LETTERS: The Californian, Jan. 8, 2008

By Readers of The Californian | Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:09 AM PST ∞

Thanks to restaurant for help

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the local Chik-fil-A restaurant for their participation in the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage annual Toys for Tots campaign. This year, they sponsored a fundraiser night and invited all of their customers to drop their receipt into a box marked Toys for Tots/Coldwell Banker and at the end of the evening, they donated 20 percent of the proceeds to our campaign. They also set up additional opportunities for making money and donated the entire amount in cash to the campaign.

Mary Jo and her staff were friendly and worked hard to help us have a successful fundraiser. The Chik-fil-A cow and Mary Jo also attended our annual movie night and handed out coupons for free food to all who brought toys. She also informed me that they sponsor free team parties for Temecula sports groups. I would recommend this to every coach in the Temecula area. This particular store is outside The Promenade mall in Temecula. In a time when everyone is struggling to get by, this company is there to help and that is what Christmas is all about.

Linda Matkins

Realtor, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

Temecula

Bush seems to call the kettle black

For a president who led his nation and 20 others into an invasion of a country the size of California which resulted in the unnecessary death of thousands of civilians and soldiers, it is sadly ironic that President George W. Bush would label Hamas' attacks on Israel "an act of terror."

Hundreds of Palestinian civilians have already been killed, yet Bush still offers no criticism of Israel. With all the doubts and uncertainties that pervade our daily existence there are two things everyone can be certain of: trouble in the Middle East and President Bush's outright deceit.

Monsura Sirajee

Temecula

Letters shows paper's balance in action

Davil Kolk's Jan. 6 letter whines about The Californian's balanced editorial and letters pages claiming a bias to the right. Obviously, by including liberal Kolk's letter, there is balanced fairness in actual practice.

Kolk can get the L.A. Times locally to get his fix of biased liberal views, until the Times folds in bankruptcy from its huge loss of readership in response to its often goofy, biased positions, as well as its loss of advertising income.

I believe most responsible cognizant readers appreciate The Californian's balanced reporting and editorials for the value of presenting both sides of issues, so that we can be well-informed as opposed to liberally indoctrinated.

As with the Times and every other newspaper, The Californian is also suffering under the diminishing economy and loss of advertising from suffering or no-longer-functioning businesses. I therefore try to patronize The Californian's advertisers.

James Horn

Menifee

Who do they think they're fooling?

Character Matters: Honesty, Integrity, Fairness, Accountability, Consideration of Others, Pursuit of Excellence, Reliability and Citizenship are the fundamentals of our Code of Conduct," it states on Granite Construction's Web site. The company's expensive multicolored jobs advertisement on page B6 in Sunday's edition of The Californian features new Orwell-speak with a lovely blue sky background, smiling faces, yellow Liberty Quarry helmets, and our (still, for now) beautiful Santa Rosa mountains as backdrop.

The above "Character Matters" propaganda blurb welcomes you to a page on Granite's Web site and requires you to forget about, or not find out about the San Diego city attorney's August 2008 probe into the possibility that Granite cheated San Diego, www.tinyurl.com/7njwal, and the 2007 $240,000 fine against Granite by the state of Oregon for pollution.

Nick Biddle

Temecula

It's, uh, like this, you know?

If Caroline Kennedy wants to, uh, be a U.S. senator, you know, from New York, she should, uh, run, you know, and, uh, campaign for the, you know, Senate seat against others who, uh, want to be a senator also. That way, you know, uh, the voters in the public can, you know, vote, and if they, uh, want her to fill the, you know, Senate seat, they can, uh, elect her to the, you know, Senate.

Ken Laymon

Sun City

A disappointing news day

I read through my daily Californian on Wednesday with mounting disbelief. First, I ---- gasp! ---- actually agree with Dianne Feinstein's position on something ("Senate blocks Burris from seat," Jan. 7).

Second, I was amazed to learn that the Temecula "libray" was doing crafts with kids. Is that pronounced "li-bray" or "lee-bray"? And third, I cannot find the letters to the editor. Were there no letters written? What is happening? Thank God for John Hunneman; if I hadn't seen his column, I might have thought I was reading a forgery!

Bruce Quimby

Wildomar