SpeakOut 5/24

Call 471-6636

I have suffered with flu-like symptoms, sore skin, aches, sometimes my bones ache, nausea, chills diarrhea and all that goes with it, for quite some time. Sometimes I feel like I have a fever, but I don't have a fever. The doctor just looks at me like I don't know what I'm talking about. But this is real and I'm tired of it. I was wondering if anyone else out there has these same symptoms and could tell me what it is. It feels like the flu except it's all the time. It comes and goes - as fast as it comes it leaves as fast as it comes. If anyone can help me, please put it in SpeakOut.

I saw on KFVS-12 TV where we're going to be voting on same-sex marriages. You registered voters in Missouri need to wake up and smell the coffee. Politicians say they want to set a better example for our children. They are the ones who are leading this thing and who have let it get as far as it has in Missouri as well as all over this great nation. We have to put a stop to this crazy, sick-headed men and women who think that's the way. I don't know how a man or woman could look a little boy or girl in the eye and tell them this is the way to grow up, the proper way or decent way to raise your children. Folks, fall will be here before you know it. You people who have your heads screwed on straight, get out there and talk it up and let's get this thing voted down in August. Now is the time to do it. If it goes any farther, it will go all out of whack and the special interest groups will roll up their sleeves and confuse the politicians again and they'll want to do it again in a few years. Let's defeat it this time, once and for all.

Whoever has the kittens on Stanford, please do something with them. They are coming over to Cambridge begging and scratching holes in the outdoor carpet on my porch. I had that problem before and, with a farmer's permission, you could take them out to a farm. The animal shelter will not take them.

The Sikeston Area Humane Society has more than 50 cats in the shelter and at this time they have no room for more, which is why they ask people to try to wait a little longer before bringing kittens there. If the kittens are being a nuisance, call Animal Control at 471-2186 to have them picked up.

I want to congratulate you on a May 6 SpeakOut article, the obituary about the death of common sense. This is the best thing you have put in there in many, many years. I don't know who wrote it, but my congratulations to them. They certainly expressed the way I feel.