We tend to give persons a pass when they are terminally ill or dead out of respect, but do these two men deserve any respect? Mitch went out of his way to stack the Supreme Court, first by refusing to consider Pres. Obama’s nomination for Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat in 2016, despite his death coming in February with 11 months remaining in Obama’s second term. Then by stuffing the court with Amy Coney Barrett when Ruth Bader Ginsburg suddenly passed away in September of 2020. You can say this was just shrewd politics, but Mitch tried to justify his earlier position on Scalia by citing the “ Biden rule ,” and then turned right around and broke it when he saw a golden opportunity to have a 6–3 advantage on the Supreme Court. We all know what happened next . Lindsey is an equally smarmy character always sucking up to whoever is in power. For years, he was given a pass because of his close relationship to John McCain, whom many considered a man of great moral character. Lindsey hoped to ha...
It was bad enough Vanilla Ice got cancelled as a result of thunderstorms, but the whole party came down to a fireworks show that looked like a 6-second reel put on replay for 40 minutes. Trump, who promised to speak until 4 in the morning if he had to, lasted just shy of 40 minutes , turning the celebration into another one of his screeds as he railed against "communists" and other foul creatures raining on his parade. This celebration was doomed from the start but only got worse as it creeped closer to the big day. There was only a feeble attempt to rid the reflecting pool of algae. In the end, the park service put a big construction fence around the pool so that curious visitors wouldn't stick their hands into the toxic sludge that had already killed numerous ducks thinking it might be a marsh. The massive quantity of hydrogen peroxide only served to further erode the special blue paint that flaked off in chunks, but authorities continue to claim someone went at it wi...