OpinionApril 12, 2001
SPEAK OUT
CHINA SHOULD not make a move that it regrets. DURING THE Clinton era, I marveled about how we went on and on about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and showed so little concern over his coziness with the enemy, communist China. I must confess I'm guilty too. ...
Be careful, China
CHINA SHOULD not make a move that it regrets.
Don't support China
DURING THE Clinton era, I marveled about how we went on and on about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and showed so little concern over his coziness with the enemy, communist China. I must confess I'm guilty too. When I go to stores and buy merchandise made in China, I contribute to their military might. Our purchases contribute over $9 billion a month to their economy, most going to their government and their war machine. So I'm going to make an effort to buy American, or at least North American, rather than Chinese-made products. I encourage you to do the same.
Now it's dangerous
THE FACT that Mount Auburn Road is four lanes and people want to go fast is dangerous. People are staying to the left because it's only natural to stay to the left on a road that is too narrow to be four lanes. Staying to the right, as would be typical on a four-lane road, means you push right up into somebody's front yard. That road is not big enough for four lanes. It's very dangerous, and that was a very bad decision on the part of whoever made it. The way it was working before was perfectly satisfactory and much safer with a turning lane. I think the city needs to reconsider this bad decision in view of people's safety.
Traffic suggestions
JACKSON REALLY needs to do something about the situation with Highway 72 where it crosses the intersection at the train. I have been teaching west of Jackson for about five years, and going through Jackson is a major problem. I don't understand why they don't make that short right lane right after the intersection by the police department a right-turn-only lane. What happens is that everybody zips over in that right lane to jockey for position, and then they try to cut back in without even looking. They don't even yield. They just cut in front of people. If they would make that a right-turn-only lane for the students going to the high school, that would be a lot better.
Speak for yourself
A COMMENT to Missourian sportswriters: One of you was disturbed about a misinterpretation by an official at Columbia's Final Four game. How humorous. The sportswriters aren't concerned when they list wrong names and statistics or omit double-figure scores and even have the wrong team name in their articles. They never apologize if this happens to an area small school. And, yes, that official is biased. I have seen him at quite a few games.
Mars, or a county road?
I JUST heard where it costs $295 million to play around with going to Mars. I had to drive to work on a gravel road. Something is out of whack. Cape County, why don't you pave County Road 220?
Column commendation
I WANT to commend the Southeast Missourian for running the column by Walter Williams on three decades of demoralizing blacks. I think you are to be commended for printing this. Thank you.
No tailpipe borders
BORDERS ARE needed, but what you have to keep in mind is that the pollution emitted from a tailpipe of a car doesn't stay over the country in which it is expelled.
Satan in churches
TO THE caller who suggested a big revival: Satan is active in the churches as mean Sunday school teachers, hypocrites in the choir and other places of leadership and girls who wear their skirts almost to their hips. I think that Jesus would say go home and get dressed and then come and follow me. There is a revival going on worldwide instead of America.
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Prom date
TO THE caller requesting that Central High School change its prom date: Why is it that we should change our prom date? Change yours. Maybe next year the administrators will consult each other about such important dates.
Drinking deaths
MAYBE WHEN alcohol starts causing cancer and people start to die from it, they'll pay up.
Kennedy's tax cut
IN HIS message to congress in 1963, President John F. Kennedy asked that the top income tax rates be brought down from 91 percent to 65 percent. His goal was to reduce all statutory income-tax rates by 30 percent, including a reduction in the bottom tax rate from 20 percent to 14 percent. Subsequently, Congress only reduced the top rate to 70 percent. Nevertheless this constitutes a significantly larger tax cut than Bush's proposal, which is to bring the tax rate from 39.6 percent to 33 percent. The law passed by a Democratic Congress in 1964 lowered the top rate by 23 percent, while Bush's plan would only lower it by 17 percent. So it seems like liberals, Democrats especially, are wrong when they holler about Bush's tax cut would be so much more devastating than Kennedy's.
Baseball advice
I WOULD just like to express my bitter disgust with Tony LaRussa. We are a National League team, we do not need to be playing American League-style ball. And he needs to quit putting different people in the lineup every day. It's really starting to tick me off.
Big improvement
I DON'T know why all these people are so upset about Mount Auburn Road. I drove on it recently not knowing that they were turning it into a four-lane road, and I was thrilled. I think it is wonderful. Keep up the good work.
Please keep quiet
I WISH the news media would stop talking about how the gas prices are going to soar. Every time it comes out that they're going to raise gas prices, they go up here in Cape Girardeau. And they just keep talking about school shootings. These people need to keep their mouths shut. These gas prices wouldn't be as high as they are.
Wrong suspect
I WANT to comment about the Yugoslavian president. They are wanting to try him for international war crimes. How can you try him when you don't try Bill Clinton? He used cluster bombs on innocent children. The Kosovo people didn't leave until we started bombing. They weren't leaving when the Serbs were fighting them because the Serbs weren't slaughtering them. It was our cluster bombs that were killing them.
Combines that plow
I ENJOYED reading Tamara Zellars Buck's column, and I am wondering what kind of farmer she lives by who turns the soil in his field with a combine. When I was growing up, combines did not turn soil, and I think it is kind of hilarious.
Drug tests at home
I KNOW we have early pregnancy tests that you can take home. Why do we not have a test to see if your children are using drugs? I would just like to know why we have to go to a doctor and pay $85 to do this when you can go and buy over-the-counter pregnancy tests.
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