Posted by sharon (anonymous) on June 28, 2009 at 9:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

To the STJ staff, not taking away anything from these great kids and what they do , but, this is breaking news
Thousands demonstrate silently in Tehran, why? Because it they get their stuff together our boys and girls can come home and I can stop staying up at night worrying about the draft being reinstated.
Billy Mays, OxiClean pitchman, found dead, Why? Because of all the wonderful memories I have of falling asleep with the tv on and waking up wondering who was hollering at me at 3 am in the morning.
House passes energy overhaul bill 219-212 Why? Because this is the first step toward something big, think about all of the contractors, roofers, ect. who will be working again when they start giving out grants to weatherize homes.
South Carolina governor apologizes to Cabinet why? I don't know, I just find parts of this story amazingly funny, but his wife is an amazing woman did not stand beside him like and pretend like everything was fine. She spoke out and said what all of them (political wives who were cheated on)should have said.
To read the STJ online one would think that there was not a war going on, a pop icon didn't die, a governor didn't go missing and end up in Argentina, and that Iran wasn't going through something similar to our own Civil Rights Movement. Give your readers more credit, we are intelligent, hard working people and we, (I) would like to discuss something besides 'black on black crime' and what spendthrift stole money from her employers. Put the news out there and let us decide what matters. Again congrats to the kids and I know I might catch heat for downplaying what they do, bring it.

Posted by loveselma (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 8:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Thank you STJ for reporting news that we have not been bombarded with on all the other outlets. The purpose of a local hometown newspaper is not to rehash all the national news that we can get thur other outlets. We can get all we want to know and then some on these national stories. . . . keep up the LOCAL news. . . Great job!

Posted by sharon (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 9:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)

she/he is right STJ, please forgive me for having an original thought. I always mess up when I have an opinion that is not in keeping with everyone else. I also don't know what I was thinking expressing an opinion on an opinion board. Please don't call the 'thought police' on me. Good thing this happened before I had to make any decision on lunch!!

Posted by bama_belle (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 10:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

It is great to have an opinion, but why look for a debate. It is the STJ job to communicate local news and its a plus when we get national news. If you want national news, how about trying cnn.com. I think someone had a bad weekend and needed to take it out on.

Posted by sharon (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 10:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I didn't have a bad weekend I was just asking that they add more to the menu. Nor was I looking for a debate, it's just that as an African-american I get tired of seeing the word thug and hearing opinions about crime only in reference to black people. There are some intelligent people on this blog, not all are racist or passive/aggressives trying to sneak a lick in when no one is looking. I looked back on the old stories and not one mentiond that the Governor of South Carolina was missing or that the elections in Iran were being challenged. Those are stories that are news-worthy and that can be debated. In my world a debate is a friendly discussion, not a lot of namecalling.

Posted by bama_belle (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 11:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)

If you would like more added to the menu, then maybe you should apply for a part time job at the STJ. Just because you may think a story is news-worthy, doesn't mean that it's news-worthy. That would be your personal opinion. If it is a debate that you are looking for, then maybe you should try a career in politics. I am an African American as well, and just like you get tired of hearing others opinions, maybe they get tired of hearing your opinions. If it's an educated debate that you are looking for online, then maybe you should try to accessing a few other websites. My opinion is... This positive article was to inform Selmians of the positive things that the youth are doing in our community, and to also maybe edge the community to come out, support, and encourage these youths.

Posted by eyeonyou (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 11:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Sharon, as a white man...I also get tired of having to read the same stories about the crime and thugs in Selma. But, what are you going to do about when IT'S EVERYDAY REALITY? Are you going to sweep it under the rug and pretend Selma is crime free? I am offended by these criminals and the statistics of whom is responsible for the majority of the crime. As a hard working, taxpaying citizen, it gets really old to see the behaviour of these individuals ruin this town.

It also gets old listening to the so called leaders or radio talkiing heads discussing everything BUT the real problems. If they would help take on responsible roles, positive influence and accountability as much as they make up excuses for this crime...then Selma might rid itself of most of this crime.

Just as I read this paper, I watch the news and listen to the radio. The problem I have about National News is so many people around here LACK any ability to be objective. This nation is faced with one of the most REAL nuclear threats in many years...and most all the Obama supporters want to talk about is this stimulus money. You never hear any discussion on the dynamics in Iran, the N. Korean threat, Gitmo detainees ,etc. When you do bring it up...all this crowd can do is interject their programmed, robotic response of "Bush". It's okay to act like Bush has effected you in so many ways, but it's not okay for people like me to discuss the blinding pork spending in the trillions, the lack of jobs that were promised and haven't been delivered, the National Healthcare reform bill that is masking millions of free healthcare to Illegal Immigrants, etc. It's just blinding naivety.

Posted by sharon (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 12:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)

eyeonyou: I think I would just like to see some more informed opinons on here, like an editorial on something besides local events something that appeals to the thinkers in the area. I am willing to bet that the STJ writers wanted to write about meater topics than this. Local news is fine, don't have a problem with it all, I was just goofing around and decided to write the above. I read the NY times, Mnsbc, Fox, and CNN daily but I don't belong to their chats (blogs) and it would be nice to see an editorial come out of the paper. Like something about the elections in Iran and comparing them to various movements here and in China, NYtimes hasn't even done that yet. I think a story/editorial like that could win a pulitzer. I agree with you it would be nice to discuss pork spending or what happened at Gitmo with someone who knows the facts and has an opinion because I could learn as well as participate, but there has to be a story first.

Posted by sharon (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 12:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)

b.belle
I only used this particular article because last night it had 'BREAKING NEWS" beside it!
I have a career and it pays me well enough that I don't have to work part -time.
I probably need to take a part time spelling class because I am so spoiled by spell check, but not part time work.
I will stay on this site as long as I want to or they let me.
How sad that I would have to go elsewhere, in your opinion, for an educated debate, what about you just don't join in and then it will be intelligent enough.

Posted by bama_belle (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 1:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Sharon, when I referenced about taking a part time job at the STJ, it was not to say that you needed the money. Sometimes having a hobby fills you up just as well as your well paid career, and it seems that you have such a great time in the newspaper comment section. If you would like to see something different, then maybe you need to make something happen. As much as I would like to continually join in and debate with you on a regular basis, my well-paid career, as well as graduate school keeps me occupied in regularly educated debates. This week just happens to be my week off.

Posted by sharon (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 1:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Come on Friday!

Posted by bama_belle (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 1:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I just LOVE your sense of humor so much that I am going to visit your comments a little more often! (I am sorry that I won't be able to visit you on a daily basis, seeing that I have more important things to do than to debate on a local newpaper article about the local things going on in the community.)

Posted by bama (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 2:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

STJ, thank you focusing on LOCAL news. There are many outlets for national politics and wordly news. I come here to read about Selma, it's surrounding areas and the news that directly deals with Selma and the Black Belt. I've had enough of the Michael Jackson soap opera. I can turn on any of the cable news channels to see 24 hr coverage of that.

Posted by eyeonyou (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 3:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

Here's some national news for you. Another one of Obama's appointed team members on her second incident of racism. How many more people is he going to hire that are guilty of blatant racism and living the "double standard"?

Posted by huntingdad68 (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 4:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

lets go 14 year old all stars you need to pull this out

Posted by bama (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 4:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)

back to topic. Go 14 year olds! Make all of us proud!

Posted by SELMABEST (anonymous) on June 29, 2009 at 10:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

How did talking about baseball turn 2 this?? ONLY IN SELMA ALABAMA!!!!!

Posted by mccrary36703 (anonymous) on July 1, 2009 at 10:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I think everybody on this blog is intelligent, but we need to concentrate on local news here, because we need to figure out how too help the locals around us. I mean it will be nice to have national news in STJ. But we need solutions to our problems in Selma.

Posted by popdukes12 (anonymous) on July 4, 2009 at 8:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Debate? I just spent two days locked up with my "Barbara
Streisand" liberal daughter-in-law in Ocala. She is so liberal, that she had her picture made with Nancy Pelosi. If I mentioned Fox News, I was quickly told that it wasn't watched in her house. When I mentioned different aspects of the cap and trade bill, she would say that she hadn't heard about that but would call a friend and ask about it. Now my daughter-in-law has a master's degree in education and is apparently waiting to get in line to drink the Kool-Aid on the hopes that Obama knows what he is doing. SAD. popdukes12