Sunday, March 17, 2024

New York councilmember abused city e-mail to raise funds for CCP-linked org

According to the New York Daily News, a member of New York City Council abused city e-mail accounts to raise donations for a nonprofit tied to the Chinese government - run by the Chinese Communist Party.

Councilmember Susan Zhuang of Brooklyn - a right-wing Democrat - is under fire for these acts that appear to violate ethics laws.

The organization in question put together a parade in Brooklyn but also advocated for and worked with Chinese government entities. The donation request appeared in an e-mail last month from the official city council address of a Zhuang staffer. The nonprofit is also linked to a cohort of CCP-controlled groups outside China that aims to suppress criticism of the party and influence countries to enact pro-CCP policies.

Zhuang also recently helped organize an embarrassing far-right rally against a proposed homeless shelter.

Look under the toilet lid of any recent authoritarian trend in American public policy, and there's a good chance there's some link with the CCP. But there are usually more direct links with the CIA, which itself is CCP-linked. Major American media outlets are always happy to help them. The media supports authoritarian policies, and therefore, they support authoritarian regimes. The parent companies of top news organizations also have major interests in China like amusement parks and other investments. This is also why American movie studios censor their products to appease the Chinese government. Even the versions of movies distributed in the U.S. are edited like this.

And - you knew this was coming - this is also why the media praised China's COVID response but bashed Sweden's response. They continue to do it.

America and many other countries are becoming more and more like colonies of the Chinese Communist Party.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Cut a fart at Target too!

When it rains, it pours!

Today at the Target in Newport, I detected the sound of 3 - count 'em, 3 - LAP bunkeroos.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Idiot thinks searching bags at beaches is legal

We can all agree that Florida had a better COVID response than most of the rest of America, but the Miami area was a stark exception. True to form, the city of Miami Beach continues to violate the Constitution with no end in sight.

The city recently announced it would start searching bags of people entering the beach. This is an unambiguous Fourth Amendment violation. There is no wiggle room on this. The Fourth Amendment's safeguard against unreasonable searches and seizures seems almost tailor-made for protecting against this.

Somebody posted on a Reddit forum for legal advice asking if this was unconstitutional. Of course it is. But someone replied...

"No, it's not Unconstitutional.

"You can avoid your bag being searched by not going to the beach or not taking your bag to the beach.

"If you choose to take your bag in, you are consenting to the search.

"If you refuse the search, they won't search, but they also won't let you in."

Wrong, stupid. The beach is public in every sense of the word. The whole point of a free country is that you don't have to avoid going to public places like the beach. You don't have to choose to stay away from a public place just so you won't be searched.

Allowing these beach searches is no different from stopping and searching every car driving down the street.

What's shocking is that someone who is apparently an adult has so little grasp of basic civics. But this isn't new. Paid trolls have been filling online forums for years. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA is funding trolls like this now. Bet on it.

Hopefully, someone will sue Miami Beach.

Monday, March 11, 2024

When Kentucky abused children

My latest Substack entry is about the doublespeak Kentucky used when digging in on mask mandates in daycares:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/when-kentucky-abused-children

Cut a fart at Kroger!

Today at Kroger, some old man ripped an LAP bunker blast.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

It's bubbling season, Charlie Brown!

The most hilarious time of the year - bubbling season - is fast approaching!

Today, some woman walking up the street bubbled.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

San Francisco: "We must have fewer schools"

San Francisco is borrowing a page from the Campbell County playbook!

In a video released on Saturday, the superintendent of the San Francisco school system declared, "We must have fewer schools."

Civilized countries are building more and better schools. But in America, schools are being shuttered. It appears as if San Francisco will be a particularly egregious offender. For many years, San Francisco was one of America's great cities. Now it's experiencing the same decline suffered by Cincinnati 40 years ago. At least Cincinnati survived that - though not unscathed. There's no guarantee San Francisco will even last another 40 years.

Make no mistake, San Francisco schools have seen a steep drop in enrollment in the past few years. But most of that was the schools' doing. After schools first closed over COVID, the city's schools could have returned to completely normal operation before the end of the school year. Yet the district chose to wait over a year before reopening at all, and didn't go back to normal business for months after. It was so bad that the city took the unique step of suing the school district. The only positive in this story is that the city sued. At least that's better than what occurred in other communities, where city or county officials let schools' incompetence at the time go unanswered. But this shows just how bad San Francisco schools got. Indeed, school systems that did not resume normal operation by mid-2020 should be required to forfeit public funds they got in the ensuing months or years of bad conditions, but that's another matter altogether.

We spent our entire youths being harangued about how important school was. What message does it send when school districts close schools?

Monday, March 4, 2024

Dayton! Newport! Game day bucket go boom!

In my long-running spirit of coolsterism, I've done a couple small, local Roads Scholarings in recent days. They'll make your face fly off in public, and we start out with a new road in Dayton, Kentucky...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/dayky24.html

If that fails to enchant you, sweep on over here for a Newport neighborhood that was cut off by an ill-conceived freeway routing...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/beech24.html

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Have no fear, the March ish is here!

March into March by poppin' open a keg or three and chillaxing with the latest edition of The Last Word!

This ish discusses a delicate medical procedure, the new prohibitionism, a person getting mad because someone chewed bubble gum in a doctor's office, Kroger selling spoiled ham, a scam by Capital One, a Peanuts mystery being solved, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/709429073/The-Last-Word-3-2024

If that doesn't work, stink on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2403.pdf

Saturday, February 24, 2024

"New normal" can be a real turkey

COVID relief funds have been wasted on everything from turkey statues to tearing down amusement parks, and it's covered in my latest Substack entry...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/new-normal-can-be-a-real-turkey

Monday, February 19, 2024

Flooded airport restrooms! Spilling Coke on a bus! Game day bucket go boom!

Earlier I received an important e-mail that mentioned a bunch of interesting things.

Perhaps key among them is the restroom destructment at the Cincinnati airport a couple weeks ago. A men's room near the idiotic CNBC store had an overflowing toilet with a whole river of pee water running along the wall. Another beethoom was so bad that it was closed.

At a New York airport, a man oafishly spilled coffee all over his wife's phone and luggage.

As if that wasn't enough, a man spilled Coke all over the floor of a sightseeing bus.

More Columbus poo!

Last year was full of Columbus biperoony.

In November, we drove up to the Columbus Zoo. This outing actually gave us 4 photos for my Roads Scholaring collection. So glide over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/morecol23.html

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Masks are forever

My newest Substack entry details how mask mandates built up from being "just for 2 weeks" to being permanent in the course of 4 years...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/masks-are-forever

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

The deadly side of mask mania

My newest Substack entry is about the deadly side of ongoing mask mandates:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/the-deadly-side-of-mask-mania

Monday, February 5, 2024

It seems to me you lived your life like a celebrity look-alike in the wind...

Earlier I received an important e-mail declaring that an Elton John look-alike was sighted in Uruguay.

Friday, February 2, 2024

Double your displeasure with some school doublethink

School districts in our area have been mired in corporate stupidthink so deeply for so long that if they start the school year after about August 10, it's a big story. But an Iowa district is considering starting its school year before August 23, and families there are angry that it's starting too early. In fact, there appears to be a state law in Iowa prohibiting the school year from starting before August 23.

Kentucky needs to be more like Iowa. A state law to prevent the school year from starting too early might be a very good thing for Kentucky. Summer break is useful for not only recreation but also agriculture and summer jobs. Some public officials and media outlets enjoy bashing small farmers, but farming is a necessary activity. No farms means no food. Central cities that don't have much farming also directly benefit from summer break, as this break allows more opportunities for summer jobs programs.

An argument has emerged lately that year-round school would prevent juvenile crime because schools are the only places that make kids obey. This argument is ridiculous. People should think - not obey. The past 4 years have been filled with enough "obey, obey, obey" garbage to last a lifetime.

Iowa is actually being very equitable and progressive by protecting summer break, while much of Kentucky keeps doing everything that big corporations and the media demand.

The biggest issue these days may be the doublethink surrounding this matter. Many schools were closed for 2 years over COVID, yet those who endorsed these closures are usually the same people who demand year-round school the rest of the time. They support two contradictory ideas. They want schools closed when they should be open, yet they want schools open when they should be closed. We have seasons for a reason. Seasons are nature's way of saying what's intended and what isn't. Why do you think city pools are open in July but not January? For humor?

Perhaps it's time for Kentucky to join several other states in passing a law that says the school year can't start too early.

Coney has it...your money, that is!

Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati was known for decades for amenities like Sunlite Pool, which the park claimed was the world's biggest recirculating swimming pool. It all came crashing down recently when the park was purchased by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, which announced it would tear down the park and replace it with a $118 million music venue. This is despite the fact that Cincinnati has plenty of music venues - many of which don't get much use as it is, because a lot of music acts won't come to Cincinnati because of past hostile actions against performers.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is plowing ahead with its plans while arrogantly ignoring the public outcry.

It's bad enough that this is allowed to take place. It's bad enough that they won't at least keep Sunlite Pool. But it gets worse! Imagine that! A group of business "leaders" is now demanding that the state of Ohio give Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra $20 million in taxpayer money for this dumb project. All for free. No strings attached.

So not only is a ridiculous, useless project that will destroy one of the region's most popular recreation sites moving forward. Not only is the resulting outcry being completely brushed aside. Taxpayers may also end up being robbed to pay for it.

It's like being forced to build your own coffin.

Thursday, February 1, 2024

More and more mask hysteria!

The vigilantism, violence, and racism of forced maskers is described in my latest Substack entry, along with officials' digging in on mask mandates at weddings. By necessity, this is a long, long entry, so hang on...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/more-and-more-mask-hysteria

A person bunkerooed at Popeyes

Today at the Popeyes in Alexandria, some old man ripped an LAP bunker blast.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Have no fear, the February ish is here!

Welcome to February - also known as Febrewery. That means it's time for the February issue of The Last Word!

This ish talks about a person wasting Bubble Tape at a public New Year's party, a flatulent animal called an akbab, road atlases getting ruined by Scotch tape, TV Guides getting moldy, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/702224652/The-Last-Word-2-2024

Lest that doesn't work, slide on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2402.pdf

Friday, January 26, 2024

Science!

Science! My latest Substack entry covers some brand new COVID stupidity, including a Rhode Island plan to impose masks even in "an absence of scientific evidence"...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/science

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and masks

My latest Substack entry is about the ridiculousness of mask mandates at sporting events, amusement parks, outdoor concerts, and more...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-masks

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

More mask hysteria

My latest Substack entry discusses failed mask mandates like those that afflicted American mass transit...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/more-mask-hysteria

Thursday, January 11, 2024

The media is gonna keep lying? I'm gonna keep calling them out

My newest Substack entry talks about the media's latest COVID lie and more about society's restructuring...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/the-media-is-gonna-keep-lying-im

I got a fever of 100.1...

I had the flu starting Sunday and continuing through yesterday, and it was bad.

The only major symptom was a high fever that was at least 100.1° F. But this was bad enough. I was so weak from this that I couldn't sit at my computer for more than a few minutes at a time.

Now, back to work!

Saturday, January 6, 2024

No Democratic candidate for House

How corrupt and right-wing is the Democratic Party in northern Kentucky?

For the first time in living memory, the party is refusing to field a candidate for U.S. House in Kentucky's 4th District, which is our district. The seat is currently occupied by Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican. Massie has taken some rather unusual positions for a Republican lately, even opposing the fascist Patriot Act and Real ID. Other than that, however, he's pretty right-wing on most issues.

In recent years, local Democrats have refused to run a candidate for many important posts. Their excuse is always that if the Democrats had a candidate, it would encourage Republicans to show up and vote against them, which might sway other races. Seriously, they said that. But what has actually been going on is that Democratic insiders have been meeting with Republican insiders behind closed doors to make backroom deals to not run candidates. You'll occasionally see a Democrat run unopposed too. But just not nearly as much.

We know this for a fact. A good example was the race for Campbell County Circuit Court Clerk in 2018. It was believed that any Democrat could have won the race for that 6-year term. A potential candidate with unassailable experience in the public and private sectors and forward-thinking policy stances stepped up and was told by party "leaders" that this race already had a candidate. But that wasn't true. There was no candidate. The Republican wound up running unopposed.

How are Democratic "leaders" handling the current U.S. House race? It's too late for a major party candidate to file. Instead, party bosses want Democratic voters to vote in the Republican primary and elect a congressperson that way. But they can't. Kentucky is a closed primary state. Voters can only vote in their own party's primary, and the deadline for voters to change their party registration has passed. Even if it was an open primary, there's still no way the Democrats could win that seat, because they don't have a candidate.

The Democrats are also refusing to field a candidate in the 5th District.

It appears as if independents have until April 1 to file to run, so - not for the first time - we'll have to rely on independents to save us.

The lack of a Democratic candidate is not really a big loss these days, ever since the Democrats decided to become the party of child abuse and lockdowns. They chose a hill to die on - even refusing to renominate elected Democratic officials who dissented - and these abusers will get absolutely no help from me. Democrats will not lift a finger for universal healthcare or expanding Social Security. But they will send the Department of Homeland Security after you if you stand up for your children against being waterboarded at school.

A vote for Democrats today is a vote for Real ID, Big Pharma, closed national parks, more war, dangerous nuclear power, child abuse, and more lockdowns. They are not the party they were in 1991, and they will hear about it from me from now until the end of time. When children's well-being is at stake, I don't mess around.

Not in a toilet, in a bubble gum! (Bubble Gum Weekend)

You're gonna laugh, because I'm about to mention bubble gum.

Many years ago, this bit of ridiculousness was all over American television...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAvVPOaVzfg

That's a commersh for the chocolate mint flavor of Bubblicious dated 1986. And is it ever silly!

It shows a bunch of people at a soda counter doing a goofy dance and blowing bright green bubs. They show up to embarrass some nerdy teenager about his chocolate mint soda order.

I remember seeing this ad and bursting out laughing! Fifteen years after it aired, people were still talking about it on the Internet.

A couple years before it aired, parts of this commersh would have been seen as scenic and interesting. But by 1986, it was viewed as overblown and gaudy.

But people bubbled.

Thursday, January 4, 2024

L.A. Times lies again

I have yet another new Substack entry, this one to counter the latest lie put out by the Los Angeles Times...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/la-times-lies-again

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Media madness

I have a brand new Substack article that touches on the American media's promotion of totalitarian COVID propaganda...

https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/media-madness