The Mercury’s Sound Off for Tuesday, Sept. 19

Boyertown School Board, shame on you. Complaining you can’t afford to have turf fields, while everyone else in the PAC-10 has one or more! You had the baseball field donated, the all-weather track donated and, the football stadium donated. Through your incompetency, the stadium was not maintained costing taxpayers millions! On your watch Dierolf and Neiman.

Concerning data. When the vaccine developed to combat Swing Flu in 1976 resulted in 1 serious event per 100,000 administered vaccinations, it was pulled. The 1999 Rotavirus vaccine was withdrawn after yielding 1-2 serious events per 10,000 vaccinations. A re-analysis of mRNA data from Phase 3 randomized clinical trials conducted by Pfizer and Moderna, peer-reviewed and published in the medical journal Vaccine, revealed one serious event per 800 injections. It is being promoted.

M. Furlong

Liberals are quick to criticize Fox News! Whenever a topic arises, the MSM has nothing but Liberals on air to discuss the issues. Fox has both Liberals and Conservatives on the panel to debate both sides. Sounds like a more reliable news source to me. Let folks decide for themselves!

Puggy

The White House situation room just got a $50 million facelift. This room is so secretive no one usually is allowed near it. This is where the cocaine was found earlier this year, yet the FBI has no clue who brought it there in this most secure place in the West Wing. I still chuckle at their response, really?

Dot

In July, a federal judge ruled that the Biden administration violated the 1st Amendment by coercing social media companies to suppress free speech. Rather than stopping their unconstitutional behavior, the bumbling Biden administration doubled down and appealed the decision. They lost. Biden is now appealing to the Supreme Court. A far better course of action would be for President Biden to respect the rights of American citizens.

Robert Minninger

The “Freedom” Caucus said, “We want an impeachment inquiry, or we’ll shut down the government!” (Despite feckless puppet McCarthy’s deal.) It looks like they’ll get their impeachment inquiry. What do you think the odds are they’ll still try to shut down the government? Let “Freedom” ring!

Why wasn’t America’s Border Czar Kamala Harris on hand for a photo op when authorities captured her escaped murderer/illegal alien Danelo Cavalcante?

God Save The Queen!

Life goes by so fast. One day you’re young and the next day you have a favorite pharmacy.

Bill Wilson

How do you milk sheep? Pretend the election was stolen and ask for donations.

RealAmerica

Once again radical Republicans on the Perkiomen Valley School Board — Jason Saylor, Kim Mares, Rowan Keenan, Matthew Dorr and Don Fountain — are bringing financial distraught and legal action against the school district. In their latest efforts, they want to ban children from using bathrooms. Their proposed policy goes against settled law. This appears to be M4L pushing their agenda through their puppets.

Patriot54

As the Democrats accuse everyone else of ruining our democracy, they’re trying to not allow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run in the primaries, keep arresting Trump and try to find a way not to allow him to run in the general election. They just seem to want power and will do anything to acquire it. Has Biden done anything yet to help and support the citizens of the United States? No, I don’t think so!!

H. John

History repeats itself — high auto profits equal high union contracts. That is exactly what the steelworkers said — that didn’t turn out too good

Ole Farmer 2

International murderer Danelo Cavalcante escaped a Chester County Prison. The Democrats’ mainstream media is reporting on this only because they want law enforcement to look bad. But they’re deliberately leaving out the fact that Senor Cavalcante was in the US illegally when he murdered his girlfriend in front of her children. Once again Donald Trump has been proven right. Lots of bad hombres are coming into the US under Democrat policies.

Cholly

Regardless of your party affiliation, if our country loses control of socialism in the 2024 election, it’s all over for American exceptionalism forever. We will become a one-party socialist country and can never be voted back again to the original system. That freedom will be eliminated along with the constitution. This election is about choice or Socialism, period. I sincerely hope Americans realize the extreme gravity of our situation and vote accordingly.

Truth Be Told

Cavalcante came to the US illegally between 2017, (after murdering someone in Brazil), and 2019 when he started a 1½-year relationship with Deborah Brandao ending with her murder in April 2021. Ohio lost jobs in 2019 before the pandemic ever hit for the first time since the Great Recession. Just simple facts ignored in Sound Off comments.

KC

Had the capture of escapee Danelo Cavalcante taken place under a Republican administration, you could bet your last nickel that “Lefty” would be asking why it took so long for his capture. The hypocrisy of Jay, Lefty, and Unpatriotic 54 makes me nauseous.

RAK

Lefty, you’ve said that it’s not Biden’s fault energy prices are so high. You really need to read more than just page 2 of The Mercury. You can read can’t you … oh yeah, your stories are in “Sound Off” almost daily. Try going all the way to page 12 of Sunday’s edition. They ran a commentary as to why energy prices are so high. You might try reading it before pointing fingers.

Still Amazed

People complain that the average CEO makes 400 times more than the average worker. And why not? CEOs are 400 times smarter, 400 times more creative, and 400 times better communicators than the peons in the cubicles and on the assembly lines. They also dress better, have nicer houses and cars, send their children to better schools, and take nicer vacations. They are more valuable in every way. Stop the class warfare!

Emily L

Kevin McCarthy is in a tough spot. He doesn’t want to start the impeachment inquiry because he knows it will go nowhere. He knows that nobody has any evidence, anywhere, and that it will backfire on Republicans. But if he doesn’t, it only takes one nutjob like Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him as speaker. Good luck, Kevin.

It seems that every week someone else is ruined because of Donald Trump. I have actually lost count of the people who have been indicted, arrested, jailed, and have had their political careers ended. He doesn’t care either. When will this nightmare be over?

Stay Tuned!

Every measurement shows the earth is experiencing the hottest summer in the history of summers. Fortunately, temperatures at the center of the universe (AKA wherever it is “The Realist” lives) have not been too bad, so never mind.

Savonarola

A whistleblower has just come forward to say that the FBI actually had Cavalcante in custody last week for a brief time. After a brief interrogation, they let him go because they found out he wasn’t Catholic, he wasn’t a Republican, he wasn’t a conservative, and he didn’t like Trump. Of course, I am being facetious, but it isn’t that far-fetched, now is it?

Billy G.

To whoever voted for Biden in the first place, perhaps because you didn’t like Trump’s mean tweets, I hope you’ve enjoyed high grocery prices, high gas prices, high inflation, and high crime.

Some people are not happy unless they have something to gripe about. Looking at some of the Sound Off everyday regulars confirms that. It must be quite an experience living in those households, with those people. Can’t imagine that it’s very peaceful around there.

The Hollywood entertainment industry has been on strike for months. Most decent Americans haven’t noticed. Maybe people would actually care if that elitist leftist community that lives in their detached-from-reality world would stop offending Americans by forcing their condescending/holier-than-thou progressive agenda down our throats.

Barney

I know one of the SWAT officers who was on the team that actually caught Cavalcante. The rifle had no magazine or bullets in it. Doesn’t excuse irresponsible weapon storage by the owner of that rifle. This is what gives anti-Second Amendment radicals fuel for their misguided thinking.

Well Armed

My Bride rarely gets mad at me and I asked her how she controls her temper. She said, “When you make me mad, I clean the toilet.” I said, “How does that help?” She replied, ” I use your toothbrush!”

Jim Fitch

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