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Whooping cough making a comeback
Zapper Monday, July 30, 2012: 2:20 pm	This must be part of Obamas socialist agenda, get more people relying on Obamacare.

Monrovia tables decision on re-hiring coach
Zapper Tuesday, March 13, 2012: 5:31 pm	Takes more than a coach.

Tip leads to gambling arrest
Zapper Wednesday, January 18, 2012: 11:29 pm	He must haved missed a protection payment to someone.

Right-to-work should be stopped

Zapper Sunday, January 15, 2012: 12:03 pm

Thank you Hoosier, you made my point. Talk about Obama pitting classes against the other, RTW is the epitome of class warfare. Look for yourselves, the states with a RTW law average pay is 12% less than non RTW states. Is this what you want in the name of conservatism, that you and your neighbors wages be cut. I could except RTW if a union was under no obligation to represent the people who refuse to join but as the law is written, this is the argument. You get hired into a company represented be the IBEW, you sign paerwork refusing to join the union at which time you do not pay dues, but under current law the union, you don't want anything to do with, is still bound to represent you and can be sued for failure to do so. You ultra conservatives are so happy and willing to help finish desroying the middle class, that most of you belong to, but so unwilling to even entertain the thought that corporations and their leadership are consumed with greed. My view has nothing to do with taking money from the 1% and spreading it around the 99%, but if that 1% is allowed to control our Republic based soley on wealth, well I guess then that all of you who have never studied the history of corporations treatment of workers and the reason the union movement originated are just bound to repeat it. Let all the regulations be lifted, all the saftey laws, repeal the wage laws (time and a half for over 40 hours), paid vacation, etc...Do away with every gain unions have made for the average worker in the last 70 years, allow big business to rule as they will, with every decision made based on Wall St. and the elite excutives $50 million a year plus compensations, then in my opinion the middle class is doomed to extinction...and you think because your a conserative or a republican or a tea partier or whatever it won't happen to you...sit down, strap in and hold on...history will repeat itself.

Daniels' speech debated
Zapper Saturday, January 14, 2012: 12:06 am	I find it ironic that just over 50 years ago Christian ministers held "conferences" to try and encourage support for Johnson because they didn't want a Catholic in the White House, now there meeting to determine which Catholic to get behind to keep a Mormon out.

Daniels' speech debated
Zapper Thursday, January 12, 2012: 7:12 pm	Moose, I agree this would be a perfect opportunity for the Republican's to take the White House, but with this group, I'd be willing to make a little wager it doesn't happen.

Dems stop Statehouse work before it starts
Zapper Friday, January 6, 2012: 5:52 pm	Embarrass the hell out of this state. Picket every downtown street during the Super Bowl!

Former commissioner to serve time for theft
Zapper Tuesday, December 27, 2011: 1:27 am	Still can't believe people voted for this screwball and his sidekick Mason, they past the only test necessary in this county...there was an R by their name.

War on drugs is now a war on the American People

Zapper Wednesday, November 23, 2011: 11:16 am

I agree with Ron Paul in the pursuit of true liberty, all drugs should be legalized. An individual who uses drugs has as much right to destroy there life and their familiy as an alcoholic, in fact I believe hard alcohol to be the most addictive and dangerous of drugs. Conservatives want to pick and choose which of our liberties to honor, i.e. Homeland Defense, no different than the Dems just different liberties discarded.

Workers must continue fight for dream

Zapper Friday, September 2, 2011: 1:10 pm

Absolutely have worked in a large union manufacturing facility for over 35 yrs. I will wager my last dollar that well over 95% of the people I worked with were hard working, conscientious people who had huge pride in what we did. You talk about the classes the Demos have created, what about your classes you have created in your mind, "most" union employees are lazy. You are the one doing the "classing" here and you will only see what you want to see because you are obviously on a pedastal so high above these lowly, lazy people. I would imagine you are correct the industries would have flourished more without the "socialist" unions, but at what cost to society? Do you not think a company gains by utilizing the ideas of the people who produce and manufacture their products? Do you think Henry Ford would have just gravitated toward treating his employees with respect and not as slaves? I don't think so! You sound like so many others I've heard over the years, bitter...bitter that people you consider below you were actually able to make a life for themselves and their families and were able to draw a decent wage. Your a bright guy, I've read your posts on the Diesel Page for years, but I don't understand the lumping of a group of people as lazy. You obviously never worked in an automotive assembly factory, there is no sleeping, hell theres not even peeing unless you can get a relief guy. The line is coming at you, you pull the cord to stop it and you're in trouble. You are broke down by the time you 60 from the repetitive motion. I'm here to tell you with all the work rules you speak of if management wanted to fire someone, they fired them, saw it daily. The only catch was the supervisor had to be smart enough to do his job, document the violations and present his case. No you couldn't just fire someone because you didn't like them or because of the way they looked or the color of their skin. Now if your one of those that thinks the unions served a purpose in their day but have outlived their usefullness, how long before they are needed again? It's funny how unions are "socialist to the core" but country we can't compete with is communist.

Workers must continue fight for dream

Zapper Friday, September 2, 2011: 10:22 am

Why is it so many people who consider themselves "conservatives" or "tea party members" insist if one does not think like they do, they cannot be Christian, and why then do these sinners remain in the country of their birth. They are all then inherently lazy and believe all their taxes paid go only to welfare moms and people gaming the system. Are people not allowed to have differing opinions and beliefs without being unAmerican Commies? It also seems most believe jobs have left our country due to high corporate taxes, it couldn't have anything to do with wanting to pay slave labor wages in countries where kids start working in factories when they are 10, and the governments allow them to dump waste and pollute at will. Is it really in our best interest to abolish the EPA, OSHA, Child Labor Laws, in the name of Capitalism. Canada's CD Howe Institute recently reported China has the highest effective corporate tax rate of all major economic powers, (yet many US jobs are still leaving here for there). The reason, no loopholes. You know loopholes like our major corporations use here, G.E, Exxon, Chevron, Boeing, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, etc...paid little or no taxes and in most cases received rebates from the IRS. You can all sit back and blame this mess on the big bad union boogeymen and follow the Limbaugh line, I believe it's mostly a case of greed. And before you jump to any right wing conclusions, I have voted for 3 Republican presidential candidates since 1980...I voted for Lugar in every election since I was old enough to vote and I voted for Mitch Daniels so don't think I'm a lefty...remember there is a huge America in between the fringes.

In response to Quyle letter

Zapper Sunday, August 21, 2011: 10:56 pm

Not only, in todays rush to rhe right, could Reagan not be considered a Tea Partier he couldn't even be a Republican. In 1981 Reagan cut taxes but to a rate still higher than todays rates. Since the weathy were paying roughly 70% when he was elected cutting the rate to 30% made him look, and he actually was for this time, a conservative. From 1982-1984 he then raised taxes about 94 billion dollars, remember this was 30 years ago when a billion dollars was still a billion dollars. I laugh when I hear tea partiers talk about the late great Ronald Reagan, most were not born when he was president let alone of voting age. If there were a Norville Lundquist of that era he would not have approved of the Gipper, especially when he actually worked with Speaker O'Neal to help strengthen Social Security. One more ammusing tea party tidbit, a FOX NEWS poll of tea partiers over age 50, found over 70% do not want cuts to Social Security or Medicade. As Church Lady would say, "Isn't that special."

Pioneer AD leaving for BHS
Zapper Tuesday, June 7, 2011: 10:22 am	Good luck Moss!

Terrorist leader’s death is ‘vindication’
Zapper Thursday, May 5, 2011: 12:05 am	I would bet most sane people would not compare a messed up 15 year old kid who made a HUGE mess of two families lives to the master mind of murder of over 3000 Americans and countless 1000's of others around the world. Would you feel better about yourself if Phelps were put to death?

Parents are desperate to find runaway teen
Zapper Thursday, April 14, 2011: 11:52 am	A families daughter is missing, I can not imagine the feeling. Yet to some it's just an opportunity to judge others and spout racism. I hope for the best outcome for this family.

Lugar wants details of U.S. role in Libya
Zapper Friday, March 25, 2011: 9:11 am	If the President had done nothing he would be getting railed on from the the right for that also. In my opinion this action was more just than Iraq, but personally I want all our troops home.

Martinsville council balks at donation for farmers' markets

Zapper Tuesday, April 13, 2010: 6:09 pm

Ratcatcher is right, I was a vendor last year and signed a contract stating that I would grow everything I sold. Naturally I didn't have produce ready on opening day so I didn't start selling until such time. I did however visit the market to observe. I went to one vendor and asked him where his cantaloupe where grown, he said right up the road here, B.S I thought, I know the earliest cantaloupe is ready in this area. I emailed the market master about my concerns and he replied people were asking for produce so the board had changed the rules. I went to market as a vendor a couple of weeks later with a table full of veggies that I had grown and tried to pin the market master down a little more, he said if we didn't allow produce to be trucked in we would have no market at all. I personally thought this was strange since most local people have a fair idea when certain produce is ready in this area. All I could do as a vendor was tell people I grew everything I sold and told them to ask other vendors if they did. Time and again I heard vendors tell people they did, which I knew was a lie because they were unloading produce boxes of stuff they had bought. I just decided to heck with it, I'll sell what I grow and let the cheaters be if the board is going to let them be. It did cross the line when one vendor asked me about my low prices, I said well I grow my produce I don't buy it so I guess that's why I can sell it cheaper. Now as of today, at the last vendors meeting we were assured the new market managers were going to be diligent and do garden inspections if there were any questions about vendors growing their own produce. The bottom line is I really don't care other than the fact of the contract I had to sign, if the contract said the produce could be trucked then so be it. This market really is a good thing for both communities, it gets people in the respective towns and hopefully spending a little money at local businesses, and I am looking forward to it this year. The two new market managers seem to have the best interest of the market and the towns at heart. I have added two new gardens this year in anticipation of the rules being enforced, so we'll see. As far as the money being requested from the two cities I understand both sides of the argument. I am sure however there are many more frivolous monies being spent in both cities and the county.