This week the cartoonists had plenty of material to work with from right-wing conspiracy theories to the temporary shortage of infant formula to the mid-term primaries. As she always does so well, TokyoSand has culled the cream of the crop for us and I have copied just a few of them here, but be sure to visit Political Charge (link at bottom) for the rest, for there are some real winners there! Thank you, TS, for all you do!
There are many more over at Political Charge, so be sure to check out the rest of the ‘toons!
I am not an artistically talented person, as I’ve mentioned before, but I admire those who are. I’ve concluded, though, that some people have entirely too much time on their hands. Legos. Remember building stuff with Lego bricks? I could build a fence, or a small house (no windows, doors or roof, though). But take a look at the artistic endeavours some have accomplished with those little plastic blocks …
This cruise ship is 8.44 meters long, 1.33 meters wide and 1.54 meters high, and is made from more than 2.5 million LEGOs. The weight of it is also quite stunning because it weighs around 2 tons, that is, about 6,100 pounds!
More or less abandoned to the elements, Story saw a small resurgence in the early 1980s. Benjamin (who goes by just one name) encountered the town—on the edge of Brown County State Park and not far from Bloomington—for the first time in 1978. He saw the old general store, a house, a gristmill, a barn, and “an assortment of mostly dilapidated buildings,” on four and a half acres and for sale for $65,000. He and his wife Cyndi took a chance on the unique town and decided to set up shop in the form of a restaurant, housed in the old general store. “[It] had no indoor plumbing when we moved there, only an outhouse in back,” he says. The second floor was one large room. “Many years previous, owners had obtained a Studebaker franchise and assembled buggies up there,” Benjamin says. “Parts were sent by rail from South Bend to Freetown, brought to Story on horse-drawn carts and first-generation pickup trucks, hauled upstairs, and assembled. The final products were let down on a ramp through a door in the back.” He remembers Story being very dark, and very quiet.
The town’s current owner, Rick Hofstetter, bought the town in 1999. Hofstetter put more effort into Story, and the 40 years of care has turned into a fairly popular—though out-of-the-way—tourist destination. While most of Story’s buildings have been renovated, the village has not lost its 19th-century charm. Because it was a relatively desolate (and poor) town for decades, its original historic wooden floors, globe lighting, and tin ceilings remain. Just last month, the town was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
You all remember Kellyanne Conway, right? She was advisor, if you can call it such, to the former guy, despite the fact that her hubby, George Conway, was a full-blown anti-Trumpeter and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, an organization “dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy.” Remember how I used to muse about how their dinner table conversations might go, given they were politically and ideologically 180° apart? Well, next Tuesday, May 24th, for the price of $21 for a hardcover or $14.99 for the ebook, you can read her new book and find out about those supper table conversations!
Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is back in the news. You’ll remember that she was in communication with the former guy’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, after the 2020 election attempting to convince him to illegally overturn the election, to render the people of this nation voiceless. Well, new information shows that Ms. Thomas also sent emails to at least two Arizona legislators urging them to overturn the election in that state and choose their own ‘clean slate’ of electors, completely disregarding the vote of the people.
So, after much thought, I’ve decided that the only way I can make a real change in this nation’s well-being is to run for president myself! Do I hear you laughing? Now wait … think about it for a minute. I meet all the constitutional requirements: I’m over 35 years of age – way over, but not as far over as either the current president or the former guy. I’m a natural-born U.S. citizen, and I’ve lived all my life in the U.S. In addition, I am college-educated with an M.A. in Political Science and have been a political-minded person since around the age of five. I’ve read the entire U.S. Constitution more times than I can count, so I will understand what I’m swearing to protect and preserve when I take my oath of office. I care about people, animals, and life in general. I believe that climate change is real and will fight to reverse the effects caused by corporate and human greed for the past century or so. I don’t believe that such things as the colour of a person’s skin, the religion one follows, one’s gender or gender identification, or one’s ethnicity should be a basis for discrimination. I believe in judging people by their actions, not what they look like.
Those are the words engraved above the main entrance to the Supreme Court Building. Apparently, some of the nine justices sitting on the Court today never look up as they are entering the building. Per Justice Clarence Thomas, husband of the notorious January 6th coup supporter …
“I do think that what happened at the court is tremendously bad. I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them and then I wonder when they’re gone or destabilized what we will have as a country, and I don’t think the prospects are good if we continue to lose them.”
Former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, has written a book ironically titled A Sacred Oath. It is yet another ‘tell-all’ book about the former guy’s ignorance and inhumanity. Now, I haven’t read the book … I may or may not, I’m as yet undecided … but I’ve read a few reviews and snippets that were published in the media. In the book, Esper apparently tells that Trump wanted to shoot at civilians protesting against racism in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and suggested that the Pentagon launch Patriot missiles at drug laboratories in Mexico — saying no one would know the United States was responsible. This one thing exemplifies the utter stupidity of the former guy and proves that we barely dodged the bullet from 2017-2021.
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Since da bacon lovers whinged last week, I made extra this week!
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