Speak Out 04/02/04

Thanks for credit card

A GREAT big relieved thank you to the thoughtful individual who found my credit card Wednesday at Wal-Mart and called the credit card company to report it lost. In my haste to get to an appointment on time, I did not put it back in my wallet as I usually do. Again, my eternal thanks.

Beyond understanding

DAVID LIMBAUGH has penned a lot of rabidly partisan Republican political polemics. However, nothing he has written comes close to the following sentence, followed by what he wrongly must have thought was a rhetorical question of some sort. To wit: "Viewed in the worst possible light to Bush it means that Bush and his advisers didn't take seriously enough the terrorist threat before 9-11." Then, the bombshell. "So what?" Thus, what many consider to be one of the most serious as well as seminal events in U.S. history is suddenly dismissed and trivialized in cavalier fashion. This is beyond human understanding.

Bush will still win

YOUR WHINING Wall Street Journal reprint recommended that the 9-11 commission hearings be postponed until after the general election this fall. What a woeful overreaction. Obviously, Wall Street Journal weenies are worried that the Bush administration's credibility is being undermined and may damage the president's chances at re-election. Poppycock. As the Watergate hearings proceeded apace in 1972, it became patently obvious to some that President Nixon was involved in illegal activities. However, Nixon won in a landslide in the November election. The Bushies at the Wall Street Journal need not worry and engage in such verbal hand wringing. Guilty of dropping the ball before 9-11 or not, Bush will bash Kerry in November.

Better at nurturing

SCIENCE HAS confirmed what common sense has dictated for a long time. Mothers are better at nurturing than fathers. Therefore, in a child-custody battle, primary physical custody should generally go to the mother.

More hot air

ANOTHER GOOD nickname for Southeast Missouri State University would be the Thermo-Pnuemos (hot air), and the mascot could be a gender-neutral person of no color with a big belly and chubby cheeks. This would only offend those who are full of hot air.