“On Monday, 7/11, you had a full-page ad in there by the U.S. Citizens Association. To me, that was stupid and crazy, and insulting to my intelligence. I was very disappointed.”
— Hagerstown
“It’s bad manners to read over someone’s shoulders when they are using an e-reader in a WiFi cafe.”
— Hagerstown
“I’d like to thank the Civitan organization for their nice picnic held at the Red Men’s pavilion on Saturday afternoon; also, Red Men’s part, and also thank the DJ who was deejaying. Everyone had a really great time.”
— Hagerstown
“I see that the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland has been to the Maryland state election board, to ask that the legalities of online system petitioning that Del. Neil Parrott’s utilized be examined, because it thinks it may be susceptible to fraud. Well, how about the fraud from the illegals? This ACLU I certainly hope doesn’t get any taxpayers’ money.”
— Hagerstown
“You know, I’m always watching CNN, and they’re talking about cutting the budget, cutting the budget, and the first thing they start talking about is Social Security and Medicare. I just went on Medicare this month. Before that I had Tri-Care, because I’m a retired military person, right? Well, if they’re going to cut something, why take away from the people who have worked all their life? Take away from welfare, people who have never worked a day in their life.”
— Williamsport
“My husband and I were shocked and appalled by the headlines on Saturday’s paper. It should have read ‘First lady Betty Ford dies,’ instead of referring to her addiction. It would be like saying ‘Hillary Clinton, once cheated by her husband, dies.’ I think that Betty Ford deserved more respect than what was given by this newspaper.”
— Cascade
“When we were immigrants, we drove the American Indians off of their lands, we brought over Africans and enslaved them, we stole most of the southwest USA from Mexico, and now we want to go after the youth of illegal immigrants, who probably have nothing to do with being illegal at all. It sounds like pure Caucasian racism to me.”
— Hagerstown
“How much money is the federal government spending to regulate human behavior and free choice? Like making us buy certain light bulbs, the war on sugar, fat and fast food, gasoline consumption, energy usage, and the list goes on. Maybe they could cut this out of the budget.”
— Hagerstown
“I am not a rocket scientist or a college graduate, but I am aware of one thing: our problems began in our country, with unemployment and whatnot, when we began to outsource jobs and let banks and Wall Street fix the books. Ten percent of the people own 80 percent of the stock. As in the days of old and the robber barons, the government will have to again control big business. Look at it this way, if we are in a recession and unemployment is high, why is food, gasoline, taxes and the general cost of living going up? Because business is good and the American people are being cut out of the system.”
— Hagerstown
“I haven’t heard any rumors about Sarah Palin misquoting Paul Revere. I do recall Biden telling Katie Couric FDR kept the Americans informed ... by coming on TV in 1929, said he recalls it well. Biden was born in 1942. FDR was not our president, and we had no TV in ‘29, nor ‘42. President Obama claims he’s been to all 57 states. Pelosi said we need to use more fossil fuel, stop drilling oil in U.S. to keep the air clean.”
— Hagerstown
“I normally don’t want to be involved with the kooks and loons who write in to Mail Call on a daily basis, but then I saw the full-page ad for the U.S. Citizens Association on 7/11. It is clear where the priorities of The Herald-Mail lie, when you run biased ads disguised as news stories on a full page of the paper. I understand it is a business and these are hard times, but as a journalistic entity, does it not serve The Herald-Mail to be unbiased? It’s not the same as advertising for vacuum cleaners, and it reflects poorly — liberal or conservative.”
— Sharpsburg
“I’m enjoying the Little League coverage in the local newspaper a lot more this year than what I did last year. Last year they only showed pictures of two of the same players, almost every time a picture was submitted. It was the same people, over and over again. It wasn’t being fair to all the other kids. This year there’s much more fairness, many more kids being shown in the newspaper. I’m enjoying it much more.”
— Hagerstown
“This is on property taxes in Washington County. All you people out there who own homes in Washington County, we need to get with the Tea Party people, and we need to protest down at City Hall, when the county commissioners — or the courthouse, when the Washington County Commissioners have their meeting. We need about 500 people down there to block the streets and everything and protest these ... because when your assessments go down $50,000, $90,000 and your property taxes go up, that’s a bunch of fees. We need to get rid of all of them, I don’t care who it is.”
— Hagerstown
“Hey, I have a great idea. If some of these — or all of these millionaires and billionaires that we have in this country would treat this country as a charity, and take some of the money that they give to charity and give it to the U.S. to pay off this debt, wouldn’t that be great? But they won’t.”
— Falling Waters, W.Va.
