Your letters, Sept. 7, 2008
Barnes will work
for farmers
This year before you vote, find out the truth about what the candidates stand for. Some don’t tell the truth, which should be a federal offense.
Sam Graves says Kay Barnes doesn’t know anything about farming. She is from this area. She knows about Maitland, for she spent many summers there with her grandmother. She saw farmers taking care of their fields, and what it took to plant and care for their fields. She realized the hard work farmers do to raise a crop. She visited different towns around the area. She knows Skidmore, Oregon, Mound City and Savannah. She learned about several schools in the area.
She attended school in St. Joseph while she lived with her mother.
Graves has always voted for Exxon and big oil companies. He voted against wind farms. Wind farms sure have helped Rock Port and King City. We must not let big oil companies take over our country. Oil companies have given Sam Graves $63,000.
If they cut the production tax credit for wind farms, which is renewable in 135 days, experts say this will hurt the United States. It will cost 112,000 jobs and $19 million in investments.
Kay Barnes is for wind farms, also drilling in Alaska and coastal waters to relieve gas prices. Diesel is more than $4 a gallon and fertilizer is 65 percent higher. She knows farmers are having a hard time.
Kay Barnes will work for farmers and us in Washington.
Verneal Clark,
St. Joseph
Where’s the outrage?
I just heard on the news that 4,000 Americans were killed in Iraq since the war there started. Many families are crying out in outrage and feel justified in doing so ... and I thought:
Thousands upon thousands have died and are still dying as a result of drunken and speeding drivers on our streets and highways. Tens of thousands are dying in “legalized” abortion mills. Where is the outrage? Why aren’t people crying out against these needless, cruel deaths? The deaths in Iraq were for a noble purpose, but the deaths on our streets and highways ... what was their purpose?
The tens of thousands of dead embryos — for what purpose did they die? How can their deaths be justified? Especially before almighty God who gave life to all of these who died. I’m sure I know how he feels about all these purposeless deaths.
I think of these words in the Bible from Jeremiah, Chapter 9, Verse I where God cries out in extreme agony. (“Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.”)
How can we as a nation “under God” justify these deaths of so many innocent, helpless embryos who never said a bad word about anybody or harmed anyone? Where is the crying out? Where is the outrage? Where are the tears?
There is a day of reckoning, a time for judgment. It’s in progress already, with all the “strange” weather happenings and earthquakes. The earth trembles when the Lord is angry (see Jeremiah 10:10) and all the strange and wasting diseases and ailments that are occurring now (read Deuteronomy 28th chapter, it’s interesting). What should we do? (Repent) as a nation (and turn to God that our sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord) Acts 3:19. The only sure way out of this mess is God’s way ... can you agree with that?
Warren Morris,
Mound City, Mo.
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In answer to Warren Morris:
My answer is a defiant No! You say 4,000 have died in an unprovoked, preemptive war of choice. But nowhere do you address the collateral damage that probably was between 10s of thousands to 100s of thousands of innocent woman and children killed by shock and awe and the after strikes on a country that had nothing to do with attacks on America.
The hypocrisy of saying killing zygotes and embryos compare to the killing of living human beings actually blows my mind.
I have never understood the far right reasoning about how killing actual human beings in war (especially those who are innocent bystanders) compare to terminating a few cells.
I guess if you are an Iraqi child you have less importance than a zygote. Kinda sounds inhumane to me.
Posted by David on September 7, 2008 at 1:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)Mr. Warren Morris said, "The only sure way out of this mess is God’s way ... can you agree with that? Dr. Chuck Baldwin, Darrell Castle and I do. Thats why I'll be voting for them in November, www.baldwin08.com/
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
Posted by dalearch on September 7, 2008 at 10:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)Quote from gingersnapp: “I am now Sondra Hussein Snapp”
Talk about a left-wing nutcase.
http://bluegalredstate.blogspot.com/
I wonder if she is supposed to take content from stjoenews.net and post it elsewhere.(?)
Posted by outoftowner on September 7, 2008 at 11:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)Looks to me as she has credited the sources for every comment.
Here is some good reading for the folks in Moral America:
http://godisimaginary.com/i24.html
http://godisimaginary.com/i22.html
http://godisimaginary.com/i30.html
But be warned some of you may "be struck down by the hands of God" just by clicking the links.
BTW I do really happen to enjoy one definition of the word "bible" on urbandictionary.com which is quoted as "A 2000 year old book of pure fiction, popularly used by right wing Americans to backup their close-minded views of society. Despite the complete lack of evidence for anything contained within it's pages, many people still continue to worship this book, just because it happens to be old."
Posted by dalearch on September 7, 2008 at 11:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)outoftowner:
Your links don't work...much like the people who support Obama.
Posted by outoftowner on September 7, 2008 at 11:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)Sorry to disappoint:
http://godisimaginary.com/i24.htm
Posted by dalearch on September 7, 2008 at 11:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)http://godisimaginary.com/i22.htm
http://godisimaginary.com/i30.htm
ginger:
I can’t help but wonder if you consider your children and grandchildren - whose pictures you posted on the link I posted - as “zygotes and embryos”?
Posted by suzyQ on September 7, 2008 at 11:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)Oh my Dalearch, thanks for the link to Sandra Hussein Snapp's blog. I couldn't stop laughing at the lunacy of liberalism to the extreme! I even saved it for a "favorite" just so I can share it with my friends for a good laugh. I feel so honored to be featured there with many other's who have posted here. While I do see she gave credit, one does still worry about the ethics. All it is is typical DEMwittie rhetoric...only in America.
Posted by suzyQ on September 7, 2008 at 12:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)LOL, gingersnapp calling the St. Joe News Press "our local wingnut rag".
Oh my stomach is hurting I am laughing so hard. So are you fighting a losing battle here? Love the superiority smugness you air; ummm "I think I smell a Liberal blogging"! Really truly, its stuff like this that makes independents like me lean to the right. Kudos, job well done. :P
Posted by suzyQ on September 7, 2008 at 1:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)Hey Ginger, most impressive gardening and canning skills. I think it IS quite possible that a liberal and nonliberal can have common grounds. Do you perhaps have a recipe section? I am in most need of a tried-and-true bread and butter pickle recipe for canning. Yum!
Posted by Eric on September 7, 2008 at 2:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)Dalearch, sir, you have done a most noble public service! If GingerSnapp is really that unhappy in your fair town, she is always free to pull up stakes and move to San Francisco.
I like wingnut rags, BTW! All the leftie rags *Palin* comparison to the News-Press!
Posted by gingersnapp on September 7, 2008 at 3:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)And you really think I didn't know it would take a 2 second search to find this out. I just think it is hilarious that it took you all so long. I am also registered with the News Press as my true identity. I am not embarrassed of any of my views unlike those here that hide under a cloak of anonymity.
If you all have my guts come out of the closet and let us know who you are!
I welcome all News Press online readers to my blog. You just might learn something there.
And yes suzyq I do have some really great recipes for bread and butter pickles. Just leave a comment on my blog with your email address and I will send them to you.
Posted by dalearch on September 7, 2008 at 3:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)The only thing one could “learn” from your blog is the fact that the old saying “crazy as an outhouse rat” was coined by someone who knew you.
By the way, everyone knows who I am also. It's no big deal.
Posted by dalearch on September 7, 2008 at 3:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)ginger:
On several occasions you made the following claim:
“since as a stay at home Mom of 30 years”
On July 11, you claim to have taught K-12 health for the last 35 years:
“Since I have been certified to teach K-12 health with a lifetime degree for the last 35 years I believe I know a little bit about biology.”
Which is the truth…if either one?
Posted by outoftowner on September 7, 2008 at 5:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)I don't know who you are....so I guess you were incorrect.
Posted by David on September 7, 2008 at 5:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)dalearch,
Posted by dalearch on September 7, 2008 at 5:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)Did you attend Central High School in the mid to late 60's?
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
David:
Yes, I was in the class of 71. You and I knew one another. You were the one that always took a "chance" on everything.:)
Posted by gingersnapp on September 7, 2008 at 6:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)I don't know who you are either dalearch and neither does my husband when I asked him, but he said he sure would like to know who some of these commenters were, especially the name callers. So let's just see how brave you all are in revealing yourselves.
Also being certified to teach and teaching are two different things. I am certified to teach and since mine is a "lifetime certificate" I still am, but I did stay home for 30 years.
Posted by dalearch on September 7, 2008 at 7:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)Even though I've written two letters that we have discussed on here you still don't know my name?
Maybe I'll keep everyone in suspense a little while longer.
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