Archive for July 11, 2021

At the break.

July 11, 2021

SF Giants have 57 wins at the 2021 All-Star Break. Arizona Diamondbacks are likely not to have 57 wins for the 2021 season.

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Actually the Diamondbacks and the Baltimore Orioles have 54 wins – between them.

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Pirates drafted Henry Davis #1. But MLB draft never gets attention NBA & NFL drafts do. This might help explain why – Spencer Torkelson, Adley Rutschman, Casey Mize, Royce Lewis, Mickey Noniak, Dansby Swanson, Brady Aiken, Mark Appel, Carlos Correa. Last 9 MLB top draft picks.

LSU president offers National Spelling Bee winner Zaila Avant-garde a full scholarship

Wow, this is an honor for 14 year olds usually reserved for football players.

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For all that media loves to tout the continued strength of Velveeta Voldemort in GOP, both Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz found reasons to skip this weekend’s CPAC in Dallas…

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Can anyone imagine what right-wing media would do if Hunter Biden made a speech sounding half as drugged out as Don Jr. does on a regular basis?

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So when anti-vaxx cult members get sick with the Delta Variant will they just follow Lauren Boebert’s advice and tell their doctors to make their illness go away by turning off CNN?

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Many Democrats, including Stacey Abrams, think there is room to compromise with GOP on voter identification: I SO want some Democratic governor to authorize vaccine cards as voter ID.

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If we’re going to have someone be famous because they died because of January 6 it really should be Brian Sicknick.

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Takes a special kind of evil to try to take credit for vaccine distribution at the same time you’re doing everything you can to discourage your cult members from getting their shots.

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Gov Kristi Noem “We’ve got GOP governors across country pretending they didn’t shut down states, they didn’t close their regions; they didn’t mandate masks…I’m saying we need leaders w/ grit.” 2,039 South Dakota residents would argue w/ her if they weren’t like, you know, dead.

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Another reason we know Democratic voter fraud is a myth: because Republicans have spent more time and money looking for proof of it lately than explorers have over centuries looking for the Loch Ness Monster.

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“The only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys.” I can’t be the only one who really doesn’t care that billionaire men decided that they wanted to play space rockets?

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Ted Cruz has a bill against vaccine passports which he proudly says “prohibits the feds from maintaining a vaccine database.” What’s next, he’ll demand schools not maintain records of Polio, MMR, Diphtheria, Tetanus etc. shots?

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Madison Cawthorn claims President Biden’s plan to send people door to door to offer vaccines is really a plot to confiscate people’s bibles & guns. Next up, Cawthorn & the GOP attack Girl Scouts selling cookies?

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In Texas black man who voted in a primary less than 2 months before his probation from a 1995 burglary arrested & given $100,000 bond.

In Illinois, white man who had guns in his 12th-floor room facing Navy Pier “in a very suspicious position” arrested & given $1,000 bond.

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At this point JD Vance, a now wealthy Yale-educated venture capitalist funded by Peter Thiel, is about as authentic when when he disses New York City as the Former Guy.

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How many times will CPAC meet this year? How many times will the media cover CPAC meeting