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Sound Off for August 10, 2016

Interesting question

Georgia had its tax-free weekend before school started. Wonder why Alabama waited until after the schools started.

Hint: Which has suffered already?

How does anyone think Trump could run all of his businesses and the country at the same time? Which one do you think would suffer? You can't fire Congress.

Not the solution

If you’re not a racist, bigoted, misogynistic clod, voting for Chump just because you don’t like Democrats is a fool’s answer.

Political sanctimony

A NYC schnitzel haus owner has had an autographed photo of Donald Trump on his wall for years. Now thanks to self-righteous cyber bullies, he's being forced to remove it. Whatever happened to tolerance?

Return trip not guaranteed

Want to go on the road less traveled? Come with me. I have no sense of direction.

Tragicomedy

Sadly, we are all in the cheap seats at what feels like a Greek tragedy starring two clowns. And both of them are bad actors 24/7.

So there

I tried to watch the Democratic Convention but all I saw was a bunch of sneaky, lazy, hateful, anti-American, lying misfits so I turned the TV off.

This story was originally published August 9, 2016 at 10:00 AM with the headline "Sound Off for August 10, 2016."

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