Tested positive, 63,030; died, 2,895. . . .

An Indiana University history professor pointed out  that  a
third of Indiana's 92 counties are named for men  with  ties
to  slavery  –  e.g.,  Jefferson,  Jackson,  Clay,  Cass,  Clark,
Boone  and  Dubois  –  and in the 19th century a section of
the state constitution read, "No negro or mulatto shall come
into or settle in the State."    "Indiana:  The  only  Southern
state north of Mason's & Dixon's Line." . . .

Cowboys were called onto I-65 in downtown Indianapolis to
round up 48 cattle that spilled from an overturned trailer (six
cattle died. . . .

The state's lame duck Attorney General opined that the Gov-
ernor's face mask mandate is illegal. . . .

And see the sports.
                                                     [courtesy Columbus Republic]

randyles.jpg Bedford's most wanted (SpotCrime): Randy Lester May, 45, controlled substance; Benjamin John Brickey, 38, sex offendeer failure to register; Jeramie Chad Mann, 45, driving on susp.; Barbara Alison Harper, 30, control. subst.; Terre Haute's: Misty Hastings, WF, 41, 6'0", 240 lbs, meth (Wabash Valley Crime Stoppers)

Tested positive, 27,395; died, 717. . . .

Mostly black protesters converged in Louisville to protest the non-
prosecution of the police who killed  Breonna  Taylor,  and  police
set up barricades to separate them from a counterprotest by a mili-
tia  group  of  whites,  while Governor Andy Beshear commented
that the investigation of the killing has gone on "far too long." . . .

A couple who refused to sign a self-isolation order when one test-
ed positive for coronavirus were placed under house arrest in Rad-
cliff. . . .

And see the sports.
                                                                           [courtesy LEX18]

ericwats.jpg Wanted in Elkhart, LaGrange & DeKalb counties in Indiana, Eric Watson, WM, resisting arrest, burglary, battery, respectively; wanted in Lexington,Kentucky, Jarrin Bishop, BM, 22, 6'0", 230 lbs, wanton endangerment,criminal mischief (Michiana, Bluegrass Crime Stoppers)

Kanye West dissed Harriet Tubman. . . . A woman wearing nothing but
a face mask and a stocking cap,  later dubbed Naked Athena on Twitter,
confronted armed federal agents in Portland, Oregon. . . . A 15-year-old
Michigan girl was placed  in  juvenile  detention  for not completing on-
line school assignments. .  .  . Trader Joe's came under ethnic fire for the
brand names Trader Ming's, Trader Jose's and Trader Giotto's. . . . White
Boy Rick was released from prison in Michigan. . . .  Five siblings sepa-
rated in foster care  were  adopted  by a Texas family. . . . Senators Mark
Rubio, of Florida, and Dan Sullivan, of Alaska, meaning to express sym-
pathy on line  on the death of Georgia Congressman John Lewis,  mista-
kenly posted photos of themselves  with  the  late  Congressman  Elijah
Cummings, of Maryland. . . . The Merriam-Webster dictionary  and  the
New Yorker  and  Harper's magazines,  like the Columbus (Indiana) Re-
public, now also spell black (when referring to a person or people)  with
a capital B (and white with a small w). . . . Thirteen nuns died of covid-
19 in one convent in Livonia, Michigan. . . . Mayor  Ted  Wheeler  was
tear-gassed by federal agents in downtown Portland, Oregon. . . . Derek
Chauvin (George Floyd's killer) and his wife were charged with tax eva-
sion. . . . A couple in Akron, Ohio, had a "gender reveal" party for their
17-year-old daughter after s/he became their "son." . . . Mel Gibson was
hospitalized with covid-19.  .  .  .  The Sierra Club unloaded on its racist
founder, John Muir.
                                                                                [courtesy LEX18, AP]

theriaqu.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Brenda Guerreo, 32, no license; Sadie Diaz, 18, mariju., paraph.; Marlina Argote, 26, mj., paraph.; Emily Theriague, 18, c.s., paraph.; Landen Jones, 27, contr.substances; Marsha Baker, 38, cr. misch.

Dr. Fauci threw the first pitch at the empty-stadium major
league baseball season opening game in Washington, D.C.
(he missed home plate, the catcher, the entire batter's box);
D. C. Washington desecrated the  National Anthem again
(which everyone stood for, but all knelt before it began),
and the season opened with a night game  – won  by  the
New York Yankees  over the Washington Nationals, 4-1,
cut short by rain in the sixth inning). .  .  .  San Francisco
Giants manager Gabe Kapler and his first base coach and
one player knelt during the National Anthem at an exhibi-
tion baseball game in Oakland. . . . The coronavirus has
created new phonics problem for baseball. . . . The Cleve-
land Indians agreed to meet with "Native American" lead-
ers to discuss a change of the baseball team's name.  .  .  .
The American Indian Center  of  Indiana  planned  Zoom
conversations for "interested parties" to draft a resolution
to remove the Indianapolis Indians' minor league baseball
team's name. .  .  . Indianapolis' Catholic high school Ron-
calli dropped its Rebels nickname and abandoned its Con-
federate military-clad mascot Ronnie Rebel. .  .  . African-
American Studies faculty asked that Adolph Rupp's name
be removed from the University of Kentucky basketball a-
rena. . . .  "BLACK LIVES MATTER"  was painted on the
National Basketball Association's  Orlando  Magic's  court.
. . . Jack Nicklaus tested positive. . . .The Washington Red-
skins changed their name to the Washington Football Team.
. . . And here are the results of last week's poll to correct the
names of  other National Football League teams:

• The Baltimore Nigger Birds
• The Arizona Missourians
  
• The Atlanta Coons
  
• The Philadelphia Eagles Lodge
  

OK, next week, last quiz, National Basketball Association, on-
ly one team, the Utah Jazz.  Jazz is not  even legal in Utah, but
that's the name the team carried with them when they moved to
Salt Lake City from New Orleans:

• Tahs  (the "Utah Oompahs" – think tuba)
• The Salt Lake Sickos
• The Desert Desserts
• The Utah-I-Taw-Too-Everybody-Who-Looked-Taw
• write in.
  

• "also I"  [not "I also"]
• "if it were I"  [not "me"]
• "everyone knows it but she"  [not "her"]

DISCUSSION GROUP:    Don't forget!  Readers interested in intellectual dissection of important current events are invited to attend the Weekly World News Round Table at the offices of Borf  Books outside Brownsville, Kentucky, just  after church every Sunday.  Guest speakers lined up for meetings in the near future will include the ghost of John Muir.

lifeassm.jpg assmaster; Life Savere Dude: You might try to strike a better pose next time you go fishing, kid

J. Ewing wrote Sun 7/12/20 @00:18 EDT:

Finally  the  Pee-Resi-  dent wears  a face mask  in public –  or does he?

You can get this baaad 6-inch Ruth Bader Gins- berg chastening doll for only $20 (plus shipping) from worldmark- et.com.

Tested positive, 57,045; died, 2,820 . . . .

A  Kokomo  woman  who posted videos on Tik-Tok and Instant-
spam Instagram of cats and dogs being hanged and skinned was
arrested on federal charges of making "animal crush" videos.

                                                     [courtesy Columbus Republic]

marygarg.jpg South Bend's most wanted (Michiana Crime Stoppers); Joe Henton, BM, 5' 11", 140 lbs, family battery; Tiffany Armitage, WF, 5'2", 150 lbs, poss. of syringe; Mary Garges, 5'4", 200 lbs, auto theft; Christopher Calloway, BM, 5'10", 200 lbs, cocaine

Tested positive, 22,229; died, 687 . . . .

A   former   Miss  Ken- tucky,  29,  who  admit- ted  exchanging sexual photos  with a teen boy student  when  she was a West Virginia middle school teacher has been sentenced  to  two years in prison.                   [yahoo.com]

Ruth BethAnn Carpenter Bearse

The Black Student Union at the University of Kentucky was pro-
testing a lawsuit against the  proposed  removal of a mural depic-
ting slavery.
                                                                            [courtesy LEX18]

daniemar.jpg Perps of Paducah (arrested or wanted by the McCracken County Sheriff): Nicholas W. Robertson, Danielle N. Bledsoe, Maranda T. Williams, Timothy Buckner; sorry (he sure is) the McCracken County Sheriff, Matt Carter, has resorted to Clutterbook Facebook for posting photos of all perps in Paducah, without ages,charges, or vital stats

Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said):                   "I'm out of diction."                                                         – Leonard Simon

tambunga.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): James Jordan, 67, P.I., tresp.; Aimee Tambunga, 37, fam. assault; Tabatha Decker, 28, forgery;Daniela Recendez, 28 (Yorkshire hog), DUI; Amanda Sears, 39, felon with firearm; Hope Cassibo, 47, marijuana; Caden Tucker, 25, family assault

Monday July 13 was National French Fry Day. . . . Today  is  National Ice
Cream Day. . . . Kroger's quit  returning coin change. . . . A bus driver was
kicked to death by passengers in Bayonne, France, for asking them to wear
face masks. .  .  . Texas and Arizona asked for refrigerated trucks to relieve
their morgues . . .  France was investigating claims that people who had do-
nated their bodies to science were left to be eaten by rats. .  .  .  A Louisiana
pastor said the state’s cockfighting ban violates the constitutional right to re-
ligious freedom. .  .  . A McDonald's carhop was  run  over  by a disgruntled
customer in Decatur, Georgia. . . . A recreational boat collided with a hump-
back whale near Juneau,  Alaska. . . . Next January 1's Rose Parade in Pasa-
dena, California (known as the "Tournament of Roses" until 2011)  has been
canceled over coronavirus  concerns. .  .  .  A deputy sheriff in White County,
Tennessee, ordered his dog to bite a woman he had arrested, repeatedly.

                                                                       [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

gloretha.jpg Arrested in Abilene (Texas, not Kansas): Gloretha Allen, BF, 32, 5'5", 155 lbs, robbery; Kristian Carrion, BF, 32, 5'2", 165 lbs, aggravated assault; Carmen DeLeon, HF, 41, 5'5", 280 lbs (Yorkshire hog), injury to elderly; John Wesley Owen, AM, 46, 5'7", 165 lbs, burglary, aggravatred assault; Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Virginia Lynn Shelden, WF, 35, 5'3", 135 lbs, prob. viol. (opiates) (Abilene Crime Stoppers, Sedgwick County (Kansas) Sheriff)

Major League baseball plans to play recorded crowd
sound  effects  at games without fans when it begins
play this week. . . .

Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Anthony Davis
chose to  keep  his  name  on the back of his jersey in-
stead of a "social justice" message. . . .

OK, here are the results of last week's poll to correct the names of
major league sports teams:

• The Washington Representatives.
• The Cleveland Cuckoos.
• The Atlanta Confederates (they will have to fly the politically incorrect flag!).
• The Dallas - Fort Worth - Arlington Texans.
• The Mexico City Meso-Americans.
  

Now for this week, focusing on footbal (open for voting)l:

• Baltimore Ravens:  __ Crows?  __ Black Birds?  __ Nigger Birds?  __ Cleveland Browns?
• Arizona Cardinals:  __ Redbirds?  __ Missourians?  __ Mesas ? __ Apache Apologists?
• Atlanta Falcons:  __ Brown Birds?  __ Coons? 
  
• Philadelphia Eagles:  __ Lodgers?  __ Scouts?  __ Footphillies?

Next week, basketball:  If the Celtics are not politically incorrect, where does that
leave the Hawks, the Raptors, the Pelicans, the Bulls, the Hornets, the Bucks and
the Grizzlies?

Malachi Dean wrote Sun 7/5/20 @20:00 CDT:

I thought Tom Cruise was Born on the Fourth of July.

He was close.    – Editor


Etta Jane Darrig wrote Tues  7/7/2o0 @09:14 CDT:

If Kanye West becomes President, I'm moving to Africa.

Fred Dean wrote Sat 7/11/20 @10:44 PDT:

What is the thing on top of Sean Penn's head in the Life Saver
Dude photo?  It looks like a giant tablet or a mint.

It's a LIFESAVER, Dude!    – Ed.

Tested positive, 52,358; died, 2,756 . . . .

The state's black Republican  Attorney  General,  Curtis  Hill,
lost his bid for renonimation and his  license  to  practice  law
for a month over years of controversy over allegations that he
groped a woman legislator and three other women at a party. . . .

The Columbus Republic spelled "Black man" with a capital B
and "white men" with a small w  in reporting a lynching threat
at Lake Monroe.
                                                     [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Four children were killed in a car rear-ended by  a  semitrailer
as it (the car) was slowing down for construction on I-70 near
Richmond.
                                                                        [courtesy Lex18]

brandend.jpg Crawfordsville's most wanted: Cody Wilson, 21, escape x5; Amanda J. Fry, 31, theft; Andrew J. Norris, 30, possession of syringe; Brandi Endicott, 38, meth; Jeremy A. Wilson 42, habitual traf. violator (SpotCrime)

Tested positive, 19,141; died, 647. . . .

Kentucky's new black Republican Attorney General Daniel Cam-
eron obtained an injunction against new white Democratic Gover-
nor (former Attorney General) Andy Beshear's ordering the wear-
ing of face masks.
                                                                            [courtesy LEX18]

Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said):     "How do you turn a fox into an elephant?       Marry it!"                                                                 – Leonard Simon

The term "master bedroom" was under attack as racist. .  .  .  Protesters
took down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore,  Maryland's,
Little Italy neighborhood and dumped in in the harbor. .  .  .  Columbus
came down also in Buffalo, New York (in Columbus Park). . . . Andrew
Jackson's statue was coming down in Jackson, Mississippi. . . . A statue
of  Frederick Douglass  was torn down in Rochester, New York. . . .  A
statue of Melania Trump was burned down  in  Sevnica,  Slovenia. . . .
Nearly two dozen people were injured by a tree that fell  on a back yard
birthday party in Pasadena, California. . . . Keisha Lance Bottoms, may-
or of Atlanta, Georgia,  Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil,  and Jeanine
Áñez, president of Bolivia, tested  positive. . . . Kanye West was running
for President. . . . Tuesday  July  7  was Blackout Day. . . . Jimmy John's
sandwich shop employees in Woodstock,  Georgia,  made a noose out of
bread dough that went wild on Slapcrap Snapchat (and they got fired)....
The double negative "irregardless"   made it back into the Merriam-Web-
ster Dictionary  (the astute will say "disirregardless" – the additional neg-
ative corrects the error,  and makes the malaprop sound  even  more  eru-
dite).
                                                                                  [courtesy LEX18, AP]

drewloob.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Drew Hallaux, WM, 22, 5'11", 155 lbs, criminal deprivation; Stephanie Kay Heernandez, Indian F, 28, 5'3", 170 lbs, probation violation (burglary); Pascaul Ruiz Jr., HM, 33, 5'10", 230 lbs, felon with firearm (Sedgwick County Sheriff); Arrested in Abilene  (Texas, not Kansas): Lynne Norris Looby, WF, 62, 5'1", 110 lbs, injury to elderly; Patsy Marie Sierra, WF, 30, 5'5", 300+ lbs (Yorkshire hog), endangerment of a child (Abilene Crime Stoppers)

A  "trans" swim queen,  Valentina  Sam- paio,  will  be  Sports Illustrated's featur- ed model in its annual  swimsuit  edition. .  .  .  A number of major league baseball players elected to  opt  out  of this  year's shortened season. . . . Thirty-five Nation- al Hockey League players tested positive. . . .  A Tabloid Headlines poll!   Vote ear- ly,  more than once,  and often.  Write-ins encouraged:

• What  would be a good new name for the Washington Redskins?
  __ Native Americans  __ Senators  __ Representatives  __ Nonentities

• What  would be a good new name for the Cleveland Indians?
  __ Indigenous  __ Indignities  __ Have-Beens  __ Cuckoos
  
  
• What  would be a good new name for the Atlanta Braves?
  __ Buffaloes  __ Buffoons  __Southerners  __ Confederates
  
  
• What  would be a good new name for the Texas Rangers?
  __ Cowboys  __ Dallas  __ Fort Worth  __ Arlington
  
  
• What  would be a good new name for the Mexico City Aztecs?
  __ Incas  __ Mexicans  __ Americans  __ New Mexicans

Next week:  Football (Baltimore Black Birds?).

mirandae.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Miguel Ortega, WM, 47, DUI x3; Miranda Ellis, WF, 34, aggravated assault (see how she's changed in a year); Blanca Cajas, 38, family assault; Betley Green, WM, 22, a/k/a "Red" Green, contr. subs., felon with fiarearm

DISCUSSION GROUP:    Don't forget!  Readers interested in intellectu- al dissection of important current events  are in- vited  to attend the Weekly World News Round Table  at  the  offices  of   Borf   Books  outside Brownsville,  Kentucky, just  after church every Sunday. Guest speakers lined up for meetings in the near future will include Peyton Manker, who created this dress for her 2020 high school prom.

lifegoat.jpg  Life Saver Dude OK, You can  . . . pleasedo not climb on rocks

Etta Jean Darrig wrote Sun 6/28/20 @ 10:35 CDT:

As Glyfada suggested, 2020 vision is accursed.

Jane Etta Darrig wrote Sun 6/28/20 @ 10:40 CDT:

What did we expect in the 21st year of the 21st century?

Publius Leget wrote Sun 6/28/20 @11:27 CDT:

If we pushed the year 2000 back to the 20th century, where
it belongs, we might be able to see again.

Chawalit Gawjarone wrote Sun 6/28/20 @ 15:30 CDT:

As my darlin' said . . . .

With the one and arguable exception of Judy Woodruff,  ev-
eryone on TV is stupid and ugly.  Even Judy Woodruff asks
questions of ugly and stupid people. . . .

Tested positive, 48,628; died, 2,687. . . .

amyjones.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Ares Howard, WM, 6'1", 165 lbs, killing & torturing a vertebrate animal; Amy Jones,WF, 5'7", 145 lbs, theft; Joshua Chism, BM, 5'4", 135 lbs, meth; Dane Kobus, WM, 6'0", 200 lbs, pro. vi. (theft) (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

A Catholic priest in Carmel was scolded by his bishop for
remarks in a weekly bulletin equating black lives that mat-
ter with maggots and parasites. . . .

Enforcement  of the state's  new  panhandling  law,  which
would prohibit requesting money within 50 feet  of  ATMs,
business and restaurant entrances,  public  monuments  and
locations of financial transaction (including parking meters)
was enjoined by a federal court in a free speech suit brought
by the American Civil Liberties Union. . . .

Pete Buttigieg joined the faculty of the University of Notre
Dame.
                                              [courtesy Columbus Republic]

About  5,000  chickens  died in a truck that overturned in Todd
County (none of them due to covid-19 or police shootings).  A-
bout 1,500 survived.
                                                                   [courtesy WBKO-TV]
Tested positive, 16,679; died, 608. . . .

Activists were calling for a boycott of this year's Kentucky Der-
by, rescheduled for September,  in memory of  Breonna  Taylor,
the black woman  shot  dead  in  her  bed  by police executing a
"no knock" search warrant. . . .
                                                                           [courtesy LEX18]

brethank.jpg Louisville police detective wanted for murder of Breonna Taylor, Bret Hankinson; police wanted for murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota: Derek Chauvin, Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao

Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said):     "How do you make five pounds of ugly fat look good?      Put a nipple on it."                                                                 – Leonard Simon

snelpook.jpg Wanted in Waco: Vincent L. Snell Jr., BM, 17, 5'9", 135 lbs, organized crime; Ghost Ghost, WM, 37, Irion County, miscellaneous marshal hold (photo not available); LaQuinton Deonta Williams, BM, a/k/a Dameon Griggs, Dante Wlliams, Pookie, 40, 5'8", 200 lbs, failure to register

The Rolling Stones threatened the Trump campaign with legal action
for ignoring their "cease and desist" demands over its use of their mu-
sic,  particularly "You Can't Always Get What You Want." . . .  A 72-
year-old woman trying to photograph a bison was gored by the critter
in Yellowstone National Park.. . .  Two Little Caesar's employees in a
Cleveland, Ohio,  suburb were fired for placing pepperonis on the top
of a pizza in the form of a swastika. . . . The Ford Motor Company put
off the unveiling of its 2021 Bronco from July 9 to July 13 when it re-
alized the earlier date was O. J. Simpson's birthday. . . . Thursday was
UFO Day. . . .  Herman Cain and Donald Trump Jr.'s girl friend, Kim-
berly Guilfoyle,  tested positive. . . . Folding chairs were tied together
at the July 3 Mount Rushmore rally,  preventing "social distance." . . .
The Austin City Limits music festival was canceled. . . .  A  whipping
post was removed from Sussex County's Courthouse lawn in George-
town, Delaware.
                                                             [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

 

heidilee.jpg Wanted in Wichita (Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas): Jonathan Gomez Williams, WM, 27, 5'8", 135 lbs, abuse of a child; Heidi Leanne Mellington, WF, 32, 5'6", 240 lbs, Yorkshire hog, endangerment of a child; Xavier Nathaniel Jordan, BM, 33, 5'10", 155 lbs, prob. viol. (poss. of a firearm); Adrais Duane Smith, BM, 22, 5'7", 140 lbs, prob. viol. (opiates); Jeremiah Alexander Sol8is, WM, 36, 5'11", 280 lbs, drug paraphern. (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

DISCUSSION GROUP:    Don't forget!  Readers interested in intellectu- al dissection of important current events  are in- vited  to attend the Weekly World News Round Table  at  the  offices  of   Borf   Books  outside Brownsville,  Kentucky, just  after church every Sunday. Guest speakers lined up for meetings in the near future will include the ghost of Marsha P. Johnson.

The National Football League reportedly will play  "Lift  Every
Voice and Sing," or the "Black Anthem," as a prelude to the Na-
tional Anthem  before the first games this season.  .  .  .  Jimmie
Johnson tested positive.

lifeshop.jpg "Mall Maintenance Shop: We can repair anything. Please knock hard on the door;the bell doesn't work." Life Saver Dude: I'll fix it . . .

jeankort.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Angelica Morales, 26, assault; Jean Kort, 49, poss.; Lila Castillo, 37, parole vi.; Misty Martinez, 36, marijuana; Rosaelia Zapata, 31, cont. substs.;Endla Tipton, 60, burglary; Barbara LaSater, 59, cont. substs.