OpinionAugust 20, 2001
SPEAK OUT
TO THE person who found and reported my Visa credit card lost or stolen: Thank you very much. I live in the Kansas City area and did not notice it missing until I returned to Kansas City. Thanks again, and I hope that a blessing can be returned to you someday...
Thanks for credit card
TO THE person who found and reported my Visa credit card lost or stolen: Thank you very much. I live in the Kansas City area and did not notice it missing until I returned to Kansas City. Thanks again, and I hope that a blessing can be returned to you someday.
Cutting the fat
THE MISSOURI Department of Transportation is going to cut $160 million over the next five years from administrative costs. This is a constant complaint of mine, that government and corporations hire all these extra people that, when the crunch comes, they find they don't really need. They spent all this money on these people to whom they owed favors. It should be eliminated.
They deserve perks
THE NEWSPAPER should be ashamed of trying to stir up another controversy over elected officials, calling their travel "exotic locations." When I saw that, I looked to see where they were traveling. Were they going to Africa on safari? Were they going to Singapore? Just what exotic location were they going to? Puerto Rico is not out of the reach of any ordinary American. Often you'll see people walking around with Bahamas T-shirts. And average Americans often travel from coast to coast. I think lawmakers are under enough scrutiny without scrutinizing everything about them. They deserve a few perks now and then for a job well done.
Prep sports previews
I ENJOY the area high school football and basketball previews that the Southeast Missourian publishes. I like to read about all the teams and see all the schedules, especially the basketball schedules.
We saw you do it
THIS IS a message to the young gentleman who drives a black Toyota and was on Cape Rock Drive and went speeding around the corner, hit the curb, tore up our flower bed and lost control of his car, then pulled out of it and left. You were seen by several neighbors. Bits and pieces of your license plate number have come together and we also saw you when you came back by to see if you'd done any damage. The right thing for you to do is to come back and fix what you tore up. There's been a police report made. If we put together your license number and get enough details, we're going to be adding that to the police report. It would be a lot better for you if you come clean on your own without having the police show up at the door.
Teen-age behavior
I WAS at the show, and I've never seen such animalistic behavior in teen-age boys and girls. Some of the girls are just as bad as the boys, being loud and rude and obnoxious. Where are these kids' parents? Are they not teaching their kids anything? Or are they just giving them some money and telling them to raise themselves?
A really big building
I NOTICE that the highway department is going to cut its budget. What is it going to do about that monstrosity of an office building it built in Sikeston? It's big enough to be a federal office building.
Not for the unions
ANY SECRETARY of labor that a Republican administration would appoint would be a fox watching the henhouse. No way would he be qualified in the case of labor disputes and strikes, because Republicans are strictly for Big Business. The Department of Labor takes a beating under any Republican administration, and the labor unions take a big beating too.
Against God's will
STEM-CELL research is against the Bible. It's against the true Christians. It's the same thing they did to Christ. For a few pieces of silver, they sold him. It's the same thing President Bush did when he sent out little old $300 checks to get the people's minds on receiving money, then he reached his stem-cell decision. If you read the Bible, you'll see how it ties in. This message is for the true Christians, and there are very few of them. People need to read the Bible. Stem-cell research is against God's will.
Age discrimination
IN REGARD to the Speak Out comment about age discrimination: Yes, it does take place in Cape. I'm 58 years old, and I've been trying to get work. There are so many jobs advertised, and I've had interviews and applied to several different places, and I never get a call back. I've had a lot of experience in some of these jobs I've applied for. In fact, one employer out of town had hired me. On the way out he said he'd call me tomorrow to set up a time for me to start work. He said, "By the way, how old are you?" When I told him my age, I never heard back from him. A friend said he hired a younger man, and that was it. What's a person supposed to do when their job has ended and they're 58 years old and they need an income? Does anyone have any advice?
Long supply list
IF THE school supply lists in our area get any more detailed, soon the children will need to bring their own toilet paper, light bulbs and blackboard chalk. It is unreal, the things they need to bring now for each child. Their own adhesive tape, their own dry markers, their own baby wipes and anti-bacterial wipes. Do they also need furniture polish for dusting? Heaven knows what the next thing will be that they'll need. I'm sure this helps the school's budget, but how far does it go?
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It's your money
IN RESPONSE To the 66-year-old who has received a tax refund since the age of 17: Let me say that you should listen to the great conversationalist, Rush Limbaugh, who has said on his program many times that the refund check people get from the government is not the government's money. It's your money. If you had claimed less dependents, you would have assuredly received less of a refund.
Stick with the team
IF YOU'RE not a big enough man to stand and accept the responsibility for whichever way your team goes as a whole, then you're not the man for the job.
No research limits
REGARDING STEM-cell research: I think it's a marvelous thing. We should proceed in the research of this to help people with certain diseases. Those who oppose it should educate themselves on the subject. We are not jeopardizing anybody's life by doing this. People need to read the paper and the medical books to understand what they're opposing. Nothing cuts to the quick any faster than a cure not being allowed to be found through research. If we had limited the study of cancer, would we have come as far in treatment options as we've come? Limits shouldn't be put on research. It won't get out of hand.
Refunds and debt
I'M STILL waiting for somebody to explain the value of the government's rebate to taxpayers. It seems ludicrous to me for a country that is in debt to give out tax rebates. The whole refund deal seems to have been orchestrated by the flim-flam man who will make our grandkids pay for this foolishness.
Thanks for nothing
I WANT to thank Chairman Holden and the Gang of 197 for passing this Missouri law saying anyone under 18 can't possess tobacco products. Do you people see what's going on? You people just befuddle me.
Tongue-in-cheek
ABOUT THE person talking about the state workers using e-mail. This person must have his tongue stuck all the way through his cheek. I have yet to see government workers who work anywhere nearly as hard as this person has described them working, so I don't know if they can be serious.
Raise the money
I WOULD say that the fate of the River Campus is uncertain. The city really doesn't have or shouldn't have anything to do with it. Let the college raise its own money if it wants the River Campus.
A living human
I'M A grandmother. I read the Speak Out comment about the grandmother and grandchildren. My mother has seen people have abortions. During one in particular, the fetus was five months along, and they laid the fetus on the mantle over a fireplace while they worked on the mother. The baby wiggled and moved its feet, arms and legs and gasped for air. That is a baby, not a leech.
Breaks my heart
A CALLER stated that an unborn child is a leech. When I was pregnant with my son, I was not carrying a leech. For someone to take a human being and compare it to a parasite breaks my heart. Life begins at conception. God created men and women to reproduce human beings. If the embryo wasn't a life, then women would just pop a full-term child out. People are so special and unique that it takes from the moment of conception to the end of the nine-month term to make one. Sometimes babies come early, but it is still a baby. Women do not carry leeches.
Mount Auburn safety
THIS MORNING there were runners out on Mount Auburn Road. I'm not talking about joggers. I'm talking about some real runners. These people were moving. Our city council needs to reconsider changing Mount Auburn Road back to a three-lane road, with the middle lane for turning. It's just too dangerous for any pedestrians. Vehicles move too fast, and there's no extra room. There isn't even enough room to get mail out of a mailbox. We need to make Mount Auburn Road safe again.
Life in the womb
IN RESPONSE To the person who said a baby is not life before it is born, but a leech. I'm a woman between three and four months pregnant. I just had an ultrasound and saw my baby's heart, lungs, brain and all other major organs. I had to laugh when my baby put its thumb in its mouth, wiggled around, and then turned over. Great technology. I had a lot of questions for my doctor, and he told me that my baby probably has a different blood type than I do. Wow! My cousin could not carry her baby, and at 28 weeks of pregnancy she went into labor and delivered. Pregnancy usually lasts for 40 weeks. Her baby is now a freshman in high school. Anyone who tells me that this is not life before a baby is out of the womb is not a very educated or feeling person.
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