The Wednesday Read

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Hello America – here are the topics for today’s commentary:

  • Fireworks in Great Falls
  • Mass Shootings
  • Cocaine
  • Hot Dog Eating Contest

FIREWORKS IN GREAT FALLS:

The Great Falls Police Department (GFPD) posted a reminder on Facebook around midnight saying:

IT’S MIDNIGHT! Time to put the fireworks in storage and let your neighbors get some sleep. Another Independence Day celebration in the books. Happy birthday America. #NoFireWorksAfterMidnight #GFPD #GoodnightGreatFalls #MakeGoodDecisions

I guess most people who were shooting fireworks missed the memo. I heard fireworks throughout the night at 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. I was up at 5:00 a.m. and heard some then. Most people commenting on the GFPD post were saying the same things about people not obeying the rules.

Now, since people are sleep-deprived, would be a good time to take a look at the rules about the discharging of fireworks in Great Falls.

On Tuesday Great Falls received some rain which may have helped prevent fires. We’ll see in a few days what the reports from the police and fire department say about the calls they received.

MASS SHOOTINGS:

Reuters is reporting that ten people were killed and 38 wounded in mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Fort Worth ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been over 340 mass shootings in the country so far in 2023, according to data collected by the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter.

I imagine when all the reports are in that including the Fourth of July holiday, there will be more deaths.

Read the full report from Reuters which contains statements from the President, HERE.

COCAINE:

If your day is gone, and you want to ride on, cocaine
Don’t forget this fact, you can’t get it back, cocaine
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie
Cocaine

-“Cocaine” Written by J.J. Cale

The Associated Press (AP) and several other sources are reporting that the White House was briefly evacuated Sunday evening while President Joe Biden was at Camp David after the Secret Service discovered suspicious powder in a common area of the West Wing, and a preliminary test showed the substance was cocaine, two law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

I’m sure there are some Hunter Biden jokes out there somewhere! The AP report says it was found in an area that is accessible by tour groups. Although many people have access to the White House, I would think it would have been caught on camera.

Check out the full AP report HERE.

HOT DOG EATING CONTEST:

The New York Post and other sources announced that Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest for men was canceled, but in fact, it was only delayed for two hours. Since I thought it was canceled, I did not watch it. This Fourth of July has a void in it for me.

Jeopardy champ James Holzhauer tweeted about the cancelation saying, “One day we will invent the technology to eat hot dogs indoors.”

ESPN reported that before the delay, women’s defending champion Miki Sudo forced down 39½ hot dogs and buns to collect her ninth Mustard Belt.

ESPN reports that Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shook off the rain delay and gobbled his way to another win at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, downing 62 franks and buns in 10 minutes. Chestnut out ate runner-up Geoffrey Esper and the rest of an international field of 15 competitive eaters by double digits to clinch his eighth straight Mustard Belt and 16th overall. Esper, of Oxford, Massachusetts, managed to ingest 49 hot dogs and buns.

I don’t think I could eat very many hot dogs and buns. I could put down some hot dogs, but the wet buns would make me gag.

Is this a great country or what???

See the full ESPN report HERE.

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7 thoughts on “The Wednesday Read”

  1. Your comments all make you sound sleep deprived. I’m sleep deprived or I wouldn’t have made this comment. I heard fireworks Wednesday, today, 6:30 p.m. here on 2nd Ave North. I can sleep through fireworks but my poor little dog can’t.

  2. This has nothing to do with any of today’s topics but is interesting nevertheless.

    KRTV reports that a Great Falls man was arrested for child porn on his phone.

    And what’s interesting is this guy wasn’t a drag queen or anything along those lines that the MAGAs are always telling us are the child abusers and groomers, but an employee of Cascade County Republican sherriff Jesse Slaughter’s detention center crew. So strange, that.

    https://www.krtv.com/news/crime-and-courts/pederson-charged-after-child-exploitation-material-found-on-his-phone

    • Yes, but what’s reassuring to me is that Jesse, being the judge of character that he is from the above example, will personally hire and train all the armed security guards he plans to put in the schools. I can only suspect that the only real requirement for employment in Jesse’s fiefdom is a belief in and loyalty to MAGA, God, country, and family. For nothing else really matters to them. That’s plenty enough qualifications to carry an AR around school children. I’d lay you money that this nineteen year old prison guard hire came with all the requisite MAGA qualifications. Probably recommended by his MAGA church. It’s all part of the little MAGA cult world they live in. I know. I actually worked in a place like that. Very strange. It’s a MAGA hire MAGA world for them, kinda like our election office now.

  3. Hello Jackie,
    Sorry you are sleep deprived like most of us.
    A note of clarification. “Cocaine” was written and released as a single record by J.J. Cale and also appeared on an album of the same name in 1977.
    Eric Clapton’s version recorded and releaseda bit later and was certainly the most popular release. It was on the “Slowhand” album also released in 1977.
    J.J. Cale, who recently passed away, was known as the creator of the “Tulsa Sound” along with Leon Russell, who also recently passed away. Both of these artists wrote many songs recorded and popularized by other more well know artists. “Naturally” is my favorite J.J. Cale album. I hope you give it a listen. I’m sure it will be one of your favorites too.
    The words of “Cocaine” are indeed accurate.
    Unfortunately, this incident stinks of being a classic “dirty trick” ala Roger Stone as fodder for the right wing media to further attack Hunter Biiden and his recent visits with his father. Pretty suspicious in my mind.

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