Speak Out: Speak Out 3/4/19

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Posted by Dennis Smith on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 7:07 AM:

Sports coverage

Such a shame that the newspaper donates so many resources to covering Southeast Missouri State’s dismal basketball teams, but can’t dedicate a single article to our track and field athletes who competed in the OVC Championship meet.

Tax returns

All the complaints about lower tax returns are ignorant. The tax cuts are working; less was held out of your check so you took home more, therefore you should get less back because of the lower withholding. Do the math. Want more back? Change your withholding percentage. Me, I want mine up front so the politicians cannot waste it.

Cohen off easy

Michael Cohen, a proven liar and admitted tax evader, gets a three-year prison term, while Paul Manafort gets a life sentence. Not fair. I guess the shorter sentence is for the lies he will (is) telling about President Trump. Just look at the gleam in the Democrats eyes.

Gall of Congress

The House Oversight Committee has the gall to have a convicted liar and felon who lied to Congress to come to Washington and testify against President Trump. I will say there is no intelligence in Congress on the Democrats side. The man (Cohen) is a self-proclaimed tax evader. Where is the justice? The witch hunt continues!

Jackson mascot

Bob Miller repeatedly displays his lack of respect for the area and for traditions we hold dear. His latest act is to suggest a change to Jackson’s mascot. As a Native American myself, I find his reference to being PC to be insulting. I would rather people treat me with genuine respect rather than fake, forced acts that mean nothing. The Jackson community shows great respect to Native Americans by choosing a mascot for its positive attributes and then displaying them on the field and in the classroom. They uplift and uphold the positive traits of the Native American culture. Of course, Miller, in all his PC glory and bandwagon-jumping, misses that very obvious point. Shame on him!

Switching pockets

Mark Bliss’s article about the economic impact from all the food stamps given out in Southeast Missouri conveniently left out one huge fact: Just where does that money come from? It does not just fall off trees; it is taken from the people’s pockets through taxes. That is money they now DON’T have to spend, with a corresponding negative economic effect. Moving money from one pocket of your pants to another doesn’t increase your overall “economic impact” in the slightest. You are just enriching one pocket at the expense of another.

Green New Deal

The green new deal is really green — $93 trillion worth of green. It makes me want to wear my MAGA hat, you know the one, “Make Alexandria Go Away.” Yeah that’s the one.

MoDOT cables

Missouri Department of Transportation reports will never say that the I-55 death cables are responsible for (a) fatality. Cables are throwing cars back in traffic and then (the) car gets hit by (a) semi or cables decapitating people. MoDOT reports will just say (the) car left roadway. Yes, the car crossed white line (and cable is two foot from white line.) For MoDOT to move cable would mean mowing around cable.

Born alive

Feb. 25, 2019, was a day the U.S. Senate rejected protecting the lives of babies. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would have required doctors to provide the same level of medical care to babies who survived a botched abortion as they would to any other patient. Forty-four Democrats, including those running for president, voted against moving the bill forward. Do Democrats really believe everyone “is created equal?”

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    Sports coverage: You might want to give the paper a heads up on these types of sport events because their staff is probably limited.

    Tax returns: Better to have the money in my pocket and not in the free loan government's pocket.

    Cohen off easy & Gall of Congress: How can anyone believe a convicted liar - oh, the Democrats can if the lies are about President Trump. If the lies were about Democrats they would have been swept under the rug like the blackface and sexual abuse charges by the Virginia Democrats in the State government.

    Jackson mascot: Well said. If having the "Indian" name is PC offensive to some of the snowflakes out there then lets by all means get rid of the name we sure don't want to send any of these snowflakes to the hospital with that PC disease that has no cure.

    Switching pockets: Just like Robin Hood, take from the rich and give to the poor - Socialism beginnings.

    Green New Deal: One of the points of the Green New Deal is if you are unwilling to work the government will take care of you....what happens when everyone comes to that non-working attitude? Also, don't forget about doing away with airplanes, cows, gasoline cars, but include free health care, free college, free everything - just vote democratic.

    MoDOT cables: MODOT will never admit that they made a mistake that cost millions of taxpayers money.

    Born alive: Save the Illegal's babies but kill American babies - go figure....oh, Illegals are the Democrats new voter base.

    And that's the way it should be according to Schaefer's World....Monday March 4, 2019.

    -- Posted by Dennis Smith on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 7:56 AM
  • "... have a convicted liar and felon who lied to Congress to come to Washington and testify against President Trump."

    I would hope that readers understand is that the Cohen conviction resulted from lies he told to Congress that were protecting President Trump.

    -- Posted by Rick Lettau on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 9:07 AM
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    Mr. Lettau: The lies were about tax evasion that caused the conviction....get your stories straight and not just make up something to suit your agenda.

    Schaefer's World

    -- Posted by Dennis Smith on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 9:10 AM
  • Per Rep Raskin:

    Republicans are not upset because Cohen lied to Congress about President Trump's Moscow hotel plans...

    They're upset because he stopped lying to Congress about him.

    -- Posted by Rick Lettau on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 9:36 AM
  • Mr. Schaefer.

    Why? Be cause he was stating facts. Or perhaps in Schaefer's fantasy world Cohen never protected his boss.

    -- Posted by Rick Lettau on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 4:16 PM
  • hhmmmm...hold on , I repeated the words of the call in and my post was erased .

    I don't get it . The call in words were allowed but when their words were repeated , they were erased .

    That's a head scratcher , for sure .

    -- Posted by Rick Scaggs on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 5:02 PM
  • semo

    Speak Out , where a person pays to say nothing .

    -- Posted by Rick Scaggs on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 5:38 PM
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    Rick: IMO, the Google god list of words or phrases must have come from the DNC....we all know that the Google corp. is left leaning so why not it's censorship arm.

    Schaefer's World

    -- Posted by Dennis Smith on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 5:42 PM
  • I don't know nothing except I'm running out of monitor ink fast . The last 3 of mine that were erased were anti-politically correct .

    -- Posted by Rick Scaggs on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 5:50 PM
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    Well another comment of mine deleted and I asked the Google god to explain why but no answer....maybe Mr. Rust will have a column about it later on.

    Schaefer's World

    -- Posted by Dennis Smith on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 6:17 PM
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    -- Posted by Rick Lettau on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 9:36 AM

    -- Posted by Rick Lettau on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 4:16 PM

    Mr. Lettau: I'm trying to answer your comments but the Google god keeps deleting them - go figure. Guess you are free to say anything about me but I can't return the favor.

    Schaefer's World

    -- Posted by Dennis Smith on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 6:22 PM
  • Posted by Rick Lettau on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 9:36 AM

    Ulrich, was that one of those paraphrase plagerphrases or did you just make it up so you could claim it as fact later?

    -- Posted by R. W. Bess on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 6:33 PM
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    Rick, Wheels, OJ, & Rock:

    It's being good posting along with you guys but the Google god has gotten on my last nerve. You all need to me my new thread before it's deleted. Good luck guys. Semo471 out for now.

    Schaefer's World

    -- Posted by Dennis Smith on Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 6:37 PM

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