Guest Opinion

Read my lips, no new taxes. The word on Measure G

Former school board member and former city counselor Steve Brozosky said in a guest opinion piece in the April 24 Pleasanton Weekly, “The school board’s first objective should be to curtail expenses.” Mr. Brozosky also mentions that the school board acted selfishly and imprudently when they decided to put the parcel tax, Measure G, on a June special election ballot at a cost of $300,000 rather than on last Tuesday’s scheduled election.

Bravo Mr. Brozosky, we could not agree more.

You really have to give this one a read

Apropos of the lawsuit filed by the Alameda Creek Alliance and the Center for Biological Diversity and locals former Planning Commissioner Brian Arkin, Sierra Clubber Matt Morrison, et al, here is the root of their movement: www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.html. In addition, if you do not believe us, Biehl and Staudenmaier, look it up in Wikipedia. Do it right away, the radicals might already re-writing history.

We particularly like this citation:

"In every German breast the German forest quivers with its caverns and ravines, crags and boulders, waters and winds, legends and fairy tales, with its songs and its melodies, and awakens a powerful yearning and a longing for home; in all German souls the German forest lives and weaves with its depth and breadth, its stillness and strength, its might and dignity, its riches and its beauty -- it is the source of German inwardness, of the German soul, of German freedom. Therefore, protect and care for the German forest for the sake of the elders and the youth, and join the new German "League for the Protection and Consecration of the German Forest.

“The reactionary ecological ideas whose outlines are sketched above exerted a powerful and lasting influence on many of the central figures in the NSDAP. Weimar culture, after all, was fairly awash in such theories, but the Nazis gave them a peculiar inflection. The National Socialist "religion of nature," as one historian has described it, was a volatile admixture of primeval Teutonic nature mysticism, pseudo-scientific ecology, irrationalist anti-humanism, and a mythology of racial salvation through a return to the land. Its predominant themes were 'natural order,' organicist holism and denigration of humanity: "Throughout the writings, not only of Hitler, but of most Nazi ideologues, one can discern a fundamental deprecation of humans vis-à-vis nature, and, as a logical corollary to this, an attack upon human efforts to master nature."