Have no fear, the September ish is here!

Guess what? Ba-de-ya! That's what!

The September ish of The Last Word is now pub, and it will make your navel spontaneously combust!

This ish talks about the decline of local community colleges, the gentrification leaf blower, a psychiatrist discussing flatulence, a kid cussing at a store, YouTube hiding downvotes, a person chewing 40-year-old 'Dallas' gum, a zine convention humiliating itself, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/590357029/The-Last-Word-9-2022

If Scribd blocks this ish, you can find it here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2209.pdf

Newsom to the right of Campbell County Fiscal Court

Campbell County, Kentucky! My home county! It's also the home of notoriously right-wing public and private schools, ridiculous campaigns against adult entertainment venues, an official cover-up of school officials' harassment campaign against an 11-year-old, burgeoning gentrification, and other reactionary policies.

But at least Campbell County Fiscal Court (the county's governing body) approved a syringe access program several years ago that was surprisingly ahead of its time.

This actually places Campbell County to the left of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. You knew the man was a shitlib, because you regularly read this blog, as most cool people do. On Monday, Newsom actually vetoed a bill approved by legislators that would have allowed some cities to open supervised drug injection sites in an effort to put a dent in the increase of fatal overdoses. The growth of substance abuse over the past 2 years was in turn largely caused by Newsom's failed lockdowns.

Naturally, Newsom is being held up as a possible future presidential candidate by the media.

Oh boy! Gavin Newsom versus Nikki Haley! What a stinker that'll be! I think I'll retire to Sweden or Nicaragua.

At least I was never assaulted for not wearing a mask at a picnic in Campbell County – which happened to people in California under Newsom.

Val Demings attacks Marco Rubio from the right

The Democrats have gone full-on fascist.

Rep. Val Demings is likely to be the Democratic nominee to challenge Marco Rubio for Senate. Rubio was first elected as a Tea Party favorite. So I never thought I'd see a major Democrat attack Rubio from the right. Yet Demings has managed to do exactly that.

Recently, Demings charged that an associate of Rubio has ties to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro – who Demings called a "socialist dictator."

Uh, Maduro was democratically elected.

This is Joe McCarthy-level stuff. In my day, liberal Democratic leaders were strongly opposed to communist dictatorships, but generally did not use red-baiting to attack Republicans from the right. This nonsense about a "socialist dictator" sounds like it's straight out of the pages of the Tea Party or the Reagan regime.

Demings has other extremist positions. She was one of the most avid lockdownists of the COVID pandemic, praising draconian lockdowns in other states and repeatedly urging lockdowns and other extreme measures in Florida. If you told me 30 years ago that in 2022 there would be a major Senate candidate who red-baits an opponent and demands that a whole state be placed on house arrest over a coronavirus, I would have thought, "Man, the Republicans sure have gotten extreme!" Except this time it's not the Republicans.

Florida's Democratic Party is in shambles – just as the party is in the rest of the country. America has a broken party system that is now ready for the trash heap of history.

Another celebrity look-alike at Kroger

Today at Kroger, I saw some woman who strongly resembled singer Carlene Carter.

Joe Fischer got skeeped at

Hey! Did you know there's a nonpartisan race for Kentucky Supreme Court on the November ballot?

Incumbent Justice Michelle Keller is facing a challenge from State Rep. Joe Fischer. You may know that Fischer – a Fort Thomas Republican – is an extreme conservative. And when I say he's right-wing, man, do I mean right-wing! Fischer isn't just conservative. He's on a completely different plane of existence!

I know that these days, Fischer occasionally sounds almost reasonable compared to the lockdown totalitarians. Fischer isn't really a lockdown right-winger like Mike DeWine and Rodrigo Duterte are. And make no mistake, when I first voted in 1991, lockdowns would have been considered a right-wing authoritarian policy. Lockdownists don't get to practice wokewashing to hide their tyranny.

Now Fischer has been chided by the Kentucky Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee because in his campaign materials he talks about being a conservative Republican. In other words, he's running a partisan race – which violates the Kentucky Constitution's provisions that judicial races must be nonpartisan. The committee sent a letter that observes, "When judicial candidates emphasize their affiliation with a political party, they erode long-held American principles of judicial independence and fairness." The letter says legal disputes should "be decided by an impartial tribunal that is not influenced by political affiliations."

In addition, look how badly partisanship has ruined the other branches of government lately. On an increasing basis, the parties have built their entire identities around truly vile, repulsive policies.

Hopefully, Fischer's rightist poologgery will be soundly rejected by voters in November.

School grants itself the right to read students' text messages

You can usually count on the individuals who run our schools to be good little goose-steppers.

I heard via one of the people on Twitter who I follow that an unspecified school – apparently in the Bay Area – has a new policy regarding cellphones. It says school officials are now allowed to read any text messages between students – even if these messages were sent outside of school hours or away from school property.

Back in my day, there was a TV show called 'That's Incredible!' If there was a show today about America's schools, it could be called 'That's Unconstitutional!' Just about everything schools do displays their hostility to constitutional liberties that were rarely even in doubt only a generation ago.

California schools have been especially Nazi lately. They seem to burn a lot of books there.

The government lies a lot

Yesterday, the CDC ostensibly loosened official guidance regarding COVID, but all this does is highlight how much the government has been lying to us since the pandemic started.

If I go into more detail about what I think, I'll be censored. Now that it's come out that the Biden administration pressured social networking sites into censoring users for having the "wrong" opinions, that point is especially relevant. It's also way past time to start the prosecution phase for the atrocities that have been committed since 2020. Neither major party is innocent.

Yesterday's guidance brings to mind how we've been lied to about masks. When COVID vaccines were introduced, we were told that vaccination was the ticket out of restrictions. At minimum, we were led to believe that anyone who got vaccinated would be completely exempt from all mask mandates. That was a lie. They lied to us with a straight face. Many public and private agencies continued to dig in long after that – and some have continued to do so today. Yes, today – even after yesterday's new guidelines. This is almost 2 years after a vaccine came out.

I got vaccinated the very moment I was permitted to, and got both doses. This took place in early 2021. I feel that if a safe and effective vaccine is out there, people should use it, unless they're medically ineligible. Vaccination has long been considered a great tool to protect not just the person getting vaccinated but all of society. But what are we supposed to think when mask mandates aren't lifted even after all eligible people have had a chance to be vaccinated?

We were also told that once we reach herd immunity, COVID would no longer be considered a pandemic disease, so all restrictions would be dropped. The upper estimate for herd immunity was placed at 70%. We were promised that if 70% of people had immunity resulting from either infection or vaccination, it was over. That was another lie. The CDC itself said just yesterday that a whopping 95% of Americans now have immunity. Yet the stupid continues.

We are out of patience – and I do mean we, not just I. I have consulted with others, who have very strong credentials, and they have absolutely no patience left whatsoever. Personally, I shall continue to do everything within my power to avoid places that have a mask mandate – as I have done for over 2 years. I made exceptions for places like supermarkets and convenience stores that seemed unlikely to enforce the rules that ostensibly existed, and there wasn't a chance in a million I was going to comply outdoors. I have valid medical reasons for avoiding maskage. When I was in 4th grade, a teacher tied me to a chair and stuffed a rag in my mouth, and maskage mimics this assault. Early in the pandemic, I conducted an experiment with maskage. I kept swallowing uncontrollably, I had trouble breathing, my heart started racing, and I got a headache after a very short time. The media does not get to gaslight us by saying "everyone" is able to wear a mask. Yet they have said it many times. The more proof you provide that this is false, the more they double down.

Digging in after being proven wrong is known as the smart idiot effect. They've been doing this since long before COVID – especially on matters related to the economy. Bush did it after his lies that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction were debunked.

The media does not get to be the arbiter of what people are medically able to do. I shouldn't have to explain this. This is common sense. Three years ago, I didn't have groveling for the right to breathe without obstruction on my bingo card for this decade.

The government has lied to us so much about COVID that nobody pays any attention to the virus anymore except to try to avoid the lingering restrictions. Nobody trusts our overlords.

Pelosi praises China

There ya have it, folks.

In an interview with 'Today' – yes, I know 'Today' isn't exactly a bastion of populism – Nancy Pelosi praised the government of mainland China. Pelosi said, "China is one of the freest societies in the world. Don't take it from me. That's from Freedom House. It's a strong democracy."

I did check Freedom House, and it ranks China as one of the least free countries in the world. And that's a source that actually overestimates how much freedom most countries have. So bust goes that bubble.

American media companies have major interests in China. Gavin Newsom spoke at the annual gala for Sing Tao, a newspaper with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. American politicians of both major parties have supported Sing Tao. The CCP is gobbling up real estate all over America, stockpiling it, and jacking up housing costs.

America has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.

Bucs stadium violated ADA (a blast from the past)

This is yet another story yielded by the Big Cleaning. I've found lots of little tidbits, such as Rod Blagojevich trying to ban milk in Illinois schools, but many of them never seemed to become actual policy.

Unfortunately, many stories reported on actual events, not mere proposals. In 2005, the Tampa Sports Authority discriminated against disabled Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans who attended games at Raymond James Stadium. The agency sent a form letter to fans who used wheelchairs saying that sealed wheelchair cushions were no longer allowed at games. The letter said cushions must now have an opening so they can be opened up and inspected when fans entered the stadium.

This subjected disabled fans to more intensive scrutiny than other spectators – thus violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. But why was anyone subjected to major scrutiny at all? It was because this was when the NFL was instituting its new pat-down searches of fans.

One of the nobodies with the sports authority said they were "bending over backwards to accommodate" disabled fans. That's a load of roo gas - reminiscent of the news report where wealthy agribusiness owners complained that farm workers got too many rights. The agency suggested a "remedy" in which bomb-sniffing dogs would inspect the cushion. Seriously, they said that.

Because the ACLU actually cared about civil liberties back then – unlike today – the group had a lawsuit against the NFL's invasive pat-downs.

In the years since, the NFL has gotten more and more abusive. Like the rest of North America's big league sports industry, the NFL was ear-deep in the COVID-inspired fascism of a year or two ago. I think it's time for Congress to revoke the antitrust exemptions of the NFL, Major League Baseball, and other sports leagues.

When they tried to force cable systems to carry religious channels (a blast from the past)

Let's take a trip back to the bubble gum bustin' year 2005!

This is when self-described "moralists" – yes, they used that term to describe themselves – wanted to pass a law requiring cable TV systems to carry religious channels. Several members of Congress inserted such language into a bill dealing with the switch from analog TV to the much-despised digital format.

Supporters of this plan said cable companies were deliberately shoving religious broadcasting aside – even though many companies offered several religious channels. Several years earlier, one cable provider even struck a deal with congressional "leaders" to drop a local channel that covered liberal rallies and replace it with full-time fundamentalist preaching.

How about fair coverage for all minority groups? If cable companies had to carry religious channels, they should have also had to open up access to any other group. Public access channels were required to allow such access, but no group got a whole channel. In fact, most public access channels were just filled with a rotating series of messages consisting of text on a computer screen. There was nothing preventing religious groups from making public access programs – like everyone else had to do.

The proposed law also blasted a gaping cavern through the claims – which persist today – that the FCC can't bring back the fairness doctrine and impose it on cable channels, or that the FCC can't place ownership caps on how many channels a large corporation may own. It also rips to shreds any claims that the FCC can't encourage stations to show quality children's programming.

Those who endorse government censorship based on content are usually the same weenieistic hypocrites who oppose regulation for the purpose of public interest – such as ownership caps.

If a pound of doublethink is worth a million dollars, I want mining rights to our rulers' heads.

Our rulers always did love dictatorships (a blast from the past)

In addition to letting me sort my old records and cassettes, the Big Cleaning continues to unearth old stories we stockpiled. Quite frankly, I'd rather cover old stories than new stories, even though our overlords have become more extreme and reactionary over the years. These days, they just do all their stupidity in unison, so it's not very interesting. In past decades, they at least put some variety into their idiocy.

But there's one thing that's stayed the same for years. They hate America. They just hate, hate, hate it. They like foreign dictatorships better, and they can't hide it. Nowadays, just like 15 years ago, and just like 30 years ago, they can't shut up about how horrible they think America is because too many Americans have the nerve to demand freedom.

One of the stories deals with topics that were slated to be taken up by Kentucky lawmakers in 2006. There were the usual gripes by Republicans demanding that the school funding formula be changed so that funds were transferred upwards to richer school districts. But there was also a plan to again lengthen the school year. One of the nobodies in the administration of Republican Gov. Ernie "Hey Bert" Fletcher suggested it should be lengthened because China's school year was longer.

And??? Why should America take cues from overseas dictatorships for its domestic policy?

If you like other countries better, move there. The world has about 200 countries. If you don't like America, there's lots of other choices.

This isn't the only issue where American elites supported authoritarian foreign governments. They also praised overseas dictatorships as having a better business climate and being tougher on crime, for example. But some of their claims didn't always line up with the facts.

These caterwauling troglodytes portray America as being full of cowboys and hippies who behave recklessly and care only about their "freedumb." But civil liberties, peace, and economic equality are universal values – which are aspired to by people worldwide.

Our rulers display doublethink. Those who demanded a longer school year because a few other countries were doing it are usually the same people who recently supported closing schools for 2 years. You can't have both – yet they supported these contradictory ideas. This is doublethink just like how they call opponents both "liberals" and "right-wing Trumpers." Everything George Orwell warned us about is taking place now.

Bunker blasts and celebrity look-alikes in the Northwest

Today, I received an important e-mail about a trip that was taken in the northwestern U.S.

Only 2 celebrity look-alikes were seen: Denver Pyle and Liz Cheney.

But yesterday, Pioneer Square in Seattle was full of nifty poo. Live music was played, and the airy vapors of cannabis graced the air. A man sitting on a bench released a bunker blast that was said to have briefly lifted him a foot in the air.

Have no fear, the August ish is here!

The August edition of The Last Word has been pub for days now, and you're gonna read it until your face flies off in public!

This ish talks about censorship of 'Sesame Street' and other media, computer programming misadventures, not being allowed to go to the bathroom at school, a person getting bubble gum on the floor at a gym, the greatest episodes of various TV series, and more!

Scribd is blocking access to this issue. This is ironic, because the first article in this issue is about censorship.

But you can still find this ish by gliding over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2208.pdf

More bunker blasts and celebrity look-alikes!

I just received a very important e-mail about flatulence and celebrity look-alikes being detected in public!

According to this vital communiqué, a Rick Astley look-alike was seen on a flight from Cincinnati to Seattle. A Pete Rose look-alike was observed boarding a flight from Cincinnati to Austin. This was especially amusing because he was wearing a red baseball cap and chewing bubble gum, as ol' Pete often did.

In addition, 2 silent-but-deadly bunker blasts were detected on the plane.

Real ID fascism continues in Kentucky

Kentucky Democrats' apologia for the thug George W. Bush continues as the party is ushering in another towering wave of Real ID fascism – and using it as an excuse to cut the public's access to their local motor vehicle department.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Jim Gray has fired off an op-ed boasting about how the state has "crossed a significant milestone" by gutting its licensing system. Gray writes that we're less than a year away from Real ID taking full effect. If the Democrats cared at all about the public, they would have fought this like it's going out of style. Instead – on an increasing basis – they've not only let this Republican program take effect but have acted like it's the greatest thing ever.

There are now only 31 regional motor vehicle departments throughout the state – as opposed to the old, more convenient way of each of the 120 counties having at least one. Many of these 31 offices are not near central cities that have the most residents. Gray says that new options will "reduce the number of trips to a regional office", but it doesn't eliminate them entirely, and most people will have to travel much further when they do have to visit a regional office.

Real ID is fascist. That point is incontrovertible. It infringes on personal liberty and on the states' autonomy. It is a domestic passport – a "papers please" program. What Kentucky should have done is either sue over it or simply ignore it except to say that facilities must continue to accept the old ID's.

Just don't expect the Democrats to do it. If there's one thing I've learned over the past couple years, it's this: Fascist is as fascist does.

Disabled Missouri man loses caregivers

Not far from St. Louis, a 32-year-old man who is said to be incapacitated and developmentally disabled has lost his caregivers, after an agency responsible for his care suddenly walked away from him.

This has left his adoptive mother and various officials scrambling to find him proper care. This situation isn't even unique in Missouri – or probably other places. Much of this crisis lately has been caused by lockdown-induced staffing issues.

It turns out that when the man was a young boy back in 2000, he was severely abused at a state-run mental health facility. Everyone in 2000 insisted this sort of physical abuse didn't take place anymore – even as it seemed like it kept getting worse, as society was turning more aggressive and uncaring. This facility slammed patients against floors, forced them to fight each other, hit them with books, and forced them into cold showers. This abuse resulted in a monetary settlement, plus prison time for some of the abusers.

In a society where our rulers enjoy abusing the most vulnerable, abuse like this is sadly no longer surprising.

Happy now, Dems?

Something just happened in Kentucky that has never before happened. Just a few years ago, it would have been considered unthinkable. It was considered a Holy Grail by some, but to most folks it seemed like there was no realistic chance it would ever happen.

Can you guess what it is?

Republicans have just overtaken Democrats among registered voters in Kentucky.

Tough titmouse, Dems (as an intelligent person would say). You earned it. If not for the Democrats' utter corruption, elitism, and totalitarianism that has ballooned in the past 2 years, this wouldn't have happened. This is 100% the Democrats' own stupid fault. It might actually be more obvious in Kentucky than in some other states, as many of the state boards have become packed with patronage appointees.

Forty years ago, the Democrats had a registration advantage of well over 2-to-1. They blew it by becoming so right-wing. And right-wing they are. Under a traditional definition, they would be considered a right-wing authoritarian party now – yes, even more so than the Republicans now. They're to the right of Republicans on many issues now, including war, Big Tech censorship, and Real ID.

The Democrats' loss in membership isn't limited to Kentucky. It's nationwide. Recent surveys show that – for the first time in the modern era - Republicans now outnumber Democrats nationally among the nation's voters. This is especially striking considering the national trends only 15 years ago.

What is the Democrats' base of support now? It seems like they're down to just a few propellerheads and incels.

Metro Tim

A project 34 years in the making shall now be deemed complete to my satisfaction!

Many years ago, when looking at standard reference books for high school assignments, I thought of what it would be like if official definitions of metropolitan areas covered every county in the 50 states and D.C. - not just those closest to the central cities.

Perhaps the biggest driver of this interest was radio, since rating services like Arbitron used government definitions as a basis for their own metropolitan areas, with some modifications. From time to time, I came up with some rather rough definitions of my own to cover every county, but none of them seemed very accurate.

Now I think we can finally settle on a real set of definitions. I used FreeBASIC to process databases of county-to-county commuting data and other factors to create something consistent and believable. This is not specifically for radio but rather more for general purposes. However, this is not a list I intend to keep modifying, so I use data from the 2000 census and the resulting roster of official metropolitan areas as the reference point. (This is despite the fact that I was skipped by that census.) My new list is retconned to have applied in the 1970s and shall be deemed to apply today.

So read it and peep...

http://bunkerblast.info/newmetros.html

Cut a fart at Kroger

Today at Kroger, I heard someone crack an LAP when I was in the frozen foods section.

A person went to prison for hurting Simon Leis's feelings (a blast from the past)

Something something decency bluh bluh bluh!

The Big Cleaning has yielded this ridiculous story from 2002. The story touches on broader issues that are still relevant today.

Throughout greater Cincinnati and into northern Kentucky, it's long been true that if you go against the established narrative, you will be blacklisted. Over the past couple years, the Democrats have been more guilty of this than the Republicans, but the Republicans were far worse for many years before. Even then, the Democrats weren't completely innocent, nor are the Republicans entirely blameless now.

We don't like some of the things we've been hearing about lately in northern Kentucky. More specifically, a few Republican politicians are using their ill-gotten power to scare everybody. I'm not saying that even all Republicans are guilty here, but we're once again being led down a very dangerous road.

This sort of intimidation loomed large throughout greater Cincinnati in 2002, especially under ultraconservative Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis. Back then, a woman got in trouble for "pandering obscenity" for selling homemade porn tapes. This material was distributed only to adults, and was constitutionally protected. She was using the domain name simonleis.com – a political statement about the Republican sheriff's "decency" crusades.

A judge actually sentenced the woman to a year in prison for making fun of the embattled lawman on a porn site. The judge told the woman, "You decided to use the First Amendment as a sword and not as a shield." So she wasn't supposed to use the First Amendment at all? Is the First Amendment supposed to be just a husk that sits there unused?

That came a few years after all those computer bulletin board systems were illegally shut down – which was never remedied.

Schools endorsed Bush (a blast from the past)

You know all these school officials who are calling everyone "right-wing Trump supporters" now because they disagree with them? Let's go back to the bubble gum bustin' year 2004 to see what they were up to back then.

Just before the 2004 "election", they openly endorsed George W. Bush for President. A student at a public high school in Virginia Beach said their school had this announcement over the intercom: "In tomorrow's election, you can vote for a rock or a pancake. The rock is President Bush. You know where he stands and he is solid. The pancake is Sen. Kerry. He is flat and spreads out easily and often flip-flops to prevent from getting burned."

Somebody replied that this couldn't possibly be true, because no public school would ever allow Republicans to be praised. Oh, trust me, they did. I went to public schools where that was all they ever did. Private schools were of course even worse, and I remember some pretty right-wing stuff being said in the morning announcements.

Some of the biggest right-wingers I've ever met were school people. Now they're the ones calling everybody else "right-wing Trump supporters."

Less than meets the eye (a blast from the past)

It's indisputable that this decade has so far been worse than any others in modern times, but our descent into fascism is not new. Each decade of my lifetime has been worse than the one before it – with the exception of the 2010s.

It was already so bad by 2008 that it was almost impossible to engage in air travel in the U.S. without being manhandled extensively. The Big Cleaning has yielded a 2008 piece that says a G.I. Joe toy created a stir at Los Angeles International Airport. Security staff considered the toy a dangerous weapon, because G.I. Joe carried a 2-inch plastic rifle. A passenger was not allowed to board with this toy.

It wasn't just the good ol' U.S. and A. In London, a man was stopped by airport security for wearing a Transformers t-shirt showing a cartoon robot. He couldn't board unless he changed his shirt.

These incidents were apparently because of "temporary" measures put in place after 9/11. Yet these "temporary" measures were still in place 7 years after the attacks. In fact, they're still in place now – 21 years after 9/11. This is proof that when the government enacts a "temporary" measure, it could very well become permanent. Hence, 2 weeks to "flatten the curve" has become permanent masking.

This wasn't even entirely new with 9/11. An online commenter said that back before 9/11, their children had a pencil sharpener permanently confiscated because it was a miniature replica of a cannon. They missed their flight because security crews wasted so much time inspecting the pencil sharpener.

Ukrainian forces kill 10-year-old girl

A 10-year-old girl was killed after Ukrainian forces struck a civilian part of the city of Donetsk.

To the best of my knowledge, the Western media has not covered this attack – at all.

This is where American taxpayers' money is going. There's never enough for Social Security or education, but there's always enough to give to foreign militaries for deadly assaults like this.

Say yes to Michigan!

Some of you may know that back in May, I went on a little fact-finding mission to Michigan! We also bipped into Indiana to peep Indiana Dunes National Park!

That trip yielded 77 photos of at least marginal Scholaring interest, and they'll knock your socks off in public...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/mi22a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/mi22b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/mi22c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/mi22d.html

New York law would require gun owners to turn over social media accounts

When a state either relaxes or toughens its gun laws, I usually just glance at the article and move on with life – unless something completely nutty happens. And boy howdy, did it ever!

Lawmakers in New York state just approved a new bill – which is expected to be signed into law – that would require anyone applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so their "character and conduct" could be verified.

Let that sink in for a moment.

This is completely unprecedented. I'm not a big gun guy, but anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of civics can see this is impermissible. Under this bill, the state of New York would deny gun licenses on the basis of social media content.

If you still have your anti-Newt Gingrich zines from 25 years ago posted, or if you recently upvoted a Reddit post referring to Barbara Ferrer as "the Cryptkeeper", either one is likely to be fodder for the "character and conduct" police. And it's a slippery slope. Today it might affect gun licenses, but tomorrow it could be driver's licenses or any professional certification.

Those who made fun of me over that "America is fast becoming a police state" line are looking mighty silly right now.

How to lose an election

This is a perfect illustration of why I'm never voting Democratic again.

The Democrats aren't even bothering to run a candidate for numerous legislative seats in northern Kentucky – largely because of backroom deals with the Republicans. The candidates they do have are terrible.

I stumbled upon the Facebook page for one of them. About every third photo she posts is a map of the current COVID community levels for Kentucky – which nobody cares about anymore. In another post, she talks about the fact that she caught COVID and blames it on someone in Minneapolis not wearing a mask. She wrote an article for the venomous Forward Kentucky that includes misinformation about COVID. One of her Facebook pictures is just text in which she tries to absolve the Biden administration of blame for high gas prices – even though Biden has done zero to rein it in.

Such is the state of the Democratic Party in 2022. The party is full of economic and medical misinformation, finger pointing, totalitarian policy initiatives, and nonsense.

The modern Democratic Party is a death cult. They're "uptown Republicans."

Have no fear, the July ish is here!

Celebrate the Fourth on the first with a fifth by poppin' open a keg or three and relaxing with the July issue of The Last Word!

This ish talks about a trip to Chicago full of Greyhound troubles and filthy restrooms, a yuppie who got mad at a bicycle, a ruined punk rock concert, a psychiatrist who forgot to wear his shoes to the airport, books falling apart, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/580619181/The-Last-Word-7-2022

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

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2207.pdf

Executive order time!

Last Friday's overturning of Roe v. Wade and the failure of Congress and the Biden regime to rectify Friday's decision is further proof that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can be trusted. More and more evidence of this has been piling up regarding other issues lately. For example, President Biden recently appointed an advocate of cutting and privatizing Social Security to the Social Security Advisory Board. But it seemed like a goal of protecting Roe v. Wade was the only thing the Democrats still had going for them – and now they've blown that too.

The Democratic-led Congress recently had a chance to codify Roe v. Wade by passing a new federal statute. Yet somehow they failed to pass this bill.

Roe v. Wade was a landmark decision, and – like it or not - the legal basis for the 1973 ruling is pretty solid. Roe v. Wade is predicated on the Constitution's right to privacy – a right that should be unassailable. Not everyone liked Roe v. Wade, but the legal reasoning for the ruling is ironclad.

Because Congress has failed to do its job and has not codified Roe v. Wade, can the President do anything? You bet! Odds are that he won't, but he surely can.

In the early 1960s, civil rights activists rightly urged President John F. Kennedy to issue an executive order to ensure that public accommodations could not discriminate on the basis of race. They said such an order would simply enforce protections that already appeared in the Constitution. In fact, Kennedy did issue Executive Order 10925, which said government contractors could not engage in racial discrimination.

An executive order to uphold Roe v. Wade would simply enforce constitutional protections that are supposed to already exist. For as long as anyone can remember, overturning Roe v. Wade was a goal of many abortion rights foes, so I'm sure abortion rights supporters had already drafted what an executive order might say in case it was overturned.

So why hasn't Biden issued an executive order? If I was President, I would have had one ready by the end of last Friday.

Over the past couple years, we've seen that unelected agencies – including some that are part of the Biden administration - think they can issue orders to enforce laws that do not even exist. So why won't an elected President issue an order to uphold the Constitution's right to privacy, which actually does exist?

Now it's clear that the Democrats are going to fight as hard to protect Roe v. Wade as they have for civil liberties in general, education, peace, a living wage, and single payer healthcare. In other words, they won't fight for it at all. An online comment said the Democrats' electoral strategy is to let bad things happen, campaign on fear of worse things happening, let worse things happen, campaign on fear of even worse things happening, let even worse things happen, and so on. Lately, the Democrats have directly instituted some of the worst things themselves. The main point is that the Democrats are already raising money off of Roe v. Wade being overturned. They let it happen and not be rectified, and now they're fundraising off of it. They failed, yet they want to be rewarded for it.

The reason the Democrats haven't codified Roe v. Wade is that they'd no longer have anything to run on.

More people are now seeing this for the con that it is, but the major parties are such cults that it has taken much too long for most folks to realize what a grift they are.

Meanwhile, Biden has now made a deal with Republicans to appoint a right-wing lawyer who defended a highly questionable Kentucky anti-abortion law to a federal judgeship.

Putting the wind in the Windy City!

Some of you may know that I went to the Chicago roadmeet over the weekend.

Some of you may also know that bunker blasts are uproarious beyond all description.

To the surprise of nobody, several air biscuits were detected throughout my trip. But I also plan on putting out the next ish of The Last Word soon, and perhaps it shall include more detail of these hilarious trouser sneezes!

Needless to say, Greyhound bungled things as it always does, but what's a mere mortal to do? Stink?

Dear Supreme Court

Not your call.

The end.