Each Memorial Day Weekend the Alaska Veterans Memorial at Denali State Park re-opens to the public with a ceremony organized by the Alaska Veterans Motorcycle Club.
Remember those who who gave all defending our country today.
Pictured are two World War II era Alaska territorial guards.
Last week Chicago's mayor, Lori Lightfoot, obsessed over her belief that the City Hall press corps isn't diverse enough for her. Meanwhile over the past weekend Chicago's violence epidemic continuted. Eight people were shot to death and at least 34 others were wounded.
Among the slain was Dajon Gater, a 15-year-old who was killed in Lawndale on the West Side.
I will never run out of material to blog about as long as Lightfoot is mayor of Chicago. From my Sunday post at Da Tech Guy: A much different type of diversity in journalism is needed than what Lori Lightfoot is looking for.
Can you imagine the uproar if a white politician maded it a condition for granting interview access only to white journalists?
NBC Chicago's Mary Ann Ahern says that Chicago's mayor, Lori Lightfoot, will be granting one-one-one interviews--but only to "black or brown journalists."
As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists pic.twitter.com/PAUsacD9Gj
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) May 18, 2021
Warmer weather is bringing more violennce to Chicago.
From Fox Chicago:
At least six people were killed and 42 others wounded in shootings across Chicago over the weekend. A 2-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were among those shot, as well as two uniformed Chicago police officers.The girl was in the back seat of a car about 6:55 p.m. Friday when someone drove up in the 2800 block of West 26th Street and someone inside started shooting, Chicago police said.
Leave it to liberals mess up a good thing. From my post at Da Tech Guy: Chicago aldermen making a wrong turn on proposal to rename Lake Shore Drive.
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Some of her comments were ham-handed, for instance, she said that if George Floyd had listened to the police as they were arrested him he'd be alive today--without condemning the lead Minneapolis police officer in the Floyd case, Derek Chauvin, who has has since been convicted of second and third degree murder.
But she gave the wise advice that resisting arrest is a bad idea. "Please comply," she warned. "Do not fight the cops, don't try to run away."
Anyway, the teacher, a white woman, is taken to task by a black woman late in the video, who, in not so many words, condmens the educator for speaking out on race because she's not a minority.
Of course non-whites can speak at will about caucasians.
Always.
Thanks for the story tip from a friend of the blog in the Last Frontier.
Meanwhile over 100 Republicans, including many people I've never heard of, say they may form a third party if reforms aren't made within the GOP. One name I recognize is Evan McMullin, who ran for president against Trump under a minor party's banner in 2016. Is McMullin really a Republican? He wasn't five years ago.Expelling Liz Cheney from leadership won’t gain the GOP one additional voter, but it will cost us quite a few.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) May 10, 2021
There were five fatal shootings over Mother's Day weekend in Chicago--all on the West Side. Among the dead is a 14-year-old boy, Eddie Thigpen, who was shot to death Saturday night in Humboldt Park.
Elsewhere in the city there where 21 people wounded in shootings.
So far this year there have been eight police-involved shootings, three of them fatal.
There is never a shortage of material on bad governance in Illinois. From today's post at Da Tech Guy: Obama and Pritzker exposed as frauds on gerrymandering in Illinois.
Three months of Joe Biden and his surrogates trashing big business are taking their toll. And the extension of jobless rates by the president encourages people to stay home.
And soon inflation will be roaring back.
From Fox News:
An expected U.S. hiring boom crashed into a wall in April, with employers adding a measly 266,000 new jobs – sharply missing Wall Street's expectations – amid a growing shortage of available workers.
The unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 6.1% — while it's still well below the April 2020 peak of 14.7%, it's about twice the pre-crisis level, the Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report, released Friday morning.
Economists surveyed by Refinitiv expected the report to show that unemployment fell to 5.8% and the economy added 978,000 jobs. The figure marks a significant drop from March's downwardly revised number of 770,000 and February's upwardly revised 536,000.
He's drifiting.
As for Amtrak it needs to be privatized. Or shut down.
From the Daily Mail:
President Joe Biden's strange anecdote about reaching 1.5 million miles on Amtrak has come under scrutiny after key inconsistencies emerged that make it impossible to have occurred as he told it.On Friday, delivering a speech in Philadelphia commemorating the 50th anniversary of Amtrak, Biden launched into the tale of a certain conductor congratulating him on reaching the milestone as he traveled to visit his sick mother.Biden said the incident occurred in his 'fourth or fifth year as vice president', or around 2014-2015, at which time the conductor he named had been retired for 20 years and his mother had passed away, inconsistencies first pointed out by Fox News.
Biden's son, Hunter, once sseved on the board of Amtrak. Why?
Big Tech needs to be broken up bigly.
But the continuing of the ban will only harden the resolve of his millions of supporters.
Facebook was justified in its decision to suspend former President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection [My note: correction, riot] at the U.S. Capitol, the company's oversight board said on Wednesday. That means the company does not have to reinstate Trump's access to Facebook and Instagram immediately.But the panel said the company was wrong to impose an indefinite ban and said Facebook has six months to either restore Trump's account, make his suspension permanent, or suspend him for a specific period of time.
Another warm weekend brings more violence to Chicago. Over the past weekend, the first in May, five people were shot to death--two on the West Side and three on the South Side. And at least 40 others were wounded.
So far in 2021, according to Hey Jackass, nearly 1,100 people have been shot in Chicago. And this year there have been eight police-involded shootings--three of them have been fatal.
I am back reviewing television shows. Here is my latest one from Da Tech Guy, Review: Season 1 of Shadow and Bone.
