Speak Out A 11/ 27/01

Pornographic show

UNLIKE THE person who was appalled by Victoria's Secret's show on ABC, it was pornographic to me, and I am a woman. I would not get out and parade myself around in front of men like that. There is no way. How do you think people are ever going to recognize women as equals if we get out and parade ourselves around like that? No. This is not right.

Foreign goods

NOTHING IS "Made in the USA" anymore. Try getting a big American corporation to create manufacturing jobs here. It won't happen. Not when they can pay little kids in Malaysia and Taiwan a buck a day for the same job. A lot of foreign things are made right here in the United States, like Sony electronics and Nissan vehicles. Buying foreign goods may actually benefit American workers more than buying domestic products.

Highway comedy

I MUST say thank you to the people who try to pass another five cars in the last 300 feet of the left lane on Interstate 55 at the airport. Your valiant attempts to get a few cars ahead while exceeding the ridiculously low speed limit of 50 mph by an additional 30 mph is quite humorous. After all that work and risking a nice stiff ticket, you still manage to get behind someone and drive slowly anyway. No, your efforts are not forgotten. I thoroughly enjoy them and find great humor in it. It makes that section of highway less stressful since I have someone to laugh at. Keep it up.

Monster warning

HEY, PARENTS, don't let your kids go see "Monsters Inc." Sure, it seems like a harmless, fun Disney movie, but as everyone knows, there are no monsters in the Bible. Watching this movie may lead kids to believe that monsters are real. So watch out.

Listening to others

IF "INTELLECTUALS are an insufferable lot," as one caller said, then I pray that God will send us many from that lot. Are they insufferable because they ask us to think and to see both sides of the whole picture? Nah, don't want to do that. Thinking and researching are hard work. Hee-Hawers prefer to believe what someone else has told them.

Another raise

HERE WE go again. And everyone has to quietly and passively keep their mouths shut because we all know there is not one thing we can do about it. I am talking about the $5,000-a-year raise that Congress is voting in for its members at the end of this year. We are told to call our congressman and complain. Funny. Are they really going to listen when they will lose $5,000 a year. I cannot understand how they are allowed to vote themselves a raise. Sure would be nice if everyone in the country could do that.

Charge till it hurts

IF YOU guys say consumer spending is the way to bring us out of economic hard times, then I'll try and go along with you. However, before I head to the mall I need you to answer a question for me: Can I put it on my credit card?

Can you get shots?

A WOEFULLY misinformed Speak Out caller wants us to think the disco era was over in 1980, the year Cape Central won a state basketball championship. Why, Alicia Bridges ("I Love the Night Life"), Chic ("These are the Good Times," "Everybody Dance") and Carol Douglas ("Doctor's Orders") hadn't even appeared on the scene yet. Maybe the caller made a mistake when he called in the comment because he was sick with a Saturday night fever.

Weighty argument

A PERSISTENT caller keeps pounding on the idea that pumping iron somehow makes one a better athlete. Poppycock.

Dangerous waste

NO, NUCLEAR waste does not explode. It does, however, contaminate the area where it is located with carcinogenic, deadly radiation for tens of thousands of years, rendering the land unusable for any living thing. I think I'd rather blow up.