(on his head!)
Saturday May 15, 2021
My hometown minister once asked my brother, “Can you think of a new sin?”
I’m not sure why he asked, but the point is pretty clear. There ain’t no new sins.
Rachel brought up that point last night. Our Postmaster General has pulled the same scam that Spiro Agnew pulled in the 70s. Extortion via a bonus scheme to his employees. In the case of Agnew contractors gave their employees a check marked “Bonus.” The employee cashed the check and brought the cash to their boss who gave it to Agnew. In the case of DeJoy, he gave his employees bonuses so they could contribute to political campaigns that he designated. This is illegal. Yet, DeJoy is still Postmaster General.
We now have a tape of a woman from The Heritage Foundation outlining exactly what they are doing with the voter suppression laws they are trying to pass. It’s not new. It’s voter suppression. But people don’t like that term so we’ll call it voter integrity, okay?
Matt Gaetz’s wingman has apparently flipped. I thought he was up on 70 counts, turns out to be in the 30s. His pleas deal is to plead guilty to 6 and they’ll let the other 27 slid. If he screws up and doesn’t tell them everything the 27 are back on the table. If so he’s looking at life or most of it, behind bars. If he takes the deal he’s looking at ten years. Gaetz is probably looking at ten years too. Nothing new here. My suggestion to Gaetz, join the Taliban in Afghanistan. There you can take a bride that is eleven years old. Hum, I wonder how long the Butthead of our Congress could survive there? Maybe, ten years isn’t so bad?
Meanwhile, the age that someone has to be to be vaccinated has dropped to 12. Wow. If we could get everyone 12 and up vaccinated in this country… In Ohio, Mike DeWine is having a million dollar lottery every week for five weeks for everyone who is vaccinated in his state. It will be interesting to see if that persuades some of the people on the fence.
In Congress, some Republicans are claiming the Jan 6th insurrectionists were just like any other tourist group. I covered that already.
Also, there are a few Republicans who are leaving the fold, or threatening to do so. They aren’t moderates. They claim to be conservatives. Real conservatives. What does that mean? When people like Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are being held up as examples of moderation and good (what? “Goodness?” good Goodness? I don’t know what to call it). We’ve got problems.
But then again this is what happens in political movements that veer too far off course. The radicals of yesteryear are the moderates of today. Look at the French Revolution. Then comes the dictator.
We’ve been watching the Ken Burns documentary on Hemingway. Fascinating and captivating.
I’ve been reading “Enchanted Vagabonds” A book that outlines the adventures of a couple who sailed out of San Diego Harbor in 1933 in a 16 foot homemade kayak/canoe/sailboat and went 16,000 miles down the Baja coast to the Sea of Cortez and finally to Panama. Yikes: sharks, storms, bugs, snakes, scorpions, etc.
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