Entrepreneurship is focus of free seminar

Regardless of the date, the seminar last night was very interesting. A lot of good information. We really enjoyed it.

September 5, 2012 at 7:44 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Congratulations

@tbaker
I don't normally comment on what I've written - it's bad form. But I disagree with your post.

I truly believe that the Republicans in our State Legislature and Governor Brownback got there simply because voters couldn't see beyond the (R) behind their names. I also truly believe a large majority of them have been bought and paid for by the likes of Koch and ALEC.

Look at just a few of the things our State Legislature has done and said before these last items I mentioned:
*Not challenging Brownback's veto of funding for the arts. The votes were there to override that veto;
*Not censuring Virgil Peck for his saying we should chip and shoot illegal immigrants from helicopters like feral hogs;
*Supporting legislation designed to suppress voter participation, legislation that will suppress Republican as well as Democratic voter participation.

These things haven't made news only in KS, you find them in major US news sources, overseas sources such as The Economist, and on most social networking sites. These things aren't written about as breaking news, they're approached in the light of, "Look at what KS is doing now. You won't believe it." I've not seen them on News of the Weird, but I won't be surprised if they appear there.

Is that really how you want our state presented to the world? If so, I would ask you to leave.

As a note, I do campaign for my preferred candidates. Do you?

Regarding your comment about tantrums. I'm sorry you don't understand sarcasm. I suggest also that if you want to see a tantrum you should read the posts of some of the extreme conservatives who post here; those will show you real tantrums.

May 10, 2012 at 2:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Revered ex-Haskell coach dies at 68

Coach, I'll miss you.
You were and always will be synonymous with Haskell.

December 30, 2011 at 9:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Old-time GOP

@voevoda
You've got to understand a couple of things about ksrush. His screen name implies he wants to be a KS version of Rush Limbaugh, which should give you pause right there. Second, his favorite form of argument is to smear President Obama and any Democratic leader, blaming them for any and all of his little woes.

Learn to read around him and you'll be fine. However, I must admit that his posts make for humorous reading.

November 13, 2011 at 8:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Tax rates

Not to mention the "real" Americans who are back at work because of the crackdowns on illegal immigration.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/geor...

September 24, 2011 at 11:12 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Tax rates

Just answer the question L1. No need to play games.

September 24, 2011 at 9:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Not working

Never thought I'd see the day when I'd defend TS.

Did you ever stop to think that much of what he wrote was intended to stir the pot and do little more? That's exactly what he did with his LTE, he stirred the pot and stood back to watch.

September 4, 2011 at 11:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Not working

Let's, see bin Laden was not a head of state, so the mission was a military mission against an enemy commander. Had he surrendered, he would have been captured. Instead, he chose to fight and was killed. Hence, it was not an assassination. I'm just glad he didn't become a martyr any more than he did.

Bradley Manning is another matter. His actions put at hazard the lives of and caused the deaths of us and foreign military and civilians. He knew what he was doing and deserves the punishment he'll hopefully receive.

September 4, 2011 at 4:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Not working

@BAA and bea
I don't care why TS was banned, it makes no difference really. Bottom line is that he egregiously violated the LJW Forum TOS one too many times and was banned.

His writing an LTE is another matter. The Editorial Page and this forum are two different entities. Ann Gardner has a good head on her shoulders and knows what she's doing, otherwise she wouldn't have printed TS's LTE. My comment above, for which I've already been taken to task by people on both sides, "I agree, but unfortunately the LJW cannot ban TS's LTEs just because he's been banned from posting online in the forum;" should be an indicator of where I stand.

If the LJW were a private forum which one had to join and be vetted before being allowed to post, then I can see banning someone. However, it is not and is a public newspaper. Someone can't be banned from having an LTE published just because the were bounced from a public forum.

I dislike what Tom posts(ed) here as most of you know. However, the LTE is a different matter. It's the same as being on a soap box in Hyde Park. If you don't like what was said, you move on. If you disagree, say so and debate. Those with little to say have a small audience and sometimes are simply talking to the air.

Tom's letter is like the last sentence. I agree it would be nice to have the banning linked, but that would be wrong in many ways.

September 3, 2011 at 8:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Not working

@bea, re: your 1402.
I agree, but unfortunately the LJW cannot ban TS's LTEs just because he's been banned from posting online in the forum. (Though I have no doubt he's reincarnated, just like HWSNBN.) It could be in fact that this letter, which mirrors TS's online comments almost verbatim, may have been the only letter available to print. I've noticed some days that Ann Gardner has very little with which to work. People forget that the written word is sometimes more powerful that electrons bouncing through the ether.

Bea, just consider the source and let it go at that. TS seldom has any of import to say and is seldom cogent in how he says it. I only hope the people reading this LTE have a modicum of sense and will take it for the vitriol it is.

@TS. Nice end run around having been banned.

September 3, 2011 at 5:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )