We have received complaints that this website is being read by some Canadians and thus we are required to provide some broken French rendered in a horrible accent. Likewise, I am compelled to make French toast this morning. And I’ll tell you that when it’s doused in Cognac, that’s a fine start to the day. A Midwestern take on poutine involved Tater Tots and Wisconsin cheese curds. And I’m playing some Leonard Cohen tunes. So I think we’ve managed to clear the de minimus requirements. With that out of the way, let’s look at the non-Canadian news this morning.

 

Days of Rage in Israel and surrounding shitholes continues to be a flaccid pro-forma response. Death toll so far is claimed to be four, so we’re not even ten percent there compared to a Saturday night in Chicago. Now if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to do more and we encourage that, okay? You do want to express yourself, don’t you? Or… well, like Sweden, for example, has actual firebombings, okay. And a terrific smile.

 

Global Warming- is there no end to this??? WE MUST ACT NOW!!!!

 

This was a difficult situation. Dishonest attention-whore race-baiters civil rights leaders were all prepared to demonstrate against Trump for not being sufficiently attentive to the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. But when he came and gave a speech, all of the signs and slogans had to be changed at the last minute from “Impeach Trump” to… “Impeach Trump.”

Amos C. Brown, a civil rights activist who at 14 years old founded the NAACP’s first youth council, also boycotted Trump’s visit.

“I’m very uncomfortable with his antics and policies on matters of race and justice,” Brown said. “And that’s why people felt, as I do, that his presence cheapened the occasion. It was a mockery for him to be present. He has not been involved at all in the struggle.”

As opposed to his predecessor, who struggled being raised in a white millionaire household and attending the most exclusive private prep school in Hawaii before struggling at the most expensive and exclusive Ivy League universities.

 

Jerry Brown is being Jerry Brown. Wildfires in California is “the new normal.” Because they’ve never had them before and it’s shocking that the desert is dry. Say… didn’t they just have floods? And snowflakes as well:

At UC Santa Barbara, smoke from the Thomas fire drove Student Body President Hieu Le to write a letter to Chancellor Henry Yang, asking that classes be canceled until the air quality improves.

Lee has received more than 4,000 petition signatures since Thursday, backing him up. Many students wrote that their throats hurt and that they were having trouble breathing and focusing.

“Students and staff should not have to choose between their health and money and/or grades,” one student wrote. “The response from the university has been unacceptable.”

 

SP fondly remembers her first ride in my van, when I told her we were looking for my lost puppy and gave her some Reese’s. Well, it’s now time for an upgrade.

 

Obligatory Old Guy music. We were at a terrific concert last night up in Milwaukee. Given the demographic, the mosh pit was a hoot, what with all the walkers, Rascals, oxygen tanks, and flailing canes. Never mind, here’s a delightful piece from one of my favorite Austin bands, whose members are decidedly not old.