"I think that this country had better wake up and see what's going on." - Hagerstown

"This is to the caller who was complaining about us people in Pennsylvania and West Virginia who come into Maryland and work. How would you feel if we didn't come over and shop in your malls and outlets and eat in your restaurants. That might take away a few jobs don't you think. You might want to think about that." - Greencastle, Pa.

"I really hope that they don't tear down the Washington County Hospital building. It's still a very, very nice building and what a wonderful place it would make for our veterans. They could have everything right there that our veterans need. What a great service this would be to them and it would be so convenient for so many of them. Please think about it and don't tear the hospital down without thinking about our veterans." - Hagerstown

"I just saw Michael Jackson's 'This is It' and it was brilliant. It was fantastic. Love him or hate him - if you would see this you would agree. He did have talent and his dancers were incredible. It's just like his song - Gone too Soon." - Williamsport

"I read in Sunday's paper about the old hospital. Why doesn't the county or city considering making it a place for the elderly. It would make a wonderful place for them." - Hagerstown

"I was just wondering if anyone noticed how many taxpayer dollars were wasted during the Mummers Parade with the overwhelming number of fire trucks, ambulance, police cars, citizen on patrol cars and then all the man hours put in just for a parade.” - Hagerstown

"I'm watching C-SPAN this morning. I see Sen. Ted Kaufman is talking about building plants in Delaware. He didn't tell you that union employees, when they get laid off, they get their full benefits, 95 percent of their pay. They're off up to one year. That the retirees get 80 percent when they retire. Wonder nobody can understand why General Motors and Chrysler are not having any money to run their businesses. They got it all going out to pay for different things that don't amount to ahything." - Hagerstown

"This is to the comment made from Hancock, where their alarm clock goes off, and about the people on welfare. There ... there is no welfare any more. You can't get money from the government. All you can get is food stamps. So why don't the fathers out there pay their child support, and maybe we wouldn't have to worry about getting food stamps, either?" - Hagerstown

"I cannot believe that Obama used a dead soldier as a photo op, going to Dover, Delaware, in the middle of the night. He did that when the dead soldiers came back from Afghanistan. But yet George W. Bush used to go all the time, without any cameras at all." - Boonsboro

"I just was reading Thursday's paper, The Herald-Mail, and it was saying about our legislators donating their money back. I'd just like to comment on the scale they used. I mean, come on, let's get real, people. If we're gonna donate our money back, let's do it on a real pay scale, not one that's subsidized or whatever." - Maugansville

"Years back, I listened to Rush Limbaugh occasionally on the radio, but the last time I ever tuned in to listen to him was the day when President Clinton was elected president, and the man said that he thought Chelsea was the homeliest child that ever lived in the White House. And then his mother called and reminded him about Margaret Truman." - Hagerstown

"Please, board of county commissioners, reconsider your decision on the advance life support personnel. They are desperately needed in this county. All you have to do is check to see how many times the EMS companies are unable to respond, or respond late. We need these individuals now." - Hagerstown

"I'm watching The History Channel, and they're talking about Revelations, and the catastrophes that are supposed to happen at the end of time, and I fully believe in my heart that it's already happening, and it started with Obama." - Falling Waters, W.Va.

"Please, officials of Hagerstown, whoever has the authority, don't consider a halfway house. What are you thinking? We're just now starting to feel safe again, walking through the streets. Let the prisons send their prisoners back to where they belong when they're released. They don't belong in Hagerstown." - Boonsboro

"I would like to know what makes 40-, 50-, 60-year-old women think it's OK to grocery shop in their pajamas. It's disgusting. Please get dressed." - Maryland

"This is about health care civility. I find it hard to believe that a dozen people come from Canada to the Hagerstown, Md., area for medical treatment. Without insurance, it would cost them plenty. In Canada, they have no out-of-pocket money. Doesn't cost them anything." - Hagerstown

"To the voters of Washington County: Mr. Aleshire, we think Mr. Hershey is doing a fine job. If you think he's not, then maybe you should step down from your job. You try to run the city hall and the county commissioners. How about doing your job, like Mr. Hershey has? Mr. Hershey's done a fine job." - Hagerstown

"This is about the trick-or-treat night. I wish all towns would get together, do it on the same night. It just creates a problem, with everybody transporting their kids to other little towns. And I think it's a bad decision for Hagerstown to have it on a Friday night. There's just more traffic, and you hurt businesses." - Smithsburg

"I heard a good one: It's not called gossip anymore; it's RLS - restless lip syndrome." - Hagerstown

"A new problem has been created by lowering the speed limit around the YMCA. Now people pulling out of the development and the YMCA feel safer by pulling out without stopping." - Hagerstown

"Why is it at places where you work, you can't be Christian and celebrate a holiday and show that you're a Christian person, but say, on Halloween, you can have dress-up and people in witches' and evil costumes and celebrate Halloween, but why is Christianity looked upon with a frown? You know, if someone does celebrate holidays and so and doesn't press it on anyone else, that should be allowed, too, in the workplace." - Hagerstown

"To the caller from Mercersburg who believes that all Obama wants is to become is a celebrity: I guess the caller didn't notice President Obama visiting the people at, in New Orleans who suffer from Katrina. And I guess he recently hasn't seen the president standing there alongside our comrades, saluting our foreign heroes in Delaware - because Bush didn't, and this caller is listening to Fox News too much." - Hagerstown

"I'd just like to say hats off to the caller from Mercersburg, Pa. You couldn't have hit it more right with the Obamas. All they're interested in doing is being a celebrity, and as for that lady by his side who is supposed to be the First Lady, she is no more a First Lady than I am. They are a disgrace to the White House." - Boonsboro

"The next time one of you Fox News Tea Bagger hatemongers tells me that they think the president of the U.S. should be assassinated, I'm going to write down your tag number and call the U.S. Secret Service, and then see what kind of a day you have. That kind of hatred is uncalled for, no matter your political persuasion." - Hagerstown

"I see where someone wants another parking garage or deck downtown. I certainly hope the government doesn't spend any of our money on another deck, because the other two decks are never full, except for special occasions." - Hagerstown

"Residents of Washington County, are you aware that the Washington County government has 236 county government vehicles, of which most of them are used to transport employees back and forth to their home at night? I think it's about time the citizens of Washington County stop all these county government vehicles from going home, and make the county government sell at least half of those cars." - Washington County

"Could you repeat that ad you have in about 'Please keep your cats at home and not let them loose,' and just put 'from Smithsburg' and change it from Fairway to Smithsburg?" - Smithsburg

"I'd just like to say '2012: Change I can believe in.'" - Halfway

"I understand that the individuals housed at the Washington County Detention Center have committed crimes and that's why they're there, but they're also human beings. For two weeks they have not been able to shop for food or toiletries at the commissary, due to a staff illness and there's no backup plan there at the detention center. The phone system has been out twice in the last week, and the one section of the detention center has not had any hot water for three days, and it is yet to be fixed. Like I said, they're human beings also, and they should at least have access to food and toiletries, and hot water." - Hagerstown