Comments on: Something to think about: They didn’t stop

By: Foaming at the Mouth

Foaming at the Mouth — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:56:29 +0000

Coomie65 – Contact me and I will send you your secret decoder ring!

By: David Williams

David Williams — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:49:15 +0000

Absolutely. Before FDR’s New Deal, there was no crime in the US!

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:09:08 +0000

Wil, see Detroit. Liberal control for 40 years. See California. Enlighten me, which political ideology promotes the notion that such things as responsibility and accountability are divisive, intolerant, uncompassionate, insensative and regressive? The repubs don’t run our society, leftists do. Our current economic condition began when the left took over congress. Reality is a stubborn thing.

By: Wil Simon

Wil Simon — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:49:47 +0000

He’s right. We were a far better society before the Republicans took over the House.

By: Dick Faber

Dick Faber — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:44:52 +0000

cookie65 is right. Everyone knows that there was no crime in this country prior to FDR’s presidency. Then it all went downhill.

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:29:17 +0000

Linda, if you prefer only being exposed to what you want to hear then I suggest Oprah or msnbc. Having an honest discussion about how we became a country with such an atrocious regard for others requires honesty. Yesterday some drunk ran down two kids walking to school at 8 am. Should we not examine her “what can I get away with” mentality because you may be sensative to it? Should we not talk about the ruthless violence in our inner cities because it might make us look insensative? So I guess in your world compassion is ones ability to ignore the decay in our society. Good luck with that. Mental migits shouldn’t worry to much about the intellegence of others.

By: Linda Johnson

Linda Johnson — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:47:10 +0000

I am with “you’re kidding”. It takes a particularly insensitive and malicious person to try to conjure up political animosity out of a mysterious criminal act. We do not know who did this, what motivated them or why they ran. It could have been intentional or accidental. They could have been on alcohol, meth, texting, or falling asleep. They could have fled because they are wanted felons or because they are unlicensed drivers, or for a million other lousy reasons. Cookie65 reveals himself to be of low intelligence and zero compassion. Shameful.

By: srj

srj — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:37:55 +0000

Maybe the county sould not have given Bones Roadhouse a liquor license

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:32:24 +0000

You’re kidding, so you are telling me that we don’t have a very pervasive “what can I get away with” mentality in this country? Character is what you do when no one is looking. There is nothing that isn’t political because politics is how people exist together in a society. It is the rule of law and begins with self government. If you want to feel sorry for someone, feel sorry for yourself for your intellectual dishonesty. This is the result of a learned behavior. A learned behavior that puts conscience and regard for other human beings way down the list. It reminds me of all the inner cities that liberals have destroyed.

By: you are kidding, right?

you are kidding, right? — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:21:02 +0000

Cookie, to twist a tragedy like this into a partisan political attack is nothing short of immoral. It would be equally ridiculous to equate the driver’s behavior to an Ayn Rand devotee’s (read, Republican) rejection of altruistic behavior. This is a criminal act. It is not political. I know that some people can only view things through their own narrow frame of reference, but please try to see what is actually in front of you. I feel very sorry for you and others like you, both on the left and the right.

By: cookie65

cookie65 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:27:32 +0000

We have a moral deficit in this country. What has accelerated in our society is a “what can I get away with” mentality. Our government leaders have made careers out of it. Gaming the system is overlooked and commonplace. Citizens can hear during this politcal season that they aren’t responsible for the consequences of their choices and actions, someone else is. It is sad to say but the unfortunate victim left on the road side badly injured is the result of trickle down leftism.

By: neighbor

neighbor — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:55:23 +0000

Both Wendys…Thank you for saying what I have been thinking. I heard the sirens and helicopter that night and have been trying to find news ever since. I cried when I read the first article. To be so badly broken and left by the side of the road…so wrong. I drive this stretch of road often and can’t help but think of this horrible, callous incident as I go by. Wendy Schultz is correct – that stretch of road is straight and it was daylight so those were not factors. I hope and pray Jimi heals quickly. Even more I hope the driver is caught and made to face what he has done. We NEED to keep this in the public eye until he is caught.

By: Wendy Smith

Wendy Smith — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:04:52 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this article. I had been haunted ever since reading of the bicyclist so badly injured by a hit and run driver on Newtown Rd. last month. I too, worried it might be the gentle, fragile man with the bike I’d seen for years picking up trash along the road, whose name I didn’t know. But the original article had mentioned a backpack, and I had never seen him with one, so I fervently hoped it was not he, and meanwhile fretted over whoever the victim actually was. Your wonderful heartfelt article made me cry as at first I believed that it was, indeed, Dave Marsh (now I know his name) and that he had died! … Until you got to the paragraph dispelling this notion. I, too, wish to know how Jimi is doing, and I certainly hope that the driver turns him/herself in and faces responsibility for this horrific crime.