Speakout

Model A moon rocket

The "conference center is a worthy project?"

Well, the Boonie Boys Pro Football Team would be a worthy project, the National Wheat, Corn, Hogs and Beef Hall of Fame would be a worthy project. I ran an event center for 10 years and can tell you that fixed costs are going to run $150,000 a year, without debt service.

If you add debt service to that, it would add another $120,000 to $150,000 a year. There is no way McCook can support a conference center as an independent and free-standing enterprise. They're trying to build a rocket to the moon with Model A parts.

Stick to enforcing law

It has been suggested that Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore would be better suited behind the pulpit. God willing, that will happen. If that isn't God's will for Chief Justice Moore, no devil in Hell can make it happen.

I'd like to suggest that all Supreme Court justices stick to enforcing the law rather than making it. Tyranny is unelected officials making law. Also, there is no greater hypocrisy than for someone who is pro choice to accuse someone else of murder. Dangerous fundamentalists

The U.S. government has been rounding up Moslem Fundamentalists and putting them in holding pens to make the world a bit safer for rational human beings. Since the war against terrorism is essentially a secular war against superstition, it would also be a good time to round up Christian Fundamentalists; they are about as disgusting, equally ignorant and, historically, a tad more dangerous. It would, of course, be merciful to pack them off to, say, Alabama or Tennessee where they could whoop and wag their dead-Jesus-on-a-stick without risking their credulity.

California primer response

As a former McCookite, I am in the fourth class, which is the retired person trying to make ends meet. It is a real crime that government leaders, trying to run things, have to respond to many special interest groups and ruin our economic structure. As a Californian I am appalled at what has and is happening.

My hope is that it isn't a popularity contest and we end up being "terminated."

Like many others, I also hope that our policies in the Gulf are not going to put us, not only in an economical disaster but end up as dismal as Vietnam with a lot of lost young men. I'm questioning in my mind if we better stop worrying about "party lines" and get some leadership that will take care of the interests of all Americans.