Chapter 6 is uploaded for Saturday posting. Real life isn't slowing down as far as work is concerned, which is good. I'm still (barely) below 60 years old, so doing a job and getting paid for it is still something I do.
WARNING! WARNING! RANT BELOW! RANT BELOW! WARNING! WARNING!
I had to take an abstract to a title company today for a client. One of the notations in the original abstract was that the property would never, ever, be sold to someone of African descent, commonly called negroes. That was from 1909, with the original land grant from 1897 appended, before Oklahoma even became a state. I bring this up because I'm ready for someone to come up with a new game. The 'everything is racist today' game is getting really, really old.
Was Georgia a slave state during the Civil War? Yes. Is their new voting law bringing back Jim Crow? Not only no, but HELL no! There's a REALLY easy way to prove it, too. It's basically the SAME FUCKING LAW that Indiana passed more than 13 YEARS ago, and the Supreme Court held was constitutional then! Baseball decides to go woke, and move the All-Star game to state that has TOUGHER voting restrictions than Georgia.
Not wearing a mask is racist! How? Weren't we told 'My body, my choice'? How is this different? Hands up, don't shoot! - hey, guys - that didn't happen. I can't breathe! - guess what, he was saying that IN the car before he was taken out, AND the officer followed approved procedure for detaining a subject. People who break the law LIE about stuff all the time. Maybe he shouldn't have tried to pass a counterfeit bill in the first place. I'm not going to say there's not been bad shit happen - there has. But let's use some common sense, people!
Which is sadly lacking.
Today, I read this, from the head of the American Teachers Union. Keep in mind that I'm in Oklahoma. Schools here ARE open, kids ARE back in the classroom, four days per week. The earth is not opening up underneath our children, the sky is not falling (yet - this is Oklahoma, so we'll see a tornado or two this spring). But the President of the American Federation of Teachers union since 2008, is critical of kids going back to school. And even though she herself is Jewish, guess who she blamed?
Jews.
"American Jews are now part of the ownership class," she said. "What I hear when I hear that question is that those who are in the ownership class now want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it. Am I saying that everything we do is right? No. Are people in Los Angeles fearful? Yes."
Who's actually being racist in this country? It's rhetorical, and it's not politically correct, but what the fuck is wrong with these people? Who the hell are you supposed to serve? Yourselves, or the kids? Why did you have to send out warnings when the schools were still closed in March about posting pictures of you, sitting on a beach somewhere and relaxing, while your students are still locked down for no good reason at all anymore? I'm just shaking my head. It's time to change the game.