Women's sports dying - Dopes hope to win with hate and anger - good luck with that

This is great.  You’ve come a long way baby.  We are led to believe, by a long line of Hollywood BS, that women are as bad azz as men - that a skinny girl can put a serious beat down on several well trained men and do it without really trying. 

We know it’s BS.  The boy’s under 15 soccer team laid a heinous azz wippin’ on the girls National Team that now demands equal pay for…hmmm…horribly unequal work.  The best woman pro soccer player couldn’t secure the last spot on the worst men's team.  

We know the Hollywood story is total BS because women’s sports at the high school - and soon college levels - is beginning to be dominated by men who feel like women.  I for one cannot wait until women’s soccer is dominated by men who wake up one morning and decide to take pro spots from real women.  They will do it for the money - even if it's a bit less than men who wake up and feel like men.  I cannot wait until Title IX becomes the joke that it has always been.  

Today's JG rant:  Demo-Dopes offer hate and anger little else

In her July 17, 2019 OpEd, Karen Tallian tells us she is really angry.  Of course she’s really angry.  She’s a Democrat.  What aren’t Democrats really angry about these days?  Democrats are the party of perpetual hate and anger. 

The chief target of Democrats’ hate and anger is PDJT.  A two-and-a-half year witch hunt in search of a collusion crime - or any crime - has come up empty.  Instead of rejoicing that the American president didn’t collude with the Russians, Democrats are really angry.

The country has record low unemployment for blacks, Asians, Hispanics, women etc. Instead of lifting up a hallelujah, Democrats are really angry.

The ISIS caliphate is a shell.  Instead of hailing the American military, the Democrats are really angry.

If PDJT walked on Lake Michigan to save a drowning man, instead of proclaiming a miracle, Democrats would beef “Trump can’t swim” and be really angry.

The Democrats’ anger is not reserved for PDJT alone.  A good percentage hate the country and are really angry about patriotism and the founding of the greatest country in the history of the world.

If you fly the Gadsden, Betsy Ross or even today’s American flag, instead of offering a salute, Democrats get really angry and proclaim you a racist.

If you think that the country ought to have a reasonable and well-ordered process for entering the country, Democrats get really angry, proclaim you a xenophobe and send their thug army, AnitFa, to assault you physically. 

I used to be amused at Democrats’ all-consuming hate and anger for PDJT and all things American. Now, after two-and-a-half years of unending rage, it’s just tiresome. 

Exit question:  What is the Democrats’ perpetual state of hate and anger doing to advance the well-being of the American people?

Hoosiers denied for sake of surplus

Karen Tallian

Karen Tallian of Portage is a Democrat representing the 4th District in the Indiana House.

Indiana just added to its huge surplus. That's good news, and yet I am still really angry.

After the state's year-end close of business on June 30, we had an additional $270 million-plus in unexpected tax revenue over the past three months. The bad news is that the legislature didn't get to spend it.

During the 2019 legislative session, we spent four months working on a budget. Legislators heard testimony from scores of people, representing dozens of programs, all making requests for funding.

As the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, I worked hard to get some of those programs funded. The list is long, and many of those appropriations were included in the Senate-approved budget.

But here's the way it really works: Only a few people decide what's actually in the “final” budget. They include the House Republican Ways and Means chair, the Senate Republican Appropriations chair and the governor's office, represented by the budget director.

About 36 hours before the final vote, as the budget bill was going through final print, I was called into the office of the Appropriations chair. It was explained to me that all the programs I had spent months pushing for had been cut.

“What?” I asked, incredulous and nearly speechless. “Why?”

With a somewhat sheepish look, it was explained that the Republican supermajority wanted to keep the entire $2 billion-plus surplus.

“But,” I argued, “we all know we do not need that much. Do you know how many programs could have been funded with even $100 million of that money?”

There was no answer.

On behalf of my legislative district, I pointed out that the Army Corps of Engineers needed only $800,000 to fund its proposal regarding beach nourishment. But it was not just that program. Programs and proposals offered by both Democrats and Republicans were cut. Adoption subsidies. The mortgage foreclosure program.

The list goes on and on. Indiana could have easily provided a teacher pay increase of 5% and brought our teachers up to a living salary.

The Republicans chose not to.

And now we receive the news that there is even an additional $270 million, bringing our total surplus to nearly $2.3 billion. What a colossal waste.

We cut our programs and our services by nickels and dimes, meanwhile keeping billions in the bank. What a colossal waste of the time that 150 legislators spent four months crafting a budget, which was simply axed by a handful of Republicans who seem to have a hoarding problem.

Indiana's massive surplus is robbing taxpayers of their money. This makes me really angry.