Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 5)

The state of Kansas is drowning in red ink, yet the legislators can only think about dress codes, improbable discrimination of gun dealers and changing the state constitution on abortion. Perhaps they all need a colonoscopy to find their heads.

It’s laughable that House Speaker Ray Merrick is concerned that KU is “circumventing legislative oversight.” It rings true that the Legislature has said “don’t come to us for investment.” We all know the state is destitute after the bungling of Kansas finances led by Merrick and others in the majority.

The news organizations could give Americans a break by not discussing the primary elections for one week. Besides, it doesn’t matter what any candidate says. There are too many forces working against change for the American people. Our vote doesn’t count unless there’s big money attached to it.

Not only is Hillary Clinton’s amazing Iowa caucus win the greatest moment in my life, but it is a gift to the future of mankind because it means that equality for all genders, orientations, races and creeds will soon be mandated and love, peace and, most of all, fairness, will abound.

Time is running out for Queen Hillary. The FBI and the judicial branch need to expedite their investigation, indictment and conviction of Hillary, so that Obama can pardon her before her coronation in January 2017.

Paranoid right-wingers want to spend trillions more on the military, and then they want to strengthen the Second Amendment so that average Americans can protect themselves against this same military that they see as someday being used against them.

If an academic tells you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans are on the faculty.

Women want equal rights, want same pay as men, want to be firefighters, construction workers, etc. Yet when combat positions opened up in the military, did they line up at the recruiting stations? They talk the talk, but fail to walk the walk.

Build the new library? It is just another stupid downtown worthless building. If the library board had a clue, it would look at the west-side library to see how a busy library looks.

“Wichita City Council approves construction of new library.” Of course they do. Ain’t their money.

I think I will open a car shop in Wichita that replaces shock absorbers and brakes. The shock absorbers will be for all the cars that hit all the potholes and cracks on our streets. The brakes will be for all the cars that are stopped by stoplights that are not synchronized.

All the recent road closings due to the blizzard could have been avoided if everyone drove Subarus, because if you drive a Subaru, the weather doesn’t matter.

This story was originally published February 4, 2016 at 6:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Feb. 5)."