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This is an ol' dumb hillbilly wanting to talk to the rest of you hillbillies. When these gas companies start trying to cross you, don't let them cross you for that little bit of money. They're fixing to make billions and trillions when the cars convert over to natural gas. Then you'll wish you listened to me. They've been wanting to cross me, but they're not going to do it.

I was just in Jenkins driving down Lakeside and I want to comment on the house across from the football field. I think that guy has the coolest Halloween lights I've ever seen. I wish I knew where to get some like them.

I'm the guy who drives the red Ford pickup and I am not married. I wish you would tell me where you saw me. Maybe we could get together sometime.

Been driving down the road. Highway seems clean. People on the other side wave. I'm drinking and driving. Trees so green, everything aglow. In the hollow I see the state boys have pulled their quota over. I'm just cruising, drinking and driving, alcohol intoxicated, drug-induced, pretty young miss by my side. Got no worries I'm going to wreck or crash into one of my fellow drivers. It's a beautiful autumn evening. Drinking and driving. Everything is not only okay, everything is Tony the Tiger great. Nothing it wrong, nothing is up. Just drinking and driving and everything is nothing. Everything is good to go as I drink and drive down life's highway. It's a beautiful autumn afternoon as I now sit behind ink and paper not drinking or driving.

To the pretty blonde in the McRoberts area: Honey, you don't know who I am but I know who you are. Whenever you get ready to get rid of that zero, call Speak Your Piece and let me know. Get in touch with this hero. I'm sure I can be more of a man than the one you're with. I would love to treat you like the woman you really are.

When an organization and a community cause trouble in the schools, churches and places they live, these people should be handled accordingly. If these people work for an organization set up to help people, they should be helping people without causing trouble in public places.

To a certain man: I caught you again. Instead of Haymond Hill this time, it was Fishpond Lake at the first cut-off behind the rest rooms. You got out of what you were driving and got into a little blonde's car again. Wow. What went on in that car? I know who you are and I know her name and what color of car she drives. What do you think about that?

To two nurses: You should know better than to get mixed up with a certain man who has been with all the other women where you work. Thank you.

To the girl who is smoking something other than cigarettes and is also pregnant: I hope you know they are going to take your baby. You talk about your mom doing drugs, look at you. Also, quit acting like the world owes you something. Does the father know you're hurting his baby with what you're smoking?

I would like to make a statement about the popular people in Jenkins and the depressed people. I know there are a lot of people at Jenkins Middle-High School who act like they are all that. I wish they would stop acting so rudely. Thank you.

To the silver-haired, devilpossessed hypocrite witch: You know who you are — you're the one who was bedding down a preacher in a neighboring county. You had better be careful about spreading your venom about town.

See no evil, hear no evil, tell no evil. Washington has finally caught up with the whole world. Don't worry about it. Jesus Christ knows what is going on. Think about it.

I have a next-door neighbor who thinks he can throw a party anytime he wants just like his mother think she's the empress of all empresses: You think you're going to outlive everybody and do whatever you want, but one of these given nights you're going to get exactly what you've got coming.

I witnessed a vehicle hitting a white Ford Ranger and pulling out and leaving the scene. That takes a low-life person to do that.

(Did you get the tag number of the vehicle the low-life was driving? If so, you should report it to the authorities.)

Even I recognize the man the lady from Craft's Colly was calling a cheater. I would say if you pasted his name across Letcher County you would find plenty more who would say the same. Just check the Yahoo personals. That should tell you all you need to know. Sorry, honey, he's your problem now.

Just wanted to bring to the attention of the people of Letcher County that Jenkins Community Hospital is now owned by Wellmont, the very same people who own Holston Valley Hospital in Kingsport and several other hospitals. They are improving the Jenkins hospital and giving us choices about where we go to get our health care.

To a certain man who is out telling lies about somebody beating up vehicles with a baseball bat: I never touched any vehicle with a baseball bat. Tell what really happened. Just like I said, I don't put up with you and I don't put up with what you run with.

I am looking for Allen Bailey who used to live at Cram Creek at Mayking. He would be somewhere between 35 and 40 years old and went to Mayking Christian School a couple of years until graduation. He drove a Camaro. From a long lost friend.

Hey, cowboy, the maroon drunk here just to say lay off, you jerk. Me, my beer-drinking buddy, his wife and my girlfriend are endorsing Brushey Bill for anything he runs for. So get on your little miniature donkey and ride off into the sunset. You better hope you don't run up on my beer-drinking buddy. He can whip butt, you know.

One more comment to cowboy: In case you don't think I have endorsement abilities, I will just let you know that I know people at the Legion, the VFW, the Candlelight, Joe's Place and all Virginia self-service markets. I've also kept one crook from getting magistrate for years. Once again, ride off, you jerk.

I've been watching. I know who drove past the house. I know who called in on me. You better mind your own business.

I'm just glad to see the truth came out about Jason Ison and that he wasn't drunk or on drugs when he wrecked. He should be a free man. It was an accident, and I'm sure he's served enough time for it. Everyone makes mistakes, and his mistake was not putting new tires on his vehicle. You know he didn't mean to kill those people. I'll be here to greet him when he gets out. He's a good friend.

Thanks to Rick and Scott for doing a great job at the wellness center. I think they are both great guys. Thank you.

I think the talent show at the Mountain Heritage Festival was a joke. The guy who sang Kid Rock should have won it. Everyone else thought so, too.

To a guy in Quillen Fork: You are really sexy and I would like to get up with you sometime so we could talk again. From Blue Eyes.

To Very Curious: What time and place do you want to meet? Signed, Red Truck.

To Stargaze: That fairy tale you live in has clouded your true memory. You need a reality check.

Happy birthday, Tony Boyd. We love you and miss you. Mom and sisters and brothers.

I just absolutely love that little song by the Chipmunks. It goes 'if you can do it let's get to it.' It is so cute.

Swinging a little too much on the sugar tree aren't you, baby? I think you're as phony as your hair color.

School nurses would be great if they would stay out of the office all day and help the kids. Thank you.

I think it's a pity that Fleming- Neon Elementary School is losing so many students and they can't figure out why. Well, if all the teachers would do their jobs and stop worrying about being on-line and flirting they might do some good. Instead, the aids are being the teachers. They are so hateful and degrading to the kids. The words 'liar' and 'problem child' are thrown at the parents and children regularly. Do your job. You are getting paid. Where is the principal while this is going on?

To the person who has the problem with the girl in Craft's Colly: Tell her about it to her face. This isn't fifth grade. Grow up. By the way, she's a great mom and she's not a pillhead. If your great man isn't scared of her family how come he rides off when her brother tries to fight him? Girl, you're barking up the wrong tree. Next time you have something to say, stop by and see her. She has a few things to tell you.

To a guy in Copperhead Road: You don't need to go around telling everybody our business unless you want me telling yours. Now that we're through, keep my name out of your mouth and out of your head.

Today is Friday, October 3. I just came home from the grocery store. When I was in the store I saw a lady stick her hands down her pants and rearrange her underwear. Now this is in public and this is a grown woman doing this. Then she pulls her hand out of her underwear and puts in back on her buggy. And we wonder why there are so many sick people in our county? We do not realize the germs that are on these buggies and handles of doors out in the public. For our own protection we better be keeping our own supply of Germ-X.

To a certain security guard: I told you she was going to catch up to what you were doing. You shouldn't have even asked her to let you come home if you were going to do her like that. That is low. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

God Knows — God knows where you are each minute of the day/We all need to be careful, the things we do and say/No matter where you go, from Him you cannot hide/He sees us always, no matter how hard we tried/Our works on this earth are written in His book/Where will you stand when God gives it a look?/ Many go through this life with time only for themselves/Not caring about others, always wrapped up in themselves/On Judgment Day, when we face the good Lord above/You may look back and wish you had shared some love. C.A.C.

It is time for the people to speak out against the tyranny of the super rich and the elected officials who are continually robbing you. George Bush and his billionaire friends want you to pay for their bad investments with $750 billion and possible even $1 trillion. What is more, George wants no oversight, which means that they can do what they wish with the money and not be accountable. You couldn't borrow $10,000 without collateral, but they are putting up no collateral for $750 billion. In their greed they were using every scheme to get more riches and power. Make no mistake, this economy will not collapse, and neither will they if they are not bailed out. They may need to cut some multi-million dollar salaries, but this probably will not happen either. George W. could not leave office without a finale of further devastation to this country. There is no more separation of powers. In his own arrogant words, 'I am the decider.' And for once, George was right when he made his photo op with mission accomplished. Invading Iraq was his primary mission.

To the woman who commented to a woman who got with her ex-husband: Give more information who you're talking about. Nobody knows. If you don't give information, then stop blowing hot air.

Howdy, Brushey Bill here. Well, I walked off the hill and watched the presidential debates last night. Me and Ralph Nader were deeply hurt because we weren't invited. I was impressed how two fellers could talk as much and say so little. Neither of them has a clue. The main topic is the $700 billion bailout and I agree with Mr. Nader. Why? Why bail out a bunch of rich bankers and Wall Street speculators who caused the problem in the first place? Like water, let it go and it will seek its own level. We could use that money better bailing out the poor guy with three kids getting kicked out of his house. Mr. McCain said, 'We owe China $600 billion.' We don't! These banks owe them the money, not the U.S. government. Let the Chinese investors lose the money they invested. Who cares? What are they going to do, garnish us? My other opponent, Mr. Obama, said we were spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. Cut that off immediately. Only the idiots in Letcher County government could waste that much. For example, they spent a million or so on a rundown old high school in Jenkins and now they're trying to give it away and Jenkins don't even want it. They wasted millions more on a big building in the Jenkins industrial park and can't use it or sell it. Now they're planning on wasting perhaps $6 million more on the old A&P building at Whitesburg. What do you put in a recreation center around here, an arcade? I want to know what's going to be there worth $6 million, and who's going to get all that money to carry a few video games in there. This county doesn't even have water or sewer services. The river flowing through Whitesburg is so filthy that old Barney won't even drink city tap water. It don't even make good moonshine. They should be able to put water to every home in the county before they undertake any more white elephants. I came off the mountain check day to git some grub and the people up Pert Creek are so pore, they had toilet paper hanging from their clotheslines. Spend some of that money up these hollows. When I'm president, I'm going to turn the Whitesburg Courthouse into a mental health center. The nut cases are already there. Leaning on what Mr. Roosevelt said 60 years ago, 'Elect Brushey Bill, and you'll have two mules in every barn, and two possums in every pot.' Sincerely yourn, Brushey Bill.

Why does a little place like Eolia need two parks? I wonder how they plan to go to heaven if they can't get along down here.

I wonder how a certain man can live after he caused his girlfriend to put her children in a home so they could party and ride her car and four-wheeler, and seem to enjoy what they have done. We don't like that kind of activity in our good, moral community.

I wonder why a certain man does not take care of his wife and baby. He is too lazy to work and doesn't provide for his wife and baby. His mother can't keep any money to live on because of this scumbag and other adjectives that fit. He is a lazy, worthless, sorry parasite on society.

I am the goddess. I am the magnificent. I am the coach, the team, the star. You are only here to make me look good. And when you don't, I'll pull you back or bench you.

Shame on you. You are so unfair to the girls. Try to feel the way you make them feel. Oh, I'm sorry, you don't have feelings.

Sarah Palin said it again last night. When Joe Biden suggested that the wealthy paying a larger share of the tax burden was simple 'fairness', she called it a 'transfer of wealth,' implying something socialist about the wealthy paying more tax. Republicans are always referring to 'class warfare', as though the upper class is under siege whenever anyone suggests raising their taxes. But look at what is actually happening in the real world — in the real world it is the middle class and the working poor who are under siege. Once again the really wealthy are asking the average taxpayer to bail them out — to the tune of nearly a trillion dollars. Talk about a massive 'transfer of wealth', who is under siege now? Everyone says if we don't bail out the big bankers everyone will go down the tubes together. Who is being held hostage here? Wake up! There is a class war going on and the upper class is clearly winning. In a few weeks when you go to vote, ask yourself, who is most likely to be looking out for the middle class and the poor working folks?

Hi. I just want to say that I live on Payne Gap. The area I live at, there's a back road behind my house and on that back road lives the owner of these two big black dogs. This lady lets her dogs just wander the neighborhood and the dogs mess in everybody's yards and one of them gets in the trash every time you set it out. The dogs are friendly dogs but I can't stand when they mess in my yard. I have dogs myself but I keep them tied up. So I'm just gonna say this, the next time I see them wandering through my yard I'm going to load them up and drop them off somewhere to roam around to poop everywhere and hopefully they won't find their way back here. So, lady, keep your dogs in your own yard or you can come on over and clean up their doggie piles. Thank you.

Those of us who don't have water and sewer service can forget it now that the fiscal court has forced their way into the mixture. This bunch has never gotten anything right. How about the rec center? That defies analysis. How about the firing of Seth Long? How about their behavior at that meeting? Doesn't that make you proud? Let's see, the next election is a little over a month away. That means we have this bunch for at least two more years. That is, of course, if they can stay out of Knott County types of problems for that long.

So one of our magistrates hates the water-sewer board because they won't do what he says. Thank God they won't do what he says. Based on his record to date, the prospect is terrifying, not to mention illegal. We need to be doing everything we can to get Seth Long back on the board, and to keep it independent if we don't want it to go the way everything else he has touched.

The $6 million recreation center is the goofiest, most irresponsible idea ever. It will be available to just a fraction of the county, and probably won't be used by most of them. The one in Perry County isn't being used very much, and is a terrible funding drain. Ditto on the one in Pikeville. Letcher County can't possible service the debt, and there apparently hasn't been any thought given to staffing, upkeep, and maintenance. If you work for Letcher County in any capacity, you had better be looking for another job. If it goes, and it appears that it will, bankruptcy is a certainty for the county. Remember that counties, unlike the federal government, can't just keep on borrowing. They have to shut down.

Oma, I know I don't call or write as often as I should, but I think about you and miss you every day. I'll try to do better about calling. Take care of yourself.

Ruth, you know you and Doug are in a special category of my favorite people and right at the top. We enjoyed your visit and love you both. Come back to see us soon.

When an uncouth, indolent individual makes an asinine remark, just consider the source and ignore it. Never dumb down to his level.

I want to wish my wife Annette a very happy birthday.

To all those bad mouthing David Hawpe: He said it right about something. A few nothings for everybody. The coal severance money should go to the coal miners. They are the ones who mine the coal. They have no retirement like all the state workers do. They should all stop mining until they get a retirement. All you greedy people in Whitesburg should get nothing. If a coal miner gets injured on the job, some dirty attorney will screw them. Wake up, coal miners, don't lift too much.

I told you to tell everyone I tied you up. I didn't get to but I would like to. Both of us had been trying to go to sleep and you asked me why I was looking at you and smiling. I said I like your looks. You had a smile on your face too. I would like to get to talk to you again. If you are interested, get up with me. I've got my belly button pierced. Bring back any memories?