TalkBack for Nov. 2 11/1/2009 11:14 PM Water line breaks
We at Cedar Creek have had far too many water line breaks. When is New Ellenton going to replace them all? They were substandard in the first place.
Unemployment
All of the Mexicans in this area have the construction work cut down. Locals who have lived here their whole lives can't get jobs. They get free food stamps and welfare and are provided with translators.
Deadbeat dads
Deadbeats dads are being released early for good behavior. They haven't paid a penny to support their kids. Instead of taking care of their kids, we are taking care of them. Why lock them up if they're not made to pay?
Mail service
Why can't UPS take over the mail service? They can get a package to Asia in the same time it takes to get a letter across town.
Eyesore
How long do Laurel Woods residents have to look at a rusty pickup beside someone's house?
Watching kids
Please supervise your children when you go shopping. They could be snatched while you're not watching. It only takes a second for them to be taken.
Fox News
If Obama and his gang manage to shut down Fox News, the country will never know how crooked and corrupt the government really is.
Credit cards
Now the credit cards are having Obama Change.
AARP
The AARP was created to sell insurance to seniors not to take care of them.
Kudos
I enjoyed the Saturday edition of the paper. It was by far one of the best. It had many pictures and broad coverage.
Social Security
I've been getting Social Security since 1991, and I've never gotten a raise. Don't blame the president for all of this mess.
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Comment Title: No, you must be a republican
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushvideos/youtube/bushfoolme.htm
Posted by: On: 11/4/2009
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Fool me once "shame on me" fool me twice, "I must be a democrat"
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: Bruce
Do some historical research, every race has at one point in history been enslaved. It's all about picking yourself up and moving on with your life, or heritage. You're telling me that a black person has to blame something that happened over a hundred years ago for their own failures? Quit whining and complaining about something that never happened to you and do something with your life. Encourage others to do something with their lives, instead of burning bridges and creating more walls. And I'm sure you know that blacks (the REAL Africans) sold their own people into slavery. Enslaving any race is not justified, but maybe blacks should thank their own ancestors along with southern whities.. all of whom are long dead, so get over it.
Posted by: Ang On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: "Mexicans"
The so called Mexicans who do the construction that you soo desire to do are getting paid very little. The hispanics are doing the hard labor work that MOST americans wouldn't do anyways which is why the job was open in the first place. I am a full blooded american but can tell you from experience that most hispanics will work circles around most of the unemployed americans. Please note that I said most because I know there are some who are unemployed and would be hard workers but just can't get a break..but once again MOST are because they don't want to work.
Posted by: Bruce On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title:
Yes we will end up in the same place, side by side in a graveyard, rotting and decaying, becoming eventually the microorganisms we originally came from. Hopefully to evolve into something better than we all are right now the next time around..... And I really don't much care for apples Thank You...
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: Bruce
I have given you the right to express yourself. Along with all my Brothers in Arms in the Military. A real American, Mexican-American, what ever you want to call me. I have one country the USA, and I ain't going no where until I see my maker, and when I do, I will ask for you and give you a big hug. I will rub the fact in your face that after all your bulls--- we ended up in the same place for eternity. How about them apples.
Posted by: Bruce On: 11/2/2009
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It could be dumb ass, stupid ass, crazy ass, or even just plain ass, but they all fit you neighbor.
Posted by: Bruce On: 11/2/2009
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I would say the fact that the blacks were brought to America under bondage and forced into slavery, then when no longer useful cast aside to rot with no rights for a hundred years earned the right to hyphenate their names any way they want.
Posted by: Bruce On: 11/2/2009
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If i were drunk that would be fine,but the mental retardation you suffer is forever.
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title:
try the local mexican restauraunts. Why do they run 2 cash registers on the one at the northside of town?
Posted by: next door neighbor On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: One more time now
Mama lady, the word is DUMB@ss....correct English spelling please if you are going to name call. And just so we are clear....what is your point again?????!!!!! Tee Hee :> We "Just Americans" want to be sure we do not call you the wrong title!!
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: Bruce
Why would a black person be offended at being called an American? They are American just as much as I am. Unless they prefer to be called "African American", but that's just silly.. I don't call myself "German-Dutch-Swedish-Scottish-Irish-Welsh-Native-American-American". Unless I emigrated from Sweden, or Scotland, or Ireland, etc, then I'm simply an American. I'm not offended that people don't call me by my true heritage. I'm an American, anyone living here is an American (unless you emigrated, then you have the right to have a hyphen in your heritage).
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: Bruce
Bruce you must be loose on the Goose. You sound like you have a drinking problem. Drunk on-line should be a crime.
Posted by: Bruce On: 11/2/2009
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Again, simply being called an American should not be offensive to any culture or race. (Unless you are Latino, Native American or Black)
Posted by: Mamasita On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: DUMD@SS
I'll say it again, not all hispanics are MEXICANS!!!!
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: tell us again...what is your point!
Poor Mama lady........she wants to educate and denigrate at the same time. And all because she wants us to know what? That SHE is not of Mexican lineage?? Got it. So what?? Again, simply being called an American should not be offensive to any culture or race. It does not take on a hidden agenda of subtracting someone's roots. I guess if we all start hyphenating our ancestrial background, Mama lady will calm down.
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: Unemployment
Where are they hiring Mexican-Americans I have been without work for two years. I am an Iraqi Freedom Vet, and I bet the people making smart remarks about others have never served side by side in war. I bet if you were dying and you wanted me to save your life you would want me to give you CPR. Have yo ever ben to California if you have then every hispanic must be illegal their. Have you been to Hawaii? I bet every Hawaiin is illegal. Have you been to Alaska? I guess every Eskimo is illegal. How about American Indians they must all own casino's. Have you been to Puerto Rico? I guess every Puerto Rican is illegal. Have you been to American Samoa or Guam? They must also be illegal. One word it will not be called reverse racism that is when a racist is friendly to another race. It is called Karma, and I iknow that a taste of your own medicine is going to hurt. Are you ready? You know it is coming sooner than you think. Soon you will fade with the wind and just be a memory just like slavery, the holocust, and then maybe we could be like racism never existed and just blank you from history....just my 2 cents. Oh by the way try to deport me...I was born in the good old USA...I know of alot of white Europeans in town working who came to the USA on a passport, but since they are white no one ever questions their citizenship.They speak broken English I can't understand them, they need to swim back across the pond.
Posted by: Mamasita On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: Next Door Neighbor
You completely missed my point!!! I am a very proud AMERICAN! I tell my children that we are lucky to have been born in this country. My POINT was that not all brown skinned, spanish speaking people are Mexican!!!!!!! SO I'M A HISPANIC AMERICAN, NOT MEXICAN. Do you understand my point now?? Do I need to say it, like I would to a toddler? GEEEZZZZ to you!
Posted by: Bruce On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title:
Next door neighbor wants a completely homogenized culture, when ones roots, culture, and identity are cast aside for the title of American. But bear in mind that by being an American YOU are the immigrant in this country, a country that was snatched from the original inhabitants through violence and bloodshed.
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: RE: First you've heard of it
You should've known how corrupt the Bush administration was from EVERY OTHER channel. Fox News is an extension of the right wing, but the democrats have more extensions than any party through MSNBC, CNN, and even many of the entertainment channels and shows(example: Comedy Central's Daily Show and Colbert Report.) The BBC news is pretty much the only reliable source that I have access to besides the internet.
Posted by: next door neighbor On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: Mama lady......
You are no more a Hispanic American than I am a Scoth-Irish-English-German American. If you were truly born in this country called the United States of America, then you are an AMERICAN. Period. If you are unhappy with this proud title, then please go back to Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico,Honduras,Argentia,Brazil, etc. We will all be happier. This also goes for all those darker skin Americans who insist on being called any thing other than AMERICAN. GEEEEZ......Where is the American pride???
Posted by: Mamasita, a proud Latina beauty! On: 11/2/2009
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Do you personally know that they are MEXICANS? I mean just cause we have a tan, speak spanish and work hard - doesn't mean we're MEXICANS. Let me educate your ignorant @ss!!! Mexicans are from Mexico, Puerto Ricans are from Puerto Rico, Cubans are from Cuba...but we are all Latinos/hispanics. I am an AMERICAN, because I was born here...that means that I AM A CITIZEN!!!! But that also makes me a HISPANIC AMERICAN...Do you now understand that all Latinos aren't Mexicans??? And those MEXICANS that you are talking about work hard to support their families too! We are all effen human beings, that will do whatever it takes to provide for our loved ones!!!!!!
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title:
"Fox news" is an oxymoron. They are NOT a news station--they are a propaganda tool for the republicans. Fox is just like the national enquirer but on TV. How can you be news when you get on tv like beck did and organize "parties" to protest against the president? If individuals want to protest something that's fine--I'm all for free speech--but if you go on tv to organize rallies against your own country--you are no longer being a news station--you are just using tv to try to push your right-wing redneck bubba agenda.
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: Cedar Creek
Cedar Creek residents are moochers . Andy Olsen, Scott Singer and New Ellenton fire chief set up a special agreement on reduced fire fees. Hugh Ray gave Cedar Creek free police services when he was New Ellentons' police chief.Hugh Ray works for Cedar Creek. Now they are trying to get a represent on the N.E. water commissions board.cedar Creek never hooked up to the now failed sewer system that was built by Cantelou for Cedar Creek in the first place. Cedar Creek and Mayor Dunbar have made N.E. a sewer of corruption. New Ellenton is broke.
Posted by: 8227Y On: 11/2/2009
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The residents of CEDAR CREEK get what they pay for...... You wanted cheap infrastructure and YOU GOT IT!!!! Form your ouwn water company if you dont like New Ellentons.
Posted by: On: 11/2/2009
Comment Title: RE: I've been getting Social Security since 1991, and I've never gotten a raise.
You lie!
Posted by: noneya On: 11/1/2009
Comment Title: fox news
First I've heard about Obama administration trying to shut down fox news, however that sounds like a damn good idea as we also did not know how corrupt the Bush administration was since fox is an arm of the republican party
Posted by: noneya On: 11/1/2009
Comment Title: rusty p/u
Idon't know where Laurel woods is located and could care less, however the whiner about the rusty p/u truck has 2 options...move or ignore it.It's possible that's all that neighbor can afford to drive...oops 3rd option offer to buy him another vehicle.
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