Now that we’re done talking Second Amendment with Goldy and Stan, who’s up for a late-night serving of quick hits (wonderfully aged to perfection)?
• Who couldn’t have guessed the news that Miss Nevada, Crystal Wosik, is allegedly being threatened in the wake of her pro-Yucca remarks would prompt an environmentalist-bashing editorial in the Review-Journal?
Hey, everybody, she’s a beauty queen, not a nuclear scientist or a politician. With all due respect to Sherm Frederick, our corporate master-in-chief, who has praised Wosik’s courage, let’s keep things in perspective. And that perspective is this: Why should anybody — the public, the media, environmentalist thugs — care what she has to say about anything? It’s not like she’s an actress or anything…
• The pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps, of “God hates fags” fame, is now picketing the funerals of U.S. service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. He claims their deaths are God’s judgment upon America for tolerating gays and adulterers.
We can only hope there’s a really big surprise waiting for Pastor Phelps in the afterlife. (And we’re pretty sure there’s going to be…)
In the meantime, could somebody remind that idiot that the deaths of U.S. service members in Iraq and Afghanistan are actually caused by, in order of proximate cause, fundamentalist Islamic insurgents, a completely wrong decision to go to war and inadequate planning and equipping?
• Our very own Mayor Oscar Goodman is asking representatives of the attorney general’s office, and the special counsel investigating the city’s sweetheart land deal with golf course mogul Bill Walters to come give the council an update on the investigation next week. “I want it resolved. I want to find out what’s happening,” Goodman said in the R-J.
Leave aside for a moment the very good point made by my friend and colleague Jon Ralston — this is a request from the suspects in an investigation for information from the law enforcers probing their behavior. Instead, consider this: Why does Goodman want the investigation resolved so quickly? Answer: Because he wants to consummate the bad-for-taxpayers deal with Walters at the Royal Links golf course, which Walters wants to turn into homes. And why does he want to consummate the bad-for-taxpayers deal with Walters so badly?
That, dear readers, is a very excellent question, if we do say so ourselves.