Buyer's remorse

I gave them a second chance (which they didn't deserve). They blew it.

The Democrats abandoned America once before, back in the '90s when they let the DLC take over. But later I thought they had crushed that Coke can, so I thought it was safe to vote for them again. Man, was I ever wrong!

I regret voting for Andy Beshear, thanks to his increasingly dictatorial demeanor and lies. I would have been better off voting for the Libertarian. I even regret voting for Democrats when I first voted in the early '90s when they were better, because that has only encouraged them now. I was a member of the Young Democrats in college, and I never would have joined if I had foreseen the current disaster.

When I used to warn everyone about the dangers of America becoming the hopeless dictatorship it is now, I always thought the Republicans would be the bigger culprit. I am absolutely shocked that the Democrats did more to establish a police state in the past 18 months than the Republicans did in the 40 years before. This is inexcusable.

It's not just familiar domestic issues but also international issues like the drone strike that killed all those children in Kabul.

My stance is not an amicable break with the Democrats. It also puts into perspective some of their scandals over the past couple years. For example, they had a series of scandals in another state a couple years back, and I felt at the time that I should give them the benefit of a doubt unless new evidence emerged. Now I'm pretty sure that the politicians who were involved actually did do the things they were accused of doing. I have a more open mind now so I can weigh the evidence more accurately.

The Democratic "leadership" should not be considered progressive, but if they claim to be, they need to turn in their progressive card. They have become outright fascist.

Newsom praises pro-CCP news outlet

As the recall election for that lying piece of shit Gavin Newsom approaches, he has a new scandal to worry about.

This month, Newsom attended a gala honoring Sing Tao News - a newspaper publisher aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. Newsom said the outlet practices "journalistic integrity" and offers "balanced news stories."

Sing Tao is registered as a foreign agent of China and is owned by members of a CCP-controlled board. Sing Tao's chairman has praised a Chinese law that has been used to arrest pro-democracy journalists and activists in Hong Kong.

Besides Newsom, other California Democrats - including embattled San Francisco Mayor London Breed - also spoke at the Sing Tao gala.

The Governor of California is a supporter of the Chinese Communist Party.

Kabul family dead after U.S. bombing

Under the DLC child abusers, America's rulers are back in the child killing business!

Today, it was reported that 10 members of the same family - including 8 children, some as young as 2 - were killed when a U.S. drone carpet-bombed a residential neighborhood in Kabul.

The U.S. called this a defensive strike. That's a lie.

The victims' relatives spent the day at a hospital identifying the charred remains.

I can't say I didn't get fair warning about the ghouls who did this - even if I hoped against all hope nothing like this would happen. Diehard readers of this blog were on top of things regarding the nature of the monsters who did this. The DLC's evil nature is now on display for all to see.

And that doesn't even count their monstrous and lawless domestic policies lately. The Biden regime makes the Nixon administration look like a smashing success in comparison.

Have no fear, the September ish is here!

Ba-de-ya! It's time for the September issue of The Last Word!

As America collapses, The Last Word still trudges along after 28 years! This ish talks about my Roanoke trip, kids putting dog-doo in Little Free Libraries, college students drinking beer in class, people sticking their vaccine cards on a gum wall, encyclopedia volumes getting lost, and more!

So point your pooper here...

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You're gonna bubble after all... (Bubble Gum Weekend)

This occasional feature usually talks about specific gum commercials. But this is one that apparently never aired.

A few years ago, someone made a spoof of the opening sequence of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' - the popular 1970s sitcom. This spoof was designed as an ad for Care-Free gum - one of the most widely ridiculed brands of beegee among gum connoisseurs.

If not sure if Care-Free is still available, so instead of embedding the video and giving free ad space to a product that may still exist, I'll post a link to it Out Of An Abundance Of Caution (tm)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWRzqsS35gI

In that commersh, an actress portraying Mary Tyler Moore chomps a big ol' wad of gee. She even bubbles a couple times - in public, no less! Countless people witnessed these bubs.

No 'Supertrain' or 'Me & Mrs. C' spoofs appear imminent.

Another Michael McDonald look-alike sighted

Early today, I received an important e-mail declaring that a Michael McDonald look-alike was sighted at a bar on Saturday.

The "decency" police are back! (Circus Vargas, Circus Vargas!)

Let me be clear. There is a special place in hell for anyone who exploits children to make sexually explicit material.

But when adults produce content that features only consenting adults - and distributes it only to adults - it's none of anybody else's damn business. That's what makes the OnlyFans controversy so aggravating.

Up until about 15 years ago, you used to hear a lot about "decency." I live in a region where an art museum was actually prosecuted over an exhibit, government officials tried to set up a censorship board to scrutinize what was shown on cable TV, and numerous computer bulletin board systems were raided over content that was perfectly legal. There's still a lot that's wrong in society today - but this type of censorship had become relatively scarce since then.

Until now.

London-based OnlyFans is a favorite of online porn models - who make up the lion's share of the website's business. But now the site is banning sexually explicit content - after pressure from big banks and credit card companies.

That's like if ESPN got out of the sports business or if the major party nominating conventions got out of the comedy business. If you take away porn, there's not much remaining of OnlyFans, other than a few musicians and chefs.

OnlyFans already specifically prohibited illegal content. The material the banks objected to is legal. Some of this legal material was the main source of income for content creators.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has found fewer than 100 instances of child exploitation on OnlyFans per year. Meanwhile, the organization has found about 65,000 instances on Twitter and 20 million on Facebook. Why doesn't anyone go after precious, precious Facebook?

Even though OnlyFans was already taking a tough line against illegal conduct, Congress has launched an investigation against OnlyFans - while Twitter and Facebook go unpunished.

Going after a website's legal content stinks of the "decency" crusades of a couple decades ago. Since last year, a new wave of puritanism and false morality has taken over much of the world, especially Western countries. It guides not only views on sexuality but also censorship of other materials and the draconian COVID-19 measures - which were unheard of during the swine flu, Ebola virus, and other pandemics just a few years ago. This new false morality is essentially a new pseudoreligious movement.

It's a recipe for disaster.

Another Bellevue bubbling

Today, some woman walking up the street bubbled a big, pink bub.

Court gives immunity to abusive school personnel

Right-wing judges make up their own laws just as much as totalitarian governors and mayors have done lately.

New rulings by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals say teachers and other school personnel who physically abuse children enjoy qualified immunity.

The court dismissed a Texas case that was filed on behalf of a 1st grader who claimed a teacher seized him by the neck, threw him on the floor, and held him in a chokehold for minutes on end. Then the court dismissed a case filed on behalf of a special education student who was tased by school police repeatedly - even after he was face-down on the ground.

The result of these rulings is that it's become unclear whether schoolchildren are guaranteed a constitutional right to be free from excessive force. Now courts can just dismiss cases over qualified immunity without having to confront whether this right applies. These rulings effectively rob children of the right to be free of violence by schools.

The people who have kept schools closed for over a year are loving this!

Have no fear, the August ish is here!

Augh! It's August! That means it's time for the August edition of The Last Word!

This ish talks about a McDonald's tantrum, storm chasing equipment getting destructed, people farting at Kroger, Pringles getting ruined at a convenience store, 'Wild Kingdom' hilarity, and more!

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Democratic lawmaker under fire for racist e-mail

I can't believe I ever voted for this party.

Delaware State Rep. Gerald Brady has decided not to seek reelection after it was revealed that he made racist comments in an e-mail. In addition, fellow Democrats are refusing to initiate an ethics investigation into Brady - even though the Delaware House has a rule that says lawmakers may not engage in conduct that "brings the House into disrepute."

Brady sent the e-mail using his official government account. The e-mail was accidentally sent to an advocate for decriminalizing prostitution.

Brady is also the executive director of the Delaware AFL-CIO.

This story has made a mockery of our entire democratic system and much of our labor leadership. If our "leaders" don't have the values to properly confront racism such as this, what do they have? They've abandoned economic justice, they've abandoned civil liberties, they've abandoned schools, and now they've even abandoned racial harmony.

This is not the Democratic Party I signed up for in 1991. I was a member of the Northern Kentucky Young Democrats in the mid-'90s, and I went to countless labor rallies in the 2010s, and this makes a joke of the work that I and others put into these organizations and events.

The Democrats being better 30 years ago isn't a reason to vote for them now.

The longest-running political party in the world. Complete garbage.

More Kroger bunker blasts

Today at Kroger, I detected 2 - count 'em, 2 - LAP bunker blasts.

Democratic kingmaker demands criminalizing homeless

This isn't what I signed up for when I first pulled that donkey lever when I was 18.

Jeffrey Katzenberg is a zillionaire entertainment mogul who is a growing source of funds for Democratic campaigns. Katzenberg faced an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2012 over allegations that he bribed Chinese officials. Katzenberg also tried unsuccessfully to ram through the right-wing Stop Online Piracy Act, which would have criminalized fair use activities. However, that bill was introduced by a Republican.

In the past few years, Katzenberg has emerged as one of the biggest investors in The Young Turks - a once-trusted show that has since degenerated from progressive commentary into shitlib nonsense, such as parroting CIA propaganda, smearing antiwar journalists, and blackmailing Jimmy Dore.

As one of the wealthiest residents of Los Angeles, Katzenberg exerts real influence over the city's public policy. Recently, Katzenberg met with city officials on how to deal with the crisis of homelessness that afflicts 40,000 people in the city. After the meetings, Los Angeles City Council decided to enact new regulations that banned homeless encampments from huge swaths of the city. Katzenberg urged council members to put strict limits on where the homeless could sleep.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. Deals with Chinese officials? Check. Funding major political campaigns and media projects? Check. Pushing totalitarian public policies? Check. I have a strange feeling that this goes much, much deeper than SOPA and L.A.'s war against the homeless.

Heading out to the highway...To see another celebrity look-alike!

Yesterday, I saw another celebrity look-alike! A guy who resembled Rob Halford of Judas Priest was seen walking up the street.

Democrats' right-wing racism

I've lamented for years how the Democrats and the Republicans often have little difference in policy as they've built their parties around an elitist right-wing media consensus. But I thought that at least the Democrats would reject militant racism - in contrast to the Republicans.

But these days, the Democrats are just as bad.

It turns out that one of the top Democratic Party bosses in northern Kentucky is a supporter of NumbersUSA. NumbersUSA is a xenophobic group that uses some of the most frankly racist arguments around to justify restricting immigration. It blames immigration for America's environmental crisis, a stance that one website calls "absurd" and "out of the mainstream." NumbersUSA was actually conceived by the publisher of a white nationalist newsletter.

This racism is the face of the Democratic Party in the 2020s. Shame on you, Democrats. This is absolutely inexcusable.

How did I find out about this? I'm not that stupid. I'm not going to reveal who the political operative in question is, but you may be able to find out if you have the right connections or have hobnobbed with the wrong politicians.

I can't believe that when I was 18, I voted for a party that has turned into a bunch of reactionary weirdoes. I damn sure won't vote for them at 48. America has minor parties but is for practical purposes a two-party system. So, after the Reagan regime supported South Africa's apartheid dictatorship, I have a right to expect the Democrats to offer something different. Thirty years ago, they did - but not anymore.

Democratic totalitarianism grows

I never thought the Democrats would trust the CIA more than the Republicans do, but here we are.

A new poll by the Pew Research Center shows ballooning totalitarianism within the once-great Democratic Party. In fact, this poll suggests the Democrats are actually to the right of the Republicans now.

The poll says 69% of Democrats now have a positive opinion of the CIA - 7 points higher than the Republicans' opinion of this agency. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats have a favorable opinion of the FBI - 23 points higher than the Republicans' opinion of it.

This poll is not an outlier. Other polls in the past few months show Democrats' support of the Chinese Communist Party and uncontrolled free trade also inching upward. Support for both now exceeds support by Republicans.

This just after almost all House Democrats voted to turn the Capitol Police into an interstate intelligence agency - while most or all House Republicans voted against it.

Ah yes, the same Democratic Party that has now made Bill Kristol one of its top pundits! The longtime right-wing analyst became a Democrat last year - even though his actual policy stances didn't change - so that shows you where the party is headed.

A person bubbled at Kroger

Today at Kroger, a person bubbled.

Judge lets Rotenberg use shock therapy

We all know that a lot of administrators in regular schools enjoy torturing students. I've known it for 40 years. But it's also true in schools, institutions, and "treatment" centers for disabled children.

You can't carry on a conversation with the sociopaths and narcissists who support this garbage - so I don't even try. Sometimes they'll try to force you to argue with them, because they like being argumentative (the same thing they accuse everyone else of being). But they can't win on a level playing field, so they wait until they have some numbers or leverage.

Judge Rotenberg Educational Center is a program for developmentally disabled children in Canton, Massachusetts. The facility has been known for years for using electric shock therapy - a form of torture. The UN even called it torture.

Last year, the FDA finally banned electric shock devices in places like Rotenberg. But the facility promptly sued, and now some Republican federal judge has ruled in Rotenberg's favor. The judge said the FDA has no power to ban this kind of torture.

So what's the purpose of the FDA?

The ruling said the FDA can't regulate medicine. Uh, yes it can. It's in the name: Food and Drug Administration! Medicine falls under "drug."

I'd like to be able to say we have a right to expect the Democrats to rein in Republican judges like this, but the Democrats today support torturing kids, so I'm not counting on it. They like closing schools so much that they should have started with Rotenberg.

Executive order bans noncompetes

Well, he's finally doing something, I guess. But things shouldn't have been allowed to get so bad in the first place.

According to press reports, President Biden has signed a new executive order dealing with a variety of industries. The order quite rightly prohibits noncompete agreements - which prevent workers from moving to rival companies.

The $98.26 question is: Why were noncompetes allowed in the first place? How were companies able to enforce them on workers who no longer worked there? They couldn't very well fire them.

The order also puts a halt to excessive licensing restrictions and fights back against hospital consolidation. It calls for new rules requiring airlines to refund passengers for fees over things like baggage delays. It directs the Department of Agriculture to issue new rules to define when meat can be labeled as an American product and let consumers know if food producers treat workers fairly. The order even encourages the FCC to restore 'Net neutrality. The Democrats were big boosters of 'Net neutrality several years ago, but most of them abandoned this stance when propellerheads took over the party.

This executive order is bad, bad, bad news for the propellerheads, incels, and non-player characters who have mutilated the Democratic Party in recent years.

DLC revolving door keeps spinning

The Biden administration so far has not failed to disappoint. Perhaps its only major positive accomplishment so far is revoking a right-wing rule enacted late in the Trump era that would have gutted disability benefits.

It was bad enough that President Biden appointed Antony Blinken as Secretary of State, after Blinken was one of the architects of the failed Iraq War. Now, Biden has tapped failed Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as U.S. ambassador to India - even after Garcetti's hopelessly botched handling of the pandemic.

That's not the Democratic Party that I joined when I was 18. It's not the Democratic Party that I gave a second chance to when I was 42, after I thought we had finally crushed the DLC like the Coke can it is. The party obviously didn't deserve a second chance, or even a first chance. I wouldn't have voted for them when I was 18 if I knew they'd be such a disaster 30 years later.

That's like putting 30 years into a romantic relationship only to see it fall apart because of something your partner did. All that time was wasted.

There are some terrible, terrible people in the Democratic "leadership" these days.

With no access to pools, it's sink or swim

Access to swimming facilities is more important than some people think. Swimming isn't just a good social event but it's also very healthy.

Greater Cincinnati has few if any natural beaches, and it's too cold or rainy for swimming for most of the year anyway. So around here, when you get a chance to swim, you jump at it!

Most of you probably don't have your own pool. But a few of you might be lucky enough to have family members who live at a condo or apartment complex that has its own pool. But this isn't always reliable. I planned to borrow such a pool this morning, but found it closed because the pump is broken and might remain so For The Foreseeable Future (tm).

Not everybody is fortunate enough to have even that, and those who struggle the most deserve access to pools too. You may recall that in 2019, I used a Cincinnati city pool. But last summer - under the guise of COVID-19 - this pool became open by reservation only, and only for brief time slots. This has been made permanent - even with the pandemic over. The purpose of this is to limit access to the public and reserve the pool for those with means.

Where does this leave the average person? They're very lucky if they have their own pool, and now even pools that were open to the public are limiting access or closing altogether. Pools that are still fully open are usually not accessible at all, because public transit has been reduced to a barebones system. The reduction of public transit was itself designed in part to deny people amenities like pools.

There's plenty of blame to go around. For most of my life, the Republicans were far more to blame than the Democrats for this. I don't think this is the case now, because there are so many psychopaths in the Democratic Party now. Unchecked psychopathy isn't completely new to the Democrats though. Even well before last year, there were a few regionally prominent Democrats who built their entire political careers around ridiculously insane and classist vendettas that have affected their targets for decades. They practiced the politics of retaliation and personal destruction. Sadly, in the spirit of partisanship, other Democrats wouldn't call out these insufferable tyrants when they had the chance. They preferred to hobnob with them rather than call them out.

The blame is truly bipartisan, and regardless of party affiliation, some of the politicians most responsible were horrible, horrible people.

The Cincinnati Post was mostly a fusty right-wing rag in its later years, but at least it had a few editorials calling out the city's recreation department for not opening pools in a timely fashion. The scarcity of pool access has gotten a lot worse since then, but nobody today dares to criticize it. The media has truly shifted the window of acceptable thought.

Ah! Some New River Gorge photos! Ew!

Celebrate the Fourth on the third with a fifth - by poppin' open a keg or three and enjoying 100 Scholaring photos from April's trip to New River Gorge National Park!

You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll be back for more (as Ratt would say)!

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nrg21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nrg21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nrg21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/nrg21d.html

Have no fear, the July ish is here!

July wouldn't be July without the July issue of The Last Word, so celebrate another month of ridiculousness by rippin' open a toilet and relaxing with the latest ish!

This ish talks about my trip to Wind Cave National Park, my hilarious drone misadventures, Holiday Inn's Holidomes, a foot deformity mysteriously curing itself, and more!

So point your pooper here...

https://www.scribd.com/document/513571015/The-Last-Word-7-2021

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A person bubbled at Kroger

Today at Kroger, some man bubbled.

Runner banned from Olympics over burrito

Well, folks, it's a stupid world we live in. You can't deny that!

It's bad enough that the International Olympic Committee likes authoritarians, causing them to often hold the Olympics in countries with authoritarian governments - like the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will be held in Beijing. Even when the Olympics are in a country that isn't particularly authoritarian, the committee still manages to bungle it. They not only delayed the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo until this summer but have also strictly limited capacity and banned cheering - even as COVID-19 has become just a memory.

What's the point of even having the Olympics if it can't have in-person fans?

Now Shelby Houlihan - a record-setting runner who was a favorite for America's Olympic team - is being disqualified from the Olympic trials, and won't be in the Olympics. She has spent her entire life practicing for the Olympics, and now her dream has been dashed. She was disqualified and received a 4-year suspension from running because she tested positive for a banned steroid.

Why did she test positive? It was because of a pork burrito she got from a food stand. She tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone because this substance was used in the pig meat in the burrito.

Since it was first allowed in the mid-'90s, we've been pumping our food supply with steroids, artificial hormones, and other substances. So much of our diet is made up of frankenfoods now that it's hard to avoid consuming these substances. Yet Olympic officials keep trying to make examples of athletes by punishing them for what's in our food supply.

I think these frankenfoods have had a negative biological impact on people, especially those young enough to have been raised on them. This - combined with the elitist media's stage-managing of social mores - seems to have had a disastrous effect on people's behavior and health. If potential Olympic athletes are punished for ingesting frankenfoods, maybe the factory farming industry should be punished just as severely for introducing steroids into our food supply.

Time to abolish Department of Homeland Security

Has the Department of Homeland Security ever accomplished a single positive thing?

I used to like certain public figures and ideas, but occasionally I'll grow more brain cells, and I find that I can't believe I ever honored their idiocy. You live, you learn. More often, however, once-respected figures will sell out to appease wealthy donors. But in the 20 years since the Department of Homeland Stupidity was created, I've been consistent in my view that this department should be abolished.

This department was founded as George W. Bush's personal plaything. (The Democrats would like that, since they're always praising Bush these days.) The Transportation Security Administration is part of the DHS, and anyone who has traveled on a U.S. commercial airliner even once in the past 20 years knows firsthand what a disaster the TSA is.

Rather than international terrorism carried out using earlier methods, America faces a bigger threat from domestic terrorism. International terrorism is more likely to be modern cyberterrorism like the Chinese Communist Party's ransomware attacks. And, while more traditional right-wing domestic terrorists are still at large, domestic terrorism is sure to soon encompass those who try to enforce lockdown culture as COVID martial law lifts. Government resources should be focused first and foremost on the greatest threats.

In fact, the Justice Department recently began a probe of white supremacists within the DHS. How can the DHS be trusted to fight terrorism when it's full of violent racists?

About the only time I ever hear about the DHS is when it bullies local governments into closing paths and bridges - which hurts nearby residents.

And what the hell does the TSA do besides manhandle air travelers? I can't think of anything useful it does. Much of what the TSA does has absolutely nothing to do with terrorism in any form. As a society, we should reject the sort of toxicity that the TSA fosters.

Free societies are supposed to honor certain principles. The TSA and the broader DHS violate these values. They violate free movement, free assembly, bodily autonomy, and local control.

Facebook just acted stupid

Hahaha, Facepoo has informed me that they just deleted a post I made about police brutality way back in 2013 because it was "spam."

ViacomCBS funds effort against Newsom recall

This is yet another reason why we need to reverse the Citizens United ruling and forbid corporations from funding political campaigns.

The pandemic has proven what an incompetent clown California Gov. Gavin Newsom is. Even many of his former supporters won't back him now. But the campaign against his recall has received $40,000 from Paramount Pictures. A Paramount spokesperson said the contribution actually came from Paramount's parent company, ViacomCBS.

A media company that has a major news operation is donating to a political campaign? That's a red flag right there.

For CBS being so Republican for such a long time before the pandemic, they manage to pick the very worst Democrats to support.

The company also gave $5,000 to the California Democratic Party - which as far as I'm concerned is equivalent to the Republicans. The Democrats are controlled opposition.

Though Newsom whines that the effort against him is a "Republican recall", let me tell you something: It isn't. I support it too.

Bert said the F-word ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

This ranks right up there with the time Mister Rogers extended his middle finger!

You may remember this 'Sesame Street' segment, which is one of many where Ernie wakes up Bert over something stupid...



In that skit, Ernie wakes up in the middle of the night, whips out his typewriter, places it on Bert's bed, and writes a poem.

But listen closely at 10 seconds into the clip. In fact, you really don't need to listen that closely, because it's unmistakable. Bert declares, "Fuck!"

I remember in one of the segments where Bert and Ernie go to a movie theater, Bert gets in a big argument with other patrons at the end. The F-word seemed to be tossed around there too, but it wasn't quite as obvious.

Yet another utility rate hike looms

Watch your wallet!

Duke Energy is choosing this era of lockdown-induced recession to ask for yet another rate increase for its northern Kentucky customers. This one would apply to natural gas and hike rates by 12.7%.

I'm sure it'll be approved, because.

If the lockdown cult gave a damn about anyone's life, they'd fight against this. Instead they sit around in just their underpants all day.