Comments by Bjnemp
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Posted on July 4 at 12:31 p.m.
Apsuz: If you let your children control your life and behavior by using fear tactics such as threats to report you to police or child services, you are WAY too late to start disciplining them. They are already corrupted and out of control if they have that much power over you. Spare the rod, spoil the child. I would rather raise children with an occassional red mark on their butts than ones with police records and drug habits.
Posted on July 4 at 12:17 p.m.
I'd be willing to bet all that idiot wanted, or needed, was his next fix of crack or meth and he had no money. Addicts will do anything for that next hit when desperate, including kill you for a few bucks. A poor addicted fool like that needs some serious therapy. A .45 slug between the eyes works well.
Posted on July 3 at 10:20 p.m.
USNretired: I wouldn't blame you for moving. City officials have shown signs of idiocy in the past, but literally removing Independence Day from the calendar is the absolute worst. Have fun with your fireworks tomorrow night. I wish you could stay home and shoot them off so all of us could enjoy them.
MerkyWater: Not only is your water murky (correct spelling), but so is your mind. Obama isn't for us. Obama is for Obama and his radical left-wing liberal socialist agenda. If he is elected we will all drown in the murky water of drastically increased taxes to be used for massive handouts to the laziest and non-productive members of society and to fund socialized medicine. Obama believes in the Fourth of July about as much as I believe in the nonsense you spout.
Posted on July 3 at 7:50 p.m.
Wow. Well said, LifeGoesOn. Thank you.
Posted on July 3 at 6:51 p.m.
Nice try, Penny, but I wasn't stereotyping anyone or anything. I was merely stating fact. This is by far the smallest town I have lived in, and the most cliquish and backward. I can't change it so I just grin & bear it.
Posted on July 3 at 6:42 p.m.
Hogan77: Wow! You said in two paragraphs what I, and many others, have been trying to say for several days! You banged the gong on that one. I am just totally bummed out over the idiotic, unpatriotic, backwoods hillbilly decision to ban fireworks in our city on Independence Day. It's as if our city officials feel this holiday means nothing and that they could care less what the majority of the population desires. It saddens me deeply that his important, and once rowdy and exciting, holiday has become in this town. Notice I said "town", and not city. The designation of city would imply organization and growth. Due to decisions like the fireworks ban, the word "town" fits Emporia much better.
Posted on July 3 at 12:02 p.m.
Just saw this article in the Topeka paper. Chapman was devastated by a tornado last month and lies in rubble, but city leaders feel The Fourth of July is too important to miss.
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Fireworks shows will go on in Chapman
The Associated Press
Published Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 11:38 a.m. CDT
CHAPMAN — Despite piles of rubble and plenty to do in the cleanup of wreckage left by a huge tornado, Chapman is dotted with fireworks stands.
“I figured we needed a little celebration after what we’ve been through,” said Mayor Bob Gaetz.
He convinced the city council that no harm would come from residents setting off fireworks a safe distance away from the damaged areas of town.
The EF3 tornado on the night of June 11 killed a 21-year-old woman and damaged or destroyed 60 percent of the town’s buildings.
Among Chapman residents selling fireworks are the police chief, the superintendent of schools and a family doctor.
Emporia should be ashamed.
Posted on July 3 at 11:50 a.m.
Good point, Penny. Because we obey the law, and because the ban on fireworks is a "stupid" law, my family will be leaving town tomorrow to celebrate the Fourth and shoot fireworks. We will spend a few hundred dollars on fireworks---elsewhere---and a considerable amount of money on food and entertainment---elsewhere---and buy gasoline---elsewhere---and then return to Emporia.
The ban on Independence Day fireworks is, as you said, "stupid" and is going to cost our city a great deal of money: money they claim is badly needed. Smart move, Emporia.
Posted on July 3 at 11:42 a.m.
Apsuz: You are SO right! I don't remember getting spanked more than two or three times as a child but the constant fear of it kept me walking the straight and narrow. The looming prospect of a spanking, paired with strong and on-going lectures on right and wrong, moral and immoral, ensured my parents never once received a call concerning my behavior from a parent, a teacher, or the law. It's all about strong parenting, and an occassional swat on the butt, when behavior dictates, is part of it.
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Posted on July 4 at 12:41 p.m.
Weltha/Neighbor: Sounds like we have all swatted a butt when necessary. I suspect we also have loving, well-adjusted, moral, productive, educated, law-abiding kids. Ooops! Do I see a correlation there? Discipline produces good kids? Could be.
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