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The Gun

the gun heard the first shot the gun thought it was a bursting pipe the
gun heard the second shot and the third and the fourth the gun real-
ized this was not a pipe the gun’s teacher told everyone to get on the
ground the gun’s teacher went to lock the door the gun saw glass
break and the teacher slump and bleed and fall silent the gun
texted its parents and said i love you i’m so sorry for any trouble i’ve
caused all these years
you mean so much to me i’m so sorry the gun
thought it would never leave the classroom the gun moved to a closet
filled with several other shaking guns the gun texted its best friends in
the group chat to see if they were okay the gun waited on a response
the gun received one the gun did not receive another the gun waited
for an hour the gun heard the door kicked open the gun was still in
the closet and didn’t know who had entered the room the gun thought
this was the end the gun thought of prom and graduation and college
and children and all the things the gun would never have the gun heard
more bullets the gun heard he’s down! the gun climbed out of the closet
the gun put its hands on its head the gun walked outside the gun
saw the cameras the gun hugged its sobbing mother and cried into her
arms the gun heard thoughts and prayers the gun heard Second Amend-
ment
the gun heard lone wolf the gun texted its friend again the gun
waited for a message the message never came

Clint Smith

April 20 Today's Top Story

Apparently an IRS employee is blowing the whistle on the politically motivated mishandling and preferential treatment of the investigation into Hunter Biden taxes. The whistleblower's attorney said his client is ready to testify he has documentation of communications between the IRS and DOJ concerning H Biden's taxes, and has evidence to refute sworn testimony by a political appointee concerning H Biden.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander!! If we are ever going to drain the Washington swamp, we have to start with the heads of our 2-headed serpent of our political parties.

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The coming apocalypse

If you think things are bad now…

In the last two days I have seen two AI stories. One in which comedians created a video of an artificial Tom Brady so he was threatening to sue them. And another group who had released a new song with the voices of Drake and The Weekend and there have been 11 million people listen to it.

There are going to be so many deep fake videos normal people will have a hard time believing anything. But of course Trumpers will believe anything that reinforces their hate.
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Saudi Arabia's largest cattle company leases land at $25 per acre from the US gov in drought stricken western Arizona to grow lush fields of alfalfa to ship to Saudi Arabia to feed Saudi cattle using unlimited water for irrigation from the depleted Rio Grande watershed, causing neighboring farmers wells to run dry. Saudi laws prohibit growing alfalfa in Saudi Arabia due to amount to water needed to grow alfalfa.

Only in America!!

Missouri Southern

MSSU led 72-61 WITH the ball with 1:50 to go in the regional final and lost. For some reason they took an immediate shot. The part that is even worse is their point guard got the offensive rebound and took another immediate shot. Of course Duluth gets the rebound and hits an immediate 3 and it snowballs.

So I emailed my State Rep

It’s a person I have known for 25 years.
I have never complained to this person about anything. But recent events prompted me to email.


Summary of my email: (not the actual email)

I can’t believe you as a former educator stays affiliated with a group that defunds libraries, supports the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election, and trusts a 17 year old with an AR-15 but not a library book. Do we really want state control over what books we offer in our school libraries? What happened to the common sense educator I used to know?


Summary of his response:

You are partisan. Do you want boys playing girls sports? Big cities are rampant with crime. Do you want more government spending and higher taxes for everyone?


The topics of Gun Safety, Public libraries, local control of schools, and democracy were not addressed. Only a laundry list of Tucker/Hannity bullet points I wasn’t asking about.

I really think the supermajority and total control of our state government by one party has made the righties go off the deep end and lose all perspective about their roles. They don’t have to be responsive to their constituents inquiries. They are untouchable. And to them everything is just a partisan attack.
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