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Has anybody heard about the New York State audit for the Town of Richford? It’s awful; hush-hush from the town board.
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A bat came into my home last night; it was 7:30, and still daylight. I don’t know how they get in. It seems like I get one or two each year; usually, it’s in August. What do you do? I had to sleep on my couch because I trapped it in my bedroom. How do you keep them out of your home? I guess you would have to know where they come in. They don’t fly high or low; they do both. They go wherever. It’s very stressful. I know one person broke his leg trying to get away from them.
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I’d like to thank everyone at Endless Mountain for being there at the end of the road for me and Blacky. They put the welfare of a suffering cat over their business model. That is something so rare these days.
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If Hochul wins in November, my dog and I are out of here. I cannot stay here and watch her and her “army of dems” totally destroy what is left of our beautiful state. I have lived here my entire life, along with seven generations before me, but I will not be able to watch New York State being put back in the hands of a bunch of total loons. Its demise will be inevitable.
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Solar complexes (they are commercial complexes, not “farms”) are being forced into our rural communities against the will of the people, local politicians, our zoning laws, our moratoriums, and our environmental laws. Our governor doesn’t care. If you vote for Hochul this November, you’ll be voting for another solar panel out your window, another piece of generational farmland gone, and more money to line her pockets, while your electric bill skyrockets. Her and her minions are destroying this state, and if she wins, there will be nothing left.
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I figured it out; Trump philosophy is this: if it ain’t broke, break it.
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The stock market is taking off like a rocket, and look at the prices for gas and food and housing. So all you people that got stocks and bonds, well, I’m happy for you. But what about the rest of us? We work hard, we pay taxes, and we get screwed.
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I was watching the History Channel, where Tom Hanks has this documentary about World War 2 and they were talking about how people were mesmerized by Adolph Hitler and looked at him as if he could do no wrong. Now there are people in this country that look at Trump the same way. He too, can do no wrong. Get it?
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Let me get this straight. The Readers’ Column mentioned that they are not crazy about getting rid of Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act insurance, and the like because of fraud. So let me get this straight. You’re all for those programs with the fraud? So, my question to you would be: what good are they? They’re not reaching the people that really need it, and the fraud is illegal, in case you did not know that.
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“We’re in a war.” “We’re not in a war.” “We’re in a war.” “We’re not in a war.” That’s what Trump keeps saying repeatedly. Look again: WE ARE IN A WAR, because of Trump and the Republicans who haven’t yet impeached him. WE ARE IN A WAR because they were voted into office. Do you really want to continue being in this war, or yet another war of Trump’s making? If not, do not vote Republican.
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America’s founding fathers were so repulsed by European titles of nobility, hereditary rank, and birthright that they wrote into the letter and spirit of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 banning titles of nobility, rank, and like. Only in America could our legal profession rebrand itself as nobility. John Doe, Esq. Esquire is a 15th century term for landed gentry, nobility, aristocracy, etc. Like in Orwell’s 1984 dictionary, the American Bar Association is rebranding itself as nobility. For congressmen and ambulance chasers, there is no nobility. We have CPAs, MDs, RNs, etc., and now America’s first self-anointed royalty.
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We just lost the television show, “60 Minutes.” Trump ate it. Billionaire Ellison censored it after taking over CBS. The show has been stripped of its journalists and its existence. Trump won’t stop there. They are squashing your voice, and they don’t care. That’s their plan.
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A recent study showed that crows have the intelligence of the average 7-year old; moreover, it showed that crows were smarter than 99.7% of Democrats. — Mama Gump
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A federal judge followed the rule of law that Congress passed, saying that the Kennedy Center was named to honor JFK. President Trump cannot rename it to honor himself. For this, Mr. Trump threatened the judge and his wife, implying he should be impeached. It is this authoritarianism that the Democrats are fighting against. They are not the Utopian Socialists that Mr. Shortino would have you believe. Mr. Trump and the 13 billionaires in his administration are the privileged elite he so rails against.
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Pseudo-intellectual letters to the editor are now as entertaining as this Pennysaver feature. More propaganda and spin than actual information. The writer last week telling us how lucky we all are might recall Mr. Trump recently said he didn’t care about the average citizen, Bill Winters claiming that AI is better than “lower value human capital,” or even reviewing Milton Friedman, who defines capitalism as only to make money for stockholders and considers workers as widgets (but that morally you owe the widgets something since they are getting screwed economically). Keep those letters coming!
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If we could get a handle on government wasteful spending and fraud in all areas, there could be more than sufficient funds set aside for QUALIFIED candidates who wish to run for President. There has to be someone in this vast land who is young, brilliant, honest, and unbiased who could turn this country around but just doesn’t have the ridiculous amount of money needed to run. If necessary, new laws regarding this should reflect this needed policy, as these times demand it, for the good of the country and its people.
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If a gun owner is blamed for not locking up a weapon, then why isn’t the justice system blamed for releasing a repeat offender? — Studebaker Hawk
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“And, really, what better way to pay for a single tank of gas than with a bill featuring the head of the man who made it cost that much?” — Jimmy Kimmel
Hey Mama Gump. Please go have a lie down.
Does NYSDEC know about this?
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has conditionally licensed an oral vaccine designed to limit the spread of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The vaccine is sprayed onto pellets and distributed in natural settings to be consumed by mice.
Lyme disease is the nation’s most common vectorborne disease, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 476,000 people are infected each year. Black-legged ticks that feed on blood from infected mice can than transmit the disease to people.
In its announcement, Memphis-based US Biologic said field trials by several groups showed a real-world impact and that the product meets all of the USDA’s conditional licensing requirements, including that it uniquely addresses an emergency condition.
The company said it will make the product available for residential settings and public spaces, such as parks, golf courses, and other recreational facilities. It added that it will work closely with federal and state health agencies, pest control management groups, and partners including the Global Lyme Alliance and the Lyme Disease Association.
The vaccine is called Borrelia Burgdorferi Bacterin. The product, called LymeShield, includes a device or “station” that holds and applies the pellets,
Why do you vote for Republicans?
fox was created to hide these facts from voters.
Reagan ended the “fairness doctrine” so it didn’t get modified to include cable TV media outlets. Now Carr wants to use the fairness doctrine? It no longer exists.
Let’s talk about job creation since Reagan.
*22.7 million jobs – Clinton/8
*16.6 million jobs – Biden/4
*16.3 million jobs – Reagan/8
*12.5 million jobs – Obama/8
*2.6 million jobs – HW Bush/4
*1.3 million jobs. – W Bush/8
* loss of 2.9 million jobs – trump/4
These are Bureau of Labor stats.
Yes, Obama turned the great Republican recession into the longest economic expansion ever.
Obama handed trump an economy in its 75th straight month of job growth and 54th straight month of GDP growth in 2017.
Biden led the strongest COVID recovery in the world.
Clinton took Reagan and HW recessions and gave America 4 balanced budgets in a row.
Trump’s 2018 tariffs lost farm and lobster markets.
Trump is bragging about China agreeing to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans.
China was buying 28 metric tons of soybeans under Biden.
1,078 farms went bankrupt in 18 and 19 combined.
Who could have known Trump’s 2025 tariffs would crash the global economy after his 2018 tariffs? I did. I told you several times leading up to the 2024 election.
China was not restricting rare earth metals under Biden. That was a result of Trump’s 2025 tariffs.
You laughed at me because you still use media outlets that paid Dominion voting systems millions of dollars for knowingly and maliciously lying about the 2020 election.
It doesn’t bother me to be laughed at. It bothers me that we all have an encyclopedia in our phone yet, you believed a person who lied every time he said “I had the best economy ever” Trump is still telling that lie.
Obama created 8.1M jobs in his last 3 years.
Trump created 6.6M jobs in his first 3 years.
Trump lost 2.9M jobs.
Obama added 12.5 jobs after inheriting the great Republican recession from W. Bush.
That “uniparty” lie. That’s to pawn off failed Republicans on the Dem party.
The same Christians put Reagan, HW, W. and trump in the Oval Office.
Even Jimmy Carter put up more jobs in his first 3 years than Trump’s first 3 years, in his first term.
Use the encyclopedia in your phone to fact check me.
Why do you vote Republican? Immigration reform?
Republicans have been crying about and blocking bipartisan immigration reform for 20 years, a generation, yet it’s House Republicans who’ve been obstructing bipartisan immigration reform bills since W. Bush in 2006.
That bipartisan immigration reform bill passed the Senate, 62-36. I’m not sure everyone realizes bipartisan means Republican and Democratic senators voted to pass the bill.
House Republicans had the House majority and didn’t allow a debate on a bill that passed the Senate 62-36 in 2006.
Jordan is one of the loudest Republicans on immigration reform.
Jordan and House Republicans blocked 2 different bipartisan immigration reform bills that passed the Senate. The first, 68-32 in 2013. House Republicans keep saying “it’s the pork in the bill”. Is the definition of “pork” different to Senate Republicans than it is to House Republicans?
It’s obstruction when the Senate keeps passing immigration reform bills but House Republicans keep blocking debate on the floor of the House of Representatives.
2024, Trump literally told Republicans not to pass the bipartisan immigration reform bill under Biden. “It’ll be better for the Democratic Party” that’s not verbatim but it’s Trump/Jordan 2024 obstruction.
Obama wanted to add 20k CBP agents and billions to border security funding.
Biden wanted to add thousands of asylum claim analysts and judges to expedite lawful asylum claims.
Trump hired gestapo to kidnap immigrants going through the legal immigration process.
Trump hired gestapo to call immigrants in his concentration camps “bodies”
Trump literally followed Hitler’s lead. Hitler sent Jewish people to Poland, Trump sent immigrants to prison camps in Africa and South America.
More immigrants are dying in Trump’s concentration camps than prior years!
Keep your “it’s the volume” if you can’t keep immigrants from dying, kidnap less immigrants going through the legal immigration process. Are we animals?
Who thinks they can fool God by pretending they don’t know trump is kidnapping immigrants going through the legal immigration process?
God gave us an encyclopedia in our phone.
God showed you the liars of the 2020 election. It was Trump, Republicans, fox, oan, newsmax and the right-wing podcasters who repeated fox lies.
Imagine, you tell St Peter, I didn’t know.
I’m confused about that.
I’m not good at proof reading. I’m used to being able to edit after posting a comment on social media. Usually small things.I forget to check if I added an M to a statistic.
I. E.. Obama didn’t create 12.5 jobs, it was 12.5M jobs while turning the great Republican recession into the longest economic expansion ever.
*75 straight months of job growth and 54 straight months of GDP growth. That’s the economy Trump was handed in 2017.
fox told maga to say “it’s the slowest recovery ever” under Obama.
A little fact, Clinton had to recover from Reagan and HW.
Obama had to recover from the great Republican recession of W. Bush.
Biden had to recover from Trump’s inadequate COVID-19 mitigation and tax cuts for the elite.
Biden led the strongest COVID recovery in the world.
The conservative magazine The Economist called Biden’s economy the envy of the world.
The same zionist Christians put Reagan, HW, W. and trump in the Oval Office. There’s no uni-party.
That’s a lie, the right-wing echo chamber created for election Day.
The leader of the right-wing echo chamber, fox is who convinced you, Republicans are better for the economy.
Republicans have crashed the economy every time they have the Oval Office since Reagan. That’s not my opinion, it’s the historical record.
Did the pennysaver ban me from the reader’s column? The June 7 reader’s column is the only one I’ve seen.
I saw Strawberry festival info but not a new reader’s column since this one.
That would be weird. A Christian leaning local reader’s column banning me for telling harsh truths about the Russianpublican Party of trumputin.
I make mistakes, I never lie. Trump makes a lot of mistakes then he blames Obama or Biden.
When power was deregulated, greeniacs would not let them bury and harden
the grid because they wanted everyone to use solar. But now the grid is
skanked and can’t support batteries, electric stoves and windmills, but they
want us to foot the bill for THEIR neglect. They all want to commune with
nature in forestry, but they are too lazy to clear the brush where vermin and
fires fester – they want to protect the “habitat” of borers, ticks,
mosquitoes, rattlers and of course rodents which spread disease to insects.
They think they work for the vermin they cohabit with and not the humans who
pay their salaries. Hormuz fertiliser hunger proves “organics” useless. Bed
bugs spread no disease but they eat roaches as Al Gore decries mammalian
flatulence. They put the cheapest trees in front of our houses to make us
spend all fall cleaning stinkard leaves that cause flooding and fires.
Ethanol additives rust our engines – bring back our clunkers. Kerteachulas
who spread such surreal foolishness now want to tax us up the wazoo to pay
for more varieties of crayons because they never bothered with serious
learning in their basket weaving urinurseries. Replace kerteachulas
with homeschooling robots.
So, now that there’s no defense for any of the Trump insanity, the pennysaver stops putting out the reader’s column?
Seems like you never cared about anything but your Christian nationalist agenda. That agenda stands 100% in contradiction to the United States Constitution. Read the Treaty of Tripoli.
This might have been better if there was never a lying reader’s column reinforcing faux spews putin network, fox.
Better late than never ?