I think that people need to stop complaining about the police not doing anything about the fireworks. Yes it’s illegal but you can’t expect everyone to be spoken to. Look at the size of Tinley and Orland, that’s a lot of people using fireworks. By the way, it happens all over the state, not just Tinley so stop whining. Illinois should legalize fireworks for the one day and collect taxes on the sale of fireworks instead of losing out on all revenue to Indiana and Wisconsin.
KH, Tinley
Funny to see a commercial for CBS news where it touts words like: Honesty and Integrity! Based on the screaming liberal bias of CBS, I’d say those words are hardly appropriate.
Tom, Evergreen Park
Evert in Oak Lawn apparently doesn’t like being referred to as a potential terrorist but common- sense gun laws recognize that handguns are necessary for self protection and are used for sport and target shooting. Rifles and shotguns are for hunting and target or skeet shooting. A semi-automatic is only good for killing large numbers of people quickly. If you own one, what do you plan to do with it? And don’t tell me that you use the AK-47 for hunting, because you shouldn’t be allowed in the woods for your own safety if you need that kind of firepower.
Al, Tinley Park
According to a comment from Evergreen Park, evidently it’s perfectly alright to kill 49 people in a club like what happened in Florida, because it isn’t as bad as killing nearly 3,000 with airplanes like 9/11. I just seem to think that both things are wrong. Maybe I’m goofed up.
I’m totally flabbergasted that the United States of America, with all the intelligent men and women that we have in our immense government positions, ended up with two losers going for the presidency. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is a complete mess, and she’s been caught lying dozens of times. Some of her lying and incompetence has cost many of our military loss of lives. Just look at her. I wouldn’t want her to be in charge of my outhouse. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is a nut case and we don’t want him on our nuclear system button. How could this happen in a country noted for its intelligence? God bless us. We will need it.
Joe, Alsip
I’m a 70-year-old senior citizen and a veteran. I see where Social Security’s going to go up .02 percent. We print money to make war yet you can’t give the seniors and the people on Social Security a decent raise? That’s disgusting. This country is disgusting. I am fed up.
Mike, Crestwood
Fact: President Barack Obama released prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Fact: Our president starts a relationship with Cuba. You know what I think? I think he’s going to give back Guantanamo Bay to the Cubans. He wants everybody to play nice. It’s just a thought.
John, Bridgeport
Wow. What a deal. They’re going to give a raise of $2 a month for people on Social Security. I’m not voting Republican after hearing U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s idea of what to do with health care. He wants to change Medicare, let us pay certain things and give us vouchers to buy insurance. How does he think people on Social Security are going to have money to pay for drugs and insurance on $2-a-month raises? I’m sorry, Ryan. We don’t have silver spoons in our mouths like you do. The only thing I can say is the best option is presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s an idiot, a hothead and a liar.
Amanda
To Kay in Mokena: The U.S. Constitution and amendments were written to keep government at bay and allow citizens the liberty and freedom to live under such conditions. The Second Amendment keeps us safe. The places with the greatest issues with guns are places that have the strictest gun control like Chicago or Paris. Those places have the sign on the door saying, “No gun.” It’s a screaming sign that really says, “Come and get us.” Pay attention to safety and security. Read the history of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. He promised that without guns everyone would be safe. He looked at all the registrations and went after all those people. Then the killing and annihilation began. History repeats itself.
Orland Park
I agree with the commenter Judy in regards to the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. I, too, do not want the museum in our state. Why should we have this man’s museum? He was the worst president in history. He messed up our health care system, kept us in a war, ruined our immigration system and God knows what else. Why would we want a reminder of the man in this state? Don’t we have enough problems in this state? Please put that museum elsewhere. I hope something happens and we can’t have it because I certainly don’t want to honor that man. He should be impeached instead of honored.
Sara
Reading Illinois Policy Institute writer Austin Berg’s columns in the Daily Southtown, I get the feeling that the State of Illinois and the Democrats are doing the same thing here that the Republicans have been doing to the federal government for the last 20 years or more — stopping everything. So it doesn’t seem to me to be OK for the feds to do it and the state to do it. Nobody seems to want to have a moderate view of anything and really run the business of the country, so maybe Mr. Berg should get on the federal government also. Of course he’s a Republican, so that’s OK with the feds.
Maybe Jake Arietta should have kept his clothes on because he cant seem to pitch anymore. Hmmm, and I thought Ron Santo selling pizzas in 1969 was bad — at least he kept his clothes on.
For all those who are saying they will be forced to vote for Delusional Donald because they won’t vote for Hillary, there is another choice. I’m not talking about the Libertarian or Green Party candidates. It is totally permissible to not vote for an office. Don’t like the candidates running for an office, just don’t vote for any of them. No law says you must vote in every race on the ballot.
Red, Chicago
Well, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has done it again with a vote that absolutely means nothing at all because he knows that there are enough votes to go the Republican way, so he voted for gun control because he knew there was no way that it was going to pass. Now he wants to be patted on the back for doing the right thing. This guy only votes the right way on votes where his vote will not matter.
It’s funny that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calls presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a world-class liar yet fact-checking website PolitiFact.com went back and looked at all the statements both candidates made throughout the campaign to this point and found that the Donald lied four times as much as Hillary did.
Rick, Monee
In reply to the commenter who says don’t vote for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, I can say the same thing: Don’t vote for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Do we want this maniac yelling? Also, he’s a disgrace. He would make this country a disgrace in the whole world. He is not presidential. He doesn’t have common sense. His temper is too quick. He’d bankrupt the country. Hillary might not be perfect but she’s got the experience and I feel much safer with Hillary than I do with Donald. Donald, go back and play with your companies and do your Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Leave the running of the country to somebody who knows what they’re doing: Hillary.
Amanda
In the United Kingdom, there are only 6.5 guns for every 100 people. However, in the good ol’ United States of America there are 101 guns for every 100 people. It’s really all you have to know about gun control.
Tom, Markham
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s way of doing business is to do a project, skim all the profit off it and then file bankruptcy for the rest of it. It’s actually his business model. It’s not the same as some person that goes broke and has to file bankruptcy. Donald does it to make money. If you can’t see that, I feel sorry for you.
If tinted windows are against the law then why is the State of Illinois allowing car dealerships to manufacture glass windows that you can’t even see through? Some of them are so dark that you don’t know when you’re driving up against a car if the people inside are going to pull a gun out on you or if they’re flipping you off. I think the State of Illinois and specifically Tinley Park, Orland Park, Mokena and Frankfort need to start getting on these people and giving them all tickets for having a vehicle with illegal windows that you can’t see in. Maybe they can start making some of this revenue money back.
I see where Chicago Police are working overtime, a lot of overtime. Kind of bad to be away from your family for the holiday. I’m sure the citizens of Chicago really care about that. But, then again, guess who is paying the tab?
Oak Forest
I do not live in Oak Forest and don’t know much about Mayor Kuspa, except a couple of goofy things he’s done, one of which is attempting to annex the bar on 135th & Harlem into Oak Forest. Two words for the mayor: Due diligence It is good that the residents are keeping an eye on him. It seems like he’s either naive or a Slick Willy.
If the millennials would stay off Facebook, You Tube and the other basically dumb and useless forms of social media, and spend this time looking for a job, they might actually find one, and one in their field. Thirty years ago, unemployment for college grads was very low, probably because job seekers didn’t have a cell phone stuck in their faces 24 hours a day communicating with their friends on 200 different web sites. Try putting the cell phone and computer away (except for sending out resumes) until you get a job. You may be pleased with the result.
There were very few American flags flown on Memorial Day and on Flag Day. Patriotism appears to be dying in America. In the future, Americans might be told what flag they can fly and what flag they can’t fly.
Well, thank you. I just put my magnifying glass away because I was trying to read the TV listings and they stink. I can’t even read them, and how come you have only just from such a time to such a time? It used to be from 6 p.m.-midnight. I do not like the new format. You putting that thing in from the editors? It stinks.
Emily, Tinley Park
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