Random News and Notes 27 July

Today marks the 72nd Anniversary of the ceasefire that ended the fighting on the Korean Peninsula. I say ended the fighting instead of ended the war for two reasons. First, from a US perspective, despite the 36,000 service members killed, the fighting in Korea was not a ‘war’. Second, no treaty ending the war was ever signed between the ROK and the DPRK, so the war – while not hot – is still on.

The three year conflict killed some 3.5 million people. More than 7000 US service members are still considered unaccounted for all these years later.

Some lowlife went on a stabbing spree in a WalMart in Traverse City Michigan yesterday. At least 11 were stuck, 6 critically. The stabber was confronted by shoppers including Derrick Perry, who pulled his legally owned concealed carry gun and held the stabber at gunpoint until the cops arrived.

And that right there ladies and gentleman is why I preach to you about staying strapped.

The Traverse county sheriff is playing very coy about the identity of the suspect. There is only one reason for that and we all know what it is.

This editor has seen multiple images of the suspect and it looks to him that he’s Levantine. Time will tell I suppose.

ICE, the Border Patrol and DEA made an arrest at a Home Depot the other day. Not an unusual occurrence of late, but this one got recorded. The video shows some AWFL (Affluent White Female Liberal) screeching at the agents while they affected the arrest. Watch:

A quote from George Orwell’s 1984 is in order here: It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy. That quote has borne itself out over and over again in recent years.

Now that I’ve proved my literary chops, again, it’s time for some opining. Anyone who does something like that, it is legally obstruction, deserves to feel the full weight of the law. Lululemon Karen needed to be hauled away in cuffs for what she did. Pour encourager les autres so to speak.

There is an institutional issue at the USSS. It seems they cannot get their shit squared away. The latest? A Dallas based agent on the travel team tried to smuggle his wife along on the trip to Scotland.

A question – a really good one – was raised in the replies: how many other USSS agents have done this and gotten away with it?

Today is Baseball Hall of Fame induction day. Five new members will enter the hallowed halls in Cooperstown NY. Dick Allen, Dave Parker, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join the greats of Baseball.

Allen and Parker, both selected by the Classic Baseball Era Committee, will enter the Hall posthumously. Ichiro – one vote shy of a unanimous selection – and Sabathia are first ballot selections. Wagner had to wait until his 10th and final ballot for selection.

The induction ceremony begins at 1430 today. You can catch the Livestream at the MLB network, MLB.com and the MLB app.