Random News and Notes 21 July
We kick off this edition of RNN on a sad note. Jake Larson, D-Day vet has passed at 102. Larson gained fame on TikTok sharing his stories. Jake joined the National Guard as a 15 year old in 1939 by lying about his age.
He would go on to land on the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944. He fought in France through the Battle of the Bulge earning a Bronze Star and the Legion d’Honneur.
His TikTok is Story time with Papa Jake.
Until Valhalla Papa Jake.
I’m not sure how to feel about this one. The Alamo has acquired a bike that was used during the filming of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure and plans to display it.
On one hand, Pee Wee’s bike is a cultural touchstone, on the other hand, Paul Reubens is a weirdo.
Anyway, if you go to see the exhibit
An off-duty CBP officer was shot in Ft. Washington Park in Manhattan Friday night. He was sitting near the Hudson with a female companion when they were approached by a pair of men on a moped. One of the men demanded the officer’s wallet and then shot him in the face and arm. The officer returned fire wounding one of the suspects. Guess what. The wounded suspect is an illegal.
. . . prior arrests for felony 2nd and 3rd degree assault and an order of deportation. The New York Police Department is currently investigating the incident.
A couple of minor points. I’m not sure I’m taking a date to that park during the daytime, nevermind at 11:30 at night. Second, why was that skell still in the country with an active deportation order?
Bluesky started as a Twitter alternative. It was originally populated by an assortment of oddballs and weirdos like furries. Since Elon bought Twitter and renamed it X, a bunch of leftist crybullies migrated to that platform. It has turned into the Mos Eisley of the internet: a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
To wit:
More of this please. Anyone – and I mean anyone, regardless of political affiliation – who posts public threats like this needs to feel the full weight of the government boot in their ass.
A year ago today Joe Biden made the most important decision of his entire Presidency: He dropped out of the race.
That decision came in the wake of that disastrous debate performance where it was clear Joe was non compos mentis.
I really need to populate my calendar with important event dates again. I missed this one yesterday, and I shouldn’t have. Yesterday, 20 July, was the 56th anniversary of the 1st lunar landing. Buzz Aldrin, the 2nd man on the Moon, had this to say:
. . .incalculable effort, commitment, and team work. We all did our part to see President Kennedy’s words become reality: “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others too.” I couldn’t be prouder to have completed this mission with the hundreds of thousands of people that helped get us to the moon and back home. God bless the USA and all of humankind.
Aldrin is the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 mission crew. Crew commander Neil Armstrong died in 2012 and Michael Collins passed in 2021.
