Helter-Skelter
Today, thanks to BLM and their enablers in Congress and the media, we find ourselves hating each other for the color of our skin.
It occurred to me how happy Charles Manson would be if he’d live long enough to see his dream come true.
It was apparently his purpose to start a race war by making it appear that the massacres his insane “family” perpetrated were the work of blacks. As we know, it didn’t work out that way. It was quickly discovered who had committed the vile crimes and they were all arrested and discovered to all be white.
But, today, thanks to BLM and their enablers in Congress and the media, we find ourselves hating each other for the color of our skin. It should come as no surprise that in a world in which Satan seems to have gotten the upper hand that people would be emulating a lunatic like Manson and ignoring Martin Luther King’s call for a colorblind society.
Even I, who have always lived by the belief that if only people really get to know each other, they will usually find a better reason to detest the other person than his race, find that my immediate reaction to seeing a black person is that he or she hates me, and I wish that one of us were someplace else.
Scamsters around the country are being prosecuted for having taken advantage of the virus to bilk millions of dollars in benefits out of the government.
But they’re just the small fry who surface any time a crisis rolls around. If using fear of the virus to improve one’s lot politically or financially is a crime, I’d love to see the likes of Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom, Phil Murphy, Kate Brown, Bill De Blasio, J.B. Pritzker, Eric Garcetti, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, brought up on charges.
I find toupees fascinating. That’s because they always look like toupees, thus calling attention to the very thing that those wearing them want concealed.
The best use of a toupee was the one that covered the head of George Burns. I say that because I had seen Mr. Burns in his mid-90s without his rug and he closely resembled a small chimpanzee.
As a rule, though, when I’d see them on celebrities I liked, people like Gene Kelly, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, I just thought they looked silly. It was sort of like their going out in public wearing a New Year’s Eve party hat.
When I’d see them on people I don’t care for, such as Ted Danson and Ben Affleck, I’d question their masculinity. Not man enough to show your true selves, fellows?
It is apparent that Joe Biden decided that he wouldn’t go looking for the best people to serve on his cabinet and, instead, would pick them as if they were items on a Chinese menu, with x-number of women, blacks, Latinos, gays and trannies.
His latest pick, David Chipman, is Biden’s choice to head up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and he made the final cut in spite of being none of these things. He is a white male. In fact, the only thing he has to recommend him is that he is in favor of gun confiscation, starting with banning the AR-15, the most popular rifle in the nation.
Any Republican who votes to confirm Chipman should be placed at or near the top of the GOP hit list next year.
Objectivity is often a fine thing, especially when it comes to reporting the news. But it smacks of pigheadedness when people say the jury is still out when it comes to the origin of the coronavirus. On a Fox panel dealing with the topic, Bill Bennett wryly suggested that China might begin its own investigation in Switzerland.
When questioned about it, Anthony Fauci, who serves as China’s propaganda chief in the U.S., claims the virus may have had natural origins, whatever those would be, or may have come from the Wuhan lab of virology that is overseen by the Chinese military.
Either one or the other, Mr. Fauci? It’s a coin toss? Does anyone, including Fauci if he had an honest bone in his body, really believe that China would be this defensive or secretive if the disease had originated in nature or even at that disgusting open-air butcher shop they call a wet market?
But even more naive is the belief that after a year and a half, the Communists have left any clues, including medical personnel, lying around for anyone to uncover. In the pestilence known as Communist China, after all, people can be made to vanish every bit as quickly as test tubes, lab logs and infected bats.
Here in California, the bad, but not unexpected, news is that Governor Newsom is likely to survive the recall election. A recent poll disclosed that 57% of the electorate are likely to vote to keep him around, with only 40% voting to dump him.
It’s not too surprising because those numbers almost exactly reflect party registration in this godforsaken state.
It seems that 60,000 truck drivers are needed to meet the immediate demand, and 1.1 million will be needed to meet the immediate demand. As a result, truck drivers are writing their own ticket, so to speak.
At the same time, college grads and the parents of college grads, are waking up to the fact that there is no demand for the services of those who majored in Black Studies, Lesbian Studies and French Poetry of the 18th Century, unless, of course, George Soros is still recruiting for Antifa and BLM, in anticipation of another long, hot, summer.
Every time, some hack politician dies, we have to go through the same old business of lowered flags and obsequious testimonials. So, naturally, we knew to expect the excessive praise for John Warner, a five-term senator from Virginia and husband number five of Elizabeth Taylor, when he died at the age of 94.
But, lest you get caught up in the nonsense, keep in mind that this Republican not only subscribed to climate change, he supported Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Just a reminder that you should always be suspicious when someone like Chuck Schumer goes overboard about a dead Republican, as he did with John McCain.
If the Tokyo Olympics take place and if lying is a competitive event (and why wouldn’t it be when virtually every other human activity, aside from belching, is?), Tony Fauci could bring home the gold. But he’d probably be competing for China.
Fauci, who has changed his opinion about masks more often than I change my socks, now claims that he had no idea that the Wuhan lab was working on mutating a bat virus in order to employ it as a biological weapon. Even if you believed that, wouldn’t you have thought he’d have looked into it before sending millions of tax dollars to do whatever he thought they were going to do? And what that was, he’s never mentioned.
And this is the 79-year-old garden gnome who is paid over $400,000-a-year to be our point man when it comes to viruses. Even a fox hired to guard a chicken coop doesn’t get that good a deal.
It was recently Penny Alfonso’s birthday and when it came time to send her a greeting, I found myself writing “I hope this year is better than last year and not quite as good as next year.” I am offering it up for the general public. But I expect a royalty if Hallmark decides to run with it.
I don’t think anyone regards this as a perfect world, but just in case whoever is in charge decides to job out some of the responsibilities, I have a couple of notions in mind.
I think that no matter how old a person lives to be, the visible effects of the aging process should end at about 60 or 65. There’s simply no good reason why someone should look like me at 81. It’s not just the wrinkles and the bags under the eyes and the Dumbo-like ears, but the ridiculous bruising. It used to be that I’d never bruise unless I fell down playing tennis or walked into a door. Now all I have to do is turn over in bed and I wake up in the morning and my arm looks like someone’s been trying to tenderize it with a mallet.
Also, in a better world, guys named Hitler, Stalin and Mao, wouldn’t be who they were. Instead, they’d be a baker, a music teacher and the owner of the Golden Arch restaurant.
Bob Hunt shared my favorite meme of the day. It’s a two-panel job, with the top one showing a pristine vista of mountain, sky and lake. The caption reads: “Democrats expect us to believe they can clean up the earth and the environment.”
The second picture is a typical homeless encampment you’ll find in any of our major cities. The caption reads: “Yet they can’t even clean up their streets.”
My favorite cartoon was also passed along by Mr. Hunt. It shows the war room at the Pentagon. The generals are staring in disbelief at TV monitors showing a number of our nuclear missiles taking off. One of the generals is shouting “No, Alexa, I said order lunch!”
The caption reads: “The Enunciation Apocalypse.”
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