Amidst these times of political correctness run amok, utter disregard for traditional values, and general bizzarro world behavior, we try to address the situation with another installment of news and views.
NEWS: The Texas Rangers are the only Major League Baseball team not to have a pride night this year, those ubiquitous homages to all things gay.
VIEWS: While the Rangers are not doing so well in the MLB standings this year, they’re atop my list of teams for having the courage to just say no to these lavish examples of style over substance; to celebrating those making an alternative lifestyle choice as some sort of heroes.
NEWS: The Woke Queen of Oakland, Mayor Shen Thao, had her house raided by the FBI, which reportedly was looking into claims of illegal campaign finance, among other failings.
VIEWS: Her honor, who also has presided over significant leaps in violent crime, is blaming it all on “radical right wing forces.” It’s better than insisting that the dog ate her homework.
NEWS: The brain donors who run Kenya decided now was a good time to tax the citizenry into submission with measures that included price increases on necessities such as diapers, in an effort to be environmentally friendly.
VIEWS: Residents responded by storming the parliament building, setting it afire and moved to rioting in the streets. The Democratic morons who hyped Jan. 6 protests in Washington, D.C., into “insurrection” ought to be paying close attention. Coming soon to a national capital near you, real insurrection.
NEWS: Leftists in the media are attacking Federal Judge Aileen Cannon for attempting to hold Trump accusers to legal standards in his Florida classified documents case.
VIEWS: Many of these stooges were outraged that people questioned the Colombian-born judge handpicked to try and, to turn into a circus, Trump’s New York City trial on so-called hush money, yet they feel free to go after Cannon relentlessly. Again, these stooges didn’t even seem to care that Judge Cannon ruled against the Trump legal team regarding the legality of the Mar-a-Lago search. And, finally, the stooges fail to note Cannon is a judge confirmed in a bi-partisan manner by Congress while Senor Colombia became a judge due to an appointment from then-NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg. Yes. Bloomberg is a Democrat, just as is Judge Colombia.
NEWS: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has declared gun violence a public health crisis.
VIEWS: Well, duh. Murthy has the usual mealy-mouthed solutions, such as disarming the populace in general by making LEGAL gun ownership onerous due to over-regulation. A web site cited in the U.S. News and World Report story on the matter (gunviolencearchive.org) has removed suicides from its statistical trove. The site blames bad available data, which probably has something to do with suicides annually dwarfing other gun death totals. Also, banning so-called “assault rifles” which as available to the populace do not fit the term, and magazines for guns with capacities over some arbitrary figure, won’t cure gun violence. Harsher penalties and prison sentences for gun-wielding criminals instead of our catch-and-release justice system would help. Also, if someone really wants to kill another, guns are but one method. Just last week, the Johnstown Daily Bugle had not one, but two stories on the very same page about area people allegedly shooting other people and killing them with, wait for it, crossbows. No doubt Murthy soon will see crossbow violence as a public health crisis.
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