Readers react to a stolen pickup, car licensing and MU
Prayer for a thief
I know a young man living in Grain Valley who wanted a red pickup. This man had worked until he saved the money for the down payment, and now the last payment was in sight.
Last month he drove to a building supply store in Blue Springs to purchase, not steal, equipment for a home project.
You also wanted a red pickup, but rather than work and save for it, you stole his.
My prayer every day will be that you recognize the hurt you inflicted on another person and will ask God’s forgiveness for your crime.
Shirley McCarty
Independence
Royal licensing
It was my dubious pleasure to encounter royalty recently in a most unusual place.
I had stopped by the Lee’s Summit License Bureau to renew the tags for my wife’s car.
Arriving a few moments before 9 a.m. (opening time for that office) armed with a handful of documents with a great deal of personal information, I and about 20 other people entered the building.
As we were reaching for numbers, a voice said to the first four of us, “Just go on to the open window.” I found myself at the third window, where a person apparently of royal lineage responded to my “Good morning” with the royal, unemotional decree: “I will call you when I am ready.”
Never having been in the presence of royalty before, I did not know how to respond. Fortunately, the young lady in the next cubicle solved my problem by saying, “I can take care of you here, sir.”
I just found it odd that everyone else in that office — all but the royal he — managed to be prepared for the office opening.
Wayne Miller
Lone Jack
MU resolution
The local and national media have done a good job of covering the peaceful protests in Columbia, Mo., but might have omitted one of the most important facts. Only 7 percent of the student body is black, and 93 percent is composed of other races, primarily Caucasian.
A 93 percent racist student body surely would not have elected a black student body president.
Yes, there are a few racists in Columbia, but the vast majority are hard-working students who just want to get a good education and see a little football.
A few knuckleheaded students acted poorly, and two insensitive knuckleheaded administrators failed to take action promptly. After months of student complaints that were not addressed, students and student-athletes began a peaceful protest.
The board of curators acted swiftly, and surely the new administrators will deal swiftly with the few racists on camof pus.
Both peaceful and violent protests have been important parts of our American heritage, dating to when people in Boston had a violent tea party, protesting the parliament in England not giving proper attention to the colonists’ complaints over taxation without representation.
Ken Landes
Blue Springs
Obtuse Kansas
Mr. Fat Cat Bureaucrat, House Speaker Ray Merrick: The working poor in Kansas cannot afford health insurance (11-12, A4, “3 Kansas GOP lawmakers ousted from health panel”).
Debbie Hayes
Osawatomie
Nut cake recipe
The following is a recipe to assure that America continues to have plenty of nut cakes. We must be sure that we have no:
1. Enforceable and practicable gun-purchase-control laws.
2. Limit on the number and type of guns that can be purchased.
3. Gun licensing or annual gun registration requirement.
4. Rules against the right to own guns, regardless of age, gender, personal beliefs or mental status.
5. Rules denying the right to carry, conceal and use guns wherever we choose.
6. Confidence in government and law enforcement to protect us.
7. Trust in government and its motives. We must encourage the belief that our government is surreptitiously trying to take away our freedoms, rights, wealth and fruits of our labor.
8. Belief that government is us but rather purport the belief that government is them.
9. Psychological evaluation for gun ownership and licensing.
10. Restraint or corrective measures on wealth inequalities.
11. Control over lobbying.
If this recipe is followed we can serve a lot of nut cakes at our tea party.
Hugh Taylor
Overland Park
This story was originally published November 14, 2015 at 7:00 AM with the headline "Readers react to a stolen pickup, car licensing and MU."