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School bus drivers, at least in my area, aren’t full time jobs. The job is only for 4 to 5 hours a day, 180 days a year. A half time job, at best. In Orange County, they are offering a $3500 sign on bonus, and they still can’t get enough applicants, no one even showed up to the hiring event. It’s not just a Florida problem. There is a nationwide shortage of school bus drivers. Massachusetts can’t get enough school bus drivers, so the Governor has activated the National Guard and is forcing them to drive the bus.

School bus drivers aren’t the only shortage. Substitute teachers are short as well.

It isn’t just the public sector. A restaurant in Winter Park has closed its doors after 35 years. Not for lack of business, but for lack of employees. There were only 4 people left who worked there, and no one was even applying for jobs. I have eaten there before, the food was actually quite good.

The left claims that no one wants to return to work because wages are too low. I just don’t buy this one. How can people afford to simply sit at home with no money coming in? The answer is simple: they don’t need the money.

If they don’t need the money, the next question is: Why don’t they need the money? Logic follows that they must either have no bills, or have another source of money to cover those bills. We all know that they must have SOME bills. Food, the cell phones that everyone seems to have, etc.

That must mean that employers have competition. Someone is paying them enough that they don’t need to work. Welfare, combined with food stamps, the $300 a month tax payments for having children, and other monies issued from the public dole are removing the main incentive for working: they don’t need more to live on.

The US government is practically pouring bags of cash out of helicopters. Even businesses are catching tons of cash. Selected businesses, that is. The Biden administration is handing out $482 million to aircraft manufacturing companies, even though they are making trillions.

Here comes the inflation.

This one goes to Larry Correia, who as usual, hits one out of the park:

[The Biden Administration] can’t even guard an airport from a bunch of goat rapists, but by golly, they’re going to swagger back to America, say fuck you Separation of Powers, fuck your Three Branches of Government, tear off a big chunk of the Constitution and wipe their ass with it on TV, all in the name of “the greater good”. That’s sure to be a hit!

Go read the whole thing. This rant is epic!

No matter what your contribution is to any field of endeavor, you will be judged in hindsight 150 years from now by people using standards and morals that don’t even exist yet.

If you are a parent and don’t want your children to wear a mask, don’t go to the school to speak with administration. If you do, the school will be placed on lockdown and you will be banned from going there.

I say this as a former teacher who spent 7 years there: do not put your kids in public school. They do not have your child’s best interests in mind. They only care about funding and political power.

The pro-mandate doctor “brushed the arm” of the anti-mandate protester, who “pushed the doctor into the street.”

No bias there.

For decades, Democrats have claimed that the Second Amendment refers to the state militia which they allege to be the National Guard.

If this is indeed the case, then Congress can’t dictate how that militia is funded.

Weather reporter was broadcasting from Mississippi, making Hurricane Ida seem as if it was worse than it was. A man nearby saw this and confronted him. The media then calls the man crazy and incoherent.

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We woke this morning to see a social media post from our friend who was trapped in Kabul. It had no text, but was instead a picture. It was a picture of a bottle of Italian wine, next to a wine glass that was half full. They were both perched on the balcony of a building with the city of Rome in the background.

Our friend made it out.

In another development that has absolutely nothing to do with the above, the CIA announced that the last of their personnel are out of the country, and their base of operations (Eagle Base) was blown up in a controlled demolition.

I agree with Larry Correia and his opinion on George Takei:

There is no false equivalence at all. Takei is speaking of using coercion (whether government/societal, or in this case both) to take away freedoms, with the justification of “the greater good.”

Now, you might personally think that this particular “greater good” is worth taking away freedoms. Don’t matter. It’s still equivalent. Let’s try it out. The threat is Y. The freedom is X.”

A lot of people are angry about ( Y ). I don’t care, because we need to do something about (X )for the greater good. The needs of society are more important.”.

Now, go through and stick most of history’s atrocities in there and see if they don’t fit.

Germans were scared of Jews. Something had to be done for the greater good of society. Turks didn’t like Armenians. Stalin really didn’t like uppity Ukrainians. The Japanese are going to be saboteurs loyal to the empire. Somebody had better sterilize those natives. Hey, let’s see how long it takes for black dudes to die of syphillis in the name of science! So on and so forth.

But this is DIFFERENT than those.

Why? Why is it different? Because you personally are scared of this X and think Y is worth it? Because guess what? All of those people said the same damn thing.

We see this bullshit every single day. We need to take away guns for the greater good. We need to take away free speech for the greater good. You need to have a social credit score for the greater good.

It’s all authority pandering to fear to get more power. Every fucking time.

So spare me the false equivalence. It is extremely equivalent.

But this isn’t as bad! It’s just one little “common sense” thing! Then it’ll go back to normal. Uh huh… And the Nazis didn’t get elected and start gassing Jews a week later either. The Holocaust happened through a series of escalating events, each of which was a crisis (according to the authorities) which required slightly more action. 1935 was not the same as 1945. Duh.

So I’d rather not start down that path of declaring some groups of humans as untermensch who need to be managed by the state for the greater good, AT ALL.