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