“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too. Thursday I don’t care about you. It’s Friday I’m in love.”
–The Cure.
“When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails) take a break you will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break.”
–Catherine Pulsifer.
“A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.”
–former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Senator Mitch McConnell (R. Ky.) has been hospitalized since June 14. His wife, former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, has been in Peking, China, meeting with Red Chinese officials since June 12. She has not returned to be by her husband. Huh. So many questions . . . .
A Senate report reveals that former Special Counsel Jack Smith mishandled classified government information while prosecuting then former President Trump for . . . mishandling classified government information. Is that not just interesting?
A group of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing legislation to grant amnesty to illegal aliens who work in the agriculture industry. IS THERE A DUMBER IDEA OUT THERE? I kind of doubt it.
“Right, well those are the things I said. What is the actual – is there evidence between her and him, evidence of a crime? Because he’s being accused of rape. What put this over the edge? Because he says he didn’t and he has people on his side who say he didn’t. She says I did and I’m trying – what’s the throughline?”
–Mike Brzezinski on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, defending Graham Platner.
Whatever happened to “believe all women”? And does anyone remember Mika Brzezinski defending Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh against the flimsy and false allegations made against him? I sure do not.
Marysville High School [California] is defying a California law banning Indian mascots and team names. GOOD! GO CHIEFS!
“I don’t want my son to walk into any room and feel like his voice is not valued or his perspective can’t be heard because he’s not saying it in one way or the other.”
–Ashley Williams, co-founder of Black Californians United for Early Care and Education.
A black activist group is urging the California public school system to accommodate “Black English” in schools, arguing that black children’s use of the dialect must be honored. The organization is calling on the California school system to establish programs that treat students who speak in black English similarly to how it treats multilingual students. Sigh. It is Ebonics by another name. Do not hold children to standards. Instead, lower the bar, keeping them ignorant.
Governor Kathy Hochul (D. N.Y.) is bragging about imposing high taxes on New Yorkers. Why? Because she knows that President Trump hates those taxes, and she is “sticking it” to him. Sigh. New York voters need to stick it to her in November.
Comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D. N.Y.) proudly put out an official map of New York City, highlighting its ethnic enclaves. There is a “Little Palestine”, “Little Yemen”, and a “Little Pakistan”. What was omitted? Probably New York City’s most famous ethnic enclave–Little Italy.
How is this omission possible? And how is it that Comrade Mayor Mamdani seems to concentrate only on Muslim enclaves? Hmmmm.
Former Wisconsin State Court judge Hannah Dugan (D.) was sentenced to a $5,000.00 fine for her felony obstruction of justice conviction. Readers will remember that then Judge Dugan helped an illegal alien escape arrest by ICE agents. What a lucky break for her.
The Mission Regional Hospital in Texas has been advertising “birth tourism” packages in Mexico. Billboards and social media were procured, and blared the hospital’s advertisements, along with prices for the services. Words fail me.
U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D. Tx.) claims to oppose “gender affirming care” (i.e. genital mutilation surgery) for minors. Then why did he attend a fundraiser hosted by a doctor whose entire practice was “gender affirming care”? James Talarico is such a soy boy liar.
Mr. Talarico also claims to be a 2nd Amendment supporter. Then why did he employ as a legislative aide a member of the anti-gun organization known as “C**ks, Not Glocks”. This rather crude organization handed out thousands of dildoes on the University of Texas campus in order to protest a Texas law permitting the carrying of firearms on the campus. Again, Mr. Talarico is such a soy boy liar.
Former Representative and current Congressional candidate Elaine Luria (D. Va.) called the allegations against U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (R. Me.) “shiny new thing to scare people.” Huh. Rape is a “shiny new thing to scare people”?
“I only have until July 13th until I am officially the nominee. This was the last week to try to get me off of the ballot. And that’s why this is occurring. It’s not the false allegations, though. That have brought us to where we are. It’s the fact that they’re being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure on us.”
–failed U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D. Me.).
Meanwhile, Graham Platner suspended his campaign for the United States Senate. Mr. Platner refused to admit any wrong doing, or take any responsibility for his campaign’s implosion. Rather, he blamed the Democrat party and prominent Democrats for abandoning him. Hmmm. He might just have a point. After all, it is not like Democrats really care about his transgressions. They are only upset because he cannot win the Senate seat.
“Among all of these calls for Graham Platner to resign, for [raping] one white American woman, I’m not hearing anyone make a simultaneous call that the dozens of sitting Democratic incumbent congress people who are up for election, who have in the past voted to send bombs and billions of dollars to the army that is serially [raping] their ‘prisoners’ in Palestine, and committing genocide against hundreds of thousands of people. Which includes, by the way, women and girls. No one’s calling for them to step down. When that is by any logical, moral, ethical framework, so much worse of a crime.”
–Hen Mazzig, a supporter of Graham Planter, who is outraged that he was forced out of the U.S. Senate race in Maine.
Toyota announced it would invest billions of dollars to expand its San Antonio, Texas manufacturing plant, bringing production of Tacoma trucks from Mexico to Texas. WINNING!
Chez Xue, a Chinese restaurant located South of San Francisco, California, maintains a strict policy of requiring dining patrons to control their children. Unruly children are not tolerated, and are not allowed to run throughout the restaurant, playing, and disrupting other diners’ meals. And if children break things, the restaurant “fines” the parents, placing the damages on their bill (assuming that they have not already been asked to leave). WOW! The next time I visit the Bay Area, I am definitely eating at Chez Xue.
Travel & Leisure magazine has named Appellation the #1 resort in the continental United States. Appellation is located in Healdsburg, California, a lovely, if expensive, place to spend some time.
The Chicago Bears is not the only large business fleeing Illinois’s brutal business climate. Tru Value hardware, which has been based in Chicago for more than 80 years is departing for Fort Wayne, Indiana.
President Trump called out Spain at the NATO Summit in Turkey for its refusal to increase defense spending and to permit the United States to use its airbases in the country. Mr. Trump previously called for NATO to expel Spain. Now he is suggesting that the United States may cease trade relations with the increasingly useless and communist country.
How did Spain respond to Mr. Trump’s threats? By writing a massive check to NATO. NOW THAT, is “The Art of the Deal”!
The United States repealed a license permitting Iran to sell its oil during the countries’ negotiations. Maybe Iran should have behaved itself.
In Canada, Parliament made it a “hate crime” to read The Bible in public. But mosques are allowed to blare the call to prayer 5 times a day, at loud decibels that cause the sound to travel far over communities. Think about that.
After more than 72 years, professional golf will be no more at the Firestone Country Club, in Akron, Ohio. The South Course hosted so many events over the years, its fairways trod by Nicklaus, Palmer, Player, and Woods. Following this week’s Champions Tour event, professional golf will move on. Hopefully, not for long.
Three (3) time Cy Young winner Justin Verlander announced that he will retire from professional baseball at the end of the season. Heckuva career.
Singer Bonnie Tyler has died at age 75. R. I. P.
Former New York Mets pitching coach Phil Regan has died at age 89. R. I. P.
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