Speak Out 1/5/14

Miss Kitty

Thank you, Miss Kitty, for your annual Christmas wishes I read in the newspaper. I know you were helped a little bit by Joe Sullivan. Beautiful writing. I really appreciated it. I totally agree with it. One of the things that crossed my mind, though, was my church. My church is very, very big on collecting money for the poor, collecting food, collecting clothes for the poor. I totally understand that, totally agree with it. Absolutely do my best to help. But we never seem to ever, ever, ever hear about how we should treat each other, extend some love and compassion. I know plenty of us in the church could really use that. Just because we have enough money to scrape by doesn't mean we don't have needs that are just as important as, almost, let's say almost as important as food and clothes.

Elizabeth Warren

Even the great political prognosticator Nate Silver (as contrasted with, say, Dick Morris) would be skeptical about making any prediction much beyond six months. And yet, all of my intuitive political instincts tell me that the next president of our great nation will be U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

William Street

Re: Options For William Street. I vote no. Big waste of money. Focus on repair of the streets that are in bad shape.

Use tax

The reasonable proposal of Cape's Chamber of Commerce for a level-the-playing-field use tax will be rejected by tea party types who recoil against any proposition mentioning the word tax and who are unable to clear their clouded reasoning by exercising the necessary cognitive skills to consider the issue with any degree of common sense.

Christmas tournament

There were so many enjoyable ways of listening to or virtually watching the Southeast Missourian-sponsored Christmas Tournament that it made the year's end extraordinarily exciting. A few of those deserving extraordinary praise for their tireless efforts to bring alive the action include Rachel Crader, John Unterreiner, Jordan Seabaugh and John Winkler.