OpinionAugust 31, 2001
SPEAK OUT
I AGREE with the Southeast Missourian editorial board and Harry Rediger that the city needs to do a better job of coordinating its street projects. I also support the improvements and the tax that make them possible. But Mike Miller's comment in the newspaper that "reasonable detours" have been arranged misses the point. ...
Detours are a mess
I AGREE with the Southeast Missourian editorial board and Harry Rediger that the city needs to do a better job of coordinating its street projects. I also support the improvements and the tax that make them possible. But Mike Miller's comment in the newspaper that "reasonable detours" have been arranged misses the point. Each detour may be reasonable by itself, but when you add all of them together it's a mess, especially now as school starts. I don't know if Miller really understands how upset this is making people. There has to be a smarter way to coordinate the road improvements.
Not a liberal
TO THE callers who keep saying Jesus was a liberal: Jesus would never have supported the killing of an unborn baby in the womb. Jesus would never have supported giving special privileges to homosexuals. Jesus would never have supported taking his father's name off of everything. Jesus would never have supported doing away with school prayer and taking it out of public functions. Jesus would never have supported doing away with anything that represents Christianity. Jesus was definitely not a liberal. He was and still is against everything that liberals are in favor of.
Tip your waitress
CURRENTLY I am working as a waitress in Cape Girardeau where people don't always leave even a 10 percent tip. I have worked as a waitress in other areas and have usually made 20 percent of my sales. Other waitresses I work with are also making less on tips than they should, given the amount of food they have sold and the great service most of them give. I am writing to inform the people in Cape Gyrated that waitresses depend on tips for our wages. Because we have to claim 10 percent of our sales, it is important that people tip at least 10 percent, especially if you received good service from your server.
Against public schools
MANY OF the advocates of charter schools, school choice, tuition-tax credits and vouchers say they are not against public schools. In reality, they are very much against public schools, believing strongly that they have all failed and having as a vicious agenda the goal of destroying every remaining vestige of these venerable institutions.
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Streets of gold
BECAUSE OF never-ending political gridlock, most Missourians may indeed be reduced to traveling on roads of dirt, as a Speak Out caller suggested. However, the day will come when they will get their just reward by strolling exclusively on streets paved with gold. Just be patient and, more importantly, be good.
Broken promise
ANOTHER CAMPAIGN promise unkept by this fine, upstanding president: "I promise the senior citizens my administration will not dip into the Social Security funds." Need I say more?
A slippery slope
THOUGH OPPOSING Kinder Morgan Power Co.'s application for constructing a power plant in Cape Girardeau County, Alan Journet in effect admitted that the plant would be operating within the parameters of the law. He then proceeded to present a slew of slippery slope "what ifs?" to justify his opposition. It seems unseemly to use scare tactics in order to try to apparently promote a pre-industrial philosophy and perpetuate what is evidently a pantheistic worship of a prehistoric environment.
Showing restraint
THE UNITED States is taking the wrong stance in criticizing Israel for the well-executed military strike, which killed Abu Ali Mustafa. The strike was in response to Palestinian attacks on an Israeli neighborhood. This action in itself warrants the counterstrike. Abu Ali Mustafa was a well-known terrorist leader. To condemn Israel for its actions is unbelievable. Israel is exhibiting enormous restraint in protecting its sovereignty and its citizens. Would the United States show such restraint?
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