Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 6)

I hope the new police chief will get the county to do away with the phone numbers for when law enforcement wants to ignore fireworks, loud music and party complaints. If it’s illegal, enforce it. I would also like to see statistics on how many complaints were responded to New Year’s Eve.

Hey, Republicans, no matter how much you bad-mouth Hillary Clinton, we Democrats are still going to vote for her. Know why? She is better than any of the morons you have running. I would never vote for a Republican. Ronald Reagan would not even vote for some of these clowns.

Vladimir Putin once said that he could destroy the U.S. in a half hour. He would get a billionth of a second to enjoy it. Our government struggles to get some things right. Mutually assured destruction would not be one of them.

Obama has been the worst president ever. And I promise you that if this country elects Hillary Clinton, it’ll be jumping from the skillet into the fire.

Germany had a charismatic leader come on the scene in the mid-1930s. We all know, or should know, how that worked out. Beware of these blustery types like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.

A letter writer broadly accused Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz of lying (“Cruz used his kids,” Jan. 1 Letters to the Editor). She would be more creditable if she would cite a couple of examples.

Shortly after Sept. 11, millions were spent on southern border security. Recently the young illegals’ crossings became a major problem, and the border is still not secure. Whose job is it? If they can’t do it, find the person or people who will.

Realizing that the agenda of radical Muslims and their supporters is to forcefully convert the world to their religion and way of life has turned around my thinking. I support the right to bear arms.

The weathermen do not make the weather; they only try to predict it. The accuracy of their models is vastly better than not so long ago, when some even predicted the nonsensical “butterfly effect.” Stop picking on them. Only a fool would expect perfection and criticize when they predict wrong.

I would like to thank the NCAA for showing bowl games on ESPN. I guess if you do not have cable or satellite, you do not deserve to watch these games. Then they schedule a playoff semifinal to start during normal working hours on a workday. The NCAA’s greed amazes me.

Just when you think infomercial products couldn’t get any more stupid: coloring books for grown-ups. Sheesh.

Knee replacement manufacturers and surgeons see sandal and flip-flop wearers as their growing business opportunity.

This story was originally published January 5, 2016 at 6:02 PM with the headline "Opinion Line Extra (Jan. 6)."