Um.. Kansas IS changing

[SoCalDem]

This is from my hometown newspaper "the Salina Journal"

They have a call in line for comments and then they put them in the paper

The samples shown show NO support for right wing philosophy:


Besides written letters to the editor, the Journal also welcomes brief comments by telephone. Some of these are published each day on the newspaper's editorial page.

To participate, call the Journal at 785-823-6464, extension 333. You do not have to leave your name.

Recent calls include...

"What happened to we the people? I keep hearing about the new swimming pool and the plans they have, but it was put to a public vote and was denied. Don't the votes count any more in this country?"

"Who is going to tell me to stop these practices at Halloween, Christmas and Thanksgiving, and tell me to study the Bible. You live your life for your family as you want to and I will live mine, and I'm not going to tell you, based on my religion beliefs, what you need to do."

"A Tennessee woman is holding the penguins for ransom. Who knows where she is grabbing them at?"

"To the person that said to stop pagan practices at Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Just stop what you are doing right now. The first article in the Bill of Rights said whatever religion we want to do we can practice."

"How about putting the movie theater back on the north end instead of letting the greedy people on the south end have it?"

"It's a disgrace that Martha Stewart is in jail for supposedly lying when our top government officials lie all the time and get by with it. Case in point: lying to the the public about the war in Iraq."

"Even the more heavy sedated Bush supporters must be concerned with the phony baloney coming from the Bush campaign."

[EFerrari]

1. There are penguins in Kansas?!

:)

[SoCalDem]

2. Global warming?

:rofl:

that one made me smile too.;

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. you never heard of the Puritan Purple Popcorn-eating Penguins of Kansas?

they swoop down en masse attacking cornfields in Central Kansas, aiming for those places that don't pray hard enough

[rasputin1952]

9. LOL...n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. There ARE penguins in Nebraska

at the Omaha Zoo. Neat penguins. :)

[rasputin1952]

3. Wow...I see the same thing here in Nebraska...bush could well

be the "last throes" of the GOP...:D

I think call in lines are great, one need not write or type out a note, (or screed), and talking often makes it easier than going through the motions...:)

[SoCalDem]

4. Oh jeez.. I found the messageboard.. how funny.. check out the welfare & wic thread

http://forum.saljournal.com/viewforum.php?f=12&sid=091713fbf3924442e42ae8cfbf0bab7a

[rasputin1952]

7. Holy Crap! ...

and just does this one propose when an individual, gets off Welfare or WIC, amputation of the offensive limb?...:eyes:

[Divernan]

8. Their poll spells genius as "genious"! LOL

nt

[AlinPA]

6. I recently read "What's the Matter With Kansas". It sounds hopeless to me.

The book made me believe they are going backward from modern thinking. Way back.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. That book was written a long time ago

Things here have changed dramatically since then.

[Rock_Garden]

10. I live in Kansas and it is changing.

What's changing, in my opinion, is that the left is beginning to find its voice. That didn't used to be the case. The left was always there, but inexplicably silent. I guess that's the case all over the country, right now. Oh, please, oh, please let it be a long term trend.

[AlinPA]

11. That's encouraging. I plan to drive out west, and might go through KS and stop in

small towns.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Stop in KC and we will have a meetup!

We have a very active DU group here. And we love a reason to party. Tell us about your plans on the KS forum here and we will arrange to get together with you if you come through here.

[AlinPA]

19. Thank you. That would be fun. If we go this year we are thinking of late fall

[Rock_Garden]

15. Well, you might want to wait a few days.

We're having tornadoes like crazy right now. Yipes!

[Kazak]

16. We're not in Kansas anymore?

:shrug:

All to apt this morning...

[lonestarnot]

17. Part of it blew away?

[Odin2005]

18. The times are a changin'...

:woohoo: