Opinion by the Miami Herald Editorial Board, June 12, 2024: “It’s like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to hurricanes, there will be flooding and they may incur thousands of dollars to fix their h[...]
Archive for June, 2024
June 12th, 2024 - 10:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
FBI arrests racist plotting mass shooting to start race war
Mark Prieto, 58, of Prescott, Arizona, would later tell cops he wasn’t serious when he told an FBI informant at a gun show that he wanted to incite a race war before the 2024 election by shooting up an Atlanta rap concert. Nobody should believe that. When somebody tells strangers he’s tr[...]
June 12th, 2024 - 6:35 pm § in News Media, Republicans
Inflated valor
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX; bio here) was an Army reservist who served as a civil affairs officer in Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division. The Pentagon just revoked his Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB), which he’d been wearing on his civilian suit jacket, because he wasn’t an infantryma[...]
Cat masters and their human slaves
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June 12th, 2024 - 5:45 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Are Republicans intellectually disabled?
It sure seems so, but that doesn’t get them disabled parking permits. I don’t want to pick on Republicans. I’d much rather have two healthy political parties and rational politics. They do this to themselves. The words “character” and “GOP” don’t go to[...]
Is greedflation real?
In retail grocery, I think so; in food processing, I’m unsure. Employers in the food industry are paying higher wages, retailers are passing along price increases by distributors and processers, and all have higher costs. Thus, some price increases are unavoidable. The question is whether comp[...]
Magistrate doesn’t dismiss lawsuit against Boebert
In 2022, a “gadfly journalist” named David Wheeler, d/b/a American Muckrackers, made sensational allegations about GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s personal history which I won’t repeat here. In response, Boebert went on Fox to defend her reputation, and threatened to sue Wheeler, A[...]
June 11th, 2024 - 8:10 pm § in Israel/Palestine
The monster behind Oct. 7 attacks
This is him. His name is Yahya Sinwar, and he’s Hamas leader who precipitated the Gaza war. He’s to blame for the kidnappings, killings, and hostage-takings by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, and the 36,600 Palestinian lives lost to the Israeli military attacks he deliberately provo[...]
June 11th, 2024 - 6:25 pm § in Misc.
Hotdog eating champ goes vegan
Joey Chestnut (photo, left) is to sponsored hotdog eating contests what Man o’ War is to horse racing: unbeatable; the greatest. Chestnut holds the world record of 76 hotdogs and buns eaten in 10 minutes and not barfed up. My personal best, achieved in high school, was 26 hotdogs, no buns, in [...]
June 11th, 2024 - 5:06 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Texas gun group hires vigilante killer
Texas Gun Rights, a political advocacy group, has hired Kyle Rittenhouse (photo, left) to be their outreach director (story here). Rittenhouse was 17 years old when he traveled from Illinois with an illegally possessed an AR-15 style rifle to a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that erupted following a po[...]