Speak Out 11/25/13

Personal space

We all must respect each others' personal space and allow them the freedom to do what they want to do with it. Sometimes we must struggle for our own rights within our space. Children in school need to be told this.

‘60 Minutes' story

Did you notice the tweet from National Review's Jonah Golberg on "60 Minutes'" recent story on Benghazi? He said the story proved what the conservative media had been alleging all along. It sure did. The story was a shameful fabrication. So has the right wing media retracted all of its "Watch ‘60 Minutes' for the truth on Benghazi" claims? What do you think?

Thankful

With Thanksgiving upon us I would like to say I am thankful for God, my family, friends, the people at Southeast Cancer Center and my boss for the care given and for sticking by me through thick and thin.

Ethanol

To argue that taxpayer-subsidized production of ethanol should be continued because it is less polluting than other forms of energy is a bit disingenuous. Ethanol expends more energy to make than it produces. In addition, vast acreages of farmland once planted with wheat, cotton and other crops have been sacrificed to corn so as to get aboard the ethanol bandwagon. At first, the ethanol movement seemed destined to succeed. However, it has turned out to be a near-disastrous failure.

President's apology

In the Nov. 10 Missourian, the always-predictable David Limbaugh uses half a page to tell us how outraged he is over President Obama's having chronically lied to the American people about being able to keep their current health insurance. In contrast, when the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice crew were day after day repeating boldfaced lies about Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction," not a word of this outrage was voiced by David Limbaugh -- then or later. In the same Sunday Missourian, Obama in bold type told the American people he is "sorry" his "assurances" about health insurance are causing problems for many Americans.