Amusing News: Part XI

Some New York Democrats have introduced an act to punish lawmakers who have lied about their backgrounds. This effort apparently was aimed at U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied extensively about his personal history while getting elected to Congress from New York. Do we think George Santos is the only office holder who lied about his background? I’m thinking here of President Joe Biden, who once claimed he had three college degrees (he has one), graduated near the top of his class (he was near the bottom), and other fairy tales. Attention New York Democrats: this could be a slippery slope indeed.

Imagine you’re piloting a $206 million F-22 Raptor armed with sidewinder missiles that cost $400,000 each, and you’re shooting at a nearly motionless balloon floating above Lake Huron, and with your first shot, you miss? This ain’t Top Gun anymore.

The National Institutes of Health has announced that the Covid vaccine-induced immume response wanes over time. So what that means is planned obsolescence has been introduced into medical treatments.

Steve Bannon was recently found guilty of contempt of Congress. Couldn’t most of us be found guilty of that?

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If you have trouble understanding President Biden’s energy policies, here’s a perfect analogy: You are starving, there is a basket of apples next to you, but you can’t eat them.

If truckers want to make a point about anything, they don’t have to block bridges, or crowd the streets of state or national capitals. All they have to do is drive 45 mph on the interstates, and we’ll all get the message pretty quickly.

Three men were recently found guilty of hate crimes in connection with a murder for which they already had been convicted. If someone kills someone else, can’t we just assume there was a level of hatred involved?

Chicago’s administration has announced that they will drop mask and vaccine mandates because the mandates don’t seem to have had any impact on the murder rate in the city.

Belligerent, screaming, protesters followed U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema into a bathroom trying to persuade her to change her mind on a spending bill. Has that tactic ever actually worked?

An archeological site in Utah has uncovered evidence that people used tobacco 12,300 years ago. They apparently found an ideograph on a cliff wall of a hunter coughing and scaring a buffalo away.

President Joe Biden says voter ID laws oppress women. Well, that might depend on the photo on the ID.

Brandeis University has a student group dedicated to removing offensive language from conversations, such as “there is more than one way to skin a cat,” because that phrase can normalize violence against animals, they said, proving that in some cases, going to college can make you dumber than before you went to college.

President Biden plans to campaign for Gov. Gavin Newsom in California, so I guess we can look forward to more political rallies where Mr. Biden speaks to cars.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns of a potential federal government shutdown if Congress doesn’t raise the debt limit. Um, many of us think a federal government shutdown is just the thing we need right now.

President Joe Biden has just proposed a vast expansion of the Internal Revenue Service to raise more money for his projects. And really, who among us has not said at least once today, “What this nation really needs is 50,000 more IRS agents!”

Headline of the day: “Iowa surpasses one million vaccines administered.” There are one million people in Iowa?

When an aide suggested that President Biden might be signing too many executive orders, the President signed another order allowing him to sign more executive orders.

President Joe Biden announced on Feb. 24 that his administration would be sending out 25 million masks to clinics and food pantries and wherever. Is there anyone in America now who does not have a mask? What is this for?

On Nov. 24, Kamala Harris announced the names of three people Joe Biden intends to appoint to his cabinet. Harris had to make the announcement because Joe Biden hadn’t been told yet who the three people were.

You know you’re old when you see a book advertised that has the title “Gui Design for Dummies,” and you have no idea what Gui Design is. You’re not even ready for the book!

I don’t think a geological feature that might send California crashing into the sea should be called a “fault.”

A news service reoported that President Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany “wildly” exaggerated the number of people at Trump rally. Of course, estimating the number of people at Trump’s rallies is hard. Now at a Biden rally, counting 201 cars isn’t that difficult.

In entertainment news, Larsa Pippen (whoever that is) claims, “Kanye West brainwashed the Kardashians against me.” That’s believable. How hard is it to brainwash the Kardashians?

Regal Cinemas has filed for bankruptcy protection. Yet it’s hard to believe that a company that can charge $12 for a bag of popcorn would go out of business.

The plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Grethen Whitmer failed because the kidnappers couldn’t find anyone to pay the ransom.

Take away daylight savings time and you take away one of my best excuses for being late.

A bear who journeyed thousands of miles to return home after being saved and relocated by Gov. Chris Sununu is ready to emerge from her den with three cubs. Gov. Sununu did that by himself? So that’s why he was gone for so long.

A woman faces a larceny charge after stealing an anatomical skeleton that she said was making a rude gesture at her. In other words, she had a bone to pick with the creature. I think it was the humerus bone.

A reptile breeder in New York was fined $500 for having more than 150 poisonous snakes in his home. Me, I think it’d be punishment enough to lock him up in his home for 30 days.

The person Joe Biden selects as vice-president will be only one blown synapse away from being President.

Wouldn’t it be fun to watch Antifa try to disrupt the Sturgis motorcycle rally?