Walton Sun Gets Hammered

[WaltonIsOne]

Did anyone read the Letters to the Editor section of the Walton Sun today? Someone named R Shaffer really hammered the Sun and some of the "tavern bell" types in South Walton.

Shaffer's letter was right on. Maybe the Sun ought to give this person a job reporting on what is really going on in the County, the State and the World.

Not to mention the letter was a pretty good laugh.

The Editor at the Sun must be a good sport for printing that one.

 

[shellak]

Did anyone read the Letters to the Editor section of the Walton Sun today? Someone named R Shaffer really hammered the Sun and some of the "tavern bell" types in South Walton.

Shaffer's letter was right on. Maybe the Sun ought to give this person a job reporting on what is really going on in the County, the State and the World.

Not to mention the letter was a pretty good laugh.


The Editor at the Sun must be a good sport for printing that one.

had to laugh at that one, as well. not really into the 30a posse and how they go out to dinner every night. would rather read about people who do good works - charity - people who "pay it forward". if the posse does it, then write about it. if this columnist wants to stay "social", she can write about the different festivals, artists, musicians in our area. the rest is nonsense.

 

[30ashopper]

LETTER: Shame on The Sun and those who won't drill down | column, letter, html - Local News - WaltonSun.com

 

[scooterbug44]

I didn't find the letter that great - all they did was biatch and repeat some nonsense arguments.

Find it hard to take someone seriously when they find a small sign about oil drilling more offensive than the actual thing.

Though I do agree about the recycled AP content and gossip column. The Defuniak paper is a good exmaple of a local paper that actually reports local events and only touches on national/global in its well stated opinion pieces.

 

[Lake View Too]

I didn't find the letter that great - all they did was biatch and repeat some nonsense arguments.

Find it hard to take someone seriously when they find a small sign about oil drilling more offensive than the actual thing.

Though I do agree about the recycled AP content and gossip column. The Defuniak paper is a good exmaple of a local paper that actually reports local events and only touches on national/global in its well stated opinion pieces.

I agree with you. Anybody that thinks more drilling in the Gulf will make one iota of difference in the price of gas is dillusional. It's a world-wide market. Even if we hit gushers, it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the existing available oil reserves. I'm not even sure what that's got to do with the reporting in the Sun. PC people need to just stay in PC.

 

[30A Skunkape]

I agree with you. Anybody that thinks more drilling in the Gulf will make one iota of difference in the price of gas is dillusional. It's a world-wide market. Even if we hit gushers, it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the existing available oil reserves. I'm not even sure what that's got to do with the reporting in the Sun. PC people need to just stay in PC.

30-A people who live east of Watersound are dubbed PC people, except for Rosmarians who couldn't let the sun set on that label and built their own post office. If nothing else the letter motivated me to look inside the Sun, and I have not had that urge in a good while.

 

[30ashopper]

Personally if drilling were kept at least 20-30 miles off the coast, and the state received profit sharing from it I’d be ok with this.

Unfortunately this is an issue that tends to evoke a lot of emotion from the enviro types, but little if any fact crunching. (The paranoia level reached a fever pitch recently in the SoWal thread Dave posted about his get together. See http://www.sowal.com/bb/all-about-s...p-near-shore-oil-drilling-florida-waters.html)

 

[Lake View Too]

Unfortunately, this is an issue that tends to evoke a lot of emotion from the "drill baby drill" types also. What fact-crunching has led anybody to think that drilling for more oil in the Gulf will have any effect on the price of oil on the world wide market? What difference will it make in our involvement in the Middle East? We didn't get into the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for oil. According to the President of the United States we got into these wars to fight Al Queda and spread democracy. Unless, somebody in the government was lying...pretty far-fetched, huh?

 

[Bob]

Unfortunately, this is an issue that tends to evoke a lot of emotion from the "drill baby drill" types also. What fact-crunching has led anybody to think that drilling for more oil in the Gulf will have any effect on the price of oil on the world wide market? What difference will it make in our involvement in the Middle East? We didn't get into the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for oil. According to the President of the United States we got into these wars to fight Al Queda and spread democracy. Unless, somebody in the government was lying...pretty far-fetched, huh?

yeah, we spread democracy to kuwait during oil war number one, right?

 

[Bob]

Personally if drilling were kept at least 20-30 miles off the coast, and the state received profit sharing from it I?d be ok with this.

Unfortunately this is an issue that tends to evoke a lot of emotion from the enviro types, but little if any fact crunching. (The paranoia level reached a fever pitch recently in the SoWal thread Dave posted about his get together. See http://www.sowal.com/bb/all-about-s...p-near-shore-oil-drilling-florida-waters.html)

everyone is this country should be an enviro type, not a polluto type