Dueling Headlines

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee reveals Nashville school shooting victim Cindy Peak was his wife’s best friend and was due at their home for dinner on the day she was shot dead
Daily Mail UK | March 29, 2023 | Vanessa Serna

Soon to be followed by:

Joe Biden reveals Nashville school shooting victim Cindy Peak was his doctor wife’s best friend and was due at THEIR home for dinner on the day she was shot dead

Maybe the Cats Just Wanted To Visit a Korat House

Man and His 11 Cats Make Epic 300km Trip Across Thailand on Motorbike
AsiaOne | March 24, 2023

A Thai man travelled some 300km from Bangkok to Korat with his 11 cats in tow on a motorcycle, attracting praise and “likes” from cat lovers online.

Choowong Thepkoh, 65, who sells amulets and other knick knacks at flea markets in Bangkok, had travelled to Korat to sell his goods at a popular annual flea market.

Choowong also hails from Korat, and wanted to bring his “kids,” or his cats, to visit his birthplace.


“Conquest is easy. Control is not.” – Captain James T. Kirk

“I think I’m going to Korat: Man, do.” — Bob Seeger’s cat

Huh.

Almost a Third of Queer TV Characters Will Disappear From Screens Next Year, Report Finds
Yahoo Entertainment | 2023-03-21 | Louis Chilton

Nearly a third of the LGBT+ characters to have featured on US TV over the past year will not be returning in future, a new report has revealed.

Over the period between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023, a total of 596 LGBT+ characters were featured on scripted TV.

Of these, 175 will not be returning in the following season, as a result of series being cancelled or coming to a pre-agreed end. The majority of these characters (140) are the result of series being cancelled.

The statistics are taken from the annual report published by the US media monitoring organisation GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).

The report takes into account LGBT+ characters across scripted primetime broadcast networks, scripted primetime cable networks, and scripted series on the eight major US streaming platforms: Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, and Paramount+.

Did they tally up the number of non-queer characters that will disappear with those cancelled series?

Um . . . Why not?

No “sindication” joke comes to mind. If they did, they would probably suck.

Totally Unbiased Law Enforcement

With No Hint of an Agenda

FBI Data on Good Guys With Guns Called ‘Garbage’ as Critic Finds Many More Cases
Washington Times | March 20, 2023 | Stephen Dinan

Mercedes Perez crashed her car into another car on a San Antonio street in 2021 and then jumped out with a gun and blazed away at neighbors who came out of their homes to see what happened.

She killed one man, the car’s owner, and wounded his wife and son before another neighbor heard the shooting. He grabbed his gun and ran to the scene, where he killed Perez with a shot to the neck.

John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said it’s a case of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun.

Yet the incident was left out of the FBI’s database of active shooting incidents.

Mr. Lott said it’s one of dozens of such incidents missing from the bureau’s statistics, which he said has fueled a false narrative that rarely do good guys with guns stop shootings.

The FBI says the rate of active shooting incidents ended by good guys with guns is 4.4% over the years. Mr. Lott says it’s 34.4%.

The FBI’s conclusions are widely cited, particularly as new shootings revive old debates about gun control and whether more access to weapons is safer or more dangerous.

When an armed citizen does intervene and it draws national headlines — as happened at an Indiana mall food court last year — news accounts are quick to point to the FBI’s findings as evidence that it’s a rarity. The FBI’s numbers also have been used in court cases, and they pepper legislative debates on Capitol Hill and in state assemblies.

Mr. Lott said the numbers are so distorted by shoddy work and judgment calls that they are not just worthless but also misleading.

Harvey Award : Update March 27, 2023

Hi Gang.

We had several Harvey’s going out this past week so here is the updated list.

1.Burt
January 5, 2023 at 12:29 PM (Edit)
The Best Way To End the Speaker Stalemate in the House of Representatives Is…

a write in campaign for FramkJ Flemming.

2.Gumbeaux
January 6, 2023 at 1:01 PM (Edit)
. . . he believes his wife is a doctor, his son is a genius and an artist, his brother is honest, his VP is a nun, the peasants derive rights from a thing, he was actually elected, his Cabinet is qualified for the jobs they hold, ditto his idiot Supreme Court justice, KJP could pass a lie detector test without the machine exploding, Bernie Sanders is a piker when it comes to Socialism, and the omnibus just passed includes Johnson’s baby shampoo for all the migrant kids he will visit in El Paso.

3.rodneydill
January 12, 2023 at 12:14 PM (Edit)
Pelosi’s botoxed forehead.

4.Burt
January 18, 2023 at 4:46 PM (Edit)
It occurred to me that if our governing body is really worried about overthrow attempts, they should stop being a government that needs to be overthrown.

5.DamnCatJanuary 30, 2023 at 12:12 PM (Edit)
Limited government.

6.rodneydillFebruary 2, 2023 at 1:03 PM (Edit)
Straight Line of the Day: Scotty T Has Clinically Diagnosed “Beautiful Woman Dyslexia”: They Say “I’m really angry with you.” , We Hear “Drape a towel on my shoulders and say, ‘Now you’re SuperAngry’.”

She may laugh… You may die.

7.BurtFebruary 6, 2023 at 1:58 PM (Edit)
There Will Be No Rapture for a While. Instead, There Will Be…

99 red balloons.

8.Bob BFebruary 3, 2023 at 12:20 PM (Edit)
What is a Chinese balloon doing over the United States?

Froating…

  1. Bob BJanuary 30, 2023 at 12:19 PM (Edit)
    … “I really got hammered last night…” – Paul Pelosi
  1. BurtFebruary 25, 2023 at 12:19 PM (Edit)
    Man Has Breakthrough Discovery: …

The ice isn’t thick enough for ice fishing yet.

  1. OppoFebruary 23, 2023 at 12:42 PM (Edit)
    No Carbon Nation
  1. OppoFebruary 23, 2023 at 12:20 PM (Edit)
    LaBatt’s Blue Screen of Death!
  1. BurtMarch 22, 2023 at 12:17 PM (Edit)
    Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck

Was feeling down on her luck.
Her nephew was chidin’
her vote for Biden
Who everyone knew was a schmuck.

14.BurtMarch 22, 2023 at 12:49 PM (Edit)
Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck

Fell on her face in some muck.
She straightened her clothes
And powdered her nose
Saying “Now I’m ready to…..whatever.”

  1. DamnCatMarch 22, 2023 at 12:27 PM (Edit)
    Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck
    Had plenty of courage and pluck
    She won great regard
    As a school crossing guard
    Because her face could stop a truck
  1. EditorMarch 22, 2023 at 4:03 PM (Edit)
    ee cummings hardest hit

Hill and Bill of Attainder

Roger Kimball:

Section nine of Article I of the Constitution says that “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” Bills of attainder were used and abused by the English crown to target specific people or groups of which it disapproved. If a person was “attainted,” his civil rights were forfeit. He became a pariah. His property could be seized, and he could face imprisonment or execution.

We don’t acknowledge that we promulgate bills of attainder in this country, but that is essentially the judgment that has been pronounced against Donald Trump. It was the aim of Robert Mueller’s darkly farcical investigation, the purpose of Trump’s two impeachments, and the aim of the kangaroo court known as the House’s January 6 Select Committee, Liz Cheney (D-Georgetown) presiding. Her work there, she said, was to make sure that Donald Trump never got near the Oval Office again. I think it was only a rumor that Cheney had special copies of the Constitution printed with an addition to Article II providing her with a veto over who was allowed to be president of the United States.

Donald Trump has been singled out, he has been attainted, by the ruling elites of this country. As Michael Anton pointed out last summer, “The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.” What will the deep state do to prevent Trump from winning? Anton sketches several possibilities from having Trump declared ineligible because he allegedly sparked an “insurrection” on January 6, 2021 to simple cheating at the ballot box.

Then there is Plan F.

What happens then? Well, in the words of the ‘Transition Integrity Project,’ a Soros-network-linked collection of regime hacks who in 2020 gamed out their strategy for preventing a Trump second term, the contest would become ‘a street fight, not a legal battle.’ Again, their words, not mine. But allow me to translate: The 2020 summer riots, but orders of magnitude larger, not to be called off until their people are secure in the White House.