Supreme Court rules you can't sue Postal Service

The U.S. Supreme Court just keeps getting weirder and weirder! Their strange reasoning of recent years even applies to issues we don't even think about that much - such as suing the Postal Service.

Yesterday, the court ruled that you can't sue the Postal Service even when it intentionally refuses to deliver mail. This ruling stemmed from a Texas case in which a woman alleged that her local post office was practicing racial discrimination by refusing to deliver her mail. Tenants in a property she owned missed important mail as a result, and some even moved out because they weren't getting their mail.

A federal law already inexplicably shielded the Postal Service from lawsuits when they accidentally lose or ruin mail - which happens a lot, as anyone who reads online message forums for collectors knows. Now - even more inexplicably - the court has unilaterally expanded this protection to "the intentional nondelivery of mail."

If the Postal Service can deliberately withhold mail, then where's the accountability? How are people supposed to get their missing mail? Now the Postal Service can just stick out their tongue, put their fingers in their ears, and say, "Reindeer motion, reindeer motion, nyeh!" There's no longer any remedy for losing mail on purpose.

March for Billionaires draws fives of people

On Saturday, there was a pro-billionaire march in San Francisco that drew a few five people.

Seriously, the March for Billionaires - yes, it actually was called that - had more reporters than participants. Even the San Francisco Chronicle counted only about 3 dozen marchers, and other sources say there were no more than 12.

Why was there an event like this in the first place? The entire point of it was to protest against a proposed referendum in California that would impose a onetime tax on billionaires. Marchers weren't deterred by the laughably low turnout and spouted typical right-wing bullshit when asked about their stance by reporters.

Organizers on Bluesky whined about how rough life is for billionaires. The event's page boo-hooed, "Billionaires get a bad rap. But most of them make our lives much better." The march featured a huge banner that said, "Billionaires build prosperity. Keep them in California!" Another sign said, "Billionaires build the future."

About the only person listening to these clowns is Gavin Newsom. Newsom says that if voters approve the referendum to enact a tax on billionaires, he will ignore the result and veto it.

Have no fear, the February ish is here!

Have no fear and drink some beer! The February issue of The Last Word is here!

This ish talks about the backlash against Flock's spy cameras, toy cars getting ruined, soiled floors at Goodwill, ridiculous old books about the metric system, more right-wing paid trolls, lap desks, priceless videotapes being taped over, the decline of air travel, and more!

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Another weird bill in Kentucky

A lot of bad bills are being introduced in Kentucky right now - as they always are - but this is among the strangest.

It's hard to follow, but it certainly doesn't look good. In Kentucky, you can already be involuntarily committed just for looking at someone funny, and it appears as if this bill would make it even worse.

Under this bill, if a person is "found by a qualified mental health professional to not meet the criteria for involuntary hospitalization", guess what? They "shall be admitted" to a psychiatric facility anyway. They would continue to be held if a court "reasonably believes" that "probable cause would be found" to hold them.

"Would be found"? So they want to detain people based solely on speculation?

It would also allow you to be institutionalized for up to 360 days.

And, if a facility discharges someone early, a court may review that action.

This bill would also create a new section of law that says that if a court decides that a person isn't eligible to be involuntarily committed, they can still be committed if they don't comply with their "treatment" plan.

One of the aims of the bill is to bring about "a lessening of irrational thoughts." I swear I am not making this up.

Of course, this bill is unconstitutional - and it's not even close. Which of course makes it more likely to pass.

New Jersey requires license and insurance for bikes

The outright war on bicyclists is expanding - under Plastic Surgery Phil.

New Jersey just became the first state in the union to require a license, registration, and insurance just to operate an electric bicycle. This bill was signed into law by the disastrous Gov. Phil Murphy on his last day in office. It applies to every class of electric bike, not just those with higher speeds and power. It imposes an age limit too.

The new law even bans all online electric bike sales for the next year. And it bans selling kits to modify low-speed electric bikes for higher speeds.

One reason why bikes should not be regulated as cars is that they're not cars. It's a simple concept really. Many states have long had stricter rules for more powerful electric bikes, but those are close to moped or motorcycle level. The standard electric bikes being restricted in New Jersey are not. They only differ from regular bikes in that the pedals may be assisted by an electric motor.

National and statewide bicycling and pedestrian organizations opposed the bill. Some noted that it would harm low-income residents the most. But of course, that was the point. It always is. The new law also runs afoul of meeting goals to fight climate change.

In fact, the requirements for even low-speed electric bikes in New Jersey are now far stricter than they were for cars in most of the country 50 years ago.

It's also been noted that New Jersey's new law violates a federal law that defines low-speed electric bikes as consumer products, not motor vehicles. And it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. Others have pointed out that the new law is unconstitutional (as if that stops new laws these days). The law is also backed by the auto industry.

In an era in which states and cities seem to be competing in earnest to see which can be the most bike-unfriendly, I think we finally have an undisputed "winner", and it's New Jersey.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a neighborly day for a neighbor, as I now have 220 photos from September's Pennsylvania trip processed!

All sorts of neet poo goes on up there! There's a state park with the ruins of a railroad bridge, a Mister Rogers statue, and a whole lotta roads!

So point your pooper here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/pa25.html

Have no fear, the January ish is here!

Because you kick so much ass, the January ish of The Last Word is already pub!

This ish talks about the city's addition of 8 new spy cameras, the city's negligence in causing a sinkhole to open up, Spectrum's ignorance of federal law, a high schooler who chewed gum from a trash can, the 100th anniversary of U.S. numbered highways, more lost mail, censorship of Dr. Seuss, health insurance death panels, football fans complaining about snow on seats, airports' abuse of trespassing laws, and more!

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Hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers, and blue moons, pots of gold, and rainbows, and bubble gum (Bubble Gum Weekend)

You're gonna laugh because bubble gum is mentioned.

As you may know, this is an occasional feature on this blog that generally profiles a bubble gum commercial of old. But one variation on this is commercials for cereal that came with bubble gum as a prize.

Some years ago, Lucky Charms ran a commersh that touted its inclusion of Rain-Blo Color Bubbles bubble gum. The ad appears to be from 1986 and starred a news anchor who looked a little bit like Donald Trump. But the second half of the commersh focused entirely on the gum offer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j6tzDez7xQ

It included a ridiculous jingle: "How big can a bubble be before a Rain-Blo bubble bursts!" Unlike today, gum ad campaigns back then used to promote the brand's bubble busting capabilities. The ad also showcases the practice that was sometimes seen back then of people holding up their hands as they bubbled.

However, the only time I ever remember seeing Color Bubbles was in college in 1994 when a classmate chomped a morsel of it. Rain-Blo and its variants apparently were available until fairly recently, but some online comments say it was discontinued not long ago - along with a couple other brands of beegee that had fallen under the same corporate umbrella. It's like when Yahoo kept taking over sites like GeoCities and then shutting them down. Not like it did Yahoo any good in the long run, as nobody uses Yahoo anymore.

Now you're laughing uncontrollably because you just read an entire entry about bubble gum.

What's a mere mortal to do? Sink?

Today, I goed to the dentist, but I was almost late because a big sinkhole opened up on Fairfield Avenue. People had warned the city that there was a sinkhole forming months ago, and the city opted not to fix it.

Because of this, we haven't had any water all day.

Also, as I was about to leave for my dentist appointment, some woman walking through the alley bubbled a blue bub.

Celebrity look-alikes may confuse you now, but when you're all grown up, you'll be completely confused

Today at Kroger, I saw a Conraid Bain look-alike and a Ross Perot look-alike.

Have no fear, the December ish is here!

It's another December to dismember at The Last Word, as the December issue of The Last Word is now pub!

This ish talks about the city lying and changing its story about Flock cameras, Flock cameras being used for ethnic profiling, Flock cameras being used to falsely accuse people of crimes, a video in which a fisherman was harassed by spoiled teenagers, more broken windows policing failures, the shutdown of a perfectly legal file downloading website, Mister Rogers getting a parking ticket, and more!

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It's a beautiful day for celebrity look-alikes

Today at Kroger, I saw a Mister Rogers look-alike and a John Goodman look-alike.

Also, the music system played "Bastin'...There's No Stoppin' Us."

Celebrity look-alike goes number painting the town

Today, I went to Target, and I overheard the sound of 2 LAP bunker blasts.

When I was in the checkout aisle, the guy in front of me looked exactly like Paul Benedict, who played the Number Painter on Sesame Street and Harry Bentley on The Jeffersons.

The stage is set for more road photos!

Back in August, I goed on a family trip that centered on Townsend, Tennessee. The event yielded 234 photos of a Roads Scholaring interest, and they're ready to fly out of your computer screen and slime you!

So point your pooper here..

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/tn25.html

Have no fear, the November ish is here!

It's gonna be another November to dismember with The Last Word!

The latest issue talks about pirate stations that broadcast flatulence, moms who found their brand new furniture ruined by family members' carelessness, a funny-shaped piece of bubble gum, schools' history of educational neglect, Montreal's war against bicyclists, how to make D.C. the 51st state under new boundaries, and more!

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Salt Lake City to open homeless concentration camp

You might be surprised to learn that Utah was one of the first places in America to adopt a successful "housing first" model to fight homelessness. This program reduced homelessness in Utah by an astounding 91%. But when the state abandoned this effort in 2017 - under pressure from the far-right Cicero Institute - homelessness shot back up again.

Recently, it was announced that Salt Lake City was building a new complex in an undeveloped part of the city to house 1,300 homeless people. Many media outlets portrayed this as a great, forward-thinking move. But now the sad truth is starting to emerge.

It's actually a concentration camp. The city plans to round up homeless people, transport them to this camp involuntarily, and force them to do hard labor. Randy Shumway of the state's Homeless Services Board said of those housed there, "You're not coming in and out," and boasted that this detention camp was part of a fight against Utah's "culture of permissiveness." Yep, when I think of "permissiveness", I think of Utah. Shumway also writes for Forbes, which is owned by a Chinese Communist Party-linked company.

The Cicero Institute figures prominently in this boondoggle as well, as one of its officials praised this camp and demanded other states and cities follow.

Shumway - like a true Nazi - also urged expansion of involuntary "civil commitment" to have people locked up without due process.

The camp will lose money too. It will cost $75 million to build and $34 million per year to operate.

What we really need to do is go back to the "housing first" model that was successful in places that tried it. In addition to the 91% drop in Utah, this model virtually eliminated homelessness in Norway, and it reduced homelessness in Milwaukee by 50%. Some officials in Louisville have even become interested in "housing first" after a visit by Milwaukee officials.

Student handcuffed because of AI fascism

If you support this Nazism, you always have the option to go fuck yourself, you know.

Fascism is on the march at Kenwood High School outside Baltimore. The school's artificial intelligence system thought a student was carrying a gun, but it was actually a Doritos bag. About 8 police cars showed up at the school, and the student was ambushed by gun-toting cops. He was then handcuffed and searched. No weapon was found.

Our electric bills are soaring and land is being seized to build AI data centers - while AI is being used to make life worse. We're all spending more and losing land just to be harmed.

The media calls that cool. Normal people call it fascism.

And one who supports fascism is a fascist. Ergo, the school in this story is run by fascists.

CFPB thinks Contract with America still applies

Remember when Newtzi's Nazis enacted the Contract with America?

The media cheered it, but real Americans spit in its face.

Well, the Trump regime's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is 30 years behind normal people, and thinks the Contract with America is still valid.

Several states have laws that rightly make it illegal for medical debt to appear on consumers' credit reports. Now the CFPB is planning on barking down an order to invalidate these state laws. The CFPB argues that a federal law passed in 1996 - perhaps the height of Contract with America fascism - preempts the states' powers to protect consumers from medical debt. The agency notes that this federal provision was set to expire, but that in 2003, it was made permanent. However, that was again by a rogue Congress.

A few months ago, Trump's CFPB already gutted a federal regulation that said states could indeed protect the public from medical debt, and now the CFPB is trying to go further with its new order by explicitly saying the states can't do so.

For starters, it is questionable whether laws passed by Congress during the Contract with America or the several years that followed it are even real law. Those "elections" were stolen - with the help of the right-wing media. This is also a Tenth Amendment issue.

The states have an easy remedy - if they have the guts to carry it out. The states should continue to enforce laws that bar medical debt from appearing on credit reports. By contrast, the CFPB has no army. It has no navy, no air force, and no marines. Not even a space force. It has a few political hacks in D.C. who talk big with their shit-caked mouths, but that's it.

Remember, Congress under the Contract with America also tried to repeal IDEA - one of the most enduring and important education laws in the land. If they had repealed IDEA and said that states couldn't pass their own laws like IDEA, would we be calling that legitimate?

Bay Area bridge closes path just because

Fascism is on the march in the Bay Area, because of course it is.

For years, the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge north of San Francisco has had a path for pedestrians and bicyclists. But now California highway officials are turning the path into a shoulder open only for automobile traffic - leaving it as a walking and cycling path on weekends only.

There is no other cycling or walking path across the bay for miles around.

This is actually far costlier than leaving it alone. Moving the barrier each weekend will cost $1 million per year.

It's the type of fiscal wastage bastage only the Tea Party could love. Naturally, this change was put in place at the urging of wealthy Marin County residents who opposed working-class people traveling into the county on bikes.

Reddit hermits are cheering.

Hawaii bans Banned Books Week

Move over, California and Fort Lauderdale. America has a new book-banning capital: Hawaii.

Right now, libraries all over America are observing Banned Books Week, in which they showcase books that have been banned or censored. But the Hawaii State Public Library System, which oversees all public libraries throughout the Aloha State, has nixed the event.

One local branch had featured the most widely censored books, along with informational materials from the American Library Association. But this libe was forced to censor this very display.

The statewide library system now prohibits use of the words censorship and banned to refer to books that have been censored or banned. ALA materials and props like caution tape are also forbidden. Stickers with the motto "Censorship is so 1984" were confiscated.

Why? State library officials say Banned Books Week is not "inclusive." Seriously, they said that.

Books are about ideas. Inclusiveness involves a collection of these ideas. Banned Books Week highlights this inclusiveness.

Hawaii's act of censorship sounds like yet another example of right-wing policy using more expansive branding. In other words, by attacking Banned Books Week as not being "inclusive", the state library system is practicing that 2020s phenomenon called wokewashing. This means they market themselves as champions of social justice even though their policies stand for the exact opposite.

Did the People's CDC take over the Hawaii library system when nobody was looking?

Beshear slashes KTAP

World Economic Forum canker sore Andy Beshear is at it again.

After Ant Farm Andy cut senior meals last month, he's now taking an axe to the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program. KTAP is a program that provides financial assistance to low-income families with children. Starting next month, these payments will be significantly reduced.

Beshear's complaint is that KTAP loses more money that it takes in. Uh, it doesn't lose money. It costs money, but it doesn't lose money. Nobody ever says the Department of Defense loses money. The Department of Defense is always spending money that the government doesn't have, as the government has been in debt for as long as anyone can remember. Besides that, Kentucky has enough discretionary funds to last for months.

This is like how Social Security is expected to run out and stop paying recipients, but somehow the Pentagon is never expected to run out.

Apple yanks ICE-tracking apps under pressure from Trump regime

Don't let the fact that America lets shell corporations that are fronts for foreign dictatorships own American land fool you. The Trump regime is often very hostile to immigrants and their families. While corporations and oppressive foreign governments are tolerated, people aren't.

The Biden regime pressured major websites into censoring factual information about COVID-19. Now the Trump thugocracy is coercing companies into yanking apps that let you track ICE agents.

Under pressure from embattled Attorney General Pam Bondi, Apple has pulled apps that enabled users to flag sightings of officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Joshua Aaron, who created ICEBlock - one of the banned apps - said Apple is "capitulating to an authoritarian regime."

The apps are being banned even though they are constitutionally protected and do not violate any laws. All ICEBlock does is show the whereabouts of ICE officers. It has been downloaded over a million times all over the country. However, ICEBlock is not available for the much more common Android system, as Aaron says Android tracks user data.

Back in July, Bondi made an outright threat against Aaron by saying, "We are looking at him, and he better watch out."

Banning ICEBlock is like banning OpenStreetMap because it gives the locations of Flock cameras - like the one the city of Bellevue placed outside my window in retaliation.

With Trump, Bondi, and a complicit Congress covering up the Jeffrey Epstein scandal - along with the regime's illegal censorship of ICE-tracking apps - I think Trump has again outranked Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the countdown of all-time worst Presidents. He might not be worse than George W. Bush, but probably the others.

Have no fear, the October ish is here!

It's gonna be an October to be unsober, which means it's time for the October issue of The Last Word!

This ish talks about a Pennsylvania trip, people putting their eyeglasses in the toilet at Oktoberfest, our new People's Land Bank, the hostile takeover of an Iowa radio station, weird shoplifting stories, a strange ad about smoking on airplanes, and more!

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A person bunkerooed at Circle K

Today, I walked past the gas pumps at Circle K, and some guy who was pumping gas ripped an LAP bunker blast.

Ant Farm Andy slashes senior meals

Back in 2019, I didn't know Kentucky was electing a Tea Party governor, but what a disaster Andy Beshear has been.

WKDZ radio reports that funding will "evaporate" for home delivered meals for the elderly across the state because of cuts by Beshear. In some parts of the state, over half its funding will be slashed.

Beshear said funding for vital programs like this will be cut at least until the next legislative session.

Yet he approved a handout for the wealthiest among us in the form of an income tax measure that continued to gut the state's progressive income tax - thus prolonging Matt Bevin's policy that drove economic turmoil and drained human potential from the state. You can't claim that you're tightening the belt for everyone when you're just giving more handouts to the rich.

It's always austerity and scraps for the 99%, but free money for the 1%.

Plop goes the glasses!

Yesterday, I goed to Oktoberfest in Cincinnati - or as I call it, Ploptoberfest. And - what a shock - it lived up to the name I gave it.

Someone put a broken pair of eyeglasses and a Pepsi bottle in the toilet.

I may have more details on this in the next issue of The Last Word. Along with the Alan Hale Jr. and George Michael look-alikes.

Fox News endorses murdering homeless

Somehow I don't think this is what the Communications Act of 1934 had in mind.

Yesterday, Brian Kilmeade - one of the nobodies who serves as a "reporter" on Fox News Channel - endorsed murdering the homeless. During a segment about homelessness, he advocated "involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill 'em."

One Twitter commenter said this "might be the most shocking thing any talking head has ever said on television."

This is yet another reason why the FCC needs to step in and restore ownership caps like it used to have and bring back the fairness doctrine.

Predictably, the Democrats are silent on this, because they'd rather attack some farmer in Montana for not wearing a mask at Circle K 5 years ago than go after Fox News.

IRS Scholaring photos were as certain as death and taxes

Time yet again to pay our Roads Scholaring dues, and this batch of road photos involves our June peepage of the new development at the old IRS site in Covington...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/irs25.html

As a bonus, I've included a small set from July showing the flooding rains we've been getting lately, so if you dare, you may want to glide on over here as well...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/rain25.html

Now more than ever, it's Sprite!

This evening, I smuggled Sprite into Rip-off-fest - continuing a proud tradition.

I didn't see any good temper tantrums at Rip-off-fest this year. Nothing like the time people got in a big argument over blankets. There was also nothing like the time a drunken woman rightly criticized George W. Bush for his fascism.

But I succeeded at my goal of soft drink smuggling.

Ba-de-ya! The September ish is here!

The September edition of The Last Word is now pub!

It's our back-to-school issue! This ish talks about a flatulence-filled Tennessee trip, Kentucky's war against homeschooling, our struggle with Verizon, psychiatric fascism in Illinois, an altercation in a school library, Steve Kroft blowing a bubble, the decline of NKU, assorted corporate scams, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/908696489/The-Last-Word-9-2025

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