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The answer to who made God is ...
RE: WHO MADE GOD TO START WITH? (JAN. 24)
In answer to James Balch’s recent question, man made god. Just as man made Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Brian Hinkley, Brantford
Brokers love Trump so he must be good
RE: TRUMP PRESIDENCY
It appears all of the financial guru’s in the U.S. like Trump’s agenda. The New York Stock Index was up a whopping 25 per cent in 2017 and this momentum is still continuing in 2018. The Toronto Stock Index was up a pathetic five per cent for 2017 and is still struggling along. Ralph Corning, Stoney Creek Ontario may get its own Trump RE: ONTARIO PC LEADERSHIP
It’s great news that Dougie Ford is ready to take on the elites. No more big spending, just back to basics, and back to the great idea of firing 10,000 public servants.
Doug Ford could be our Donald Trump and answer all our prayers. An end to immigration, gutting social services, clawing back minimum wage increases ... Reg Whittley, Hamilton
Doug Ford’s family fortune
RE: ONTARIO PC LEADERSHIP
You gotta’ love this Ford family. Doug says he’s ready to take on the elites. Doug Ford, who inherited a milliondollar company from his Dad without lifting a finger. Compare that to Vic Fedeli, also a millionaire, but one who started from nothing.
Really, Doug Trump, who is the elite and who is the elitist? Sandy Hallman, Burlington
Global warming is happening, now move on
RE: SCIENTIFIC FACTS FOR TRUDEAU (JAN. 25)
Justin Trudeau is often incoherent in his thinking, but in this case he is acting sensibly upon what he knows, and what The Spectator also holds to be true. Global warming is happening! It is a proven scientific fact that it is! And 97 per cent of scientists agree! Anyone who disagrees, isn’t just a fool, but evil!
Since climate change is settled science, why should taxpayers keep paying for research to prove, once again, that two plus two equals four?
Let other countries spend money on the obvious. Time to move on to something else. Why spend more money on something that has already been scientifically proven beyond a shadow of doubt? Vincent J. Curtis, Hamilton
Wear a reflective vest, walkers
RE: ROAD SAFETY
Here’s the mind set of a pedestrian. I can walk wherever I want to. I can walk on the road and be damned the cars that are lawfully allowed having to be well lit up with head lights and rear lights and reflectors all around. But pedestrians still want to wear dark clothing.
If a walker would wear a reflective vest or at least have a flashlight or some other form of light reflection then and only then will here be a reduction in pedestrian deaths so wake up and be safe. Dennis Marten, Winona
The Liberals just threw a raspberry
RE: POSTAL SERVICE
To all those Mountaineers who voted two years ago with the expectations that their home mail delivery would be restored, I think the Liberals just threw you a giant raspberry. Although I am surprised that the class action lawyers haven’t got their web pages up and running yet. Not to be left out, the real estate floggers have a new selling point. “Buy a house with home delivery — why be a second-class citizen?” Bob Prociuk, Burlington
Who created the Black Hole?
RE: WHO MADE GOD TO START WITH? (JAN. 24) To James Balch, I say: You say that the earth was created by the Big Bang when a Black Hole exploded, but no one has shown who created God. Let’s reverse the question: who created the black hole that allowed the Big Bang to Happen? God?
You believe what you want and I will believe what I want, and on the day we die, we will see who is right! Ron Martin, Hamilton
Trump’s record is not so stellar
RE: TRUMP IS GETTING THINGS DONE (JAN. 23) I am surprised by the hollow remarks in this piece. The “remarkable run reshaping the American judiciary” is a result of a moment in time. Judges end their term and retire. Many positions happened to be open.
The supposed “positive impact on the world” is the most hollow. The “inaction” by North Korea since Trump’s strong words? Considering the most recent actions have been nuclear bomb testing along with ballistic missile testing, it is impossible to say a pause of a few months is a choice to stop.
On Iran’s protests which the regime declares a product of foreign meddling, we have not heard or seen any proof that Trump’s words have any connection.
On the “relatively minor” protests after the announcement of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel: Relative to what? There were still rockets fired from Gaza, effigies and flags burned in the streets, people taken to hospital for injuries.
And the assumption that this is connected to “Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and a host of other countries ... allying themselves ever-closer to the United States” shows ignorance that these countries have gone through major leadership transitions and civil life changes in recent years. It is again a matter of timing not Trump.
Finally, for him to finish by saying “many U.S. presidents would have liked” this record — I only ask what presidents does he know? Who has he spoken with in order to form that opinion?