Ferri Tales

Bruce Fowler's letter (Review, Sept. 23) is full of misconceptions, diversions, and deceptions from lies spread by the GOP, Fox "News" and Donald Trump. Without other sources, Mr. Fowler doesn't have a chance to come to valid conclusions on any of the issues he presented. His letter is vaguely written to define "deplorables" and to avoid any direct accusations, but his intent is to confuse and obfuscate, like any true Trump follower. (My numbering corresponds to Fowler's list.) 1. He alludes to the Benghazi attack and implies Hillary Clinton is to blame. Apparently, he missed the years of GOP investigations that wasted $7 million and found that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by either Hillary Clinton or Obama. However, the GOP was responsible for cutting funding that would have further secured foreign installations, including the Benghazi compound. 2. He mentions lying under oath without specifics but probably refers to the FBI investigation ...

My recommendation to Warren Roberts ( Review, Sept. 20 ) is the same as I gave to John Fedorchak - stop watching Fox "News". Polls have shown that Fox "News" viewers are more uninformed than people who don't watch any news. As shown recently by the ouster of Roger Ailes because of decades of disgusting behavior toward women, and Fox's apology and $20 million payment to Gretchen Carlson, the network shouldn't be viewed by decent people interested in civil behavior toward women and unbiased reporting. Another recommendation to Roberts is to learn how amendments to our Constitution are added or removed. Briefly, each house of Congress must pass the proposed amendment by 2/3 vote. Then 3/4 of all state legislatures must approve the amendment. Neither president nor the U.S. Supreme Court are involved. Robert's mentions Christian bashing by progressives. He should be more concerned about Muslim and minority bashing by conservatives. He mentions the e...

(Image from wikamedia commons ) According to a police report in the June 9th Towanda Daily Review, a 34 year-old woman was arrested at the Robert Packer Hospital Behavioral Science Unit for aggravated assault and was sent to the Bradford County Prison in lieu of $20,000 bail. The Review wrote that the woman was "smashing windows with a dinner tray" and "began stripping tissues out of every tissue box in reach and began to explain that she had magical powers and that she was going to burn the building down, and then she would flood the building to put the fire out."  The police were probably called after the hospital security and staff realized that they were unable to properly control the situation, and the woman was subdued by the police after she punched and slapped one of the officers. [ 1 ] The situation seems to have been handled with a minimum of property damage and no serious injuries, and to my knowledge, everyone acted correctly. Yet, a woman with...

Cliven Bundy, recently lionized in the Towanda Daily Review letters to the editor by Craig Pierce (4/18/14) and Sarah Scholl (4/22/14) , is a Nevada cattle rancher who has had a 2 decade battle with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over unpaid fees in excess of a million dollars for grazing his cattle on federal pasture lands. Bundy has lost multiple court case regarding his grazing claims. Bundy is deluded because he claims that he follows all Nevada state laws, but doesn’t “recognize the United States government as even existing.” Yet, the Nevada state constitution, framed during the Civil War, includes the Paramount Allegiance clause granting that the federal government may use armed force to compel obedience to its laws. His proclivity of waving a large United States flag while on horseback is also at odds with his non-recognition of the U.S. government. Bundy is a thief because he refuses to pay grazing fees that are 3% of what they are on private land, and accordi...