Letter writer struck a chord

So nice to read that someone else voiced disapproval of the loud, vulgar music we hear at every red light, parking lot, and stop sign. And just when we are settled down at night to watch a little TV or go to bed ... what do we hear, but someone with abusive music driving by our home.

I was at K-Mart in Phenix City recently and heard words coming through speakers that no one should have to listen to, especially a child. The F-word was evident in many of the lyrics. I immediately asked for the manager, who said that he too didn't think it appropriate for customers’ ears. But ... there was nothing he could do about it and I would have to call the home office to complain. When I tried to email them it wouldn't go through.

This is ridiculous, K-Mart is a family store, or I thought it was (I was purchasing play clothes for my grandchildren), and the public shouldn't be subject to this kind of trash. I doubt critically that my complaining will do any good, as so few really care anymore. It is so much easier to put up with it than to do anything about it. Are we afraid to try and change things?

Thanks again for allowing me to voice my complaints to the public. Would someone out there listen to me and agree?

In time of crisis

On Sunday, June 5, I passed out in the parking lot of the Circle K convenience store on 18th St. and 12th Ave. Thank you to the nurse who helped me and to the gentleman who bought me the orange juice and to the store clerk who call 911. I don’t know who you are, but you know who you are.

Thank you to Mid-Georgia Ambulance Service and to the two CPD officers who came to my rescue.

Where there’s smoke …

No smoking gun? This was the Ledger-Enquirer newspaper splashed over the front page of Wednesday’s paper.

What? We do know that Obama and his minions, to include Hillary and her crowd, were busy working the lie that the attack on Benghazi was a result of a video and not a Islamic terrorist attack. The cover-up lie Hillary perpetuated for weeks to the American public and, utterly disgracefully, to the families of the deceased from the Benghazi attack only to save the election for Obama. While our ambassador and three others were being killed Obama and Hillary did nothing.

Show me the picture of Hillary, Obama and the National Security Team huddled around a table that 9/11 night trying to figure out a plan to save Americans. We sure saw the photo during the killing of bin Laden.

We also know that the bombing of Libya into chaos was the crowning glory of Hillary’s diplomatic career. Look at her Libya today, a haven for ISIS and a country in total anarchy. All thanks to Hillary and her then boss Obama. No smoking gun, really!

Ridiculous laws

I have been thinking about the law in North Carolina concerning who gets to use which public bathrooms. The argument seems to revolve around protecting our women from predatory men. I have heard this expressed not just by the governor of North Carolina, but by female friends: "What's to prevent a man from saying ‘you have to let me use the women's bathroom because I'm really a woman inside' and then using that entry to be able to assault me?"

Who are we going to station at the door of every public bathroom to check birth certificate, and who is going to protect that woman in the men's bathroom?

This was the same rationale for Jim Crow laws for so many years -- that they were necessary to protect our white women from the unbridled lust of the black male that everyone knew simmered just below the surface of every one of "them."

These laws protect no one, endanger others and are simply one more expression of bigotry and discrimination. They constitute their own hate crime.

Healthy holiday

Whatever happened to the good old days when our worst worries on the 4th of July were traffic and wayward fireworks?

A well-warranted worry, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Meat & Poultry Hotline, is food poisoning by nasty e. coli and salmonella bugs hiding in hot dogs and hamburgers at millions of backyard barbecues. The Hotline’s advice is to grill them longer and hotter. Of course, they avoid mentioning that the high-temperature grilling that kills the bugs also happens to form cancer-causing compounds.

This 4th of July offers a great opportunity to declare our independence from the meat industry and to share wholesome veggie burgers and soy dogs with our family and friends.

This story was originally published June 29, 2016 at 5:06 PM with the headline "Letter writer struck a chord."