Friday July 23, 2021
I continue to be shocked and not by the level of cheating, criminality and unethical behavior.
Wasn’t it the Senator who asked Joe McCarthy, “Have you no shame?”
Well, we know the answer and that is, “No. None. Nadda.”
Let’s give a special shout out today to Mike Parsons, Governor of Missouri. He was in the news last week, and the week before, because there is an innocent man who has been in prison for 42 years for a crime he didn’t commit. All Mike has to do is sign a pardon, but he won’t claiming it would be unfair for him to do so, because this man, Kevin Strickland by name, would be jumping the line.
The Attorney General has argued that Strickland got a fair trial and that all avenues for appeal have been exhausted so he should stay in jail. He further argues that it is not about whether Strickland is innocent or not, everyone involved knows he is, it’s procedural.
But now Mike Parsons is in the news again. In the last election in the state there was a constitutional change that won overwhelmingly. It would allow 270,000 folks in Missouri to get health insurance. Mike and the Republicans in the state don’t like that and have fought in court to not do it, not give people health insurance. The Supreme Court of Missouri said this week that they have to do it.
Don’t you wonder what the heck these Republicans are thinking? No? Okay.
Meanwhile, bills designed to deny people access to voting have been passed in state after state that Republicans have control.
Oddly, those are the same states where Covid-19 is having a resurgence.
And once again, Missouri is in the forefront of stupidity, arrogance, and obstruction. For weeks now, Missouri has been seeing a resurgence in Covid-19 cases. It started in the southwest corner of the state. An area with one of the lowest vaccinations rates in the country, and one of the reddest of Republican strongholds. The hospital systems there are overrun. Covid cases have now risen through the middle of the state like a middle finger heading toward the capital. What was the governor’s response? It’s the hospitals fault for making a big deal about it and going on with all the doom and gloom.
Yeah, yelling for respirators and more nurses and respiratory therapists and begging people to get vaccinated is doom and gloom. Good job Mike.
Moving on. I got another email from that crappy row house in London that is trying to pass itself off as a financial institution. They were warning about the coming financial crisis. To make their point they had a picture of Ron Paul and said he said so. Okay. Ron Paul is a person who makes all sorts of economic dire warnings but when confronted by real economists and asked to explain he devolves into “You don’t understand. I have all the evidence. If you’d only look at the facts.” And when asked to present these facts he either can’t or gets trashed for the idiocy he is babbling about. Like his son with Dr. Fauci.
We have a pandemic in this country. It is among the naive, the stupid, the Trump/Republican base, the unvaccinated.
Ask yourself this Trump/Republican base, “Why is it that all those you follow have gotten vaccinated? (Or refuse to tell you?) Huh? Why is that?” The answer is – they ain’t as dumb as you.
And this just in. You know all that money you gave to Trump and his PAC? Yeah. Seventy five million in the first six months of this year. He hasn’t spent one dime on making America great or saving our democracy or doing an audit or recount – not a penny.
He has used it for food, travel, personal expenses, paying the sycophants around him (called “staff”), but actually spend it on any of the things he claims needs to be addressed? Naw.
There’s a word for all you Trump supporting folks. He said it himself – “Suckers and Losers.” Of course, he wasn’t speaking about you he was speaking about people who gave their lives defending our democracy.
In other news, I demonstrated yesterday the field hockey hook shoot fake out shot with a short cart (not full size grocery cart.) It was a down hill lie with two vehicles jutting out just before the cart return. A very difficult shot indeed. But I talked the whole shot strategy out. Laid it out. Then I took the shot. It was fabulous. One of the best. When I got home and looked for the video; it was not there! This I thought was outrageous. Who would have gotten rid of that video. Russian hackers? That new spyware that can circumvent the security on your phone? North Korea? So many possibilities. Then a little voice asked me, “Did you push the ‘RECORD’ button?”
Yes. Of course. Only an idiot would not push record and end up talking to himself in the middle of a parking lot while hunched over a shopping cart in near 100 degree weather.
The search continues. I will, of course, keep you informed. Maybe OJ could help me if he’s not too busy.
In other news, I watched a little bit of the Olympics warm up action.
Two things: Brazil Germany soccer. This was a rematch of the gold medal game from last time. Unfortunately, Germany did not field as good a team as last time. Something about the pro teams not letting their good players free or something like that. There was one guy on Brazil who scored three goals in the first 30 minutes. Amazing display.
I could not get over the amount of grabbing of players and deliberately causing them to fall down or be pushed down, that was not called.
But the crowning bit was a little bit about Simone Biles. They showed her warming up and then did a retrospective on what she did in Rio. I watched it four times. Every time it made me shutter in glee. I remember watching Nadia and I remember the Czechoslovakian woman the Olympics before Nadia. Everyone thought that woman’s dismount from the balance beam was incredible. It was a flip off the beam.
Nadia blew that away. But Simone? She’s on a different level. There were other athletes commenting. One was a gymnast, but the others were athletes from other disciplines. “No one else does what she does.” Was one of the comments.
In the video they showed Simone doing a back flip. Her arms were straight out. Her body fully extended – crucifixion pose. She did this fully extended back flip, and then did it again before landing. Then there are those crazy flips with twists she does on floor exercises or on a dismount. What? Three flips and two twists? I’m not sure. It’s like trying to figure out what Shawn White just did on the half pipe. Crazy.
And you know what she said? “I’m scared. But I like to be scared.” And then she said, “Don’t bail.” She laughed. She said, “If you bail, you are going to break something.” She laughed again.
Me? I remember seeing a photo of her when she was just coming up. She was still in school. She was doing her homework while stretching. She was stretching on a staircase. One leg up the stairs the other down. She seemed to be sitting on the stairs. Claude Van Damme would be proud. I can get one leg up to the fourth or possibly fifth step. I’ve got a ways to go.
Kathy Goodwind says
I just read where Mitch McConnell is pleading with people to get vaccinated. All they worry about is their base. I was wondering when it would happen. I knew it would happen when the virus has no place to go among the vaccinated, the virus will jump on the next unvaccinated person it can find. In its fight for survival, the virus has the ability to become a difference character, same virus but with more infectious ability. It’s like isomerism. I even heard Hannity begging people to get vaccinated. You know what? I don’t give a darn how many people in the US get hit with the virus now. All Biden asked was for 80% vaccination to achieve herd immunity. The virus is just culling the herd.