SpeakOut 11-26

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Sorry for the loss

I feel so sorry for that family over at Dexter who lost their loved one. They might have came over here to Sikeston and got that stuff at one of the local doctors where you can go five days a week and get whatever you want to. I don't know when Sikeston is going to wake up to what's going on over here.

Sitting ducks

I would like to remind the good folks of Mississippi County that uranium production and usage is not clean. No, it doesn't put CO2 or other gases into the atmosphere to cause global warming, but the waste generated from power plants remains radioactive for billions of years and no one has agreed to take it to store. It is now stored at all nuclear power plants, just sitting ducks for terrorists. Wind and solar decentralize the power grid and are a whole bunch cleaner. Conservation, new lighting and motor innovations are a good beginning. Ask the people of Chernobyl if they think the trade off to nuclear power was a good one for their splendid agricultural area in the Ukraine!

I was deleted

Doggoneit! The news for Nov. 13, 1948, I got deleted. I was born that day. It was printed 30 years ago when I turned 30. Are you mad at me Mike? Joel Law

First female president

I am so excited. I read an article about who might be the first female president. Guess whose name was among those mentioned - Missouri's own U.S. Senator, Claire McCaskill.

He's coming

Rumors abound of signs in and around Sikeston to the effect, "Put God back in the White House." I would simply say to those who put up such signs to be patient. He is coming - January 20th.

More than two

We must begin the process of amending the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution so that President Obama can serve more than two terms. It's going to take longer than two terms to straighten out the Bush administration's mistakes.

Freshmen wrestling

I'd like to know why the high school wrestling coach didn't mention how many freshmen came out for the wrestling team this year in the Bulldog Barker. I believe there's probably more freshmen than there are upper classmen.