SPEAK OUT

As time goes by

THE FOLLOWING Speak Out poem reflects my view as to the time it will take to adjudicate the legal issues surrounding the River City campus. If I am correct, citizens should be prepared to exercise a degree of patience.

Mr. Jim Drury has won his case.

There have been cheers and jeers.

The appeals will proceed at such a pace

As to take 500 years.

It's all for a cause

TO HAVE this joke as a president with no leadership is a shame for our country. Every foreign problem is just a legacy issue. The liberals are happy with their leader whose only answers are gay rights and reducing our military and its respect in the world. I end with a question: Did you ever see a liberal who was a patriot who loved his country? Never. Their causes and their struggle for their causes are what matter.

Example of stereotyping

I THINK that the individual who commented on the inappropriateness of Hick Day at Central High School needs to examine his own stereotyping. In one sentence, this person stated that Hick Day teaches students to stereotype, then in the very next sentence said he hasn't met any hicks from Jackson and doesn't think that there are a lot of farmers in Jackson. This person is automatically making the assumption that farmers are hicks. Today's farmers are definitely not hicks. They are agribusinessmen, many of whom have college degrees. They have solid work ethics, good manners, are willing to help neighbors in need and deserve the respect of the nation. I am all for good sportsmanship for all teams. But whether on the playing field or off, I believe hardworking citizens should not be put down and given derogatory titles. We can learn much from them.

Consider your priorities

JACKSON PEOPLE, if you all went to the football game the other night and saw the standing room only, would you vote for a new stadium if it came up on a bond issue? So, the kids need more school rooms so they can study. If we don't get that, it is a possibility that there may not even be a football game. Think about it.

Old people aren't selfish

I WOULD like to say a few words about people calling us older people selfish. We are not selfish, and thank God most people don't have the attitude that those callers seem to have had. We grew up in hard times, back in the 1930s when there weren't hardly any jobs. Kids today get a larger allowance than big families had to live on in those days. We worked hard and we made sacrifices and gave our kids more than we had. As a result we raised a selfish generation. The kids today growing up aren't any better off. Most people work but some choose between medicine and food and now winter is coming. They are wondering how they are going to pay their utility bills as the rest of us we squeeze by with careful management, but we still worry about holding those heating bills down. A lot kids today are thankful that their parents and grandparents do have their small little pensions to get by.

Someone to vote for

I JUST have one thing to say: Jim Drury for president.

Telling the other side

THANK GOODNESS for the chronicles of Richard Bruce, who gives us the other side of what is happening in the Jackson School District and how approval of the bond will impact what we already pay in taxes. Keep it up Richard. You are doing a great job.

Killing the innocent

THIS CONCERNS an article about how the police broke into the couples' house in Tennessee and shot and killed a man in the house when he tried to protect his house and life. This is not the first time people have had their homes invaded by jack-booted commandos and innocent civilians killed. These kinds of gestapo-type raids remind me of Germany in World War II. I wonder if their so-called informant is not sitting back and laughing right now. Law enforcement has gotten way out of touch with society, and it's killing innocent people right in their homes.