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A little venting...Let me set the stage. Every December to April (give or take a week or two) for the last 24 years, I sign up for unemployment. Same company, nothing's changed on my end, just getting older, weaker and.. well you know...

• On December 21, 2013 I received my last unemployment check.
• I had to sign up for a new claim, DONE.
• I get a letter saying DENIED a week later.
• I have to get my income to prove I was working, DONE.
• I have to fax all this information to Grand Rapids, DONE.
• I had to wait until Jan 15th to call in, DONE.

2013 Editorials

(from Facebook) - Texan Senator Ted Cruz seeks to permanently block all illegal aliens from welfare.

There are approximately 12 million illegal immigrants in the USA according to gov't figures. If only 20% of these immigrants are receiving welfare, and then are suddenly cut off, that means the US has instantly created 2.5 million criminals and homeless people who will now have to rob, steal, and murder to get the funds they so desperately need to survive. American penal facilities, which, per capita, already contain more of the country's own citizens than any other country in the world, by a huge margin, are filled to overflowing.

The USA's food production is drastically reduced as the overwhelming majority of manual crop harvesting is performed by these illegal aliens because USA citizens are unwilling to perform such menial tasks themselves. Food shortages create additional criminals who must now steal food to feed their families. Farmers, food processing plants, and transportation facilities go bankrupt creating hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans. The jobless rate snowballs and the already fragile American economy collapses creating a Depression far worse than any other experienced in the past.

The cost of deporting each and every illegal alien amounts to approximately $375,000,000,000 at about $150 per person (conservative estimate). Many of these illegal immigrants fled from countries ravaged by war and could face harsh punishment, including death, if returned to their home countries.

Now, $375 billion is a LOT of money, and could be used to create jobs, stimulating the economy and giving the vast majority of these "illegal aliens" a chance to get off welfare and become productive, and "legal" USA citizens. Sound too simple? It is ... but it can only happen if US politicians were to admit they screwed up over the years and created this problem in the first place due to lack of judgment, corruption, and just plain bad management of resources.

Oh, and Ted Cruz, Senator of Texas? He has investments in companies and corporations that knowingly employ illegal aliens. He belonged to the minority of 22 senators who voted against the Violence Against Women Act. He also voted against suspending the debt ceiling for three months and against aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy. Just because he has a "meme" on Facebook doesn't mean he is right ... or even a nice person :) .

Dave’s Rant Of The Week – Saggy Pants
by Dave Doran, Editorialist
Everyone hates to see kids walking around with saggy pants, however, as much as I hate to say it, I would rather see these kids walking around with sagging pants than strolling down a city street wearing just a pair of Speedos. ..... which would be entirely legal.

Does it look stupid? Yes, definitely! These kids prolly have IQ's no higher than their shoe size, but we can't start dictating what a person cannot wear as long as it doesn't violate any common decency rules or regulations. What if a buncha people "decided" that you couldn't walk down a street without having your shirt tucked in, couldn’t wear sneakers in WalMart or couldn't wear a striped tie on Tuesdays ..... you get the idea!

It's a fashion statement and like all fashion statements it will pass. Bringing attention to it however just makes the kids more rebellious and more likely to continue this ridiculous fad. Also, in advertising it, it brings it to the attention of MORE kids who will now think it is cool to wear their jeans around their thighs.

That being said, hehe, I say if they DO ban them then they should be fined, and the fine should be that they be required to wear a pair of pink day-glo suspenders to hold their pants up whenever they are in public for a period of 30 days

Until next week, Happy Holidays!

“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”

A&E’s top executive carefully considered whether to suspend “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson over his anti-gay remarks, and ultimately decided his comparison of homosexuality to “bestiality” was over-the-line, a network executive told TheWrap (http://www.thewrap.com/duck-dynasty-inside-decision-suspend-phil-robertson-exclusive/).