I am a 73 year old, native born Las Vegan and I remember this town as a young kid, teenager, and and adult. All of my life here I have seen it changing gradually at first, then rapidly and now it is changing like an exploding bomb. Some changes have been good, but for the most part the changes have been, in my mind negatives that have taken away what was the 'real Las Vegas' of days of old.

This is not that Las Vegas old timers remember; many comments have appeared in the media yearning for the old days of casinos and resorts that welcomed and cherished their customers. Roads were not crowded and people in the casinos were polite and helpful; in contrast we have greed and money hungry mongers who have thrived and enriched themselves recently by gauging and clipping the customers for all they are worth.

This City Center will be a disaster because it will increase the crowded conditions that already exist on the strip. Imagine another 1,000 to 4,000 cars trying to get into and out of that area during rush hour. Pray tell, how will an ambulance, fire truck, police vehcicle or bomb squad truck get anywhere on the strip. As it now stands the famous srip is a at best a 3-5 mph parking lot day or night.

Las Vegas may now look like New York but once the water shortage factors really take hold it will become the largest and most deserted famous community in the universe. Hopefully, I will not live to see it in the final days of its demise but there will come a time in the next decade or two when large caravans of people will be exiting Las Vegas like the 'Okies' of the dust bowl days left their homes. Las Vegas will be the most famous entertainment capitol ghost town in the world.

I accuse the greedy money mongers and local politicians who never really knew the real Las Vegas for this impending disaster. It is their fault and no one elses.... God Help this community, because no one else can.

This war in afghanistan is not winnable. Our training an army for them is like arming our own enemy with our tactics, weapons, ammo and hoping for the best. We are in a Vietnam like war and there will be no end to it, until and unless we decide to pull out now.

Warn all of these Muslim nations sponsoring and supporting terror that any, and I mean any attack on the US or our supporting allies will mean total nuclear anihilation for each and everyone of them regardless of how the attack comes, who carries it out, or where it occurs among our allies or our own nation.

The only thing they really understand is power, strength and resolve not the mealy-mouth approach we have been using. Train them, my ass, we need to get the hell out and warn them once and for all. Immediate and total anihilation awaits you if you dare launch an attack by rocket, plane, single suicide bomber or a whole brigade of suicide bent nuts. Death will be your immediate heritage.

Do what you want to your own people but a curse and plague upon you if you touch us. Don't think that Mohammed Binglybingly Dumbob will be able to get away with any suicide attack on us. Death will await you.

I can hardly wait for the City Center to open because I have visions of great traffic jams that make rush hour in LA or New York look like a day on a lonely road in Death Valley.

This will be the greatest boondoggle and disaster ever prepetrated on Las Vegas. 5 o'clock traffic on the I-15 will be undescribable, traffic on the strip will go absolutely no where and the strip will become a permanent parking lot.

The politicians and the big money movers behind this nightmare idea will rue the day they ever decided to build it. We have driven many tourists away from Vegas with price gouging and lack of treatment like the old days. Now the traffic problems will be the next factor added to those that are destroying this town, little by little, slowly and surely as the sun rises and sets.

God Help anyone needing Firemen, Police or an ambulance anywhere near the New City Center...God Help Them because nobody else will be able to do it.

George HW Bush got us in the 'good war' against Iraq to finish off Sadam Hussein; he didn't have the guts to finish it as he should have so we have a continuing mess in Iran. His son George W Bush didn't have the brains to finish what his daddy started and now we have an even bigger mess.

Obama is in a no win situation. He is not a military leader, but a leftist leader listening to the political radicals who couldn't win a game of 'tiddly-winks' if they wanted. We have the 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda mentality with regards to war...gutless, leaderless. Obama couldn't lead a herd of ants to a sack of sugar....gutless, idealess, leaderless qualities and of questionable loyalty to the USA.

The war in Afghanistan cannot be won because those people live in a 'Stone Age' culture ruled by tribal Muslim law. We have no real business there because in truth we will never 'democratize'(I hesitate to say nation) that region. The Russians were a 1000 times more brutal trying to win than we will ever try to be, and they lost big time.

How many other western world nations have tried and failed? We will see a colony of men on Mars before Afghanistan will be 'democratized, civilized, humanized and westernized' according to our standards.

We need to get out and nuke the crappola out of them if we or our allies are ever attacked again by any terrorist group from anywhere. They will have been responsible and they should be made to pay for anything they encourage or help others to do to us.

Senator Reid and Congresswoman Pelosi when, oh when will you be real political leaders and drop your government sponsored health insurance and take up the same plan you have designed for us?

Come on, now you say this plan is wonderful for all of the rest of us, but why not you in the government, Congress and this administration? Give us all one great big public explanation why you cannot, will not and never will join the same plan you have prepared for us?

You both claim to be great leaders, and apparently know and want the best for all of us, the taxpayers of America, but not for youselves? Really? You must be so brave to shun this plan in favor of the Congressional Health Plan that assures all of you endless benefits for life long after you retire or are retired by the people. You clain the government cannot afford this same exact plan for all Americans because it would bankrupt the USA. Well, sacrifice a little and join us in the plan you deem so wonderful for all of us. WE cannot afford to continue to pay for your government coverage no matter how brave, intelligent, thoughtful, generous and gregarious you are.

I look forward to hearing your brave, public announcement that you and your collegues will soon join us in this new "Change For America" health care coverage you have planned for us.

Good Luck in the 2010 Elections...Seniors and other taxpayers will not forget you.

This move is exactly what the RJ has been waiting for for decades. Now, with this new move to evaluate teachers on the basis of student academic scores you will see a real flood of retired professors from colleges and universities clammering for jobs here. Yeah...like that is gong to happen...

With this move there will begin to be a mass exit of quality teachers from education. What the RJ has dreamed of for decades will be the death of any quality in education in the CCSD within a very short while. Teachers will clammer to teach to the test, administrators will use every move possible to encourage that even to the point to cheating on standardized exams by letting copies of state exams out for use in the classroom. That has happened before and it will happen again in this district.

Will Harry Reid show real leadership and move to eliminate the current insurance and health care for Congress and all government employees and make them take what has been planned for the rest of us? Not on your life, folks. Harry knows a good thing when he sees it; he doesn't have the guts to cut out their own insurance and health coverage because he knows perfectly well what he has prepared for us...he wants no part of that. Harry Reid is a yellow coward with no guts to face the reality of his actions.

Harry, you like to brag about your collegeate boxing days; you haven't the courage to fight a real fight for the people you represent. A snake and weasel politican from day one you are among the worst ever for Nevada. The seniors and veterans of Nevada won't forget you at election time. You will soon return to Searchlight, Nevada defeated and hated more than any other politician in Nevada History. I hope you can live the ret of your days with that!!!!

The death penalty will not be applied in this case. Rest assured that there will be someone on the jury that will not vote for that. Instead, these creeps will end up in prison and will have access to body building equipment, computers, color tv, education and rehabilitation counseling, and 3 warm meals a day. TGhe attorneys gain noteriety, reputation for defending criminals and of course get a litle richer for their efforts. That is not the justice that should be handed out, but that is the way it works in America.

We have a death penalty law but it has not been applied for many years. WE have a lot of such creeps awaiting their final day in Nevada, but will linger on Death Row for many, many more years. This is what lawyers have done to our jutice system in America; delay, subvert the law, work on legal loopholes, appeals for this and that and the client stays alive for more years that they should. That is our justice system. The world laughs at us, not envy us for this system.

They should have their trial, get one supreme court appeal, and then hang them publically at First and Fremont. That is justice!!!

Why can't ships attacked by pirates simply blow the attackers clean out of the water. No prisoners, only dead pirates..that seems a reasonable answer. If this happened every time an attempt at a ship hijacking I think the story would soon be over.

Are we afraid of offending families of the pirates? If we are nice and allow the hijacking, taking of hostages mean that our democracy is working better? Will the world view us a a kinder, gentler state in the world?
Will we receive more humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize awards as a reslult?

What we need is a pronounced policy: Attack our ships and your pirates are dead, dead in the water. No mercy, no humanity will be forthcoming...only bullets for the offenders.

Harry Reid is not a friend of any taxpayer. Tax and spend Harry is about himself, always his image as the Nevada savior of the people. What has he actually done that is absolutely so great for Nevada, all Nevadans, or for that matter any one Nevadan?

Harry, we the seniors will vote for you when you declare before the nation that you are taking the same health insurance plan as the rest of us, not your very select and special congressional health insurance. Do that Harry, and I assure you you will win the reelection bid hands down. Harry, do you have the courage, real guts to do just that? No, you are a snivling coward, gutless and greedy like the rest of the politicians in Washington, D.C.

As far as I am concerned my vote will be to send you back to Searchlight, Nevada to pick weeds out of our lawn. You were such a lousy lawyer you had to go into politics to steal enough money to survive. I doubt you will be able to make in private practice even now.