tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post8237720885164595519..comments2023-10-21T05:31:04.705-05:00Comments on Merle Widmer's PEORIA WATCH: Peoria Public Libraries - Questions to the Library BoardMerle Widmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788275198834985986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-23071440572141085032008-06-09T18:39:00.000-05:002008-06-09T18:39:00.000-05:00The only comment I have is on the 5,000 computers ...The only comment I have is on the 5,000 computers for $500ea. There are WAY less expensive options out there IF these folks start thinking a little outside the box.<BR/><BR/>Take a look at this $359 Dell Optiplex bundle (http://store.tkopartsandpcs.com/gx215lcdbu.html). This is a high-end Pentium 4 2.8GHz with HT enable CPU, XP PRO is legally pre-installed with recovery disk, a matching 15" LCD is INCLUDED, and you even get a 3-year warranty on the PC, and a 1-year warranty on the LCD.<BR/><BR/>$359ea and you got yourself PCs (with LCD monitor) that will outlast your Director :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-18978956648074948512008-06-09T11:06:00.000-05:002008-06-09T11:06:00.000-05:00Merle, I'm so disappointed in you. I thought we w...Merle, I'm so disappointed in you. I thought we were having an intelligent dialogue, and now you call me an idiot and a dumb dumb and threaten to ban me from your site. I guess this will be my last post on your site. I read your blog because I find you to be one of the best at articulating the conservative position, particularly as it relates to the Peoria area. Naturally, I don't agree with everything you say, and since you invite comments, I always felt free to make a comment. I don't think that I have been personal in any comments I have made, always referring to "conservatives" or "republicans" rather than you individually. I actually agree with much of what you say. However, I have noticed in your comments what I believe to be a common theme with "conservatives" which is a propensity to blame the less fortunate for their neediness. You know what, I think I'll stop here and just say that people who are identified as liberals are not idiots or dumb/dumbs or traitors or socialists. They're not trying to pick the pockets of taxpayers; they don't have a mental disease and people should talk to them even if they don't have to. Last week I heard a quote that may sound familiar about a late liberal politician that, I think, describes the best of liberalism tody: he was "simply a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." <BR/><BR/>Sorry if I've caused you any harm. <BR/><BR/>ddddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07018520386139307780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-11495844483106719472008-06-08T22:33:00.000-05:002008-06-08T22:33:00.000-05:00DD,You should donate more of your time to the B & ...DD,<BR/><BR/>You should donate more of your time to the B & G Club and AA Museum. Then maybe they wouldn't be closed.<BR/><BR/>Also more of your time to volunteer at The Southside Library and then they wouldn't be "understaffed" as the library board uses as one of the reasons they are closing it.<BR/><BR/>The library board made my point. Use it or lose it.<BR/><BR/>As to you watching naked women doing lewd acts, do it on your dime, not the property tax payers dime.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, but you are good at trying to put your words into my blogs. At no point dide I EVER say "dirty people". <BR/><BR/>You did.<BR/><BR/>An no, I don't have to explain to you. The saying is "never try to debate a subject with an idiot, you just lower yourself to their low position.<BR/><BR/>If your next comment doesn't make any more sense than the one's you ususally make, I will erase it and block you from my comment site.<BR/><BR/>Set up yur own blog site and stop using mine and show your stupidity under a real name and quit hiding behind DD.<BR/><BR/>Could DD be Dumb Dumb?Merle Widmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04267875223386924271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671777.post-89616220285047090282008-06-08T12:09:00.000-05:002008-06-08T12:09:00.000-05:00"Why comfortable easy chairs for the Downtown Libr..."Why comfortable easy chairs for the Downtown Library when up to 20%of the users will be “street people”? The first time the library discriminates, expect a lawsuit."<BR/><BR/>I don't know the above statement means. Are you saying that if the staff doesn't allow a patron to sit in an easy chair because they are dirty, the library will be sued? Could you explain?<BR/><BR/>In no version of reality do publically funded libraries "compete" with Borders or Barnes and Noble. But even if they did, public access to knowledge and culture, like healthcare, should not be limited to those that can pay for it. <BR/><BR/>I must say that I like your idea of taxpayer funding to put a $500 laptop in the hands of every person who cannot afford one. What a progressive solution. Maybe it should be proposed to the county board. <BR/><BR/>As to naked ladies and fake social security cards, that is what you put up with in a free society. There are no 100% guarantees in life, so why should we hold the library to that standard. <BR/><BR/>What is your point regarding the African American Museum and the Boys and Girls Club?ddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07018520386139307780noreply@blogger.com