It is inappropriate to say Happy Memorial Day.  Memorial Day is for solemn reflection on those who gave all – the men and women who sacrificed their lives to keep America safe. It is not a happy time – it is a call to duty and to country.

My momma and daddy taught me this with great reverence. My schoolteachers taught me this. My grandparents taught me this, remembering the war to end all wars. My friends who are veterans taught me this with a tear in their eye. My veteran son will go at sundown and blow taps on his trumpet – alone, without fanfare, and filled with respect at the historic cemetery in our town.

Happy Memorial Day is like saying Happy 9-11.

So, as you would expect …

In ALL CAPS no less.

It’s fine to have a picnic or in normal times to go swimming in the river, but take some time to remember 17 year olds, who died alone and in pain – many times for no good cause whatsoever.

Show some damn respect.

Twitter.  Entertaining as it is, it may destroy us.  First, you have Trump’s tweets. And last, you have Trump’s tweets.

And then the bots.  This study shows that the Coronavirus is causing more than double the amount of bot activity than anything else ever has.  It is used to spread conspiracy theories which leads to uncertainty and that divides us even more.

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.

To analyze bot activity around the pandemic, CMU researchers since January have collected more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or COVID-19. Of the top 50 influential retweeters, 82% are bots, they found. Of the top 1,000 retweeters, 62% are bots.

The the rightwing wants to talk about fake news?

Chatter away at the robots, Chucky.

Do you know who is still alive?  Dick Cheney.

He’s 79 years old. He’s had five heart attacks, the first one when he was 37.  He’s had bypasses, pumps, stints, and probably a bottle of glue.  He had a heart transplant ten years ago. He shot a guy in the damn face, and a pellet or two landed near the guy’s heart and five years later it almost killed him.

And Cheney’s still alive.

That just doesn’t seem right.

Maybe it’s living proof that the good die young.

Well y’all, it looks like the man behind the curtain of the second dumbest president in history is downshifting and flooring it for first place.

Republican political guru Karl Rove is helping President Donald Trump’s re-election bid, focusing on voter outreach efforts and swing state strategies, four GOP operatives familiar with the effort told Insider.

They say that Rove is not being paid for his advice, which is overpriced if you ask me. He just wants to keep his name in the forefront for the 2024 race when campaign managers are needed.

Rove, for his part, says that while he advises the Trump campaign from time to time, he is not an advisor.

Yep, that’s how you know it’s Rove talking.

Bexar County, Texas, is where San Antonio lives.  They have a Republican Party in Bexar County that is become suicidal.

I can prove it.

This is their county chair holding a press conference and then hugging and licking on some men she asked to stand behind her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87wWueDaAQI

Party on, Guys!  Spread those cooties.

And as a special weekend treat, Kary sent us this —