Enjoy the silence

I see where the school district levy passed, and I’m happy for both students and the school board. I only have this to say after all the harassing calls for two weeks: The levy almost turned us against both sides. We were so disgusted to have this many calls in that short of a period of time. You couldn’t sit down and enjoy anything before you got a call from one side or another.

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Voters arise

The voters in Maine rejected the gay marriage law. Now let’s have a referendum in Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut. Maybe that will show the activist lawmakers and judges where the American people stand on this issue.

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Farm aid

I hope some poor farmer will benefit from this generous edict from MoDOT about taking heavier loads of grain on the roads. We are boxed in by low-weight bridges and Interstate 29, so about all we can travel on is a gravel road going to nowhere. Just leave the farmers alone.

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Thanks

To the woman who found my purse in the Hy-Vee parking lot and returned it there: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Blame it on flu

I’m calling about the unofficial polling numbers on this “Fewer voters turn out for the second time.” Well, there may be good reasons for that. I think they took advantage of all of us. Everybody is pretty burned out from all the presidential elections and all the other stuff we had to vote on. And we made it pretty loud and clear then. And now we’re dealing with the H1N1 virus, and who wants to get out and be exposed to that?

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It will be worse

The way the government does its swine flu vaccine, you can imagine what they’ll do with health care.

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Bank on it

This call is about “One and done” in Thursday’s paper. That’s why everybody voted against it the last two times, because the money wasn’t put to good use. It wasn’t used at all. It was put in the bank and then they asked for more. So, hopefully next time you’ll realize they don’t put the money where and in fact they don’t say where the money is going at all.