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August 5, 2008

Readers' voice

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If they are willing to help the people that are in foreclosure, why can't the people who rent be helped too? I am about ready to get evicted because of lack of work, cutting hours and the cost of gas. If you are going to help one, you need to help the other too.

Who says the St. Albans beautification project is working? Have you ever walked down Kanawha Terrace? You have to walk out in the street because the sidewalks are littered with overbrush and overhang and the sidewalks are horrible. You have to go out of city limits to take a walk.

I don't feel the least bit sorry for smokers losing rights. A day doesn't go by that I don't see at least one smoker throwing a cigarette butt out the car window. I've watched policemen do it. That's called littering. That's illegal. Lawbreakers have no rights.

The CSX ditch line from Rand to Belle is full of water and not draining at all. This is promoting mosquitoes. Who will make them fix this?

I think that as big as CAMC Memorial and General are that the hospital would put out maps for each floor to the various departments that you are trying to find. It would be a great asset.

It is not the police officers' job to get those children off the four-wheelers up Sugar Creek. It is the job of their lazy parents to do that. Where are they?

Somebody commented about the Republicans and their wealth and greed. That complaint doesn't hold water anymore. Have you looked at the wealth of Rockefeller, Kerry, Pelosi, Clinton, Gore and Edwards? There's money on both sides. Big difference is Democrats want to use your tax dollars to support their causes.

I am prejudiced, a fact that I am not particularly proud or ashamed of. I believe every one of us is prejudiced in one way or another. I just hope when people vote in November that prejudice is not the reason if they vote against Barack Obama. Please vote on the issues. Your very livelihood may depend on it.

For months John McCain slammed Obama publicly for not taking a foreign trip and for lacking the political skills and experience that a commander in chief needs. Now that Obama is taking that trip and is having monumental success abroad, McCain is slamming him for taking the trip. Sounds like a sore loser to me.

My daughter lives in Myrtle Beach and she just recently purchased a Mini Cooper automobile. When she drove home to Charleston, W.Va., the amount of gas was only $40 for a one-way trip.

Why can't the widows who get Social Security from husbands get a stimulus check?

To those who question Obama's stance in everyone learning Spanish, if you ever leave our beautiful state of West Virginia and visit states like Florida, North and South Carolina, Texas, Arizona and several more you might wish you did know Spanish. He is just looking out for all of us.

I think the idea of making putt-putt golf accessible to wheelchairs is ludicrous. Other people have rights also and just because you are in a wheelchair you have no right to take their rights away from them. I have been in a wheelchair for four years and I don't have to begrudge anyone that is ambulatory their rights. Think about it.

For the man that has been arrested 12 times for DUI, he should be permanently put behind bars. This gentleman is willfully putting himself on the highway and endangering everybody. He is a menace to society and should be put away.

The person who said CAMC did not give good care in their hospitals and hopes they never have insurance, you should be ashamed of yourself. My fiancée had ovarian cancer a month ago and the staff on Floor 3 at Women's and Children's hospital did a fantastic job, the best job I have seen in 50 years.

I would like to know when the state of West Virginia is going to do something about the landslide on Pine Terrace in Cross Lanes that is closing off the creek; and a fire truck can't even get up the hollow to the houses that are up there.

The CSX ditch line from Rand to Belle is full of water and not draining at all. This is promoting mosquitoes. Who will make them fix this?

I think that as big as CAMC Memorial and General are that the hospital would put out maps for each floor to the various departments that you are trying to find. It would be a great asset.

It is not the police officers' job to get those children off the four-wheelers up Sugar Creek. It is the job of their lazy parents to do that. Where are they?

My daughter lives in Myrtle Beach and she just recently purchased a Mini Cooper automobile. When she drove home to Charleston, W.Va., the amount of gas was only $40 for a one-way trip.

Why can't the widows who get Social Security from husbands get a stimulus check?

I can't believe that John McCain was on CNN news telling people how to catch bin Laden. Where has the man been since 2001? Why hasn't he spoken up before?

To the person who said these men and women need to be home with their families and not in bars and video parlors gambling, a lot of the people who come in come in with their husbands and wives and there are a lot of single people who go so they can have the enjoyment of other people's company.

I have the solution to the problem of traffic at Lucado Road. Take the stupid, unnecessary light on Corridor G at the Midway/Alum Creek exit and move it to Lucado Road. It would make much more sense there.

A word of caution to businesses that have kegs for rental, there are some individuals using a false ID and in return selling your product to obtain more profit at scrap yards.

Harry Truman said the Republican Party either corrupts or expels its liberals. John McCain has been corrupted by Republican power brokers.

What is the deal with the city of Huntington? Every time I turn on the news I see about a shooting down there.

I live in London and I was just wondering if anyone else from the Pratt water district was getting a foul smell from their water pipes.

To the person that had a neighbor that walked their dog and let it mess in their yard, what worked for me is I got to picking it up, putting it in a plastic bag and put it in their yard. Pretty soon I didn't see any more. It will work.

Why doesn't West Virginia split the state in half and have two different area codes. If they need to check it then check with Maryland. It works great. Then everybody is not confused on what they should dial.

Some Kanawha County teachers have difficulty obtaining substitutes when they need to be off from work. Wake up. You aren't respectful to those replacements. That is why you have difficulty obtaining replacements.

It's true that John McCain was educated at the U.S. Naval Academy. He graduated at the bottom of his class. He partied his way through school and would probably have been expelled if not for the fact that his father was an admiral. We don't need another idiot in the White House. That's one of the reasons I'm voting for Barack Obama.

Responding to the person that stated the Bible says "Thou shall not kill," were the Crusades justifiable? How about the Inquisition? All in the name of the Christ.

I don't need guns to protect me and my family. God protects us.

Venezuela offers free health care and free education. The people elect their government. Elections are not rigged, as in the U.S. Venezuela has several TV stations that are anti-Chavez. President Chavez does not censor these media outlets. Our media is censored. Venezuela sells discounted heating oil to needy Northeasterners. Chevron does not.

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Posted By: Sam Talbert (12:00am 08-07-2008)

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Our Governor Joe Manchin is not and honorable person.

Posted By: w.w.wheels (1:14am 08-07-2008)

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Arch is a convicted felon;what does that say about his character??

Posted By: Democrat (8:44pm 08-06-2008)

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iceman-----if it makes you feel good to say, the things you say,am glad for you.But I hate to bust your bubble,am 64 and I learned on my own who I should vote for and how I feel.I did make a mistake thru. I can't vote the devil,cause he is a R. By the way did see the article the other day about your be loved Arch Moore and what he did,of course not.

Posted By: iceman (12:40am 08-06-2008)

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Democrat, you and people like you are the reason West Virginia is such a corrupt backwards mess with statements like "I'd vote for the devil before I'd vote for a R." You keep loyally "pulling the rooster's tail," putting the same self-interested clowns back in office year after year, probably because your granddaddy or some union boss told you fifty years ago "Democrats is for the workin' man, Republicans is for the rich man." Because of people like you, we are left with an almost unaccountable state goverment, since most elected officials are free to be as incompetent and crooked as possible without ending up in Federal prison as long as they have that "D" behind their names. And just so you understand, my problem is not with voters who look at the candidates and the issues and sincerely prefer the Democrat; my problem is with the mindless straight ticket voters who vote how they're told or vote based on child-like conceptions of good versus evil, good guys versus bad guys, etc.

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