless. He fails to see the irony in HB 113, a bill he introduced to the Florida Legislature requiring every state college and university to rename a street, chosen by Steele, after right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk. Failure to do so within 90 days of passage of the bill would cause “state funds to be withheld,” according to the text of the bill.
In essence, he wants to champion free speech by denying the free speech of these institutions or the students they serve. This is “cancel culture” at its worst.
David Smiley Orlando
Democrats already politicized DOJ
Under the Sentinel’s front page headline “Bondi evades Democrats’ questions about DOJ,” the following statement is made: “Democrats… warn of what they view as politicization of a department that has long prided itself on remaining independent from the White House.”
Have those people been in a coma during the past administration? You know, the one that sent a special counsel after a previous president, attempting to indict him. That special counsel that felt it necessary to obtain the phone records of seven U.S. senators and one congressman, all Republicans. The president who, after his four years of politicizing the DOJ, felt it necessary for the first time in history to pre-pardon his family members as well as members of his administration.
Once again, that near-fatal condition known as hypocrisy is causing a comatose-attention-deficit disorder of the American voters when it comes to their faith in Washington. It appears that this condition continues to worsen in the hallowed halls of Washington. Who will administer the needed cure, truth?
Are we all to be reduced to being a Diogenes, searching for an honest man? Having spent years covered up in the manure of political-speak, will we know it when we see it?
Bill Andrews Orlando
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