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The Rant

Doctors, an hour wait isn’t fair. My appointment with you is also an appointment with me. My time is as valuable as yours.

My Signal Mountain neighbors having a hissy fit over an accommodating bathroom door sign is so embarrassing. Get a life, y’all. It’s a changing world.

Candidate [Michele] Reneau wants Patsy Hazlewood’s supporters. After all the lies she told about Patsy? I don’t think so.

Books, not guns, are banned even though a “loaded book” never accidentally killed someone.

Maybe as we continue to pry into women’s reproductive health, we should require men to prove their impotence before they can buy Viagra.

The condos being proposed for the old Standard-Coosa Thatcher site for $1 million dollars really sound like “affordable housing” to me.

Potty politics. Signal Mountain restroom signage is a first-world problem. Post a sign on door saying “public restroom.”

The Sept. 2 TFP picture of the two joyful Ukrainian girls going to school puts all the ridiculous hoopla about our school concerns in perspective.

Churches have become powerful political influencers. Fine. Let’s tax them. It’s past time.

OK, so you can’t identify under-age criminals. Identify the parents and see how quickly juvenile behavior improves.

Need mandatory jail for shooting from cars. Any shooting — 1 year. Hit person or something — 5 years. Kill someone — life, or death penalty.

You don’t have to listen to politicians. Just look at your life six years ago versus two years ago, even yesterday. These candidates aren’t new.

Love — not politics — should be preached from the pulpit.

“Let’s be clear.” When you hear those three words, you’re being delivered deliberately unclear verbiage. Values don’t flip-flop in execution. That is very clear.

To JD Vance and others: We never had children of our own but were parents to thousands of children because we were teachers for 30 years.

The Electoral College completely disallows Democratic votes, which should also count in Tennessee. Every vote should count. Dump this Electoral College bull.

The debate should be like “The Gong Show,” where if a candidate tells a lie, their answer would be met by a large gong being hit.

Those who vote based on skin tone, gender, personality or political party while ignoring policy are asking for and deserve the disaster that follows.

National politics is local politics. If you think your life is unaffected by the current administration, your bubble is working.

Will the real Kamala Harris please shut up.

So what’s Trump’s platform this week? Well, which way is the wind blowing?

Kamala’s values haven’t changed, but her policies have done a one-eighty, and probably will again. Who knows? That’s the real problem.

I wish Israelis cared about the thousands and thousands of dead Palestinians as they do dead Israelis. Respect all human life.

So Israel rescues a hostage who is Muslim. You don’t hear that fact from liberal media. It says a lot about the humanity of Israel.

Being outraged with Netanyahu’s government and military over the slaughter of 40,000 men, women and children does not make one anti-Semitic.

When they say “Tim Walz is far left,” they mean “Tim Walz provided school children with food.” Oh, the horrors!