The Entitlement Generation Demands Free Tampons

Ok, college students demanding "free" this and "free" that has officially jumped the shark! I'm not kidding here. Students (female) are demanding "free" tampons! http://college.usatoday.com/2017/01/04/college-students-are-demanding-free-tampons-on-campus/

That's right, these little snowflakes were able to figure out how to pay tuition and fees for the 2016–2017 school year. According to the College Board, tuition on average was $33,480 at private colleges, $9,650 for state residents at public colleges, and $24,930 for out-of-state residents attending public universities, but these snowflakes are unable to afford tampons!?!

Additionally, they are displaying an appalling lack of understanding about how businesses work. These principals hold for colleges as well as businesses. And that is, for a business to continue to operate, its income must equal or surpass its outgo. Sooo, little snowflakes, if the cost of doing business goes up, it must charge more to cover the increased cost or go out of business.

A quick amazon search told me that tampons can be purchased at a cost of $0.13 to $0.24 per tampon. Now I'm sure the college will be able to recognize a considerable saving due to economy of scale, buttttt, that doesn't cover the cost of the purchasing officer who is paid to make the purchase, or the warehouse personnel who will unload, store and later dispense them to the university employee who will spend a significant portion of their salaried time filling the "free" dispensers. This also doesn't consider the cost of the warehouse space that must be used to store this large cache, nor does it account for the accountants who must keep track of these purchases and insure that finance pays for them, or the people who actually process the payment and send it to the supplier.

All of these hidden costs must be recouped in order for the college to break even and thus continue to provide the valuable service of teaching the snowflakes about gender studies or whatever other useless programs are being offered. All in order to provide employment for the overpaid dweebs teaching them. And these new costs will be recouped by raising tuition (which will be protested by the very snowflakes who demanded the "free" service that forces the increase).

Some one needs to tell the participation trophy generation to stop being disappointed with the results they aren't achieving through the efforts they aren't making! They need to understand that results are the outcome of input/effort. NOTHING is free! And NOBODY is or should have to pay for things they will not benefit from. The "free" tampons will raise the tuition for ALL students; male, post menopausal women, women who have undergone hysterectomies, transgendered former males, etc. etc. None of whom will have a need to avail themselves of this "free" benefit.

I can't help but to believe that these entitled women demanding this free benefit would be appalled if they were forced to pay for free viagra dispensers.

Or so it would appear to an old farm boy.

Electoral College Vs Gross Popular Vote

Well, I've been laying low since the election, trying to maintain an even keel despite the fact that I believe we avoided the worst, most evil, candidate in my lifetime and quite possibly ever. Knowing full well that the president elect we have has plenty of warts himself. But to watch the radical left's continual harangue has been astounding.

Yes, I understand that Hillary won the popular vote by 2,833,220 votes according to  http://www.cnn.com/election/results/president . However, if you were to remove New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, Donald Trump would have won the popular vote by 908,370 votes. So the question one should ask when considering the popular vote vs the electoral college vote is, should a limited number of high population centers choose the president for all of America? Or....is the electoral college system that allows every part of the country to have input the more appropriate system.

I personally believe that EVERY area of the country needs to have a voice that actually counts when we are choosing a singular person who is to lead us all. NOT just someone that those in the population centers wants.

Let's face it. While those in New York and California may believe they are smarter and know better than the rest of us, I vehemently disagree!

I've spent time in New York and even lived in Southern California for awhile, and each has things that are enviable. Food in NYC's case and weather in SoCal's. Neither one represents me and my beliefs.

If we were to go to a gross total total system, there would be NO representation of middle America. Those seeking the highest office need not apply if they don't parrot exactly what those on both coasts believed. There would be no need to ever campaign or even listen to folks in North Carolina or Iowa or Montana.

So while the gross vote count total seems on the surface to be the democratic way to determine the POTUS, I think we should remember, we are NOT a democracy. We are a Republic, and thus all should be represented. As they say, a democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep arguing over what's for dinner. If the US were to operate as a strict democracy, there would be about 6 or 7 states that were the wolves and the other 43 or 44 states would be the sheep. So don't fall for that crap argument by the left that we should only go off the popular vote total. They are trying to give you a fools choice that sounds reasonable but is far from it.

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.

Merry Christmas one and all!

The Election Of Donald Trump And The French Revolution

As I watch the liberal elites in Hollywood, academia, politics and the press lose their collective minds, an old adage comes to mind. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

I look at the left trying to quell the popular uprising around Donald Trump and it makes me think of the French Revolution, with our "elite betters" playing the part of Marie Antoinette. "Let them eat cake" they have told those they wish to lord it over. Paying no attention to the concerns of the masses. The only things that matter to them are their desires for the way they want things to be and what will move their visions forward. If us unwashed heathens don't realize that their betters will decide what's best for us, well then we can just "eat cake".

They never saw the storm clouds on the horizon because they had become so comfortable in their little enclaves of power on the east and west coasts that they never bothered to look out the window. Why would they? They were in power and had been for as long as their goldfish memories could recall.

They had wielded their power over the masses, unabated, for so long, they had come to believe their own bullshit. Anyone failing to toe their line was clearly some sort of radical deviant. How could anyone possibly question anthropomorphic global warming? Even though they had jiggered the data at every turn and it was clear that those pushing it the hardest were amassing huge fortunes from forcing others to comply, all the while suppressing commerce. Since they were in control, what could the peons do?

With the liberals living in their echo chambers, they didn't recognize the thunder of the approaching storm for what it was. They continued to believe their own press releases.

While Hillary and Cain struggled to draw flies to their rallies, Trump and Pence played to packed houses. Yet the tame press tried to tell the country that it was just racists, sexists, homophobes, islamophobes, etc, etc at their rallies. Even though many were the same folks who voted for Obama, twice.

Well, thanks to the new media, the truth of what was happening got out. And despite the old power elites aligning against them, Trump and Pence were swept into power as those who were not being represented or even heard by the elites stood up and said, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" (Thank you Network)

So on November 8th, the media, the elitists, academic leftists and the far left politicians got to play the role of the out of touch French Aristocracy while middle America played the role of the ignored and put upon French people. They figuratively beheaded the beast by sending Hillary to the showers, hopefully for good. And with any luck we've seen the end of the Clintons in American public life.

To those who are crying and moaning about how could the country have not seen how the elites have all the answers if we would just follow them, let me turn their own arrogant words back on them. Elections have consequences and your ways have been rejected.

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.

Anti Trump Protesters Need Geography Class

Here I am watching a protest march against President Elect Donald Trump. The protesters are chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go". And across the front line leading the march are folks holding flags.

The two flags I was able to identify were Mexico and the now defunct USSR. (There was a 3rd flag I could not identify.)

My first thought was, these folks could really use a geography class! I mean REALLY!

What kind of a mental defect marches in one country behind the flag of another country  chanting that the new duly elected leader of the country they are in has got to go?

Clearly THEY are confused. Why else would they be marching behind the banner of a country they were not in?

That being said, I do understand they are making a statement that they are not pleased with the outcome of the election. But do they honestly believe that they would be better off in Mexico or the old USSR?

I would love to have seen them try that crap in Khrushchev's or Stalin's USSR. They'd have been in a frozen gulag before the echoes of their chants died.

Or if they were to go to Mexico right now and try marching through the streets behind American flag chanting that the Mexican leader had to go and burning Mexican flags, I feel certain they would quickly be introduced to the joys of the Mexican penal system.

But no, here in America, these special little snowflakes are given a day off from their college classes to overcome their trauma. They are treated as if they actually were making some sort of worthwhile social statement. This as they vandalized property and disrupted commerce. All the while the leftist media gives them all the attention these little metrosexuals long for but have never done anything to merit.

And why does this male bovine feces take place? Because we have allowed the nation's college campuses to become festering cesspools of anti American thought. They push collectivist/globalist ideas to young skulls of mush and encourage them to be disruptive forces in society so they might have yet another swing at the piñata. Since their collectivist dreams failed in the USSR, Cuba, China, North Korea, Venezuela (need I go on?) they believe they should be given another chance. They believe those places just didn't do it right so they want to try it again here. With the university types in charge this time, since they are so much smarter than the filthy masses outside the ivy walls.

But that's a topic for another rant on another day.

Or so it would appear to an old farm boy.

Jill, Gary, Donald Or Hillary, Who Will Lead America?

Well, here we are, one day before the official day set aside for choosing the next POTUS.

What a cluster fuck!

We are presented with 4 options in most states. Jill Stein of the Green Party (whose true candidate should have been Bernie Sanders) is the statistically least likely to win. She is an avowed socialist/communist as are most members of the Green Party, as this has been the go to location for the admittedly far far left since the downfall of the USSR.

Next we have Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party. Understand, this is my natural home Party and that I am a registered Libertarian, but as nice a guy as Gary is, he's a flake. This should have been the LPs year to make a move up the ladder and challenge the big 2 and turn this country into a viable 3 Party system or maybe even replace one of the big 2. But alas and a lack, it was not to be. The LP chose Gary to be their standard barer and he proved to be woefully lacking in foreign policy and his stance on national sovereignty is disgraceful to a red blooded American. By nominating Gary I'm afraid the LP has doomed themselves to be, as the British might say, back benchers for the foreseeable future and I find that a shame when the 2 major parties put forth such flawed candidates. This is clearly an opportunity missed by the LP.

Then there is Donald Trump of the Republican Party. Donald is a loud mouthed, narcissistic billionaire with no background in politics. Much like H Ross Perot was back when he ran in '92. (Which by the way is the sole reason we have the whole foul legacy of the Clintons. Without Perot, GHW Bush would have easily defeated Clinton and they would have remained an Arkansas problem and not a national disgrace.) Donald has been the all powerful leader of an international corporation and a TV personality for decades. While he has only the passing knowledge of government that one gains from having to grease the wheels of government in order to do business, he doesn't have the relationships in government that those who have been there their entire adult lives.

So how in the hell did he become a major parties nominee?

Well, it's the establishment Republicans own fault that he is there. They were given the opportunity to fulfill the promises they made to the electorate when they were given the House and later the Senate and told to stop the country from falling off the cliff into socialism. But they failed to do so even though they had promised they would. Instead, once they got to DC they continued the cozy relationships between legislators and lobbyists and metaphorically said "screw you" to those who sent them there to do a job.

So this time round the work a day Republicans gave the establishment the one finger salute and chose a man who espoused a supportive position and at least had no history of turning on them. (When in fact he had no history at all.) Figuring he couldn't be any worse than the snakes who had betrayed them so many times before and he just MIGHT do what he said, and wouldn't that be a novel experience!

Then there is Hillary Rodham clinton the Democratic Party candidate. (Yes I meant to have the c in Clinton be lower case. Some of you may remember that she went by Hillary Rodham until Bill ran for president and it quickly became clear the US population didn't take to her feminist stance and she started using Clinton purely for political purposes.)

This woman is clearly the most corrupt person to run for POTUS in my lifetime and quite possibly ever. She has exposed US secrets through willfully setting up an email server contrary to directives and government regulations. She has sold the rights to something like 20% of US uranium to Russia after receiving financial benefits through the "Clinton Foundation". She was responsible for the overthrowing of the Libyan government so she would have something to point to as a foreign policy action (word is Obama was not really in favor of this action but went along to try and bolster her resume for the future White House run) then failed to provide adequate protection for our personnel serving in the lawless state left behind leading to the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three others. She then fabricated and disseminated the hoax about the video being the cause of the attack and followed that up by lying to the relatives of those who died. She and her husband sold access to the presidency while Bill was POTUS by renting out the Lincoln bedroom and then continued their pay to play antics through the Clinton Foundation in the years since Bill left office. Their "charitable" foundation has been run as a slush fund for their personal use with less than 10% of funds taken in actually going to charitable giving. And to top it all off, she, in cahoots with the DNC, rigged the Democratic primary and was still barely able to beat self proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders.

So there are our 4 choices.

The first 2 are not truly viable candidates. The next 2, well, as a friend of mine said, with them you are playing Russian roulette. The difference is Hillary is a semi automatic, you know you're getting a bullet to the head, Donald is a revolver, there is an honest chance the cylinder will come up empty.

Chose wisely grasshopper.

Or so it seems to an old farm boy.

Trump vs Clinton or American Individualism vs World Collectivism

It seems to me that we are facing an election where we are about to decide whether this country is about the individual or the collective. This isn't a case of Republicans vs Democrats as they would like us to believe. No, the Republican Party stopped being independent from the Democrat party some time during the first Bush administration.  I think it was probably around the time GHW went back on his "no new taxes" pledge.

Since that time it seems as though the two name parties have been working in concert to keep their personal gravy train rolling along on its biscuit wheels. This train is paid for by the American tax payers, but for some reason they seem to hold allegiance to lobbyists instead of constituents. The lobbyists who help them spend millions of dollars to get and hold jobs that pay less than $200,000 per year.

Ya just need to ask yourself, why?

There is no logical reason why someone would knowingly spend more money to get a job than the job is worth. Unless they were getting something on the back end. And this is where the lobbyists come in. They are lining these folks' pockets and feathering their nests. All so the politicians will be beholden to them when legislation comes up concerning their little slice of the world.

So what does this have to do with this election and why is it different you might ask.

Well in my opinion, this election is different because Trump is holding out the possibility of changing the physics of Washington DC.

I say this because he is not beholding to any large benefactors, like Clinton is to Soros and Hollywood to name just a couple.

If you look at this election from that perspective, you can see why Paul Ryan and the others featured in Hillary's ad who say how they are against Trump, hold that position. He appears to be the bull in the China shop that is their own little honey pot.

While there is clearly nothing Christ like about Donald, he IS threatening to go into their temple and overturn the money changers' carts and run them out. I believe this is why the establishment politicians are so vehemently against him.

The odd part is, they could have easily seen this day coming and avoided it if they had only done what they told their constituents they were going to do. The Republicans have been given the majority in House for the past 6 years and the Senate for the past 4 years and they have continued to be complicit with the Democrats in working against the freedoms of individual American citizens and against the betterment of America as a whole.

They have done nothing to stop the flow of illegals across our southern boarder, or the expansion of the socialistic health care system that the Democrats put in place. (A system that was designed to fail in order to get people to see the implementation of a single payer system as a solution to the problem they created.) They have pushed group identity politics over the rights of the individual and they have actively supported the decline of American business through regressive tax policies. This is all in addition to their presiding over America's feckless policies relating to Islamic terrorism.

It is for these reasons I see Trump as the only choice for someone who believes in American traditional values. He represents quite possibly our last chance to return to our traditional roots. Ones where anyone can improve their station in life through their own grit and effort and not be hindered by the government, but rather helped by it.

Or.....we can vote for the most corrupt politician since Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall and the Teapot Dome scandal in 1922-23, (For those of you who may have not received a proper US Civics education, I suggest you look this up.) Hillary "What Difference Does It Make Now Anyway" Rodham Clinton.

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.

Trump Tape Vs Hillary's Hacked Emails

I've been silent for awhile now. I've wanted to write something but the flood of hype has been a veritable tsunami that has kept me from being able to narrow my focus enough to put together any cogent thoughts. As I pondered this, it dawned on me that this may well be the political class and the main stream media's plan. To keep things in so much turmoil that its near impossible to see the forest for the trees!

Let's take this past week.

My theory is that the Clintons and the MSM have known for some time that Wikileaks was holding some really damning evidence against her. So some lefty fellow traveler at Access Hollywood or what ever show it was that had the Trump video came to them with it months ago. A calculated decision was then made to hold this information until Wikileaks started to release their info. They would then release the Trump video, and with the complicity of the MSM, which Wikileaks has proven to be coordinating with the Clintons, they would gin up the social justice outrage so folks wouldn't notice the damning evidence coming out against Hillary.

If whoever had the Trump tape truly believed this was something that needed to be addressed, wouldn't they have brought this forth right after it was taped 11 years ago? I believe this just proves that Hollywood and the left saw Trumps comments as giving voice to the privilege that all famous (read that as famous liberal) people get to enjoy. Back then Donald was thought to be one of them, a famous star who would go to Clinton weddings, etc. so they didn't really have a reason to bring it up. But once he became a real threat to their anti sovereign America plans, he had to be stopped. So the question became, when can it best be deployed?

(Now in fairness, Wikileaks probably did some similar calculus with their information on the Clinton cabal. The difference as I see it is, I don't believe Assange is in cahoots with Trump or the republicans, but is motivated by a dislike of the Clintons and their RICO like behavior.)

They clearly decided to drop their bomb last Friday as Wikileaks began to release a series of devastating hacked emails showing that Hillary Clinton was guilty of malfeasance while Sec. State and complicity in acts that lead to the arming of ISIS to say nothing of the deaths in Benghazi. The leaks also show coordination of efforts between the Clinton campaign, the DNC and the MSM aimed at duping the electorate.

But what do we hear on the radio and see on the news? Why it's the media generated outrage about some offensive language by Trump 11 years ago. This outrage is being spun up by the same folks who were telling us it was not important where Bill Clinton chose to put his cigar in the Oval Office, and it was unimportant anyway because it was just sex and it was between Monica and Bill and none of our business because it didn't affect how he did his job as POTUS. Yet we are to believe words (and maybe some actions, we don't know) in an equivalent vein make this person unable to perform the same job. (This is also requiring us to overlook some amazingly similar behavior by the liberal lions JFK and RFK that the MSM was also in on the coverup of.)

All the while the MSM are telling us that Trumps support is tanking (which I'm sure it has taken a hit) as they fail to report that DT draws a Florida crowd of 30,000 while at the same basic time HC struggles to draw 1,000 in the same state.

I'm starting to wonder if we aren't approaching another "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" moment. For the sovereignty of the US, I certainly hope so, or we are about to become the Socialist States of Soros.

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy!