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Inciting rioters
I just turned my TV on and noticed all the major stations in Chicago are all playing the trial of the policeman that killed the man in Minnesota. I don’t understand why all the channels are playing this. This has the possibility of inciting rioters and if that happens, we can thank the news media and all these stations for showing this stuff.
Not funny
This is regarding “Saturday Night Live.” I haven’t watched SNL in years, especially when they got a little too political. Now they’re getting political about our Second Amendment, that we have a right to bear arms. It’s not so much the right to bear arms, it’s the amendment people. When you start to change one, you change them all then — and then what do we have? No history. The people that are killing are the people that are getting these guns illegally, or someone neglected to do the background check. If we become a little bit more stringent on background checks, maybe it wouldn’t happen as often. But what I see in Chicago, it looks like maybe they’re not getting their guns legally.
Another incentive to go north
So someone believes that a 4-cent-a-gallon gas tax hike is what is driving people to Wisconsin to get their gas. It could actually be the 25- to 30-cent difference in price in Wisconsin. A 4-cent tax on the gas is only further incentive to travel to Wisconsin for gas. If you’re worried about the fact that people are wasting gas by going to Wisconsin, most people are Wisconsin long enough to probably do other business while they’re there — shopping, dining out. Wisconsin’s been fairly free — a lot freer than Illinois. And as far as going to raise the real estate taxes, there are many people that have already moved north of the border because of the fact that the real estate taxes are less expensive. So, that’s not a very valid argument that the 4-cent tax is doing anything.
Read and learn
To the uneducated, uninformed fool who lambasted the citizen for wanting freedom from mask tyranny: Get your vaccinations, wait approximately 10 days to two weeks and you are immune. You don’t spread the disease, don’t carry the disease and are Immune from catching the disease. After that, if you continue to wear a mask you are the fool. Understand science, biology? Didn’t think so. Be safe. Read and learn.
How much will it cost?
Power plants produce electricity. They need different fuels, coal, wind turbines, water dams, etc., to generate electricity. How much will that cost to charge up your car when all vehicles are using electricity?
He just said it all
When new Republican gubernatorial candidate Gary Rubine was asked if he thought the presidential election was stolen, he replied, “I’m not smart enough to understand what was the end result.” I think he just said it all. Next.
Get rid of him
I am glad that New York has a suspect in the brutal, terrible attack on that Asian woman a few days ago. The guy is charged with a hate crime, and hopefully will be sent to jail for a long, long time. He doesn’t deserve to even live on this Earth. We don’t need people living in our world, and his kicking and stomping this poor woman is inexcusable. Get rid of him. Throw away the key. A great job by New York police and citizens to track him down.
