SPEAK OUT

Start school later

I AM calling about the school dismissals because of the extreme heat. I think this probably could have been avoided partially by waiting to begin school after Labor Day and letting the school year run through May. I think our children and teachers and the staff alike would all have been spared many headaches if we just could have started the school year a little later. We at least would have avoided two weeks of extreme heat.

The party line

I AM over 70 years old, and I was raised as a belligerent Democrat. Many Democrats who call Speak Out have been raised that way too, and they never stop to consider what they say, what they think or what they were taught to think. If most Democrats today who derived this feeding from their parents would stop and think and look back and analyze what they are saying today, they would realize that they have to vote Republican, but they won't do that. They get in this belligerent mood, and they don't think of anything except how they were raised and what they were taught.

Don't fix Easy Street

HOW MANY Cape Girardeau streets can be torn up at once, Inquired an apparently miffed Speak Out caller. Theoretically they could tear up all of them at once except for streets reserved for the rich and famous and streets often referred to collectively as Easy Street.

Change the schedule

JUST A complaint about the schools letting out because of hot weather. I think the object is to get ahead of snow days, and then there are letting out for hot days. Maybe they ought to go to school between Labor Day and Memorial Day.

Hypocritical people

I WANT to comment about the hoopla that has been brought up about Joe Lieberman because he has been talking religion. Lieberman is an Orthodox Jews. Orthodox Jews are pro-life. They are against abortions, and they also think homosexuality is a sinning lifestyle. Lieberman is just like a bunch of people here in Cape who claim to be born-again Christians, yet they vote for people who support abortion and the homosexual lifestyle. These people are hypocrites. Jesus said that because you are lukewarm, I will spew you from my mouth. These lukewarm Christians who think they can call themselves born again while they support homosexual rights and abortion are only fooling themselves. You can't fool God. God sees into your heart. You might as well give up your Christian religion, because you are doing nothing but insulting him.