OpinionSeptember 13, 2000
SPEAKOUT
I HOPE the people around Cape Girardeau's Arena Park will enjoy the trash that they will have for the next couple of weeks. Someone has taken up over a dozen of the trash barrels. They have taken all those that you could to drive up to and drop stuff from your car. I guess that is what we are going to see: lots of trash...
No trash barrels
I HOPE the people around Cape Girardeau's Arena Park will enjoy the trash that they will have for the next couple of weeks. Someone has taken up over a dozen of the trash barrels. They have taken all those that you could to drive up to and drop stuff from your car. I guess that is what we are going to see: lots of trash.
Lousy Congress
TO THE Republican name caller, this liar bit has got me sick to my stomach. You said Clinton and Gore had eight years. They really had two years, because they had a lousy Republican Congress since 1994. They couldn't do very much with that rich man's Congress in power. All they can do is recommend and try to get things up for the national health care.
Too many freeloaders
THIS IS to the retired person complaining that his grandson is living with him. Assuming this young man is over the age of 18, he should be kicked out of the house and made to make it on is own. Freeloaders can be both young people and old people, and the freeloaders in our society are ruining us.
Smart-mouth brat
IT IS funny how now that the Bush campaign is slipping in the polls that the Bush campaign is trying to reinvent itself. And they still have audacity and the nerve to accuse Al Gore of doing what they are in the process of doing. George W. Bush is now coming across as a smart-mouth frat brat. He is still maiming the English language a la Dan Quayle. The reason George is slipping in the polls is the choice of Dick Cheney. He is coming across as a combative, defensive, snarly person who got rich quick by using his political connections who was given special treatment by the major oil service company to assure that the oil companies would get very favorable treatment if there was ever a Bush administration.
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Obeying the law
I TOO missed the prayer preceding the Jackson football game. However, I highly commend the Jackson School Board and superintendent Ron Anderson for upholding the law as mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court. I would not want their example to our community and especially to our children to be that it is OK to break the law until you get caught. God hears our prayers no matter if they are spoken or silent.
Whole people
IN TODAY'S society, too many people are guilty of automatically hollering at Conservative Christians, saying don't let your faith get over here in the political arena. They don't have much to say about liberals like vice presidential candidates who have their religion out in politics too. But in the light of this I would like to share something I read recently. A nuclear physicst/theologian has devoted his career reconciling science and faith. He said it is easy to think science, politics and technology have all the answers, because they are very powerful tools. But he insisted that science and politics and technology alone cannot answer human spiritual and ethical questions. He said that when he started in his field there were two main ways of looking at science and religion. They were either in conflict are two separate domains. At the time, he favored the latter, separate domains. He said it is a very attractive solution in a way to the simple, but ultimately we are whole people. We can't live in two worlds, so we intermingle or faith and our lives and our politics, technology and science.
Congress spends
I WAS really amused after reading several comments in Speak Out. I didn't really know that Clinton had the checkbook fro the U.S. government and could just write out any kind of check that he wanted to write out. Everyone is complaining about Clinton's spending of taxpayers' money. As I understand it, a majority of the seats in the Senate are Republican. Congress has to vote on how to spend the money. Maybe the callers better look at the Republican Congress before they start blaming the president for everything.
Need investigation
I AM calling about you article on Cristy Baker-Neel's request for a special prosecutor. This really upsets me terribly. There is no need for our county to be paying extra money for a prosecutor. The people have elected someone to take care of this position. What needs to be done, I think, is that her office should be investigated by a special prosecutor appointed by the governor. I am a Democrat. I have no grudges or axes to grind to get this lady. It is just a pure fact from a county citizen that she is not doing her job as prosecutor of the county. Let's have a special prosecutor to come in and investigate her and find out what is going on.
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