A Bit of This and of That
Faithful readers;
Not a lot to post this week, I have been very very busy. Getting my excuses all lined up:
I, my son and my grandson all had birthdays over a 12-day period that just ended. It’s been Party Hearty for nearly two weeks.
My gal and I have tickets for three (yes, 3!) different live music concerts over the last three days. Party Hearty II.
The Toronto Blue Jays, having dispatched the Seattle Mariners in a rousing 7-game ALCS Series, are now in the World Serious, and up one game to none. Go Jays!
Ok, excuses filed, here’s one fun thing I did come across in my spare time: The Babylon Bee. If you have not visited it, I recommend their website, as it is unique. It’s motto is ‘Fake News You Can Trust’ and I went to the site to check it out as I was posting this article to find that its leading headline this morning is:
Blue Jays To Start World Series With 7-Run Deficit As Trump Imposes Tariff On Foreign Teams
It was accompanied by this picture:
I would describe the Bee as a Christian satirical news site. Below is a list of some of the other more entertaining (to me) headlines that have appeared on the Bee site recently. However – here’s the thing. The headlines are often great, deservedly skewering the ridiculousness of much of what is done by the famous of all stripes. But it kinda ends there, the stories that are attached to the headlines are almost never as good as the headlines themselves. Kind of like Mad Magazine in days of old.
Anyway, here’s a list of some of my favourites:
Sad: Man Could Have Been Profoundly Moved By Classic Piece Of Literature If It Had Only Contained A Character Of His Exact Race, Sex, And Socio-Economic Class
Baby Attains 3rd-Degree Blackbelt In Rolling Out Of Diaper Changes
UK Prosecutes Synagogue For Provoking Attacker By Being Openly Jewish
UK Police Still Searching For Motive Of Terrorist Named ‘Jihad Jewkiller’
With Government Shutdown Closing National Parks, Mooses Forced to Find New Jobs
It’s Not Over Yet: Trump Still Hoping For Nobel In Literature For Latest Truth Social Post
Leftists Take To Streets To Protest End Of Genocide
Democrats Vow To Keep Government Shut Down Until Someone Notices
Church Organist Adds Blistering 10-Minute Organ Solo To ‘A Mighty Fortress Is Our God’
‘How Long, O Lord, Will The Wicked Prosper?’ Asks Nation As Dodgers Advance To World Series
RFK Orders Airstrike On Cargo Ship Full Of Tylenol
As a second contribution to your enlightenment, here is something I learned about in The Free Press and just feel I have to pass along.
If you did not know, Graham Platner is a Democrat who is challenging Republican Susan Collins for her seat in the US Senate. It has been noticed that Platner has a ‘totenkopf’ tattoo on his chest. If you do not know what that is, (I did not) it is the skeletal skull symbol used by Nazi death’s head SS units.
Platner says he got it while drunk and in the Marines, and had no idea it had any connections to Nazism.
That is not, in my humble view, the most ridiculous part of this episode. That arises from the following, which is a quote directly from TFP’s story about it:
Here’s a popular leftist commentator trying to explain why Platner’s Nazi symbol is bad:
“This isn’t just a Nazi tattoo, this is the symbol of the concentration camp guards, the guys who ran the death camps. The men who murdered socialists, communists, and liberals. They mass-murdered all black men in the French army. This is on par with a swastika.” (The commentator deleted it so I won’t name and shame. But isn’t it interesting?)
Indeed. They murdered ‘socialists, communists, and liberals.’ Oh, and those black French army guys.
That was terrible what those SS types did, eh?
I leave you with this final short item. Many of you will know that Ontario’s premier paid millions to have some ads made and then paid more to have them run on US TV. In them, the (genuine, taped) voice of Ronald Reagan explains what a stupid idea tariffs are. Indeed, I saw one on the Fox broadcast of the World Series Game 1. This supposedly angered the US President so much he called off trade negotiations with Canada.
Here is a headline from this morning’s (Saturday, Oct 25) London Free Press:
Game on as anti-tariff ads stay
followed by the sub-headline:
Ontario premier says TV campaign that riled Trump will run in two world series games
Here’s a headline from The Globe and Mail’s website on the morning of Saturday, Oct 25:
Ontario to pause anti-tariff ads that drew Trump’s fury
followed by the sub-headline:
Ford says he made the call to pull the campaign that angered the U.S. President after speaking with Carney
Why oh why do people no longer trust legacy media? Truly a mystery.