Comments from our readers.

WHY DO PARENTS allow children to skateboard or bicycle without a helmet? Answer: The parents are not responsible and are also teaching their children not to behave safely and responsibly.

A RAVE TO AUGUSTA commissioners for not raising taxes. A rant for the Richmond County Board of Education for raising taxes.

YOU MOVE UP to Columbia County and buy an expensive house, but now you have to have speed bumps in your subdivision because your neighbors aren't smart enough to drive the speed limit or less.

HOW IS ANYONE supposed to use their blinkers when they have a cell phone in one hand and are driving with the other?

OBAMA SAYS MCCAIN would be a third term of Bush. I say one term of Barack would be a second term of Jimmy Carter.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK the kind gentleman who found my ATM card in the Walgreen's parking lot and returned it to the store clerk. I said a prayer that God would richly bless him for his kind deed to me.

CONGRATULATIONS to Meredith Anderson for being Broadcaster of the Year.

RANT TO ALL THE PEOPLE who think that Obama's winning the presidency; and bringing all our troops home will end this war.

WENT TO THE DENTIST yesterday, and I thought I was listening to a whining liberal. Then I realized it was his drill!

RESPECTFULLY, I HAVE to disagree about Jesse Helms. This man was no one's hero. Any time you are a segregationist or you don't believe in the rights of another man, how can you be a hero?

SOCIAL SECURITY WOULD not need to be fixed if the politicians would leave it alone and leave it there for what it was meant to be, and not keep tapping it and using it to fund wars and any other monies they need.

WHY CAN'T the government initiate gasoline rationing as during World War II? It worked then, and with even some of these changes, it could help with a lesser amount used, as well as lower the price per gallon perhaps.

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