Voice of the people

Look below shiny surface for pet

A person from Ceredo wrote that she did not adopt from Little Victories Animal Shelter because it looked "unkept" and the animals looked muddy and uncared for, so she passed because she wanted a "beautiful dog." That says a lot more about the writer than it does about the shelter, and it is nothing of which to be particularly boastful, especially since she drove away, leaving animals that looked as if they had been there for a long time that were the ones that really could have used another chance. So the animals didn't get that chance because someone judged the shelter inadequate. What hypocrisy. There could have been "beautiful dogs" that should have deserved a chance from a compassionate human rather than one looking for a bucolic, idealistic site with perfect animals.

No-kill, volunteer shelters are usually run by volunteers on little or no assistance from the public. Those shiny shelters are usually the ones where you only see the animals cleaned up for adoption, not the ones sitting in the back waiting to be killed because they are not "cute" enough, clean enough or "beautiful" enough. Grow some compassion and look below the shiny surface before you complain about a situation.

Sue Koppelman

Daytona Beach, Fla.

Big Oil creating economic slavery

According to Howard Zinns' book "A People's History of the United States from 1492 to Present," when the slaves were being cargoed to America they were packed so tightly that they began to quiver.

Perhaps Big Oil and big government are attempting to make all Americans quiver by creating economic slavery. America at one time had a government that protected them from such debauchery, but then came big money from the lobbyists in D.C. -- big money buying their own desires from a government that pays lip service to its citizens and then sells them out in smoke-filled back rooms in late hours of the night.

Fellow citizens, dark days may be ahead for us, but there is a positive side to it. All Americans and, yes, even all the world will see that without an honest vanguard to protect its citizens, anything is possible. When the smoke clears and the dust has settled, let us together pray for a government that will once again put honesty as a priority for its right to exist.

Let us not quiver to their enjoyment. Big Oil and big government are attempting to create their own perfect union, and we are witnesses to that as I speak.

Gregory Dean

Milton

Staff member ruins WWE experience

As an attendee of the May 10 WWE event in Huntington, I have to say that I am very disappointed. Not with the show, but with one particular staff member of the arena. Lady, you know who you are. This woman made everyone in our section of the floor stay seated the entire time! We spent most of the show being picked at by her. We didn't get to see much, and we didn't get to interact at all. What should have been an exciting event turned out to be miserable.

The 10-year-old child seated in front of us asked his mother if they could just go home because this woman had him scared to move from his chair. He was even singled out by her in a swarm of other children and told he would have to return to his seat.

The night ended up to be a confrontational one with this woman. We asked to speak to her supervisor and were told that she didn't know where the supervisor was. No attempt was made to find the supervisor. We were told by a security guard that the supervisor was not in the building. Really.

Sarah Alford

Ranger, W.Va.