I’ve returned to the blog-posting keyboard after taking a two-week hiatus, which I am sure my handful of readers will understand. Or maybe they didn’t notice.
It seems like little has changed since the last post. So much propaganda, hypocrisy and bias; so little time.
We’ll cover some of this with a dose of news and views.
THE NEWS: Nancy Pelosi’s husband showed prescient timing in spending about $1.95 million to acquire Microsoft call options (the right to buy the stock at a fixed price) just ahead of Microsoft landing a government contract that has caused the stock to rise about 11 percent in a short amount of time.
THE VIEWS: You could have knocked me over with a sledgehammer when I read that.
THE NEWS: In yet another Project Veritas expose, a CNN technical director was taped saying his network (The Most Busted Name in Fake News) ran a propaganda campaign designed to get Joe Biden elected and Donald Trump ousted as president.
THE VIEWS: You still got that sledgehammer handy?
THE NEWS: A Texas non-profit recently hired a Biden transition official and soon thereafter landed a $530 million federal contract to manage the inflow of migrant children at the southern border.
THE VIEWS: Sledgehammer, please.
THE NEWS: Portland (Oregon) Police are flirting with the political correct firing squad by declaring a “riot” when protesters set fire to a police association building and an ICE building there, protesting a shooting death in – wait for it – Minnesota. A police chief in Minnesota already has resigned under fire when he labeled a crowd committing vandalism and attempting to injure police a “riot,” incurring the wrath of the woke media members.
THE VIEWS: I’m reminded of the selective language of ice hockey, where our tough guy fighter is an “enforcer” but your team’s tough guy is a “goon.” Cue Gertrude Stein: A riot is a riot is a riot. Call it a clambake, street party, mostly peaceful protest or rave if you like, but in reality it is a riot.
THE NEWS: A Texas police officer was shot multiple times Wednesday morning during a routine traffic stop, but has survived. A suspect has been arrested and also is suspected of murdering a woman in a nearby carjacking. The shooting of the policeman was, according to Associated Press, at least the fourth in Texas in recent weeks.
THE VIEWS: It gives you some perspective on the Minnesota shooting, when the man who was shot, accidentally according to the police, suffered his fatal wound while resisting arrest during a routine traffic stop. Cops have a right to be tense.
THE NEWS: A black student at Albion College in Michigan has confessed to writing racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in a dorm stairwell.
THE VIEWS: Can we expect riots – I mean mostly peaceful demonstrations – calling for that guy’s cynical, opportunistic head?
THE NEWS: A 37-year-old co-founder of Black Lives Matter has gone on quite the buying spree, acquiring four high-end homes in the U.S. for $3.2 million.
THE VIEWS: As Bernie Sanders has showed, just because you’re a Marxist doesn’t mean you don’t believe in pampering yourself with expensive real estate. Mum’s the word.
THE NEWS: Former basketball star and current analyst Charles Barkley, who is black, took the occasion of a break in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament coverage to note that politicians are dividing this country along lines of black vs. white or rich vs. poor to maintain their power and money.
THE VIEWS: Predictably, Barkley was roundly criticized by liberals. Just shut up about life and talk about basketball was their message. But we’re supposed to endure endless National Anthem protests at sporting events, Major League Baseball caving to woke interests by relocating the All-Star Game, Black Lives Matter uniform patches and other melding of sports and racial politics.
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