Have no fear, the May ish is here!

May wouldn't be May if the May edition of The Last Word wasn't pub!

This ish talks about my waterlogged sleeping bag on a camping trip, 4th grade troubles, Kentucky Horse Park tickets getting ruined by ketchup, luxury cruises getting spoiled in ridiculous ways, and more! It's not sold in any store!

So beep your bipper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/572219772/The-Last-Word-5-2022

If you can't read it on Scribd, float on over here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2205.pdf

Another Kroger bubbling (imagine that!)

Today at Kroger, some woman bubbled.

Comic Book Guy goes Krogering

Earlier, I received an e-mail declaring that a person who resembled Comic Book Guy from 'The Simpsons' was seen at a Kroger. He was even wearing a 'Star Wars' hoodie!

The e-mail also said Casey Kasem mentioned 'Sesame Street' in a rebroadcast of an 'American Top 40' from 1973. He made reference to "a Muppet called Ernie."

In addition, the e-mail said a person bubbled conspicuously and with extreme dispatch at a local park.

A person got mad because Elon Musk doesn't have a master's degree

Using literacy tests to disqualify voters was an ugly chapter in American history. But the mindset that drove this requirement lives on in the credentialism that defines America's elites today.

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is an improvement over the previous disastrous state of affairs, but if we just go by raw measures, it would be a wash. Musk is a billionaire, but he has no master's degree. I only oppose the billionaire part – not the part about not having a master's degree.

Some nobody posted on Twitter that Musk "doesn't even have a Master's degree. Is that who we are going to trust with the future of our democracy?" Guess what? I don't have a master's degree either.

The elites say it's just fine for billionaires to buy up entire venues – as long as they have a master's degree. Maybe people with higher education levels should be disqualified from positions of power – because they didn't exactly handle the pandemic very well.

People are right to be wary of a billionaire owning Twitter. But who do you think owned it before Elon Musk did? The Last Word?

More "vote blue no matter who" hypocrisy

Democratic blogs have long urged folks to "vote blue no matter who." That's their bag, I guess, and I could tolerate it before these blogs sold out their principles in the name of fighting the pandemic. Appeasing wealthy donors who acted in bad faith and supported a bio-juche dictatorship was more important than principles to them.

But recent developments have shown that these blogs don't even abide by their own "vote blue" maxim.

Visit any shitlib blog of the "vote blue no matter who" strain lately, and you'll see they spend more time attacking Democrats than fascist Republicans like Mitt Romney. One of their biggest targets lately is Tulsi Gabbard, who is the topic of endless red-baiting. If the next presidential election is Romney versus Gabbard, you know damn well they'll support Romney. Another Democratic target over the past couple years is Virginia State Sen. Chap Petersen – thanks to his rather consistent opposition to the COVID police state. The shitlib blogosphere has actually tried to recruit a challenger to Petersen.

I wanted to see what Daily Kos said about Utah Democrats supporting Evan McMullin for Senate. Naturally, the Kos Kids are praising the move.

In other words, perhaps the biggest "vote blue no matter who" blog out there has rejected Democrats like Gabbard and Petersen - but embraced a right-winger like McMullin over an actual Democrat.

Do they even realize how ridiculous they sound?

Illinois school district punished students over MySpace posts (a blast from the past)

How out of control were the autocratic ghouls who run our school systems back in the 2000s? Almost as out of control as they are now.

My Big Cleaning yielded a story about the fascism practiced by schools in Libertyville, Illinois, in 2006. The school system declared that students would be punished if they used MySpace or other websites to depict under-age drinking or other "illegal or inappropriate behavior" – even if these posts were not made from school or using school resources, and even if the content was completely unconnected to school. Even if they made these posts from their own home, they would be disciplined.

Students were required to sign a pledge agreeing that such content would be grounds for punishment. The school district vowed to follow up on tips alerting them to these posts.

School officials sound like big Democrats to me. I bet they wrote letters demanding lockdowns.

More Tommy Thompson right-wing extremism (a blast from the past)

Tommy Thompson is one of these fascists from 20 years ago who now seems to be among the Democrats' favorite Republicans – ever since the propellerheads switched parties and traded their Wall Street business suits for Silicon Valley underpants.

Thompson is the right-wing 4-term former Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of Health and Human Services in the George W. Bush thugocracy. He ran for President in 2008 but was forced out of the running after making a series of anti-Semitic remarks. Most recently, Thompson humiliated himself through his actions as interim president of the University of Wisconsin System.

As my Big Cleaning gets under way, I found a folder full of news stories on my computer dating back over 20 years that I never got to cover – because our rulers would always outdo themselves by doing something even stupider. In 2002, Thompson – while he was part of the Bush regime – announced that the government would oppose labeling of genetically engineered frankenfoods. "Mandatory labeling will only frighten consumers," he told a biotech gathering. Boo! He went on to say, "Labeling implies that biotechnology products are unsafe.'' Uh. Aren't they?

That was after 19 countries already required labeling.

This was also when Bush planned to move 300 workers from HHS to the Department of Homeland Security – a department that to this day has accomplished nothing positive.

As HHS head, Thompson succeeded Donna Shalala, who helped to nearly ruin the Democrats' electoral chances in 2020 with her vanity congressional campaign. Shalala brang her own extremism to the fore, which ultimately wasn't much different from Thompson's recent travails. Republican hero worship of big corporations 20 years ago was borne of the same bad intentions as Democratic support for corporations today.

Because frankenfoods were not labeled, American consumers remained in the dark for years thereafter. It wasn't until 2016 that Congress passed a law to try to give people more information on what they put into their bodies. The labels did not appear until this year, and some confusion still reigns. To add insult to injury, an NPR story about the labels repeated a false claim that there's no evidence that genetically engineered crops are harmful to humans.

Why should the media be trusted on any issue if they amplify outright lies like that in plain sight?

Bubbling season has sprung

Today, a person walking up the street bubbled a humongous bub.

Utah Democrats back Evan McMullin for Senate

The Democratic Party as we once knew it has essentially ceased to exist.

Utah Democrats had a candidate to challenge Republican Sen. Mike Lee in November. It's not as if Democrats in Utah are better than anywhere else, as they hopelessly botched the COVID response in the Salt Lake City area – but then again, Republicans botched it to an extent in the rest of the state. But now Utah Democrats have voted at their convention to ditch the Democratic candidate for Senate and instead support independent Evan McMullin.

McMullin ran for President in 2016, painting himself as a "respectable" conservative, in contrast to Donald Trump. By all accounts, McMullin is no progressive, and he probably wouldn't have been a major Democratic candidate 30 years ago. The Democrats back then were enough of a big tent party that they might have nominated candidates of differing policy stances – but not someone who flat-out wasn't a Democrat.

Any Utah voter who is legitimately a Democrat or outside the conservative fold is now finding themselves with no candidate to vote for. Of course, with the Democratic Party being the twisted mess it is now, this isn't unique to Utah, as Democratic candidates have inched more and more into what would have been considered right-wing authoritarianism just a few years ago. I'm also accustomed to local races where there is often no Democratic candidate, because corrupt Democratic party bosses often make backroom deals with the Republicans to let the GOP run unopposed. This story also reminds me of that congressional race in Hawaii some years ago where right-wing Democrats fielded their own candidate to split the Democratic vote and "prove" that more liberal candidates couldn't win. But at least these events aren't such an obvious concession as what happened in Utah where the Democrats actually backed a separate conservative candidacy of someone who isn't even a Democrat.

Democratic "leaders" don't give a damn about anyone except themselves and their corporate allies.

South Fairmount! Park Hills! Newport! Game day bucket go boom!

Roads Scholaring continues to loom large in the world of the Great Royal Tim. The magic continued in February, when I pept the brand bippus bustin' new Lick Run Greenway. The greenway has a poo connection, as it was part of a sewer project...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/cinwest22.html

If that fails to enchant you, there's a few photos from March that focus mainly on the area around the new detention basin in Park Hills, a project that decimated the old Amsterdam Road setup...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/covph22.html

It's free like pee!

My, my, my Bologna...

China's ruling regime has long been a darling of the American media, which possesses a deep-seated love of authoritarian governments and policies. In the past few years, China has become known for what's called a social credit system – which is a bit like the hated practice of credit scores, but instead of focusing on economic activity, it punishes people if their behavior is not considered virtuous. It involves widespread mass surveillance.

Now the Italian city of Bologna is becoming the first place in the Western world to introduce a social credit system for its citizenry. It has been speculated that it may soon be the rule throughout all of Italy.

Bologna officials call it a "smart citizen wallet" that awards "digital points" based on a person's conduct, especially if the person "does not receive sanctions from the municipal authority."

Think it won't happen in America? Remember, the system of credit scores that we have – which effectively confers titles of nobility - only dates to the late 1980s. Americans in the 1970s probably never thought that oppressive system could happen.

275 photos from New Mexico trip!

Some of you may recall when I visited New Mexico this past October.

That trip yielded 275 photos of a Scholaring interest, and now I've posted all of them for the whole wide world to ogle (beep).

So point your pooper here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21f.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21g.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21h.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21i.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21j.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nm21k.html

Hochul pollster helped Amazon anti-worker effort

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is one of the most evil major politicians in America. Though the Democratic Party is often associated with labor union support, party brass has shown itself to be allied only with unions that are corrupt – like the teachers' unions that have connived to keep America's schools closed and deny children an education, or other crooked unions that have sided with chamber of commerce groups and the World Economic Forum in supporting the fascist "new normal."

The people we are talking about above are not simply misguided. They are bad people.

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island recently voted in favor of forming a union, making it the online retailer's first unionized facility. Yet Democratic leaders fought against this unionization drive, because the union didn't pledge to support the "new normal."

Jeffrey Pollock's Global Strategy Group - the main pollster for Hochul and other Democrats - helped prepare the company's anti-union literature. Hochul's campaign committee paid this pollster $123,000 for services for months after she became governor. Pollock was also a longtime Hochul consultant and served as a pollster for the disgraced Andrew Cuomo. Pollock helped Cuomo fight against sexual harassment allegations.

It isn't just these individual disgraced politicians. The state Democratic Party, Democratic Governors' Association, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and other Democratic groups used Pollock's firm too.

It isn't the entire party, of course. U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is challenging Hochul in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, said the scandal represents "typical Hochul hypocrisy." Suspiciously, congressional Democrats launched an inquiry against Suozzi after he decided to challenge Hochul.

What a disgrace the party has become. I never would have joined the local Young Democrats when I was in college if I knew the party would be this bad now. The corruption, totalitarianism, and anti-worker activity we're seeing from the Democrats now is the sort of thing we used to rightly attribute to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Right-wing whining about taxes blasts apart GOP

It's breathtaking that anyone can grumble that the rich are paying too much in taxes and expect to be taken seriously. Yet this complaint has guided the Republican Party for 30 years.

Now, however, even Republican heavy hitters are starting to sour on this stale whine.

Mike Gibbons – a Republican millionaire who is running for Senate in Ohio – griped at a media event that middle-class Americans don't pay "any kind of a fair share" of income taxes, while the rich pay too much. Gibbons said the idea that the rich are winning out at the expense of the middle class is "absolutely false."

Gibbons's hinting that taxes should be raised on the middle class but not the rich has been assailed by the rest of the Republican field in the Senate primary. One rival even called Gibbons "Tax Hike Mike." Some of these Republicans have also opposed national GOP plans to raise taxes on the middle class.

Of course, I'm guessing the Democrats support Gibbons – just like how they keep praising Mike DeWine and calling those who oppose him fascists. The totalitarian Bush-era right-wing extremism that crushed the poor and working class still exists to some degree within both major parties, but in the past couple years, it's taken over the Democrats to the same extent that it ruled the Republicans for decades before. Bill Kristol becoming a Democrat wasn't a good sign for the party. Just days ago, a Reddit commenter said the Democrats "are the kings at being handed a fucking gift and dropping it off a cliff." The Democrats seizing the mantle as the party of Wall Street, incompetent technocrats, bullies, and incels sums up their tendency to squander a political bonanza. The Democrats' refusal to condemn Gibbons speaks volumes.

If the jackboot fits, wear it, Dems. And if it feels good, put it on.

Have no fear, the April ish is here!

The birds are chirping, something's in the air (possibly a bunker blast)! And the April issue of The Last Word is now bobbing along the landscape!

This ish focuses primarily on a brief documentary video I made ridiculing the decline of NKU! It also discusses bad reviews of dirty Waikiki Beach restrooms and other nifty doings!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/567130595/The-Last-Word-4-2022

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

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2204.pdf