OpinionSeptember 16, 1996
SPEAKOUT
I WOULD comment on the Susan McDougall case. I want to know when the sore, losing Republicans are ever going to call off their dogs on this case. It reminds one of a Third World country. I'm ashamed when I sit in front of my TV set and see this type of action that is condoned and appreciated in the Third World countries. I would never think it would happen in America, but it has. And I'm sorry to say that I had to be a witness to it...
Like a Third World country
I WOULD comment on the Susan McDougall case. I want to know when the sore, losing Republicans are ever going to call off their dogs on this case. It reminds one of a Third World country. I'm ashamed when I sit in front of my TV set and see this type of action that is condoned and appreciated in the Third World countries. I would never think it would happen in America, but it has. And I'm sorry to say that I had to be a witness to it.
Minimum-wage lunacy
I'D LIKE to comment on the action group ACORN. I think you are a bunch of nuts. Raising the minimum wage $2 more an hour is going to throw a lot of people in unemployment. It's really funny how that kind of issue can come up and be put on a ballot form but term limitations can't. Think about it.
Gore killing turtles?
AT THE Clinton-Gore balloon release here at Cape, I noticed that the balloons went straight up until they disappeared. The rising warm air currents took them up to the west-to-east jet stream which carried them out over the Atlantic Ocean where they eventually fall into the ocean. Sea turtles like the remains of a balloon, but it kills them. The several thousand balloons released, plus or minus, will probably kill a couple hundred turtles. I wonder if Al Gore, the great environmentalist, realizes that he will be indirectly responsible for the dead turtles.
Road-work scheduling
I AM calling to complain about whoever's decision to decide to do road repairs on Cape Rock and on Lexington during the week of the fair when we cannot get through Arena Park. All roads on this end of town have been shut down. The traffic has been horrible. As far as people on the east side of Cape, I think that I can speak for us all: We're not appreciating their timing at all.
More parade coverage
I WOULD like to congratulate the young people, the bands, and all the others who participated in the great parade for the fair yesterday. All the Missourian had was a fair clown. The parade lasted 1 1/2 hours, and the streets were packed. There were bands from all over the country. So next year how about a little support for our great young people of Cape Girardeau and community.
Phone service for the deaf
I'M CALLING to say that I think the public needs to be made more aware of the Missouri Relay system. It's an organization the deaf communicate with the hearing. I type the TTD and the operator will voice. I love the service of the Missouri Relay because they're able to help me place calls to doctor's office, work and everyday calls anywhere, even stores, restaurants and everywhere. As a deaf citizen of Missouri, I'm either switched around from person to person or the person on the line is rude and has no patience with us and hangs up. I'd like to see the public be made more aware of the Missouri Relay system and have more patience with both me and the operator. I appreciate your time very much.
Lies about abortions
WHEN PRESIDENT Clinton vetoed the partial-birth abortion bill, he had five women at the signing ceremony with him. He used them as an excuse for signing the bill, and he said all of them would have lost their life if they carried children to delivery. One of these women, Claudia Crown Hades, said this is not true. She said, "My procedure was elective. That is considered an elective procedure as were the procedures of all the other women who were at the White House." Again, we've caught Clinton in a lie. He's told so many in the last few years, he doesn't really know when he's telling the truth or when he's telling a lie. There's another case I'd like to share with you. This is in a National Right to Life News of Aug. 21, 1996. A Dr. Pamela Smith, director of medical education at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, testified before a Senate hearing and said this: "There are absolutely no obstetric situations encountered in this country which require a partially human fetus to be destroyed to preserve the life or health of the mother." Again, Clinton is all wrong. Somebody ought to send this bill back to him. Get it passed and protect these children from such treatment that we wouldn't even perform on an animal.
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Glad to see Rust column
I WANT to say how delighted I was to open up the paper and see a column by Gary Rust. His columns have always entertained me and informed me. I'm so glad to see him doing his columns again.
Abusing the Constitution
IF THE banning of same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, then we had best change the Constitution. If I wanted to go out and kill somebody, according to the Constitution, I could easily say, "Well, you are depriving me of my constitutional right to life." The whole thing idea of using the Constitution to get away with anything is the most repulsive thing I've heard of in my life. It is utterly ridiculous.
Something is wrong
ROSS PEROT, Bill and Hillary Clinton, classic dog and pony show. Bob Dole, the dancing bear, or Ross Perot, self-made genius billionaire patriot. Ross Perot gets 20 percent of the popular vote in the first election. Something is seriously wrong with the people of this country.
About those signs...
THERE HAVE been a lot of comments regarding signs that people weren't able to take into the president's rally here in Cape Girardeau. What these people don't understand is that it wasn't the content of the signs that was the problem. It was the fact that they were signs at all, particularly those on sticks which would be held above their heads and would have obstructed the view of people behind them. It's not fair that other people would wait in line for four or five hours to see the president only to have someone hold a sign up in front of them the whole time and they'd never get to see him anyway. That was the problem with the signs. It was nothing to do with political content. It was purely the fact that it would obstruct the views of other people who came to see the president.
Geography lesson
I'M CALLING about Heidi Nieland's column in the Sept. 11 newspaper. She referred to the Dukes of Hazzard set in Hazzard County, Ga. Hazzard County is not in Georgia. It's in Kentucky.
Time to turn negative
I WANT to comment about the Dole presidential campaign. Dole said he doesn't want to be negative and use Clinton's character. This is ridiculous. The Democrats have used everything. They've been negative from the very start. They've accused the Republicans of starving children, cutting off Medicare to old people, anything you could think of. And here Clinton is the biggest sleazeball we've ever had. There isn't anything he hasn't done. I just think it's time, if Dole wants to be president, he'd better start telling the public and reminding them about Clinton's shortcomings. If he didn't want it, why did he battle Buchanan? I think it's time for Bob Dole, if he really wants to be president, to turn negative.
Don't lick the stamps
I WENT to the post office and got two rolls of stamps. This is the way I always buy them. I'm an old granny woman, just tottling along. The clerk didn't bother to tell me they were self-sticking stamps. Well, I got home and licked and licked and licked. Those darn things wouldn't stick. I told my husband, so he tottled back to the post office the next day and told the clerk these darn things won't stick. Well, the clerk had a good laugh and said that's the self-sticking kind. Yep, I did it.
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