The very first issue of St. Louis Post Dispatch scared me with the amount of sheer undiluted insanity contained in the letters to the editor. I was so scared when I saw those letters that I accidentally permanently deleted that issue from my Kindle. Then I thought better of it and went to the online version of the paper in order to comment on some of the letters for this blog. The letters in the online version are understandably better than in the print version. People who use a computer on a regular basis and read papers online can be expected to have at least the most basic level of education. Hence, they do not come out with quite the same degree of madness exhibited by those who send letters to the print version. However, I was still able to dig up some veritable gems. Every signature contains a link to the actual letter so that my readers don't think I invented this.
Unfortunately, global warming is no longer about science; it has become a religion for those who seek to control our lives.
Michael Knes, St. Louis CountyUnfortunately, Mr. Knes forgot to mention the actual names of the sad idiots who would want to control the lives of poor, uneducated country bumpkins like him.
Just read another letters claiming that everyone’s aversion to abortion is rooted in religion and also that women who are raped and become pregnant will not be able to get a abortion. This is just another red herring, raised by abortion lovers. I would like someone to truthfully tell me how many women in 100,000 are raped and how many of these women will become pregnant. Some of our aversion to abortion is not rooted in religion but in common decency because it takes a human life.
Ken J. Paynton ,Stanton, Mo.
Reading Casey Croy’s letter “Rooted in Religion” December 11, I thought I would put aside my Catholicism for a moment to see why I am Pro-life. Then I thought, number one, abortion kills a human being. If I don’t like the death sentence for killers, why would I approve of killing an innocent baby??? So much for Pro-choice and no need to look for number two.
JoAnn Dinkelkamp, Ballwin
If you are surpised by the angry tone of this post on a nice and rainy Christmas day (or is it tomorrow? I keep getting confused about this), imagine how scary it muust be to live surrounded by these individuals. Something tells me that the editors avoid publishing the absolute worst among the letters they receive.
2 comments:
This isn't New York anymore, Toto!
Remember, Missouri was a slave state. Springfield, MO is the world capital of one of the oldest and largest Pentecostal denominations, Assemblies of God (Sarah Palin's home denomination). Rush Limbaugh came from Cape Girardeau, a few counties south of St. Louis. Most Southern Illinois counties were 100% white until the 1960s to 1980s, exceptions being counties with cities such as Cairo, Carbondale, East Saint Louis (thriving 100 years ago), some Illinois suburbs of St. Louis. This wasn't accidental - blacks were lynched, burnt out of their homesteads, picked up by cops and dumped at the county line with a warning "don't step in this county again", and last but not least, there was a massive race riot by whites against blacks in East St. Louis in 1917. Confederate flags have become popular in S. Illinois as well as in MO.
Face it, you are the new Commie Pinko professor on the block.
I have a student who has been disowned by her family for marrying a black man, so sadly you are right.
As for commie pinko, however, Comrade Stalin was a huge anti-abortionist. He had the doctors performing abortions executed. I'm surprised to find so many faithful stalinists in this area.
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