Earth to Remulak -- one to beam up

Mayor Eric Garcetti assumed he could propose a 3 percent ($1.76 billion) increase in the Los Angeles police budget while everyone was distracted by the Derek Chauvin trial, the funeral of Daunte Wright and the police killing of Andrew Brown and Ma'Khia Bryant.  Last year the city council cut the police budget by $30 million; this will give it back with interest.

Nicole Franklin has pleaded guilty to hate crimes because she drove her SUV into two children on a Des Moines sidewalk after deciding that the 14-year-old girl was Mexican and the 12-year-old boy was a member of Islamic State.  This was in 2019.  She should have waited, as this kind of self-defense has now been legalized in Florida, Oklahoma and other places.

Squirrel!  Republicans are increasingly frantic in their efforts to distract from any investigation of the January 6 coup attempt, for obvious reasons.  Kevin McCarthy wants to run out the commission's time by having it look into every protest that occurred in the preceding four years.  Maybe not the rehearsal in Lansing, when armed Trumpanzees invaded the state capitol.  Probably not the very fine people in Charlottesville, whose "Jews will not replace us" event climaxed with the murder of Heather Heyer.  I'm sure Leader McCarthy has a list.

"John Kennedy" decided to call out Stacey Abrams on the racist provisions of Georgia's new "stop the vote" law.  Now he knows better.

A teacher in Greenville, Texas thought it would be funny to send this picture to the boy's parents as a joke about a signed permission slip.  Might be time to go back to Zoom classes.

The HUD inspector general reports "unprecedented procedural hurdles" set up by the White House budget office to delay aid from reaching Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Maria and Irma devastated the US territory in 2017.  Two years later there were more hurdles, as HUD officials including then-Secretary Carson refused to speak to investigators.

A hand recount of the ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona, has begun in yet another Republican attempt to undermine confidence in the 2020 election.  It's being conducted by a private Florida company with "assistance" from mentally disturbed lawyer Lin Wood.  Your tax dollars at work, Arizona.  They couldn't even find a local outfit that would touch this.

Chris Christie wants to run for president.  That's it.  That's the joke.

Russian troops at the Ukrainian border will stand down at the end of this month, leading to speculation that Putin & Co. have stolen the country's last ruble and the defense budget is empty.  Score one for Joe Biden...

...who told the Earth Day summit that he will cut US greenhouse gases in half by 2030.  You know, I believe he will.  Who now remembers the Armenians? asked Hitler.  We do.  And Erdogan can pound sand.  It's exhilirating.  I'm starting to think he can also push reparations for slavery, get statehood for the District of Columbia and leap tall buildings at a single bound, with the skinniest legislative majority in history.  Count all you want, Arizona, Big Joe's approval rating is higher than Putin's puppet could count.  

 

Hello, Remulak?  Cancel my ride.