Sunday Morning Coming Down

 Today's post is named after the Johnny Cash hit song of 1970. However, Cash was not the first country singer to record that song. The first person to record it was Ray Stevens in 1969. It didn't work for Ray as well as Ahab the Arab. For you trivia buffs, the song was written by Rhodes Scholar, former Army Ranger and helicopter pilot, and long time liberal Kris Kristofferson.

Looking over the news this morning, on early Saturday morning there was an earthquake near Statesville, NC. According to this report from WXII-TV, "About four people reported feeling the earthquake, according to USGS."

How can "about four people" feel an earthquake? "About a hundred", "about a thousand", even "about fifty people" would have made sense. But "about four"? It's either four or it is not. If it is five, write five.  If it is three, write three.  "About four people" is news or government speak for "Hell, we just don't know how many.". 

KHOU-11in Houston reported that a woman had been charged with a hate crime assault on an Asian woman at a beauty supply store owned by the Asian woman and her family. In the story KHOU reports "on their way out of the store, her son said he heard one of the women say, ‘Asian people shouldn't be in the Black market.’” Notice how KHOU capitalized "Black" in Black market. Did they capitalize "Black" in their description of the woman charged, Keaundra Young? Of course not. They never mentioned her race. In a story about hate crimes based on race, they failed to disclose the race of the assailant. How convenient! This is the Cultural revolution in America today being waged by the left. Is Joe Biden the new Chairman Mao? Nobody understood what Mao was saying, either.

On local television this morning, I made a fifteen minute foray to the box. On NBC, Chuck Todd and the hair pasted to his forehead interviewed Gov. Whitmer of Michigan, who blamed her limited response to another virus surge on Republicans suing her earlier. On Fox, as Chris Wallace started talking, I could feel the pressure building in my chest and I switched stations. I hated his father too. On the local news, someone is raising money for a new playground because the old one is "not meeting the mental and emotional needs of our children". It's a playground, dumbass! It's for physical exercise. Get the damn iPads out of their fat little hands and let them play!!

 When I was a kid, we played stickball in the street. Kids today would have to Google "stick" if they found one. According to Wikipedia, stickball is normally played in the streets of large Northeastern cities like New York or Philadelphia. I grew up playing it in Tampa. Thank God we didn't have Wikipedia to tell us that we weren't supposed to play this game.

On April 9, the US Supreme Court struck down another attempt by California Governor Newsom to regulate the free exercise of religion during the COVID crisis. The vote was 5-4 with the alleged conservative Chief Justice John Roberts joining the court's three leftists. This was the FIFTH ruling by the court about California religious restrictions.  The new standard for "slow learners" is the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals who lead the league in decisions overturned by the Supremes. The majority made this note in their ruling.  “This is the fifth time the [Supreme] Court has summarily rejected the Ninth Circuit’s analysis of California’s COVID restrictions on religious exercise.” Maybe this time, the morons at the Ninth Circuit  will read this ruling.

The COVID virus continues to wreak havoc in states governed by Democrats. There is obviously some social interaction disorder among Democrats.