OpinionJune 21, 2015
Speak Out 6/21/15
Pope Francis, you rock! When it comes to the issue of man-made climate change, some of my Catholic friends are having trouble reconciling the views of Pope Francis with those of Rush Limbaugh. Watching the news today and seeing how sad it is with the shooting victims of the church, I do see where President Obama's getting ready to speak. ...
Pope props
Pope Francis, you rock!
Conflicted
When it comes to the issue of man-made climate change, some of my Catholic friends are having trouble reconciling the views of Pope Francis with those of Rush Limbaugh.
Obama's presence
Watching the news today and seeing how sad it is with the shooting victims of the church, I do see where President Obama's getting ready to speak. I just find it odd at the venues that he chooses to speak. This is an appropriate venue, but I wish I would have seen him last week in the Dallas shooting at the police station, stepping out into the public and saying that was wrong too. You know, just making his presence known. It just seems that it's very sporadic, his presence pops out in different things that happen, and then other ones he's completely silent. I just don't approve of that.
Trumped up
Donald Trump is so full of himself. So, of course, he'd make a great president.
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Bill, woman
So they finally decided to print a woman's picture on the $10 bill. Why not the $100?
Media, shootings
I'm watching television and all this about the shooting at the church in South Carolina. There's no question about this being a terrible thing. But I have a hard time accepting that this can get so much publicity, when places like New York, Chicago and other big cities, there's more people than this killed probably every month by guns, by criminals, by gangsters, and we don't hear anything about that. When all this was going on about the Ferguson thing, there was a little girl killed over in Kentucky, and that was mentioned one time on TV and zero times in the paper. Now, is this good reporting? Is this giving an accurate view of what's happening? The media is so biased one direction, that they get so upset they can't take it, and they react. Which is terrible. I don't mean to be justifying the shooter's actions whatsoever. But there's lots of things happen where there are people are dying, and dying maybe the same way, but in different numbers or different places.
Parents questioned
That young boy who shot and killed those nine people at Bible study in church, his parents should be right in jail with him. It's evident that he was not only crying out for help, but screaming for help with what they're coming up with now. And how any parent can overlook that in their child and not get them the help they need, they're not much of a parent.
Union defense
This goes to the Speak Out statement about "Harley, unions" regarding Scott Walker. Yes, I'm originally from Wisconsin, and I think Scott Walker is a joke. But don't condemn the unions. I am retired union from the state of Wisconsin. If it wasn't for the unions, they're the ones that set the pay scale. If you're working and making $15 an hour from union pay, with your job you might be making $10 or $12 an hour. If it wasn't for the unions, you might be working $1 or $2 and be glad you've got a job. You don't like the cars and the motorcycles that are made, then go to Japan and live there or somewhere else. You'd be glad to come back to the good old U.S.A.
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