THIS I BELIEVE....12/16/23

16,000 animals, including multiple dinasaurs, accompanied the 600 year old Noah and his family of 8 on the Ark he built to survive the flood that covered the entire Earth, which was created 1,600 years earlier by God, and which is now only around 6,000 years old.

These are just a few of the beliefs of Mike Johnson, the current Speaker of the House.

Now I don't have a problem with regular people who believe in harmless myths - heck I have a friend who believes that humans have never been to the moon, and another friend who believed the earth was flat.

But it seems to me that elected officials ought to have at least some semblance of reality.

If someone like Johnson believes in the absolute literal interpretation of the Bible, then it would make sense that he would be instrumental in trying to overturn the results of an election that survived 61 court challenges, and was certified by all 50 Secretaries of State.

SPILLED MILK....12/15/23

Close to a quarter of all young people under the age of 18 are overweight. Not only do these kids have a greater risk of heart disease and diabetes, it costs our economy around $18 billion each year.

The numbers have been increasing over the years, so when Michelle Obama was First Lady, she decided to try to do something about it by launching a number of initiatives to combat this dangerous trend.

Among them was to help facilitate a rule change to remove whole milk from schools because of its high fat content.

Consumption of milk in schools decreased overall and as a result, dairy farmers went ballistic and have been working since then to overturn the regulations.

They may finally get their way. A bill passed the House on Wednesday to allow high fat milk back into our schools.

By the way, the dairy industry spends over $5 million each year lobbying politicians, while American taxpayers hand dairy farmers around $40 billion a year in subsidies.

STOOPING LOW....12/14/23

11 years ago today, 20-year old Adam Lanza walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut and shot and killed 26 people, 20 of whom were children between the ages of 6 and 7.

Alex Jones, a popular radio host who has earned hundreds of millions of dollars spouting multiple conspiracy theories regarding the “stolen election”, the “fake moon landings”, and our “government’s involvement in 9/11” among others, began claiming on his show the attack on the school was a hoax, staged by actors, and that no one was really killed. or injured.

Parents of the slain children sued Jones and were ultimately awarded close to $1.5 billion, which they will never recover because Jones filed for bankruptcy shortly after the verdict.

Alex Jones was banned from Twitter for his behavior….until this past Monday when Elon Musk let him back on where Jones can once again spread his lies.

Musk’s company, now called “X”, has suffered severer financial losses lately from fleeing advertisers because of an anti-semitic remark he made a few weeks ago.

Apparently Musk thinks having a deranged psychopath back on his platform will help make up his shortfall.