Highlights of the News

ITEM 1: WDKY reported, "Montgomery County High School senior, Jacob Bradley is plunging straight into the workforce. On May 27, Bradley is putting down his textbooks and picking up his tools. He’ll work alongside plumbers learning a trade in high demand.

"At the high school on Wednesday morning, Bradley signed his letter of intent, but not for athletics or academics, instead to join Fast Flow Plumbing and begin his apprenticeship in the trade.

"'I never really wanted to be an accountant or sit down. I enjoy working with my hands a lot,' said Bradley.

"By his side yesterday was his mother, Angie Bradley. She spoke highly of her son and said how proud she was. She even shed a tear."

In two years, he could be a master plumber. They average $46,000 a year in Kentucky. His college debt would be zero. He could charge triple-time on Christmas.

Reminds me of a song.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be lawyers
Don't let 'em pick genders and waste all your bucks
Let 'em be plumbers and drive big old trucks

ITEM 2: TMZ reported, "Paul Pelosi was involved in a car crash, and that's how officers spotted him. At 10:26 PM Saturday night, the CHP got a call about a 2-car crash in the Napa area, this according to the collision report obtained by TMZ. Paul was driving a 2021 Porsche when his car was struck by a Jeep. He was arrested at 11:44 PM and booked into the Napa County Detention Center for DUI. No one was injured in the crash."

This is a follow-up to its scoop that the House speaker's spouse was charged with driving drunk.

He crashed a car, busted the blood-alcohol limit and wound up with only two misdemeanor charges?

Don't try this with your local police.

ITEM 3: CBC reported, "New gun control legislation the federal government [introduced] today includes a national freeze on the purchase, sale, importation and transfer of handguns in Canada.

"The government also is pledging to start buying back thousands of banned assault weapons before the end of the year.

"While the proposal falls short of a full ban on handguns, it would effectively limit their number in Canada."

Nobody needs an AR 15 becomes nobody needs a rifle becomes nobody needs a handgun becomes nobody needs a knife becomes gangs beating up little old ladies on the subway while other gangs strip stores of merchandize.

TWEET OF THE DAY:

This was our parents’ Starbucks. pic.twitter.com/wcVj5GGGvF

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 30, 2022

When $5 coffee could make you 100 cups.

ITEM 4: Reuters reported, "The Mona Lisa was left shaken but unharmed on Sunday when a visitor to the Louvre tried to smash the glass protecting the world's most famous painting before smearing cream across its surface in an apparent climate-related publicity stunt."

French security.

But shouldn't an accordion have played during the attack?

ITEM 5: The New York Post reported, "Biden administration officials and prominent Republicans turned down requests from Sunday morning news shows to talk about potential gun control measures this weekend amid renewed calls for Congress to take action in the wake of two horrific mass shootings in Texas and Buffalo that killed 31 people."

Americans stopped tuning in a long time ago.

ITEM 6: Reuters reported, "Over 100 people are missing or confirmed dead in Brazil, the government said on Sunday, as mudslides and major floods brought about by heavy rains tore through several urban neighborhoods in the northeastern part of the country.

Last July 8, Reuters reported, "Brazil's Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque said on Thursday the country's current drought crisis is part of extreme dryness in many parts of the world, including the U.S. West Coast, and is linked to global climate change."

Global warming not only brings droughts but floods too!

The debate is over. Follow the superstition, folks. Climate change is real. 97% of shamans agree.

PRAYER REQUEST:

I deserve an Oscar for this morning's performance as an understanding and forgiving Christian when told by a friend's father that my boy's death doesn't count, when what I wanted to do was kick him so hard in the balls they'd come flying out of his mouth. God forgive me.

— Joanne Mason (@JoanneMason11) May 29, 2022

She may sound tough but she needs some loving. I have no idea who she is.

ITEM 7: Newsweek said, "NRA Board Re-Elects Wayne LaPierre as Criticism Mounts Over Mass Shootings."

None of the shooters were NRA members.

ITEM 8: The Epoch Times reported, "The archbishop who recently made waves by announcing that he was barring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) from Communion due to her outspoken support of abortion was passed over in Pope Francis’s latest cardinal assignments.

"The pope chose as a cardinal Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, who has previously said that bishops shouldn’t forbid politicians who support abortion from taking Communion despite Catholic teachings being clear that abortion is a moral evil.

"McElroy was one of 21 cardinals named, but the only one from the United States. He received the promotion despite Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone—who denied Pelosi Communion—being of higher rank.

"McElroy said in a statement that he was stunned and deeply surprised by the appointment as a cardinal, which means he will be part of a body that selects and advises popes.

"McElroy is scheduled to be installed on Aug. 27 during a ceremony in Rome."

The Red Pope strikes again.

ITEM 9: Biden wants to ban 9mm guns.

Joe Biden suggests he wants to ban “high caliber” 9mm handguns.

“There’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection.” pic.twitter.com/lPITAN5kEU

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 30, 2022

He can start with the FBI. The bureau can turn in its 9mm guns for BB rifles.

ITEM 10: The Daily Mail reported, "Florida police released the mugshot of the 10-year-old boy they publicly arrested and perp walked for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at his elementary school.

"Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno, who touts himself as Florida's 'law and order sheriff,' defended publicly exposing the juvenile by saying 'a child pulling a trigger equals the same aftermath.'

"Daniel Issac Marquez, 10, was arrested Saturday and charged with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting after sending a text about Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral."

Parents ought to punish him when he gets home.

ITEM 11: The Daily Caller reported, "The California State Senate voted Thursday to end a requirement that students who threaten violence against school officials be reported."

California is not Florida. Leave.

ITEM 12: Gateway Pundit reported, "A barn that housed tens of thousands of chickens on Forsman Farm in Howard Lake, Minnesota, one of the nation’s largest egg producers, was set aflame late Saturday night.

"According to Forsman Farms, which provides more than three million eggs to the largest retailers in the country, the cause of the fire remains a mystery as investigators evaluate the scene to determine how the barn was set ablaze."

The rightwing conspiracy theory holds that the torchings are deliberate and an attempt to get the government to control food production.

So far this century, the rightwing conspiracy theories have a winning record.

ITEM 13: The Austin American-Statesman reposted a PolitiFact check on, "More people die from hands, fists, feet, than rifles."

The story said, "FBI data from 2020 does show that more people died from injuries sustained from other people’s fists, feet and hands than from rifles. But there’s a little more you should know about that data before you use it to draw conclusions."

What more is there to know? Rifle deaths were 455, a very small portion of the 17,813 homicides reported in 2020, but politicians nonetheless are calling for a ban on rifles ("assault weapons.")

The site said the True statement of fact was Mostly True.

PolitiFact is Mostly BS.

ITEM 14: People reported, "The New York City Police Department is looking for the person who stole a $2 million tabernacle from the altar of a Brooklyn Catholic Church."

He was just trying to feed his family...

ITEM 15: How did this go down?

More people die in car crashes than from rifles (455 homicides in 2020) https://t.co/HeNHwETaKX

— Don Surber (@donsurber) May 31, 2022

Driving while Paul Pelosi’d kills 10,000 per year.

— Carlton Diehl (@DiehlCarlton) May 31, 2022

ITEM 16: WBFF reported, "After two teens were shot at the Inner Harbor, one of them dying, Mayor Brandon Scott calls for more ‘personal responsibility’ for everyone in Baltimore City as more names are added to the homicide tally for 2022.

"Neal Mack has been identified as the 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed Saturday night downtown; a 17-year-old girl was also shot and taken to the hospital. Baltimore Police did not release a motive and are asking anyone with information to come forward."

What Baltimore needs is a Republican mayor.

55 years of Democrat Party rule have turned it into a cesspool of violence.

ITEM 17: NYT reported, "What Lia Thomas Could Mean for Women’s Elite Sports."

Zzzz.

Skip to the juicy part: "Some trans activists try to silence critics, whom they derisively call TERFs, which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminists. A spokeswoman for a gay rights group urged a reporter not to platform — that is not to quote — those she said held objectionable views, including Martina Navratilova, the retired tennis legend, a champion of liberal and lesbian causes. Ms. Navratilova argues that transgender female athletes possess insurmountable biological advantages."

She said, "So I’m a ‘TERF’ — OK, that’s the way you want to go? I played against taller women, I played against stronger women, and I beat them all. But if I faced the male equivalent of Lia in tennis, that’s biology. I would have had no shot. And I would have been livid."

Didn't Jan and Dean do a song called TERF City?

Two girls for every trans.

ITEM 18: Debra Heine reported, "Pfizer has asked a U.S. court to throw out a whistleblower’s lawsuit on the basis that the company can’t be guilty of fraud, abuse, and protocol violations in its COVID Vaccine clinical trials because its contract with the U.S. government allowed them to skirt regulations and federal laws that typically apply to government contracts.

"In other words, Pfizer was allegedly able to make false statements to the government, and lie about the safety and efficacy of its product, 'because the government was in on it with them!' according to Robert Barnes, the lead lawyer in the case."

Trump got rolled because he trusted them.

FINALLY, if you are going to argue on Twitter, don't pick a fight with its next owner.

Who do you trust less? Real question.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 26, 2022

.@aoc I dare you to run the same poll with your followers

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2022

Let's prove how phony the right’s ridiculous polls are by doing one of our own. Who do you trust more @elonmusk @AOC

— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) May 27, 2022

Not sure how this poll flipped but I won’t delete it and will take the L.

— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) May 28, 2022