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Let ’Em Buy Their Own Damn Books
I gladly pay my taxes, in full and on time. I pay taxes to help defend America, keep our Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, and Air Force strong, well equipped, and ready to defend our way of life. I don’t pay taxes so students can get a free ride on their student loans. They agreed to borrow money to take educational courses that would improve their skills and make them attractive in the marketplace. It is their responsibility to pay back every dime of their loans.
Teachers do not teach for free, books must be purchased, dorm rooms must be rented and maintained, and college buildings will crumble without money coming in. No one gets a free ride. Contrary to what liberal progressives FEEL, education is not a human right; it must be bought and paid for. And, if any student believes that gender studies classes will make them a valuable commodity in today’s marketplace, they are delusional and in need of psychiatric help, not more college credits.
Inflation = Family Emergency
Dan Kennedy related a story to me long ago that having an oil pan leak in the family car was tantamount to an emergency. It took me a moment to noodle through it, but I thought back to my days as a young college student, stuck in Canandaigua, New York (east of nowhere) with a broken timing gear and chain on my sister’s used Pontiac. I was broke and going nowhere until Dad bailed me out and wired the cash to the service station.
My emergency meant I couldn’t get back to school and attend class. Dan’s oil plan leak meant that Dad couldn’t get to work, Mom couldn’t shop for food, and on and on. It was no mere inconvenience; it was life-threatening. The policies of the Biden-Harris Administration have caused untold misery in the pocketbooks and wallets of hard-working Americans. Most don’t have $40,000 CDs and money market funds to draw on when the car is in the shop. Most things have be saved for, whether in coffee cans lining the kitchen window or in the change jar that Momma keeps hidden from Pa. There is no extra money just lyin’ around.
Yellen: An Excellent Choice…to Be Fired
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news (yea, right), but Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is on record saying that more illegals coming into America will help bring inflation numbers down, and that mass deportations will likely increase inflation. She has no concept of the cost of illegals to the American people. Hey, Janet, remember intro to accounting in school? A ledger contains two columns, not one. You always have a debit if you have a credit. Can’t have one without the other. For every positive, there is a negative.
Yellen should have been fired a long time ago. Her views on economics rival those of a “C” student at state U. To the best of my knowledge, Biden has fired no one in his administration, ever. It is high time he did. And yes, she came out and apologized to the American people for telling us that inflation is transitory—not exactly a step in the right direction. Why? Because she has no business leading the Treasury. She is incompetent and a closet—yes—woman doing what she is told to do, saying what she is told to say. A better choice for Treasury Secretary might be someone who actually understands global economics and money. Jamie Dimon, Chief Executive Office of JPMorgan Chase comes to mind. He would likely be a better person to occupy this office, but why the hell would he want to put up with all the political nonsense?
America Does Not Need More Government Workers
It is my conviction that America does not need more government workers. This should be as obvious as an aircraft carrier sitting in a Kansas wheat field. Each and every new entitlement announced by Biden or promised by Harris requires added legions of government workers to run programs and administer benefits. January 20th, 2025 cannot come soon enough!
About as Common as a Tropical Storm in Saudi Arabia
I have always respected Joe Manchin as a maverick centrist who did not tow the party line. He is about as common as a tropical storm in Saudi Arabia. In 2024, he switched parties to
Independent and bid a harsh farewell to the Democrats. So kudos to the West Virginia Senator for refusing to align himself with Veep Kamala Harris’s promise to gut the filibuster rule as a path toward codifying abortion rights. Remember, that until January 2025, Vice President Harris, who is President of the Senate, casts the deciding vote in the Senate over any deadlocked legislation. The maverick senator who I admire refuses to endorse Harris and won’t even speak with her. He sees the Senate filibuster rule as sacred to democracy and views it as more important than any one person. According to CNN, “Without the filibuster rule, Senate rules would lower the threshold from 60 votes to a simple majority of 51 to advance legislation.”
Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue: What if Harris Won? Fear Her Cabinet Choices
Gretchen Whitmer, Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Jerry Nadler, Gavin Newsom…
Have I scared the hell out of you yet?
Fran Lebowitz: Who?
It seems that Fran Lebowitz is a commentator, ideological asshat, and author. She appeared on Bill Maher’s Club Random in September where she proceeded to call for Biden to dissolve the Supreme Court. She called it “an insult to Motown.” Not sure whether she is channeling Diana Ross or the Temptations, but this lady(?) zoomed past deranged a long time ago. The fact that she should be asked her opinion on anything anywhere shows how desperate the extreme left has become.
Terrifying Report from ICE – Indefensible, Yet No One Is Held Accountable
According to One America News report on September 28, 2024, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) reported that 13,099 illegals living in America have been convicted of murder, and over 20,000 have been accused or convicted of rape. These illegal aliens have been permitted to remain in the United States under the Biden-Harris Administration. One more reason why we voted President Trump back to the White House.
Biden’s Moratorium of LNG Export Licenses
From Oilprice.com: “On January 26th, President Biden announced that he would pause approvals (read stop approving) of new licenses to export LNG so that the U.S. Department of Energy could take time to review and assess whether the nation’s considerable LNG exports are ‘undermining domestic energy security, raising consumer costs and damaging the environment’.” As worded, the regulation places a sketching halt on new exports of domestic liquified natural gas. This places tens of thousands of high-paying US energy jobs at risk.
Meanwhile, Mexico, Canada, and others are laughing all the way to the bank, picking up supply contracts to provide Asia with much needed LNG. Asian customers are lining up for alternative supply channels as they view the United States as an unreliable energy partner. Biden bureaucrats refuse to understand that globally, US LNG is the cleanest alternative to supplying Asia with the energy it needs.
Why Can’t the US Be More Like Russia?
Fox journalist Caitlin McFall must have been grinning as she wrote an article published on Fox Digital on September 21, 2024. Evidently, Russia’s birthrate has dropped to such dangerously low levels that Vlad himself is encouraging workers to screw at work.
The Kremlin’s top doctor this week encouraged all Russians to engage in a “sex-at- work” scheme in a move to back President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to counter a growing population crisis.
Despite cash incentives, tax breaks, a nationwide push to discourage abortions and Putin’s years-long attempt to encourage procreation across the country, Russia saw its lowest birth rate in the last quarter-century for the first six months of 2024, reports said following UN findings on worldwide population rates.
As nutty as this sounds to us, when asked how women are supposed to squeeze in sex during a busy 12-hour workday, Russia’s Health Minister Dr. Yevgeny Shestopalov said, “Being very busy at work is not a valid reason, but a lame excuse.”
My guess is that Putin’s next decree will be that all teenage girls, upon reaching the age of 18, will be enrolled in a mandatory screwing program to increase Russia’s probability of having a sufficient supply of young soldiers to get slaughtered in their next war.
My Library
I think it was Jim Rohn who said, “Poor people have big TVs, rich people have big libraries. Now why do you think that is?”
When I read that quote years ago, it started me down a path of collecting and reading important works that would advance my career, skills, and knowledge. These books helped me shape my point of view, added tonnage to my opinions, and rounded out much superficial knowledge.
Today my library holds several hundred books, after donating hundreds more to charity when I moved south some years back. I often reread books to move important ideas from the back of my head to the front. Lately, I have read masterful tomes like The 56, which chronicles the 56 men who dared to sign the Declaration of Independence, and books by Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Newt Gingrich, Ted Cruz, and others. I have reread The Federalist Papers. Each of these books in my library remind me that the idea of America is not a guarantee for all; it is an opportunity that must be grasped. America provides everyone the opportunity to make a difference, or no difference at all. Years ago, my mentor Brian Tracy taught me that class is always in session, and if you are not continually learning, you are falling behind everyone who is learning.
Mr. President, You Are NOT the Smartest One in the Room
Although I am NOT a fan of Wikipedia, I chose to include their words here for a reason. I was curious how they define the President’s Cabinet. Wikipedia informed me that it’s the principal official advisory body of the President of the United States. Elsewhere in their description, they indicated that the Cabinet ordinarily meets every week or two. WOW! Biden has convened his cabinet after almost a year. What does that tell you about a sitting President? From my point of view, the audacity of a near senile man deciding (?) he doesn’t need advice is beyond ludicrous and outlandish.
Joe Biden convened his Cabinet for the first meeting in about 11½ months. With all that is falling apart in the world, you would have thought they wouldn’t have waited a year to have another get-together. But don’t get your hopes up. Although the full cabinet did meet, the media reported that a special guest would be in attendance. Immediately my brain went to a short list of Taylor Swift, Cher, Tom Hanks, and Georg Clooney. But alas, it was Mrs. Joe Biden with a remarkably important message about women’s health research. Please understand, I don’t downplay the importance of health research, whether for women or men, but I fail to see the urgency of that message at a full meeting of the President’s Cabinet. If I was in charge of the agenda, I would lead off with these top five urgent situations:
- US inflation
- Border emergency and illegal immigration
- Voting integrity
- Israeli war with Hamas and Hezbollah
- Russia-Ukraine war
While I applaud Mrs. Biden’s support for women’s health research, there is a time and a place for everything, and my gut tells me it is not in a Cabinet meeting. By the way, am I the only politically aware American who finds it absurd that the last Cabinet meeting was October 2, 2023?
Can America’s Professional Democrats Actually Think All Is Well?
Long-time readers of the Equal Opportunity Times are no doubt aware of how I feel about the State of the Union. In a word, I feel our Union is on life support, complete with an IV and oxygen. Yet I’m amazed at how professional Democrats see the cup as being half full rather than half empty. That they acknowledge any problems at all is just short of amazing to me. After all, there is a Democrat in the White House, the Senate is deadlocked at 50/50 with Demigod VP Kamala Haris always able to cast the deciding vote in favor of team blue, and while the House has a Republican majority, it is, at best, a slim margin. Here is a list of what I see as entrenched issues that have caused extraordinary harm to America:
- Unprecedented crimes levels
- Mass demonstrations on college campuses and acceptance of socialist orthodoxy
- Admitting millions of illegals into our country
- Persistent inflation
- Food insecurity
- DEI entrenched in our public schools
- Regulatory overreach by Executive departments
- Diverting taxpayer dollars to illegals
- Illegal student loan cancelations by Executive departments
- Massive entitlement programs furthering dependence on a central government
- Ongoing costs over $100 billion in caring for illegals
- Deterioration of our military strength
- The left continuing to push a radical agenda of hate and rhetoric, inciting violence
- Loss of corporate media independence and extreme bias tolerated
- Militant socialists vying for power
- Justice Department being used to silence political adversaries (lawfare)
Is it at all possible that Schumer, Waters, Nadler, Jayapal, AOC, Sanders, Schiff, and Warren will be voted out of office anytime soon?
When the Government Allows Murderers into the US – They Murder Americans
Waitressing was part-time, bringing in just enough money to take 6 credits at her local community college. With 24 credits already in the done column, Holly was well on her way to getting a degree in special needs childhood education. Learning how to interact with special needs children and how to teach them had become her focus and her passion. Caring for her little brother with Downs Syndrome was a labor of love. She never wanted to do anything else. That Monday night was no different than any other. Her feet ached, she was tired, she desperately needed a shower, and was looking forward to five hours of sleep before studying for an exam.
As she exited the diner in the dim pre-dawn light, she heard someone behind her. As she turned around, she was hit in the face with something hard, maybe metal. She fell to the ground. The pain was excruciating. Her assailant was brutal. He bashed her head in with a crowbar. She felt blood running down her face as someone fell hard on top of her, pulling her dress up and panties down. He entered her and treated her like an animal, punching her face and pulling her hair, all the while holding a hand over her mouth so she could not scream. With the last of her strength, she reached up and scratched at his face and eyes with her nails. Thankfully the assault was over quickly. She lay there, blood draining from her. Her last thought was her attacker running away into the woods. She died at 24 in a pool of blood.
Minutes later a police car turned into the parking lot. Two officers were getting off their shift and looking forward to breakfast. They saw the crumpled body and leaped into action. One officer calling for assistance while the other one leaned over the body, frantically searching for signs of life.
Within minutes, the police established a blockade stretching 5 miles across all sides of the diner. Dogs searched all the forests and areas closest to the scene. After searching for hours, police found the bloodied jacket of the attacker, half hidden under a rotted tree stump in a wooded area. Two hours later, the attacker was found hiding at a construction site. The attacker’s pants and shoes were covered in blood, and the left side of his face bore a huge open wound where Holly managed to scratch is face.
The attacker was fingerprinted and identified as a 27-year-old illegal from Central America. The
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) record showed he had been arrested multiple times and released. Common sense tells us this violent rapist and murderer should never have been allowed into the country. The policies of the Biden-Harris Administration permitted and encouraged millions to remain in America waiting for Immigration Court cases scheduled years into the future.
Had America abided by a strict immigration policy and expanded border enforcement, perhaps this horrible murder would never have happened and Holly would have been alive to pursue her dreams, graduate from college, and care for her brother and others like him.
But government policies do affect families. They rip families apart and cause untold despair. Meanwhile, The Biden Administration continues to allow illegals to flood America.
And no, they are not newcomers with complex immigration situations. They are illegals who should be captured and deported as soon as humanly possible.
Unfortunately, Holly’s story is not unique. Rapes and murders have been reported over and over, from Gorgia to New York to Texas and elsewhere.
Holly’s story is a compilation of nine reported incidences of illegals murdering young women in the last two years. Each of the assailants were captured and released under the Biden Administration policies. The circumstances are accurate, and the rapes and murders are real.
U.S. Border Patrol Criminal Noncitizen Arrests
For those die-hard liberals who insist that crime statistics shown in the media are fabricated, here are actual numbers from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) for fiscal years (ending September 30) 2017 (Trump Presidency) through 2024 YTD (Biden Presidency).
From the CPB website: Arrests of Individuals with Criminal Convictions
The term “criminal noncitizens” refers to individuals who have been convicted of one or more crimes, whether in the United States or abroad, prior to interdiction by the U.S. Border Patrol; it does not include convictions for conduct that is not deemed criminal by the United States.
Arrests of criminal noncitizens are a subset of total apprehensions by U.S. Border Patrol.
Homicides and Manslaughter Numbers (per CBP)
Trump – 2017: 3
Trump – 2018: 3
Trump – 2019: 2
Trump – 2020: 3
Biden – 2021: 60
Biden – 2022: 62
Biden – 2023: 29
Biden YTD: 27
The Purpose of Our Fighting Men and Women
The function of the American military is to defend our country and, if necessary, to fight and win. Said another way, it is to kill the enemy. These patriots are not to be pampered or babied. They are to be trained day and night so they are able to fight on a second’s notice. Period. It is not to complete DEI training, it is not to be subjected to ongoing equity seminars and the importance of inclusion and transgenders in the military. I have often considered the Navy Seals as America’s tip of the spear. The Seals are the most potent and lethal fighting force in our country. They train constantly and are our country’s hair-trigger response to explosive and dangerous global situations.
Biden and Harris would have these warriors sitting in inclusion classes and learning about micro-aggressions. These fighting forces are all about MACRO aggressions.
You don’t feed a king cobra a glass of warm milk. You don’t coddle a crocodile, and you don’t pet a leopard. You recognize that they are LETHAL and give them a wide birth. The Biden Administration has no concept of this.
This Story Is Entirely Possible
Not long ago I had a total hip replacement. One day, my wife left to run some errands and asked my son to take a freezer pack off my leg in 30 minutes, get me out of bed, and place the freezer pack back in the freezer when he was done watching the U.S. Open Tennis match on TV.
It seems he really wasn’t paying much attention to my wife’s simple instructions. So when the timer went off, he helped me out of bed and into the kitchen. He placed the freezer pack on the kitchen counter and proceeded to open up the freezer and stick me in it, all the while keeping one eye on the TV set. He then went back to watching the tennis open.
When my wife got home from running errands, she saw the freezer pack on the kitchen counter and asked why he hadn’t put the freezer pack back in the freezer. My son looked at her quizzically and said, “I thought you said to put Dad in the freezer.” She stopped, looked at him, and said, “You’re an idiot.” Then she opened the freezer, and sure enough, there I was, looking pretty cold and frosty. She carefully extricated me from the freezer and called 9-1-1.
The medics arrived, hooked me up to an intravenous drip, and gave me hot coffee and blankets. My son never took his eyes off the television. My wife thanked the medics, placed the freezer pack in the freezer where it belonged, and proceeded to swat my son in the head with a rolled up magazine. If there was ever a reason to take him out of my will, this was it!
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