“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny, or they’ll kill you.” Billy Wilder, Director, Some Like It Hot
May 31, 2023, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget, and FYI.)
Doesn't it seem that Pride Nights, or Months, or Days go on forever?
But worse than that, is our being forced to accept that Joe Biden appointed Sam Brinton to the Office of Nuclear Energy.
Sam is a fascinating guy. It could be the way he wears his hat. Or the way he sips his tea. But it’s mostly the way he dresses.
Frankly, it’s distressing to see the guy in a satin cocktail dress at a morning meeting. Any fashionista would tell you that Sam should have chosen a less flashy frock for that time of day.
But a woman would have known that.
Sam didn’t have a very good six months as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition.
He got the ol’ heave-ho after he was convicted for pinching women’s luggage at airports. But nonetheless, Sam’s legacy lives on.
In baseball.
We all heard about the LA Dodgers’ plan to include Drag-Queen-Nuns in their Pride Night celebration on June 16.
We heard these man-nuns hate Jesus and Christianity.
And nuns.
What we didn’t know was that Sam Brinton was the principal officer at the D.C. chapter of these nuns, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence!
He served from 2016 to 2018, and performed under the nuclear name Sister Ray Dee O’Active.
We didn’t know. And Joe says “Don’t ask. Don’t tell.” Not about things like that.
Mind you, these aren’t your run of the mill nuns.
Not like the Catholic nuns that were raped and killed by the Nazis in World War II. No, those nuns loved Jesus.
And they were women.
But then again, what is a woman?
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson couldn’t tell you.
Just as Federal Aviation Administration administrator nominee Phil Washington couldn’t answer any questions about airplanes during his Senate hearing...about the Aviation Administration.
Testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on March 1, 2023, Phil didn’t do so well.
And all the senators did was ask him questions about the job.
North Carolina Sen. Budd asked, “Can you tell me what causes a plane to spin or stall?”
“What are the six types of special use airspace that protect national security that appear on FAA charts?”
“What is the minimum separation distance for landing and departing airplanes in the daytime?”
Phil Washington couldn’t answer a single one of the questions.
He’s a nice guy, and he apologized for not knowing the answers.
He said “I am not a pilot,” just as Justice Jackson said she couldn’t define a woman, because, “I am not a biologist.”
Now if you say Joe nominates stupid people, you’d be so wrong.
Sure, you could bring up Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren, a judge who was a nominee to the U.S. District Court, who couldn’t answer questions about the Constitution.
When asked, she told Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), “Article V is not coming to mind at the moment.” And later, that Article II didn't come to mind, either.
But what the heck. Just because a judge takes an oath, as a judge, to uphold the law as stated in the Constitution, doesn’t mean she has to know what it says.
Does it?
And just because the FAA has authority over regulation of airspace, 200,000 registered aircraft, more than a million pilots, and over 45,000 flights per day doesn’t mean the administrator should be conversant in the nuts and bolts of the job.
Does it?
Joe says it doesn’t.
And he’d say you were a racist, misogynist and transphobic if you asked.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.