Leckband Cornhusker State Blog

WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

While we were waiting for the next season of Heartland, Lois & I started watching Blacklist, starring Jame Spader. It's a little(?) dark, a little(?) graphic. Sorry, no spoilers.

LOOKING FOR CHEAP SYMPATHY

When I got my Pfizer COVID vaccinations, I experienced little or no side effects--maybe a mildly sore shoulder, but no worse than a flu vaccination--& I got a little cocky about it. Well, yesterday I got my 2nd shingles vaccination, & my shoulder is really, really sore. Plus I'm feeling really blah. It was my sisters-in-law that put me up to this, but I'm not blaming them. Well, maybe a little. Thought you'd like to know.

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES

"Missing out on Thin Mints in the pandemic? A Google affiliate is using drones to deliver Girl Scout cookies to people's doorsteps in a Virginia community." Norfolk Daily News, 4/29

IDENTITY

"Flintstones vitamins now available with puberty blockers." Babylon Bee

"When identity becomes pure aesthetics, society complete atomizes. No free society can be rooted in utter subjectivity--someone must enforce silence from the top, bar dissenters & punish those who insist on objective data. And that's precisely what we are seeing from an authoritarian left: an authoritarian left that arrived with the promise of fulfillment & authenticity & has instead delivered emptiness & aesthetic pretension, enforced by institutional fiat." Ben Shapiro, NDN 4/28

POLITICAL POTPOURRI

"Why do presidents so shamelessly deplore the state of the country before they walk through the doors of the Oval Office and then hail it once they’ve spent only a little while inside it? Because their political followers believe them." Isaac Schorr, National Review Online

"Civil War soldiers glad they didn't live long enough to experience horrors of the Jan. 6th Capitol riot." Babylon Bee

CDC

"CDC now recommends wearing a seat belt even when you're outside the car." Babylon Bee

OUR MEDIA

"Biden picks dandelion for First Lady." Drudge Report, 4/30 It's refreshing to see the drive-by media paying attention to the most serious actions of our president.

CRIMINAL MINDS

"Man armed with bow & arrow chases Fed Ex driver down street." Drudge 4/30

COVID

"President Biden is continuing his atrocious messaging on vaccines. In a Today Show interview, the fully vaccinated Biden claimed that he would continue to wear a mask near people — even outside in case somebody came up near him — because it’s his “patriotic responsibility.” Philip Klein, NRO

ABORTION

"While he considers himself personally pro-life, the second U.S. president to identify as Catholic publicly supports abortion – something that the Church considers a grave evil. That’s why pro-life and Catholic figures recently challenged the Washington Post after it called President Biden “very Catholic.” On April 28, the Post published a story by religion reporter Michelle Boorstein with the headline, “Biden’s abortion rights stance triggers coming debate among Catholic bishops on Communion.” The Post’s tweet sharing Boorstein’s story ended up capturing more attention than the story itself for describing Biden as “a very Catholic president who supports abortion rights.” That’s because the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion is clear, as explained in its catechism . . .

"The Church is steadfast in its position on abortion. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which summarizes official Church teaching, recognizes the inherent dignity and worth of the unborn. “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception,” the catechism reads. “From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.” Katie Yoder, Townhall No offense, but I don't understand why Catholics voted for Biden.