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- You can’t claim to be pro-police AND pro-assault weapons in anybody’s hands at any place at any time. It’s simply not compatible with keeping officers and communities safe.
- A 40% cut in carbon emissions by 2030 and the ability to negotiate Medicare drug prices are two key provisions of the Manchin-Schumer agreement. If you’re against it, you’re a pro-pollution advocate who wants seniors to pay more for drugs. THAT’S what Democrats should campaign on.
- Another major part of the Schumer-Manchin deal: a deficit reduction plan. After already cutting a trillion from the deficit, Biden wants to do more to stabilize the nation’s finances. And the self-declared deficit hawks in the GOP will still vote against it.
- Jon Stewart merits a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work in helping 9/11 responders and members of the military sickened by burn pits. He’s not just a comedian; he’s a true leader.
- Let’s call Trump hosting the Saudi golf tournament what it is: a bribe. My question is, was this new league proposed to Trump or Kushner while Trump was in office.
- With carriers dropping them left and right, OANN won’t last a year. It was the grease stain on the bottom of your third best camping pot that should have been thrown out years ago. Looks like “journalists” like Lilia Fifield and Pearson Sharp will just have to go back to their old jobs as greeters at Applebee’s. “Would you like a booth or a table?”
- Questions reporters should ask people like Josh Hawley and the other insurrectionist-supporting Republicans: “Why should voters overlook your encouragement and support of the violent attackers on the Capitol?” Hawley, et al, will have to give a legitimate reason for supporting them, totally disavow their action, or completely endorse their violence. No more questions like, “Do you feel responsible for their actions?’
- Another day, another threat of a lawsuit from Trump. I’m still waiting for him to sue the dozens of women who accused him of sexual harassment and/or abuse.
- It’s time to purge the Secret Service VIP protective service of all the agents that were on the presidential detail during the Trump administration. Every single one of them must go. There cannot even be the slightest possibility that one of them will not do their job because of their political allegiances, no matter who the President is.
- Don’t play poker with Merrick Garland. He has all the cards, and he knows what you have. He gets to choose the play.
- Think for a moment what would happen with practical jokes if ammosexuals get their way and everyone carries guns everywhere. Headlines around the country would read, “Man in T-rex suit shot by frightened coworker” or “Jokester in trash can slain after startling neighbor.”
- Word to the wise: Get your scheduled medical tests. Yes, it’s annoying. Yes, they’re uncomfortable. And sometimes, they’re a literal pain in the ass. But they’re recommended for a reason.
- Here’s what’s going on: at the end of May, I went in for a long-delayed (like 10+ years) routine colonoscopy after losing about 17% of my body weight in three months and experiencing bleeding. They found a single polyp and removed it. Just one. Labs showed that the polyp was malignant, and at first, the docs thought the “margins”–the clean areas around the cancer cells–were encasing it, but in an unexpected area, they realized they weren’t and recommended a sigmoidectomy, the removal of the sigmoid colon and nearby lymph nodes, which was done Monday. Today, thankfully, my surgeon informed me that all the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue were cancer free, and no further treatment is necessary. I’m a lucky person on so many levels.
- My sincere thanks to Spartan and you, the NatZero community, for your best wishes and patience during my recovery. And special thanks, of course, to my angel of a wife, Mrs. Jack. My schedule has been cattywampus so my contributions have been sporadic thanks to meds and naps.
- I hope you can understand why many of my thoughts aren’t so random this week.
- Favorite recovery foods: mashed potatoes, a friend’s homemade chicken noodle, and matzo ball soup. When the doc tells you to eat soft foods, he means soft.
- Options for entertainment are very limited in hospitals, particularly when you’re being held together by wonders of modern science like dissolving threads and superglue. I couldn’t even get my typical ab workout in.
