Letters

When we moved to Los Alamos, we were warned that Letters to the Editor in the local paper might include mathematical formulae, so I was not surprised but pleased by Ms. Max’s recent letter where she used mathematics to point out likely errors in the consultant’s presentation on the Trinity Drive project.
As she indicates, the crash rate shown in the presentation comparing the state, county and N.M. 502 crash rates indeed pertain to crash rates per 100 million vehicle miles, not million vehicle miles, and I suspect that the N.M. 502 crash rate listed applies either to the portion of NM 502 within Los Alamos County, or possibly even its whole length from Pojoaque. I agree that this should be corrected in any future presentation.

Saturday, March 19 at 11:49 EDT, MSNBC was broadcasting live in anticipation of President Obama’s joint appearance in Brasilia with President Dilma Rousseff.
On a split screen, a camera focused on the doors through which the two presidents would proceed to the dais.  There were staff and Secret Service agents in and out of the antechamber. There was a female agent in view, and then a male agent appeared, carrying a cell phone.  While the first agent kept watch, the other texted continuously for one and one-half minutes, occasionally looking up from his phone.

We would like the public to know that Casa Mesita Group Home received their usual monthly allocation from Casa Mesita Trift Shop while they were closed in 2009. That amount was 30 percent less June 2010 to January 2011.
Since January 2011, we have been helping to support LA Cares, Family Strengths Network, Veterans Memorial Fund, RSVP Quilters, LARSO Day Out Program, Sage Cottage, LAHS Friday Lunch Program, Salvation Army, Special Olympics, Search & Rescue and LA Group Home Inc.
Good items that do not sell in a reasonable amount of time are re-cycled to several organizations. Volunteers receive in-store credit for the hours that they work. They all pay for items above their credit earned.

Last week, with little fanfare in the media, the TSA airport passenger inspectors boasted that the Patriot Law allowed them to strip-search any airline passenger at any time for no reason at all — that means your little son, or your grandmother.
This was followed by the TSA threat of inspecting train and even car passengers.
Clearly our Congress has created a Frankenstein, one that is not accountable to the U.S. Constitution and the 4th Amendment prohibiting unreasonable search and seizure.
It is ironic that even Hitler’s Nazis did not X-Ray or grope German passengers, while TSA employees are doing it to Americans every day.