Actress and antiwar activist Jane Fonda, 84, announced on Friday, September 2, 2022, that she’s beginning chemotherapy for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer (see story here). Fonda’s July 1972 trip to North Vietnam was just one of nearly 300 trips to that country between 1965 and 1[...]
Archive for September, 2022
September 2nd, 2022 - 1:18 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
What are Republicans drinking?
Drunk driving is a human failing, not solely a Republican one (see, e.g., Paul Pelosi’s DUI arrest and conviction), but some of our GOP friends add an extra dimension to it. In Las Vegas, Patsy Brown, a GOP candidate for local office, told the cops she had only one beer after being pulled, but[...]
GOP senator’s Social Security rescue plan: Go back to work
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has the temerity to ask Wisconsin voters to re-elect him after calling Capitol rioters “tourists,” has come up with another bold idea. (He’s nothing if not imaginative.) “There are a number of innovative ideas I would support,” he told const[...]
September 1st, 2022 - 11:34 pm § in Russia
That marriage didn’t last long
Oksana Poludentseva, 36, met her husband, Stepan Dolgikh, 25, of Siberia, while he was doing time for murder and robbery. She apparently befriended him thinking she could “reform” him. When he got out, they got married, and then he beat her to death at their wedding party in a drunken r[...]
Was Biden’s “Soul of the Nation” speech political and divisive?
That’s what Republicans claim (here), but I doubt they’d praise anything Biden said, no matter what it was. Biden delivered his “Soul of the Nation” speech on Thursday, September 1, 2022, using Philadelphia’s Independence Hall and two U.S. Marines as props. (All politic[...]
September 1st, 2022 - 6:43 pm § in News Media, Politics
Fox vs. News
How Fox “reported” a story (here): “Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman hired two convicted murderers to work for his campaign, and his Republican opponent in the state’s November election, Mehmet Oz, claims it shows he is soft on crime. “Dennis and L[...]
September 1st, 2022 - 5:45 pm § in Donald Trump, Humor
Report: After FBI search, Melania needed new underwear
Sources who don’t wish to be named claim Melania Trump (photo below) bought new underwear after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago for loose top-secret, secure-facility-only, eyes-only government documents (nuclear secrets, names of spies, etc.). According to sources, Melania “hates people touc[...]
“Decent” Capitol rioter gets 10 years in federal prison
Thomas Webster, 56, in better days, was a U.S. Marine and New York City police officer. He should’ve known better. What was he thinking? But caught up in MAGA madness, he went to D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, to storm the Capitol. He even took a gun with him. A gun! What did he plan to […][...]
September 1st, 2022 - 12:24 am § in Politics
How GOP Texas governor spends taxpayer money
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has spent $12.7 million busing border jumpers to Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago (see story here). The Daily Mail says this dough paid for transporting more than 7,400 migrants out of Texas, which by my rough calculation comes out to about $1,700 per nose. The ben[...]