Tuesday Stuff

Today marks the 40th anniversary, believe it or not, of the bombing of the MOVE compound on 6221 Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia; a video interview with Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Craig McCoy and Kitty Caparella is here...like lots of others, I lived in Philadelphia at the time this happened...video has to do with the group’s first appearance in 1978 in Philadelphia leading to the confrontation in which Officer James Ramp was shot and killed...after the trial for what happened in the first confrontation, they moved to Osage Avenue...a lot of the clips I’ve found about the bombing feature Ramona Africa basically describing herself and the group as political prisoners, which is utter bullsh*t and I refuse to do anything to perpetuate that lie...MOVE did its best (worst?) to basically hold an entire neighborhood in West Philadelphia hostage, and all the people in that neighborhood were trying to do is live their lives...that being said, don’t think for a second that I’m trying to excuse the stupendous incompetence of the administration of Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode; I know that the building trades in this area offered to rebuild the homes destroyed in the ’85 fire gratis, but Goode said no and doled out the work to some of his campaign donors who utterly botched the job...there’s a lot more to say about this episode I know, and I got into some of that here (I wish I could embed the video at this site, but YouTube has decided that it’s age restricted for some reason, so...I'll be honest; if I ever decide to throw in the towel around here, it will likely be because of nonsense like that).

Turning to the typical news/political stuff, Belle of the Ranch tells us that Yambo is cutting veterans and rural programs under the guise of “DEI” (and that acronym does include programs for homeless vets, of course)...#47 got into a typical snit about the Digital Equity Act of 2021, which, as Belle says, is designed to increase internet use among “covered populations,” including vets, seniors, and those living in rural areas, including remote tele-health appointments for vets, and kids also of course trying to access courses online...and kudos to Dem U.S. Senator Patty Murray for writing the legislation the Act is based on and calling out the Gropenfuhrer for his typical idiocy on this subject...



...and sticking with more ridiculous nonsense from our ruling regime of grifters, liars and frauds, Rachel Maddow tells us that Pumpkin Pol Pot just fired the 3 Dem commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is INCREDIBLY FREAKING ILLEGAL...I mean, it’s not like a pesky little detail like THAT ever stopped Bronzer Beelzebub before, I realize...and kudos to Dem commissioner Mary Boyle in particular for speaking out...



...and I realize that, given our thoroughly corrupt ruling cabal, we have to consider degrees of illegality...the prior clip discussed something that, while bad, doesn’t call the Constitution into question, but Jesse Dollemore tells us about something WAY worse from #47’s “Goebbels mini-me,” which is the threat to suspend habeas corpus, and of course, being the execrable pissant he is, Stephen Miller sneaks in another lie about Biden flying illegals into the country....



...and Farron Cousins tells us that Cantaloupe Capone’s trade war has caused our deficit to explode, up to 11.2%...and Belle also pointed out that this administration of liars, grifters and frauds doesn’t understand the difference between a trade deficit and a budget deficit (she didn’t say that in today’s clip, but in a prior one)...



...and Tennessee Brando echoes the part a bit about our ruling regime trying to dispense with due process, and of course they also want to keep oppressing women, including this Dusty Deevers character in Oklahoma (of course) who wants to prosecute women who take abortion pills...don’t know if this will make a difference in trying to keep this Bryan Logan nut case out of the Oklahoma house, but I’ll take a shot anyway (and this guttersnipe wants to enforce an abortion ban from 1910??)...NSFW/H...



...and happy 75th birthday to Stevie Wonder; even though it was written for Tricky Dick, this tune has been on my mind lately for obvious reasons I guess.