Too Venal for Words category archive
The Island Flip 0
David’s comments at the end, starting about the four minute mark just before the ad at the 4:51 mark, are quite on point.
Collateral Damage 0
Anyone who has been paying attention has heard reports of persons whose health and livelihood are threatened by the Trump administration’s attempts to destroy the United States Post Office; reports that veterans are not receiving prescription refills from the VA in time have been the most common.
But did you also know that Trumpling the Post Office has also led to cruelty to animals?
Henderson, who owns and operates Pine Tree Poultry, a family farm and chicken meat processing facility that specializes in chicken pot pies, said all 800 chicks sent from a hatchery in Pennsylvania were dead.
Much more at the link.
Aside:
I remember my father, when I was very young and he was still farming, receiving shipments of chicks via railroad postal cars.
Maskless Maruaders 0
Kermit and Miss Piggy would not be amused.
We are a society of stupid.
And of selfish.
Bear-Faced Cruelty 0
It’s no surprise, I guess, that some Trump supporter has resorted to animal cruelty and is putting Donald Trump bumper stickers on wild bears in North Carolina. Here’s a bit; more at the link.
State wildlife officials told McClatchy News they suspect the person responsible for the stickers is using food to get close to the animals, which is illegal in Buncombe County (home of Asheville). It’s also illegal to deface state property, which is another law violated by the stickers, state officials said.
“It appears someone has been feeding bears on purpose and was able to get close enough to slap the sticker on,” according to Colleen Olfenbuttel, the black bear and furbearer biologist for the Wildlife Management Division of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.
Maskless Marauders 0
Man refuses to wear mask by wielding his politeness.
The story goes on to say that employees offered to provide curbside service if he didn’t want to wear a mask. He refused the offer, politely.
And, in more news of the maskless . . . .
Maskless Marauders 0
Aside:
I went to the eye doctor yesterday for a regular check-up (I’ve worn glasses since 7th grade; the first day I wore them to school, I remember my teacher’s looking right at me sitting there in my assigned seat and saying, “Where’s Frank Bell?”). In the course of the visit, I learned that my ophthalmologist is rather–er–peeved about folks who refuse wear masks in public.
I warned him not to get me started . . . .
Mask Defrauders 0
No, the U. S. Department of Justice is not issuing permits to allow potential vectors of infection to eschew wearing masks.
Testing Flailure 0
Donald Trump’s coronavirus testing strategy leads one to conclude that Trump is certain that the answer to this question is must assuredly in the negative:
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?