Mother’s Day News And Views

Today, we offer a Mother’s Day edition of News and Views, beginning with a mild lecture.

Mothers should be appreciated, even revered, 365 days a year, not just on an arbitrary day designated by those who would profit from sales of greeting cards, flowers and other assorted gifts.

Fathers also should be appreciated more than one day a year.

Does anyone else find it telling commentary on our warped society that moms and dads get just a day each, while Gay Pride, Black History, International Masturbation, Ice Cream, Pizza, and Pets – among others — get entire months?

NEWS: AT&T reports that their customers prefer to text their mothers rather than calling them on Mother’s Day, at a rate of three to one.

VIEWS: An AT&T executive was quoted as saying “A text is immediate, it’s personal, and unlike a call, it’s something she can hold onto.” A call is not immediate, is not personal? What am I missing here? As far as holding onto a text, give me a break. If I’d ever texted my mother on Mother’s Day, even if she had a cell phone to receive such text, she’d have clubbed me on the head the next time I saw her. And I would have understood completely.

NEWS: A popular meme tells us Mother’s Day is a low-crime day, with the tag line that mothers are too busy being celebrated to commit their usual amount of crime on that day.

VIEWS: Fact-checking Snopes.com, which prefers to ignore obvious misstatements by the left, took the time to look into this meme. They concluded that, while there is no definitive, all-encompassing statistical evidence that crime is down on Mother’s Day, there are isolated reports from cities that domestic violence crimes tick up on or around Mother’s Day. If only those domestic abusers had texted instead of showing up in-person.

NEWS: A state lawmaker in Tennessee wants Memphis to secede from the state because the Supreme Court has ruled Congressional districts that have been gerrymandered based on race are unconstitutional.

VIEWS: Yes, the man is a Democrat and yes, he is black. The obvious question is where would Memphis go? President Trump has made inroads in curbing violence there, but it is not yet a garden spot. It is unclear what state would want to claim Memphis. California, New York or Illinois, maybe, but that presents logistical concerns, Memphis being so far geographically from these outposts of rampant leftism. Those states would, however, be only too happy to tax the Memphis residents into submission to make up for residents fleeing the oppressive state taxes of those three.

NEWS: Bartender-turned-lawmaker AOC thinks no one can earn a billion dollars legally and the American War of Independence was a battle against billionaires.

VIEWS: First, I think leftist sympathizers from Oprah Winfrey to Taylor Swift would beg to differ with AOC on the subject of all billionaires being thieves, exploiters, or a combination of both. As for the Independence War, it is not surprising that a socialist proponent of intrusive government would fail to understand the American colonists were fighting the English government and its taxation without representation. It is notable that, even back then, colonists paid lower tax rates than citizens of England. And, current confiscatory tax policies in Blue states such as California, New York and Illinois are higher as percentages of income, than the British levies that spawned the revolution. Thankfully, AOC is not yet a mother we would be compelled to honor today, although she has a domestic partner and there were rumors in the not-too-distant past of pregnancy when she started putting on more than a few pounds.