How come: Haiti is a Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic to its east. Haiti has violence, hurricane destruction, and now rain and floods. But you never hear of anything in The D.R.? The share an island, the weather can’t be that different. Much of this difference is geographic. The mountains that lie across the island can cut off Haiti’s rainfall. The northeast trade winds, and so the rain, blow in the Dominican Republic’s favor. Haiti’s semiarid climate makes cultivation more challenging. And some is the, colonial history, the different consequences of Haiti being colonized by rich France that brought in lots of slaves, and the eastern half that became the Dominican Republic being colonized by Spain, which by then was poor, didn’t bring in many slaves. Spain was sooo poor, they couldn’t even buy a bunch of Irish slaves.
Not really: The PGA joins the LIV pro-golf tours. Everybody gets a big case of the vapors. Why? Nobody is really surprised. It was obvious from the very beginning. It’s got nothing to do with 9/11 or anything else, except$$$. And that’s all.
Not really: Headline “Pence Ramps Up Jan. 6 Criticism Of Man Who Nearly Got Him Killed During Coup Attempt”. Okay, Big Mike has the right to run for the office, but he does not Have the right to make shat up to put blame on the guy he’ll have to beat. There has been NO evidence that anyone, except the protesters, was ever in danger. The deaths were protesters, unarmed people like Ashley Babbitt (murdered) and Rosanne Boylan (murdered) who suffered a “medical emergency” after being beaten to unconsciousness by police, on video. No Mr. Pence, you were never “Nearly..Killed”. I don’t need you as president.
Holy Crap: A twisted Maryland mom and daughter are charged with dismembering the family’s matriarch with a chainsaw — then grilling the body parts to get rid of them. Grandma was 71.. Upon entering the residential basement, police found cutting instruments, the cover of a chainsaw, cleaning materials and blood spatter were observed throughout the cellar reeking of putrefaction. After killing Grandma, the women tried to dispose of the body by burn9ng it on a grill. Well, at least they didn’t try to et her, that meat would have way too tough.
Last week I submitted, and had printed a Letter to the Editor that simply said ”Don’t blame the guns”.
” In the 1960’s they blamed the mail order guns, so they changed the laws. In the 1970’s they blamed the “cheap” pot metal “Saturday Night Special’s” so they changed the laws and banned them. In the 1980’s they blamed the magnum “Dirty Harry” gun’s so they started putting limits on them. In the 2000’s the blamed the big-bore rifle’s so they put restrictions on them. In the 2010’s they blamed the pistols with large capacity magazines, so they put limits on the magazines. In the 2020’s they blame “assault weapons” so they are trying to take all of the guns away. When are they going to blame the real cause? “
Responses ranged from calling it “the most ignorant letter of the month”, to accusations that I “believe(s) that our country will be safer if all gun owners could have assault weapons” (they can) but they agreed that it was lax enforcement, easy to obtain guns, and unfit owners. Exactly what I implied. And at least I made them think.