Bill Alphenaar

History buff & motorcycle touring all 50 States

[Bill Alphenaar @BillAlphenaar]

@scottlincicome @BrianFaughnan @washingtonpost Scott, will there be "Dad Jokes" included in your Washington Post articles?

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

On September 20, ICE officers attempted a stop of a vehicle registered to a known criminal illegal alien with multiple alcohol related driving offenses who is also wanted in Guatemala for a drunk and disorderly charge, during a targeted enforcement operation in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

As officers attempted the stop to confirm the identity of the driver, the driver of the vehicle fled at a high rate of speed. In the interest of public safety, ICE officers immediately discontinued the enforcement action. A short time later, officers saw smoke nearly half a mile from the attempted stop and discovered the vehicle had crashed into a tree and caught fire. Officers immediately attempted to render aid and extinguish the fire until the Grand Rapids Police Department and Fire Department arrived. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene by local officials. Officials also estimated that the suspect’s vehicle was traveling well over 100 miles per hour when the crash occurred.

Upon further investigation the driver of the vehicle was Mario David Coronado-Juarez and not the vehicle’s registered owner. Coronado-Juarez was an illegal alien from Guatemala who was previously removed by Border Patrol from the United States in 2021. He re-entered the country, a felony, at an unknown date and location.

Resisting officers and evading arrest is dangerous for our officers, illegal aliens, and the public.

[Bill Alphenaar @BillAlphenaar]

@mkhammer It's good for your children to have war stories to tell about how their mother raised them! 😂

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@EWErickson @SleepBryte How does it compare to a Sleep Number mattress?

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@TheBabylonBee oops - didn't mean to laugh at that!

[Bill Alphenaar @BillAlphenaar]

@exjon @jarvis_best I hope all are safe! Scary thought!

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating.

Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground.

The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves.

It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors.

Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence.

True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over.

Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market.

We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

I have many thoughts on the Nikole Hannah-Jones story, especially having attended the kind of schools she sent her daughter to, but if we're looking for takeaways, here's a simple one. When an expert in education so thoroughly demonstrates a jarring and near complete lack of expertise in the act of getting an education for her own daughter, we should stop taking advice from her on curriculum, instruction, and all other fads disguised as wisdom she offers. That seems like the least we could do. Her daughter's personal struggle, which is indeed sympathetic, wasn't much of a teachable moment for her, as she doesn't seem to have updated any of her priors (and actually fudges funding facts, so as not to disrupt the narrative of under-resourced schools). But it should be a teachable moment for us, about the outsized influence of a scholar who claims to know better than anyone what her daughter would be up against in the school to which she chose to send her, but was inexplicably surprised and left her daughter completely unprepared for it.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

Must read by @charlescwcooke

What Nikole Hannah-Jones Doesn’t Say https://t.co/qBNO7uIZ17

[Bill Alphenaar @BillAlphenaar]

@JerryDunleavy "Breaking exclusive" is the correct introduction to what's likely going to happen with more frequency to fragile things around the house! LOL

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@TPCarney @OliverSherouse @LoganDobson Ah, Katie finally taught you the correct way, eh? 😉

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@CaseyMattox_ 🤦‍♂️

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@jason_howerton A path to salvation

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@clintbrooks @AndrewCurran_ No Intelligence (NI)

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@exjon @USN_Submariner Ah, so we finally have an explanation as to why YOU always have a coffee cup in front of your mouth! In the Navy they probably referred to you as 'ol Capt Gold Fang... 😉

[National Review @NRO]

The sordid Kennedy Center affair is a wonderfully emblematic miniature, summarizing Trump's imperial arrogance in all its spectacular pettiness. | @EsotericCD

https://t.co/UVCMfj3YFQ

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@JayCaruso $4.99 here!

[sceptor @Sceptor6]

Indisputable facts.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

MAGA, if you buy a $40,000 truck, you didn’t “lose” $40,000. You exchanged $40,000 for a truck. Imports work on the same basic concept. If you stop spending $100 at the grocery store, you did not “make” $100. You also don’t have groceries. It's amazing how this has to be explained to Donald.

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@TPCarney And why would a billionaire's son need someone else to pay for any part of their wedding? Another example of their grifting