Sound Off for December 10, 2016

Outside the box

Soon the packaging industry will reach its apparent goal to create a package that no consumer can get into. It’s pretty close now.

Get ready

Rumor has it: The Donalds’s nominee for Treasury Secretary is going to do away with the mortgage interest tax exemption. That is going to hurt this middle income homeowner, and I expect, millions like me.

Blanket amnesty

If cities like Chicago can shield illegal immigrants using taxpayer money, why not extend that to fugitive burglars? They only burglarize to get drug money, so we must protect them from justice, too.

It’s not on email

How is it that retired general David Petraeus can have a security clearance for any cabinet-level position after being convicted of trading classified information to his mistress for whoopee?

Less absurd?

No matter how Trump tries to moderate his imbecilic views, you don’t get points for ratcheting down from rabid.

Loyalty, courage

The German shepherd should replace the bald eagle as our symbol of freedom. They aid people with disabilities, protect police and give devotion and their lives for our armed services.

Relevance vacuum

Survey: On a scale of 1 to 10, who cares what Madonna says?

This story was originally published December 9, 2016 at 3:08 PM with the headline "Sound Off for December 10, 2016."