Speak Out 1/11/14

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Thank you,

honest person

I have called in . . . this is the third time . . . for you to print in Speak Out. I want to thank the person who turned my cell phone in at Walmart. I had lost it and I wanted to thank them for turning it in to the service desk and I was able to pick up my phone and I wanted to tell them thank you so much for being so kind enough to turn it in because I would have had to buy me another phone. Thank you.

A recipe

for a scam

Uh, yes. I ordered those Dumpcake cook books. They're supposed to be $10 each. I ordered three for Christmas gifts and the total charged to my credit card was $57.96. So, if anybody wants to know that they don't speak the truth on those commercials, they'll get in trouble just like I did. Dumpcake cook books are NOT $10 each. They're almost double that according to what they charged me. So thank you so much and I hope you print this right away so nobody else will take advantage of this scam. Thank you. Bye-bye.

Stupid spending?

I want to tell you how totally stupid is the loss of money in our government. I live in a high rise - which is the Twin Towers in Poplar Bluff. They talk about the government being poor and the city being poor, and do you know that yesterday which would be Dec. 18, 2013, they sent around employees, laborers to take the metal hinges off or our doors. Which is 15 floors times four apartments times two towers, because they didn't work. There was nothing wrong with the hinges. But, they were supposed to close the doors automatically, which nobody knew that and nobody cared. The hinges that were on there worked but they had to spend all this money to buy new hinges to put on these doors that is unneeded because a state or federal inspector which should be fired said that if it doesn't work you have to repair it. Now does that make sense? Ask your people who the inspectors are. Fire this one. That was totally unneeded money to take that many doors, four apartments times 14 floors times two towers what it cost. Thank you very much. Bye.

School board

rethink decision

Yes. This is to the local school district. I think we've got a fine one here in Butler County and any time there's a tax increase, I'm 70 years old but I've always voted for it because I think the more you can teach the kids the better and in this day in age of computers and stuff its going to be the crave. Any ways, the thing about it is, this new plan to relocate the junior high and senior high out to the Oak Grove district, I think is a bad, bad, very bad idea. We had a bad tornado over in Poplar Bluff back in the 20s that hurt a lot of small kids over there at the school on the east side, Jay Minnie Smith. You know it was a little before I was born but I know the circumstances and everything over there it happened, and they've always had schools all over the district to accommodate kids. Then, if a big storm like a massive tornado came through there'd just be a certain amount of kids hurt. I've heard this for the past 45-50 years, that's why they did it. Whether it was done that way or not, I don't know, but it is a good idea to put all of our young students and everything in Butler County in one spot where if a massive tornado come it could kill them all or hurt the biggest part of them or cripple them. I think is a severe, severe bad idea. So before you do this R-I people, think about it. Think about our young kids, what would it do to Butler County Poplar Bluff if a massive tornado come and wiped the whole campus out killed maybe a thousand or 1,500 kids. What would we do? What would Butler County do? Now, let's keep our school district the way it is: schools in different parts of town in case one of these things does come through. It's due. We're due for it. It happened in, I think, 1927, something like that. It's due again. We're due for a mean, mean violent storm. Don't put all your cookies in one hat. Please. For God's sake, rethink this situation. God bless America and God bless Butler County and Poplar Bluff. But. school board please rethink this before you do this. I know it sounds good to have em all in one place, but what if that storm does come through. Again, God bless you and merry Christmas and happy New Year to everyone. Bye.

Check out

bus drivers

Yes, I'd like to report the school bus driver needs to be checked out. I seen one using a cell phone, using no signals, speeding, unable to keep the bus in the lanes, so concerned parents need to get out there and check these buses' drivers out and see what is there problem. And, they need to be checked out. Thank you.

Build the

pipeline!

As we enter the new year here's just a thought for some people the next time they'd like to talk to their senators or representatives in Congress, particularly the little small town here in Poplar Bluff. We have multiple Burlington-Northern, Sante Fe trains traveling from the north heading to the south carrying crude oil. How many more of these disasters is it going to take before the Americans across the nation can speak out and say Mr. President it's time for the pipeline that you and your environmental do-gooders are preventing being built. How many people are going to have to die? How many more disasters do we have to watch on national news? So, make it your new year's resolution to call your representatives, call your senators. I indeed to. And wake them up that the delay on that pipeline out of North Dakota to south connections to other refineries around the nations is long overdue. We can't wait until there's another disaster or do we have to equate it with the same number of lives lost such as happened in Sandy Hook. Maybe then and only then when a disaster of such scale happens will people come into action and force the hand of our recalcitrant president and his crony senators preventing the pipeline. We need the energy. It's just time for the pipeline. No more rail disasters, please.