Judge Judy in the sky with diamonds
We live in strange times. The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives turns over security footage taken of the J/6 insurrection to a cable TV entertainer. The foreperson of a grand jury investigating Donald Tr•mp works the news talk shows like a starlet flogging her latest Netflix release.
"Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you"
The last time a grand jury foreman did a sit-down interview was never. Grand juries are secret for a reason. Worse, the young lady comes across as a ditz. A flibbertigibbet. Evicted from the trailer park. We learn that Ms. Emily Kohrs held a Ninja Turtle popsicle while swearing in a witness. Not exactly Martin Balsam playing Juror #1 on Twelve Angry Men. If this is whom they chose as foreman, the jurors must have resembled the cast of Lil Abner.
Is Madison next?
Woke cities across the nation are using federal pandemic funds to pay reparations. Providence RI is in for $10 million in pandemic relief. San Francisco reparationists demand $5 million per eligible black resident. The State of California’s reparations task force has presented a bill for $569 billion. Never mind that slavery was never legal there.
Boston reparations will cover not just slavery but more “recent” housing and economic inequities, law professor Jonathan Turley reports.
In the U.S. Senate, Cory Booker introduced a new federal reparations bill that would create a new federal commission similar to those of states like California. It is supported by Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI).
Madison alders will consider enacting “a truth and reconciliation process.” Sponsoring Ald. Brian Benford says it would “address past wrongs” and “acknowledge the horrific racial disparities within our midst.” (His proposal here.)
Incompetent hires killed Tyre
Heather Mac Donald makes the case that the war on cops killed Tyre Nichols in Memphis.
The Nichols beating is not the product of racism; it is the tragic culmination of the very narrative being offered to explain that beating. The idea that policing is racist, both in its treatment of black suspects and in its hiring of black officers, has led to manpower loss, a lowering of standards, and a drop in proactive enforcement. The resulting increase in crime then puts more downward pressure on hiring standards in order to try to replenish the depleted ranks. Unable to compensate for officer attrition, police departments are left without enough well-trained sergeants and lieutenants to supervise officers who maybe should never have been hired in the first place.
— “What killed Tyre Nichols?“
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Another example of the Left news media “Republicans pounce” syndrome, from CNN: “GOP sees vulnerability for Democrats in wake of toxic train wreck”
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Blaska Policy Werkes 
Whose idea was it that this ditz talk on national TV? I get it that reporters are there to report news, but if this person defied grand jury process, that will kill the indictment, no?
Strange time, indeed.
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The larger question is how did this person get to be the “foreperson” of a grand jury? And the larger-still question: Is she the inevitable byproduct of a civilization in swift decline?
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According to CNN experts, her interview and statements will not be a cause for concern.
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We live in a madhouse–here or there. I should have known: A grandfather used to say, “Everybody’s crazy but me.”
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“Addressing past wrongs” and “acknowledging horrific racial disparities still in our midst” are the warm-up to the main event: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. And knowing the boundless idiocy of Madison liberals, the main act is just around the corner.
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The inimitable Larry Elder correctly asked a DAMNING question of Hopeless Changey and the monumentally inept VP: “(D)o (they) pay a (reparations) check or receive a check?”
DAMNING not only because they’re both mixed race but because they both descend directly from Slave Owners.
Reparations advocating White-Guilt suffocated despicable Lefties would do well to pick up a copy of the indefatigable, (reportedly Black), Jason L. Riley seminal text:
PLEASE STOP HELPING US: How Liberals Make It Harder For Blacks To Succeed
The Gotch
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I can only guess the makeup of the Grand Jury that chose Emily Kohrs as the foreman (screen the “person” BS)
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Did the squire get an invite to the TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION WORKING GROUP?
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Talk about a skunk at the garden party!
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His invitation will include a train ticket. One way. I’ll probably get the same invitation here in PA (our new digs).
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More proof that the dollar is at risk of being debased. Too much money is *still* sloshing around if it’s making into fake places like this.
It’s not about the woke political absurdity. It’s about the politics of the Fed and National Bank. They keep shelling out money to shells, masquerading as help. Causing inflation and bureaucratic largesse. Great for the privileged money changers, bad for productivity.
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Oh, oh, I should be demanding reparations! As a straight white male who lives in a university town I should get money because of the fact that I have always worked with my hands for a living.
Swept and mopped floors, scrubbed and polished pots and pans, tended bar, waited tables. Milked cows, shoveled manure, bailed hay. Built stud walls, laid sheet rock over them, taped and mudded them. Painted them when the mud was dried and finished. Installed tiles over dura-rock in showers and bath tubs. Re-roofed a house or two. Painted many a wall or ceiling. Assembled pieces parts in a factory. Mowed lawns, shoveled or plowed driveways or sidewalks among many other things.
I have to ask myself, what have. many of these university educated A-holes have ever done with their hands for a living?
Where I come from the standard is: Work mother F…..r, work mother F…..r, work. Work until you drop over dead!
Don’t whine and cry to me about how hard your office job is! Buy me a shot or two before you even begin to whine about how hard your office job is.
As someone who is now semi-retired, I can say what I just said.
Many of you will not understand what I said, but those of you who work with your hands for a living will.
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A bit “either or”, don’t you think, Bill? I’ve done both: hard manual labor and college/white collar. Work is work. Its more about one’s attitude and work ethic in my experience.
Angela Davis’s recent revelation underscores the absurdity of reparations.
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I like you Bill, but don’t disparage those of us, like me, who work in an office and got there with a college degree. I don’t disparage those who work in the trades and I would never discourage someone from considering a career there. I appreciate the work that those in the trades do, mainly because I’ve done a lot of the tasks you mentioned, plus a few you didn’t, and know what’s involved. I didn’t do them for a living, but for the know-how and sense of accomplishment that went with them.
Trust me, office work can be hard too. It’s just a different kind of hard.
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I’m a “Willy Whitecollar” too. IMHO it’s much easier to be an office worker and do dick squat. Agile software development roles like “Scrum Master” have made it even easier to be useless.
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Mordecai, and all others who commented on my comments:
I have nothing against those who went to college and got a degree. My grandfather, my father in law, my uncle, all got degree’s in engineering and had very successful careers as a result of their degrees. I have a sister who is an attorney, a brother who is in international banking.
But, reparations at the expense of the taxpayer who had nothing to do with the wrongs committed is something dreamed up by those who have never worked with their hands for a living.
I for one am sick and tired of paying for stuff I did not do. Stuff that happened before I was even born. I do not expect reparations for the way my Irish ancestors were mistreated when they landed on Ellis Island back in the day when they came here.
The past is the past. Move on! Make a better future for yourself and your family.
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Bill, I agree with you on reparations, and from what I’ve seen from you, a lot more than just that. I don’t want them for many of the same reasons you don’t, and think they’re about the worst idea in the entire discussion of racial issues out there today.
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Yes Bill, you do deserve reparations. It’s not just particular races that have been exploited by our economic system. The slice of pie everyone is allotted is arbitrary and the free market is largely a myth. The people closer to Capital decide that the closer you are to Capital the more money you “earn”. Both Democrats and Republicans are on the same side of this coin. We no longer have political powers that advocate for workers.
People who physically work should get as big a piece of pie as those that do “thinking” work.
Note that “the left” is primarily defined these days by wedge cultural issues. We no longer have an actual left like we did 100 years ago.
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You want FUNNY? Howse about the despicable Lefties who thought THIS was a good idea:
Staff at the Miami, FL Studio Kids Little River (SKLR) pre-school (PRESCHOOL!!!) painted white children’s faces black which they then posted to the school’s messaging app to, you know, like, “CELEBRATE” Black History Month.
Shocked that some parents had a problem with this, SKLR owner/director Patricia Vitale issued the following statement:
“We have not intended to offend anyone, and we’re very sorry about any inconvenience.”
Inconvenience?
The Gotch
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You want FUNNY? Howse about the despicable Lefties who thought THIS was a good idea:
Staff at the Miami, FL Studio Kids Little River (SKLR) pre-school (PRESCHOOL!!!) painted white children’s faces black which they then posted to the school’s messaging app to, you know, like, “CELEBRATE” Black History Month.
Shocked that some parents had a problem with this, SKLR owner/director Patricia Vitale issued the following statement:
“We have not intended to offend anyone, and we’re very sorry about any inconvenience.”
Inconvenience?
The Gotch
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You forgot the caps when you posted this twice. Sober up!
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Off-topic, trifling, brainlessly STOOPID, spittle-flecked slobber from the haplessly half-witted, 76-year-old Lazy @$$ Blogge Idiot?
Priceless!
Now run along, the adults are talking.
The Gotch
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talking so much they are repeating themselves.
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HeyZeus Alou! Pretty effin’ early to be stewed to the gills, isn’t it, you d!p$#!t?
Yoikes! The Lazy @$$ Blogge Idiot is………………The Gotch is without words.
The Gotch
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Oh look, Richy van Libturd, the troll, woke up from his winter nap.
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Gut Laugh Leader Board entry, Norm!
And like The Gotch’s Dear late Father always said:
Li’l Gotchie, a good laugh’s better’n a pill!
The Gotch
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Trump visits East Palestine…the man is still a PR genius.
The old guard GOP has a real problem on their hands. What will their new marching orders be? “Insurrection!®” is losing its teeth.
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