Follow flag etiquette
Just having read the article in The American Legion Magazine encouraging the passing of a flag amendment, which should be done, I would express my concern to those who leave their flags on display 24 hours a day until they are faded, almost beyond recognition, that you follow flag etiquette and remove your flag at sundown and fly it a sunrise throughout the day! Thank you.
More important things to worry about
What happened to the party that didn’t want big government? How will we identify proper couples for marriage? Do we allow them to self-identify? What about people with both reproductive organs? Maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to get married. Should we require a doctor’s note or a DNA test? What about people who have sex change operations? What about people who come out of the closet after being married and having children? What do we do with churches that marry gay couples? Where are the gay marriage police? Don’t we have more important things to worry about?
Can’t afford the ones we have
If the school administration keeps hiring outside firms to do their work, we will go broke as a district. Maybe we should just hire and vote for people who don’t just say they are qualified, but who actually are willing to do the work. We cannot afford the ones we have.
Waste of public money
Unbelievable! We vote for school members because they say they can do the job. Then they spend thousands to hire someone to do their job — contract negotiations. At what cost? Bigger class sizes? Loss of more programs and of more teachers? Or maybe you do have enough money. What a waste of public money!
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Comments (5)
Add commentDon’t we have more important things to worry about?
Not really. We are now a generation into the sexual revolution. Where has it gotten us? What price have our children had to pay? Few people bother to ask how much in real dollars STD's, HIV, broken families, etc. have cost us. In the end, our children will pay in emotional terms and we will continue to pay in dollars.
The next time a politician tells you he is socially liberal but fiscally conservative, ask him how many out-of-wedlock children he has fathered.
trip's ?
That's sure to be a great conversation starter.
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or and ender, when the politician say's it's none of our business, it's his private life.
Thanks evergreen and NanLee
Don't ya just love it when people bring up cases that represent a tiny fraction of the whole to prove their point? People with both sex organs!!!? Give us a break!
NanLee, tell that to the mother who has to support the child financially, or the child who grows up without a male role model. Your response may be fine for a politician who has the means to support a "love child" but most aren't politicians. Take Detroit, for example. I read one recent report that stated that 68% of all births in that city are born out of wedlock. It's their private life? I don't even know you and I doubt you're that stupid. Make no mistake about it. You and I ARE paying for this.
Foresight
Just wondering if the brilliant minds who decided years ago to stop spraying for mosquitoes in Brainerd still live here, or get out much. I wonder if they enjoy walks through our neighborhoods on sunny evenings, because I can't!
I guess being stuck inside ten months out of the year, between snow and freezing temps, or bloodthirsty insects, is just the price one has to pay for living in such a beautiful (to look at) part of the country.