Readers’ Column for the week of March 31, 2019

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According to a recent study, use of marijuana IS dangerous. The more it’s used and the stronger the product, the more dangerous it becomes. Use leads to the use of stronger drugs, causes schizophrenia, delusions, and mental problems. So those who are users, time to stop before you end up in a mental institution or worse. Marijuana does NOT ease chronic pain, in fact, in the long run, makes it worse. Marijuana does NOT ease mental anguish; in the long run it increases dramatically. In short, causes damage unforeseen until years later.

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To the snowplow driver on Glenmary Drive in Owego that found my granddaughter along side of the road on Saturday, March 10 and called for an ambulance – I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

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On Thursday, March 9, the Village of Newark Valley received about one inch of snow, if that, you would think we had a major snowstorm. They went up and down my street seven times. First two times just plowing, second two times plowing and spreading sand, salt and cinders, and the fifth time the plow was up and just spreading sand, salt, and cinders. The sixth and seventh time it was a different truck, and the plow was up, just spreading sand, salt, and cinders. Had a conversation with a neighbor, he said they went up and down his street five times. All of that effort for one inch of snow; seems like overkill to me! Is it not a waste of time, money, and resources? 

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Has anyone any idea why the time and expense was made to provide highway crossing apparatus on both Route 17C and 434? Switches, signs, etc., none of which work, at places that in 13 years of living on 17C I’ve never seen anyone crossing. Useless time & money expended I’m thinking.

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The reason the media didn’t say February had a 45-year high for jobs created is because it isn’t true.

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For the person looking for a chair lift and installation, you can find it at Penn York Medical Supplies. Their number is 773-3622.

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I’d like to make a comment about our flag that’s flown outside our local post office. It is so tattered and ragged. You can’t tell me that the postal service can’t afford a new American flag for the office? I am a veteran of the Viet Nam War and I think it’s disgraceful we have to look at that American flag that’s flown in our post office for over three weeks. Can you please ask them to take it down and put a new one up? I am a concerned citizen of the United States of America. 

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So now we have to put up with this March Madness garbage? Who cares! Give me regular programming.

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Does anyone know what office in Albany one would contact to report that an elected official does not live in the town they are voted to represent? Please respond in this column.

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So the Governor’s Safety Committee reminds us to drive sober this week. So what about spring, summer and fall? What a dumb commercial! What else would you expect from Cuomo!

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Is anybody interested in cutting hair for a senior couple at their home? Please call (607) 687-1512.

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I’m sure all of us have had a bad neighbor, but we’re really tired of the neighbor next door to us who just lets his chickens run loose all over the place. He has no regard for boundaries, he should keep those chickens in a coop and not let them come all the way to our yard and let them crap all over our yard. 

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I find it odd so much time and money was wasted by the Town of Tioga road department on Williams Road, a dead end road for one residence not even used by a school bus! Seems to me, if it had to be done, the fill could have been used to cover up the dump on Fred Catlin Road.

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In light of the DOT worker who was killed after a truck ran into him while he was working, drivers need to slow down, stay off their cell phones, and move over when construction is going on. Many times I get into the correct lane early only to have someone who waits until the last minute try to pull over in front of me so they can get ahead of others. They are not patient. A few seconds of waiting is worth someone’s life.

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I hope our tax spenders Governor Cuomo and our legislators use common sense before they legalize recreational marijuana, the gateway drug. They should look at Colorado’s problems after it was legalized there. Maybe Governor Cuomo and the legislators should look at spending cuts instead of how they can raise more tax money.

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Can someone explain to me what this state of emergency here in Broome County is going to do to help with the opioid problem? I just don’t understand that. But no, let’s not build the wall where all these drugs are coming from!

National Political Viewpoints

Anyone who thinks AOC’s Green New Deal would do any good has pudding for brains. It would do more damage than good. Government is here to help! Think closer to home. In the past 100 years we have lost Chestnut, Elm, Ash, and now the Hemlock. These are all key species. Our local overpopulation of deer ensures no young shrub or tree can take root in the forest. Additionally, they have created the national hot spot for Lyme disease. This is a disaster. What do you environmentalists want to do other than block natural gas pipelines to Massachusetts and pollute our environment with bird killing windmills and solar panel plantations? We are listening. Worried About Cow Farts? In the early 1800’s there were roughly 60 million buffalo residing in America. There are currently 9.4 million dairy and 31.7 million beef cows in America. Leftist loons either have to prove cow farts are more destructive to the environment than buffalo farts or admit that cow farts aren’t something to be worried about. Deep thoughts.

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You Democrats may think we don’t understand what you are up to. After all you think of us as gun and bible loving, deplorable, irredeemable, stupid, smelly, Wal-Mart shoppers. But we know you will do ANYTHING for votes: Open borders for illegal votes brainwashed 16 year olds, felons, the dead, and give free stuff. So you can keep your cushy jobs, and ram your freedom robbing, socialist garbage down our throats. All while you power hungry, intellectually superior, tell us what to do: what to eat, how to go, where to go! Well I’ll tell you where you can go; you’re so smart, you figure it out! ROAR!

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We all remember when President Trump promised to make a better deal with Boeing on a replacement for Air Force One. Well, the current price has risen to $2.7 billion each! This is seven times what commercial airlines pay for a brand new 747. We are beginning to see how his business skills led him to go bankrupt running a casino.

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Any democrats out there with the courage to admit they were wrong about collusion? I doubt it, but thought I’d ask.

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The U.S. Will Not Tolerate ‘Hostile Foreign Meddling’ in the Western Hemisphere — Bolton. Seriously, the U.S. does this on a daily bases to any foreign country that they want a regime change, if the warmongers don’t like who they elect we will appoint one. The U.S. double standards are well known around the globe. Why is it okay for Trump to accept Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights but not okay for Russia to follow International law and annex Crimea? A group of French lawmakers recently visited Crimea and were impressed by all the improvements in the Crimea since rejoining Russia. The Crimea government is talking of filling a lawsuit against the Ukraine for the 25 years of neglect under their leadership.

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You have to laugh! The Socialist Loons, and that includes N.Y.C. Mayor DiBlasio, go about hooting and hollering about free healthcare for all, Medicare for all, etc. Have ANY of them consulted with healthcare professionals to get THEIR reaction to this nonsense? A system that’s already having difficulty delivering needed services would suddenly be inundated with gazillions of more potential patients? Yeah, that sounds like a winner!

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Democrats – are you ever reasonable and rational? The Mueller investigation found no collusion with the Russians. Trump and his people even refused their help when it was offered. So now you Democrats are looking for obstruction of justice. Obstruction of what? Of an investigation of Trump that was invalid and should never have been started? How can a reasonable person blame Trump for lashing out, wouldn’t you be mad as hell if you were innocent, but were treated like dirt? If you Democrats continue to pursue, to sabotage, a coup d’etat, of our president, I hope you get hammered in 2020! ROAR!

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So there was no Russian collusion and no interference from the Trump camp. Will he get any apologies from the Democrats and all the negative news media and newspapers that kept putting fake news out there and at times made up things just to Make President Trump look bad. They knew this was all made up from the get go and just couldn’t accept the fact that Hillary Clinton didn’t win and used “we the people” tax money of 25 million to run this fake story investigation. I for one want to hear about how great the economy is doing, and the border wall is going up in the places where the drugs and human traffickers are bringing in illegal’s. Thanks for letting me vent and “God Bless America and our men and women who are and have served to protect us for the rights we have.”

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Global warming. They overlook much about carbon dioxide. Where did fossil fuels come from? They came from past CO2 in the air. There was more CO2 in the air before. What level is right, then or now? Look at some of the marble gravestones in the cemetery? Some look like well used bars of Ivory soap. They are eroded, visually showing they are releasing their carbonate CO2, to the air. The White Cliffs Of Dover etc., they are carbonate as are marble and limestone, sequestering CO2 that was in the air. How much CO2 are they releasing? California is burning up all the time – CO2! The decaying leaves in the forest. They release methane, said to be a 34 times more potent greenhouse gas than CO2! Should we burn all dead plants to release CO2? About 10,000 years ago, glaciers covered our area. We didn’t cause that! Is this just a continuation of the past? I think water vapor is the most potent greenhouse gas. Clouds have blocked your sun. Has CO2? Cloud cover at night keeps the heat in. Should we eliminate water in the air? If we knew all causes of global warming, we couldn’t do anything about it. In the early 90s, we couldn’t even rescue two whales trapped by ice. In our arrogance, we think we can change the climate. I don’t!

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Did you Trump supporters see Trump’s proposed 2020 budget, asking for cuts of at least 5 percent on domestic budgets like Medicare, Medicaid, education and another increase for the military, from $715 billion to $750 billion. If the U.S. would drop the goal of dominating over the world making it into our image we wouldn’t need half of the military. The 800 plus military bases could be eliminated and the savings could be spent in the U.S., on things like healthcare, education and the infrastructure.

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The Socialist loons honestly think the voting public is dumb enough to fall for this scheme to eliminate the Electoral College? Yeah, right. Under that scenario, the votes of residents in states like Maine, Rhode Island, etc. would count for nothing. Future Presidents would be chosen by states like New Jersey, New York, California, all bastions of Socialist Loons! Get real! All this because Hillary lost in the Electoral College!

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Saw this on Facebook, “Trump was sent by God?” He must be out of locusts.

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Next time a person wants to expose on taxes they should do their homework first. New York has to have a balanced budget. The $10,000 deduction limit is on all your New York taxes, not just the property tax. New York pays way more into the federal government than it gets back in federal money. Now it’s even more; the tax changes just screwed New York.

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News flash! Happy no Russian collusion day to the dimwit Democrats that spent 675 days and millions of dollars of taxpayer money on a proven witch-hunt. Now maybe Attorney General Barr can investigate Schiff, Schumer, Hillary, and all the other conspirators in the former justice department who did collude to steal or invalidate a duly elected President of the United States, namely Donald J Trump. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.  

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Well I see there was no collusion between Trump and Russia. Trump has been vindicated completely. The real collusion is between Hillary and the Democrats and Russia. She paid Russians big bucks to make the dossier also known as the big lie. The Democrats will have wasted two years and $20 million on this far fetched scheme. Democrats always whine about Trump wasting money, but they were just fine with wasting $20 million and throwing it down the toilet. I’ll bet there are a lot of Democrats who cried themselves to sleep after this was released. I wouldn’t want to be a member of Adam Schiff’s family; I bet he is miserable! 

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Now that Mueller has spent $25 million in two years and cleared Trump it’s time to go after the crooked Democrats who started this disgrace. Hillary was the one who colluded with the Russians to affect the 2016 elections. Her and the Democrats paid $20 million for the dossier of lies. That’s collusion any way you put it. The four Democrats who signed the FISA warrants committed felonies when they said to the court the information was correct. Throw them all in jail and throw the keys away.

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Can Liberalism be a form of mental illness? 

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So who’s laughing now? Looks like us Trumpsters got the last laugh. Mueller found no collusion. The Democrats must be furious. Let’s see what investigation they want to waste taxpayer money on next. Why don’t they work on policies that will help and matter to the American people? The only collusion they found was Hillary Clinton’s whole campaign! 

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Okay, the evidence is in, $25 million and two years wasted on a witch-hunt. Let the facts stand. Leave it alone! Those people spun a web, foolish people bought into it. Look what you could’ve done for two years; you wasted time on the presidency just because you don’t like him. You people should be crawling under a rock!

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There are some good things we have learned in the Mueller report and the failed Trump coup. We the people of the U.S.A. know that if Hillary had won we would never have learned of the collusion between the Democrat Party leaders and the fake news media, the DOJ, the FBI and the CIA leaders to depose a duly elected president Donald J. Trump. Mr. President, take out the leftover trash in the Washington swamp.

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Okay, now that the evidence is in, we now know who the true liars are. But do not fret Trump haters, you can still vote for Donald Trump in 2020.

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How embarrassing it must be for the liberal media and the guppies out there that bought into this Russian collusion delusion. Caught in the largest fabricated lie of this country, now people will see it is not Donald Trump dividing this country, it is the Democrats and specifically the radical left. You’ve been caught in a lie; people will not forget this. Donald Trump’s fan base just went up. You did it to yourself. 

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Now that the Mueller investigation has cleared President Donald Trump of nothing regarding the Russian collusion, and if the Democratic Party continues harassing Trump because their candidate lost, can we as U.S. citizens bring charges against certain individuals for harassment so that congress can get back to doing the peoples’ work? All this bologna should not be shoved under the rug without any punishment, as the cost for this investigation could have been put to better use. 

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Hey, when the 2020 elections get here, here’s something you might want to think about when you get into the polling booth to vote. This is what the Republican Party supports, it’s documented, and you can look it up. Cuts to Social Security so you lose your safety net when you retire, cuts to Medicare so you lose your health insurance when you retire, huge tax cuts to the corporations and the millionaires, increase tax on the middle class – which we just saw both of them happen that eliminate your union so you have no right to bargain for higher wages – so the corporations get richer, help the Russians to hack your vote. Everybody wants the Russians to decide your vote, don’t you? The Russians do such a great job. And last of all and most important, destroy the environment, take off all those pollution controls, destroy everything we’ve worked for the last 25 years. What a joke this Republican Party is. Anyone who votes Republican has got something wrong with them.

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President Trump has just sent a message to the Russians, and for you Democrat Marxists that means Putin. Quote, “Get your 200 Russian specialists out of Venezuela,” this is diametrically opposite of the feckless Obama promising more flexibility with the Russians after his unfortunate election to the U.S. Presidency. 

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Jussie Smullett, you weren’t exonerated, it was just that the charges were dropped because your friend, Michelle Obama, interceded. 

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Special Investigator Robert Mueller, just when did you come to the conclusion that President Trump was not colluding with the Russians? Was it before or after the mid term elections? 

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