Yesterday no matter where we went, people were talking about the terrorist attacks in Paris and immigration. From the bank to people we overheard at Starbucks, there is a genuine concern going on among people. While several of my friends, and Lori’s, were not surprised (as what would a sane person expect when you let hundreds of thousands of people who follow a ideology that harbors some that hate and want to kill you) into your country, apparently many were shocked. It has now been proven that at least (and I’ll bet all) of the attackers were refugees that were taken in by countries to try to offer them a better life. The sad thing is that the vast majority of Muslims are not bad people but now, whether you admit it to yourself or not, when you see one walking down the street, you’re going to take an extra look and be suspicious. So the divide will deepen, Trump has surged in the polls as people are getting scared. Things are going to get worse before they get better, trust me. Political parties are rising like the Phoenix in European countries in opposition to this forced immigration. A few bad seeds among the immigrants are causing this to escalate. In Germany, German women are being told to wear long dresses and cover their faces when walking near Muslim neighborhoods, In Sweden, gangs of Muslim men are roaming the streets raping Swedish women as in their religion all women are supposed to be submissive to all men and they see it as their right to attack whoever they want. Meanwhile in America, the Black Lives Matter group (don’t get me going) is upset that the terrorist attacks in Paris are taking attention away from them. Boy oh boy, hold onto your hats, we’re in for a bumpy ride.
Here at home, college professors and administrators are being forced to resign over threats from students that they are racist or don’t protect them from someone saying something mean to them. Oh how I feel for these poor poor kids who are having their feelings hurt, wah wah wah. The other day there was another protest against institutions of higher learning, read on for another opinion as this gets even better.
This “Million Student March†which occurred the other day (and it was no where near a million students) was supposedly organized by a social justice warrior named Keely Mullen who will be graduating from Northeastern University in Boston with a staggering $150,000 in debt. What is Ms. Mullen majoring in? This information is carefully concealed in numerous articles touching on the march, which leads me to believe she majored in something über-useless. Doubtless now, she is facing the terrifying thought of working for the next 40 years as a barista at Starbucks, desperately trying to pay off the student loans she stupidly acquired to begin with to study a useless subject. And if she isn’t concerned about this fate, it’s probably only because she foresees a long career as a taxpayer-funded rabble-rousing activist espousing more nonsense that will lure others into debt slavery.
So who’s to blame for this debt Ms. Mullen acquired? Who’s at fault for her choices? Did someone point a gun at her head and force her to major in peace studies or sociology to the tune of $150,000? Of course she wants her debt dismissed. (This is called “freeloading.â€)
At what point do young people begin to take personal responsibility for the decisions they make in life? In my opinion, Ms. Mullen is the epitome of the stupidity being bred in colleges today – no concept of supply and demand, a strong sense of entitlement, the notion that socialism will cure all problems and an insistence they should be given for free all the things other people spent decades acquiring through hard work. Goodness, I sure as heck wouldn’t want to hire Ms. Mullen, even if I owned a coffee house and needed a barista.
Who do you suppose did not walk out of their classes on Thursday? I’m willing to bet it was the mature, intelligent, practical students who are meeting the demands of the marketplace by obtaining useful degrees in the STEM subjects. These are kids who know their future depends on their grades and don’t have time for silly nonsense that won’t accomplish anything. Presumably, after graduation they won’t be demanding the government supply them with pointless “social justice warrior†jobs, either
So now in addition to wanting all student debt forgiven (forget who will pay for it) student leaders are calling for an end to the 1st Amendment. Now they demand safe spaces where no one can say anything to anyone. If students need a safe space, they should go home, put on their jammies, grab their teddy bears, suck their thumbs and come back when they grow up and can face the real world.
So to all you college cupcakes, if you really want to make yourself employable, skip the social justice warrior route and instead spend your time cultivating the intangible but valuable skills all employers seek: a strong work ethic, discipline, self-control, a dedication to your commitments, the ability to arrive on time, to perform a task without complaint and (after training) without supervision, the ability to write coherently instead of like a texting monkey, the ability to speak clearly without saying “like†or use an expletive every fourth word, and other indefinable skills that raise you head and shoulders above the crowd.
Forgo that internship with the ACLU or embarrassing public demands for coerced handouts. The world doesn’t need more shakedown artists.
Are you kidding me, what the hell is going on. America, get your shit together before it’s too late. Wake the fuck up. I’ll stop for now but we’re close to that inflection point where we won’t be able to turn back and things will just spiral out of control, and when we all do wake up and realize we need to stop this insanity, it’ll be too late. In closing, and I hate to bring politics into this, but the democratic party is a big part of pushing this agenda. I never thought I’d see the day where one couldn’t speak their mind, even if it was hateful speech, especially on college campuses. For centuries we have sent our children to fight in wars so anyone can say anything they want, free speech right? But now people are being told you can’t say this or say that, or dress like this or dress like that. Watch out as if you advocate this approach, soon you’ll lose much more of your rights than you ever thought possible. Ok, now onto the day, this is what you get when Mojo wakes me at 5:33 am.
We made a ton of progress yesterday, unfortunately the people buying our house are going out of town for Thanksgiving week so our closing is pushed back until the 30th. Anyhow we packed and moved a lot of stuff. Lori had her friend Andrea come over who stayed until 9 or 10 and they packed the entire kitchen. There’s just a few areas to go and tomorrow (Monday) James will get the big pieces of furniture out. A big snow storm is supposed to arrive Tuesday so I won’t come down again until Wednesday and then we’ll all be down next weekend to wrap things up. I’m going to the game today with Ty and one of his friends from Vail and his dad who are driving down. Ty never gets to go much less take a friend so when he asked a few weeks ago, I said yes. I think Lori and Jagger will drive the truck up (as it’s loaded with stuff) before the game is over and I’ll stop by and pick up Mojo this evening. There’s increased security today at all football games so we need to leave early, great. Time to run so I can pack some more books, man we have a lot of books. We did donate some to the boys old school yesterday but still have hundreds. I love books and refuse to throw them out. Someday books will be extinct which will be a real shame. Anyhow it’s a changing World we live in and I’m afraid more changes than not are not for the best. There’s always hope though that mankind or better yet, God will somehow save us from ourselves.
God Bless