Sound Off for Jan. 11, 2021
Balanced coverage?
I wonder why I see a number of articles reporting the craziness of the far right, with which I agree by the way, and nothing about the far left which appear to me to be equally nuts.
Crazy situation
Imagine if all the cars stuck on the snow covered I-95 in Virginia last week were electric powered. They would have run out of charge, leaving people freezing to death. If a carbon powered assist vehicle was available, it couldn’t rescue any of them unless it was a mobile powered vehicle charger. When the sun came up, all these miles of vehicles would be bricks clogging the road, waiting on an electric tow truck. It’s all ludicrously impractical.
Cut them off
Joe Biden’s White House will soon ask Congress for even more money to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. More money, that is, than the $5.4 trillion already allocated by Congress via six separate pieces of legislation over the past 24 months, an unprecedented and dangerous sum that is spurring inflation and keeping people from going back to work. A sum greater than what was spent fighting World War II or the Great Depression that somehow, according to Biden officials, has failed to adequately provide for COVID testing and remedies. Voters must insist, yes you and me, no more blank checks for the incompetent Joe Biden White House.
Feeling confused
Let me get this straight. Gov. Tate Reeves and Speaker Philip Gunn are opposed to expansion of Medicaid because they want to get people off Medicaid. This is despite the facts that residents are dying due to lack of coverage, and we are in the middle of a pandemic. All because they want to be re-elected. They are gambling that we fear “socialism” more than our need for health care insurance. What’s next, public education or child welfare?
Predicting the future
It would be nice if someone would acknowledge that some of those Sound Off submissions that were deemed as “crazy” nonsense have turned out to be absolutely true.
Just the opposite
This is to the Sound Off that said “we are sick of seeing shots in arms,” Quite the opposite is true. We see people sick because they refuse to get shots in the arm.
Rarely happens
In February this year we will have the second, and last ever, opportunity to write the time and date with one number. It will be 2:22 AM/PM, February 22, 2022, and can be written 22222222.
Mind your manners
AP ran seven quotes by Sidney Poitier Sunday. They missed his most important quote. “Thank you and please have opened many doors for me.“ These are words that are very nearly missing from today’s society. A waitress asks a customer what beverage he would like and the reply is, “Coke.“ How much harder is it to say, “Coke, please”? And, then, to say “thank you” to that waitress when your drink appears.
Really?
I got a toll bill from Florida for $6.50. They spent more than that on postage, the letter and stationary and the photo of my car.
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