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.They need to be ended
Our court systems every day just prove what idiots people are. Here, I read about that little Perry boy who was killed. It just disgusts me. And it’s just like that little AJ. What is wrong with the death penalty? Bring it back. Anybody that does that to a child is a disgrace to this world. They need to be ended. Those people, they need to get the death penalty. I’m sorry. To do that to a poor little child is unthinkable, unbearable. With our stupid system, they’ll give them probably 20 or 30 years which is wrong. What about the poor kids? They had more than 20 years to live I’m sure, if they had been taken care of right. It just disgusts me that our courts won’t give out the punishment that they deserve. It should have been death, just like those poor kids.
Too bad
Too bad for U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because she likes to flap her wings all the time, but she has COVID. I don’t wish COVID on anybody, but I also do not expect people to have double standards in their stupid speeches that they give out weekly. So, too bad you’ve got the virus. And I bet you’re going to blame Florida for that, but then you’re on your own. You had a right to wear or not wear a mask, and you decided not to.
Integrity
Folks, does integrity matter? It matters in every aspect of your life, integrity. Voters rights, integrity. The hiring of personnel, integrity. The people that we elect, integrity. All this is a big word, integrity. A small word with a lot of muscle behind it. Folks, let’s make integrity part of your everyday life. Does that not matter?
LOL
Laughing out loud at my breakfast table. Fed chief promises strong ethics rules. That’s priceless coming from our federal government under the Biden administration. Ethics. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Hearts of stone
I say no more. No more incentives. No more begging. No more tragic stories. The anti-vaxxers will not be moved. They have hearts of stone. Their politics, their selfishness, their arrogance, their ignorance, mean more to them than the health and safety of themselves, their families and society as a whole. Just give us information in a practical manner, and those of us who believe in science will continue to protect ourselves and others. They will continue to suffer disease, hospitalizations and sometimes death. I am unsympathetic to them.
Just try
I would like to chime in on reparations. I am torn on the issue. I get it. African Americans have been at the short end of the stick for most of our nation’s history. Will not argue that. If Waukegan wants to do like Evanston and give African Americans money for down payments on homes from weed sales tax dollars, it is an excellent idea. Or money to start a business in African American communities, that would be a good cause. That being said, I think African Americans should have to prove their ancestors were brought here against their will on slave ships to get a dime of reparations. If an African American came to our country 15 years ago to escape the Sudan Civil War, sorry. I don’t think you are owed anything except your freedom. There are millions of African Americans here, most of their ancestors were not forced here on slave ships. Kamala Harris comes to mind. Or Barack Obama. African Americans can get ahead in this wonderful country we call America without a hand out. Just try.
God help this country
It would be hard to find a better example of Democrat hypocrisy and political manipulation of reality than offered here recently by someone who says we should call “Donnie” “Bonehead” instead of “Bone Spurs.” He actually faults Trump for two actions which are right in line with Democratic goals: The pandemic stimulus checks and the eviction moratorium protections enacted under Trump. An honest Democrat would be applauding those two actions, as they certainly would if Biden had done the same thing. God help this country if we can’t bring some honesty and civility back to our political system.