Category: Stranger than Fiction
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For Pete’s Sake
Please feel free to substitute any word that comes to mind for the word ‘Pete’s’. Here goes. Donald Trump and 20 inmates, who were jailed for their participation in the January 6 insurrection, released a song last night. I kid you not. Trump, a few weeks back, recorded the Pledge of Allegiance. The inmates, calling…
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Wow!
Attribution to Art of Charm – Scott Adams So, I am Twitter yesterday and I see a YouTube retweet of this person above. This guy is going on a rant about Black people, like wow! Who is this person? Then I see that it is Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert. I will admit,…
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Batcrap Crazy
Sourced from Julie Green Ministries website This chirp is as a result of a twitter video tweet I saw yesterday. I will get to it in a moment. This is Julie Green. She started preaching in 2010 and has been an associate pastor at Faith Family Fellowship since 2013 Her father is head pastor. Her…
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Huh?
Attribution to Office of the Governor of Arkansas “The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy.” It is tradition that following the State of the Union (SOTU) address, the opposition party has a chance to immediately respond to the President’s speech. These of ten…
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Sick Stupidity
Attribution to Kent Nishimura – Los Angelas Times via Getty Images A short chirplet today. Over the years a number of people including school kids have been massacred, bodies torn apart, by shooters using assault rifles. Republican Congressmen and women have taken to wearing assault rifle pins, just like Santos, here. Republican Andrew Coyle from…
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Stupidity
Today’s chirp was going to be on a completely different topic today. But I need to get this out of my system. The Republican led congress is now a month old. Yesterday, Kevin McCarthy booted Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Relations Committee for anti sematic remarks she made in the past. Fine. But Marjorie Taylor…
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Absolutely Nuts
Attribution to Neil Grabowsky, for the Montclair Film Festival Three short news stories this week that goes beyond stranger than fiction. The Republican National Committee (RNC) is holding its election as to who should be the next chair. There are three people vying for the position. Trump pick, Ronna McDaniel had held the position for…
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Your Fault
Attribution to Taymaz Valley from Ottawa Iran is suffering through its worse drought in 50 years. The reason for this, according to Mohammad-Mehdi Hosseini Hamedani, the Supreme Leader’s representative in the city of Karaj is due to women breaking taboo by removing their headscarves in public. According to Hamedani, this breaking of the law, “has…
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Are You Kidding?
I have never read The Handmaid’s Tale, nor have I watched the series on tv. However, I imagine that this chirp could be right out of the Margaret Atwood book. More astonishing is the fact that it did not happen in a fundamentalist country but, rather, in the USA. The Missouri State House passed legislation…
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Jumping the Shark
Exact source unknown – likely pulled from the web Back in the 1970’s, there was a popular sitcom called Happy Days. It depicted life in the late 1950’s and early 60’s in Milwaukee. A couple of notable shows were spawned from it, those being Laverne and Shirley as well as Mork and Mindy. In 1977,…