Utter disdain
Leonard Wagner, Emporia
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
ANYONE who reads “The People Speak” column and “These Are the Rules” at the bottom of the column, already knows that The Gazette will edit each letter for length, grammar, spelling and sense. As a faithful (albeit sometimes critical) reader, I have a request: Please edit for hatefulness, spite, and please, please, for veracity.
I have endured a reading from Gary Lukert several times and found that length, grammar and spelling (after editing) were no problem for him. His letter in the June 16 paper showed, as usual, his remarkable disdain for truth and again as usual, sense, even plain common sense was absent from his reckonings/rantings. His disdain for truth leaves me with disdain for his writings.
There was a bright spot on that day’s editorial page, thankfully. Dennis Mosebey was masterful as he presented the true feelings of all who are truly pro-life. May I please add this: Bless you, Mr. Mosebey, Sir, and amen.
Leonard Wagner
Emporia
madpoet (anonymous) says...
I wish they would enforce the blog rules better, also. I thought personal attacks were not allowed but see them all the time. It's one thing to say a person seems to hold this or that stand on something but another to call someone names. I had someone rant about what a delusional fool I was but when I requested the removal of the comment, it was never done. That was all he/she was saying, going off on another person. I thought that was unacceptable but I guess not.
July 7, 2009 at 3:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
Wasn't Gary Lukert the one that said Bush and Hitler were brought to earth by the same evil space ship and they were here to take away everyones happy fun time? Yeah, I remember that piece.
July 7, 2009 at 5:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
I forgot to add that I thought this was going to be about cows.
Seriously R. Folks
July 7, 2009 at 5:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
romano1784 (anonymous) says...
moo
July 7, 2009 at 7:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
Got milk?
July 7, 2009 at 10:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
create (anonymous) says...
Why don't you just go to that last article Lukert wrote and conduct argument with more specifics? It's still on the News Forum. If you have that much disdain for anyone's writings, don't read them.
July 8, 2009 at 7:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
I already pretty much summed it up in my first post here. It's amazing how many people believe his writings are factual but as love is blind so is hate I reckon.
Seriously R. Folks
Milk it does a body good.
July 8, 2009 at 8:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
open_eyes (anonymous) says...
Actaully, I kindof like it when the post a Gary Lukert article. He is the one single person on here that I don't feel the least bit of remorse for calling an out-and-out idiot. Every time he posts an article it makes the case for the opposition better than nearly anything else. It's kindof like if you're trying to make a case against allowing drunks to drive. What better poster child/photo op to strengthen your view than to hand a set of keys over to a blind staggering drunk with a car in the middle of a china shop?
Besides, it's a piece of cake to post a ton of facts that pretty much prove the exact opposite of what he claims. Makes it even that much funnier.
Free country. We all know by now the Gazette is going to post an overwhelming number of viewpoints from one side only so as far as I'm concerned it just as well be him as someone that actually has a smidgeon of intelligence. Its their (tongue-in-cheek) way of actually showing some balance. Print a few articles to the left to give some genuine points of view and spark some good discussions, then print something that makes the sensible people on the left totally embarrassed to have him among them. Reverse psychology of a sort.
July 8, 2009 at 9:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
madpoet (anonymous) says...
I was not referring to you, observation. It's one thing to banter and debate back and forth. It's a totally other thing to attack a person and start calling names etc. That is totally against the user agreement and I was more upset that the staff didn't follow up and remove the rants than at that the person put them up. We should all be adults on here and able to have a civilized discussion without resorting to name calling and rude comments.
July 8, 2009 at 1:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
I bet people who are lactose intolerant have utter disdain.
July 8, 2009 at 1:27 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
UTTER disdain
Get it? It's funny. Well in my head it is any way.
Sorry for the cornfusion.
Seriously R. Folks
July 8, 2009 at 2:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
open_eyes (anonymous) says...
I think Gary Lukert drank some milk after it went sour....... because that's all that ever comes back out.......
July 8, 2009 at 2:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
Both cheese and meat spell real good if prepared correctly.
July 8, 2009 at 7:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
chiefsfan (anonymous) says...
What would you dooooooo for a Klondike Bar?
July 8, 2009 at 7:21 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
drvrbowz (anonymous) says...
who eats townehouse crackers ?they're like$5 a box,how are they still in business
July 11, 2009 at 2:55 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
drvrbowz (anonymous) says...
does any1 remember that fat guy that used to ride around
in the monster truck in the early90s hiley or smiley somthin like that
July 11, 2009 at 2:56 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
drvrbowz (anonymous) says...
whatever happened to that old lady with all those kids that walked around town I think the dad died an left them in the hospital parking lot
July 11, 2009 at 3 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
drvrbowz (anonymous) says...
When I was 13 I knew this guy that robbed bank 4 an they caught him at town an country playin the michael jackson video game his name was mike holiday
July 11, 2009 at 3:05 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
alfalfa (anonymous) says...
It is udder disdain as Observation already pointed out, cows are stupid, but without them there wouldn't be any ice cream, ribeye steaks, or late nights pulling calves, and, this is one of the most humorous threads ever. What got into all you people anyway??
July 11, 2009 at 9:08 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
oh4theluvof (anonymous) says...
seriouslyfolks seems to draw this out in people...........not sure why or how, but it is entertaining. YY4U eggs him on too and it goes wacky from there. All this talk of cows makes me want ice cream...which makes me want cake. MMMMMM, cake!!!! Wedding or birthday cake is the best!!
Cake has eggs in it....chickens...chickens (after the chick phase) are ugly and stupid......and loud. Cows can be cute..........................
Caakkke.............................
July 11, 2009 at 10:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
create (anonymous) says...
I think there might be a storm coming. We all get a little nutty when the barometer is falling. When I was still teaching, I could always tell by the kids' behavior that it was gonna storm.
I'm surprised seriously doesn't have any udder music for us yet. I wish we could hear music directly on this site. Wouldn't it be udderly wunnerful, wunnerful?
July 11, 2009 at 1:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
seriouslyfolks (anonymous) says...
Thank YY I couldn't think of a cow song to post.
Here is some cake for you oh4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lqfQi...
July 11, 2009 at 4:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
oh4theluvof (anonymous) says...
Thanks seriously. We like Stephanie and the Lazy Town crew around here---I hadn't seen that. Now I need to go hit a bakery. Country Mart makes the best store cakes in town. Tomorrow I will go on a week of "sports candy" as per Sporticus.
July 11, 2009 at 7:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
chiefsfan (anonymous) says...
I like cheese cake.....cream cheese, cheese, milk, cow, . What came first? The chicken or the cow?
July 11, 2009 at 11:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
chiefsfan (anonymous) says...
Does anyone ever wonder why things are named what they are? Why is the sky, the sky? Grass, grass? Color blue-blue? Why didn't they decided blue was red? or dog a cat? hmmmm.........
July 11, 2009 at 11:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
oh4theluvof (anonymous) says...
I'm not sure about all that, but the "sky" was irritating me the other day---the poster, that is. Hmm...maybe "sky" was blue that day or had had a little green "grass".............. munchies .......mmmmmm, cheesecake.
July 11, 2009 at 11:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
create (anonymous) says...
For chiefsfan from podictionary.com...
The podictionary word for today is sky: Today if you walk into a book store or visit one online, their offerings are classified into a boggling number of genres. In fact there are plenty of bookstores that specialize in only one genre.
Back in the time of Chaucer this diversity of publication themes was not quite so extensive, but there were even then different genres in medieval bookstores. One of these has now become known as the bestiary—about beasts. International travel was a privilege of very few people in those days and just as we moderns still flock to movies about wildlife such as March of the Penguins in those days people were interested in the strange and wonderful beasts out there in the world.
Of course these included dragons and mythical beasts along with flesh and blood animals, but just as we seem to have done with March of the Penguins, our forebears felt it necessary to attach human values, morals and meaning to the characteristics of the animals portrayed. The lion is regal, the phoenix rising from its ashes is Christ’s reselection. And so, lying in the hand written pages of one of these bestiaries written around the year 1220, we find the first use in English of the word sky.
The entry describes how the eagle, when old and feeble revives itself—almost phoenix-like—by flying up through skies six and seven to burn its feathers on the sun and fall into a spring of fresh water. And true to form, this old bestiary goes on to liken the revival of the eagle to the refreshment of man’s soul when attending church. But it is the sky that interests us here. Six or seven skies?
When I think of the sky it is a blue dome arched over me. Here the OED tells us the meaning of sky at its first appearance didn’t mean the clear blue, but the clouds. And the phrase “at sixes and sevens” means by chance so that the eagle is flying through whatever clouds chance threw in his way. Although sky meaning the “blue dome” as we know it appeared pretty soon after sky meaning clouds, the meaning of clouds persisted right up until about Shakespeare’s time.
Now that you are totally bored, I can hear you say, "but, but, but what about the word itself, the word sky. Where does it come from?"
Create's version:
One day, while returning home from a hunt empty handed, an unhappy caveman looked up and said, "sk." His companion, equally unsuccessful, looked up and agreed by saying, "aye." Together, without ever really realizing it, they'd invented a word for looking up and seeing what is up above our heads.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
July 12, 2009 at 6:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
chiefsfan (anonymous) says...
Well, ok, ummm....thanks Create. Really appreciate it.
July 12, 2009 at 9:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
oh4theluvof (anonymous) says...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcxqdU...
I'm not alone
July 13, 2009 at 1:08 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
create (anonymous) says...
oh4,
Now you've done it. I wanted to watch Sotomayor hearings this morning. Instead, I'm watching cliips from That 70's Show. Of course, it's always nice to begin the day LMAO.
Sky!
July 13, 2009 at 8:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
oh4theluvof (anonymous) says...
LOL, That 70's Show never gets old!!! Politics, on the other hand...........well, you just gotta take a break sometimes.
July 13, 2009 at 1:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )