OpinionSeptember 25, 2015
Speak Out 9/25/15
Donald Trump is a topnotch buffoon, but there is a method to his madness. He correctly realizes that the Republican base is looking for a belligerent outsider who is an extremist conservative radical on most social and cultural issues (immigration), but is not beholden to cutting taxes for the 1 percent, a benchmark of conservative orthodoxy. All of this translates into the conclusion that we are in the middle of the breakup of the Republican Party...
Madness method
Donald Trump is a topnotch buffoon, but there is a method to his madness. He correctly realizes that the Republican base is looking for a belligerent outsider who is an extremist conservative radical on most social and cultural issues (immigration), but is not beholden to cutting taxes for the 1 percent, a benchmark of conservative orthodoxy. All of this translates into the conclusion that we are in the middle of the breakup of the Republican Party.
Follow the money
Bottom-line, who is funding the push behind this so-called "right to work" legislation? Big business, no doubt about it. The one and only reason they support a bill is if it will increase their profits, in this case by limiting union bargaining ability, a proposition that will cut wages and benefits. Logic. Why would so many politicians support such a hurtful measure? Big business money. Again, logic.
Streetlights
We've got streetlights down here that go out for about two hours in the morning, and then they'll come back on and burn all day and all night. The next night they go off a couple of hours, and then come back on and burn all day. This has been going on about two years now.
Intolerant
I'd like to make a comment about the deal down in Texas, where the boy brought an alarm clock in. Those teachers down there are the same teachers who defended a boy for wearing an NRA T-shirt. He got I-don't-know-how -many days of suspension. Then they suspended another child for eating a Pop Tart that was in the shape of a gun. These are crazy teachers. They don't deserve a pay raise.
Free market
In light of Volkswagen's intentional "cheating machine" software scandal involving some 11 million vehicles, I would love to see a laissez faire capitalist come forth and defend the perfection of the so-called "invisible hand" of the free market that needs absolutely no government oversight or regulation.
Don't mock
Yes, this is for the person that wanted to thank Seth McFarland and Bill Maher for mocking religion and saying that it didn't deserve the respect that it got. I just wonder if you might think that those 10 young ladies that were stripped naked and nailed to a cross in Syria because they were respecting their religion, and that religion was that they accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, who, by the way, was also nailed to a cross. But on the other hand, these guys probably don't know the Bible that well and they don't really care anyway, And they don't care. Anyway, that's too bad.
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More VA thanks
Hello, it's me again from the VA home. We would like to thank the Perryville AMVETS club for having us up for a dinner and music and a band on Sept. 19. It was a very good time. We all enjoyed ourselves. They have us up two or three times a year. And we all appreciate it. And we appreciate all the hard work that goes into it. We know it takes time and a lot of volunteers to pull it off. And they always have a real good time up there for us. Thank you all for your help.
Past pondering
So a professor spoke at SEMO using the past to understand the present while saying we shouldn't use our current value system to judge the pre-modern past. Uh, OK.
Jensen, Bernie
Mike Jensen is understandably worried about entitlements. Bernie Sanders will expand them by raising taxes on the likes of Mike Jensen.
No comparison
Come on Wall Street columnist Daniel Henniger. Quit trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Your attempted comparison between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as being cut out of the same mold is madness. The Donald is a blow hard and a buffoon. Bernie Sanders is a very serious man with very appealing and popular ideas. Many of Bernie's ideas will eventually be incorporated into our system while Donald's nativist xenophobia will hopefully be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Pope, climate
Plunging headlong into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for action to combat climate change, calling it a problem that "can no longer be left to a future generation." That puts a screw into the Republicans' ideas as it is just the weather.
Meeting places
If our hospitals were truly concerned about our wellness and health, they would advise us to stay away from the casino rather than to meet them there for their screenings.
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