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- Sound Off is a forum to spur dialogue from residents of the communitie­s we serve on topics of interest in those communitie­s. Fair game are comments that raise issues of note or amplify ongoing debates.

Concerning the sexual abuse charges against all these priests, what they did wasn’t right but if the Catholic Church would get rid of this stupid rule that the priests can’t be married then maybe they wouldn’t have so many sexual abuse cases because these guys are men the same as anybody else and they have sexual desires and they have to be satisfied. Think about it.

Responding to the callers that are more than excited over the Mueller investigat­ion into Manafort, you are so excited that Mueller found something. Hey it didn’t have anything to do with Russia, with Trump, or with some secret organizati­on between Trump and Russia working together to win the 2016 election. No, it’s about a 2005 tax case. When are you people going to grow up and realize your woman lost the election? —Just Get Over It Now for this year’s dopey award for most stupid comments. Nominated remarks are: No.1, “Me, I like heroes that don’t get captured.” No. 2, “Don’t believe what you see or what you hear.” No. 3, “If I’m no longer in office everyone will be poor. No. 4, “There is no collusion.” And the winner is Donald Trump. — Frattbak

Bonnie, I’m one of those people who usually agrees with Jay Miller but I’m all for building a wall as soon as Mexico writes the check for it. After all that’s who Donald said was going to pay for it from the very beginning and we all know Trump would never ever lie to us right? — A Real Golfer

I’m amazed that both parties exploit tragedies to further their own agendas. If someone is killed by an illegal, Republican­s blame the Democrats for their failure to support the president on the border wall. If someone shoots into a crowd, Democrats blame Republican­s for not supporting a stronger gun legislatio­n. Forget the victims, we’re all about ourselves. — Lord Liv

Ice cream parlor at 250 High Street is very nice and clean. We love Nelson’s flavors. The owners are from Delaware County. They fell in love with the wide High Street and how long it is. Getting into the borough is very simple. They asked what makes people go through town and not drive past it? I suggest a trip travel light on lowtravel side streets and get rid of the stupid long bike lanes and traffic will flow like it used to. — Chief Wahoo

To the person who didn’t understand Greg Levengood’s letter, it seems like in your Sound Off you pulled a Trump. In your sentence you said “Trump said he would raise the national debt.” Did you mean he wouldn’t? — Bob Not From Mont Clare

All you golfers, I see where Tiger’s back. Yeah he’s way back. He’s not over the hill, he’s under the hill. What has he done in the past four years? And all you hear is Tiger, Tiger, Tiger. Tiger is just a pussycat.

I think Catholics are being delusional if they think the problem with sexual abuse in the church has just happened within the last 70 years. It’s probably been happening for the last 1,000 years. You need to let these priests be married and live like normal human beings. Any time you restrict a human being from activity with another individual it’s just like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop and that’s what’s been going on.

When I hear Trump I think of the words of Thomas Jefferson: “When the speech condemns a free press you are hearing the words of a tyrant.”

I live in the vicinity of the old hospital on High Street. I noticed a person has someone walking around their yard spraying and I assume it’s weed killer. I don’t think this should be allowed. I think it’s dangerous. I guess that’s one of the hazards of living in Pottstown that they can spray anything they want to spray and nobody does anything about it.

Why is it that all you hear about the Eagles is Carson Wentz? They must have forgotten they have a Super Bowl winning quarterbac­k on the team. They treat him like he’s a high school quarterbac­k. No matter how many Super Bowls the Eagles win they will always be a classless organizati­on.

Can someone please help me maybe find nostalgic candy catalogs so I can order all of the oldfashion­ed candy that I used to eat in the 80s and the early 90s like Necco Wafers, the candy dots, the rock candy, the wax things, etc. because all the good candies disappeare­d like the Mary Janes, root beer barrels. I don’t have the internet.

Lady Di, you once referred to John McCain as part of the swamp. I believe that Trump and his cronies are part of the sewer that is rotting our country from within.

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