Wow! There were a lot of topics that caught my attention for today’s column.
- GF Public Library Levy Election
- Public Safety Meeting
- Badge Bunny & the Bible
- Same-Sex Marriage
- NBA/NHL Finals
- One More Thing
GF PUBLIC LIBRARY LEVY ELECTION:
I am proud to announce that I voted for the Great Falls Public Library levy!
The election is tomorrow (Tuesday, June 6) so please join me in supporting our local library.
In my surfing of the local social media sites, there is a lot of false or slanted information being posted by the anti-library folks. The fact is that if this levy passes, the extra tax on your $100k home will be about $20 per year. That’s about the cost of one hardcover book.
If you have any questions, click HERE for more information.
PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING:
I noticed that the City of Great Falls in their press release announcing the Public Safety Meeting that is being held to try and get voters to support the massive levy request, placed the following statement/disclaimer at the end:
Paid for by the City of Great Falls, Melissa Kinzler, Finance Director, P.O. Box 5021, Great Falls, MT 59403
If only certain commission candidates would place the statement/disclaimer on their political posts….
BADGE BUNNY & THE BIBLE:
A faithful reader alerted me that Great Falls City Commissioner Rick “Karen” Tryon was lashing out at people this weekend on his Facebook page, so I investigated.
A friend told Tryon an anonymous person had called him a “Badge Bunny” on social media because he supports the local police and sheriff’s department. Tryon’s response was golden:
Of course that anonymous coward would never appear in a public forum, like a city commission meeting, stand up, say his real name and call me or anyone else a ‘badge bunny’ – because he or she doesn’t possess even 1/10th of the courage of our local LE folks. He added, “you should know that being a ‘badge bunny’ is by far preferable to being a ‘gutless jackass’ like you.”
That kind of sounds like Tryon is agreeing that he is a “Badge Bunny.” The Urban Dictionary defines “Badge Bunny” as, “A female, usually of the barely legal age range, who spends her time chasing police officers and offering them her ‘services’” Wiki says, “A woman who is romantically attracted to police officers and who seeks out their companionship.”
Then there’s a Bible post where it appears that someone used a verse in the Bible with which Tryon disagrees:
Sunday memo to the folks who never open a Bible yet somehow feel qualified to hold forth on its contents.
Y’all couldn’t find the book of Deuteronomy if your life depended on it, don’t know the difference between Judas and Judah, and probably think Yeshua’s last name is Christ. You’re quick to isolate a verse or cherry-pick a word or two you think may be from the Bible in order to make some political/social point and you think no one notices your cavalier neglect of the context, scope and history of scripture and it’s themes.
It’s interesting what gets under his skin. I don’t think he has the temperament to continue to be a city commissioner. He has become an advocate for the bureaucracy in the city government and not an advocate for the citizens. I don’t think we can afford any more of Tryon’s tax and fee increases as a “Yes Man” for the city bureaucrats.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE:
Gallup Polling recently reported that seventy-one percent of Americans think same-sex marriage should be legal, matching the high Gallup recorded in 2022. Public support for legally recognizing gay marriages has been consistently above 50% since the early 2010s.
In case you missed it, Gallup says gay marriage became the law of the land after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision, and President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation to ward off future judicial attempts at undoing its legality late last year.
You can read more of the information from Gallup, including how subgroups feel by clicking HERE.
NBA/NHL FINALS:
The NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Final are in full swing, and it looks like they are not competing with each other for our attention.
In the NBA, the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat are tied 1-1. They have games on June 7, 9,12,15, and 18. ABC has the coverage. More information can be found HERE.
In the NHL, the Las Vegas Golden Knights lead the Florida Panthers 1-0. They have games on June 5, 8,10,13, 16, and 19. TNT/TBS has the coverage. More information can be found HERE.
ONE MORE THING:
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was covered by USA Today shows that shows U.S. life expectancy has dropped to 76.1 years, the lowest it has been since 1996.
I guess the moral of the story is if you are close to that age you should not be buying green bananas…
Read the USA Today report HERE.
The Western Word 
I’ve called Rick a badge bunny. I don’t know if there is a male equivalent and I don’t mean to imply Rick is sexually attracted to the man in the uniform. Holster sniffer? You use “Karen” referring to the commissioner, I think “Dick” is the male equivalent. That would make more sense. When I criticized “Dick” for going off on Houck after losing to her during one of his runs for the office he demanded my full name. When I gave it to him he googled me and banished me to Wisconsin. He’s from the lower south side and you don’t mess with him.
Interesting. Thanks. He seems to be very sensitive. That’s not good for a public official. -JmB
Rick is a comical character. I really don’t take him seriously. I had never heard the term badge bunny before, but I love it. I used to use the term cop groupie for Rick, because that’s the only term I could come up with. I thought it fit him perfectly. Then, when Rick got mean and nasty, he tried to dox me every chance he got. Of course I didn’t care, because I have been doxed for the last twenty years. And most folks know me and like me for I have done lots of tree work for them. They could care less about my politics. They only knew that I did excellent tree work.
But still that pissed me off when he went personal. He was inciting folks to attack me. That’s when I settled on the perfect name for a guy who tries to get others to hurt someone. Strapon. A perfect name for a guy is is a real dildo! Now, instead of Tryon, I use Strapon every chance I get.
I worked as a ISA certified Arborist for a number of years. Now that’s dangerous work, especially as bad at it as I was. I disliked Ricks reaction to a small Black Lives Matter demonstration and noise about guns and Back the Blue b.s. to counter it.
Seems commissioner Tryon considers himself to be the ultimate authority on the meaning of Bible passages. The Jesuit priests who taught my college religion courses considered any such claim, by anyone, to be hubris.
The “ultimate authority” angle usually turns people off. I guess it was his attempt to attract the religious people to his campaign. Thanks, JmB