Have no fear, the April ish is here!

An ish! Wow!

The April edition of The Last Word is pub, and it's as important as all the rest! This issue talks about a college town's poorly attended events, people vandalizing a luxury apartment complex, Donald Trump's Sesame Street obsession, tons of people acting up at school, highway surveillance cams, the New York Post's crusade to replace gum with wood, a school donation box getting thrown at a ceiling fan, flatulence of professional golfers and TV sports reporters, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/844606017/The-Last-Word-4-2025

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

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2504.pdf

Contract with America: still fascist after all these years

The substance of new congressional bills is usually bad enough, but sometimes they can only pass because of past congressional wrongdoing.

There's a regulation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that rightly limits overdraft fees to $5, but Congress is taking an axe to that. Yet the Senate bill to overturn this commonsense rule passed by only 52-48.

What about the filibuster? Whenever any good bills come along, we have to listen to how it needs 60 senators to pass. Why is this bill different?

It turns out that it doesn't need 60, because it was approved under the Congressional Review Act, a stale relic that's part of the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996.

We're still dealing with the Contract with America? Congress did lots of Nazi things under the Contract with America, but we shouldn't still have to put up with any of them. Yet President Clinton actually signed the 1996 bill into law, so we can't count on the Democrats to clean up the rubble.

We're ruled by unconstitutional laws passed by a Congress that hired an open apologist for the Nazis and the KKK as its House historian. It's just like how we're still affected by Reagan, who supported Francisco Franco and South Africa's apartheid dictatorship.

The Contract with America was America's Nazi moment. But for it, there might not have been so many Nazi moments since.

It's the Cincinnati Reds playin' basteball again!

Today I went to the parade for baseball's opening day!

It's recovering a little bit from the malaise of the past few years. People beered, and the airy vapors of a certain smokable herb wafted through the air!

Also, I saw 3 - count 'em, 3 - people who were in such a festive mood that they bubbled.

Elmwood Place in your face

It's time for yet another batch of Roads Scholaring photos!

This one is from last month when I went to Elmwood Place and the north side of Cincinnati. This event yielded 49 photos. It would have been funnier if it was 48, so I could do a Sesame Street voice, but it's 49.

So point your pooper here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/cinnorth25.html

What a beautiful world this will be if we had more celebrity look-alikes

Today at the friendly neighborhood Krogie-Wogie, I saw some guy who strongly resembled Donald Fagen of Steely Dan.

Facebook connived with China to censor content

Here's a story that the BBC recently reported. We have to rely on foreign media for this story. The American media won't report it, because the American media is so closely tied to the Chinese government.

A former senior exec for Facebook said the social media behemoth worked "hand in glove" with China's ruling regime to censor content. Mark Zuckerberg himself considered agreeing to hide posts until Chinese authorities could approve them. This took place in the mid-'10s.

Facepoo also considered allowing Chinese officials access to users' personal data.

A complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission even alleges that Zuckerberg and other Facebook execs made "misleading statements" to respond to congressional inquiries about collusion with China.

Facebook's parent company Meta then accused the whistleblower who exposed all of this of being paid off by "anti-Facebook activists." But Facebook is so bad now that pretty much everyone who has ever used it has become an "anti-Facebook activist." Maybe Facebook needs to stop censoring posts, fix its broken notifications, and start respecting the privacy of those who don't want their friends list revealed.

Censoring content at the behest of China is like when Yahoo ratted out journalists to the Chinese government - which caused the journalists to be imprisoned for years.

America also has a record of suppressing dissent lately. Cities try to close theaters if they show movies they don't like (in addition to illegally searching bags of people on the beach), and government officials have coerced social networking sites into removing content they disagree with. The U.S. has lost a lot of credibility in its claims to be a bastion of personal liberty. But in addition to ending its online censorship program, the government should also pass a law promising stiff punishment for American websites that collude with the Chinese government.

Scholaring in The Big D again!

Last month, I went Roads Scholaring in Dayton, Kentucky. The main purpose was to investigate an attempt to illegally barricade a public right-of-way, but there was some other assorted biperoony.

So point your pooper here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/dayky25.html