For July 7



To High and Mighty

“To the high and mighty person who continues to admonish us mere mortals for our opinions by saying that we should do our research and find out the facts: You see, so many of us are unlike you in that we don’t have direct connections to the CIA, the Oval Office, and all the green door meetings that you obviously frequent.

“We, on the other, must watch the world at work and base our opinions on our observations which have not failed us in determining night and day, when to come in out of the rain and to know when someone is blowing smoke up our skirts.

“The Moultrie Observer provides us with a forum to express ourselves and for that I am grateful. I have lived in several small towns where newspapers were afraid of such participation in the democratic process.

“As for all this research that you obviously perform between meetings with world leaders and other sorts of movers and shakers, are you sure it’s truth or just someone else’s perceptions and observations that have been written down?”



Close call

“I almost ran over two people in wheel chairs on Fifth Street today. They were on the road, but could not pull completely off the road and there was another car coming the other direction. When are we going to build sidewalks where we have housing for the handicapped. Does someone have to die first?”



Illegals

“To paraphrase Bill Clinton: Wonder why so many millions of illegals entered our nation? Because they could.”



Applause

“I want to join those who have applauded the Moultrie Observer’s sports coverage of our community. Thanks to sports editor Wayne Grandy for the job he does in covering the youth sports in our community.”



The value

“Since it has begun, I have read the Rants and Raves column in this newspaper almost every day. A few times I have offered my opinion.

“I have heard some people cuss this column, but ironically they read it every day. And they typically have some response at the coffee tables around town, at church and in the barber shops, etc.

“Let me say that I appreciate this forum. I consider myself educated with a couple of degrees, and I have made a decent living with those associated skills.

“I contend that such forums as this are valuable tools of a society where free expression is so fundamental to everything we do. Obviously, there are those who would like to control thought and speech. May it never happen, no matter how brilliant or ridiculous the utterances.”



In response

“Yes, Mr. Abbett, we have the freedoms and privileges in this nation to speak our minds. Yet, there are those among us who would like to put bridles on us and have us all trot in their chosen direction. Some of them even hold high office.”



Goosebumps

“Thanks to all of those who were responsible for the great fireworks display at Reed Bingham.

Those displays still give me goosebumps.”