Gee, I Wonder Why This Guy Thinks the USA is in Decline?

And why he cannot pay back his student loans?

6/30/23 Newsweek:

"Some student loan borrowers encouraged others to default on their loans "en masse" following the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel President Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan, but one expert told Newsweek why that may not be a good idea.

"Okay, thing I can actually talk about: Mass default on student loan debt would be a really effective message and f*** you to this country from the folks most impacted by our constant slide backwards. Just don't pay it. Hit the bricks. En masse," Twitter user Derek Van Dyke wrote."

What he does not know, apparently, is that Sen. Joe Biden (D-MBNA) is why you cannot go bankrupt to discharge student loan debt.  I suppose if Derek wants to go homeless his strategy might work.

Do you suppose the constant slide backwards might have something to do with a generation of kids getting degrees that lead to no job higher than barista and encouraging widespread default on debts?

I took out a student loan in 1974 when I started at USC.  (It was $1000, about all that you could take out at the time.). After I dropped out, I completely forgot about the debt.  (No, really, I was more focused on a lunatic cross dresser threatening my life because I was sleeping with his roommate/girlfriend/extortion partner.)

When I received the reminder a year or two later, I just paid it off.  I was able to get a job after dropping out of college.

That this guy thinks he can just stop making payments without destroying whatever credit score he already has (can they create a new sub-200 FICO score for flakes like this?). Does he honestly not know that even a barista can get his wages attached?

Pizzagate Was Obviously Crazy, Right?

6/20/23 ABC News story that is too horrifying to summarize. And these are the people who think Christians want to keep women in subjugation.

I Wish I Could Work 40 Hour Days

I have more work to do writing expert declarations then there are hours in a day.  I keep thinking back to my days working for startups when only the need for sleep sent me home.

Does Anyone Make a Battery Powered Minichainsaw Outside China?

Why You Should Never Skip Your Monthly Issue of Parasitology

From 5/25/23 LiveScience:

"2,500-year-old poop from Jerusalem toilets contain oldest evidence of dysentery parasite"

Careful What You Wish For

6/29/23 Fox News:

"Sparks fly at California's final reparations task force meeting: 'Now's the time for a divorce!'

"'What do you get in divorce? You get half the money, half the land, alimony, child support, attorney fees, and everything else!' one attendee said"

There are more than a few Americans ready to say.  Okay, move out.  Or just stay in the black zones.

This will not work as well as the hotheads think.

Wisdom From My Wife

 I have watched the church lose its moral power over the decades.  I never expected my parents to act as Christians should, because once I became born-again, I could see that they had not made a personal profession, so I didn't expect them to act in a certain way. But the little church up the street that I attended as a new Christian were filled with people who were imperfect, to be sure, but they modeled that the Christian life could be led, even if it meant personal sacrifice.  They worried about their witness to others; I, too, was concerned about anything that would compromise my witness. 

Not everyone there was kind, but enough of the people, my pastor included, showed me that living the Christian life was possible, because they were trying hard to do so. This had a profound impact on me as a young Christian. 

"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live," is a powerful quote by Pope John Paul II.  So, given what has happened to the American family, it is no surprise what is now happening in our churches, schools and the country itself. Having lost our moral center, we are chasing every fad, every idea, every whim of a few and applying to the whole, creating division, darkness and deception as a result.