Sound Off: March 2, 2025
Roadwork?
Yesterday was typical, as I was driving to New Orleans on I-10. Even though it was a beautiful day at 8:30 in the morning, there were very few people doing anything to complete the roadwork between County Farm Road and Diamondhead. When I did see people in day-glow vests, more often than not, they were standing in small groups talking to each other. Miles and miles of inactivity, and absolutely no urgency to complete the job. Is this MDOT, the Highway Commissioner, the Board of Supervisors?
Make Measles Great Again
What do you know? We’ve got an anti-vaxxer leading the Department of Health and Human Services and measles is back, baby. Texas just recorded the nation’s first measles death since 2015. What other eliminated disease will be next, one wonders.
Grammar 101
It amazes me how many times people use the phrase “I could care less.” I heard two congressmen and the president say it on TV recently. “I couldn’t care less” is the correct way to express having complete apathy toward something. When someone says, “I could care less,” they’re actually saying that they do care because there are other things they care less about. Come on folks, as leaders of our country, try to get it right. Even my nephew in middle school knows the proper grammar to use.
Lower prices on day 1
When I see the price I’m paying for eggs, I’m comforted by the knowledge that the Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America.
USAID
We have come a long way from “The shining city on a hill,” as Ronald Reagan said. A nation with the largest GDP in the world, run by the unelected richest man in the world, can’t find it within its heart to help starving people with a very, very small percentage of its national wealth. This is not the Christian behavior I was taught.
Exchange
Israel is releasing Hamas terrorists back to Gaza by the hundreds, yet Hamas is giving back dead hostages that were killed in captivity? Make this make sense.
Weekly report
When you get an email that asks the basic question of what you did last week, if you can’t reply to that simple email from the check printing service, OK then, you’re fired.
Immigrants
Our country practically invited illegal immigration with porous border and benefits upon arrival. Tighten the border, deport the criminals but offer a path for legal status and eventual citizenship for many of the others. Common sense. We need legal immigration going forward.
Peace in Ukraine
The war between President Trump and the left-leaning mainstream media remains. Nothing has changed. Trump haters will soak up their vitriol like a sponge, never giving Trump any credit for anything. Peace is at hand in the Ukraine for the first time. No attempt was made under President Biden. Give peace a chance.
Unconscionable
The U.S. voted against a UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. President Trump then called Ukraine’s leader a dictator, while not willing to call Vladimir Putin one. It’s no wonder people doubt Trump’s interest in maintaining democracy as he tries to lay the groundwork for third unconstitutional term.
DOGE
Should I assume that the $38 billion that Elon Musk’s companies have received from the federal government aren’t a part of the DOGE-ing of our nation?
Look at that
Never, ever thought I would read these words in my lifetime: ”The Americans were joined by Russia, Belarus, and North Korea” in voting against a UN resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. Our new allies.
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