Speak Out 6/26/12

Malnourished

I have a complaint about a word that is totally misleading and is misused: the hungry. People are hungry. Everybody, every living thing gets hungry. That is built into their system, their body. What the people actually are meaning, I think, is that people are malnourished and underfed. Everybody gets hungry no matter whether they weigh 500 pounds or weigh only 125 or maybe 50. They still get hungry. That is part of life. If they didn't get hungry and eat, they'd die. So quit using hunger as a means of wanting people to support and feed someone. Use the proper term.

North Korea

Reading "U.N.: Food supply tenuous for two-thirds of North Korea" brought tears to my eyes. The children are being starved. They are not being fed to their nourishment. The little children are dying. I know North Korea is the enemy, but the children are not. Please, people, open up your eyes and help.

Early birthday?

I was wondering how the Scott County Courthouse could be 100 years old. They are celebrating their 100th anniversary, when according to your paper it says it was designed in 1912 and wasn't completed until 1914. It sounds like the commissioner is kind of getting the cart ahead of the horse because it wouldn't be but 98 years old. It'll be two more years before the courthouse could be 100 years old. I wonder when it gets to be 100 years old in two more years what kind of celebration are they going to have then? That is when they should be having it.