Wednesday September 1, 2010
Your vents, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
* I live on Cooper's Creek Road and twice a year we pick up trash along the road and a few days later, people have dumped trash again. I would like to see these people's homes. They probably look like a hog pen. It is not just garbage bags, it is wood siding, buckets, tarps - things home repair people would have. They've been dumping over the creek bank at the park-and-ride and now have moved up where they think they can't be seen.
* Our wait people should be paid more, but the tipping is becoming unreasonable. While the cost of a meal has increased by more than 50 percent in the past five years, the tipping that is customary has gone from 15 to 20 percent. So tips are up about 70 percent. The restaurant owners should increase the hourly wage.
* I wonder what Sen. John McCain really thinks about his unleashing that terrible rabbble-rouser Sarah Palin on the people of the lower forty-eight states? In the words of the late Barney Fife (Don Knotts), "She is a nut."
* No matter how many times Bush apologists say it, or how many ways they say it, Bush did not keep us safe. Over 3,000 dead New Yorkers prove it.
* If 90 percent of the country leans one way, wouldn't you think the remaining 10 percent would eventually wake up and realize they're supporting the wrong side of the argument?
* The Obama/Manchin "plan" simply hasn't worked for West Virginian. However, John Raese's business strategy has already worked. Maybe it's time we take a serious look at what Raese wants to do to jumpstart this state's economy and let it grow for once.
* West Virginia's governor and congressional representatives should immediately jump on the bandwagon of criticism that Kentucky Senatorial candidate Rand Paul just leveled at the Obama administration and EPA regarding coal mining permits. Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania should band together to demand state's rights on mining issues.
* Rep. Rahall, under the guise of protecting the Gulf, introduced a bill that included a solar panel in Nevada, a wind turbine in Montana, uranium for nuclear power and a ban on fish farming. The bill does nothing to help the Gulf and will raise the consumers' cost of living. Are you going to vote for him so he can continue the nonsense?
* I attended Multifest and saw plenty of white folks singing, dancing, shopping and eating. Once again we have a misinformed person commenting on something they know nothing about. Everyone has a cultural background - English, Dutch, French, etc.
* Why don't they use the Cato Golf course for the new school? Nobody uses it because only about three of the greens are playable and the cost to profit ratio is probably around 80/20. You'd have one way in and one way out, but a soccer field and baseball field there. Then they could call it Danny Jones Fiasco Grade School, just like all the other fiascos that he's brought upon Charleston.
* I live on Cooper's Creek Road and twice a year we pick up trash along the road and a few days later, people have dumped trash again. I would like to see these people's homes. They probably look like a hog pen. It is not just garbage bags, it is wood siding, buckets, tarps - things home repair people would have. They've been dumping over the creek bank at the park-and-ride and now have moved up where they think they can't be seen.
* Our wait people should be paid more, but the tipping is becoming unreasonable. While the cost of a meal has increased by more than 50 percent in the past five years, the tipping that is customary has gone from 15 to 20 percent. So tips are up about 70 percent. The restaurant owners should increase the hourly wage.
* I wonder what Sen. John McCain really thinks about his unleashing that terrible rabbble-rouser Sarah Palin on the people of the lower forty-eight states? In the words of the late Barney Fife (Don Knotts), "She is a nut."
* No matter how many times Bush apologists say it, or how many ways they say it, Bush did not keep us safe. Over 3,000 dead New Yorkers prove it.
* If 90 percent of the country leans one way, wouldn't you think the remaining 10 percent would eventually wake up and realize they're supporting the wrong side of the argument?
* The Obama/Manchin "plan" simply hasn't worked for West Virginian. However, John Raese's business strategy has already worked. Maybe it's time we take a serious look at what Raese wants to do to jumpstart this state's economy and let it grow for once.
* West Virginia's governor and congressional representatives should immediately jump on the bandwagon of criticism that Kentucky Senatorial candidate Rand Paul just leveled at the Obama administration and EPA regarding coal mining permits. Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania should band together to demand state's rights on mining issues.
* Rep. Rahall, under the guise of protecting the Gulf, introduced a bill that included a solar panel in Nevada, a wind turbine in Montana, uranium for nuclear power and a ban on fish farming. The bill does nothing to help the Gulf and will raise the consumers' cost of living. Are you going to vote for him so he can continue the nonsense?
* I attended Multifest and saw plenty of white folks singing, dancing, shopping and eating. Once again we have a misinformed person commenting on something they know nothing about. Everyone has a cultural background - English, Dutch, French, etc.
* Why don't they use the Cato Golf course for the new school? Nobody uses it because only about three of the greens are playable and the cost to profit ratio is probably around 80/20. You'd have one way in and one way out, but a soccer field and baseball field there. Then they could call it Danny Jones Fiasco Grade School, just like all the other fiascos that he's brought upon Charleston.
