OpinionFebruary 8, 2000
SPEAKOUT
IF YOU feel bad on the outside, check yourself on the inside. I HAVE to go out in public and listen to people's jam boxes and radios playing absolute filth with the F-word and all other kinds of references to sex at gunpoint and knifepoint. I have to listen to co-workers who are allowed to talk about gay and lesbian issues right in front of children or anyone else they want to talk in front of and use language that's not printable in your paper. ...
Today's advice:
IF YOU feel bad on the outside, check yourself on the inside.
Let's put a stop to it
I HAVE to go out in public and listen to people's jam boxes and radios playing absolute filth with the F-word and all other kinds of references to sex at gunpoint and knifepoint. I have to listen to co-workers who are allowed to talk about gay and lesbian issues right in front of children or anyone else they want to talk in front of and use language that's not printable in your paper. Everyone's entitled to free speech. But when a baseball player uses his free speech but puts down the wrong people, all of a sudden he's suspended and punished. I'm not saying that what he said was right. In fact, it was very offensive. However, the F-word is offensive too. I have to hear it all the time, and I'm not allowed to say a thing because that wouldn't be politically correct. We in this country have to stop letting the liberals and the media run our lives. If the media hadn't kept playing up this story about the baseball player, he wouldn't have gotten suspended. Southeast Missourian, yes, you're conservative, but you also add fuel to the fire with your coverage of it. When are we conservatives, we normal mainstream Americans, going to stand up and put a stop to this? Our children pay the price of this every day.
Weak-sister league?
I SEE that Marty Mishow's back at it again, bragging on SEMO. I'd like to know if SEMO's so good, why have they lost eight straight games to Southern Illinois University? Why can't they ever beat them? Maybe SEMO plays in a weak-sister league, and that's why they're in the top of the their league. I think if SEMO was in the Gateway Conference or any other, it would be just another also-ran. I don't think they would even place near the top.
Another standard is used
IT SEEMS some people continue to pursue John Rocker. Many want him punished or have him barred from baseball. John Rocker's behavior and mouth were in very poor taste, as a 25-year-old does sometimes. But the same groups such as the NAACP when Mr. Clinton disgraced every man, woman and child in this country backed the president with the excuse of just bad judgment. A 95 percent approval. Maybe Mr. Clinton should have just called Monica a few racist degrading names. What hypocrites. If this was a black athlete, would the NAACP be up in arms? I know what Mr. Clinton did wasn't racist, but both actions were very immoral. What a double standard.
Signs for lawbreakers
PERHAPS THEY need a sign by the school that reads "If you plan on breaking the law, no guns allowed." A responsible adult should not be prohibited a gun whether concealed or in the trunk of his car. There may be some grandmother sitting in the audience of the school play who has a gun in her purse. It seems a shame, in our present system, that it needs to be dictated to responsible adults that they cannot have a gun when actually the sign is directed toward lawbreakers who are carrying a gun.
Hedy Lamarr's life
RECENTLY THERE have been some comments about the actress Hedy Lamarr in Speak Out, and a lament for her to be remembered for something other than her beauty. Actually she was an interesting, intelligent person. She escaped from her first husband who was a Nazi and made her way to the U.S. where she was discovered by MGM. She invented and patented a secret communications system in 1942 that has been called brilliant and years ahead of its time. It helped make a shorter war. It is still used today in cell phones. If you want to learn more about her fascinating life, look her up on the Internet.
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You didn't take it all
WELL, HALLELUJAH, Millers-ville water department. I got a $17 raise on my Social Security. And a $15.52 raise on my water bill. Leaves me $1.48 extra. I'm thankful I have a little left. You didn't quite get it all.
What are you afraid of?
I'M CALLING to agree with the Speak Out comment regarding the conservative bias of the Southeast Missourian. On the few occasions that Speak Out has printed a perspective from the progressive viewpoint, invariably a conservative reply will follow. In my attempts to respond to the reply, they have never been printed. What is the Missourian afraid of?
He was forced to act
I HAVE a question for those who have been calling in saying Clinton is a great president: What has he done that he hasn't been forced to do? Like sign the welfare reform. He vetoed that five times, then signed it. He vetoed a balanced budget amendment. The only thing Clinton has done is raise taxes and disrespect for the law. I just want whoever has called in to answer that simple question. Name two things that he's done that he hasn't been forced by the Republicans to do. It wasn't the balanced budget amendment, because remember, he vetoed four of them before he was forced to sign the last one.
Bradley fits the bill
VOTERS NEED to turn out big-time to vote and upset these entrenched machine politicos out of the race for the presidency. Americans need to let these power manipulators and exploiters know that the people can still call the shots. America needs new leadership that has honesty, integrity and decency to bring to the White House. Bill Bradley fills that bill.
God let's us use our brains
I OVERHEARD some grumbling in the church because we were closed in the big snow. I think God gives us a brain to use, people. He probably doesn't want us out risking life and limb even though he's going to call us home in our due time. So instead of grumbling, maybe we should be humbling.
Kelso needs an exit
MISSOURI DEPARTMENT of Transportation: Why isn't there an exit at Kelso? It would hurt Scott City. But it would save lives. Think about it. Half the people getting off the interstate and on the interstate come from Kelso, New Hamburg and the surrounding area. The bottom line: It would hurt Scott City.
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