Lagniappe!
A couple ‘extra’s’ from your appreciative host
(Here’s a link for anyone [not from Louisiana] with the meaning and a short etymology)
What do we have for you today? Some news items you’re not likely gonna see/read/hear from the MSM but have an important thread in the fabric of our lives during these “interesting times”.
#1
Ya know when a newspaper screws up and has to print a retraction or correction? Ya know how the embarrassing mea culpa never makes the screaming front page headlines the screw-up enjoyed? No , it’s always tucked away in a small box with smaller print on a back page near the “Used Underwear” ads.
Such are the rarely and barely seen revelations of truth regarding the George Floyd story that spawned death, destruction – and began the revelation of a media bankrupt of journalism’s principles and wide open confirmation of liberal politicians’ criminal hypocrisy.
Here is a brief but comprehensive gem from The Free Press, one of the little-known sources for news and facts you should add to the list (referenced in my Talk Show Host piece). This has been unsurprisingly ignored by the MSM. Considering its wide-reaching effects to this day, the information is both instructive and useful.
#2
This story you may actually see covered by some MSM outlets; FOX News is the only source I’ve seen so far. The story’s low profile belies the impact of government’s massive regulatory overreach. In this case, fishing companies are challenging a rule that required them to pay the salaries of the federal observers required on some boats to prevent overfishing. Beyond the original insult to Freedom, what if that ‘practice’ spread to every ‘small business’ in America? That will affect everyone: owner, customer, you, and me. And not in a good way. How could it? It’s ‘from government.” Jonathan Turley explains it better than anyone.
#3
Next Tuesday, a fellow Substack scribbler will be in court in Germany on Free Speech issues. Germany has its own way of doing things, of course, but CJ Hopkins case is as appalling as it is instructive. Americans have the example of Douglass Mackey. How many citizens in other countries are facing the same war against free speech? Despite logic, reason and facts, the German courts’ propensity for aggressive authoritarianism doesn’t bode well for Mr. Hopkins. Most important will be the Court’s “reasoning” in its verdict. I’ll be watching. You should, too.
“The reason speaking out is so important is it lowers the perceived risk for those who remain silent and have something to say. Your courage matters. Your words matter. Every voice is a key to unlocking another.”
BW
For “Two and Only” followers…Mr. Bovard is currently scribbling a scathing commentary for the NY Post on the Davos/WEF (“Indulgence of the Self-Anointed” - my title). Look for it this evening (Wed-1/17). We will be discussing it and the implications tomorrow. Should be loitering in your InBox around Happy Hour!
As for fishermen and government regulators, I remember well the Battle of Gig Harbor, WA when the fishermen protested the Judge Boldt decision giving half or more of the salmon harvest to the Indians on the Reservations to catch due to some old treaty. For some reason the Feds felt like keeping their word on this one.
In any event, the fishermen stole a signal cannon from a Gig Harbor museum. It might have belonged to Capt. Vancouver himself.
The fishermen found that the barrel of the signal cannon was the exact diameter as a soup can. The men filled a few soup cans with cement and then collected black powder for the explosive charge.
One fine day they sailed out on their fishing boat with the signal cannon, ammo, and powder aboard.
They put out their nets. The Coast Guard showed up and demanded that the fishermen stop fishing.
The rebels loaded their antique signal cannon and sent off a round of cement filled soup can in the general direction of the Coast Guard boat.
The Coasties then fired a burst from their 50 caliber machine gun in front of the bow of the fishing boat.
Thus ended the Gig Harbor Salmon War. The signal cannon went back to the museum.
Ah, Lagniappe. Sounds like the case of crabs my girlfriend gave me as a bonus gift.
I watched "The Fall of Minneapolis" this week. I recommend the documentary to everyone. I was born in Minneapolis and my parents grew up there. I know Lake Street where the rioting occurred. The bureaucrats and politicians contrived to keep the truth of George Floyd's death from the public. They did this for political reasons.