What is a border? For the sake of this argument, let’s call it a division between countries. That division can be arbitrary and imaginary (hey, you take everything between that tree over there west to that rock on the north side and I’ll take everything south) – some “line” drawn on a map or piece of paper. Or, it can be real like a river. Or, a wall.

Why are borders important? They establish sovereignty. I’ll do what I want over here and you can’t have a say in it. And, you can do what you want over there and I can’t have a say either. Borders recognize a “power”. That is, my leader is a king and we love our king. But, your country has a selfish, cruel dictator and maybe you love your guy too. Over the course of human history borders have fostered peace between countries, economic prosperity, and lawful order.

Why is it important to protect our / your border? Every country its own specific national character. Protecting your border keeps your country from being over run and overwhelmed by outsiders – whether you like those outsiders or not, whether you need those outsiders or not. Each country has its own cultural and ethnic differences. That composition is protected by ensuring migration over your border does not occur.

Perhaps the most critically important need to protect the border is property rights. A mindset that goes back to the Magna Carter and fully examined in 1775 / 1776 by The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. On a national level, your tax dollars and perhaps your actual sweat went into building the infrastructure, buildings, roads, etc. What gives any outsider the right to benefit from your input? Not to mention the fact that your house, your house, the one you fix, maintain, pay for, insure, live in is yours and no one should be able to come inside without your invitation and permission (including the INSANE squatting rights granted in California – if someone moves into your house while your on vacation, you’re out of a house, period).

There is a huge political argument that a border, our border anyway, reflects democracy, a condition made by social trust and likemindedness or solidarity. That democracy will certainly be undermined by mass migration by peoples of no understanding of these norms nor MORAL COMMITTMENT TO MAINTAIN THEM.

Perhaps the idea or philosophy behind a border is as simple as this: as Charlie Kirk says, “A border is a place where bad ideas end and good ideas start.” Think, North Korea and South Korea; Russia and Norway; India and China.

On September 11th, 2001, terrorists coming into the United States on work and educational visas committed the worst attack on American civilians and property in United States history. They were here legally and, as such, there was no illegal or warlike border crossing.

On or about October 8th Hamas, a political terrorist group based primarily in Gaza, crossed the border into Israell from several directions at different locations. And, those borders are actual walls. They flew over in para-gliders, they crashed through with bulldozers, and they fired rockets and artillery over those actual hardened borders. And, they slaughtered unarmed civilians in the name of fighting oppression. They crossed the border with malicious intent.

Then, there is the southern border of the United States with Mexico. A place where, coming north, bad ideas end and good ideas start as evidenced by the fact that millions are fleeing their countries to come into the United States. Indeed many are fleeing economic and political hardship. They just want a better life. But others, and it is indisputable, are coming here for the next terrorist attack.

In 2002 2.7 million illegal aliens crossed the border. As of 09/30/23, 2.8 million crossed the border. Most are without any “papers”. That is, their countries don’t mandate birth certificates, driver licenses, social security cards – nothing. They were ghosts before they arrived here and they’re certainly ghosts once they were let loose to wander about the country. They aren’t vaccinated, for anything; they are poorly educated; they are mostly unskilled.

The United States leads the world in immigration. 15.1% of the American population are illegal immigrants. America takes in 48.2% of all illegal immigration. The next closest country takes in 11.6% !!!!!! And, it is all because of the Biden Administration’s refusal to protect and close our southern border.

The largest numbers of immigrants are coming from Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Cuba (both by sea into Florida and land from Mexico), Haiti, SYRIA, Ukraine. In August 2023 82% of the arrivals came from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and India. Additional illegal immigrants came from Senegal, Ecuador, Mexico and Mauritania in northwestern Africa. 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan, 3,153 from Egypt, 659 from Iran and 538 from Syria all being men of enlistment age, 12,624 from Uzbekistan, 30,830 from Turkey, 1,613 from Pakistan, 164 from Lebanon, 185 from Jordan, 123 from Iraq and 15,594 from Mauritania. Large numbers of Chinese are also being encountered.

151 of those above were on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. It has been concluded the Chinese are not really seeking political asylum, they are free range spies reporting back on conditions in the United States. And, what’s up with all the “political asylum seekers” from the Middle East without families accompanying them?

You might now be wondering how much does it cost to disburse these illegal immigrants throughout the country, shelter them, feed them, educate them, cloth them, give them free cellphones – $150.6 billion. That’s 150.6 billion taken away from OUR homeless and OUR veterans. In fact, our homeless and veterans are literally being kicked out of their shelters so the illegal immigrants can have a place !!!!!!

Sanctuary Cities, especially those like New York City and Chicago, are complaining over being overrun and overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands now occupying their streets. Governors and mayors are pleading to the regular Joe to “adopt” a family and let them live with them. WHAT????? Americans are living day to day trying to provide for their own and now these politicians want them to take on more?? I wonder how many families these politicians and their rather irrelevant but ultra-wealthy celebrities have adopted?

Let’s get to the final points. Why are open borders bad? And, what does this have to do with Israel?

Open borders, the ones supported by the Biden Administration, Liberals, Democrats, and the American Civil Liberties Union place our country at huge risk. Open borders let in criminals, terrorists and create other national security risks. Open borders makes it easy to smuggle drugs and exploit kidnapped children. Open borders flood the job market with unskilled workers who will never really find gainful employment. Overpopulation has its own set of issues. Cultural values will change for the worse. Some illegal immigrants will not be willing to integrate themselves into American society. We lose our right to define who we are a nation and as a people. The local citizen population will have high levels of frustration resulting in prejudiced attitudes against immigrants, legal or otherwise. Finally, open borders allowing people to enter the country with no prospects for food and shelter will create situations where those people with have to steal and commit other crimes just to survive.

Getting back to the title of this rambling, if Israel can be attacked having a strong border defense including actual barriers, walls and personnel monitoring and still suffer extreme terrorist attack atrocities, then what terrorist attack is in American’s future with open borders?

A few weeks ago Rob Schneider released a stand up comedy video. During the show he examines various woke policies and the obvious danger they are to our society. One of the bits involves one of our major airline’s diversity policy which might suggest they are not interested in hiring the best, safest, nor most qualified pilots but they prefer a pool of mixed or diverse candidates. Does that make sense to you? Pick this candidate because he/she/it is not a white male regardless of their lack of training, safety rating, and experience? Really???

Fast forward to a few days ago when it was discovered the Portland (Oregon) is implementing new grading guidelines that bar teachers from assigning “0” – zeros to students for cheating or for failing to turn in assignments. It also eliminates penalties for late work and eliminates grades for homework, class participation, attendance, effort, attitude and behavior.

Apparently, the district argues, there is great race disparity and inequity. There is a drive to create grade EQUITY. (Wouldn’t it make more sense to hold teachers accountable for failing to educate students? Wouldn’t it also make sense to recognize there are some students who simply have no use for learning? No, it seems it is simply easier to make sure everyone gets the same grade – period.) The district seeks to follow California’s lead in narrowing the gap between non-gifted and gifted students. However, in that case, California simply obliterated gifted student programs and accelerated classes thus forcing the gifted kids, whether black, white, Hispanic, Asian, or otherwise, from advancing themselves into areas of higher learning.

This bizarre mandate, to take effect by 2025, indicates the minimum grade a student can get is 50%. Here there is a huge struggle to determine exactly what the point is. Shouldn’t it be 65% or what ever the minimum passing grade is? If there is really a desire to make all of the grades flat line across the board, the minimum and maximum grade any student should receive is 65%.

Let’s take a step back and examine this allegation of disparity and inequity. In 2023. When every day we hear it droning on and on and on about the racial disparity. Do they mean to suggest this great disparity and inequity still goes on today? In 2023?

Let’s consider this. I will never be an artist. I will never be a musician, a doctor, an engineer, a scientist, an architect, a spy, nor a professional athlete. I will never be a fashion model nor a thousand other occupations. Why, because not only am I NOT QUALIFIED, I also HAVE NO INTEREST IN DOING SO. But, if I did, I can simply go up to Portland where my grades will be evened out against students who really are qualified and I can enter any field I want. I look forward to operating on you, or designing your next airplane, or calculating the stresses on your next neighborhood bridge. I’ll probably have to make a lot of stuff up because I chose not to attend many of the required courses and failed most of my tests. Well, I would have failed but Portland says I need to have an equitable grade. So, I’m good.

So, am I exaggerating above? What’s the big deal? Well, frankly first let’s acknowledge the extreme insult to all of the students who actually do care. Who actually do try. Who actually do the homework and participate in class and take an active interest in their own education. Because they are being told they really don’t need to put in all that effort and they’re going to lose a lot of educational opportunities because they aren’t allowed to accelerate and “be better”. Let’s face it. We’re not all equal. Some of us are good looking, some not. Some are great athletes, some not. Some are “good with their hands” and can fix anything, some not. Some are artistically creative, some not. SOME OF US ARE SMART, SOME NOT. There is no avenue to make us all equal in these regards. Period.

Let’s see this for what it is – the dumbing down of the American student. Considering all of the foreign students coming here and securing all of the high end technological and health care related jobs, how does the Teachers Union and all of its woke supporters sleep at night knowing they make us weaker and weaker every school year? How can they look themselves in the mirror knowing that the American student continues to lose higher educational opportunities and well paying jobs to better educated and prepared foreign students?

Apparently, they sleep very well as they continue to try to make us all EQUAL.

How Communist / Socialist of them.

Simply, go to a gas station. You can experience getting robbed without the threat of violence.

Now, I believe truly in the free market and the law of supply and demand. I don’t believe government should be involved in economics / pricing but for situations were there is a monopoly. For example, most of our utilities are price controlled because we’re all aware what will happen if our natural gas, water, and electric costs were priced by the one provider in our area. But, what happens when it is an entire industry that needs price control???

Earlier this week I watched gas jump 70 cents in one day when reports of Hurricane Ian’s approach to the Florida coast dominated news broadcasts.

There were blurbs from the retailers in our area that there were shortages from the Russian invasion of Ukraine; demand is up; refineries can’t keep up with production needs; and the approach of Hurricane Ian. All of those excuses are outright lies.

Note: President Biden specifically warned gas retailers not to use Ian as an excuse to price gouge.

Let’s review the simple economics of retail gas pricing. All of the following numbers are fake, they are simply demonstrative. If I’m a retailer and I buy my supply today for $3.00, I set a selling price at $x.xx Now, if I buy my supply next week at $4.00, I would need to increase my selling price to $y.yy but if I’m still using the supply I purchased at $3.00, I’m making profit on top of profit because I just raised prices on gas I bought at a cheaper rate. Now, let’s say it goes to $5.00, I would need to increase my selling price to $z.zz

Now, why is it when the purchase price of supply begins to drop, let’s say down to $4.25, the retailer is still charging the price at the $5.00 purchase level? Why is it the retailer bumps prices the instant some calamity is expected when the gas they are selling was purchased at a lower cost? Why is it that gas can shoot up 70 cents per day but only drops 2 cents to 5 cents at a time?

We’re a captured audience. We need gas to survive in terms of our ability to commute to work or to acquire our own “supplies”, mainly food and clothing. As such, we are essentially at the mercy, of which there is none, of the gas retailers. There is no sense trying to get Arizona government involved because they are all big business supporters. So, we’re going to have to take it into our own hands to punch these retailers in the face.

When you have to get gas, try to limit your purchase to gas. Don’t go inside and buy coffee, sodas, snacks, etc. Force the retail profits to plummet and make sure you communicate with the retailer that you are fighting back. I’m not sure if they are going to care. I’m note sure if it is going to make much of a difference. But, at least we won’t be sitting there taking it.

I have been ranting about our inability to build and our inability to manufacture anything anymore. The pandemic has shown us how weak we have become. We relay on China, mostly, and other Asian countries for almost everything.

Disgusting in and of itself. We should be ashamed of ourselves. What happened to the proud Made in America label?

Now we see yet another category of everyday essentials soaring in price. Between February and March of 2022 food prices in the United States have risen 12.6%. This is the highest of recorded levels. Talking heads are blaming Russia. The ultimate scapegoat. The Russian war with Ukraine is disrupting shipments of essential food supplies. Specially, wheat and oils made from vegetables. But it’s not really Russia is it? I’m posing that question to the Biden Administration (more below).

What? We are importing wheat and vegetable oil?

Similar to big business outsourcing everything in the name of bigger dividend checks and stock prices, we, the American people now can’t even grow our own food. Did you know the Department of Agriculture and some local state versions of that government entity pay farmers NOT to grow crops? Some cite “environmental issues”, some cite drought conditions.

For example, California is having farmers keep thousands of acres vacate during the growing season. Considering their drought conditions we should all guess what is going to happen next. California will start up the next Dust Bowl (see historical descriptions of 1930s dust bowl conditions that devastated food growing areas).

The Biden Administration is now paying farmers not to grow essential food crops so to add 4 million acres farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production. Making us more and more socialist in our dependency on foreign countries for our food. FOR OUR FOOD!!!!!!!

Disgusting. Again, we only have ourselves to blame for allowing our government to get away with this.

Summary: we now depend on other countries to build our things and feed us. The greatest country in the world? No, we’re the newest Third World Country.

So the latest, absolute crazy equity statement is that made by Mars candy and centers on their colors and their characters being redesigned to coincide with a “more dynamic and progressive world”.

REALLY???? !!!! It’s candy. The only controversy should be whether you like plain or peanut !!!!!

It is outright shocking to see the lengths these progressive idiots will go. Looking in every crack and corner of life looking for some sign of prejudice or need for equity (note I specifically avoided the work equality).

With rare exception, white people, especially white males never “protest” the obvious and outside prejudice they have experienced, are currently experiencing and will experience in the future. But, now, I’m going to take a stand.

Let’s talk about the characters. The old ones – hysterical. The new ones – sad. Now the new characters are supposed to show the power of community. Hmm. I never knew there was controversy with the green candy design. Apparently, long eye lashes and 1960s style go-go boots were sexist. IT’S CANDY !!!!! The red candy was accused of being grumpy towards his counter parts. IT’S CANDY !!!!! (We better warn the 7 Dwarfs the progressives are coming for them.) Apparently there was also a need for the green candy and the brown candy to be friendlier to each other. IT’S CANDY !!!! OH MY GOD – I can’t stand it !!!! The green candy and brown candy have to show solidarity.

The orange candy, portrayed as very anxious, will remain to better bond with the Generation Z group because, as Mars points out, that generation is very anxious. (So much for prejudice opinions – grouping all members of a group by a characteristic. You know, profiling.) Hypocrites.

If you go on the website you might notice only one candy has an actual name – it is Ms. Brown. Guess which candy it is.

So, ahh, where is the white candy? I thought we were progressive and inclusive. I thought we were trying to be consistent with the world (apparently there are no white people in the world).

I’m only one sad, tired, rather insignificant complainer. But, I’m writing them a letter advising I’m no longer a customer.