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| Ducbsa |
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/na ncy-pelosi-term-limits-for-thee-but-not-for-me/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
Tolerance, my a$$ !! https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/11-year-old-b oy-had-to-change-trump-last-name-after-being-relen tlessly-bullied-at-school/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
No police? Who'll protect them from the wolves, pajama boys? https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11622 | ||
| Hootowl |
Hurray socialism! https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuela-crisis-fam ilies-cannot-afford-proper-funerals | ||
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| Hootowl |
Hurray socialism. https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelans-express- regret-over-gun-prohibition-we-could-have-defended -ourselves Make no mistake. This is what the left wants for America. | ||
| Ebutch |
They Must Destroy the Middle Class !!!!!!   | ||
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| H0gwash |
It's always nice to see Karl rocking the beard. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/g reen_new_deal_is_bad_deal_for_all_americans.html One of the misconceptions of the 20th century was that because "we went to the Moon" we could do anything with enough tax money. Not exactly. Apollo was a masterpiece of cutting edge technology and being just, barely, able to get the job done. But because of time constraints, it was, after all, a race, instead of a Prius, we built a drag racer. Engines you only used, once, and briefly, before they exploded. Instead of an airliner, it was like bolting a fighter plane into a bomber, and throwing both away so the pilot could parachute into target. Kinda like this, but more wasteful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Mayo_Composi te The space program was aircraft designed by artillery experts. Literally. V-2, to Saturn is an unbroken line of development by the same team. So was Soyuz. Disposable drag race technology. Like going to the store, and buying a new car to get the groceries home, since you burned up the old one. With, I have to point out, just barely enough power to make it over the hill between your house and the store. Not a 426 hemi, a turbocharged chainsaw engine on nitrous. But.... We did it! And it was a triumph at the time. Bleeding edge. And ever since,idiots point to Apollo and insist it's the model for social engineering, and every time we are promised luxury condos, and get tents made of fish nets. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Don't forget, only 2.3% of wage earners get minimum wage. https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/421109-ne arly-the-entire-country-gets-it-wrong-on-the-minim um-wage This is the way you get high teen unemployment and self-service kiosks at fast food spots. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Not to mention inflation. Let the same unqualified, entry-level employees magically start earning a greater number of dollars for the same level of performance, the value of each of those dollars - for EVERYONE, not just the untrained entry-level worker - plummets. Witness, again, Venezuela. Things that cost tens of dollars here, cost thousands there. And that's where we're headed, folks... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.prageru.com/videos/inconvenient-truth- about-democratic-party | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/someo ne_needs_to_be_charged_in_migrant_childs_desert_de ath_and_its_not_the_lawmen.html Additional people who deserve prosecution for this abusive homicide. Every Judge who ruled against the written laws and efforts to enforce them. President Obama for deliberately inviting children, unaccompanied, to th U.S. For political purposes, including arranging transport by requesting proposals for contracts to bus them all over America, months before declaring he would not enforce the laws. The tech giants including Disney, that want cheap imported labor, & screw Americans. Every teacher's indoctrination organization that is really an intolerant religious theocracy, and their acolytes. Every Congresscritter who uses the immigration crisis they exploit to try and hurt Trump. And everyone who conspired to create a permanent ruling class of Democrats by importing a permanent slave class of illegals. Get a job, work hard, follow the rules? You will be replaced by a thousand more criminals and welfare state bound illegals. Every media and political figure that insists that the problem isn't criminals, including murderers, it's the Police. We don't have room in our prison system for them all. And to be fair, most don't deserve jail time, they are puppets and fools. They deserve to be sent to Saudi Arabia as guest workers. Of course, such actual justice would be denounced as eliminating the Democrat & Republican leadership, giving the Tea Party mastery over politics..... And it would be true. But it wouldn't be permanent. After all, over half the people are below average...... Thanks to generations of deliberate manipulation. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://spectator.us/maduro-diet/ Hyphen Cortez's health care for free diet. Not voluntary. | ||
| Whisperstealth |
This country is so ••••••• Passed the tipping point. I'm just wanting to live long enough to give my dogs a good life. Once they are gone, I'm hoping a heart attack gets me off this damn rock. | ||
| Sifo |
Health care will be a human right, for as long as it takes for you to starve to death. I agree that we seem to be past the tipping point. I'm glad for what opportunities I've enjoyed in my lifetime. It's been a great ride for me. I should be in great shape financially, well past my expected expiration date, but hyperinflation will wipe out the fortunes of all but the most wealthy. When I worked in IT, there were a lot of people in IT who fled from Russia. I've heard the same stories, first hand, that are now coming out of Venezuela. Sometimes it's difficult to imagine that a country as great as the US could fall this quickly, but history tells us that it happens frequently. Avoiding this fate would actually be akin to winning the lottery. I feel terrible for today's youth who have been educated to embrace the means of their destruction. I've picked my spot from which I will watch and embrace the horror. | ||
| Hootowl |
From the spectator piece. This is a prescient warning for us, as we descend, voluntarily, into the same ‘free shit’ trap. “Not so long ago, I lived as you do. I would have thought it impossible that my country, with its hard-won progress, could fall so quickly into the abyss. The wrong politicians with the wrong ideas can have a bigger effect than anyone can imagine.” | ||
| Court |
I suspect there are great times ahead. Like some of the silly anomalies among the data points cited in “climate science”, much of the current hand wringing, woes and dark thoughts are driven by lack of ability to know how to respond. We're inundated with woeful news . . . the Iran Deal, walking away from the Paris Accord, NAFTA, the wildly fluctuating markets driven by realtors turned politicians. Lackling the capacity to sort, order and process, we do what movies, memes and jesters have taught us . . . we run to the internet . . . post pictures of our guns, adamantly defend our position as the only true truth, seek wisdom, based on nothing but collective numbers, from Facebook and Twitter and loose focus as we devolve into a mental war game of ideology with folks we've never met and have no idea who they are. Toss some trolls in as human catalyst and you'll find a significant part of America unable to think for themselves or operate away from their smartphone . . . poised to respond to the next fateful thread. As all this spins about us like a Dreidel on a freshly waxed hardwood floor . . . the keen of mind, sharp of focus and quiet crowd with vision to see over the hullabaloo horizon have the presence of mind to see the other side of the coin laying on life’s glass tabletop. I'll spare the litany of what's good but, in my mind . . . it's so abundant and so obvious that if forms a contrasting background to make clear the foolhardiness of believing a race of people and a country will find themselves backed into a cave, defending their last bastion as children in diapers are tasked with reloading, while mommy and daddy defend the place and decide how to cook the cat for dinner. We live longer, we're better educated, we have access to the world at the speed of light, we can come and go as we please and opportunity, if wearing the mask the media had put on it, has never been more abundant. In fact, the naysayers have . . .through touting the lure of imagining a life "given, not earned" . . . have removed so much of the competition from the game as to create a hole in life's defensive line that those who see the light can both run through and thrive in success. This is no place for the personal . . . but, I consider myself fortunate. I didn't do it . . . I stumbled in to it. It took my kids, my grandkids, music, beauty and love to wipe the fog from my eyes and allow me to see. I don't spend a day without being thankful for what I have, for those around me, for life's experiences, for my senses and for a heart fully capable of being loved, loving, forgiving and accepting forgiveness. I cry when I read of wonderful people who just want it all to end so they can be spared the mental muck they see themselves in. I pray for them to sit here watching a sunset, to hear the giggle of grandkid hiding behind a chair or to know the powerful mental stimuli of a passion fueled political debate with someone you love, yet lack full alignment of ideals. The people who love me, like Socrates to the youth who gathered, teach me daily . . . challenge me to question what I know and make me better. It's a love with legs, not just words. It's a world that, regardless of what the billboards and news may say, is full of wonder, opportunity and blessing. We're healthy, safe and living longer than ever. Bonnie Raitt once said "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste." I enjoy the news . . . I'm troubled by many things in the world . . . I'm frustrated with politics and some people and I wish I did many things better. But as the sands fall and the days last rays grow soft on the leaves . . . I'm going to focus on the good, be happy, fix what I can, tune out what I have to and bask in the blessings I've been given. I'm going to keep on loving my country, my life, my family, my friends and cherishing those who love me. But . . . hey, that's just one opinion. | ||
| H0gwash |
It does seem the world on twitter is about to self immolate, but the rest of the world expressed in more than 280 words will be fine, just a little different, to those who can see past the drama and can make the right changes at the right time. | ||
| Sifo |
Well written Court. I sincerely hope you are right. There is certainly a part of me that believes all of that. It certainly can be our future, if we as a country choose to make it so. Right now though, I see us heading in the other direction. There is certainly time for our nation to turn itself around. I remain unconvinced we have the will to do so. Only time will write our future history. But, if you're right, then I win!  | ||
| Ratbuell |
I also hope Court is right. My father fought too hard for this country to have it go to shit like this. HOPEFULLY the populace will wake up, before the results are irreversible (or deadly). But, I balance my optimism with an open eye, and as much situational awareness as I can muster. Just in case. | ||
| Blake |
Nicely put professor! | ||
| Crusty |
Nicely put professor! Very nicely put. Thank you for that. It's way too easy to get caught up in the negative and miss the innumerable good things that are in my life. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Unexpectedly! https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/12/starbucks-ne w-bathroom-policy-not-working-out-as-hoped/ |
