“It’s nice to see Hagerstown baseball has a new coaching staff. Change is good. Go Rebels.”
— Hagerstown
“The mail delivery is beginning to be ridiculous in Halfway. We used to get our mail around noon and now if we’re lucky, we get it around 5 o’clock. The coupons that are sent out ... they’re always out of date by the time we get them.”
— Halfway
“It’s the holiday season. Watch the crime go crazy!”
— Hagerstown
“Heading east on 70, Sunday morning about 10 o’clock, everybody’s flying like they’re crazy. When I say flying, I mean everybody, because I’m doing 70 and they’re passing me like I’m sitting still. And I saw a state trooper off the side of the road, so I guess it doesn’t matter if you run 70, 80, long as you are not causing a wreck. Makes sense to me, I guess. Go for it.”
— Hancock
“I’m commenting on the Halfway person, on the trick-or-treating. Trick-or-treating is actually for children. It’s the parents who are greedy. You can’t take it out on the children because of what the parents do.”
— Halfway
“I’m calling in response to the person complaining about the state police barracks, and I want them to consider possibly all the big banks that are being built and the fancy buildings that are being built to house the banks. And then no one complains about that, but the cost of banking is going up, the costs of checks have gone up, the cost of doing business in the bank, period. I think you just need to think about other things and how the price is going up, with everything being so ridiculous in the way they build, but not just pick on the state police barracks, which has a good purpose.”
— Martinsburg, W.Va.
“I’m watching TV. This is on the oil pipeline Canada wants to build down through the U.S. to Texas. I see on TV there’s 8,000 young kids out there protesting the pipeline to come down through here because they’re scared it’s going to hurt the underground water. You know something, that’s the trouble with this country, these young kids don’t know what they’re talking about in the first place, and that’s the reason why this country’s (messed) up, because it’s got a bunch of rich people out here, bunch of rich parents brainwashing, these colleges brainwash them and everything, and the poor people are suffering; $3.80 for heating oil is ridiculous in this country.”
— Hagerstown
“Is it true they’re canceling Thanksgiving this year? I hear Christmas movies are on TV already. The stores are already celebrating Christmas. They’re trying to get everybody in the Christmas spirit, but this is way too early. By the time December comes, everybody’s going to be out of the spirit. They’re going to be burned out. They should just change Christmas to Nov. 1, since everybody’s on a big high to jump into it right away. All it is is commercialized anyway.”
— Berkeley Springs
“Canning and jarring, one and the same, too, related to preserving.”
— Rohrersville
“Well, I guess you see where Gov. O’Malley said that Marylanders can afford his tax increases. When are you Marylanders going to get your belly full of this man, and these people in Annapolis? It’s about time we put a stop to it. Let’s start next year in 2012 by sending President Obama home and Ben Cardin home.”
— Hagerstown
“I’m calling to see if anybody knows if cold cereal’s good for you. You never hear anything about whether it is. You hear about the oatmeal and the cream of wheat, the hot cereals are good for you, but you never hear anything about the cold cereal. So I’d like to know if anyone has any answers.”
— Hagerstown
“What commission approved that hideous water tower in the easterly view shed of Antietam battlefield? Where were the preservationists when it was approved? What a terrible legacy for future visitors for this historic and sacred area.”
— Hagerstown
“Seniors aren’t used to fancy. They just need adequate. All the money being spent for that expensive building should be used to help seniors in other ways, or for several smaller low-cost centers, possibly in existing empty buildings available now, not several years from now. Commissioners, listen to the people who elected you.”
— Hagerstown
“This call is to the Williamsport caller who claims he’s a great Ravens fan. No, I am a great Ravens fan. I can’t believe you want Joe Flacco to get hurt so somebody can come in to win the Super Bowl. We don’t have that guy to come in to win the Super Bowl. Joe Flacco’s won more games in three years than any other quarterback in history, and the guys you mentioned, all of them came in with great offenses, and Joe Flacco has inexperienced receivers. Why don’t you learn something about the game, instead of complaining about Joe Flacco?”
— Hagerstown
“I went to fill an application out, and it wanted to know my credit score, what do I do on the weekends. What does this have to do with getting a job? I’m just there to apply for a job.”
— West Virginia
“I see why the lawmakers are trying to raise the gas tax. Last week I saw a cop driving a Lincoln Navigator. I find it ridiculous a cop would need a $60,000 SUV that gets about 17 mpg and costs over $100 to fill the tank. They should take that money to build more jails because the price of gas is destroying this country. People are broke and the crime rate is going to continue to climb because people are struggling to pay their bills.”
— Hagerstown
“I think it was absolutely wonderful to have one day to trick or treat, for the whole county, basically. A few strayed away, but basically it was all one day, and that made it real easy for everybody in the county to know when it was, and not have to worry where the one line began for one town and where another one ended and all that stuff. So keep it up. One day for the whole county, and let us know ahead of time.”
— Williamsport
“I’m watching C-SPAN, where they’re trying to find out where this $52 million went, that was given to a company already in bankruptcy procedures. I don’t understand why the Democrats don’t want to find out what’s going on. It took eight months, and they still can’t get what they want from them. Something is rotten in Denmark, and the Democratic party is killing us.”
— Hagerstown
“Saw the Republican rant the other day, said that us Democrats are cowards. That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”
— Hagerstown
