OpinionMay 1, 2001
SPEAK OUT
AS THE office manager of a small health-related business in Cape Girardeau County, I would like to warn people out there about a couple of scams that have come across our desks recently. The first one involves people calling and claiming to have a great price on copier toner. ...
Beware of scams
AS THE office manager of a small health-related business in Cape Girardeau County, I would like to warn people out there about a couple of scams that have come across our desks recently. The first one involves people calling and claiming to have a great price on copier toner. However, they never seem to know the model number or any information about our copier. They start asking for that kind of information. Please let that be your first clue that they are not on the up-and-up. The second one involves examination gloves they can sell to you at a much cheaper price. These also are not what they seem. Please be aware of these scams. Think of your clients, employees and your own job.
Too much hurry
I KEEP seeing the news about people passing and colliding head-on. When are people going to realize that they aren't so important that a few minutes is worth a life-or-death situation? Most people are too lazy to get up and going on time, so they drive too fast or think the world's going to end. It will be for them. That's ridiculous.
Religious tolerance
I DON'T know of even one of the millions of worshippers of the Earth goddess, Gaia, who makes disparaging remarks about David Limbaugh's religious beliefs. As a result, I would appreciate it if Limbaugh would refrain from criticizing in print our proud, pagan, pantheistic religion. True, Gaia is but one of our polytheistic pantheon of gods and goddesses whom Limbaugh has deemed to criticize, but she is a seminal figure in our faith. I'm certain Gaia forgives Limbaugh for his transgression, but he should be more tolerant.
Need diversity
WONDERFUL IN-DEPTH piece, Tamara Buck. Your story makes it obvious that the lack of ethnic and cultural diversity within the Cape Girardeau School District's teaching and administrative staff requires a massive effort to recruit minority staff in order to overcome the perception that the current ethnic makeup is little short of accurately being described as de facto apartheid.
What a deal!
TAKE THE deal, Governor Holden. If I interpreted his column correctly, Senator Kinder has promised that if you support him in reducing legal fees for lawyers in the tobacco settlement case, he will morph into a liberal and support using state tax money for improving public school teacher salaries, repairing public school buildings, paying for prescription drug benefits for seniors and support your package for improving Missouri's infrastructure. Still, I'm skeptical. Kinder a lefty? No way.
Legal diversions
SOME OF these pols must really think John Q. Public possesses no knowledge of the barely palatable, sometimes pitiable posturing that goes on in Jefferson City. Believe me, we are all aware that the ones alleging possible rape of Missourians in the dispute over appropriate legal fees for the lawyers who won the suit against tobacco companies for Missouri are the very same ones who would have opposed suing the tobacco companies in the first place.
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Better for whom?
FREE TRADE creates climate of advancement? For whom? I don't think the ideas of capital flight, layoffs and the creation of more sweatshops in lesser developed countries are much of an advancement for the average citizen. It sure would make life easier for Big Business, or the oligarchy we are governed by today.
Fair-weather fans
WOW. I had no idea that conservative ideas would permeate the sports world. The Cardinals asked for some money, and now the people who have enjoyed the team for their entire lives are turning their backs, even asking them to leave St. Louis because they don't want to help revitalize downtown St. Louis. This, by the way, would eventually help all of Missouri through tourist revenue. Talk about fair-weather fans.
Blocking progress
AFTER READING in the paper that Cape Girardeau once again tried to slow progress, I expressed no surprise. The city tried to get a special-use permit for Southwestern Bell for the sole purpose of getting their fingers in something else. Meanwhile, Internet users like myself are stuck waiting on a dial-up connection. Enough is enough. Put the remote terminals in already, and let Bell give its customers what they want. Let's not have the city thwart every progressive effort. I suppose the city would be happy if we still had to tell the operator to connect us to order a pizza. Of course, the delivery man would have to ride a horse and buggy too.
Need student activism
STUDENTS LIKE Paul Tiffany should be rewarded for sticking their necks on the line and telling it like it is. Tiffany only scratches the surface of what seems to be a systemic problem at SEMO. On a campus where true student involvement in policy-making is rarely solicited or listened to and student activism is a non-factor, students like Tiffany remind us what college life is all about. No one is suggesting student riots, but a little more student passion will help get these accountants with no faculty or teaching experience who are running SEMO to put down the beans and open their minds to a more holistic approach to higher education. Learning comes before dollars.
No liquor lawsuits
ISN'T IT strange that there are lawsuits against tobacco companies, yet the liquor companies are never sued? Liquor causes many people's deaths in car accidents.
Concert rudeness
I ATTENDED a concert at the Central High School auditorium presented by the Schultz seventh-grade orchestra, choir and band. These kids and their directors worked very hard and practiced long hours to present a very good program. I was appalled at the nerve of a few parents who had small children who were allowed to climb up and down on the stage during the program. One little boy ran back and forth on the risers the choir had been standing on that were on the floor in front of the stage while the orchestra was playing. These parents owe the students and the faculty of Schultz school an apology.
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