Letters to the Editor

Editor:

Dad and I want to extend our most heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in his 100th birthday celebration as part of the Golden Age Foundation’s Centenarian Celebration. I can’t begin to tell you how happy it made Dad. He is still talking about it!

I recognize that there were many, many people who put this kind gesture together, including the people who picked up the gift cards, flowers, lunch and certificate from the City of Seal Beach, and packaged and delivered everything. Volunteers also spent time talking to dad to make him feel special. GAF volunteer Melli Herrera and her husband, who delivered the treats, were so very kind.

This was a very large effort for everyone involved, and we would like to express our gratitude to everyone.

May God bless all of you.

Nancy Davison and Bill Miller Mutual 3 Editor:

Most LW residents agree with the majority of Americans who say that the two political parties should stop insulting each other and start talking instead. Keeping this in mind, in the 100 or so articles that I have written in this paper about the LW GOP Club and Republican politics, I have not used mean words like harsh, hurtful, horrific or cruel to refer to political opponents and their ideas. The writer of the LW Democratic Club articles has followed the same rule.

I find it interesting that Jen Psaki, President Joe Biden’s press secretary and his official spokesperson, has not seen fit to exercise the same level of decorum when referring to Republicans.

First of all, the Florida bill, which everyone in the media seems to be calling the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, forbids kindergarten to third grade teachers from discussing “sexual orientation or gender identity.”

So, according to this bill, these teachers cannot say that being gay or transexual is good, bad or in between. A headline in the Daily Mail proclaimed, “Jen Psaki calls ‘don’t say gay’ bill ‘horrific,’ a ‘form of bullying’ and ‘discrimination against (LGBTQ) kids.”’ A headline in the Guardian said, “Jen Psaki in tears during interview on Republican anti-LGBTQ ‘cruelty.”’ She said Republicans are “doing this in a way that is harsh and cruel to a community of kids, especially.”

She said that “these (Republican) leaders are taking steps to hurt them (LGBTQ kids), hurt their lives and hurt their families.”

That sounds a little strong to me.

Brian Harmon Mutual 12