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Undeserving

Scam Artists

Yeah, this is the right thing to do:

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has denied a request to allow the late civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

At first glance, this would appear to be a spiteful act.  When you look at the criteria for said honor, however, the truth emerges:

The Speaker considered past precedent of mostly reserving the practice for former presidents and select former government officials and military honorees.

And Jackson wouldn’t qualify under a single one of those categories, would he?  Because he never did a single damn thing except ride the Racism Grifter Express (which, to be fair, I think he did actually create).

And while we’re there, an honest IRS investigation and audit into his “Rainbow Coalition”‘s finances might in all likelihood have ended with him in jail for financial fraud or at best mismanagement.  But that was never going to happen, of course.

Had Jackson ever been elected to office on the Token Negro ticket, he would have been proven to be as inept and venal as the asshole (another “community activist”) who was eventually elected to the Presidency, on the same ticket.

Africa Wins Again

Subsidies, Taxes and Theft

Here’s a totally unexpected development [sic]:

Barack Obama’s presidential center in Chicago that is supposed to open this year is reportedly costing Chicago taxpayers more and more money.

There have been surging public infrastructure costs for the project the former president said would be a “gift” to the city.

However, taxpayers are stuck with the bill and no government agency can provide an accounting of the total public cost, despite months of queries and FOIA requests.

Obama vowed in the beginning to privately fund the project via donations to his foundation, Fox News reported on Saturday.

But building the infrastructure to get the project up and running is publicly financed and cannot move forward without those funds.

And:

Tax filings showed the Obama Foundation had only deposited $1 million into its $470 million reserve fund.

Chicago authorities have “failed to produce a reconciled total showing how much city taxpayers have committed or how current spending compares to the roughly $175 million discussed when the project was approved.”

So where has all the money gone?  Silly rabbits, it’s  Africa  Chicago:

“Illinois Democrats are leaving taxpayers high and dry and putting them on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars to support the ugliest building in Chicago. Illinois’ culture of corruption is humming along with pay-to-play deals to their allies and friends while lying to Illinois voters.”

Hey, those taxpayers voted for him in their millions and now they’re getting their reward, good and hard.

Classic Beauty: Sylvia Syms

Classic Beauty

Someone else said it best:

“I don’t think any actress in English-speaking cinema of this era had such a variety of love interests as Sylvia Syms. It helped that she was beautiful, of course… that she could act: it’s hard to think of a bad Sylvia Syms performance – sometimes she was miscast, but never bad. She always brought a level of intelligence to her roles along with a sense of fun. And she was highly adept playing “smouldering hot lava of emotion and sensuality under an outwardly straight-laced and sensible facade” that made her – and this is meant with nothing but the greatest respect to the recently departed – sexy as hell.”

So:

 

See what he meant?

Bye-Bye Frying Pan, Hello Gas Ring

Morons & Idiots

When I read this, I couldn’t stop laughing:

That’s not the funny part.  This is:

The director bought a home in the iconic San Remo co-op in New York City overlooking Central Park.

Yeah… from Beverly Hills to Manhattan — to escape taxes levied on rich people.

Hey Steve:  Say “hi” to Hizzoner Zoran Mamdani for me, willya?  You stupid putz.