A huge barb to the Times >for printing only what they want. - Me>
A barb to a few parents from Juda> at the girls junior high basketball game in Monticello last Thursday. The way you were yelling at some of the players and telling them what to do was just uncalled for. You were telling them to do just the opposite of what the coach was telling them to do. You are not the coaches! Just sit back and let the coach do his job. The girls on both teams did a great job! - Monticello spectator>
A huge barb to the Green County Board >for making Pleasant View Nursing Home the scapegoat for your fiscal irresponsibility. Why a referendum now? If the board truly was concerned about what Green County residents felt about their taxes, it would have had a referendum concerning the need and willingness of county residents to fund the new Justice Center. That referendum was not presented to the county taxpayers because the board knew what the outcome would be, and the answer would not have been the one it wanted. Now a referendum is going to be presented to us, one that if preliminary reports are correct does not contain a fiscally responsible correct answer, and the fall guy in this political fiasco is the much needed Pleasant View Nursing Home facility. I will be voting for the referendum because with an increasing senior citizen population, Baby Boomers, the need for a quality facility like Pleasant View is only going to increase. I do not want to take a chance that this board will make another irresponsible decision and close Pleasant View, thus eliminating the only chance it has of controlling the county's costs associated with their/our responsibility to provide quality care for our elderly and sick residents. - Jeffrey Gibbons>
A major blossom to the street worker >who reported the hit and run on Friday, Aug. 28, to the police department. I thank you! Were it not for this good citizen, I still would not know who saw fit to hit and damage my car, then drive off elsewhere without so much as a note, or turning it in to the police. Shame on the lady who did this. She knows better! If you saw that car sitting there when you pulled partially in to park, you should have known it was still there when you changed your mind and backed out to park elsewhere. If you managed to pull in beside it without hitting it, how could you not manage to safely back out? Inattentive driving? You did more damage to that collector car in 30 seconds than it's seen its entire life of 31 years. Thank you so much. Only when I found out it was reported by someone who was there, did I also find out that 12 hours later you still hadn't reported that you hit it. When your insurance company contacted you, once I started that ball rolling, you knew and managed to admit it then! Must be nice, not getting ANY tickets for hitting my car, damage, failure to report and bad driving. - Disappointed>
A barb to the person >who stated Pleasant View would not close even if the referendum didn't pass. Then, in the next paper, in bold print: Pleasant View may close if referendum doesn't pass. A barb to the board >if it closes the home. A bigger barb to those who vote "no." >That amount added to your taxes is not that much. I can bet many spend $50 or more any evening you go out. And, smokers, what do you pay for your smokes? Pleasant View is the only home some of these people have. Where are we going to put them? No one knows when they may need a place like Pleasant View, where you get good care. A blossom to Janeen >for your article. - Anonymous>
A barb to Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve, >which has slowed the market down but still hasn't put any regulations on the derivative market. Frank Portnoy's book, "Infectious Greed," stated that "Enron was a company who was pretending to be a technology company when its real business was derivatives trading." The G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh is trying to tell us (mainly France and Brazil) that we let our banks get out of control and caused a worldwide financial crisis by not having regulations on the derivatives market. Since the hedge fund dealers sold a lot of these, they should be taxed. If you want to see what the purple T-shirts I was wearing around Monroe look like, just look me up on Facebook. - La Vern F. Isely, Monroe>
