Speakout 5/20

Call 471-6636

This is to the people who have received gifts for their family for a wedding, new baby or graduation of a child. Remember those people who have given to you when their children graduate, get married or have children. You need to reciprocate. It is only right. What goes around comes around.

This is to the person who was talking about the farmers getting checks if this rain doesn't let them plant the crops. I hope you weren't eating anything when you were talking about the farmers like that.

Quit bellyaching about the Cardinals and the new stadium. Start complaining about every time you see a Navigator, Suburban or new John Deere. Really, it was the dang taxpayers who paid for it. All these welfare Navigators. When is it going to stop? No taxpayers - no farmers.

I was walking from picking my little boys up on Anderson Street by Applegate. A funny thing happened, actually I would call it a miracle; an angel watching over us. I happened to be walking as close to the edge of the road as I could because Sikeston has no sidewalks. I was walking with my 6-month-old son in a stroller, my 6-year-old son and 6-year-old nephew next to me. A man was driving in a Dodge Stratus-looking vehicle and he almost hit me and my baby. If he had hit my baby and me, he would have killed us because we are expecting another baby. The reason this person was up on the lawn on somebody else's grass and off the road and I happened to see him and step out in front of my baby's buggy is because when I looked in that person's car and told him he needed to pay attention to where he was going, he was too busy dialing the digits on his cell phone, looking down instead of looking up from driving on the road. I thought it was against the law to have them in your car; it's really a bad distraction. They say loud music and drugs are against the law but I don't think anything is against the law unless the law sticks with it. This man almost hit me and my little baby and I hope he thinks twice about doing that again. The next time he doesn't think twice about it and he hits somebody and kills them, he'll be looking at bars for the rest of his life.

I wish somebody could tell me what happened to the old American custom of majority rules. There is a native American in California who is trying to get everything concerning the Indian emblems removed. The next thing you hear, the majority of the native Americans are not that worried about it. There are just one or two. The same thing is out in Neosho. How many people are in favor of the Confederate flag, but because we have at least one person of another race, that makes it a big deal. I just can't understand why the majority can't have their way once in awhile, instead of the minorities, which is a very small percentage getting their way and having the justice system and the ACLU and all that to back them up? It's not the American way and it needs to be changed.