OpinionAugust 28, 1996
SPEAKOUT
I'M SO glad Bill Clinton's going to get to come and see this fine city of ours and what we've managed to spite him. I've also got a vacation coming and I think it'd just be the opportune time for me to enjoy Washington, D.C. I JUST wanted to comment that I thought the circus was coming to town at a appropriate time. The clowns will be arriving Friday at the airport on Air Force One...
Gettin' out of town
I'M SO glad Bill Clinton's going to get to come and see this fine city of ours and what we've managed to spite him. I've also got a vacation coming and I think it'd just be the opportune time for me to enjoy Washington, D.C.
Circus comes to Cape
I JUST wanted to comment that I thought the circus was coming to town at a appropriate time. The clowns will be arriving Friday at the airport on Air Force One.
No hollering at Bill
WHEN MR. Clinton visits Cape Girardeau you'd better careful about hollering out anything to him or else you might find yourself in jail for two days like that poor woman in Chicago.
Choice is yours
IT'S NICE to know that the Republican Party is finally admitting they are pro-choice. They say it's your choice to smoke or not to smoke and to get lung cancer or not to get lung cancer. Yes, the choice is yours.
Where are Missouri's sports?
I WOULD just like to comment on how great the Southeast Missourian sports page is. It is so wonderful. Don't we like reading about teams from Ohio and all these different places? There are people in Missouri, Cape Girardeau, that we like to hear about, kids, the youth stuff, you know. But no, we get to read about the Muskegon College getting their nice pictures taken, riding on each other's backs. That's great. I'd just like to comment on it. I compliment you guys. Hats off, you do a great job.
Time to protest
WITH PRESIDENT Clinton coming to Cape Girardeau, I think the pro-lifers need to get out and protest his coming to Cape Girardeau. We're killing our children. It's time to cry for the children. Their blood flows like a river in the name of women's rights but God knows each heartbeat, he knows when every birthday should have been. America, please get back on your knees, it's time to cry for our children.
Nice work if you can get it
I JUST read the article in the Southeast Missourian about the 30-year-old panhandler with a ninth grade education who states that she will be lucky if she makes $30 while standing on a street corner for three or four hours. I have a master's degree and earn $40 for a full day of substitute teaching. Maybe I have chosen the wrong profession.
Get a job
I'M CALLING in regards to the homeless lady in today's paper. My heart goes out to people who can't do any better. But when you consider this, this lady is making anywhere from $7-10 an hour. I, myself, am a single parent, just recently divorced. I just put my daughter into college, have another one at home, an eight-year-old. I have a son who is married. I have never asked for help, I receive no help whatsoever for any kind of state funding. I work in a hospital and make a little over $6 an hour but yet I am able to have my own apartment and pay my own utilities without standing on a corner asking for handouts. This lady is making a killing. Sure, I have a high school education but I have done it on my own and I didn't stand on a corner and beg anybody. It was her choice to quit school and GED is available and night classes and she can get help with that. So, what I say to this lady is get a life and get a job and stop depending on others to make the living for you and quit feeling sorry for yourself.
No animal dumping
TODAY I wake to find someone else's dog in my yard. Everyone thinks my house a dumping ground for animals that they don't want and they don't care about. Well, I do care. I have had two cats killed in the last month right in our yard by neighbor's dogs. I don't feel that these people are being good neighbors. They should keep their animals at home. I do. My animals are spayed or neutered, depending on the gender, my dogs are in pens and not running all over everyone else. My cats were part-time house cats that didn't leave their yard but they still got killed by other animals, neighbor's dogs. Last week, we found three dogs chasing our horses through the pasture. We asked all the neighbors if they belong to them but of course, everyone said no. The dogs do belong to someone because they had collars on and they were well-fed. The first thing people think when the move to the country is let's get a dog, we can let it run loose. Yes, you can. The dog can also be killed on the highway and it can also be shot by a landowner tired of all the dogs killing and destroying their property. Just because you live in the country doesn't give you the right to let your animals runs over everyone else or kill everyone else's animals or create headaches. Cats are the same. I was even more shocked one afternoon when a car came by the house and someone tossed a mixed breed female puppy out the window in drive, right in front of me. They didn't even slow down. Fortunately for them, the back plate was gone from their car. That was just cruelty at it's lowest form. I think if a person can afford to have 100 hundred animals, then do so but don't let them run all over everyone else and don't be so inconsiderate of your neighbors that you forget that they live there too.
Warm up the Rush tour bus
GEE, I think it's exciting that President Clinton is coming to Cape Girardeau and I just want to be sure that our tourism committee will book a tour for him of the Rush Limbaugh home.
Comrade Clinton here
I CAN'T wait until Comrade Clinton comes to Cape. I plan to protest. Anyone like to join me? I'll be the one holding the Rush Limbaugh sign.
Just stay home
IF WHEN Clinton comes to Cape Girardeau, we all just stay at home and show the draft-dodging, wife-cheating, lying, political mind changing, egg-sucking, liberal dog that we don't support or appreciate his kind.
Take the tour
I THINK when the presidential campaign comes to Cape, Clinton should take his bus tour on the Rush tour.
Who's the guy with the beard?
ABOUT YOUR article in Thursday's paper about the 30-year-old panhandler. Why don't you interview that guy with the beard? I'd like to see where he lives. You know, at Drury's.
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Let God decide
THIS IS concerning the nation being judged and the caller says that our nation is really being judged. God is in control of all nations, he is in control of appointing leaders, kings, and presidents and so on. Well, if that's the case, then why have a democracy. So I'm not going to vote.
Give it a rest
PLEASE, PLEASE no more about abortion. It has been in the Speak Out column for about a year. X amount of people say it's wrong, X amount of people say it's right. Whatever. It's time for Speak Out to end it.
President in Limbaugh-Land
I'M EXCITED about the president coming to Cape Girardeau. When he comes here, will they take him on the tour of Rush Limbaugh's home and the schools he went to and the churches? Will he get to see where Rush Limbaugh is from?
Lake good for region
IN THE course of retail store operation, I've recently interviewed over 150 customers about the new lake plan. About 148 know it would be good for the area economically. Many do not really care since they do not fish, boat or swim. Many cannot wait for a new place to fish, boat or swim instead of spending all their money in Kentucky, Illinois and Arkansas. There are always belly-achers in any situation just as there was when I-55 came through and any street is expanded or improved by progress made for the majority of citizens. Most know why Springfield grew tremendously. They had fantastic recreational opportunities that attracted new industry, and visitors and people who relocated. When plans are finalized, let's put them in the voting booth where they should have been long ago if they had not been waylaid.
How much for tickets?
WHEN PRESIDENT Clinton comes to Cape Girardeau, do you have to pay to get in to see him?
New meaning for GOP
AFTER LISTENING to the recent Republican rhetoric, I am convinced that the initials GOP either stand for Get Out Poor or Greedy Opportunistic Politicians. I can't believe that so many people take them at their word. If people would take the time to read and analyze the facts, they would see through this and see that most of them are nothing but liars and hypocrites. For example, they ridicule President Clinton for not serving in the military but do they ever mention the fact that Jack Kemp didn't serve either? Why? Because he could throw a football. Funny how a shoulder injury can keep you out of the military but not out of professional football.
Say hi to the vets, Bill
IT WOULD be nice and probably profitable for votes in November if President Clinton and Vice President Gore would visit the Missouri Veterans Home while in Cape Girardeau. It would probably put him in better standing with the veterans.
President deserves respect
HOPEFULLY YOUR Republican newspaper, The Southeast Missourian, will give a nice coverage for the president's visit to Cape Girardeau. After all, he is our president and should be respected and treated as such.
Top this, Joe
IF JOE Sullivan wants to play Can You Top This?, I recently saw a senior citizen of one of the local hamburger facilities in Cape walk out of the establishment, evidently at the end of her shift, with her little uniform on, visor cap, striped shirt, walk across the parking lot, get into her car in the handicap parking space.
What's self-made?
I WAS reading in your Speak Out on Thursday about some woman who's running for office as a so-called self-made woman. What is the definition of self-made? If it's marrying and getting settlements from your husband that you divorced, self-made, I suppose that could be called self-made. I always thought of being self-made as making it on your own in business. But I suppose marrying and getting settlements would be, I guess you could call that self-made.
Where's the money going?
TO THE taxpayers of Cape Girardeau County, if you will look at your tax statements, both real estate and personal property, you find a mental health tax listed on them. For you information and everything, why don't you try to find out where that money goes and why. If you do, lots of luck friend, because that's more than what I've been able to do.
Clean ATM
IF THERE'S anyone out there who wants to use an ATM that you don't have to spray a Lysol on the buttons or use a Kleenex, go to Union Planters on Mount Auburn. It's always clean.
Why the move?
THIS IS directed to the Southeast Missourian. Do you not have any respect or appreciation for your customers? My parents have subscribed to your newspaper for all of my 53 years, teaching me to keep informed. To find the obits behind comics, Sports, etc., is very, very insulting to them and very offending to me. I can't believe you would do this. If you doing to this to make people read the rest of the newspaper, forget it. It doesn't work. I am very serious considering canceling my subscription and so is the rest of my family.
Wrong naturalist, right sentiment
I ABSOLUTELY agree with the editorial about the gorilla saving the boy. It's just marvelous and I enjoy that the story keeps having a life and we keep getting updates because that doesn't happen often. It's said that it takes a gorilla to show a human beings how to be gentle and kind. But I'll tell you something, a little correction. It was Jane Goodall who watched orangutans for all her years in the wild. You're thinking of the late naturalist, Diane Fossey who was murdered. She was a student of Dr. Richard Leaky and when she went to Rwanda to watch the gorillas, she was murdered in the late 70s. Anyone who is interested in gorilla behavior should read her book "Gorillas in the Mist" or rent the movie of the same name with Sigourney Weaver. Both are excellent introductions to the humanity that wears a gorilla mask, if you will. Oh yes, nobody still knows exactly why Diane Fossey was murdered but she was decapitated with a huge hunting knife but everyone seems to believe that it was poachers whom she had a lot of trouble with, gorilla poachers, who had murdered specifically for her work in the wild with the gorillas.
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