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CONTACT US OPINION OTHER VIEWS PHONE: (605) 665-7811 (800) 743-2968 NEWS FAX: Clinton And Her (605) 665-1721 ADVERTISING FAX: (605) 665-0288 WEBSITE: ‘Transparency’ www.yankton.net Writer’s Block ––––– THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (Oct. 6): Hillary Clinton SUBSCRIPTIONS/ seems to have ripped a page from the Barack Obama playbook in CIRCULATION addressing the ongoing controversy over work-related — and even Extension 104 classified — emails she kept on her private, unsecured server. [email protected] “I have gone further than anybody that I’m aware of in American Dealing With Her CLASSIFIED ADS history,” Clinton said of the release of her email messages at a town Extension 116 hall hosted by NBC’s “Today Show” on Monday. While acknowl- [email protected] edging the relatively short history of email technology, “I’ve gone NEWS DEPT. longer and farther to try to be as transparent as possible,” she as- Extension 114 serted. “Nobody else has done that.” Own ‘Garden’ [email protected] Her statement recalls President Obama’s dubious claim, appar- BY JIM VAN OSDEL you choose to simply read it. SPORTS DEPT. ently made with a straight face, in February 2013 that his adminis- For the Press & Dakotan But I digress. When one is thrust into such a Extension 106 tration is “the most transparent administration in history.” Never situation as with dealing with an incurable condi- [email protected] mind that it has broken its own record this year for censoring or It is difficult to believe that it has only been tion, one often has to do considerable research ADVERTISING DEPT. denying access to information made through Freedom of Informa- 18 months since readers have had the oppor- on one’s own. I did not learn of www.pubmed.gov Extension 122 tion Act requests, including those concerning Clinton’s emails. tunity to learn of our family’s experience with or oxidative stress from a medical professional [email protected] Recall that it took a lawsuit by the Associated Press to gain access Alzheimer’s disease. What is even more difficult but they have heard plenty of it from me. BUSINESS OFFICE to such information, and subsequent judicial rulings to address the about this disease is to have to watch your wife Our psychiatrist friend in Sioux Falls correct- Extension 119 State Department’s foot-dragging on their release. deal with her own “Garden of Gethsemane” ed my previous story by explaining that patients [email protected] The administration’s lack of transparency and disdain for the experience. do not die from Alzheimer’s disease. NEW MEDIA: freedom of the press and (other people’s) privacy is reflected in There are times when my resilient They die with Alzheimer’s but from Extension 136 Freedom House’s annual Freedom of the Press indexes. While the wife is overcome when contemplating some other dire medical condition. [email protected] United States is still among the “Free” nations in the index, it is no her future and she weeps piteously A caring neighbor who lives across COMPOSING DEPT. longer the paragon of First Amendment rights that it once was, and with the expectation of losing her fac- the street from us said her father lived 20 years with Alzheimer’s disease. My Extension 129 now ranks tied for just 31st out of the 63 “Free” nations. ulties and her mind, knowing there will be a time she cannot remember names wife has a long row to hoe and she is [email protected] The U.S. has seen a marked drop in its ranking in recent years, deathly afraid of the consequences. from tied for 16th in 2007. This is due to the Obama administration’s of her children and her caretaker, her * * * spouse. But with the help from my brother, unprecedented prosecution of whistleblowers, the Edward Snowden My wife, Kathy, was diagnosed Dan, and the good Lord, we keep on MANAGERS revelations about wiretapping and other government spying on with Alzheimer disease in 2009 and by plugging. Gary L. Wood journalists (not to mention the general public), “relatively rigid November of 2011, her mind could no After more than six years dealing Publisher controls on the information coming out of the White House and longer tell her how to move her legs to Jim with Alzheimer’s disease and four Michele Schievelbein government agencies” and “detentions, harassment and rough treat- get out of the car to get into church. VAN OSDEL years of the nutritional supplement, Advertising Director ment of journalists by police during protests in Ferguson, Missouri,” I thought to myself, “I get to buy a Kathy is still functioning — at home. Freedom House notes. wheelchair tomorrow.” She still enjoys her sleep but she is Jim Gevens The Emailgate scandal is emblematic of the government’s hypoc- When tomorrow came, my younger then at peace. Circulation Director risy in proclaiming privacy for itself, but not for its wee subjects. brother, Dan, called with information on a nutri- When she arises, she does need help getting the shower spray to work, the hair dryer is Tonya Schild Given her behavior and erroneous statements over her emails, we tional supplemental which had been helpful for others. We began the supplement Dec. 6, 2011. simply unfathomable and she needs help getting Business Manager should expect more of the same if Clinton takes over the White dressed. She tells me to just pick something out. House. The supplement is said to help the body fight Tera Schmidt oxidative stress which many scientists believe to Decisions are unbearable. She is French and Classified Manager be the cause of Alzheimer’s and others. Irish, was a social worker for years and helped ABOUT THIS PAGE Some folks who earned a degree in medicine, direct many life situations for many people. She Kelly Hertz and many of those who have not, have no idea has always known exactly what she wants. Now, Editor The View page provides a forum for open discussion of issues and interests of what this is and think it is bull manure. Go to these decisions are agonizing. James D. Cimburek affecting our readers. Initialed editorials represent the opinion of the writer, but Wikileaks and search “oxidative stress.” She has enjoyed, the last two months, having Sports Editor not necessarily that of the PRESS & DAKOTAN. Bylined columns represent the I spent three weeks in 1965 at the National In- breakfast, lunch and activities three days a week view of the author. We welcome letters on current topics. Questions regarding the stitutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., a tony with a peer group, clients of the memory care Beth Rye Views page should be directed to Kelly Hertz at [email protected]/. address area adjacent to Washington, D.C., where unit at Majestic Bluffs. Only one problem today: Digital Media Director congressmen like to live. This is a large hospital Breakfast was biscuits and gravy. Kathleen Ann is not a B and G person and can make a quick Kathy Larson IN HISTORY operated on taxpayer money. NIH has a website Composing Manager which catalogues peer-reviewed medical studies decision on that one. Has the nutritional supplement my brother By The Associated Press Five years ago: Imprisoned Chi- authored by researchers. These folks do no post Today is Thursday, October 8, the nese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 bull manure on their website, unless some medi- recommended helped? 281st day of 2015. There are 84 days left Nobel Peace Prize, prompting a furious cal researcher has made a peer-reviewed study Four years ago, Kathy slept all day in her in the year. response from China. British aid worker of such, probably at taxpayer expense. chair and could not seem to figure out how to get * * * Today’s Highlight in History: On Linda Norgrove, who’d been taken captive her legs moving to get out of the car for church. October 8, 2005, a magnitude 7.6 earth- in Afghanistan, was killed during a U.S. Researchers at home can log onto www. DAILY STAFF quake flattened villages on the Pakistan- special forces rescue attempt, apparently pubmed.gov to access these research studies Today, six years after a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Reilly Biel India border, killing an estimated 86,000 by a U.S. grenade. Gen. James Jones logged by NIH. When one logs onto this website, disease, she is back on the road and going to Cassandra Brockmoller people. announced he was quitting as President one may search “oxidative stress.” Last time I enjoy the day at Majestic Bluffs. And she will Brandi Bue On this date: In 1869, the 14th presi- Barack Obama’s national security ad- checked, as I wrote this, there were more than probably want to have dinner at the Elks Lodge Rob Buckingham dent of the United States, Franklin Pierce, viser. Albertina Walker, the Grammy-win- died in Concord, New Hampshire. ning singer from Chicago known as the 149,000 studies posted, with 3,479 studies on Friday night where many folks do not even know Caryn Chappelear she has Alzheimer’s disease. Randy Dockendorf In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire “Queen of Gospel,” died at age 81. Alzheimer’s disease and oxidative stress alone. Jeannine Economy erupted; fires also broke out in Peshtigo, One year ago: President Barack Not bull manure. The information is there should You tell me. Wisconsin, and in several communities in Obama told top military commanders Rachel Frederick Michigan. at the Pentagon that he was confident Jeremy Hoeck In 1890, American aviation hero Ed- the U.S. would keep making progress in Leonard Pitts Jr. Nicole Myers die Rickenbacker was born in Columbus, its fight against the Islamic State group. Robert Nielsen Ohio. Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man Diana Smallwood In 1918, U.S. Army Cpl. Alvin C. York who was the first person diagnosed with David Stephenson led an attack that killed 25 German sol- Ebola in the United States, died at Texas diers and captured 132 others in the Ar- Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas 10 Bush Family’s War On English Cathy Sudbeck gonne Forest in France. days after being admitted. U.S. research- JoAnn Wiebelhaus BY LEONARD PITTS JR. And while that’s a point some of us would Brenda Willcuts In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was in- ers Eric Betzig and William Moerner and dicted by a grand jury in New Jersey for German scientist Stefan Hell were named Tribune Content Agency dispute, it is not what makes his words appalling. Alissa Woockman murder in the death of the kidnapped son recipients of the Nobel Prize for chemis- No, what makes them appalling is the surrender of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. try for giving optical microscopes much In 1945, President Harry S. Truman sharper vision than was thought possible. And the Bush family’s War on English continues. they imply. * * * told a press conference in Tiptonville, Ten- Today’s Birthdays: Entertainment You are, by now, familiar with the astonishingly “Stuff happens?” Published Daily nessee, that the secret scientific knowl- reporter Rona Barrett is 79. Actor Paul tone-deaf response by Jeb Bush, the nation’s would- That’s what you say about the hurricane or the Monday-Saturday edge behind the atomic bomb would be Hogan is 76. Rhythm-and-blues singer be 45th president, to last week’s shooting at a com- earthquake, the hail storm or the flood, natural dis- shared only with Britain and Canada. Fred Cash (The Impressions) is 75. Civil asters beyond the power of humankind to prevent. Periodicals postage In 1956, Don Larsen pitched the only rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson is 74. munity college in Oregon in which a gunman killed nine people. “Look,” said Bush, “stuff happens.” It’s what you say about cancer or Alzheimer’s or paid at Yankton, South perfect game in a World Series to date as Comedian Chevy Chase is 72. Author R.L. the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Stine is 72. Actor Dale Dye is 71. Country Like a stink bomb in the flower bed, the dog droppings on the lawn, the major and minor Dakota, under the act of Dodgers in Game 5, 2-0. singer Susan Raye is 71. TV personal- dismissive-sounding words were buried in a longer challenges that are an inescapable part of being March 3, 1979. In 1957, the Brooklyn Baseball Club ity Sarah Purcell is 67. Rhythm-and-blues alive. announced it was accepting an offer to singer Airrion Love (The Stylistics) is 66. comment about whether this latest massacre Weekly Dakotian should spur new legislation. Said Bush: “...I don’t To say “stuff happens” about a mass shooting established June 6, 1861. move the Dodgers from New York to Los Actress Sigourney Weaver is 66. Rhythm- Angeles. and-blues singer Robert “Kool” Bell (Kool think more government is necessarily the answer to is to suggest that mass shootings are somehow Yankton Daily Press and In 1967, former British Prime Minister & the Gang) is 65. Producer-director Ed- this ... I had this challenge as governor, because we inevitable and unavoidable. But that is simply not Dakotian established April Clement Attlee died in London at age 84. ward Zwick is 63. Country singer-musician had ... look, stuff happens. There’s always a crisis true. This “stuff” doesn’t happen everywhere -- not 26, 1875. In 1970, Soviet author Alexander Ricky Lee Phelps is 62. Actor Michael Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Dudikoff is 61. Comedian Darrell Ham- and the impulse is always to do something and it’s with the numbing frequency it does here. Postmaster: Send It doesn’t happen like this in Great Britain. address changes to Yankton Nobel Prize for literature. mond is 60. Actress Stephanie Zimbalist not necessarily the right thing to do.” Daily Press & Dakotan, In 1982, all labor organizations in Po- is 59. Rock musician Mitch Marine is 54. When a reporter asked about the wording after- It doesn’t happen like this in Brazil. land, including Solidarity, were banned. Actress Kim Wayans is 54. Rock singer ward -- perhaps trying to spare Bush some grief -- It doesn’t happen like this in Israel. 319 Walnut, Yankton, SD In 1998, the House triggered an Steve Perry (Cherry Poppin’ Daddies) is 57078. open-ended impeachment inquiry against 52. Actor Ian Hart is 51. Gospel/rhythm- the former Florida governor turned attitudinal. “No, It doesn’t happen like this in Japan, where gun President Bill Clinton in a momentous and-blues singer CeCe Winans is 51. Rock it wasn’t a mistake,” he said. “I said exactly what I ownership is strictly restricted, nor in Canada, * * * 258-176 vote; 31 Democrats joined major- musician C.J. Ramone (The Ramones) is said. Explain to me what I said wrong.” where gun ownership laws are more liberal and MEMBERSHIPS ity Republicans in opening the way for na- 50. Actress-producer Karyn Parsons is “You said, ‘stuff happens,’” said the reporter. there are, by one count, about 10 million firearms in tionally televised impeachment hearings. 49. Singer-producer Teddy Riley is 49. private hands. Ten years ago: An Associated Press Actress Emily Procter is 47. Actor Dylan Whereupon, Bush hunkered deeper into his snit. The Yankton Daily “’Things’ happen all the time,” he said. “’Things.’ Is Ten million. Yet, you know how many gun Press & Dakotan is a Television News crew covering the after- Neal is 46. Actor-screenwriter Matt Da- member of the Associ- math of Hurricane Katrina videotaped mon is 45. Actress Kristanna Loken is 36. that better?” homicides there were in Canada in 2013? A hundred ated Press, the Inland three New Orleans police officers beating Rhythm-and-blues singer Byron Reeder Um ... no. and thirty-one. retired teacher Robert Davis. (Two of the (Mista) is 36. Rock-soul singer-musician And the pasting that followed was entirely Even as we mourn this latest mass murder, Daily Press Association officers involved were fired; one of them, Noelle Scaggs (Fitz and the Tantrums) and the South Dakota Lance Schilling, committed suicide, while is 36. Actor Nick Cannon is 35. Actor Max predictable. Bush was slammed by Hillary Clinton another is taking shape. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe Newspaper Association. the other, Robert Evangelist, was cleared Crumm is 30. Singer-songwriter-producer and President Obama. In Mother Jones, the liberal next week. That’s how predictable this “stuff” has The Associated Press of battery and false imprisonment and re- Bruno Mars is 30. Actor Angus T. Jones is magazine, his words were called “callous.” In Salon, become. is entitled exclusively instated to the police force.) Auto supplier 22. Actress Molly Quinn is 22. they were dubbed “tactless, graceless and ham- So it would behoove us to try and figure out to use of all the local Delphi Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bank- Thought for Today: “Don’t let yes- news printed in this ruptcy. (Delphi emerged from bankruptcy terday use up too much of today.” — Will handed.” what other countries know that we do not, what newspaper. protection in 2009.) Rogers, American humorist (1879-1935). But let’s not miss what’s truly offensive here. it is about our laws and/or our national character At one level, after all, this is just a new round that returns us inevitably to this nexus of tragedy * * * of the gaffe gotcha game where you strip clumsy and recrimination week after week. You see, Bush is FROM THE BIBLE language of inconvenient context so as to imply the only half right. SUBSCRIPTION It is not that “stuff happens.” RATES* candidate said or meant something he never said or Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Ac- meant. So let’s be fair: Bush was not being callous No, stuff happens here. (Payable in advance) cording to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a toward the Oregon tragedy any more than Barack CARRIER DELIVERY living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to Obama was denying small businesspersons their Leonard Pitts is a columnist for The Miami Her- 1-month...... $12.09 ald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132. Readers 3 months...... $36.27 an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in due when he said, “you didn’t build that.” Rather, heaven for you. 1 Peter 1:3-4. Portals of Prayer, Concordia Publishing Bush simply offered an inarticulate statement of may contact him via e-mail at lpitts@miamiherald. 6 months...... $72.53 com. 1-year...... $133.09 House, St. Louis. 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Make the Trade Zone We are the parents of Maegan Elizabeth report in a letter exclaiming “good news on vehicular homicide law ...” We hope he is drunk drivers pay the enforcement tab with 1-month...... $16.93 Spindler, a 25-year-old victim of a double- other fronts!” for DUIs, asserting that, in the able to convince legislators to change the administrative fees and increased fines. 3 months...... $50.79 DUI killing in Pickstown in 2013 along with past two years, DUI crashes have dropped law. Why should homeowners and other taxpay- 6 months...... $101.57 her supervisor, Dr. Robert Klumb. Both 11.5 percent. But this isn’t enough; a stronger deter- ers foot their bill? 1-year...... $148.82 were on-duty for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Unfortunately DUI crashes actually rence is needed. The governor stated, “I will do whatever MAIL OUTSIDE Service, standing in a parking lot during increased in 2014, averaging close to 1,000 Ninety-three percent of all fatal incidents I can to keep these hazardous individuals RETAIL TRADE ZONE daylight, run down at highway speed. While per year since 2007. Deaths increased involve first-time DUI offenders, like our off the road.” We call upon him to make 1 month...... $19.35 this horror is etched in our minds, we have substantially from 42 in 2013 to 47 in 2014. daughter’s killer. They drive drunk 80 times good on his promise by proposing DUI 3 months...... $58.05 solace in knowing she rests in eternal peace Injuries are down modestly, which was on average before arrest. Deterrence means reform legislation. There’s been enough suf- 6 months...... $116.09 with our Lord. good. But progress has stalled for eight more effective DUI enforcement with swift, fering and victims. Please let your elected 1-year...... $186.33 What other good may come from such years, after reductions across the board certain and severe penalties. Education and representatives know this. * Plus applicable sales tax a horror? for all rates between 2002-2007. adequate funding is needed. Rural cities Being professional statisticians, we read Referring to the sentence our daughter’s and counties simply don’t have sufficient