Sugar Creek Mayor Says Who Cares About Our Residents? They Are Just People...

...[c]2007 by
Richard L Zorek

.........07.09.07............
Sugar Creek is following the Independence and local area tradition of stealing residents homes through an act called "eminent domain." The city wants to purchase 57 houses and 15 commercial buildings in order to develop a 40 acre retail and housing project. All they have to do is declare the area blight, and the eminant domain possibility is there. One resident said their house was declared "blighted" because the city didn't repair a pothole in the street next to their driveway. Mayor Stan Salva says the decision is clear: Taking the land from these people would create tax revenue for the city. Who cares about the residents?

Republican Candidates Do Not Understand Health Care Problems

.........07.08.07............Republican candidates are still touting a "tax incentive" to help consumers buy insurance. They are calling this "health care overhaul." This will NOT help the poor who do not have the money in the first place. When will the Republicans get it? Just this lack of understanding on the part of the Republicans may be enough to make me start looking for a good Democratic candidate.

Kansas City Renters Beware

.......[c]2007 by
Richard L Zorek

.........06.29.07............
Kansas City offcials have recommended that the city manager move forward with a proposed rental housing program. The full council will debate the measure. It will require the city to license and monitor rental properties. Stephen Summers, a real estate investor said "I feel betrayed by the city of Kansas City. We're not buying any more properties in Kansas City. We're getting squeezed to death, regulated to death. Councilwoman Cathy Jolly said that residents are "tired of living next to blight, of living next to trash...." The end result of this will be, like Stephens, investors will stop buying homes and buildings to rent. And rents will have to go up to cover the expense the city is going to place on current landlords. Council people like Jolly don't care. They don't have to rent.

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback Speaks at National Right to Life Convention

.......[c]2007 by
Richard L Zorek.........06.17.07............Kansas Senator Sam Brownback spoke at the National Right to Life Convention in Kansaa City on June 15. "Abortion in America is the greatest moral crisis of our day," he said. He said that as many as 90 percent of fetuses diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. "America is poorer for this. We are at our best when we help the weakest. To kill them makes us all the poorer." He added, "We will not stop until we're done winning the contentious decades long fight over the issue."

Mitt Romney Speaks at National Right to Life Convention in Kansas City

.......[c]2007 by
Richard L Zorek
.........06.16.07............Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told a crowd of anti-abortion activists in Kansas City that his previous abortion rights position was wrong. "I was wrong," said the former Massachusetts Governor. "I proudly follow a long line of converts: George Herbert Walker Bush, Ronald Reagan, and (former Senator) Henry Hyde," he said of other politicians who had switched from favoring abortion rights to opposing them. "I'm evidecne that your work, your relentless campaign to promote the sanctitiy of human life bears fruit."

In Memoriam: Kelsey Smith

Richard l Zorek [c]2007 I heard the news over the weekend of an abuction of an 18 year old young lady who had just graduated from Shawnee Mission West a couple weeks ago. I saw repeatedly the video of her at the Target store in Overland Park and the abduction that was caught on tape. She was young, pretty, energetic, and out buying a gift for her boyfriend with the wrapping paper to boot. Over the next few days, I watched the media coverage showing the great interest in finding her from volunters in the community. From people who knew her to complete strangers. Having driven a school bus out of Shawnee Mission West as a sub driver a few times, I felt empathy and certainly prayed that they would find her alive. I mean, for what reason would God have to take someone like her so young? I went to the Target parking lot today where a command center had been set up and they were still wanting volunteers for an effort to find her. I got there, though, just as the news was breaking that a body had been found. I recognized some students from Shawnee Mission West High School, though not by name, but I especially noticed the comraderie and then the tears as the news started to spread. What a great testimony to prayer would it have been had she been found alive!!! But we won't know now. It may be one of the "why" questions I may have when I see God some day. But I can truly testify of the love there was for Kelsey. And I can truly testify that a whole city mourns today because of the efforts of many of them.

Random Bytes: Independence, Flooding, Wizards, Alexas law, Punishing Looters.

.......[c]2007 by
Richard L Zorek

.........05.09..07............Bars in Independence were busy Monday as residents were told to "don't drink the water." They could after they boiled it, but who wants a drink of hot water?.............An old man with a cane was seen wandering through the neighborhoods of Kansas City rounding up animals for what he referred to as an "ark." That may explain the flooding in the area in spite of what Katie Horner or Karli Ritter say..............It was revealed this week that the yellow brick road leads to Sprinfield, Mo. That is where the grandson of L Frank Baum lives, the great grandson of the writer of "The Wizard of Oz."...........Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius signed into law "Alexas Law," which would make it legal for prosecuters to charge someone if the death of a fetus occurs during an assualt of a pregnant female. Pro-abortion supporters were upset because "it just messes with our whole argument."............Seven people were charged with looting in Greensburg, Kansas after the recent devastating tornado. For punishment, they should have to drink hot boiled water, not be allowed on the ark, be forced to watch the Diana Ross version of the Wizard of Oz for two days consecutively, and then be aborted. At least that's the way I heard it..........

Random Bytes: Don Imus, President Pelosi, Larry Birkhead & Sanjaya

......[c]2007 by
Richard L Zorek

.........04.12.07............
Contrary to popular belief, Don Imus is still alive, at least for now. That was revealed after it was reported he made some crude racial comments on his show last week. MSNBC pulled the plug on the simulcast after someone told them that his show was being broadcast on their network..............The Senate has passed another bill for stem cell research which is destined to be vetoed by President Bush. The Senate waited until Nancy Pelosi got back from her self-appointed job as President in the Middle East to see if they couldn't get it by her without a veto..................The Pentagon is offering financial bonuses for miltary men to stay in the service. Defending our countries freedom is now a lucrative position.............Larry Birkhead is the dad of Dannie Lynn, according to the DNA results. The results also showed he is also the dad of Angelina Jolie's adopted baby, Katie Holmes new baby, and Sanjaya Malakar.................The house once lived in by Johnny Cash went up in a ring if fire this week.............And Sanjaya did not go up in a cloud of smoke on American Idol, but survived another week. At least that's the way I heard it........