Category: Stranger than Fiction
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Robbed
The NFL 2023 season has been plagued with Referee controversies and last night’s Detroit-Dallas game raised it to Twilight Zone levels This was a game between two Super Bowl contenders playing for the second seed in the NFC. The second seed means an extra home game in the playoffs. Dallas came into the game with…
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Veep
Attribution to Gage Skidmore, Surprise, Arizona There was a show on HBO a few years back starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She was a self-centered scheming narcissist who ended up being chosen as Vice President and eventually became President. It was a comedy. No way such a thing could happen in real life. Well, we are in…
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Cojones?
So the question is, did Kevin McCarthy grow a pair on Saturday? After being threatened all week by Matt Gaetz and his ilk, resembling a cat fight similar to the Lauren Boebert-Marjorie Taylor Greene catfight, Kevin said ‘enough was enough’. He put in a proposal, that did not even come close to what the hard-liners…
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Up There
By https://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/static/wildcat/assets/img/logos/teams/DET.svg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22643467 I was going to use the title “On Top”, but that would be pushing it. I have had relatively poor luck following sports teams. For example, while I currently live in Edmonton and have been an Edmonton Oilers fan for 25 years now, I lived in Ontario before then. I…
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My Hometown
Sourced From Anti-Defamation League website This lady is Romana Didulo. She is a QAnon figure. She claims to be the Queen of Canada. She has called online for violent action against those who have administered COVID vaccines to children. She has also called for the execution of healthcare workers and politicians. Romana has issued decrees…
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Much Ado
Attribution to Dwight McCann A short chirp today. Two items that hit the airwaves, this week, which created an uproar but, in reality, is much ado about nothing. A bag of white powder was found in the White House. The White House was temporarily locked down, while a determination was made as to what the…
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Ripping Apart
When I first saw some tweets about this, on Twitter, my first reaction was that it has to be a joke. It is true though. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) has been booted out of the Freedom Caucus. The Freedom Caucus, having been borne from the Tea Party, are the hard right Congress Members, of the…
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Say What?
Attribution to Cezary (top picture) Matt Wade (bottom picture) This is another one of those stranger than fiction chirps. A lawsuit was filed by the attorneys General of the states of Missouri and Louisiana, back in 2022. Here is where we go into Twilight Zone territory. The lawsuit alleged that the Biden administration was going…
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Absurd
Attribution to Sergey Kustov Contrails are vapour trails produced by aircraft engine exhaust. Not according to conspiracy theorists. In reality, they claim these are chemtrails that contain a mix of chemicals that manipulate the weather to keep rain away and to cause climate change. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a weather…
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Really??!!
This chirp could be the winning chirp in the Stranger Than Fiction category. Those cute and tasty things above are of course M&M’S Well, they are the subject of a lawsuit. Yes, they are. The America First Legal Foundation is a right-wing non-profit organization. the purpose of this organization, formed in 2021, is to use…