Random News and Notes 19 June
Let’s kick off today’s Random News and Notes way back in 1953. It was on this date in that year that a pair of commie spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg rode the lightning in the Sing Sing prison death house.
I realize this case has stirred up some controversy over the years, but commies aren’t people, so f*ck them.
Yesterday I told you about the SCOTUS decision in Skrmetti v US. IT’s the one that allowed Tennessee’s ban on child mutilations under the guise of sex reassignment to go into effect. Well, the reaction on the left was both delicious and extremely predictable. I give you a sample below like this from Fauxcahontas
There is no such thing as a trans kid Chief. There’s more. Ben isn’t b ring sneaky with the screen cap, Mr. Caraballo only posts on Bluesky.
Yah, it’s a dude. And mentally ill. And teaches at Harvard Law. Anyway, the groomers are all pissed off over this. You have to wonder why. . .
Speaking of Bluesky, VP JD Vance created an account on that site. It went pretty well. And by pretty well I mean it took less than 20 minutes for the lunatics over there to ban him and nuke his account.
You read that right. They banned him within 20 minutes of him creating the account. This editor has too many SocMed accounts as it is, so he does not have one on that site and has no plans to create one, but he understands that the VP’s account has since been reinstated.
It looks like the DNC is in trouble. Money wise that is. DNC Chair Ken Martin is floating the idea that the party may need to borrow money just to meet the current obligations. No word on how they plan on financing anything for the upcoming mid-terms.
The party raised more than a billion dollars for the failed Harris campaign last year. Donors are said to be on the edge of open revolt.
Today is Juneteenth. For those who don’t know the actual history of the day, here’s a quick primer.
Despite what you may read or hear elsewhere, Junteenth does not commemorate the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality. It does not commemorate any proclamation or edict freeing any slaves. It does not commemorate the manumission of slavery anywhere in the United States.
What it does commemorate is the announcment of the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston Texas in 1865 by Union General Gordon Granger. Yeah, that’s it. Granger was appointed military governor of Texas on 10 June, 1865. On 19 June his General Order #3 was published in Galveston. That order read: The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection therefore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer.
Yup, that’s it. Keep in mind, the blacks in Galveston had been free since the end of the Civil War on 26 May. So, honestly, that day meant nothing to anyone.This was – and would still be if we lived in a sane world – a local holiday. In fact it reminds me of another appropriated local holiday- Cinco de Mayo. But, here we are 160 years later celebrating a day that was like any other in a town on the Texas gulf coast. But at least . . .
