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In the movies today we see the final result of ignorance in charge of stupidity with the story “The Interview.” Heaven help America.

Stupidity rules social media. If you don’t think so, check the movies. Sex and nudity has been teaching our youth the last 50 years. What’s your opinion? Speak up!

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For once the politicians are right when they called the public “stupid people.” All those “stupid people” voted them in office and they’re not even saying thank you.

We will never understand why the good people of Ferguson do not accept the fact that the young

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About Care thanks Intel, community during holidays Intel’s employees provided more than 150 wrapped Christmas presents to our homebound neighbors. For many of them, this was the only present they would receive over the holidays.

A local Girl Scout Troop 1661, About Care Board of Directors and our volunteers played elves and delivered the gifts. One woman stated that she hadn’t received a gift in years and was overwhelmed by the generosity of the Intel employees. Also, thank you to Without Walls Christian Church, which provided free holiday meals to those of our clients in need.

About Care’s mission is to deliver caring, compassionate support services using trained volunteers with special concern for the elderly and disabled homebound residents of Chandler and Gilbert. In the New Year, we would urge everyone in our community to try and dedicate a few hours a month volunteering. Not only will you reap the benefits of this gift, but you will impact the lives of others by your generosity.

Thank you again Intel employees!

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organization, serves the homebound elderly and disabled in Chandler and Gilbert. About Care’s mission is to deliver caring, compassionate support services using trained volunteers.

About Care was created because of the need to assist the elderly and disabled residents with services that enabled them to remain in their home, live with self-respect and dignity while encouraging independence. About Care’s free services help postpone the expense of long-term care. The majority of individuals served by About Care are economically disadvantaged elderly women.

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man was a bully, thief and a lawbreaker. It was OK to be that, but not OK for the law to try to arrest him? What happened to sanity in America? There is no common sense anywhere you look.

Please explain to me why no one in the news media has ever mentioned the fact that we have three of the most prejudiced and biased people in our government today and in the news media—President Obama, Al Sharpton and our wonderful, wonderful secretary of defense. I know this won’t be printed, but please, someone, get with it because these people ruined this country and turned the biased between whites and blacks into a civil war.

Did you notice the best of America’s youth can still march and pray at the same time, even in a snowy parade? No bomb-strapped terrorist slipped past America’s defense team. Did you thank a citizen on patrol, otherwise known as a cop, for your safety today? Are you paying attention?

There is one simple solution for all the problems with police violence and it’s this: Stop breaking the law, you dummies. Stop breaking the law. That’ll solve your problem. But that’s too simple for the public to understand.

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If all the children in school are being taught to fight off the bullies, what happened to the people who are allowing the bullies to take over all the movies? Stand up and fight, you idiots. You want to go to the movies, go to the movies. Never mind the bullies.

I have a Sound Off. I have a neighbor who has not gotten a license plate in almost five years.

She drives around with the little paper in her window and has never paid the amount to get her license like all of us.

They say there’s nothing they can do until she does something wrong on the street and they pull her over. You’d think there would be something in computers that they can keep on track with people who haven’t paid.

Just reading about the people who had gone to an ice cream social and a group did a Johnny Cash tribute...and people were leaving before it was over. Well, I encountered this last month while at a luncheon.

Granted, he wasn’t good—played guitar, sang and tried to be funny. Bless his heart; a person can’t be something you’re not.

But women left and he was singing. I didn’t care for him either, but in no way would I have left. I wrote an apology on see SOUND OFF page 28

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a napkin and gave it to him. At least I felt better. (He thanked me!) I honestly couldn’t believe these dumb women!

President Obama and the Democrats are trying to make themselves out to be like they’re really after helping these poor Mexicans and their children get a better life in America. The reason he wants to put all these people in citizenship is because 75 percent of them vote Democrat. That’s the only reason he’s doing it. He wants the vote.

President Obama and the Democrats are at it again.

Deceptiveness. They’re trying to make the American public feel the most important and interesting thing on the agenda with immigration is they want to help these poor people who came into this country illegally, their children came in illegally and he’s so concerned about their welfare? He’s concerned about the fact that he’s going to let 5 million people in this country to allow them to vote.

Seventy five percent of these people vote Democrat.

The latest TV news: Doctors are going back to making house calls again. Isn’t that amazing that the old ways are the better ways?

I have read about renters and their problems with landlords, but what about homeowners who have to live next to rental homes?

The house next door has been rented for five years and has had four renters—all bad (partying, playing loud TV and music, barking dogs, not picking up dog doo in the yard, weeds in the front yard, fliers laying in the yard, leaving garbage cans out for days after pickup). These renters are reducing the value of homeowners’ property! The leasing agents or property owners should take some responsibility for their renters!

Believe it or not, if you have an old car or an old system that is running in your house, and it needs replacement parts, you may be out of luck. Someone has bought up all the extra plumbing, auto and electrical repair parts. That’s the height of greed, to have a bidding war on leftover parts for running America. Sounds more like Congress than ever. It’s the new way of business.

What I would like to know is why can’t the states that need water get together with the states that have way too much now and make arrangements to harvest that snow because snow, when melted, is nothing but water. Texas has been in a longtime drought. Arizona’s lakes and rivers need

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water. California is depleting its water reserve because of drought. It seems to me that harvesting the snow would not only help states that need the water, but it would also decrease the threat of flooding in the states in the news.

to get at their supposed enemies. They were paranoid. By the way, for all of you great Republicans out there, Nixon was a Republican and arguably the worst president we’ve ever had in the history of our country.

It seems as if most everyone is upset about a lasting solution to education funding. Equality and justice for all students and teachers must be part of the solution. Florida and other states with fewer school districts, more students and higher grades after offer an excellent guide to our dysfunctional system. With only 67 districts, Florida literally has million more to invest into the classroom.

Where are the Republicans going to find all the money to fix America—roads and bridges and towns and people. It’s simple. Stop spending it on fixing other countries.

It should have been done 15 years ago, instead of going to a stupid war.

Have you ever stopped to think that the poor and the middle class work for wages? Have you ever stopped to ask, “Who pays the wages?” Think about what would happen if you bring down the wage payer! There would be no jobs to bring home wages!

The wage payer pays your salary, pays the government your with holdings, pays for insurance in case you get hurt on the job, may give you a uniform or other special clothing and, if large enough, would offer health insurance and a pension plan, in which they also pay. Business pays wages!

When business makes money, they hire more workers and everybody profits!

Just where did all those protesting Republicans’ ancestors come from around the world? How did they think they’re not lucky to be born here because their ancestors came here? How stupid can all these people be? It’s just unbelievable. They don’t remember their ancestors had to come here first for them to be where they are today. Why are they denying others the same rights, and thinking they’re always right and everyone else is wrong? Poor dumb, dumb, dumb people. Shame on you. Ungrateful to your ancestors. Think about it or else look for a brain somewhere under the bushes.

It’s hard to believe these Republicans are screaming for everybody to pay their fair taxes.

That includes you with all the money you’re hiding overseas in banks. You’re traitors, liars, crooks and double-talking politicians.

To the person who was surprised that the Obama administration is using the IRS to spy on people and do other harmful things to people.

You act as if this is the first time this has happened. Does anyone out there remember the Nixon administration?

They used every federal agency that they could to spy on and use corruption and any other dirty tricks that he could

President Barack Hussein Obama at least 22 times stated that he could not act alone to reform immigration policy. Yet he did it. He needs to be reminded this is the United States of America and he was elected president, who has one-third of the power. It’s his job to enforce the laws, not to make the laws. He is acting like a dictator and he needs to be stopped.

Grandma said that from the beginning of recorded time, common sense died when one group of people enslaved others. In America today, common sense died when one group of people built a memorial to a bully boy who stole property, abused the owner, defied the law, fought the policy and ran away and died as any coward might who oversteps the rules of a peaceful society.

It’s interesting only one TV station is live broadcasting history being made tonight in Ferguson, Missouri. All the other commercial managers are waiting for the first collection of pre-paid advertisement profits without interruption. What does that tell citizens about no longer having free press? Now the nuts will be turned lose and start a riot.

Michael Brown was no angel. He was a thug. He had marijuana in his system, robbed a store and assaulted a clerk. He was responsible for his own death by attacking a policeman.

Where’s the outrage when the white policeman is killed by a black? There just isn’t any.

The snowbirds are back and the Sun Cities will once again look like South Phoenix. Do they have any goals in life besides buying and selling junk at odious, trash, socalled garage sales?

Ferguson is still the biggest issue on television. It’s the

only thing they’re looking at? What did the old newspaperman used to say? If it doesn’t sell newspapers, don’t print it. It’s not freedom of the press. It’s freedom of the stupid who put it in the press.

The most hard-working, underpaid Americans are tired of the complaining illegals and others who are unhappy. They’re at our borders and freebie lines. If they don’t like the country they were born in, then they won’t work to improve it. Go back to your own country.

What kind of judges do we have here in Arizona? One is conducting a “circus” with this Jodi killer allowing her to manipulate the system and costing millions of taxpayer dollars. The judge should be tossed in a cell with Jodi and the other mother that is not ever going to set up trust funds for her kids. She is laughing at the system on her shopping trips. She, and the judge on her case, should all be in one cell.

I encourage everyone who enters a contest to read the rules first and then decide if the taxes are worth it. The other day I saw a local contest for a trip to California. Want to know what the prize was valued at? $9,000! And it wasn’t even that great of a trip. You shouldn’t even be taxed on a trip, but that is the U.S. Government for you! If you find 50 cents on the ground they will want their cut. So please make sure that whatever contest you are entering is worth it since you’ll be getting a 1099 in the mail come January.

If the new ruling crowd of Tempe does not preserve the oldest treasure on First and Mill, then it deserves the next 100-year flood that totally destroys the place. Shame on Monti’s, selling out for the millions. You crooks should preserve history. You, you’re a bum.

Officer Darren Wilson, who was doing his job and who was cleared by the grand jury, has resigned and will not get one penny severance pay.

Meanwhile, Michael Brown’s siblings will get fully paid college tuitions. Don’t tell me crime doesn’t pay.

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