Florence, Ala. | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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  • “I am a single mom raising two children. I work a full-time job. They say I make about $20 too much to get food stamps, I make too much to get housing, but I don’t make enough to pay the rent that people charge, these high utility bills and buy food for me and my family. So, what are we supposed to do?”

  • “To the caller who said Republicans are uninformed, uneducated, toothless and uninsured, maybe if the Democrats were out and get rid of Obama, we could afford dental insurance, we could afford insurance and we could afford better education.”

  • “Wednesday, the Republican Party and others held the Department of Defense director Clinton totally responsible for the three or four deaths that happened at the foreign embassy - but no one wants to talk about the 5,000 American soldiers who died in the war that they started and want to continue. How come? How come people who work 139 days a year can’t make a decision?”

  • “Since our government has slashed the help for mentally ill patients and shut down our mental facilities, we are going to see more and more of these killings. For one thing, many of them can’t afford their medication. They would stay on it if they could have the medication. Second, if they’re so badly mentally upset that they can’t handle themselves, they’re going to do anything to get money or take their anger out on somebody else. Our government did just an absolutely big, wrong thing — including Alabama — taking away and shutting down our facilities for mentally ill people.”

  • “Why are we still wasting so much money giving foreign aid to Libya and Egypt? You know, Ms. Clinton is not the rich kid whose momma has to pay friends to come over to play with her anymore. She’s a grown-up and we need to act like grown-ups and stop doing this sort of thing.”

  • “Christians complain because prayer is out of schools. First prayer got out of the home, oh me. Teachers of church youth, are you teaching the word and praying with the youth or feeding them physical food, entertaining and learning to dance to praise and worship songs? Will their blood be required on your hands on Judgment Day? Let us teach the word, in season and out, so our children can stand against the wiles of the devil.”

  • “I just want to comment on Mo Brooks being on TV Tuesday night. He really made himself and the people of Alabama look like morons by his answers ...”

  • “You know, in the book of Hosea, read Chapter 2, and you can what God did to Israel, what he said he would do and how he would restore them back to him. America can be done the same way, but we need to be restored back to God - not to Obama ... God bless America.”

  • “Concerning the officer who shot and killed a deer on TVA property, he should not have done that. But, it seems that he wants a job. Many people just want to draw unemployment or get on some kind of disability. Many of our unemployed just don’t want to work and the president is aiding them by extending and extending their unemployment.”

  • “To the one who called in about Republicans, it’s the uneducated, toothless, unemployed freeloaders who voted for Obama. Thank God Alabama is predominately Republican.”

  • “Wouldn’t you love to carry your children or your grandchildren or your wife or your girlfriend or your family to Wilson or Wheeler Dam and watch the barges lock through? Wouldn’t that be nice?”

  • “When every state becomes a right-to-work state and the right of workers to bargain for wages and working conditions is long gone, American workers will be no better than those in Third World countries and the division between the few haves and the many have-nots will be so wide that then America will be just another plutocracy.”

  • “Your insurance premium has went up because these greedy doctors and hospital firms like that have charged outrageous prices on their services. I don’t know why you can’t see that. The president has not one thing to do with that, just like oil and gas. It’s greedy politicians, greedy CEOs, greedy people, hospitals and you name it. Think about that.”

  • “The person who called in and said Obama was the cause of our insurance going up, why don’t you get something through your head? Obama has nothing to do with the insurance. Your insurance companies are the ones to blame. I worked in the medical field for a long time and all this stuff has nothing to do with the president. It is the companies.”

  • “Well, I just saw something I can’t hardly believe. They’re salting down Shoal Creek Bridge before it gets frozen over tonight.”

  • “The past week was party time for our president. He went from a campaign party to a prayer meeting. Seems like there is something wrong with this picture.”

  • “I just notice they put salt on the outside lanes. Don’t they know people don’t know how to drive the outside lanes? There’s going to be all kind of wrecks people driving on the inside lanes. Just noticed that.”

  • “The paper says to make a comment. It’s time for people to quit destroying other people’s property. What about the city taking down your 50-year-old home?”

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Words from the River: A Shoals Author Fair
Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Shoals Dulcimer and Folk Music Association Festival
Broadway Recreation Center
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Florence Rotary Club
Marriott Shoals Conference Center
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Boomers and Seniors dances
The Club
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Overeaters Anonymous
First Cumberland Presbyterian
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Boomers and Seniors dances
The Club
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Quad City Squares Square Dance Club dances and lessons
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