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Sound Off for Sunday, March 6, 2016

Pick of the day

Dashing from one unfinished job to another is not multi-tasking.

The cat and the canary

I was watching Hillary smiling on TV after her big S.C. win. She reminded me of how Jim and Tammy Bakker smiled after they had conned all those little old ladies out of their savings.

Irreconcilable differences

The GOP and Democrats remind me of the Shiites and the Sunnis of the Middle East. Never the two shall meet.

With apologies to Billy Joel

Trump may be right or he may be wrong. But he just may be the lunatic we're looking for.

Payback time

Maybe these elected officials who stood up for Shah will get a job from him when he gets out of jail.

Campaign slogan notwithstanding

Donald Trump is the greatest threat to American greatness we have faced in many years.

Free speech even for the stupid

Not sure which amazes me more: that there are still people brazen (stupid?) enough to claim KKK membership, or that people think someone brazen/stupid enough to claim KKK membership has no First Amendment right.

Not on ASPCA donor list

With all these people jumping on the pity train about these stray dogs and cats sooner or later they will be boarding these animals at the Hilton Hotel. Ridiculous!

Primary responsibility

If Sheriff Jolley spent more time supervising the people he hires as deputies and less time being politically incorrect, he could have saved himself and the county this embarrassment.

No comment

Anyone notice that in the primary results there was an inverse correlation with a state's educational achievement ranking and level of support for Trump?

Bring in the Dementors

If Ted Cruz had gone to Hogwarts he would have been a member of House Slytherin. As the Sorting Hat said, "Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends."

Voter ID? How about voting site ID?

It's kinda hard to preserve progress when the city hasn't told you that your polling place has changed.

Not on the job

From January 1993 to February 2016, Rep. Sanford Bishop missed 606 of 15,439 roll call votes, which is 3.9%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving.

This story was originally published March 5, 2016 at 8:58 PM with the headline "Sound Off for Sunday, March 6, 2016 ."

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