Free-for-All Friday

Politics + Green Bean Casserole + New Crocodile Hunter + SCOTUS

Political Potpourri

Here are some thoughts, following results of the midterm elections on TUE 11/6.

• "Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save." Ps. 146:3
• Voters who chose Democrats because they thought it would help promote civility will be sadly disappointed.
• DT should set the tone for civil discourse.
• By retaining + gaining seats in the Senate, Republicans will continue to have the power to appoint conservative justices to the federal judiciary. Yay!
• Someone once said--& I wish I could remember the source--"All politics is local."

R.I.P.

Norfolk Daily News (11/3):  "Casserole lady. The woman who created a Thanksgiving staple enjoyed by millions--the green bean casserole--has died at age 92. Campbell Soup officials said Dorcas Reilly was the driving force behind the popular dish, made with green beans & cream of mushroom soup & topped with crunch friend onions." This dispels conventional wisdom that it was served up by the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving feast.

Criminal Minds

Omaha World Herald (11/7):  "Boy, 11, leads police on high-speed chase--again. Police say an ll-year-old boy in Ohio led officers on his 2nd high-speed police chase in 13 months, this time after his mother took away a video game console." Imagine the mischief this rapscallion could get into if his mom took away his cell phone.

There Is No Place Like Florida

OWH (11/8):  "Man jumps into pool of crocodiles, is bitten. A 23-year-old (St. Augustine) man was bitten after breaking into a zoological park in FL & jumping into a pond full of crocodiles." A new Crocodile Hunter?

SCOTUS *

* Supreme Court of the United States

"For the last half-century, the Left has turned to the Supreme Court to win what it could not in the normal political process. The Court hAs embedded the sexual revolution into the Constitution & 'found" new progressive rights for privacy & dignity, as well as protections against animus *, in a document that mentions none of the above. Conservatives should not seek to overturn Roe because they are obsessed with abortion; they should demand its reversal because it represents a politicization of the S.C. & an abuse of the Constitution to short-circuit democracy in the service of the latest left-wing ideals of the day." [From "The New Supreme Court & Privacy Jurisprudence," by John Yoo & James Phillips, NRO (11/8/18).

* Hostile attitude, according to dictionary.com

Dept. of Shameless Joke-Stealing *

* Courtesy of Reader's Digiest, (Oct. 2018)

• "The only way I'd be scared of a ghost is if one was coming at me wearing a fitted sheet that I thought I'd have to fold.
• "What do you call a group of really tidy witches? A self-cleaning coven.
• "Every time someone says 'I'm aware,' I always wait a couple of seconds in case they add 'wolf.'
• "I hate when boxing announcers say a boxer is 'down for the count.' I don't care that he loves Dracula. I just want to know who's winning."