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Badges are not licenses: The city of Chicago is telling the police if you don’t have the vaccine, hit the road. They’re taking away their badges. They’re trying to equate it to a truck driver not having a driver’s license. It’s got nothing to do with that, not even close. In order to be a truck driver, you have to have a license. In order to be a police officer, you don’t need the vaccine. This is a negotiated thing that isn’t negotiated.
Sore losers don’t win: Why after an election does the losing party have to always harass and bum rap the party and administration. It doesn’t matter who is in control, the Democrats or Republicans, why not wait until the next election to bring out the problems and mistakes the party and administration has made? A true American wants harmony in our country.
Ooh, spooky: Halloween is a big holiday for many people. There are lots of horror movies showing on television. People have fun telling each other ghost stories. Nightmares are prevalent. But what could be more spooky than what the Democrats are doing to our country?
No connection to USA: Here are the facts about Christopher Columbus. His expedition landed on an island in the Caribbean almost 300 years before the Revolutionary War. He never set foot on the mainland of what is now the United States of America. He was not a founder of the USA.
Halloween history: The word is Halloween with an a, not Holloween with an o. Which is derived from All Hallows Eve, the night before All Saints Day. People would go the cemetery and eat and pray that their loved one went to heaven.
Pointless new tax: A major reason China’s export products are cheap is that China does not have an EPA, they don’t care about emissions and they burn a lot of coal. Without China signing on to any agreements on restricting emissions, all our one-sided, self-imposed proposed new U.S. laws that tax emissions would only make U.S. products more expensive.
