Daily Miscellany
Thoughts and flashes of brilliance that enter my head from nowhere.
Enjoy. Or abhor, depending on the effect of my "wisdom".
Culture News
Male Transgender Cheerleader
The NFL has signed its first biological male who identifies as transgender to be part of the women's cheerleading squad for the Carolina Topcats. Justine Lindsay, 29, announced the news that Lindsay would be joining the women's squad.
Lindsay announced the news in March via Instagram with "Cats Out the Bag you are looking at the newest member of the Carolina Panthers TopCats Cheerleader’s as the first Transgender female."
Hunter Biden shows himself to be a real first son-of-a-gun in the latest embarrassing personal video leak for President Biden’s scandal-scarred offspring.
A naked Hunter casually waves around a handgun and even points it at the camera while partying with a prostitute in 2018, the video shows, according to a report Monday.
The 52-year-old Hunter got cheeky in front of a camera during a twisted session with a sex worker in October 2018, Radar Online reported, citing leaked photos and videos from the first son’s iPhone.
Nicholas John Roske is the armed suspect accused of threatening to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Roske’s name was released via an unsealed arrest affidavit. Online records say Nicholas Roske, 26, is from Simi Valley, California. A LinkedIn page in the name of Nicholas Roske of Simi Valley says that he worked as an office manager at a pest control company.
A criminal complaint accuses Roske of “attempts to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap or murder a United States Judge, to wit: a current Justice of the United States Supreme Court.” It outlines a number of items he brought with him to Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, including duct tape, zip ties, and a pistol.
https://heavy.com/news/nicholas-john-roske/
This was bound to happen what with all the Roe vs. Wade rumor-mongering. Not to mention Chuck Schumer and the likes heard shouting prior that danger will come to those Supreme Court Justices who vote to ban abortion.
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Political Nonsense
Mr. McCarthy, 57, is poised to become House speaker next year if the Republicans regain the majority, which polling and political analysis suggest is very likely.
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Personal
Granddaughter Graduation
I beg the indulgence of yon readers, especially the FreeRepublic readers as this is hardly a news article.
But IT IS the result of cultural and personal events that affected a life, many lives, in ways that no prior class of graduating students has ever endured. In the case of my granddaughter, she was affected double, triple, even quadruple.
Yesterday my granddaughter graduated from high school. What a chore that this has been for her. But first, the news to make yon reader smile. SHE GRADUATED FROM THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL AS ME, HER GRANDMOTHER. Add another smirk for I was in Northeast High School's very first graduating class. Add yet another smirky smile, I WAS IN THE CLASS OF 1968 while granddaughter, Kaitlyn, graduated yesterday in the Northeast High School (in Pasadena, Maryland) class of 2022. Doing the math, that was a full 54 years ago!!!!! And there I was, yesterday, watching my granddaughter receive her diploma from the same school that gave me mine!
Kaitlyn, however, worked under almost impossible circumstances to obtain that degree. First, like kids across this nation, there was the pandemic. School closed for Kaitlyn for two full years when she attended class over the computer.
At the time Kaitlyn had to stay with her paternal grandmother as her father could care for her (he had custody) what with work and no school and the flu. This went fine for those couple of years but came the time to return to school and there was the problem. Kaitlyn's grandmother lived on Maryland's eastern shore, far from Pasadena, home of Northeast High School. But Kaitlyn wanted desperately to return to Northeast High School because at this time she was a senior and did not want to change schools to one near her grandmother to graduate within that year.
To add to all the turmoil in Kaitlyn's life, her father died (he had been suffering from cancer-mid-50's) so Kaitlyn could not return home to her father and thus perhaps not graduate from Northeast High School. Kaitlyn's Aunt and Uncle began watching out for her, her Uncle helping her buy a car and her Aunt eventually had Kaitlyn come live with her so that Kaitlyn could attend Northeast High School although ever day she had to get up and drive to school over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Sill , her grandmother lived over two hours from her school while her Aunt was only 40 minutes away.
At one point Kaitlyn got Covid and with all the people then living at her Aunt's house she had to live at a hotel for a week until she tested negative. Kaitlyn's mother did not have custody of her daughter and there are interesting reasons for that.
Kaitlyn also worked at Burger King after school so she had to drive over the big bridge to get to work near her Aunt's house.
But she graduated yesterday after three years of turmoil and not a small amount of pain.
Did I mention that she graduated from the same high school that I did?
I was smiling during the entire ceremony.
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