This kid who seems to have broken down our entire security system so he can impress a bunch of gamers is exactly what’s wrong with our younger generation. Yes, I’m old, I wouldn’t be writing this if I wasn’t.
He didn’t, do this; the way a normal young man would, to impress some girl or because he is of a certain political leaning. He didn’t do it to make money or get a better job. He did it to impress a bunch of nerds who, like himself, spend their time playing computer games. I mean, there’s pathetic and then there’s SUPER PATHETIC.
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Wes Moore the new governor of Maryland is a superstar. Start paying attention to him as presidential material. He sees the problems; he understands the problems and he is moving to solve the problems. That’s what we want in our government. His concept of a year of public service is exactly what today’s youth needs to grow up and become viable citizens. Too many of our kids are getting out of school with no idea of what they can do or how to do it. A year in training in some functional apprentice kind of job is exactly what these kids need. FDR did it during the Depression with the CCC’s and the WPA. Half our businesses and a lot of young people out there would benefit from some kind of apprentice program.
And they don’t all have to be business orientated. Public service does not have the funding necessary to employ all the people needed to cover their mandate, especially in child and elder care, but also in Parks and Rec and other public areas where unskilled help is necessary.
Give them a job, let them see what the real world looks like.
Where does the money come from? People in the program would be paid $15 an hour by their employer, for at least 30 hours a week. A participant would be expected to work with an on-site mentor, who would provide job training, career and postsecondary educational counseling and financial literacy skills. Wes Moore is offering a $3,000.00 stipend at the end of service. Yes, we need to raise our national minimum wage but that’s another story entirely. Listen to Bernie on that one. He has the whole deal.
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I keep hearing politicians bullshitting about all the problems of guns and what to do about them and there seems to be one unassailable truth that no one can deny. If you don’t have a gun, you can’t shoot one. It’s a very simple premise and it attacks the problem from a direction that is reasonable and logical.
For years I tried to approach the problem from a direction that allowed for ownership for those who wanted to have guns and had at least semi- legitimate reasons to own them. I have since concluded that none of that works. The only solution is to take back all the guns. Sure, I know what a monumental job that is, but it has been done in Australia and it must be done here, because there are no other workable solutions. When we have people like Asa Hutchinson who is running for President declare that he will back a bill calling for the death penalty for mass shooters we know logic has left the argument. Most mass shooters are already suicidal. Most never live past the incident. Wake up Asa. Stop wasting our time with your idiotic claptrap.
And then this weekend the last bastion of reasonable gun ownership went down the toilet when two home-owners sought to protect their property by shooting people who had mistakenly come to their homes. One 87-year -old shot a black kid who was ringing his doorbell. The kid had come to the wrong house in search of his brothers. He didn’t get killed but he did get shot in the head.
The other asshole, who is being charged with murder, shot into a car that was turning around in his driveway and killed a young woman in the passenger seat.
The homeowner protecting his property has always been the rock-solid core of gun ownership, the guy who is always in the right, but these two fools put the lie even to that. Because they were ignorant cowards who had possession of guns, one young woman is dead and a young man is seriously wounded, ample proof that there is no better solution to the gun problem but to remove them from all who possess them.
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Fox settled the Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million. It’s not what Dominion was asking but it ain’t hay. The biggest disappointment about the settlement is that Fox doesn’t seem to have to apologize for lying about Dominion. The Dominion CEO said on TV that Fox knowingly lied, but no one from Fox has mentioned any lies yet.
The apology is what most in politics and the media are waiting for. Looks like Dominion was more interested in an immediate payoff!
Fox reporters lied about Dominion, knowing that what they were saying were lies. How can any viewer ever believe them again? That may be the big question around the media, but it seems that Fox has a special kind of viewer, a viewer who doesn’t care if they are lied to as long as the lie coincides with what they want to believe. It’s interesting that the feedback from advertisers has been far worse than that from viewers.
So, who are these people who don’t care if they are lied to as long as the lie agrees with their political POV? They are the 25% of GOP voters who still love Trump and still want him as President. These are people who liked having a sleazy con man as their President. No, I don’t know why? Who the hell could understand such an illogical position? Trump never did anything for these voters except express bigotry and hatred against those parts of the population that they hate too. I guess that’s enough when you don’t have anything else.
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House Republicans just passed a bill that would ban trans athletes from women’s sports. It failed in the Senate.
I haven’t read the bill but it’s not surprising that it passed the House and failed in the Senate. It’s just unfortunate. We need some kind of bill that at least limits trans athletes from women’s sports. The athletes in question have been men all their lives, up to this pint and are physically men regardless of what has or has not been done to their bodies recently. What we need is a set of guidelines that medically and physically lays out what a trans athlete needs to do to get into physical shape to compete fairly with female athletes.
It should be fairly obvious that when an average male athlete, having made the change, competes and wins everything as a woman, that an unfair advantage is at work. This needn’t be something that takes congress to deal with. In fact, congress has far more important stuff on its plate, that it is already failing at. I’d like to say that this should be on the agenda of every one of sports ruling organizations but most of them can’t get out of their own way. In one of its rare functional moves, congress recognized this, and that’s why they are getting involved now.
I’d like to see the female athletes strike against any competition that allows trans athletes to compete against women, but I know that’s not how athletes think. Every woman facing such competition is thinking, “I can beat most of the girls. Now if I beat that trans SOB, I’ll be queen of the world.”