Readers’ Column for the week of May 12, 2019

You may call the Owego Pennysaver Readers’ Column at (607) 687-2378 24-hours a day, or e-mail comments to readerscolumn@stny.rr.com. We reserve the right to revise or reject any message. 

I just want to send this in, not really about anything. There is so much negativity in the world, so much hatred; that is all you see on TV. I want to bring in some uplifting positivity. About what? Nothing! Just smile! Look in the mirror and smile! You know you have a nice smile! I gave up Facebook for Lent recently, and I found myself thinking more about myself, and I enjoyed being away from social media. I just want to say to everyone out there, don’t let anyone knock you down! You can do anything you want to do! The only thing in the way of your success is your own state of mind! Cheer up people!

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The school budget vote date this year is May 21. OA has two public hearings scheduled.

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Many thanks to Dan N. for volunteering his time to get my house in shape for the summer.

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When you steal from somebody, not only are you hurting the person you stole from, you are also hurting yourself. That’s something to think about.

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Free electric mobility chair. Needs batteries. Call (607) 659-4018.

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I recently watched some older movies, true beauty in every leading female role, not one had a tattoo and their dress was stunning. So what happened? The so-called leading lady of today cannot compare in beauty or acting.

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I’d like to get my hands on the creep who stole my Trek bike. I would certainly give them a piece of my mind if I did. 

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I was just wondering if they’ve turned Erie Street into a commercial street. The other day I was coming up the street by the Boys Club and I had to pull over and stop because there was a doublewide being pulled through there; when I got to the end of the street there was a big orange trailer that came out of John Street and over the tracks, it had to maneuver itself about three different times to get down Erie Street and had traffic backed up just about to the Boys Club. I thought Erie Street was not meant for that.

I’m moving and I have a whole entire household of free furniture to give away. Call day or night, (607) 793-4643. 

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I was just wondering when they are going to fill that big pothole at the bottom of Pennsylvania Avenue and Route 434 in Apalachin. It’s been there for six months. Just wondered if they’re going to fill it, it even has white paint around it. 

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In response to last week’s caller about dog barking. It is against the code law in Tioga County for dogs to bark and annoy the neighborhood. It is not the dog’s fault, it is the fault of the dog’s owner. Call dog control at (607) 687-0123. Kyle Fleming, the dog control officer, will take care of the problem with your complaint. The first time, the dog owner is warned by Kyle Fleming. The second time the dog owner is brought to court and fined. The third time the dog may be removed. If you don’t make the call you will continue to hear barking, it will not stop. Step up and help us all enjoy a quiet summer evening on our porch and patio with the sounds of crickets, not the mood busting sound whining and barking.

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I would like to ask the Pennysaver why the paper does not print anything negative about our beloved Senator Fred Akshar? I think the Pennysaver is a great newspaper that we receive but Freddie has done a lot of negative things and other newspapers have printed it but not the Pennysaver. All the Pennysaver has done is show Fred Akshar’s pictures with the positive things he has done in the area. I think people should know the negative truth about our elected leaders.

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Owego’s school district’s taxes are going up. I thought when they snuck the capital budget through they guaranteed that we wouldn’t have taxes going up again. What is going on down at that school? Can somebody please tell us?

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I heard that Fox 40 news out of Binghamton was going to report one of many incidences about our beloved Senator Fred Akshar and then the Republican Party threatened to withdraw funding if Fox 40 reported the negative news.

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It was over a month ago; I saw in the news in Albany that the Democratic women saw the men were cheering with Governor Cuomo on the abortion bill, the one that has to do with babies being aborted right after giving birth. All I had was a flashback of the late 1930’s in Germany called “the final solution”. Governor Cuomo is not my governor anymore if he pushes this on married women and non-married women. What about the fathers of these children? So here we go, the final solution, next it will be the old.

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Thank you for delivering the paper to Nichols. Thank you very much. Much appreciated!

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So, the Me Too movement is on the role again. If this itch is complaining about Fred Akshar being too fresh with her while she was drunk? Come one, get my drift! If you’re too drunk how the hell are you going to remember any of that crap unless you ask for it, and I’m sure she did and other itch’s on that line too.

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Now stop and count the numbers with all the people who have retired, died, on welfare, been disabled or whatever, wouldn’t that count for so many thousands new jobs? Especially when they learned how to use the system, get out of working, it would put up a demand for new people to work wouldn’t it? And every day you hear of more and more people, especially the young, going on welfare. What the hell is wrong with this? I don’t understand. 

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In last week’s Pennysaver there was a letter about a person who wrote about the gun laws. The man who wrote those letters was saying they should have public executions for the people who commit mass murders at schools and shopping malls and so forth with guns. I think that would be a good idea. It would make anybody who wants to carry these things out think twice. 

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Owego Apalachin School District is raising taxes nearly 4 percent? What happened to the 2 percent tax cap they told us we had? 

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Looking for someone to do light yard work at our home. Our number is 687-1512.

National Political Viewpoints

To the individual who presumed to teach us all about the true meaning of the Second Amendment, allow me to educate you. The wording, in its entirety is, “A well regulated Militia (Army), being necessary to the security of a free State (the government), the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Commas and wording are not accidents. They are deliberate. The right of the people is expressly stated so that they might defend themselves against tyrants and usurpatory governments. Times have not changed. All one needs to do is look to Venezuela as but a recent example of a disarmed citizenry at the mercy of a dictator and a dictatorial government. Your so-called “sensible gun control measures” are a ruse for disarmament, total and complete. Your political leaders have told you as much. Biden – has long supported greater gun control measures, including an assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity magazines. Many others have the same position. The handgun you now own? That becomes an “assault weapon,” an amorphous term applicable to any firearm. Shotgun? Guess you’ve never seen the M1014 joint service combat shotgun, clearly an “assault weapon”. Every weapon you care to name is “war grade”. As for mental health – we used to lock these loons up, but the oh-so-compassionate liberal said, “Oh no! You can’t do that! They have rights!” As a final lesson to you – I have had one of my sons killed by an individual who obtained the weapon illicitly (stolen). It’s not the gun’s fault, but that of the individual wielding the tool. My position on firearms and the Second has not, and will not change. Ever.

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What a hoot! The Clintons, Hillary especially, wanted to go on a U.S. and Canada speaking tour. They were charging $2,000 per ticket, few takers. They lowered the ticket price to $899. Few takers. Tickets now go for about $2.00 each, few takers. Guess no one is interested in hearing Hillary whine about how the election was stolen from her.

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Many years ago Britain gifted America a bust of Winston Churchill. Churchill’s mother was American. Churchill was a great man but not perfect. More than anyone else he saved the world from socialism, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NAZI). In a fit of unrestrained petty-mindedness, Obama had the bust shipped back to Britain. Obama thought Churchill offended the father he never met. Any surprise he couldn’t buy an invite to the royal wedding. MAGA President Trump requested its return and now it is once again proudly displayed in the Oval Office. Thanks President Trump for wiping away the legacy of a petty little community organizer. 

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To the person who has nothing better to do then count Trump’s lies, name one politician that doesn’t lie. If you do, you’re lying yourself.  

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Next election, remember which party is trying to take away your Social Security and Medicare before you check the boxes on the ballot.

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The definition of a dictator is a person who trashes the judicial system, encourages the separation of powers, and accuses the media of being fake; everything that goes against our constitutional values.

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What do you think the odds would be if I refused to testify and was held in contempt; someone might come knocking at my door with handcuffs.

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The 2nd Amendment’s prefatory clause (A well regulated militia…) is not forgotten but is constantly misinterpreted. It announces a purpose but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause (the right of the people…) which is the important part. What is forgotten is that the “militia” at the time of the writing of the 2nd Amendment was the law abiding populous (i.e. The People).  The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right (of the people) to keep and bear arms. I suspect that even an automobile would “shock our founding fathers” so applying this comment to firearms is unfair at best. I have found that there is no such thing as “sensible gun control measures” and those that favor “gun control” DO want to take away ALL guns. Even people without mental health issues are not allowed to have an Uzi, as they are fully automatic firearms and highly regulated. Also, not all mental health issues are or should be a disqualification for having a firearm and be very careful you do not to violate “due process” per the 14th Amendment in deciding that disqualification. A waiting period (10 days or any length) is an infringement of the 2nd Amendment and is unnecessary due to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). If you want to curtail the misuse of guns by disturbed or violent individuals, fix the holes that exist in government agencies getting the information into the NICS database.

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There is 104 billion cubic feet of natural gas flared every year in the Permian Basin alone. Here is another quote regarding the amount of diesel used nationwide – “Each of these fleets – an estimated 500 approximately, spread across shale basins in the United States and Canada – use up over seven million gallons of diesel each year, supplied by 700,000 tanker truck loads which have to be transported to the often-remote shale basins, resulting in an average 70,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.” When will this madness end? From the article: “Electric Fracking Could Take Over the Permian”

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There is right and wrong. There is legal and illegal. Never can law prevent evildoers from doing evil. Dems, led by New York’s Nadler and Boss Cuomo are trying to find/make crimes to pin on Trump, family, and friends. Their evil pursuit amounts to the theft of taxpayer dollars. Consider how tyrannical Dems would be right now if Hillary had won. She, Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Lynch, et. al. would be sure they were off scot-free. Consider the abuse of justice by Jessie Smollet. His real crime was to incite riot, which may have gotten many killed. Consider Mark Zuckerburg’s Facebook censorship and his abuse of law for violating his right to be a liability free content provider rather than a content creator. He escapes scot-free. There are two standards of justice, one for Dems and one for everybody else. Had Hillary won they might have been concentrating the outspoken (hate speech by their definition) in camps, because they had confiscated all guns. School shootings are terrible events, but giving wannabee crooks and tyrants exclusivity of gun ownership is much more dangerous. 

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You gotta laugh at the frenzy the Socialist Democrats are in to keep the spotlight off Hillary, Obama, and the whole sordid mess that was the Obama “administration”. That spotlight is coming closer and WILL happen. Swamp gets drained then! Hope there is enough room in jail for the outcome.

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What a hoot! People are commenting here about President Trump adding to the national debt. Don’t remember hearing the same comments when “President” Obama added more to the national debt than all previous presidents combined. Why?

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Did you ever notice how anti-socialist farmers are always asking for federal aid?

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“Global emissions could be cut by a third if the richest 10 percent of humanity cut their use of energy to the same level as affluent, comfortable Europe. One prospective technique to scrub carbon from the atmosphere would cost $3 trillion a year, a colossal amount — but significantly less than the current level of subsidies paid out globally for fossil fuel, estimated at $5 trillion. Taken all in all, solutions are ‘obvious’ and ‘available.’ The only obstacle to implementing them is political will.” from a review of two new books on climate change: The Uninhabitable Earth [Life After Warming] by David Wallace-Wells and Losing Earth [A Climate History] by Nathaniel Rich

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Can you think of an emptier shirt than Presidential Wannabee Kristen Gillibrand? She couldn’t even get elected; as in New York, once a Dem is appointed it is a lifelong nesting as a professional politician. Boss Cuomo has given his sock puppet Attorney General Letitia James order to use the AG office to harass Trump family and friends. That is just like what they did in Stalinist Russia and today in Communist China. You can’t make enough laws to keep a crooked politician honest or moral. We all should be ashamed of ourselves. New Yorker’s are mean.

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The silly whining, complaining Socialists remind me of trying to play a game with a two to five year old. They constantly change the rules so they always win. Does this sound like the Democrats?

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Another tragic school shooting and yet Mr. Trump does not acknowledge the shocking incident. He’s off rallying, praising himself and playing to his base. When someone asked how to deter the immigrants, who Trump said they are coming in by the thousands, the audience member suggests shooting them. Mr. Trump’s response was that was only okay in the Pan Handle. This is such a poor specimen of a president. He continues to drag America to the gutter.

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Guess what New York? We don’t care about Donald Trump’s tax returns. This is really an issue? Look at Jeff Bezos; he paid nothing! The real issues in New York are taxes, no help from the state for local municipalities, villages, cities – high sewer cost, high water cost and nothing being repaired or updated in the state. 

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If Donald Trump was such a great businessman and the Times report shows he’s a consummate loser, why would no American banks lend him money? According to documents, when they heard the word Trump the door was closed. Is he a conman, is he still a conman?

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So President Trump’s taxes from 20 to 30 years ago have been released. Big deal! Those returns show he did nothing illegal and nothing any other smart businessperson would not have done. So I say to you, where are Pelosi and Schumer’s tax returns? Their returns will never be released. Such one sided attacks. The Democrats are greatly unhinged and they are desperate. They have nothing to run on and Trump is going to win in a landslide in 2020. Can’t wait!

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The definition of stupidity is the collusion delusion. 

Joe Biden is a joke. He’s been wrong on every foreign policy over the last three decades, and now he says the middle class is hurting. He is deliberately misleading the American people. Well the joke is on Joe. We’re smarter than he gives us credit for. Jokster Joe is the joke. Yeah, I’m voting for him. He needs to relax with the Clintons on their back porch with a cup of coffee and let Trump take care of the middle class. Trump is doing an excellent job!

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The stock market up 44.63 percent since the 2016 election. April jobs report is off the charts with 263,000 jobs created. Unemployment numbers are the lowest in five decades, 3.2 percent growth domestic product. Now I ask Biden, how is the middle class hurting? I believe Trump is waving that magic wand that Obama spoke of concerning the job loss. Just another show of how Biden and all the Democrats are so out of touch with the American people. Easy victory for Trump in 2020.

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This is a good one I think. I never said I was smart and it goes both ways, for men and women. I think even though Trump has family behind him, I think he really is like he said, in love with Putin. Look how he smiles, lights up and can’t say enough about that man. Now, how do you like that for a Saturday morning joke? It’s a perfect match, better than his wife, his kids and anyone he can kick aside. 

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Be careful you Liberals because with all the hate you’re harboring your faces are going to look like Pelosi, Feinstein and Schumer. Beware!

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Thank you Attorney General Barr for standing up to those Liberal liars and spitting out the truth right in their face. You are a great American! Thank you for doing that. Plead the end to the collusion delusion and I do mean collusion delusion. 

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Trump’s wonderful beautiful golfing trip to Mar-a-Lago cost us $69 million so far. It’s $3.4 million for each trip he takes. Such a sin! This money could be spent to help the poor and helping seniors with their prescriptions they can’t afford. Get the clown out of there! 

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Did anybody else watch Biden’s joke of a rally? All 600 people came to hear that man stumble over every word and sentence he said and I want him to be my president? I don’t think so. 

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It’s pretty obvious why Trump wants to discourage that Mueller report. Lots and lots of district attorneys and justice officials from both parties said he would be facing numerous charges if he weren’t president with what’s just been released. We don’t know what’s been released. Probably the worst information is being held by Trump’s hit man, Barr, you know the crony who backs Trump up one hundred percent who is supposed to be independent. What a joke these Republicans are. 

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Did any of you people notice, and you should have noticed definitely, Trump couldn’t even put Tiger Woods’ sash on straight around his neck with that medal. Check it out, that SOB cannot even put a sash on a man’s neck and do it right. How simple is that and how outrageously disgusting!

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I think that the tariff on Chinese goods should be increased a million percent. That’s right, one million percent! Maybe then people will stop buying Chinese garbage.

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Forget your own political affiliation to look at something from a truthful point of view. Aren’t you getting sick and tired of all the money Democrats have wasted because they don’t like Trump and they go to any extent to get rid of him. All this money that was spent on this Mueller investigation, which shouldn’t even have been started because you have, according to the constitution if we still have one and you believe in it, there is supposed to be a crime to start with. They didn’t have one to start with but they let them spend all this money, which would much better be spent on the border because the border is becoming a national crisis, not only for us, but also on the southern border of Mexico. People are coming in and the small towns are flooded with crime and the small towns can’t feed and water all these people. Isn’t it about time we sent a bunch of people that don’t like Trump to a re-education camp and give them a dose of reality. The reality is you lost, move on, and get over it! 

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The Marxist Democrat cult has done more to undermine the last election than any other entity including the Russians. Sleepy Joe Biden says, “Trump will forever and fundamentally change this country.” Well, I sure hope so. Bernie wants single payer universal healthcare from 2011 to 2014. Bernie’s home state, Vermont, had single payer “green mountain care”. So Bernie, how did that work out after doubling Vermont’s budget? Ever hear of Romney care in Massachusetts? These Socialist Marxist never learn. Remember, “You can keep you doctor and your health plan?” Not if you have Obamacare. Why did Biden’s son’s company receive sweetheart deals from the Ukraine and the Chinese? They received an over $2 billion line of credit within one year of Biden becoming vice president. No wonder Joe just said, “The Chinese are no threat to the U.S.” Joe should tell that to the U.S. companies the Chinese have destroyed. Go Trump! 

Is the New York Times report that Donald Trump never pays income taxes just more fake news or is the truth about this big loser conman finally coming out? 

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