Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Acid Rain Perspectives I surely hope that Dixy Lee Ray's "The Great Acid Rain Debate" (TAS, January 1987) has finally put man's participation in the picture in...
...For self-protection the prudent male will wash his hands before entering the urinal stall...
...Neither do I find these ideas quaint or old-fashioned...
...I have just returned from work to find your finely crafted solicitation waiting in the mailbox...
...Edward Darmohray Alexandria, Virginia Christopher Monckton proposed universal testing and then isolation of victims...
...Our friends in the Legal Services program, who had not exhibited up to then any knowledge of or interest in utilizing joint employment as a means of getting at farmers, caught on fast and have since taken the attitude that all agricultural employers are joint employers with labor contractors...
...But we must stand firm...
...The light pen is attached to a special paging device which transmits the owner's UPC and the "guest" UPC to a central computer...
...Dear Subscribee Here in Lake Jackson, as I write, dusk has fallen and the apartment is quiet...
...2) poverty (advocating approaches designed to build a dynamic free enterprise economy, perhaps learning lessons from Japan's extraordinary success...
...Ritual hand-washing, akin to the morning-after-coitus female douching to "clean" the vagina, went out of style more than a generation ago...
...And of course there would be a need for small businesspeople to furnish and service all related software and hardware...
...Unfortunately, I'd forgotten that Bubba is a linguist...
...Linda De Sterfano Fairfield, Connecticut Modest Proposals Yes, AIDS is a horror...
...Similar unwise efforts by the liberals overthrew the Shah of Iran and gave us Khomeini...
...It is during the interurination contacts that the hands become contaminated with all sorts of germs, some of which may be lethal...
...Look up poverty," I was told...
...CORRESPONDENCE Acid Rain Perspectives I surely hope that Dixy Lee Ray's "The Great Acid Rain Debate" (TAS, January 1987) has finally put man's participation in the picture in proper perspective...
...The picture would show the owner in a suitably expressive and alluring pose...
...Cincinnati, Ohio Hope Not Soap Considerably off-base were George Jean Nathan's comments regarding Jesse Jackson's failure to wash his hands after urinating ("The Washington Spectator," TAS, January 1987...
...Allan E. Hokanson Vice President American Process Design, Inc...
...B. Lyon Port Orange, Florida Hooray for Dixy Lee Ray—an excellent response to the acid rain hysteria...
...cigarette smoke wafts into the air as I sip a diet Coke and compose this reply...
...Lake Jackson, Texas...
...Alfred McGlohon, Jr...
...There were no reports of acid rain during this period...
...When he told me "quaint" and "old-fashioned" together are redundant, I said, "Hah...
...It says, 'See Texas journalist.' " But I continue my work because I think it is important, because I believe in some simple ideas like liberty, limited government, individual initiative and responsibility...
...Common existing components can be assembled in an array which can assist the promiscuous to have non-fatal sex...
...This holds true today...
...This, never more so, than in 1986...
...But perhaps the situation could be summed up by saying that the widespread notion that Communism is dead (at least among Lenin's idiots...
...Each takes the other's card and runs a light pen across the UPC...
...I'm glad to find you agree...
...It is thoroughly researched and very well written, except for one point that I would like to clarify...
...Kingston, Pennsylvania I was shocked at your reporting of Jesse Jackson's personal habits...
...They both blink and beep the code simultaneously, signaling that love, or whatever, may begin...
...Unfortunately, I'd also forgotten Bubba is a hell of a lot bigger than I am, and the resulting hospital bills have left me more destitute than usual...
...switched from lump coal to pulverized coal...
...Pulverized coal at an average particle size of 70 microns resulted in 60 percent of the ash passing out the stack as fly ash...
...reminded of how delighted I became when the first issue arrived and I discovered a humorous political magazine of unparalleled quality, a tabloid I could spend a few hours with in undaunted delight...
...of course, it was never alive among conservatives) should be expanded to cover liberalism as well...
...What happened was that the new law, in defining "agricultural employment," refers to the Fair Labor Standards Act to define "employ," "employer," and "employee," rather than repeating those definitions...
...Granted, Monckton acknowledges that (at present anyway) his proposal is too extreme to be acceptable to most Americans...
...The cards would consist of an attractive background in tasteful colors with a design fully expressing the owner's being and personality...
...And we must hold before ourselves the words of Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety...
...Subsequently, when the Department of Labor developed the regulations to carry out the new law, Congressman Miller's report was taken into full consideration as a part of legislative history, and the regulations include a lengthy section defining and describing the legal precedents under FLSA as to how the courts over the years havein-terpreted whether a joint employment exists in a particular situation or not...
...Nathan makes no mention of whether Jesse did that...
...reminded of how foolish I felt that next sober morning as I awoke in my unheated apartment with the water-you-couldn'tdrink, trying to remember exactly what I had ordered...
...I am reminded of the late-night fit of recklessness that first prompted my subscription back in 1983...
...Therefore, I must respectfully decline your solicitation...
...But to impose lifelong quarantine upon everyone that has been exposed to the virus, as Christopher Monckton proposes ("AIDS: A British View," TAS, January 1987), would be to allow AIDS not only to rob countless Americans of their lives but also to rob us all of our fundamental liberties—thus perfecting the resemblance to the Holocaust...
...In addition to the billions spent on eliminating fly ash and acid gases, let's determine the cost-benefit of the effect of fly ash on the levels of acid rain, smog, ozone, and on the formation of fertilizers instead of acid rain...
...Yet, I find I have spent my money well...
...Finding no AIDS infection or contact in the pedigree, the computer picks a' Morse Code letter at random and broadcasts it to the two paging devices...
...For example, our bull-inthe-china-shop efforts in Cuba helped Castro impose the Marxist-Leninist dictatorship whose barbarism is so eloquently described in Armando Valladares's book, Against All Hope...
...The piercing squeal of the cat whining for dinner has abated...
...I haven't gone in for color TVs—no stereo or modern art on the walls (although a small Southern Air Transport postcard is tacked on my bulletin board...
...The nicotine and caffeine course through my veins: I am content...
...C H. Fields Assistant Director National Affairs Division American Farm Bureau Federation Washington, D.C...
...When George Miller (D-CA), that great friend of farmers and conservative leader in the House of Representatives, who was chairman of the appropriate subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee at the time, wrote a lengthy committee reporton the bill, he took great pains to point out that MASWPA included the concept of joint employment by incorporating the definitions of the Fair Labor Standards Act...
...And yet, the complete paralysis of the public health authorities in the face of the AIDS epidemic is in sharp contrast to the vigorous action they took only a few decades ago whenever an occasional case of smallpox or bubonic plague was found to have entered the U.S...
...Bruce Bawer New York, New York Christopher Monckton's article was like a breath of fresh air compared to much of the tripe that has appeared in the media on this disease...
...Since farmers tend to have deeper pockets than farm labor contractors, they prefer to file their private right of action suits against both the farmers and the contractors...
...Before this epidemic is over, its effects may bring the Holocaust to mind...
...I think an additional factor is the widespread feeling of-hopelessness in the face of many problems confronting us today, particularly in view of the dismal failure of liberal attempts to solve them...
...Picture this: Lovers who have reached a point of mutual romantic inclination (and before the point-of-noreturn is passed), produce and exchange their special ID cards...
...Darryl Davis Seattle, Washington Joint Employment Clarified Rael Jean Isaac's "Legal Services and the Farmer" in the November edition is a Jim Dandy...
...Before we throw up our hands and plunge our craniums into the oven of despair over inability to do anything about promiscuous sexual transmission of AIDS, we should apply the Wonders of Modern Technology to the special human needs of every sexual person facing the AIDS abyss...
...Monckton attributes this paralysis to public agencies being "over-anxious to avoid offending high-risk groups or arousing unreasonable discrimination against known carriers of the disease...
...Inside the underpants of the male is almost exclusively the colon bacillus, a mild pathogen at worst, found almost everywhere...
...Bubba," I said, "I don't find these ideas quaint or old-fashioned...
...If conservatives won't tackle these problems, and liberals can't, who will...
...I find I must agree with you...
...I'm afraid that in the coming years the spread of AIDS will sorely test this claim...
...It is estimated that during the period from 1920 to 1960 some 5 to 10 million tons per year of alkaline fly ash passed into the atmosphere...
...We must, as Andrew Ferguson implies, maintain our dedication to "limited government, prudence, and individual responsibility...
...It has, indeed, been a fine year for The American Spectator...
...Of particular interest is her reference to the reduction of alkaline particulate "from industrial smoke...
...To think that the Government has spent billions without coming to any conclusion worth considering should make taxpayers like me furious...
...and 3) the spreading red tide of the Soviet evil empire (advocating actions to curb Soviet aggression in all its forms: for example, aiding freedom fighters everywhere in the world...
...As I look around my bare apartment, sitting at a homemade desk a little the worse for wear and tear, I still think my subsequent decisions to renew my subscription were made in the best of light...
...Across the bottom would be the owner's personal Universal Product Code...
...Ward Cates of the Centers for Disease Control has said that AIDS has the potential to be "much worse than anything mankind has seen before...
...When I decided to become a reporter, I knew I wasn't entering a lucrative field...
...If love wilts for some reason and the mucous membranes fail to meet, then the participant must telephone the computer's 800-number and tell the person at the desk, who writes a brief delete-linkage note for the paper files and activates the delete linkage capability on the system so the computer can talk to the beeper over the telephone...
...There, the current coupling of UPCs is stored in the permanent memory bank, and each "guest's" past liaison history is screened...
...The story implies that the Act established the fact that farm labor contractors (crew leaders) and agricultural employers are "joint employers...
...And when he said that liberty is, indeed, both an idea from the olden, founding-father days, and a rather odd notion in today's liberal world, I hit him, thereby forestalling further argument...
...During the past few years, as your magazine has followed me from town to town here in the boonies of the Lone Star state, your "Continuing Crisis" has never failed to amuse, your editorials have consistently been enlightening, your features and columns always of the highest quality...
...With this system, whenever love begins whatever things would then be exchanged would not include AIDS...
...Need you stoop so to fill space...
...Just the other week I was splitting a pitcher of Shiner Bock with an old college chum down at Dudley's Draw...
...but he is plainly more dismayed than cheered by this fact...
...Ever since the time of Patrick Henry, Americans have claimed to prize liberty as dearly as life...
...The counterproductive results of the welfare state are well documented by Charles Murray in Losing Ground...
...If liberalism is indeed dead, then it is up to conservatives to take the lead in dealing with problems like 1) AIDS (advocating vigorous action to stop this burgeoning plague...
...I stuck to mah guns, though...
...Thus, farmers have been faced with numerous violations of the Act, though they have never thought of themselves as the employers of migrant workers, any more than a person hiring an electrical contractor considers himself the employer or joint employer of the electrical crew...
...MASWPA does not mention or define the term "joint employer...
...One could go on and on listing liberal failures...
...Starting in the 1920s, both industry and utilities in the U.S...
...continued on page 50) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1987 9 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 9) The point has to do with the development, enactment, and subsequent enforcement of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act of 1983...
...William Hazlett, M.D...
Vol. 20 • March 1987 • No. 3
