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Money tied to quotas: Although Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University, says in his opinion page column that colleges do not use ethnic quotas as a primary standard for admissions, he deliberately ignores the fact that the EEOC and other federal agencies use a college’s progress toward meeting their agencies’ quotas as the basis for recommending any federal money going to that college. Not meeting their quota — no money recommended! Guess what happens?
Adios, Halloween: It’s a couple of days after Halloween and there’s nary a pumpkin to be found. Oh, how quickly things turn over in these fast-paced times. Holiday music is now being played on the “All Christmas, All The Time” radio station and orders for turkeys must be placed this week to ensure delivery by Thanksgiving. By the way — “Happy New Year!”
Too much election mail: It’s one thing — a good thing! — to be able to block robocallers and solicitors on your cell phone. And I can turn the TV down or off when all the political ads come on. But how do you “block” all the election mailings that land in your mailbox every single day? It’s disheartening to fill my recycling bin with all this junk. And imagine the poor postal workers who have to lug all that stuff around, delivering them to every mailbox. What a waste of time and money. Can the mailings, people! No one reads them anyway.
Lies becoming truth? Mike Lindell of “My Pillow” has tried desperately to convince people the 2020 election was a fraudulent abduction by the Democrats. For the last two years, he has championed this cause, spending millions with numerous media outlets to propagate this accusation, even offering rewards to those supplying proof. Well, it has been a failure but a blockbuster of a deal to gathering believers. There is an old proverb “if you tell a lie it over and over enough it becomes believable.”
One-party rule: Reading Ted Slowik’s column I have come to one conclusion, Slowik would like to have one-party rule in this country. That sounds to me a lot like socialism or fascism. Is that what our fathers and grandfathers fought for and some died for? One party in control of the whole country telling every citizen what to do and when to do it. Just keep your mouth shut and do not ask questions.
