OpinionMay 27, 2001
SPEAK OUT
NOW THAT they made Mount Auburn Road a four-lane road, why are they going to start sticking stop signs at every intersection? People on Hopper Road have got to learn how to get into the traffic stream. It's ridiculous. PICTURE YOURSELF, a liberal, stranded on a deserted island. ...
More stop signs
NOW THAT they made Mount Auburn Road a four-lane road, why are they going to start sticking stop signs at every intersection? People on Hopper Road have got to learn how to get into the traffic stream. It's ridiculous.
Back to the island
PICTURE YOURSELF, a liberal, stranded on a deserted island. You have one sandwich, and the fruit on the trees is still green. Picture yourself having to decide whether you're going to eat the sandwich in one day or parcel it out until the fruit is ripe. Now picture a conservative in the same situation. The conservative would realize that there are only so many given calories in that sandwich whether you eat it now or in little bites over a the next few days. The conservative would eat the sandwich, use the energy from the food to investigate other means of eating, such as setting up a trap or getting a fishing line going. That says it all between liberals and conservatives.
Missing McCord
THANK YOU, Coach Derek McCord, for bringing basketball to Scott City. We will miss you. Thanks for all the conference titles and district titles, especially the Christmas Tournament championship. Maybe this can hold me over for another 30 years or so until we can do it again.
Good analogy
I THOUGHT the caller who compared the Confederate flag with the Nazi flag did a very good job in the analogy. The South broke humanity. One only has to see a photo of a slave's back. One can only asked how many slaves were killed while slavery was legal.
Dog Town blues
MY SUBJECT is dogs. I think Cape Girardeau should be renamed Dog Town. We have so many dogs in our neighborhood that you can't even get a good night's sleep. They bark 24 hours a day. The owners do nothing about it. I wish something could be done to the nuisance law.
Do something
YES WE do have a noise problem in Cape. I live with my family in the middle of it on North Sprigg Street. It's annoying. We have metal windows, and they buzz. We need to address the noise and the drug problem in Cape Girardeau.
Concerned about water
I LIVE in Scott City. We had another boil-water order. How do we know it's safe to drink water, since we're always under these boil-water orders? How's that affecting our health?
Concerns about genes
IN RESPONSE to the caller who thinks the debate over gene-altered food is ridiculous, I'd like to answer the question which was posed. I think the natural selection process and the genetic changes which have occurred through nature are fine. What I'm opposed to is changing the genetic makeup in ways nature would not allow. This process is risky and leaves too many unanswered questions about the effects on our health and environment. That is why we're concerned. In the meantime, these foods should be labeled so consumers have a choice.
Leave it to God
TO ANSWER the caller concerning the genetic engineering issue, people bother themselves with the issue because they care about the foods they eat as well as the world around them. I suggest the caller research the issue before publicly voicing an opinion. Natural selection is not the same as scientific manipulation. The genetic makeup of our food was given to us by God. I think he did a pretty good job without the help of Monsanto.
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Chaos in the parks
I'M CALLING in regard to the Speak Out comment about how efficient the Jackson park board and director have been. I know whoever called did it as a joke, but it's not a joke for the coaches and parents who are trying to have a place for their kids to play ball. It's been total chaos for three years. This will be my last year. I'll take my kids to Cape where they have a little fairness next year.
Rainbow and purse
I ALWAYS look for the good in every person, and I certainly found it today. Someone returned a purse to Wal-Mart with all its cash, credit cards and personal belongings still inside. The east sky was displaying a rainbow, and while enjoying the moment I was distracted from taking my purse from the cart. Thank you to this person for being so kind and honest. Good people are what make this world so wonderful. God gave me two blessings: the rainbow and the person who returned my purse. Thank you.
Democrats did it
I WANT to comment about the person who said the energy crisis in California was inherited by Democrats. It wasn't inherited by Democrats. Pete Wilson may have signed the deregulation, but Gray Davis has added to it by placing a cap on how much consumers pay while also keeping any other kind of electricity-producing plants off-line. He bowed to the Greens. Besides, Wilson left in 1996. The rest of the time it's been Davis and the Democrat-controlled legislature. Democrats aren't wanting to take responsibility for that they've done. This is the result of liberal government: high unemployment and low energy production.
Arrest them
BECAUSE OF the lack of enforcement in Cape Girardeau, I'm definitely for the cameras to catch motorists who go through red lights. I think people who run red lights should be arrested. They're just trying to get through the light before somebody hits them. They don't care what color it is.
Heavenly images
I JUST wanted you to know that after the rain there was a beautiful rainbow. I live in the vicinity of the Fellowship Baptist Church. I couldn't help but take a picture of it where it framed the church perfectly. I thought, "My, what a powerful influence this has on the community." It's really nice to see a well-groomed church and the people coming there to worship. We need more of those images in Cape Girardeau.
Mean-spirited advice
IN DAVID Limbaugh's May 17 column, he said Christians should not be passive when others attack their beliefs. Limbaugh is apparently not familiar with the New Testament and one of the most famous passages in the Bible. A man asks what a man should do if struck on the cheek. Jesus' reply was turn the other cheek. As this passage demonstrates, a true Christian accepts that there are people who don't share their beliefs. But one simply has to read Limbaugh's mean-spirited columns to realize he knows very little about what it means to be a Christian.
Refreshing leadership
IT IS so refreshing to have a president in the White House who is showing leadership in planning and developing a comprehensive energy policy for our nation and who refuses to take the easy, politically correct path with quick fixes, which would do nothing to lessen our dependency on foreign oil.
Cut before taxing
I WAS as shocked as everyone else when I read the Jackson School District was putting a tax measure on the ballot. It has a snowball's chance in hell of passing. The school board and its supporters, who where the only people at the public hearing, need to get out of this plastic bubble they live in and step out into the real world. There is no support for a tax increase or any other increase. The last tax measure only passed by a slim margin, and that was after the voters turned it down twice. This district has too much waste and has never managed its money properly. That's why they are always needing more. Make them accountable for what they spend, then ask for more.
No Utopia then
LET US not forget that President Clinton did not inherit Utopia when he assumed the presidency. But what would one expect after 12 miserable years of Republican leadership?
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