OpinionSeptember 1, 2000
SPEAKOUT
Oh, boy. Alan Journet and his buddies put together another entertaining letter displaying their extreme environmental viewpoints. I wish they would all just get in their little electric car with Al Gore and move to the closest socialist country where they would live happily ever after...
Extreme views
Oh, boy. Alan Journet and his buddies put together another entertaining letter displaying their extreme environmental viewpoints. I wish they would all just get in their little electric car with Al Gore and move to the closest socialist country where they would live happily ever after.
Wasting our money
Did you know our U.S, government paid China $10 million for the loan of the pandas? I didn't know we had that much money to waste and to spend foolishly. With all of the people here in the country who are homeless or have no food, it is just disgusting.
Playboy campaign
Governor Carnahan is campaigning with the daughter of Hugh Hefner, the father of Playboy magazine and the exploiter of women and his filthy girlie magazines and businesses. How trashy can Carnahan get? He talks of decency and moral values. What a disgrace.
A great insert
I would just like to say that the insert in Sunday's paper, Kids under Construction, was great. Especially Jeff Johnston's article, "What Can We Do." I hope every parent and grandparent will read that. I hope we will also give some serious thought and prayer to a group of people in any party booing Eagle Scouts. This breaks my heart and speaks to us about what degradation has come to our nation. Let's not let this kind of thing continue.
No to death penalty
Concerning the death penalty, I am against it because of it is contrary to the Judeo-Christian ethics, which I believe in. I don't believe any human person or group of persons is infallible. I believe all people are capable of making a mistakes whether singularly or in a group, and I think anyone who believes that he does not make a mistake is a person should not be in pubic office.
Giving and taxing
Clinton IS giving billions and billions to Russians, Chinese, Africans and Tanzanians, but the American taxpayers cannot have a tax cut. After all, whose money is it?
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Furious about book
As A liberal Democrat, I am absolutely furious about this book that is out about Richard Nixon. This is just unconscionable. These people are dead. Only their family survive. What good does it do even if it is true?
Stop the leeches
The AARP Has made a business out of the greed of some seniors. The organization lobbies for more benefits for the elderly while the young workers pay the taxes and the benefits, not the government. The government has no money. We need an organization that helps people plan for retirement with a savings plan and responsibility, not depending on their grandchildren. We don't need more government programs for the leeches of our society.
They are needed
Mark Bliss should be more kindly towards mosquitoes. After all, God created them to keep the politicians company.
The unsaid prayer
Spoken by a minister before a football game last week in South Carolina: "At this time I used to lead a crowd in a prayer. I can't do that anymore. If I could, I would ask God the father to be with the players in the game to keep them safe and to protect those who were traveling to and from the game, but I can't do that anymore. I would have asked God to be with our country and to let its citizens glorify him in their actions. Then I would have closed the prayer in Jesus' name, but I can't do that anymore, so you may want to do it silently. And also you may want to write our congressman in Washington and let him know about what you think about the recent Supreme Court ruling."
Different rights
In the liberal world, you have the right not to be exposed to a prayer, but the Boy Scouts don't have the right not to be associated with homosexuals. Amazing.
Reverse psychology
I'm starting to think Southeast Missourian editorialists are good at using reverse psychology. Surely they know that when they tell us we "must" do this or to attend this or that meeting, we are not going to it. We don't like being told what to do or not to do. Even from the great eminences at the Southeast Missourian. However, I think there is a method to what appears the Southeast Missourian's madness. You see, I am sure the Southeast Missourian operatives are certain that we will be repelled by such demands and that the plans for zoning changes will remain in the hands of a handful of aristocrats.
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