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Parke & Lisa
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Tommy Castro
& The Painkillers Thu March 2
level of inclusiveness. We are in a fight for
the soul of this nation, and we cannot make
any excuses for inaction. “Your silence
gives consent,” as Martin Luther King Jr.
warned.
Christopher and Deb Michaels
Eugene
LOONY LEFTIES
As someone who has lived abroad on
four continents and seven states in the
U.S., I decided years ago that this area had
the best people and most amazing environ-
ment. This is my home, and you are my
extended family.
That said, I am deeply embarrassed
and disappointed with many of us who
are acting like children having a temper
tantrum. What has changed in the past 20
years is that today’s discontented would
have failed to inspire and challenge my
younger self like those of the late ’90s
did. The majority of today’s malcontents
seem weak, unable to give a logical expla-
nation and overly emotional.
I’m no fan of government, and I don’t
pick sides. Everyone I see rioting and cry-
ing today seems like Barack Obama/Hill-
ary Clinton sympathizers needing a diaper
change, rather than independent, strategic
and logical humans.
Here’s a word to the wise: The more ri-
diculous and violent your protests become,
the more you turn people against you. You
call Trump and his supporters fascists, yet
who is silencing free speech, burning flags
and books, setting buildings and cars on
fire, shooting cops, and committing vio-
lence against those who disagree?
The Left of today looks more and more
like the Bolshevik party. I expect better of
people I choose to live with.
Jason Ellis
Creswell
HOLY VEGETARIANISM
March 2 marked the beginning of Lent,
the 40-day period preceding Easter when
many Christians abstain from animal foods
in remembrance of Jesus’ 40 days of fast-
ing in the wilderness before launching his
ministry.
The call to refrain from eating animals
is as old as the Bible. In Genesis 1:29, God
commands humans to eat only plants, and
the Prophet Isaiah predicts that “none will
hurt or destroy on God’s holy mountain.”
A number of Christian leaders have fol-
lowed the call, including Methodist found-
er John Wesley, Salvation Army founders
William and Catherine Booth, Seventh-day
Adventist Church founder Ellen G. White
and prominent evangelical leader Franklin
Graham.
A meat-free diet is not just about Chris-
tian devotion. Dozens of medical studies
have linked consumption of animal prod-
ucts with elevated risk of heart failure,
stroke, cancer and other killer diseases. A
United Nations report named meat produc-
tion as the largest source of greenhouse
gases and water pollution. Undercover
investigations have documented farm
animals being caged, crowded, mutilated,
beaten and shocked.
Lent offers a superb opportunity to hon-
or Christ’s powerful message of compas-
sion, but also to protect the health of our
family and our planet Earth by adopting a
meat-free diet.
Edward Newland
Eugene
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
In regards to the letter(s) suggesting the
renaming of Skinner Butte to “Ya-Po-Ah,”
I would like to remind those interested that
we have already used that name for one of
Eugene’s landmark buildings.
What better way to pay tribute to the
Kalapuya Indians then name a monolithic
monstrosity of a building Ya-Po-Ah?
I am sure the tribe is proud of Eugene
for this honor.
John Carlson
Eugene
Fri March 3
Jake Shimabukuro
Con & Mary
Sheffer
Chuck
Redd
My
Finest
Hour
March 9
Dervish
March 22
Other shows coming up at The Shedd
3.19 MTTA: Puttin’ On The Ritz -
The Songs of Irving Berlin
3.21 The Shedd Choral Society
3.23 Keola Beamer & Jeff Peterson
3.24 Davina & The Vagabonds
3.30 Ana Popovic
4.6 Carl Woideck: Miles Davis
4.14 Honey Whiskey Trio
4.15 A Night of Vocal Arts
4.20 Väsen
4.22 Alasdair Fraser / Natalie Haas
4.26 Helen Sung
5.03 Marc Cohn
5.04-7 Evynne Hollens CSP IV
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