Here are my observations and opinions from my selected news of the day.
APOLOGY JOE BIDEN was denied Holy Communion on Sunday at a church in South Carolina. Rev. Robert E. Morey said he had no choice but to deny the sacrament for the former vice president, citing his advocacy of abortion.
AND THEN THERE’S THIS – Apology Joe, in an obvious attempt to endear himself with the black community, claimed to have begun his long career at Delaware State University, a historically black college in his home state, as opposed to the University of Delaware, where he actually went to school.
EVEN BLOOMBERG NEWS chose to take a negative poke at President Trump with its headline, “Biggest private coal miner goes bust as Trump rescue fails.” The story features Robert E. Murray, the U.S. coal baron, who pressed the Trump administration to help save America’s struggling miners.
Michael R. Bloomberg, not friend of Trump, committed $500 million to launch Beyond Carbon, a campaign aimed at closing the remaining coal-powered plants in the U.S. by 2030.
Murray hosted multiple fundraisers for Trump, when 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton told the miners she would put them out of business. In 2008, Obama said he would bankrupt anyone wanting to build a coal-fired plant. Trump gave them some hope and did extend the life of Murray Energy.
Murray Energy’s collapse came as the result of cheap gas and renewable energy gut into coal’s share of the U.S. power market.
THE LAUGHABLE MAX BOOT, a columnist at the Washington Post and a frequent guest on the leftist TV networks, tweeted @MaxBoot: “The assertion that Baghdadi died as a coward was contradicted by the fact that rather be captured, he blew himself up.”
“(It) shows just how far NeverTrumpers will go for the sake of opposing anything that President Trump does,” wrote Chrissy Clark in The Federalist.
(Courtesy Blogspot.com)
COOTIES – Never in my wildest imagination did I ever imagine seeing a reference to Cooties in a political article. As a little kid, girls had Cooties, a belief I reversed in later life.
Many of you may recall the table-top game called, Cootie, that became popular in the 1950s after being introduced in 1948.
In “Not enemies, but friends,” a piece by Kevin Williamson in National Review, he writes of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres sitting with former President George W. Bush at a Cowboys football game.
“Nobody should be friends with George W. Bush,” reads the headline over an essay by Sarah Jones in New York magazine. It addresses the scandalization of American progressives in which DeGeneres sat with someone whom she disagrees politically.
“Since our international institutions have failed to punish, or even censure him, surely the only moral response from civil society should be to shun him,” Jones writes, “but here is Ellen DeGeneres hanging out with him at a Cowboys game.”
“Jones make a sophomoric effort to dress the question up, but this is the eternal politics of cooties,” notes Williamson.
ALEXANDRA OCASIO-CORTEZ, recognized expert in nearly everything, took one look at the California wildfires, and tweeted @AOC: “This is what climate change looks like. The GOP like to mock scientific warnings about climate change as exaggeration. But just look around: It’s already starting.
“We have 10 years to cut carbon emissions in half. (That’s new.) If we don’t, scenes like this can get much worse.”
CALIFORNIA’S GOVERNOR Gavin Newsom blamed climate change, too, but also blamed the utility PG&E for corporate greed, while ignoring the decades of mismanagement of the land as major accumulations of dead brush were allowed to exist under pressure from environmentalists.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
