Rants&Raves for January 16, 2002
Published 11:12 am Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Dangerous road
“Kent Road is a poorly designed accident waiting to happen. To have such a dangerous, curvy, two-lane road as a primary access to the high school is ludicrous. Throughout the school year, numerous accidents happen on that road. It is time for our school board, mayor and other city officials to wake up, do their homework and make improvements to Kent Road.”
Pat on the back
“A big smile. Mrs. Ruby Reddick, you deserve a pat on the back for the big smile you wear when you read to our pre-k class.”
Leave them alone
“Joseph Lieberman, the senator, is now running for president. He spends all of his time out talking about how to change other nations instead of doing the things he should do for America. You can’t tell other countries how they have to behave themselves and so forth. Let’s leave them alone. Let them do their own thing. That guy, listening to him speak is about as exciting and interesting as watching the grass grow. I don’t know how he ever managed to be elected to the Senate, much less become a vice presidential candidate. I wouldn’t vote for him for dogcatcher. He’d be two days late on every dog.”
More important work
“On the question of the day, why does our state have to have an official food? I think our lawmakers should spend their time working on more important things instead of making silly jokes about grits. Maybe we should name the jackass our state animal, to represent our brilliant legislature.”
Only Indians stay
“For those who want to send everyone back to their respective countries if they weren’t born on U.S. soil, they need to consider their own heritage. Unless they are American Indians, they’d be leaving too. I think we need to have stricter guidelines and more control over immigration, but our country was founded and made great by people that weren’t born here.”
Nice work
“Great column Tom Mark. Your thoughts are shared by many in this community.”
No bail out
“It sounds like Enron got what they deserved with their sloppy business practices. But now they want the government to bail them out. Too bad. That’s not how it works in this country. Businesses go under every day and you shouldn’t get help from the government just because you’re a lot bigger.”
Grits talk
“We might not get a balanced state budget and we might not have time to cut programs to make the budget work. But good golly, at least we’ve got time to talk about grits. I don’t know where we’d be without that.”
Proven fact
“More guns equal less crime, well proved. Even more established by history, more public hangings would reward us with almost no significant violent crime in our towns. As one man said, ‘Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging.'”