The March ish of The Last Word is now pub-a-roony, and you can read it until your bip bone breaks!
This ish talks about people who think left-wing is right-wing, copies of 'Countdown America' getting ruined, Donald Trump flushing paperwork down the toilet, people pooping their pants at school, 'Sesame Street' episodes being pirated, oppositional defiant disorder, and more!
So point your pooper here...
https://www.scribd.com/document/561782250/The-Last-Word-3-2022
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http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2203.pdf
Monday, February 28, 2022
Have no fear, the March ish is here!
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Saturday, February 19, 2022
New York's war on the homeless continues
It's hard to believe it's been over 30 years since Phil Collins sang, "Think twice, 'cause it's another day for you and me in paradise." That was a popular song about the plight of the homeless. Sadly, our "leaders" haven't learned a damn thing since then and have done nothing but double down on failed punitive approaches.
In the United States, it's more true in big cities than in small towns. This shows that COVID and gentrification aren't the only crises that have been handled worse in urban areas. The burgeoning fascism of our cities doesn't exactly help the cause of abolishing the electoral college.
New York City has proven itself a leader at this right-wing tyranny. The city has been hamstrung by a string of inept mayors for at least a generation, and the incompetence shows no sign of slowing down under Mayor Eric Adams.
Adams has now announced that the city will begin removing homeless people from subways each night, citing the public's fear of subways. The city says it will strictly enforce rules targeted at the homeless. "No more just doing whatever you want," the mayor sniffed at a press conference with the despicable New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. Yep, I know that when I want to do whatever I want, I go to a city that's suffered under some of the most authoritarian mayors in America of the past 30 years.
Advocates for homeless people have rightly blasted the plan – especially in the light of the fact that city won't try to ensure affordable housing. They also raised concerns about the expansion of a 1999 state law that lets courts force people into psychiatric "treatment." A 2005 analysis of the law said it was found to be racially discriminatory, and 85% of those who received court orders had no history of violence.
The plan even reverses a 2020 directive that limited the use of police to deal with the homeless.
This is while Adams is proposing slashing $215 million from the city's already-ruined public schools.
This is also while most of the country – including parts of large cities – is treated as a dependency of a rich, powerful elite based in our major cities that lately has showcased its incompetence as never before.
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Saturday, February 12, 2022
School administrator guilty of mail fraud
America's political leadership is almost singularly dedicated to defending crime like this.
On Wednesday, a former school administrator in Little Rock, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to mail fraud for wasting school district funds for her personal shopping expenses. She squandered over $230,000 on the district's credit cards – money that was supposed to be for children in early childhood programs.
From 2014-18, the administrator wosted school funds on these items...
• Over $4,000 on a recliner, bath rugs, and other goodies from Wayfair.
• Over $27,000 on 83 unauthorized purchases from PayPal.
• Almost $200,000 on 2,462 items from Amazon, including housewares, cosmetics, clothes, gift cards, pet products, and knitting materials.
The purchases were made using 2 credit cards funded by state and federal grants – i.e., the taxpayers. She was caught when she was found to be submitting "fabricated receipts and false transaction logs."
She must now pay restitution – in addition to the real sentencing that will take place at a later date.
This story is yet another cog in the revolving door that defines the crime wave that is the American school system.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Another Kroger celebrity look-alike
Today at Kroger, I saw a Ted Knight look-alike.
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Monday, February 7, 2022
Another airline merger likely to be rubber-stamped
Because this is a day ending in 'y', yet another airline merger is about to be rubber-stamped. This time, it's the "low-cost" airlines Spirit and Frontier. (I put "low-cost" in quotes for a reason. It's just like how I put "discount" in quotes when talking about "discount" stores like Kmart.)
Business "experts" worry that the Biden administration might scuttle the merger. They grumble that the administration's view is that "big is bad." Huh? The Biden regime has been as friendly to greedy corporations as any other recent presidential administration.
You can bet your bizcream that airlines will soon be demanding another taxpayer-funded bailout, even after the airlines' own actions contributed to their steep loss of business over the past 2 years. And Congress will give it to them too.
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Thursday, February 3, 2022
Civilians killed in raid in Syria
This is more proof that Bush Republicans have taken over the Democrats. Just as more Democrats are taking authoritarian chamber of commerce positions on domestic policy, they're also becoming war hawks.
In Syria's Idlib province, a U.S. special operations forces raid has killed 13 people – including many women and children who were not terrorists or enemy combatants.
Nearby residents say the overnight raid included a "barrage of attacks" and that helicopters hovered over a house for 2 hours before special forces stormed it. This news comes just months after a U.S. strike in Afghanistan killed 10, including some children.
Yet the Pentagon and the Biden regime are taking a victory lap over this botched raid.
Meanwhile, the media is beating the war drum in Ukraine. See, folks, I didn't call them "the right-wing media" for nothing.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
The 'Sesame Street'/'Beavis And Butt-Head' connection ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)
Recognize this voice?
That's a disclaimer that MTV used to run before 'Beavis And Butt-Head'. It was instituted following a typical moral panic over the show's content.
But listen to the voice again.
I'm 95% sure that's Emilio Delgado, who played Luis on 'Sesame Street'. In fact, it's been rumored for a long time. It's just never been confirmed.
I did find a brief online bio of Delgado that says he did voice-over work, but it didn't specify whether it was for MTV. I recall that one time decades ago, I was watching MTV, and they ran a small bumper whose voice-over sounded familiar. I said something like, "That sounds like Luis from 'Sesame Street'." A family member said in reply something like, "Whatever." It was as if they knew it sounded like Luis but just didn't want to admit it, for fear it would touch off a big conversation about the ol' Ses.
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Indiana bill would stop schools from silencing parents who win settlements
This is a serious story, so wipe that smirk off your face.
We all know that schools are legally almost untouchable. They not only have allies in our court system but will also retaliate against anyone who fights them. For decades, much of our political "leadership" has dedicated themselves to protecting bad schools. This is their whole identity. It's a second skin to them.
WFYI in Indianapolis reported on a shocking story that plagues America's schools. While federal laws like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act are supposed to protect the rights of disabled schoolchildren, parents can be silenced if they win a case under these laws. Schools often force parents to sign a nondisclosure or confidentiality agreement as part of the settlement. Because of this, the school's evildoing is never exposed. Families are afraid of violating the agreement if they warn others about the school's misconduct.
This is in addition to the recent trend of schools, unethical lawyers, and other scoundrels conniving to use IDEA and the ADA for the opposite purpose of what was intended by defending COVID protocols that exclude many disabled students from school. Schools never cared about these laws before, but their whole world lights up now that they've started to twist the laws to defend discrimination. Some of the lawyers involved have side projects that are also scams, such as a phony ministry that makes the most scandal-tainted televangelist look like the cleanest choirboy in comparison. The ACLU today is not the ACLU we once supported, and it too has gotten in on this grift. The ACLU has become controlled opposition that defies its original commitment to civil liberties.
But now there's a bill in Indiana that would prohibit school districts from making parents sign confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements following disputes regarding education of disabled children. If it passes, it would likely make Indiana the first state in the country with such a law. The Indiana House has approved the bill already.
This bill would offer some much-needed protection to children with disabilities. Yet opponents whine that the bill could result in more due process requests by parents. Good. It should. The ADA and IDEA don't work if people don't use them for their proper purpose.
If you haven't been paying attention the past couple years, you may be surprised to learn that the bill was introduced by a Republican. Lately, the Democrats have adopted defense of bad schools as a centerpiece of their agenda. This classist, ableist identity is no longer reserved for Reagan/Bush Republicans or just a fringe slice of Democrats. The Democrats are fighting against this bill like there's no tomorrow.
Schools are among the most fascist institutions in America. That's why they need to have their wings clipped too every now and then. In my America, they don't get to keep abusing their power to destroy lives.
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Monday, January 31, 2022
Have no fear, the February ish is here!
Time for the Febrewery issue of The Last Word, your road atlas to freedom!
This ish is required reading like any other! It talks about New Year's on Fountain Square, the ruination of Montana school toilets, a person eating all the cherries at Kroger, a person chewing bubble gum and drooling on the floor at a mall, a "bubble gum roast" and more!
So point your noggin here...
https://www.scribd.com/document/555769222/The-Last-Word-2-2022
If that doesn't work, bip on over here...
http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2202.pdf
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
Another weird dream
Just before I woke up this morning, I had another strange dream. I dreamed I was on a Brossart reunion committee, and we had a meeting. At the meeting, there was a table that had some form sitting there that you could fill out. Someone had written a bunch of stuff about 'Sesame Street' on the form, so I kept trying to take a photo of it with my smartphone.
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Friday, January 28, 2022
My COVID experience
I am almost 100% certain I had COVID-19 over the past week – from roughly Saturday to Wednesday. It was almost certainly the Omicron variant – like 99% of recent U.S. cases.
I had COVID despite being fully vaccinated. On the other hand, some agencies and politicians in the U.S. have already declared the virus to be endemic. I've felt since last May that it has reached the endemic phase.
As the outbreak is at a much milder stage than in the spring of 2020, I managed to avoid a severe outcome, despite a litany of risky underlying health conditions. At worst, I felt mildly under the weather. It felt like the mildest cold I've ever had. In my case, it was like a cold without the worst symptoms such as the characteristic sore throat or severe congestion. But a runny nose loomed large.
Like other diseases, this novel coronavirus has sadly left its trail of death. But that trail gets narrower and narrower as the virus joins its cousins as just another of the many viruses we were already forced to battle.
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Sunday, January 16, 2022
Harris communications director posted tweets attacking immigrants
Now that the Democrats are America's new unliberal face of bigotry, hate, bullying, and abuse, perhaps this story isn't too surprising.
Vice-President Harris's new communications director Jamal Simmons has been under fire because of messages he posted on Twitter attacking immigrants.
In 2010, Simmons posted on Twitter: "Just saw 2 undocumented folks talking on MSNBC. One Law student the other a protester. Can someone explain why ICE is not picking them up?" Because it bips. That's why.
And now Simmons is the Biden regime's "border czar" – whatever that's supposed to mean.
Wait! There's more! As recently as 2020, Simmons wrote that the CIA's use of waterboarding was necessary to "protect the nation" even though it "may have been illegal."
But these days, when you criticize the CIA, you can count on some incel to call you part of the "far right."
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Saturday, January 1, 2022
Even celebrity look-alikes like New Year's!
I'm old enough to remember when TV network affiliates in Cincinnati deemed the annual New Year's celebration on Times Square too dangerous to show. They preferred instead to show the wimpy stuff on Cincinnati's Fountain Square. But now the Cincinnati events are probably better than the New York "festivities" – not because Cincinnati has gotten better, but because New York has gotten worse. Because Times Square is worse now, you know damn well our local stations show the network coverage of it now instead of Fountain Square.
Last night, I goed down to Fountain Square. It wasn't that exciting, but it was better than watching the garbage that the networks surely provided. Actually, Snap Map footage of Times Square looked decent, but I've already been informed that the networks used the event for their own propagandistic purposes. While I was on Fountain Square, I saw 2 celebrity look-alikes, and they were just as funny as all the rest I've seen over the years: Ron Howard (from back in the '80s when he had that mustache) and Kenny Rogers.
Also, early in the evening, I saw 2 – count 'em, 2 – people who were in such a festive mood that they bubbled.
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Sunday, December 26, 2021
Have no fear, the January ish is here!
The January issue of The Last Word is now pub, and like always, it's a beaut!
This ish talks about your failure to ruin toys you never used, Judge Mills Lane kicking a defendant out of court, ruined Slinkys, the increase in bubble gum sales, reviews of terrible museums and restaurants, and more!
So point your pooper here...
https://www.scribd.com/document/549037639/The-Last-Word-1-2022
If that doesn't work, mosey on over here...
http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2201.pdf
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Maria cussed ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)
It's always a barrel of laughs when a character on a children's TV show cusses.
Back in 1975, 'Sesame Street' had a week-long series of episodes in which several cast members visited New Mexico. I found the scenes from this trip on YouTube, and I've been listening to them as I process the photos from my recent New Mexico trip. But in this clip, I heard something rather interesting...
Fast-forward to about 7:48. This is while the Count kept making expensive long-distance phone calls from Sesame Street to New Mexico. As Maria storms out of the house in her bell bottoms, we hear her muttering, "Dammit!" And there's some little kid standing right there too.
'Sesame Street' ruled back in my day (unlike today).
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Sunday, December 19, 2021
Your friends and family are drowning in rage and despair, and it's the media's fault
Many of you have family and friends who have fallen into thrashing mania and misery because of the establishment media's militant support of the fascist "new normal."
One of the biggest tragedies in America – perhaps the world – is the fact that hordes of people have fallen under the fascist media's spell. Many more have become a shell of their former selves because the scuzz-a-luzz media has maliciously destroyed their livelihoods by encouraging lockdowns and lockdown culture.
I've been skeptical of media hype since I was a teenager, and I've been reluctant to trust media talking points without more reliable verification. In the past 2 years, however, the media has driven people you once knew into an unquestioning stupor marked by fits of rage against dissidents.
Some with a lot of time on their hands spend all their days watching garbage disguised as "news" on TV or the Internet. They will defend to their death their sources of information, calling any commentator or average person who dissents a conspiracy theorist – often both a left-wing conspiracy theorist and a right-wing conspiracy theorist in the same conversation. It doesn't matter how strong the dissenting source's credentials are. They can be a doctor, teacher, or lawyer, and they'll still be equated with the meme of the shirtless old man scowling.
Your friends and family who have been lost to the media will start arguments with you. But when you start to counter with facts, logic, and science, they will suddenly announce that they're done arguing. Sometime later, they'll bring up the same topic again, and the cycle will repeat.
One of their favorite accusations is that you sit at the computer all day looking at conspiracy websites. However, they do exactly that, except with them it's often TV instead of Internet. This is while the media has its own ridiculous conspiracy theories, like when they claim that states have deliberately undercounted COVID deaths just so they could lift restrictions.
These folks weren't as hostile and argumentative before. They didn't intentionally pick fights with dissidents like they do now. They didn't use to think everyone else – let alone the people closest to them – was an enemy. But now everybody is. They think the cashier at IGA, the 5-year-old down the street, their doctor, and everybody else are all enemies.
We can't always blame those who have begun thinking this way. If you were subjected to the totalitarian propaganda machine every waking moment, the same might happen to you. But it's sad to see so many people spending their lives thrashing about over media hype and lies.
Then there's the many people who don't lap it up but have found their livelihoods and social activities ruined because of policies the media maliciously cheered. They now lead lives of sadness, and nobody is around to comfort them.
All of this is a tragedy, and it was avoidable.
There must be some accountability for the media. There's got to be some smart lawyers who can figure out a way to make media outlets pay stiff civil penalties for their deliberate journalistic malpractice.
Turn off the TV. Read a book. Go to the store. Live.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Florida! South Carolina! Game day bucket go boom!
Those who closely follow the doings of yours truly may recall that back in September – ba-de-ya! - I goed on a little fact-finding mission to Fernandina Beach, Florida. A sea urchin stabbed my toe in the ocean, and my thermos full of apple juice fermented to become wine.
And my trip yielded 127 Roads Scholaring photos and videos. This justifies some peepage, so point your pooper here...
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/fb21f.html
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Friday, November 26, 2021
Have no fear, the December ish is here!
It's another December to dismember at The Last Word, as our December ish is now pub!
This ish talks about a "magic kidney", a crude map of Sesame Street, a person crinkling a candy bag at a play, a Sarah Palin look-alike chewing bubble gum, and more!
So roo and poo...
https://www.scribd.com/document/542103734/The-Last-Word-12-2021
If that doesn't work, bip your beeper here...
http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2112.pdf
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Sunday, November 21, 2021
Drawing the line
All over America and around the world, people have fought for justice. If one is innocent of a crime, judges and juries must acquit. If one is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, a conviction must result. I am not in a position to weigh the facts of every case, and I can only hope jurors and judges reach the right verdict. This blog entry is not a commentary on the outcome of a particular case, regardless of how we may feel about it. There is another issue at play that poses a major threat to Americans' civil liberties, and I want to make sure everyone is warned of it, so they're not caught off guard.
If you can endure even one second of the media's coverage of major news events lately, you may have noticed a lot of media attention focused on whether a defendant crossed a state line. I don't think the media was desperately trying to convict the defendant. Rather, I think the media is more interested in the long game of preparing us for a looming "papers please" dystopia.
What is the significance of state lines? Some state lines aren't even based on visible features but were arbitrarily mapped out. Why would lines that are largely invisible determine a defendant's guilt or innocence? The media cares about state lines because it lays the groundwork for the day when crossing a state line will require all of us to submit papers or undergo a search.
There's pretty convincing evidence that this is their goal. It was happening already during the full lockdowns last year. There were orders prohibiting or limiting interstate travel even into this year. There were even checkpoints between states. I heard from family of a checkpoint between Ohio and Indiana. New Mexico decreed that state parks were closed to out-of-state residents. Albuquerque's bus system was open only to New Mexico residents, and it even checked passengers' ID's. Even federal orders on things like masks refer only to interstate travel.
The priority of our pundit class is a permanent police state. The state line obsession encourages the public to accept limits on interstate movement.
I'm kind of big on all this civil liberties business, you know.
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Sunday, November 14, 2021
Virginia! Tennessee! Game day bucket go boom!
August's trip to Roanoke, Virginia, yielded a grand total of 165 photos of Scholaring interest. It's hard to believe it's been 3 months, but time flies and you are there!
So bip your bunker here...
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21f.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21g.html
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Monday, November 1, 2021
Bill would require social media sites to verify your identity
I had no idea this was 1998.
As Big Tech book-burning continues unabated, it does of course have its enablers in Congress. Among them is Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah), who is floating a draft plan to require social media websites to verify users' identity.
This will gut the anonymity vital for many users. Anonymity isn't just for right-wing churches and the Chinese Communist Party flooding newspaper comment sections with gobs of sockpuppets. Anonymity is also important for people who seriously discuss sensitive topics. It also protects those who blow the whistle on government or corporate scandals. And it protects other folks who may desire extra privacy.
Under Curtis's proposal, people would be prevented from creating accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or any similar site from making an account unless they submit identification. It's a "papers please" law for the Internet.
Furthermore, these websites would be required to report users to the Federal Trade Commission if they are suspected of using phony ID's. The FTC would be required to submit these reports to the Department of Justice.
America isn't the only land were there are proposals like this. The dictatorship in Australia has a similar plan.
It's like the Communications Decency Act, Real ID, the Patriot Act, the Social Credit System, and vaccine passports all rolled into one.
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Saturday, October 30, 2021
Have no fear, the November ish is here!
It's a November to dismember with The Last Word!
This ish talks about my misadventure-filled New Mexico trip, high school kids stealing globes, a restaurant kicking kids out for squirting ketchup on the TV, mischief at Vermont schools, and more! It's not sold in any store!
So point your pooper here...
https://www.scribd.com/document/535782681/The-Last-Word-11-2021
If that doesn't work, bip on over here...
http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2111.pdf
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Saturday, October 23, 2021
Fauci questioned over puppy experiments
Dr. Anthony Fauci has become the face of America's botched pandemic response and now serves as President Biden's chief medical adviser. Now a letter from members of Congress is demanding answers from Fauci over unspeakably cruel experiments on puppies.
The letter is from a bipartisan group of House members - but mostly Republicans, because the Democrats are becoming not only the party of child abuse but also of cruelty to animals. This comes after the White Coat Waste Project - the nonprofit that found U.S. taxpayer dollars were funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology - have exposed experiments that infected numerous puppies with dangerous parasites.
The White Coat Waste Project said 44 beagle puppies were abused in a lab in Tunisia, and some even had their vocal cords removed so barking wouldn't upset scientists there. Under Fauci, the NIH sent a huge sum of American taxpayer money to the lab for these experiments.
There is no justification whatsoever for this cruelty, and even the FDA said it was not necessary.
We live in an era in which so-called conspiracy theories are actually spoilers. Remember "America is fast becoming a police state"?
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Thursday, October 21, 2021
Minor road photos from August posted
I went on a very minor Roads Scholaring locally in August, and the event yielded only 6 photos. This justifies peepage...
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/ft21.html
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Wind Cave! Carhenge! Game day bucket go boom!
Back in June, I goed on a little road trip to Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. This is the trip where a woman appeared to be trying to blow a bubble with the drawstring of her jacket. The trip yielded 213 photos of Roads Scholaring interest, and you're gonna peep 'em until your face flies off in public...
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21f.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21g.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21h.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/wc21i.html
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Monday, October 18, 2021
New Mexico governor pays $150K in crotch grabbing incident
It's nice to know that the Governor of New Mexico is a complete idiot.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, is known for her ranting harangues and giving New Mexico one of the worst responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It turns out that a former campaign spokesman accused Lujan Grisham of a bizarre incident at a campaign staff meeting. According to this allegation, Lujan Grisham dumped water all over the man's crotch and then grabbed his crotch during the meeting.
Now Lujan Grisham has settled the resulting harassment claim for $150,000.
Lujan Grisham tried to hide this payment by making it appear on campaign finance reports to be ordinary legal expenses.
What a beezweezer.
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
CCP joins War on Halloween
The Religious Right used to fight against Halloween year after year. These pushy fanatics used to cancel Halloween in schools all over America. In some schools, Halloween never returned.
But now we're facing new enemy combatants in this War on Halloween. The stated reason is not COVID-19, nor is it under the same guise as the battles of previous decades. Rather, it seems to be simply...because.
Schools in Seattle; East Lansing and Grand Ledge, Michigan; and Princeton, New Jersey, recently decided to cancel all Halloween festivities. They say Halloween events create too much noise. They say Halloween is too exciting, and that this impedes the learning environment. They say canceling Halloween will somehow increase attendance. They point out that not everyone celebrates Halloween - which is true, but there's also a lot of people who don't celebrate other events. When I was in school, I had no interest in school sports or dances, but I didn't ask for these events to be canceled. When I was a high school junior, a school pal said he did not celebrate Thanksgiving. We all respected that and moved on. The school did not cancel the holiday. School officials also say Halloween wreaks havoc on people with food allergies. I'm very sensitive to a wide variety of foods, but I wouldn't dream of abolishing Halloween because of it.
Halloween doesn't violate the spirit of inclusion or the mission of education any more than most other things that schools do - and take pride in.
At the New Jersey school, officials reversed their decision to ban Halloween, but schools elsewhere are doubling down. One is replacing Halloween with "thematic units of study about the fall." There are even rumblings that cities might ban Halloween even outside of school.
This has the Chinese Communist Party's fingerprints all over it. It has become clear since last year that our overlords either support the CCP outright or are willing to do its bidding. In addition to executing the War on Halloween, they have one thing in common with the right-wing religious zealots who have fought us in the past: They are not patriots. Appeasing a hostile foreign dictatorship is not what I call patriotism. We can also abandon any pretense that our rulers are liberal. Liberal Democrats such as George McGovern and Walter Mondale were staunchly opposed to authoritarian regimes, including those that claimed to be communist.
If the CCP wanted to intentionally gunk up our society, an effective way to do it would be to advance the War on Halloween. To the CCP, this is dynamite.
The idea that our "leaders" are vanguards of liberality is a complete joke. Their totalitarian, selfish policies lately strongly resemble juche - North Korea's official ideology. But they have some elements of the Taliban and Nazi Germany thrown in.
It's 100% fair to lump the nobility that runs our school systems in with the Religious Right - because they share the exact same goal of banishing Halloween from our communities. If the jackboot fits, wear it. And if it feels good, put it on.
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Land of Enchantment enchants!
Yesterday I got home from a camping trip to New Mexico.
It's obligatory for me to mention here that I saw a Florence Henderson look-alike there.
It's also a requirement that I mention that I saw a Cathy Lee Crosby look-alike there.
And it's absolutely mandatory that I mention the fact that a couple at the campsite kept loudly passing gas and laughing uncontrollably about it.
These events elicit little elaboration. But this road trip was one hilarious misadventure after another, and I plan to go into hairy detail about the trip in the November issue of The Last Word.
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Patriot Act may be unleashed against school dissidents
Things that trigger a government investigation: parents and students disagreeing with school boards.
Things that don't trigger a government investigation: schools launching a years-long harassment campaign against a student.
The Nazism of America's schools has been on full display of late, and plenty of families are furious. And make no mistake, our schools are run by actual Nazis. I don't mean that in a figurative sense. If this was Germany in the 1930s, they would be card-carrying members of the Nazi Party. To be clear, they are not progressive.
Some folks are fighting back. The current regime of bio-juche has made activists out of families who never had any interest in activism before. Yet as far as I know, these families have committed no violence or crimes. Media reports imply that there has been a rise in threats against school boards and administrators. But that is a lie. It is a fabricated crisis.
Education Week now reports that the National School Boards Association is begging the Biden administration to launch an investigation of these dissidents, accusing them of "domestic terrorism." The NSBA cites - of all things - the Patriot Act. The NSBA is asking the Department of Homeland Security to get involved.
With the Patriot Act and the DHS being pressed into service, it's like having Bush back in power!
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland coddled the NSBA's deranged conspiracy theory by sending a memo to the FBI director about dissenters' nonexistent "criminal conduct."
The Biden administration is worse than Nixon, and it's not even close. In addition to all this stupidity, the administration has also been encouraging lawbreaking by school districts and openly giving them taxpayer dollars to break the law. For a presidential administration to openly condone lawbreaking is unprecedented in America's history. Even Watergate wasn't this bad. Maybe even the Iran-Contra scandal. When I registered as a Democrat when I was 18, I didn't know I signed up to become a fascist. But America today is truly fascist.
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