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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 22, 2007

Water, once everywhere,

but now nary a drop

What? Are you guys nuts? We buy you books and buy you books, and you still won't learn how to read!

Just a few months ago, Weeki Wachee Springs underground reservoir was the lowest it's been in recorded history. It was so low, in fact, that, it was the first time ever divers were able to safely make it through the once strong currents coming through the doorway-sized access to the underground chambers. Hernando County and area wide water restrictions and enforcement policies went into effect and are still on.

Not to make less of what's happening in the Atlanta area. but just this week in your Thursday paper, it stated that several boat ramps are all going to be closed by the Hernando County Parks and Waterways Maintenance Department because of low water levels.

But on the front page of the very same Hernando Today paper, a story informs us that commissioners have approved the Oak Hills golf resort and the Glen Lakes shopping proposal. Just two more members for the most notorious and potentially largest water resource squanderers around ... APPROVED!

Just what is it that the planning and zoning commissioners, or their overseeing management, does not understand about water resources management?

Maybe they need to take to heart and heed a lesson from Nancy Reagan and learn to just say, "no!" Or maybe we should be asking, who is in whose pocket and how long will it be before we are paying as much for water as we are for gas?

Why find fault now?

Why is it that many elected and judicial officials tend to yield to every pressure group or disgruntled individual finding fault with traditional events?

Unfortunately, resolution as to the legality of any issue or event can be interpreted by whatever political leanings are in vogue at any given time. Political correctness now seems to take precedence over judicial constitutional interpretation.

Years ago, prior to political correctness, contesting the legality of any Judeo-Christian holiday displays would be considered ludicrous and would never be subjected to a legality ruling.

It seems that there is an over-abundance of Colorado extremists (activists) questioning displaying religious scenes on public buildings and grounds. Why find fault now? The Constitution's Bill of Rights was written in 1791. Are similar displays more than 200 years now to be classified as illegal?

To accommodate the rising activist movement and pseudo-intellectuals fostering Colorado's holiday displays as illegal, I would like to propose the following:

1. Change the state name of "Colorado" to "Secularado" in keeping with their innane objections and contrary asinine views.

2. Relocate the Air Force Academy to another site, presumably a more deserving state.

This might send a message to the governing state officials and academia pinheads lacking common sense.

Eric F. Ruzicka Spring Hill

HOW TO VENT

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Mike Farahay Weeki Wachee

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