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THREE CHEERS IN HAVERFORD
I want to give a shout out to the Haverford Township Streets Department for the magnificent job they’ve done with the potholes and the snow removal after these Nor’easters. Great job, guys, keep up the good work. MAGIC MIKE IN HAVERTOWN
DEFINE ‘NEWS’
To “R.G. In Ridley Park,” maybe eight homicides in Chicago wasn’t on the nation page of the Times because sadly that hasn’t really been news in decades. By the way, Chicago, how are those gun control laws working out?
THESE DOPEY KIDS
Walking the streets either drinking or drugging should both be illegal. To all our idiot politicians who legalized the recreational use of marijuana, you made the law so relaxed that more people, including teenagers, are walking around the streets smoking their dope. People who don’t get high have to walk around smelling dope. You’re not allowed to walk around the streets drinking, so why are you allowed to walk around the streets smoking dope? DISGUSTED
THESE LAZY KIDS
Maybe I’m just an old fogey or whatever, but I’ve never seen a group of teenagers and kids that are so self-important, self-deserving and without any work whatsoever. In two recent snowstorms we had and other ones in the recent past, I’ve yet to see one kid knock on my door saying, “Would you care for me to shovel your sidewalk and steps?” I’m willing to pay and have always been willing to pay. As a kid myself, we did snow shoveling to make a few dollars and take a load off of our parents. But these kids today don’t even go out to have snowball fights; they’re too busy on their electronic things.
THESE ROTTEN KIDS
I agree with “Lock Them Up!” The level of rhetoric from the increasingly radical left is getting very unnerving. There was another wave of Antifa protests shutting down speakers on college campuses last week like 1930s communists used to do. Weren’t campuses always supposed to be bastions of free speech? What’s really scary is these speakers usually tend to have the views of the average 1960s college student, but apparently that’s not enough anymore.
THAT SINKING FEELING
There you people go again, hollering and screaming, barking at the moon like wolves after Sunoco out in West Whiteland. So you have a sinkhole? Maybe what you need to do is go after the contractor that cleared that land way back in a day and dug a big hole and buried all the trees in the hole. And now years later the trees have decomposed and left an underground cavern. Somebody comes along and puts a little weight on the soil or dislodges it in some way and then it caved in and causes a sinkhole. So now you people want to blame Sunoco. Isn’t that convenient?
CAN WE TALK?
So Trump wants to meet with Kim JongUn. Here we go with the strange bedfellows in politics. Remember when Obama said on the campaign trail in 2008 that he wanted to meet with dictators without conditions and the left thought it was so great? Now we’ll get all kinds of great fractures on the left and right over this issue. I’m going to stock up on popcorn.
PLAYING POLITICS
Don’t you find the timing a little suspect that President Bonespurs decides to sign the steel and aluminum tariff right before he goes to the Pittsburgh area to campaign for his Republican Party? If he were so concerned about imported steel, then why did he only use steel from China for all his construction projects? MONA FROM BOOTHWYN
STEEL YURSELF
I’m not fan of a protectionist economics and Trump’s tariff ideas, but I think it’s a little disingenuous to complain about Trump using imported steel in his development projects. A lot of Trump’s major building in New York City and Atlantic City came when the mafia still had a solid grip on everything surrounding construction and costs where artificially inflated out of control. I’d like to see what everything cost on Trump Tower before condemning him for saving money.