Last week’s Landmark needed a parental guidance rating. Who oversees that? Health Department? Maybe that was just during COVID, I’m not sure how these rules work.
Platte County officials have some serious “potty mouths” and we gotta get this cleaned up. They’re dropping “F bombs” like they’re real bombs aimed at the next Iranian leadership team. Just be careful out there folks, this isn’t your granddad’s government.
Maybe we could deputize some preschool teachers and send them into the courthouse like we’re sending ICE agents into the airports. Not sure if this is legal or not, but I’m just the idea guy, someone else can work out the details.
Truthfully, I’ve had stages of my adult life where I had the “potty mouth” as well. Probably shouldn’t throw stones.
Kansas City Councilman Nathan Willet continues to run a pretty flawless campaign to succeed Tony Luetkemeyer as Platte County’s next state senator. Willett’s campaign and political action committee that has included some Gov. Kehoe support has over $614K on hand, per the Missouri Times. He also has Herzog support and that rules the day, month, and year(s) in Missouri politics. State Rep. Sean Pouche has longtime Platte County name recognition but only reporting $21K on hand for the Senate run. Those are David vs Goliath numbers.
Willett came out strong last week over the gender fluid bathroom designs at KCI after charges were filed against a worker at KCI that filmed women in the airport bathrooms.
That’s just red meat Republican talking point that will further solidify him with the base. If he comes out with a gun toting, camo wearing hunting advertisement he’s going to win in a landslide. Throw a dead deer in that thing and they might just cancel the vote and send him to Jeff City.
Willett is correct on the bathroom design idiocy. Those things confuse the heck out of me and most of the people that are gently aged, as I am. These new setups where you have separate bathrooms with the other gender (of which I am of the opinion there are two) but then share the common space where you wash hands and check your look in the mirror are odd and just lack common sense. Humans have an odd proclivity to complicate the simplest of matters.
I was under the impression that President Trump ushered in the “profanity” political age, but a little research proves that is really not correct. Recent articles on the issue say that the biggest change has been the willingness to report the wording, not so much the politicians using cuss words.
Barack Obama called Kanye West a cuss word. George W. Bush called a New York Times reporter a cuss word (one bestowed upon our own Ivan Foley). Ronald Reagan took the Lord’s name in vain regarding the Prime Minister of Canada. Saint Jimmy Carter used a cuss word to describe how bad he would beat Ted Kennedy in a presidential contest. Richard Nixon and Lyndon B Johnson would make some of the guys in the local bar cringe with their “colorful” language and John Kennedy used some pretty harsh language from time to time.
All in all, I guess potty mouthing is part of our Democratic process, and, if so, it appears alive and well locally.
(Guy Speckman can be reached assigning parental guidance ratings to weekly newspapers)
