On Can a Hooters girl coach Janesville high school poms?

Posted on September 5 at 5:01 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Hold on with the comments.. over kill on this subject.
First off ok, there are many applicants for the position.
She is not stupid ok?? She did this on purpose to draw attention to herself and use the fact she was willing to quit her job at Hooters in order to try to use it to get hired.
Please see through this school officials, there must be someone qualified to be hired without the grand show of her attempt to get hired by quitting her job she must herself believe would be a hindrance to her new job.

Get real people, out of three or four hundred qualified honest people???
We all ought to see she is playing the system to get press and to get hired no matter what,,, over kill on the comments on this one.

On Same-sex couples still feel prejudice despite state’s new registry

Posted on August 24 at 9:43 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

What is immoral is now legal. Words like "gay" and new laws passing or not passing, those of us who would live according to God's word know very well the words homosexual and they were not born that way, nor should they have custody of any children and live "under God" in our country. I have seen homosexual couples "IN" churches, behind pulpits and though they really do believe they are living free and coming out as they say? They are sickening the heart of God and it is very sad that our country has compromised and accepted this and still looks for more ways to be "fair" or give them equal rights as couples of same sex relationships.
The really sad thing is, this life style is paraded in front of our children and one little 8 year old girl in school said she did not know if she would marry a girl or boy when she grew up. The end of family values and the beginning of God's judgment on all who would ignore His word and His laws. Very sad that this city has so many people accepting this kind of same sex arrangement's, and though they come out of the closet and call themselves gay, they will wake up on one special day, and if they don't change their ways, the whole country will be judged on that same day.

On Cleaning up, crash after crash

Posted on August 19 at 8:10 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

If printing these articles would change how Janesville intersections and cell-phoned drivers, especially teens?? drive in this town of streets interacting with other streets and lights that are out, and these four way stop signs where no one even stops?? If going to the city meetings would help, do it. And who decides to lay the intersections out like this anyway and are they sober when they do it. They do not come to a full stop at four way stop lights and the car behind me... left when I did today. I am from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and of course there the roads and highways are straight, north, south, east and west, and stop lights are few, traffic is much slower, but honestly, I have driven in Kallamazo and never ever have I seen such fast disrespectful dangerous drivers as in Janesville. The accidents that tear down mail boxes, tear up yards, and are just talking on the phone accidents where they do not leave a stop light when it changes because they are texting?? Something should be done but... nothing will be any more than anything is MADE IN AMERICA. I want you all to know, this town has weird intersections I just shake my head at as I take my life in my hands just to get groceries.

On Trouble plagues bars that cater to growing minority population

Posted on August 17 at 10:47 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

There were a whole lot of comments posted on this article probably meant to define perhaps why there is "bar trouble?" Before coming to this area I had not ever been exposed to racism as people were people no matter what color their skin was or where they worked, or what they drank, or how they acted. Since coming here a year ago, I have been amazed at how people look down on Mexican or Hispanic people and yet use them for kitchen jobs paying them less money and not demanding they speak English so people can understand the cooking orders given them. I have noticed the African Americans lining up along the walls as if on a football team or grinding on the dance floor with girls who seemingly think they need to have one on occasion. There are homosexuals in every town and they are of many colors I am so sure. A rainbow of existing different people come into a bar. Last summer I witnessed about twenty guys come out of Legends and begin to fight. Many wanted to join in for some stupid reason.
Could it be we lack community? Could it be the older city fathers and mothers are offended by the moral climate ignorance has really encouraged? This is not a bar thing? This is not a color thing. This is a matter of are you going to accept weed in bars? Are you going to look the other way when someone is having sesx on the dance floor? Are you going to just let someone of any color sit on a bar stool and leave them the hell alone??
I will not ever understand how people judge the appearance of someone. Last summer I met a young man filled with shratnel scars, and very upset. He was drinking too much, and war does that to a guy. He needed someone to care, not someone with big muscles to throw him out of the place. I have met most of the bouncers hired at different bars. I have spent time talking with them and I respect them and how they treat people, and how they are sensitive to what is happening. Try it sometimes, cause its better than a psychology couch of those who think they should be able to judge.

On Obama backs away from public health insurance plan

Posted on August 17 at 10:31 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Recently on the news we saw thousands of people trying to get medical and dental help from an organization normally functioning in other countries to meet health needs. As the news show interviewed those needing vision, dental and health care, I wondered if perhaps Obama and our present "health care" "one-ness" campaign existing now in heated meetings have not in fact organized this occasion themselves to send out the alarm of the pandemic need in our country for government control over health care. YES, we still must maintain our own freedom to be living separate from government control. YES, we ought to be able to have health care, but let us be just a bit suspicious of why that particular event just happened to pop into existence at this particular time. One must examine this seemingly urgent out of no where clinic in a stadium as if we were at war and treating casualties. Often when a cause wants to have the upper hand, they use this type of hype to win us over, when in reality, they are conning us into thinking that if we do have a say??? We will still maintain our freedoms. To me, this is the beginning of more government control in our lives and they will town meeting us all into complacency. We need to be shrewd when it comes to the present administration or anyone who uses urgency to sway the general public.

On None

Posted on July 16 at 12:10 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

First off, when he got behind the wheel, he was no longer a kid. He was fueled with false courage, and was with his friends. Running is what people do when they don't want to get caught and he lost control. Second, a person no matter what their age, or personal history or family history, deserves privacy when it comes to the accident. The comments concerning family, father etc, were an invasion of his privacy. Third, being a new citizen in Janesville, I have noticed for some time the city has easy and noticable access to drugs and alcohol and there are many underaged drinkers who get that false courage to jump in a car and drive. And it can happen to anyone's son or daughter. My youngest was 16 and a licensed driver when he was in a head on crash, sober, and destroyed my car. IF YOU must pin point an area of change here, put it on the fact that these kids as you refer to them, have way too much time on their hands, and are bored and want to have their idea of what fun is. A skate board park, a youth place besides the "Y" and some parent involvement or big brother big sister involvement or church involvement may help but bottom line, this is not just a newsy story here, it is supposed to be a wake up call for everyone with any child in their home over 16 or given access to the wheel.

On Will you start driving more with gas prices at less than $3?

Posted on October 30 at 2:49 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

This is "old" but we lack the inner strength of character to draw lines, establish boundaries by which we live, and we have accepted so many things we should not have accepted, that pretty soon, anything goes and we all pay the price for it. I set a limit on what I would pay for gas two years ago. When gas went higher than that limit I would pay, I gave my vehicle away, and moved to Janesville so I could take busses where ever I had to go.
When nothing is made in the U S A, and we have all our resources somewhere else, we stand for nothing because we dont make the decisions that should be made. One gas station owner up north shut down his station and took a loss because he had set a limit on what he would charge for gas. Back in the old days, this was called character, not car pooling or paying the cost no matter what it is. My not driving for two years was the best decision I have made in a long time. It costs six dollars a month to ride the bus around town, and five dollars a month to go to Beloit.

On The drinking state?

Posted on October 28 at 1:44 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

We do have a drinking culture. I love football and drinking is part of that culture of tail gates and drinking is part of our every comfortable lifestyle existance as it is our vehicles we drive. We get in, we sit back, we motor around and we even forget we might be going 91 miles an hour because we are so relaxed; talking on the cell phone, sometimes texting, and in all our comfort and anything goes life style of kicking back we fail to see those in the morgue because we sold them too many shots in the bar and they staggered out and got on motor cycles but then, it had nothing to do with us, after all, they chose to drink right? I have witnessed and read about many motorcycle accidents as well as car accidents and there has been, this summer an almost heroic attitude toward those biting the dust on the highway on their hogs. Let's have a party, a parade, and on the way home from Hammy's funeral another one almost got killed because after all, we have to honor them by all getting drunk and meeting at the bars. I met my first designated driver a couple weeks ago. The women that were with her were so drunk and I asked the driver, won't they leave if you tell them, you are leaving? She said, they know I will just get up and leave them here. I drive them from Milwaukee to Janesville to go to the bars, and when I say its time to go, they either go or find some place to sleep, but I don't stay around if they don't leave when I say its time.
How about this idea, Once a week, some of you who kick back with your brew and joint, how about you volunteer to be a designated driver so we see less people die every year? We have brewrerys here, cheaper beer here, and more people get drunk under the age of 40 in this town then over the age of 50. its our life style, and my youngest has turned 21 this week, and can't wait to park his truck and go get plastered. What a excellent productive plan that is right??

On Does the economic climate locally and nationally add incentive for you to go to the polls on Nov. 4?

Posted on October 28 at 1:25 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

What baffles me is modern Americans actually think their vote is founded on truth they believe has been shared by the people running; that what the people propose is actually something they plan on doing instead of political strategy to as they say win votes. There is no integrity in politics anymore, and your vote ... though it should matter, does not matter at all. Ask your self in this disposable world of people buying their way into office, and of no honor for our country, flag or how decisions are made, of congress not on their faces praying as they did in the olden days when a man's handshake was honored, ask yourself this. What is truth in a society of anything goes. When a farmer is not free to bring his extra produce to donate it because the city is designating it to Echo, and when our local government is persuaded to make decisions based on who has the money, why do you think your vote will matter when either candidate has been maligned by the other, and neither of them will change what is coming in our country because of the lack of leadership in the past forty years.
Oh we vote because after all many died to give us the right to vote. Women wanted to vote and that was the beginning of much of the power to the whatevers we have in todays anything goes society, but your vote?? today??? It will not make any difference in what is about to take place in government, in our country, and in our states, and in our county, and in our world. It is too late to change any of it.

On Obama cancels Madison rally to visit sick grandma

Posted on October 27 at 4:25 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

After reading these comments I seriously think you forgot what the article was about. First off, only the family knows if his Grandmother is seriously ill and at her age she could pass away before the election and his pressing appointments ahead. If everyone keeps bashing the man, no integrity and no honor will be left for the office. How can we treat men like Bill Clinton with respect and trash a man who seriously wants to represent the working class? If his grandmother lived in Alaska you would have something else to say. Would you keep making comments to each other's comments really if you had anything intelligent to say concerning Obama. He himself has said, the person who gave him his middle name certainly did not know that one day he would run for President. It matters not a man's heritage when running for President and the interesting aspect of this for me is, when Hillary was running, no one ever trashed the fact she was a woman, who was not qualified to be President any more than Sarah is. Stop fighting amongst yourselves and keep to the subject. If my Grandmother was very ill, I would go see her if I had the way to do it, and so would you. People just use this kind of thing to bash, blame, and trash the only candidate who actually does care about people and is not a game player like the rest of them. It is very difficult in today's society for the young new voters like my sons, to even think their vote makes one difference in what the younger generation views as a corrupt society. Study the facts, and wait for the news as reported, and try not to be racists in your responses.