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!

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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.

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