The Vent / Metro

What ever happened to "Government of the people, by the people, for the people." We need to get rid of career politicians!

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Now in my late 50s, I've always wanted to live a long life, but the way this world and country is going, I may not mind dying in my 80s or so. And no, I'm not talking politics; I'm talking about basic decency, values and respect one human being to another.

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Superbowl's over. Ray Lewis can slither back under his rock now.

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FYI Our economy is not facing a fiscal cliff. Our government is. We are simply spending too much and the uninformed are too stupid to understand that.

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I have spent 35 years in the building industry which came to a complete stand still in 2008. It is now a fraction of what it was and you claim Obama's economy is great... Please tell me where all these construction jobs are?

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Message for Mayor Reed: cameras will be nice and very expensive, but it is cheaper and more productive to have parents raise their children correctly. That way, no one will get shot and no one will have a gun at school.

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Political correctness is merely tyranny with manners.

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Iranian president Ahmadinejad volunteered to be launched into space with Iran's space program. Can this be a one way ticket for this insane despot?

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Is it just me or was that GoDaddy commercial with the model kissing the geek a total yuck-fest? Ewwwww...it was equally bad for them both..

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If you are not going to pick up the newspaper and trash in your yard, please don't buy a house.

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I heard Notre Dame was having an off day when they played Alabama in BCS game . Seems to me a lot of teams were having an "off day" when they played Alabama the last few years

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In today's economy money does talk, but for everyone but a select few all it says is good bye.

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I'm not a fan or detractor of Alicia Keys, but I'd have to say her rendition of the National Anthem was 49 percent performance and 51 percent showboating.

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To this day everything that happens bad in New Orleans is blamed on Katrina. Reckon the Super Bowl light issue will be blamed on Katrina '05.

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Oprah, SuperBowl ads, and Paul Harvey assured us we will be whole again one day. We just need to suffer through the next four years and we will then return to sanity.

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You can add "McDonough" to the lis of mispronounced names. It's "Mac Donna" not "Mick Dunna".

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And le'ts not forget Chamblee, Albany, and Houston when it comes to pronouncing Georgia placenames.

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Beyonce is gorgeous and amazingly talented. Too bad she felt like she had to wear lingerie when she could command a room if she was wearing a bathrobe.

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Hey! The Vent is supposed to be fun, so light'n up, will ya!

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Suburban chicken coops? Sounds like a winner, as in "Winner, winner, chicken dinner."!

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Jim Harbaugh was right, while not a 49er fan at all...every blown call was against his team.

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The "Vent" has turned into more of a "Whine."

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I've read a lot of vents in my life, and if this is your best, most intelligent statements....well, now I know why this country is in trouble.

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Formulate your own thoughts and opinions. You cannot believe gun fanatics nor the gun control fanatics. Neither side will listen to each other, so you cannot listen to them.

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Did you notice that none of the NFL players doing commercials played in the Super Bowl? Maybe next year they need to pay more attention to football.

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New Orleans absolutely should not considered for 2018 SuperBowl after the light issue Sunday nite.

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Frankly, I could care less if a huge national debt is left for today's ungrateful, self-entitlement minded bunch of young folks. Let 'em eat cake.

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The sequester. Americans are about to find out what happens when an entire political party demands deficit reduction at all costs, because those costs will be enormous.

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So, if you're REALLY for a "free market economy," why wouldn't you support a company that keeps wages down so it can keep prices down? Guess maybe the "free market" isn't as cracked up to be as some people think it is.

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Those that insist on mispronouncing certain Georgia locations are the same that use "The War Between the States".

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Chris Kyle case disproves the NRA's John Wayne fantasy that the good guy with the gun always wins.

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Did your parents receive Social Security? Then you aren't withdrawing your own money you paid in; they withdrew it for you and used it already. (The first recipients in the 1930s didn't pay in but 2 years.)

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