June 23, 2025 - DEPORTATION GONE INSANE

I’m all for deporting immigrants who didn’t follow the rules to come to the US. If I tried to enter Germany or Canada illegally, I would only assume I would be kicked out, too. This case, though, goes beyond common sense.

Marine Corps veteran, Adrian Clouatre, doesn’t know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month. His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation.

His wife is a 25-year-old Mexican national whose mother brought her to the US more than a decade ago, seeking asylum, when Paola was just a teenager, 15 at most. She would eventually meet her husband at a southern California nightclub in 2022, during the final months of his military service.

They married in 2024, and Adrian believed his wife deserved to live legally in the US. “I’m all for ‘get the criminals out of the country,’ right? But the people that are here working hard, especially the ones married to Americans — I mean, that’s always been a way to secure a green card,” he stated. I always thought so, too.

Paola applied for a green card after her marriage, and all was going well, until… she learned ICE had issued an order for her deportation in 2018 after her mother failed to appear at an immigration hearing. She and her mother had been estranged for years with Paola cycling in and out of homeless shelters as a teenager. She claims to have had no idea about her mother’s missed hearing or the deportation order. Adrian said he and his wife had tried to “do the right thing” and that he felt ICE officers should have more discretion over arrests, though he understood they were only trying to do their jobs.

USCIS still offers a program allowing family members of military personnel who illegally entered the U.S. to remain in the country as they apply for a green card. The military even promotes it. However, the Trump administration seems to be ignoring it. This is wrong!

Paola is a woman who arrived here as a minor, having been brought here by her mother. There is no mention of her having any criminal record. She married a military man, which throughout our history, has been a virtual automatic assignment to legal status. There’s no reference to a job, so I’m assuming she is a stay-at-home mother, dedicated to raising her young children.

Brought here as a minor, no apparent criminal record, not stealing anyone’s job, and married to a former military man (so probably not mooching off the taxpayer outside any of her husband's military benefits). This is a woman, seemingly a model “citizen”, who should be last on the deportation list. As I stated, I’m all for deporting illegals, but this goes way too far.

Source used: Associated Press

June 11, 2025 - THE COST OF IMMIGRATION IS A NET LOSS

The unprecedented increase in immigration, starting during Biden’s first year as President, brought extra revenue to states and local governments. However, the cost of services for those newly arrived migrants was greater, leading to a net LOSS of $9.2 billion in 2023, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The roughly 4.3 million immigrants who arrived from 2021-23 paid about $10.1 billion in state and local taxes in 2023. Sounds good? Right? Well, not so fast! Across the country, state and local governments spent about $19.3 billion in goods and services for those immigrants, with costs concentrated on providing education and shelter. If your in a state without income taxes, the percentage of loss was probably even greater.

While the $9.2 billion net loss amounts to just 0.3% of state and local spending, simple math does dictate that it costs American’s money to let them in – at least over the first few years – to the tune of $56 per working American.

The CBO report stated, “State and local governments saw both their tax revenues and their spending increase in 2023 as a result of the surge in immigration. In CBO’s estimation, the increase in spending was greater than the increase in taxes.”

Including indirect effects, such as increases in property tax and economic activity, the surge in immigration led to a revenue increase of $18.8 billion and a SPENDING increase of $28.6 billion for state and local governments, netting a LOSS of roughly $9.8 billion. The CBO added that the surge in immigration directly increased spending for public primary and secondary education by $5.7 billion, or 0.7 percent, in 2023. About 25% of that can be attributed to the additional instructional and support services due to language barriers.

Four states (New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Colorado (all blue states)), spent a total of $3.3 billion to provide shelter and related services, including food and legal support.

While I fully support immigrants coming here, assuming they follow immigration laws (which every sovereign nation has), the argument that they don’t cost taxpayer’s money simply fails the statistical test. I’m pretty sure when my family arrived in the US in the first decade of the 1700’s, they didn’t get government assistance to do so… because we weren’t even a country yet.

April 16, 2025 - ISRAEL'S CONTINUED GENOCIDE

I’ve been saying it for years. I’ve even stated it on my podcast long before the attacks of Hamas on Israel. Israel has been subjecting Palestinian people to abuse, theft of lands, denial of basic human rights, and much more, for decades. Attacks on Palestinian lands has very little to do with defense of Israel, but occupation and annexing of more territory.

The Israeli response to the wrongful Hamas attacks which should have never happened, has gone far beyond defending Israel and eliminating Hamas, both of which are legitimate aims. Anyone who can’t see the action of the last 18 months as genocide, needs a checkup from the neck up. There is no crueler, more appalling actions happening in the world today. The proof?

Israel has said it will keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, as it vowed to force Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages from the October ‘23 attacks. In other words, all your innocent civilians can die. That’s like denying food to an entire city because one of the city’s sociopathic gangs committed an attack in your town's public park. To make matters worse, Israel has targeted hospitals and medical personnel working in Gaza, with two hospitals struck, and severely hampered by airstrikes this week.

Aid supplies including food, fuel, water and medicine, have been blocked by Israel from entering Gaza since more than two weeks before the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian territory.

The medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières, stated Gaza was becoming a “mass grave for Palestinians”. The Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, declared: “Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and… no one is currently planning to allow any humanitarian aid into Gaza, and there are no preparations to enable such aid.”

Doctors and aid groups on the ground said the humanitarian situation in Gaza was becoming graver by the day. “The situation is the worst it has been in 18 months in terms of being deprived of your basic necessities and the resumption of hostilities and attacks against Palestinians in all of Gaza,” said Mahmoud Shalabi, a director at Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Amnesty International, one of several aid agencies, described Israel’s blockade on all supplies destined for Gaza as a crime against humanity and a violation of international humanitarian law. The Israeli government, being the heartless bastards they are, of course, has denied any violations.

I still believe all of this could end with a simple phone call that Biden didn’t make, and Trump won’t make. It would take about 15 seconds. “Your country [Israel] will not receive a single penny in aid from the US until you completely pull out of all Palestinian territory and allow all humanitarian aid in. Oh… and the aid will be lost for good, not just delayed.”

February 20, 2025 - FEDERAL LAYOFF SCARE TACTICS

That weather app you refer to uses data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a small organization which could see as much as 10% of its workforce cut this week. The safety of the food you feed your family is regulated and inspected by a host of federal employees, including the FDA, whose leader quit.

The safety of that flight to see family or your favorite vacation spot is overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration, which experienced layoffs this month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were hit with a first round of layoffs this week, which could allegedly affect outbreak response and reporting. Oh, and you’re working on your taxes – while thousands of Internal Revenue Service probationary employees are expected to be laid off during tax season.

These are just some of the scare tactics used by liberals, some conservatives, and everyone who has been brainwashed into thinking only the Overlords can provide worthwhile services. If one follows their logic, mankind should have died off thousands of years ago. It must truly be a miracle that anyone ever survived without the latest of government programs, agencies, and other wasteful spending. Certainly, if government didn’t provide something, there would never be a single soul who would step up and get rich off consumers desiring such services.

Government didn’t create Ford, Amazon, Facebook, Target, Kodak, Nike, and all the other companies that have come and gone over decades. I had a fairly successful career as a flooring sub-contractor without a single dollar of help from the government. Thousands of people have beautiful floors because of me, and Shaw, another company not created by Congress. Where there is money to be made, someone almost always will be there to step in and provide the services and/or products consumers demand.

Governments everywhere, are among the most inefficient entities in existence. They waste your money and are inundated with fraud. If not for the much abused “general welfare” clause of the Constitution, most agencies wouldn’t even exist. Americans have outsourced their common sense to those agencies, apparently, because learning for oneself is too difficult.

It's truly amazing. Neanderthal man survived, yet a small percentage of federal workers losing their jobs is going to be the end of the world. Apparently, mankind has morphed into invertebrates – no backbone.

February 13, 2025 - AMERICA, THE WORLD'S HEALTHCARE "SUGAR DADDY"

International health organizations have warned that Donald Trump’s push to dismantle US foreign aid, as well as orders barring diversity, equity and inclusion, are destroying programs that once provided healthcare to millions of women and girls worldwide.

Oh, the horrors! Foreigners may no longer have the US as their “sugar daddy” anymore. What a shame! People may actually have to fend for themselves and fight for their own beliefs. What a shame! All I have to say is… it’s about time! Freedom and rights aren’t free and we’ve been giving assistance to foreign countries free of charge for too damn long.

Providers said a 90-day stop-work order imposed by the Department of State to review contracts for compliance means many clinics, which operate on shoestring budgets, may never reopen. Excuse me! It’s a pause – not a termination. Have you been “sugar daddied” for so long that you can’t bear a temporary “sugar diet”?

“The whole ecosystem is crumbling,” said a doctor in Uganda, who’s a senior director for Africa with MSI Reproductive Choices, a UK-based non-profit that provides family planning services around the world - and which expects to lose $14m in US funding. Excuse me! It’s UK-based! If you don’t like it complain to the UK, not America. Or maybe you’re forgetting. What you are getting is charity. You haven’t earned it.

The US provides $8.2bn each year for foreign humanitarian aid, about 1% of total US spending. $607.5m of that is to aid family planning - funding that experts estimate would have provided modern contraceptives to 47 million women and girls.

The state department did later clarify that “life-saving” humanitarian aid was not subject to the pause. Despite that, mainstream media outlets are basically calling the pause the end of the world. The pause is no different than a family sitting down at dinner and having a serious discussion on whether they truly need to be spending money on everything they do, then prioritizing. It’s what every money-smart person does at least once per year.

It may sound cruel, but those in need around the rest of the world are not America’s problem. On the other hand, helping is the moral thing to do, and we should. However, it should be done through voluntary contributions to organizations such as the Red Cross, CARE, Doctors Without Borders, International Medical Corp., and others. Governments should not be a “sugar daddy” through forced taxation. Real charity doesn’t require theft of people’s hard labor.

If one would like to help, donate to one of the aforementioned charities. See the following links:

https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=496970&p=3626027

January 24, 2025 - POLICE CAMERAS VS PUBLIC ACCESS

Nothing will bring back Rebecca Duran’s son, 20-year-old Donovan Lewis, shot dead by a police officer while in his bed in August ‘22. Getting at the truth involving his murder in Columbus, Ohio, relied on one piece of crucial evidence: the officers’ own body-camera footage.

“Up until the moment that I saw the video, I was under the impression that he had fought them back. Their whole spin on the story was fabricated.”

At 2am, officer Ricky Anderson, a 30-year veteran of the force, pulled his weapon and fired at Lewis, killing him. The footage has played a pivotal role in charging, and indicting, Anderson with homicide and reckless endangerment, which he denies.

However, a recently signed new law means that police departments in Ohio will be able to charge up to $750 for access to body-camera, or other video footage. It’s a move causing outrage among civil rights advocates, family members of victims of police interactions, and media advocates. The proposal was not made public in advance, nor was it subject to a hearing by lawmakers. It was put into an omnibus bill in the final hours of the outgoing Ohio legislature last month. Those opposed say it’s an effort by law enforcement to restrict access to public records.

To make matters worse, the fee seems to be charged… per camera, so multiple officers could mean thousands of dollars. That’s money most people can’t afford, especially when funeral costs come due.

Columbus isn’t the only place this is happening. In 2022, the Indianapolis metro police department began charging up to $150 per video, and Washington state allows police departments to charge 49 cents per minute of footage. The Washington law is supposed to waive fees for individuals “directly involved” in the footage, their attorneys, and certain state government organizations.

Citizens in Ohio, as well as other states, already get taxed billions of dollars for funding law enforcement. In 2021, Ohio stood at $3.9bn, or $322 per capita, more than any of its surrounding states except Pennsylvania.

Ohio’s governor, R - Mike DeWine, said he believed the law would help smaller police departments manage their workloads better. Police departments also claim charging for video footage would lessen requests from YouTube, TikTok and other content creators.

So where do we draw the line in the sand between taxpayers’ right to know, and those in it to stuff their pockets? Government needs to be open if they expect us to have any respect for them as being trustworthy. On the other hand, it’s basically impossible to protect the right to privacy of those involved in police interactions, while spitting out copy after copy to every wannabe looking to use it for monetary gain.

My solution: Family members, and their lawyers, directly involved in the “incident” should get free access, no matter how many cameras are involved. Beyond that, police departments should release footage after it’s been edited to protect victim’s rights. Imposing excessive fees suggests the effort to hide something, which destroys taxpayer trust of the Overlord’s enforcers.