April wouldn't be April if it didn't have the April ish of The Last Word!
Our latest edition talks about the destroyment of Sunlite Pool, free association, a TV set found in the lake at NKU, the decline in quality of vinyl albums, and more!
So point your pooper here...
https://www.scribd.com/document/718297760/The-Last-Word-4-2024
If that doesn't work, slog on over here...
http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2404.pdf
It fails to stink.
America's national parks are an amazing treasure. But lately, our rulers have tried making a mockery of the whole system. It's not limited to the Department of the Interior's scuttling of a successful contingency plan that had kept parks open during a government shitdown.
Recently, the National Park Service stopped accepting cash for entry fees at many of its parks - forcing people to use a credit card. This has prompted a lawsuit citing the fact that cash is to be considered legal tender.
The National Park Service's defense of the parks' cashless policies is incredibly dumb. They said it costs too much to "process" cash.
"Process" it? Cash doesn't need to be "processed" like credit cards do. Cash has been around since prehistoric times. Can you imagine cave people sitting around and "processing" money?
We're barreling harum-scarum into a social credit system, and the attempted phaseout of cash is one of the ways in which it is being facilitated.
Cash. Use it or lose it!
According to the New York Daily News, a member of New York City Council abused city e-mail accounts to raise donations for a nonprofit tied to the Chinese government - run by the Chinese Communist Party.
Councilmember Susan Zhuang of Brooklyn - a right-wing Democrat - is under fire for these acts that appear to violate ethics laws.
The organization in question put together a parade in Brooklyn but also advocated for and worked with Chinese government entities. The donation request appeared in an e-mail last month from the official city council address of a Zhuang staffer. The nonprofit is also linked to a cohort of CCP-controlled groups outside China that aims to suppress criticism of the party and influence countries to enact pro-CCP policies.
Zhuang also recently helped organize an embarrassing far-right rally against a proposed homeless shelter.
Look under the toilet lid of any recent authoritarian trend in American public policy, and there's a good chance there's some link with the CCP. But there are usually more direct links with the CIA, which itself is CCP-linked. Major American media outlets are always happy to help them. The media supports authoritarian policies, and therefore, they support authoritarian regimes. The parent companies of top news organizations also have major interests in China like amusement parks and other investments. This is also why American movie studios censor their products to appease the Chinese government. Even the versions of movies distributed in the U.S. are edited like this.
And - you knew this was coming - this is also why the media praised China's COVID response but bashed Sweden's response. They continue to do it.
America and many other countries are becoming more and more like colonies of the Chinese Communist Party.
When it rains, it pours!
Today at the Target in Newport, I detected the sound of 3 - count 'em, 3 - LAP bunkeroos.
We can all agree that Florida had a better COVID response than most of the rest of America, but the Miami area was a stark exception. True to form, the city of Miami Beach continues to violate the Constitution with no end in sight.
The city recently announced it would start searching bags of people entering the beach. This is an unambiguous Fourth Amendment violation. There is no wiggle room on this. The Fourth Amendment's safeguard against unreasonable searches and seizures seems almost tailor-made for protecting against this.
Somebody posted on a Reddit forum for legal advice asking if this was unconstitutional. Of course it is. But someone replied...
"No, it's not Unconstitutional.
"You can avoid your bag being searched by not going to the beach or not taking your bag to the beach.
"If you choose to take your bag in, you are consenting to the search.
"If you refuse the search, they won't search, but they also won't let you in."
Wrong, stupid. The beach is public in every sense of the word. The whole point of a free country is that you don't have to avoid going to public places like the beach. You don't have to choose to stay away from a public place just so you won't be searched.
Allowing these beach searches is no different from stopping and searching every car driving down the street.
What's shocking is that someone who is apparently an adult has so little grasp of basic civics. But this isn't new. Paid trolls have been filling online forums for years. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA is funding trolls like this now. Bet on it.
Hopefully, someone will sue Miami Beach.
My latest Substack entry is about the doublespeak Kentucky used when digging in on mask mandates in daycares:
https://open.substack.com/pub/bandit73/p/when-kentucky-abused-children
The most hilarious time of the year - bubbling season - is fast approaching!
Today, some woman walking up the street bubbled.
San Francisco is borrowing a page from the Campbell County playbook!
In a video released on Saturday, the superintendent of the San Francisco school system declared, "We must have fewer schools."
Civilized countries are building more and better schools. But in America, schools are being shuttered. It appears as if San Francisco will be a particularly egregious offender. For many years, San Francisco was one of America's great cities. Now it's experiencing the same decline suffered by Cincinnati 40 years ago. At least Cincinnati survived that - though not unscathed. There's no guarantee San Francisco will even last another 40 years.
Make no mistake, San Francisco schools have seen a steep drop in enrollment in the past few years. But most of that was the schools' doing. After schools first closed over COVID, the city's schools could have returned to completely normal operation before the end of the school year. Yet the district chose to wait over a year before reopening at all, and didn't go back to normal business for months after. It was so bad that the city took the unique step of suing the school district. The only positive in this story is that the city sued. At least that's better than what occurred in other communities, where city or county officials let schools' incompetence at the time go unanswered. But this shows just how bad San Francisco schools got. Indeed, school systems that did not resume normal operation by mid-2020 should be required to forfeit public funds they got in the ensuing months or years of bad conditions, but that's another matter altogether.
We spent our entire youths being harangued about how important school was. What message does it send when school districts close schools?
In my long-running spirit of coolsterism, I've done a couple small, local Roads Scholarings in recent days. They'll make your face fly off in public, and we start out with a new road in Dayton, Kentucky...
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/dayky24.html
If that fails to enchant you, sweep on over here for a Newport neighborhood that was cut off by an ill-conceived freeway routing...
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