OpinionJune 14, 2011
Speak Out 6/14/11
I was at a local retail store with my elderly father who was wanting to get out and look for some personal items. He is a WWII vet and has severe heart and lung problems that limit his ability to walk very long. This retail store has no motorized shopping carts or a wheelchair with a basket attached. ...
Retailers, scooters
I was at a local retail store with my elderly father who was wanting to get out and look for some personal items. He is a WWII vet and has severe heart and lung problems that limit his ability to walk very long. This retail store has no motorized shopping carts or a wheelchair with a basket attached. Just a plain jane wheelchair. That made me think of how many others out there cannot shop at this particular store. Now the other major retail stores in Cape along with some other smaller stores provide the scooters with the attached baskets. I am asking the business owners to think about things like that when they wonder why the other stores have more business.
Federal assistance
IF we want this region to remain the international leader in rugged individualism and self reliance, then we should, when it comes to Bloomfield Road, Bird's Point, bridges, and beyond, refuse any and all local, state and federal government assistance.
Veterans Home picnic
I would like to thank the Veterans Home for the picnic they had for all the Veterans. The food was very good that was cooked by the Perryville Elks. Thanks to the local Armory Unit that helped with the transport of the residents to and from their rooms. The entertainment (Dave "Silver" Barberis) was very good, some residents had a good time dancing. The Veterans Home staff was very attentive. It was a good time for all!
Radio rant
IT is education that has made the difference in the dramatic decline. Mr. Gary Rust may have rattled my cage beyond recovery when he reprinted and apparently approved a rant from a radio talk show host from the left coast arguing that schools should have no role in health education when it comes to the dangers associated with smoking cigarettes.
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Philosophical debate
THE human experience would be so diminished without the philosophers, historians, and artists. Those things are what make us who we are. The world takes all kinds to make it what it is; don't disparage those of us who choose to go to college for the enrichment of mankind.
More philosophy
TO the Speak Out caller who blasted "social sciences" degrees: I hold a degree in philosophy, literally translated as the love of wisdom or knowledge. The broad field of science as we know it today was originally called the "philosophy of nature." Without first curiosity and a yearning for knowledge about ourselves and the world around us, there would be no hard sciences, no social development. And without an awareness of history and its impact on our lives, life, as philosopher Thomas Hobbes said, would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Horrified by speech
I was horrified by what your Opinion page headline deemed a "principals' speech," republished by Gary Rust, only to realize at the end that it was actually a right wing rant written by one of those omnipresent talk show hosts.
Obamacare stance
I appreciated Gary Rust's shocking but seemingly tacit endorsement of the Affordable Health Care Act. Rust wrote in reference to President Obama's health care plan, "... it will be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube as current phased in steps are being implemented." To me, I choose to interpret this to mean Mr. Rust realizes that once the new health care law is fully implemented more and more people will come to realize what a wonderful step forward it is for the American people.
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