Speak Out 6/8/15

Monday, June 8, 2015

Not racially

motivated

Yes, I would like to speak out about the June 1st article in the DAR about the two officers that were interviewed from Poplar Bluff about the racial problems stemming from the Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO. I agree with them 100 percent that this was not a racial motivated thing that happened up there. It was a bunch of outsiders who came into Ferguson that caused the problem.

In Poplar Bluff, I think we have a totally, maybe not a different, group of people. We still have good people . We got bad people. Ferguson had good people; they had bad people. But I think if they would have kept all the outsiders out of Ferguson it would have been a totally different situation. I'm proud of our police department in Poplar Bluff. I don't live in Poplar Bluff, but it makes me no difference who stops me whether it's a black policeman or a white policeman. They are to be respected. I just wanted to voice my opinion on this. I appreciate the DAR. Thank you.

Why are buses not all air

conditioned?

Yes, I would like to speak out about the school buses in Twin River School District. School will be starting back again in August and we will have kids riding hot buses and we will have kids riding air-conditioned buses. Why is the board allowing this? I think if part of the kids ride air-conditioned buses, then all kids should or nobody should be able to ride air-conditioned buses. This is not fair to the kids and we would like to know who makes the decisions on who rides the air-conditioned buses and who doesn't. We would like to get this straightened out before school starts. Either let one ride 'em or don't let anybody ride 'em. Thank you.

Is tv guide

channel a prize?

I just received an advertisement in the mail from New Wave Communication saying they are gonna have a New Wave Family Fun Carnival at Bacon Park on Thursday, June 18th from 5-8 p.m. This is our chance Poplar Bluff to show up and tell them what we think about them taking Channel 22 off the air. The channel line up for TV Guide that told us what was coming on the channels. It's our chance to complain and let them know that other cable companies do not do this. They don't charge for that information. We should be able to know what's coming on our television free because we pay them plenty of money. They also blocked the information button on the remote control. When you hit information on the newer TVs you get a description of the TV show would show up-they have blocked that! It's very, very, very mean and low down and dirty, I believe. And they took off the radar channel which is very necessary in our tornadic zone.

So, listen up, people of Poplar Bluff, go to this carnival and everybody tell them how we would like to have that channel guide back and have them not block the stuff we should get for free as part of our expensive package deal we already pay them. Please! Please! I'm begging everybody to do this.

What's going on?

DAR, what happened? We haven't heard anything about Kaplan or the city in quite a while. I wonder if Kaplan is still in town or if he has hightailed it back to Michigan where he belongs? Or does Kaplan have so much dirt on council members and business leaders and maybe even the good, ole DAR that everything is being kept hush-hush. Or maybe the good, ole boys' network has dirty fingers, too. Anyway, I would sure like to know what's going on?

A Concerned Citizen.

What's wrong with govern't?

Yes, I'm calling in regard to an article in the DAR on page 3A of "Suspected Ex-Nazis Got $20.2 Million in Social Security." Half of 'em were even deported but yet we still gave them social security money. No wonder the social security account is going broke. When we can give Nazis our money! And they didn't even earn it. They just lied about where they came from and lied to get into the United States. What's the matter with our stupid government? I'll tell you what's the matter --too many people get paid to look the other way and I really resent being told that I didn't earn the money that I . . . the little bit that I get from social security. I paid into it from the time I was 14 years old and my husband from time he was nine when he started selling newspapers, but I said, I guess, we don't deserve it, but Nazis do! Now something's wrong with social security system and I think someone should really complain to the Justice Department to do an investigation and fire some of them fools that give Nazis all of our money! The social security system wouldn't be broke if they hadn't have given $20.2 million to people that killed our own people. Thank you very much. My dad was a POW in World War II so I'm not really appreciative of the fact that they could give the Nazis and he was under their rule --he was in their German camp and yet they could abuse him and them they get our social security money. Something's wrong somewhere. Thank you.

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