Big Milk

It's Sunday, you just got out of church and all the gun stores are closed.  No problem!  American Rounds has installed ammunition vending machines in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas.  Bring photo ID and a credit card, and you'll never again be caught short when you spot a BLM or Antifa troublemaker casing the public library for a possible Drag Queen Story Hour.  Why did it take so long?  (You must be over 21, at least until the NRA lawsuit.)

This should please fans of Michael Scheuer, the podcaster and cheerleader for mass murder who has repeatedly called for the assassination of "Fauci, Gates, Birx, the Bidens, Harris, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bushes and most media" because they are "the direct descendants of Mao Tse Tung [sic], Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Margaret Sanger, Adolph [sic] Hitler, and all UN leaders."  That's a lot of ammo, and he's just getting warmed up:  George Soros, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and the World Economic Forum have all annoyed him, while "Jewish-Americans, as a whole, are unreliable and increasingly anti-American citizens."  Who does he trust?  "Q...the genuine and truthful harbinger of the criminal, treasonous and anti-human revelations that will seal [Democrats'] well-merited and hopefully painful doom."  Well, he seems to be a balanced individual.  Jeanine Pirro must agree, as she went on his little show to promote her book and try not to look so Semitic.  

Scheuer should probably lock heads (if he hasn't) with Ivan Raiklin, the former DIA employee who calls himself Trump's "Secretary of Retribution" and has compiled an extensive "Deep State target list" of those who can expect tumbril rides on Day One, if not sooner.  He may be just another MAGA crackpot but he alarmed Jamie Raskin enough to call on Chuck Schumer and Mike Johnson to denounce him publicly.  Raw Story has the raw story.

I'm sure the Speaker will get right on it.  As for Schumer, he's busy fending off a particularly unhinged attack from bankrupt hairbag Alex Jones, who has declared "Chuckie" to be "Satanic" because of the way he grills a cheeseburger.  "Blasphemous," too.  I looked in a Biblical concordance for references to cheeseburgers, but all it said was "no mixing meat and milk."  Maybe Alex is the blasphemer.

When government spending came up, old-fashioned conservative Everett Dirksen would say, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money."  The Defense Department probably blows through a billion dollars a day.  It's 2024 chump change.  But using funds from the 2022 tax package, which Republicans fought like it was the Battle of Stalingrad, the IRS went after tax cheats and recovered a billion dollars.  No wonder the right wants to do away with all taxes.  Between paeans to Hannibal Lecter and sermons about batteries, Trump assures the dopes that his staggering tariffs will make up the difference.  And they seem to believe him.  Of course, those tariffs will be reflected in the price of every imported product they buy.  Poor dopes.

Most people try to avoid salmonella because most people don't enjoy abdominal pain, diarrhea and fever.  The anti-vaxers, on the other hand, have embraced it with the enthusiasm of Robert "Brainworm" Kennedy, Jr.  He's not one of the 165 people who contracted salmonella from the product of Raw Farm of Fresno.  Raw milk can also carry avian flu, but once you've decided to say no to Big Milk, you're pretty much trusting the gods anyway.  Owen Shroyer of Infowars told his audience that drinking straight from the cow "angers the FDA.  It angers Big Milk...They'll just make raw milk illegal.  That's what this is all about."  Yes, everything is a plot against you by them.  Of course, the principal consumers of milk are children, who have no say in where it comes from -- all but three of the salmonella patients, for example.  "Raw milk, grass-fed organic meat and other foods produced the way food has been produced for thousands of years" are so much better for you, according to professional antisemite Stew Peters.  Sure, that's why Pasteur was given the Legion of Honor.

Hurricane Beryl continues to cause death and misery, with floods in places that used to be hurricane-free.  Downgraded to a tropical storm, Beryl still spawned an EF3 tornado that damaged structures in Mount Vernon, Indiana.  Two people have died in floods in Vermont, and someone identified only as a young person was swept away by floodwaters in Nova Scotia.  Those who read Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm -- and those who haven't, should -- will be reminded of the deadly 1900 hurricane that tore up Cuba, wiped out Galveston, moved up the center of the US into the Maritimes and eventually blew itself out in Siberia.  Welcome to the new normal.

Joe Biden eventually tracked down acting governor Dan Patrick, whose formal request was needed before FEMA help could be authorized.  Large swaths of Harris County are still waiting for the privately-owned power company to restore electricity and water.  Patrick decided this was the right time to blame Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo* (Democrat) and of course the president:  "The president is either totally incompetent or...doesn't remember what he said.  Or he's just lied to me and to Texas..."  It's well known that Biden controls the weather, so it's his fault anyway.  

Why not pile on Biden?  Every day another dozen Democrats do.  I'm tired of turning on the computer and reading that Stephen King or James Carville (age 79) or some other wiseass knows he's hopeless, ignoring or slanting all evidence to the contrary.  As he said during the press conference (I paraphrase), I'm doing the job.  Trump's riding around in a golf cart, filling out his scorecard before he plays (good one).  Asking presidents to debate is like asking Bronny James to hit a curve ball -- it's not a necessary skill.  All I need is a president who doesn't lie or fantasize or spew hatred and who never groped a nanny or the stranger next to him on a plane.  I'm ridin' with Biden and you all can shut up.

Thank you.  Stay safe, if you are.

In Texas "judge" is what they call the county executive.