blame women
Who is really responsible for the baby food shortage? I’m surprised no one caught the real culprit: women. After all, if only women would just breastfeed, we wouldn’t have this problem.
Likewise, we wouldn’t have the rape problem if women didn’t wear such provocative clothes or drink so much, obviously begging for sex with, well, any man. And if women just abstained, we certainly wouldn’t be dealing with abortions.
We wouldn’t have the problem of incest if young girls weren’t such lolitas, obviously seducing Dad or Uncle Adam. And if women just admitted to asking to be beaten or belittled, we wouldn’t have partner violence — it just wouldn’t exist. There would be only obedience, as marriage vows said.
If we can finally legally force women to carry their pregnancies in all cases – if only they behaved they wouldn’t want birth control or abortion – then we can definitely tell them to stop giving baby food to those precious little ones and should breastfeed her instead. Shortage solved.
Women are clearly to blame for this. Right? Why the hell don’t women behave? Men do. Why not women?
Beats me.
-Elsie Smith, Lenexa
Look to the East
Where do we need more investment in Kansas City? The east side. Where do we need more jobs? The east side. Where do we need an extension of the tram and transit services? The east side.
Where do the rulers want to find a new stadium for the Royals? Centre. This is exactly what we should not do.
-Eric Youngberg, Kansas City
We’ve seen it all
As Congress begins hearings on unidentified flying objects (May 18, 9A, “Congress Dives Into ‘Unidentified Air Phenomena'”) I’d like to share my own story.
I was a naval pilot in Meridian, Mississippi, in 1968 and was a member of our squadron’s Accident Investigation Team. Unfortunately, a student was killed during his first solo flight and the three of us from the research team spent the entire day at the site. We removed his body and looked for evidence because an accident like this was very unusual.
After spending all day at the accident site, the three of us started our drive back to the naval base, and suddenly we saw this huge orange ball flying next to us. We all said, “Do you see what I see?” And yes, we’ve all seen the same thing.
We accelerated, it accelerated. We slowed down, it slowed down. We stopped, it stopped. Then suddenly a cone formed behind the big ball and began a stunning climb, almost straight up and at an astonishing speed until it was quickly out of sight.
We told our commanding officer and the next morning a team of Air Force officers interviewed us and said never to tell anyone what we saw.
– Arlin Copper, leawood
A great history
The young man who traveled 200 miles from Conklin, New York, to Buffalo to kill black people, was doing the wrong kind of research. If only he had researched the real history of African Americans, which has been deliberately left out of American textbooks, he would have learned that there is a vast amount of black contributions.
A few years ago, Curtis McClinton, a former Kansas City Chiefs fullback, asked me to go with him to the George Washington Carver National Monument, in Diamond, Missouri. He received an award from the National Park Service. While there, I toured the museum with Carver and his life’s work. I was surprised to see this sign that Carver had hung on his office wall: “God did not put me on this earth to seek happiness and fame, but to serve mankind.”
Carver discovered over 300 uses for peanuts, soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes. He stayed true to his motto and never patented any of his creations. His inventions have made billions of dollars for America’s economy. His descendants would have had billions of dollars in net worth today, probably making them among the wealthiest families in the world.
– Jesse Newman, Overland Park
What we do know
An 18-year-old boy loads his legally obtained firearms and drives 200 miles to Buffalo, New York, to kill black people. He kills 10 and injures three more. But while police still mark gun grenades at the crime scene, amid all the public prayers and condemnations of violence and hatred, there was no punch or condemnation of the guns that could allow a teenager to wreak such havoc in almost an instant. Why?
You would think that the first response from the mayor of Buffalo, Byron Brown, would be to demand new gun laws to prevent this kind of massacre. President Joe Biden’s published comments did not focus on guns and the fear they instill in nearly everyone — fear that drives people to buy guns for their own protection. And new guns are bringing more deaths from firearms, the statistics show.
No one really understands why people like the Buffalo shooter commit murders or how to identify them early enough to help them. However, we do know what tools they need for mass murder. So it’s just common sense to eliminate the guns, at least until we better understand what drives gun enthusiasts.
-Keith Evans, St. Joseph
A fair trade?
Put the residents of Kansas City in control of their own police station or the Chiefs will move to Kansas.
– Bill Daugherty, leawood
