My response to Editor Steve Bouser's Dec. 31wishes for a Happy New Year:

No. 2. I guess you like fat-bellies drinking loaded beers.

No. 6. You can't write without slamming our president. He has helped so many people in our country all these years. He has kept you safe in your office and home. I guess you and letter writer John Waugh have been in cahoots.

No. 9. Dogs are wonderful -- black, white, or tan -- but so are cats and kittens. No need to blackball cats and kittens from finding nice homes.

No. 13. Don't try the victim thing with our newly elected president. He'll have four years to prove or disprove himself.

No. 14. Do you know how many households play games? Do you know how many adults have weekly games of dominoes, etc., with other adults?

No. 15. I find Rush, O'Reilly and others a real learning tool. More liberals need to listen. Do you have a radio stuck in your ear all day at work, or do you just hear what other people say? Do you know of all the good that O'Reilly does?

None of the people you mentioned are "blowhards." Left to the liberals, we would be in the dark, stumbling and ignorant as to what's going on in the world.

Oh, I forgot. Your opinion on a 50-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax stinks. I'm for good roads, but our overtaxed gasoline is now supposed to go for road improvement. How is it spent? Who knows. We'll get our energy independence when we throw out the environmentalists and start drilling on our own properties!

However, I guess you're a fun-loving guy -- still looking at women's legs, throwing Frisbees and drinking that Yuengling beer!

Patricia Stephenson

Vass