Puffs

With the beginning of the second semester of the 2024-25 school year, a little quiz is in order for all the readers. This comes from ‘The Old Farmer’s Almanac, 1899.’

They reported that a schoolteacher lately put the question to her class: “What is the highest form of life?”

A little girl in the class responded: “The giraffe.”

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I’ll never forget the killing of President John F. Kennedy. Many things have been retained these many years since that day. Most of the memories are good, but the one that somehow seems to come out sort of goes like this as related to me from a teacher at Lawrence High School at the time: “A couple of hours after the shooting of JFK I was talking to a friend about the sorrowful act just committed. Another person came by and ended up saying “what did he expect with all those decisions he made that made people unhappy?” The teacher noted: “gosh, can’t you even wait until the body gets cold before you start coming up with such comments?”

The current fire conditions in California presents somewhat a similar situation.

As the fire was still growing and people’s sufferings were getting worse by the day, the national news media started trying to assign blame.

The fire situation will have to be studied, but can’t they wait until people have a little chance to get accustomed to their new normal?

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We have new people coming in to run the national government starting next week. I’ve sometimes wondered how they look upon their new jobs and responsibilities. I recently came across a quote by George Washington when he accepted the job as the first president of the United States. It went something like this:

“My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.”

Our good fortune is that he was wrong.

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I’m not thrilled with writing negative reports on people, but sometimes I feel the truth is sometimes ignored and needs to be given to the people. I hope this is the last report on our current president as he will no longer be president when we print the next issue of our newspaper.

As I have no access to national information, I rely on others to report it and I pass it on. Most of the following info comes from Simon Hankinson, a writer for The Daily Signal. The information concerns perhaps the primary reason Donald Trump won the 2024 election. Immigration and our southern border. Five points (not all involved) are highlighted.

No. 1: They (using “they” we mean the Democratic Party and the Washington establishment) pretend legal and illegal immigration are the same: 850,000 legal immigrants a year are authorized by Congress. The Democrats and their president has paroled, released, or given ‘temporary’ protection under questionable programs.

No. 2: They said illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than Americans: while this may be hard to prove, one way, or another, we do know that illegal aliens do commit additional crimes, every one of which is preventable if laws are enforced. The cost in victims assaulted or murdered, and a declining sense of public safety is incalculable.

No. 3: They told you that all immigrants boost the economy: maybe those with more education do, however, almost 60 percent of families headed by an illegal immigrant are on a federal welfare program. Most of those let in under Biden’s border boom will be a fiscal burden to the country, not a benefit.

No. 4: They told you illegal immigrants cost nothing: one congressional estimate said illegal immigrants cost more than $150 billion a year. One example to support this figure: Congress never intended that illegal aliens should receive Obamacare benefits, but yet they were.

No. 5: They said it was inevitable: Just what happened when the Democrats and Biden took power four years ago? There were no earthquakes or natural disasters that forced people to flee to the U. S., it was the Biden administration’s policy to be the biggest factor.

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