… The day shift nurse didn't tell the doctor and just told the night shift nurse that she had been asleep all day. Sherry will not respond to painful stimuli. I spoke to her doctor and this is irreversible and now we must go forward with pain management and end of life care. She was instrumental in past fundraisers for Rantburg. I loved reading her Facebook posts about her cat Tina, and about her life in Bauxite, AR..
Sherry took her final breath yesterday. Professionally, Sherry had been a hotshot trainer for schools — running seminars all over the country. Personally, she loved being the wife of a Marine. Somehow she ended up finding Rantburg, and then, like everything else she touched, Sherry left Rantburg more efficient and more comfortable than she found us. And, as badanov points out, more solvent. I followed her subsequent adventures, including her return to Bauxite, with interest, enjoying her enjoyment as well as her ever-evocative turns of phrase, which added a depth of appreciation to even the most apparently mundane activities. Sherry had a gift for love and happiness. Even though we never met in person, her death leaves a hole in my world.
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Very sad to hear. It's depressing sometimes how many Rantburgers have gone dark over the years. I'll pray for her and her family. Never easy to lose anyone.
[Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Amid allegations of stolen valor and exaggeration of his military service, Minnesota governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz has clarified that he's actually just redistributing valor, not stealing it.
Walz's justification for his appropriation of respect which he never earned in battle came in the middle of a press conference in which reporters were inquiring about whether Walz had abandoned his unit after hearing that they would be deployed to a dangerous war zone only to tell people that he had served in combat.
"Let me say categorically, I have never and will never steal anyone's valor," Walz stated, rubbing what looked like a homemade Purple Heart with his sleeve. "What I will do, however, is redistribute valor from over-privileged owners of valor, such as soldiers who have courageously risked their lives for their country in combat. I believe in an equitable distribution of valor, where I, who bravely and self-sacrificially allowed my beloved unit to go into battle without me so that I could make sure my political career didn't suffer, may receive just as many accolades as a war-wounded vet who actually served in the Middle East."
"Say it with me — tax the valor-rich!" Walz ended.
While Walz's former fellow soldiers have continued to vocally denounce Walz's "unscrupulous attempt to ride into power on other people's courage," several journalists and political commentators on the Middle East have praised Walz's commitment to fair and equitable redistribution of valor.
At publishing time, Walz had further defended his actions by explaining that he was "more actually just borrowing other people's valor" and that he would "give it right back" after the election.
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The stealing class has figured out that it's a working-class election.
You can tell by what they pilfer.
By ''stealing class,'' I mean the Harris-Walz campaign in particular, and the party of big government in general.
They exist, and flourish, not by creating new wealth and ideas, but by stealing the produce of others.
In Harris' case, that means shamelessly stealing Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... 's ''no taxes on tips'' proposal and floating it as if it were her idea, something made less plausible by Kamala's lifelong history of not having original ideas.
But it's meant to show that she cares about the working class.
In Walz's case, what he stole was valor, posing as a combat soldier when he never was, and claiming he retired as a Command Sergeant Major when he didn't actually do so.
Instead he abandoned his unit, taking early retirement rather than deploy, an act that caused even his old unit's chaplain to call him ''cowardly.''
That's a working-class issue because most of our combat soldiers share a working-class background, and Walz was pretending a solidarity with them that he never actually earned.
Well, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, and by pretending to care about working-class people, the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... are telling us that they think it's a working-class election.
The press — which decades ago was filled with working-class news hounds but is now stocked with elite journalists — is focused on issues like trans rights, child sacrifice abortion, gun control and the like.
And those issues do matter to the college-educated Karens who are the biggest consumers of news media today — but the working class is busy working, or trying to, and has been doing much worse ever since 2020.
Trump's four years in the White House were the first time the working class made gains since the early 2000s, and while the press and its audience may not care, you can bet that working-class people do.
The working class has also been most affected by various foreign wars and disasters, like Biden's humiliating skedaddle from Afghanistan. It's been most affected by the urban riots and crime waves spread by Democrats' woke policies.
By suddenly starting to take account of working-class issues, even if they have to steal to do so, the Harris-Walz campaign is telling us that they know that.
And they're not the only ones.
As Ruy Teixeira wrote in these pages not long ago, ''Working-class (non-college) voters will likely determine the outcome of the 2024 election.''
Teixeira estimated they will comprise about two-thirds of eligible voters in November, and even higher in all the key swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Worse yet for the Dems, many of the minority voters they expected would produce their ''new Democratic majority'' — a term coined by Teixeira in the 1990s before reality set in — are not only unmoved, but are positively repelled, by woke issues like trans rights, child sacrifice abortion, defunding the police and more.
But hey, if Harris takes your kid away from you because you won't let him or her be surgically mutilated, at least she won't make you pay taxes on your tips.
The problem for the Democrats is that they haven't been the party of the working class for a long while.
They're now the party of billionaires, well-off college-educated whites, especially unmarried white women, and their poor client groups — though even those clients are getting a bit restive.
It's the Republicans who are now a multiracial party of the working class. Which is especially a problem for Dems in a working-class election.
It's not all bad news for the Democrats: They retain the political equivalent of air superiority via their control of the legacy media, which since Kamala was selected has reached new levels of obsequiousness, and of most social-media platforms.
It'll be fun to watch places like Mother Jones and Rolling Stone, which mocked Trump's no-tax-on-tips proposal as a ''lame political stunt'' and the like, spin on a dime and praise Kamala's genius in helping out America's oppressed waitresses.
I don't have a great track record on political predictions, and this election — complete with an liquidation attempt the press has done its best to erase from memory — defies all experience.
But the press hype is all about atmospherics and vibes, and while Democrats are hoping for a ''vibe'' election, there's a certain vibe when the utility bill arrives, too.
That may stick more with voters than the natterings of pundits.
Posted by: Fred ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Amid allegations of stolen valor and exaggeration of his military service, Minnesota governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz has clarified that he's actually just redistributing valor, not stealing it.
...every time you hear the phrase 
