S2 E30 - Censure Tlaib, Useless is Dangerous, Shootings du Jour, Crime Abroad

Rashida Tlaib is in the news but - strangely - unhappy to be there

Don't take a knife to a gunfight but thanks for trying.

A demonstration of wasting time and money - it's much worse than just wasting time and money.  Even tragic

So called "mass shootings" and "school shootings" do very much happen elsewhere.  Shootings being the lesser of two problems.

Commentary on trending issues brought to you with a moderate perspective.

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Tlaib Censure, Knife to Gunfight, SS Eastland

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[00:00:11] Why the useless is worse than useless, taking a knife, or a grenade, to a gunfight, and you can support Palestinians by paying attention to one who craves attention, today on The Tenth Man.

[00:00:32] Tlaib got in trouble. In fact, got censured by Congress for making a couple comments, which is nothing new. She's always making comments, but she used the phrase. From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free. A phrase which advocates for the destruction of Israel. And she also spread propaganda or misinformation saying a hospital had been bombed by Israel, which it hadn't.

[00:00:59] She's always been controversial, and where did she come from? She's actually a product of term limits. A lot of people are in favor of term limits , , in other, , branches of the government, but be careful. what you wish for. She started out in the Michigan House, and like a lot of people in Congress, I think it seems to be common with female aides.

[00:01:26] It might happen with males, but both she and Gretchen Whitmer got their start working in the office of somebody else. And in the case of Whitmer and Talley, both in Michigan, because of term limits, the, the representative they were working for had to leave and then said, Hey, why don't you, uh, why don't you , run for my job?

[00:01:47] , they can, they can be in Congress or the, the, uh, state legislature for X years and it just changed, but typically they'll go in for, um, be a representative and they'll run for reelection once, and then they can run for office as a Senator. And after that, they're out.

[00:02:03] So the, , Political machinery is still there to put somebody new, basically a clone of the person leaving into the same spot, regardless of their qualifications. In the case of Rashida Tlaib, she did her stint, she's out on the street, and she's never had a job outside a government, or a government like agency.

[00:02:23] She went to a place called the, uh, Sugar Law Center. Where they do, , advocacy work, , legal representation for, for the poor. And then she ran for Congress, Washington Congress. And that story, uh, it was just by chance she got in. What happened was John Conyer had been in Congress forever. He was in Congress with.

[00:02:50] And, , he became a victim of his, , sex drives. He was accused of a sexual scandal. And, who knows what the scandal might have been because he said, , I'm not going through this and just resigned. So his seat was open and it was just, it was towards, there was only a couple of months left in his congressional term.

[00:03:13] So there was a special election for his seat followed by the general election. , it wouldn't be that interesting, except for the fact that one person won the special election and served in Congress for a couple of months. That was Brenda Jones, a legitimate. Typical Michigan, urban politicians, a black female Democrat on the Detroit city council, and then the amateur politician, Rashida Tlaib.

[00:03:44] Another black person ran and split the vote of the black people. Otherwise Rashida Tlaib never would have won it. So she got elected with, oh, I don't know, 30%. 30 percent of the popular vote was enough to get her into office. She won the primary with that 30 percent and, uh, nobody ever wins as a Republican.

[00:04:07] So once the election results were in, she became well known for saying, uh, giving her giving her acceptance speech, which was more about Trump than about anything she was going to do. She, uh, proclaimed that they were going to Washington and to impeach the MF.

[00:04:25] This is why to me, one option we should be considering is having runoff elections. If. There had been a runoff election , in that primary. She never would have been elected. She had a plurality, but had she then had to do a runoff election against, uh, Brenda Jones, Brendan Jones clearly would have, would have won in the subsequent election when she was reelected in, uh, 2020 that's solely because now the democratic machine was going to work and, uh, she was able to outspend Jones.

[00:05:00] By, uh, twenty to one almost.

[00:05:03] Now Rashida Tlaib is never quiet. But in this case, she tried to walk back her comment about from the river to the sea saying she didn't really mean it. She said it meant something else. Well, everybody knows what the phrase, the sentence, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free means. Everybody knows that means Palestine from the Jordan River to...

[00:05:30] To the Mediterranean Sea. No Israel there. Israel has to be destroyed. And that's Hamas policy. Everybody knows that. Hamas is one Palestinian group who has proclaimed and never retracted that they want Israel destroyed.

[00:05:45] The special irony of her statement is Is, uh, contrasting her making a blatant proclamation, something that means destroy Israel, and compare that to somebody innocently making a comment, such as using the A OK sign. Everything is A OK. That has been proclaimed a white supremacy sign. So now anybody who uses it in any other context at a game, hey kid, you did good, somebody will see that.

[00:06:18] And say, even though it's obviously in the context of you done good, you will still be accused of being a white supremacist. Yet people will defend her or support her statement where she's giving a speech saying from river to the sea, et cetera, et cetera, and say she meant something else.

[00:06:39] Then she made her appearance in Congress and tearfully proclaimed that people Oh, did not see the same humanity in the Palestinian children as they do in the Israeli children, which of course is not true. We see the humanity in all of them. We see this, the shame that any of them have to suffer, perhaps a little less shame that the Palestinian children are likely future terrorists.

[00:07:05] And, uh, as much sympathy as they try to evoke right now, those were the people spitting on the body. Of the poor German tattoo artists, as her body was paraded through the streets and her head cut off, they were cheering and spitting, et cetera, et cetera. Those are the same people.

[00:07:26] So when you show me a picture of somebody carrying a child to the hospital, well, we have to wonder, is that one of the people that was either. moCking or jeering or rejoicing in the death of that poor young woman and all the other all the other Hostages were taken and cheering as a result of the murderous massacre of the poor Israeli civilians Having said that however We do not need people in Congress Whose vote is going to be along the lines of whatever was the most recent saddest photograph they saw We don't want you to show us a sad video and say, this is why I'm gonna vote against Israel, or whatever the matter might be, because I found these sad videos.

[00:08:15] Tlaib is also being defended on the grounds of freedom of speech. Somebody needs a lesson in what freedoms are. Everybody knows, or should know, that your freedom Ends where somebody else's freedoms begin. Your rights do not give you the right to deprive other people's of their rights.

[00:08:37] Freedom of speech means that you will not be punished for holding an opinion. And it's supposed to mean that you're allowed to express it. No one's keeping her from expressing her opinion, nor even threatening her with, say, jail for it. If that were the case, 

[00:08:53] take the Proud Boys chairman, Enrique Tarrio. He received 22 years in prison for supposedly inciting the, uh, demonstrations of January 6th. He wasn't even there at the time, but he's got 22 years in prison, or President Trump for the same thing. Why don't they just say, we have freedom of speech? Well, they're not being...

[00:09:16] Prosecuted or imprisoned for having an opinion, for having an opinion about the election being stolen. They're being imprisoned for saying something that led to people trying to do something about it. Regardless of your feelings about it, or your, I don't think it's feelings necessarily, bad choice of words.

[00:09:37] Regardless of the facts of the matter, that's what they're being tried for. Not for expressing it, but because of events that happened. Rashida Tlaib is even more clearly directly causing problems in the terms of demonstrations and riots about Palestine. Not to mention speaking from a position of authority for the U.

[00:09:59] S. government, things that go contrary to U. S. government policy, because she's a part of the government.

[00:10:05] If she has a complaint based upon her first amendment rights, then a murderer Should be able to make a defense based on his second amendment rights. You can't, I was just exercising my right to keep and bear arms when I killed that dude. Nobody would accept that. Well, I'm sorry. It may be that some Democrats would accept that if it was a Democrat.

[00:10:29] Finally, Rashida Tlaib used to be proud of her arrests. Why is she crying about being censured by Congress? Interesting question. I think she's been arrested once for each term in office, once for the state and once for Washington. It's always the same thing. There's a refinery in Southeast Michigan. And, uh, she concocted an offense against the people of the area.

[00:10:54] She decided that the refinery was causing people to have respiratory issues. And, uh, she went down there and plopped herself down in the street. Like a , just stop oil protester and was taken away in handcuffs, but she was proudly taken away in handcuffs twice arrested. She's a, she broke the law and she's proud of it though.

[00:11:21] And typical for Democrats. There's also her partner AOC being arrested is so important to them that AOC faked being arrested.

[00:11:32] So what's the difference now? Now she's crying. Well, before, she got all this attention. But now she's getting attention where they're saying they don't want to hear what she has to say. They don't want to hear what she has to say. Women like AOC, like Ilhan Omar, like Rashida Tlaib, , they only go to Congress because to them it's just another TikTok. It's just another OnlyFans. It's just another microphone and a camera for them to be in front of.

[00:12:08] New Speaker of the House. Six weeks ago, Kevin McCarthy was kicked out as Speaker of the House. And this House Speaker deal, we had the same thing at the beginning of the year. We went through, uh, days and days of not having a house speaker elected. And this is a part of government that I believe we should not have to know that much about it.

[00:12:35] It should not be thrust into the spotlight, the selection of the house speaker, any more than who's the Sergeant of the Guard or how clean are the restrooms. It shouldn't be something that we have to think about, but it's made the news. Well, why is it made the news? Well, because they didn't have one. Why did it, why didn't they have one?

[00:12:55] Well, here's where we have to blame the Democrats. A couple of, um, of our far right Republicans, and we love them, but, uh, they decided to make their, their voices heard by Blocking Kevin McCarthy and actually blocking the election of any other house speaker. And, it's been portrayed as unorganized Republicans.

[00:13:19] Well, a lot of people don't even know that everybody in the house votes for the house speaker. And when they say the Republicans are unorganized, they're referring to the fact that the Republicans have a majority and if every single. Republican voted for the same house speaker. They would have a new house speaker, but everyone didn't.

[00:13:41] And all the Democrats voted against him. So all the Democrats voted against Kevin McCarthy after he compromised with them to get a spending bill , to keep the government going. So the one guy who does work across the aisle, they punish him by voting him out. Any five or six Democrats could have made it possible for us to have a house speaker before.

[00:14:09] And, , got, and then had, I don't know, maybe had five Republicans that would go along with them. And then they, they could have elected a, uh, a more liberal. Republican, but surely among all the people, all the people who offered to serve as house speaker, there could have been one that some Democrats would get behind, but they didn't only to make the government look bad.

[00:14:38] And so imagine back during, uh, world war II when, uh, FDR died or, uh, during, uh, The Cold War, when Kennedy died, that'd be a good time for somebody to make a move, right? McCarthy was kicked out of office on October 3rd. Hamas invaded Israel four days later.

[00:15:03] Might have happened anyway, but it was still a horrible time for it to happen. And there have been repercussions. Surely this has contributed to somebody's death in the Middle East. To somebody's.

[00:15:20] We have a two party system and whatever parties in the majority, still has to work with the minority and vice versa. But in this case, if any, if any minority of the Democrats had been willing to work with the Republicans, we could have been better off. Whatever it is that Congress is supposed to do, whatever.

[00:15:41] So regardless of, of the debt, what the definition is, whatever that happens to be, they got a whole lot less of it done. And that costs us millions of dollars, millions or billions of dollars. And the Democrats are just rubbing their hands together and gloating over it. You got to have give and take.

[00:16:03] They're doing all this to avoid a government shutdown. I remember a government shutdown in 1999. We had them before that, but not as big. And, uh, it didn't happen too much because the government would just keep on going when there was a, uh, Uh, a funding issue, but at some point in time, one of the attorneys general proclaimed that that was not legal.

[00:16:25] So the government started shutting down either for a few hours or a couple of days, and then we've had some long ones, but back in 1999, it was interesting. When I heard on the news that, uh, well, the government shut down, therefore the grand Canyon will be closed. Hmm. How does that happen exactly? Did they unplug it?

[00:16:51] The pumps that power the Colorado River aren't, aren't going to run anymore? Well, to explain it a little more, you've got Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Visited there , recently , and uh, impending possible shutdown was in the news and I gave it some thought because, uh, Mammoth Cave is huge. Around World War II they had mapped about 40 miles of it, and now they've explored and mapped over 600 miles of underground passages.

[00:17:24] And it all starts out with one big hole that used to be, you could just walk into it, go take your torch, or your candle, or later your lantern, then later your Coleman lantern, your flashlight, your LEDs, walk down there. And, uh, walk around, but now it's a national park, so it's closed, but to close it, they had to put up a gate that they can close and lock.

[00:17:51] So they've got an across the opening, they've got a big fence, a gate in the middle of it, and they close and lock it. The point is this, the government cannot open the Grand Canyon or Mammoth Cave. The government can only close it. You don't need government to have a mammoth cave. You only need a government to keep people out of mammoth caves.

[00:18:20] The last time a big shutdown was threatened back in 2019, there was so much whining. Oh no, what if the government shuts down? What about all the poor government employees? Poor is a joke already. But what will they do? And then they started collecting, um, what do they always collect? Uh, bottled water and baby wipes.

[00:18:43] And you can tell a lot about a society by what they collect for their, the poor, when there's a catastrophe. And when you consider that bottled water and baby wipes didn't exist a hundred years ago, but that's what we consider a necessity during a, during a disaster. And, uh, these poor employees, they won't, they won't, they won't get paid.

[00:19:07] How will they survive? Well, there's a funny thing about that. They do get paid. They just get their pay deferred. And even if, even if you think, well, gee, it's too bad they don't get paid, yes, they don't get, they don't get paid because they're not working. Yet, when they go back to work, they get all the pay from that time where they did not work.

[00:19:36] It's not poor government employees. Geez, it's... Poor taxpayer. Now, if you're a government employee and you're too dumb to know that these things happen to have some savings, well, that's a tough noogies. But the majority of government employees, when a shutdown is pending, uh, why doesn't the news go in and interview these people?

[00:20:00] Because what they're doing is they're. They're totaling up their frequent flyer miles and looking for bookings in Airbnbs and checking into their timeshare. Maybe they're going to spend another week in their cabin. Oh, that's going to be the big complaint at the government office if there is a shutdown.

[00:20:20] It's going to be, why couldn't we have this back in August when we could go to the cottage? Now the ones that hunt, they're going to be fine. Well, we'll go, I'll go hunting when the government shuts down or spend some time in deer camp.

[00:20:34] You could probably go down to, um, Cancun, and you can find two government employees bumping into each other on the beach. Oh, Hey, Sid. Hey, Harv. Nice to be out of the office. Isn't it? How's the wife? Yeah, she's over there on the blanket. Now, contrast that with what they told us in 2020 when they started shutting down people's businesses when they started enforcing the lockdowns.

[00:21:01] You need to be patriotic and suck it up. Those people lost their businesses, went broke. There was no shutting it down and then getting all your money back. There was no, I get to take a vacation. They weren't rubbing their hands together and saying, Oh boy. Off to Cancun, we had people who wanted to work, but Democrats just hate people that want to work.

[00:21:28] They hate that. They like people who don't want to work to give them, to give them money, whether it's government employees on shutdown or illegal colonizers from the South or

[00:21:42] college attendees who didn't graduate, but went on borrowed money. They love giving money to people who didn't work, and they hate the people who do the work.

[00:21:54] So please don't you be misled. Uh, don't misplace your sympathies.

[00:22:01] Gaza War. Here's a funny one. Lebanon decided to get in on the Gaza war, started launching rockets at their government, or their terrorist government, Hezbollah. Firing rockets at Israel. In turn, Israel attacked them and, uh, Lebanon is complaining that they've been firing white phosphorous at them. Good ol Willie Peter.

[00:22:25] And it's contaminating the soil. Contaminating the soil. That's funny. So white phosphorus, it's an incendiary. It starts fires and it makes smoke. So, uh, somebody might throw a white phosphorus grenade or fire a white phosphorus, uh, mortar shell at a spot where they want bombs to fall. And, uh, the, then the heavy stuff, they can see where to, to put the ordinance.

[00:22:53] And it can be used to set fire, so if there's terrorists taking cover in some bushes, they'll fire over there and, uh, set the bushes on fire. And as far as being contaminant, phosphorus is fertilizer. If you go buy a bag of fertilizer, it's got three numbers on it, like it might be 0, 25, 12, or 12, 12, 12. We used to put that on the guard when I was a kid.

[00:23:18] The middle number, the second 12, that's how much phosphorus is in the fertilizer. They're getting free fertilizer. And they're complaining. They're complaining to the United Nations World Health Organization, that it's a war crime

[00:23:32] don't take a knife to a gunfight or a grenade. Sympathies go out to the family of the bartender who is killed in the Lewiston shooting. He tried to disarm the shooter with a butcher knife. . Perhaps because the bar was a gun free zone, he didn't have a gun. You might want to just carry one anyway. That almost worked.

[00:23:58] Well, I think it did work, actually, in an active shooter situation in Oregon last year. In both cases, , the good guy with the knife died. But in Portland, the shooter was going through a grocery store, and a guy in the produce department attacked him with a knife. Slowed him down.

[00:24:15] And, uh, then the police got him. So, it really takes a good guy with a gun, but if a knife's all you have, I guess that's what you gotta use. And, talking about gun control, maybe instead of gun control, some people should talk about bomb control. Although they have a problem with bombs and guns both, if you go to, what country are we talking about?

[00:24:43] I'll give you a hint, they went from, I think number 20, I'm sorry, number 17 in the , World Peace Index. They went from number 17 in 2020, down to number 28 in 2023. Now the US, we're holding steady down in the 130s, , right above Mexico. So we're going to talk about how the Global Peace Index is a farce.

[00:25:08] To some degree, but here we're saying that, uh, yeah, they really did go down. And, did I say the country? It's Sweden. .

[00:25:16] Sweden has had 134 bombings so far in 2023. Um, it's interesting that they're saying bombings in the newspaper. I think they're afraid of using the word hand grenade. That's two words. What people are throwing in Sweden is hand grenades, you know, like, like the army uses. Pull the pin, count to three, throw it, let the spoon flies out and it goes off in, I think it's five seconds, ten, something like that.

[00:25:48] Versus 90 total bombings in 2022. So if you do the math at that rate, uh, that's almost 100 percent increase. It's around 97%. And, uh, we're talking about a country with a population of 10 million. That's about the same as, okay, if you're in New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, they're all right around the 10 million mark of population.

[00:26:14] So imagine 134 hand grenade attacks in any one of those states. You think that might make the news? Well, no, it would not. It would not make the news in the United, well, in the states it would. The reason it does not make the news... Is because it's in Sweden, and they need a reason for it to not make the news, because , all violence is only in the U.

[00:26:35] S. So, it's not a shooting, so they don't have to report it here. Only shootings matter. There's no, um, there's no hand grenade obsessed movement here, there's only gun law obsessed movement here.

[00:26:53] And it's not just bombings. There are shootings there. I actually, there's, there's, there are a lot of shootings. I have a long list. I'm not going to go through them all, but I'll just mention one, uh, last month, uh, a shooting where one kid shot another kid at a soccer field. And there were a lot of other kids playing, uh, again, this is in Sweden.

[00:27:13] And, uh, it's not reported if that happened here, it would be called a school shooting. Somebody shot a gun at, at the school. This is the main reason we don't know how bad our school shooting problem is here. How it compares with, with other countries. Because all the shootings here are exaggerated.

[00:27:37] School shooting is an imaginary term. The thing that we fear, the incident that we fear is the, is targeted school violence. That's when somebody sets out to do damage at a school, do violence, do harm at a school. What's reported as school shootings here is anytime a, a bullet traverses school airspace. 

[00:28:01] We're talking about gang, or romance, or family, or drug related violence at a football game. Those are football shootings, or gang shootings, or drug shootings, or domestic violence shootings. So we shouldn't call them school shootings. We should stick with targeted school violence. And the one in Sweden, , it really was students, , and the kids who were in danger were, students.

[00:28:29] But clearly by the definition they use here, it was a bullet in school airspace, but not reported.

[00:28:36] and year to year, their shootings are up as well. Shootings went from 25 shootings in 2015, that's people being shot, to 342 to 2020. And again, in the area of weapons of war, last January, January 25th, two school boys age 14 and 15, they shot a barrage of bullets into the door of an apartment.

[00:29:05] And one was charged with attempted murder, the 15 year old, the other one not. But, uh, here's the fun part. Actual weapons of war. Yeah, automatic weapons. Stockholm, Sweden, January 25th. Two boys blazing away. A hail of gunfire at an apartment trying to kill a guy inside. I don't think they hit him. Maybe that's the other reason they don't count it.

[00:29:28] I bet you didn't hear that in the news. Now, some people over there are blaming immigration. Um, regardless, how are they responding? There's no outcry for more. Gun laws. They're responding with more law enforcement. Imagine that

[00:29:47] next topic. A new topic is that useless is dangerous. Things that are useless we sometimes want to think of as being, uh, benign. Sometimes, heck, always, we think of things as useless. Well, maybe it's worth a try if it doesn't cost too much money, but we continue to do things that have no value at all, and we want to isolate some of those.

[00:30:07] And I want to give an example of that.

[00:30:11] Something that's absolutely useless. And if it is absolutely useless, it'll eventually become dangerous. So let's look at an example. We're coming up on the anniversary of the sinking of the SS Carl D. Bradley, a Great Lakes freighter in 1958. And for those of us who are surrounded by the Great Lakes, , they are impressive bodies of water with ship traffic on them.

[00:30:37] And the Carl Bradley sank in 1958 on November 19th. There were only two survivors. It's important to note this because, , Gordon Lightfoot just died, and people who know his song, they think the Edmund Fitzgerald is the only, uh, ship that ever sank on the Great Lakes, and there have been thousands of them.

[00:30:56] Fortunately, there's not that many anymore. Uh, it's like if you're a Jeopardy fan, about once a month there's a question where the answer is the Titanic. And on the oceans, it's like the Titanic is the only ship that ever sank. And on the Great Lakes, it's as if the Edmund Fitzgerald is the only one, but, uh, again, lost with nearly all hands, the S.

[00:31:17] S. Carl Bradley. Then 1966, the Daniel Morrell. And I actually remember that one. That was lost with all hands except one. And that gentleman, he died in 2015, but he used to be able to be found at the Great Lakes Museum telling the story. Thank you. He was a youngster.

[00:31:36] I think he was in his, I think he was about 19 or 20. Well, we can do the math. . But anyway, uh, Uh, he was awake in the middle of the night to the ship breaking up. He got onto a life raft wearing his boxers, boxer shorts, and a coat. with three other men. The other three died. He burrowed under their bodies and managed to live, but he was, he was seriously injured, but he lived.

[00:32:03] And, um, both of these ships, as well as the Edmund Fitzgerald, were the Queen of the Lakes at the time. Each of them was the biggest ship on the Great Lakes at the time of their being built. And each of them broke in half. The Edmund Fitzgerald, uh, no specific reason, but the other two, it was known to, that the older steel built at the time was brittle, so cracks would develop and, uh, spread and, and it happened in a storm.

[00:32:35] Happened in a storm. In each case, it's in November. Uh, Gordon Lightfoot's song refers to the gales of November and it is very typical that a ship would sink on the intended last voyage of the year because, well it would be the last voyage of the year, but what was always planned to be the last voyage of the year because of the shipping season ending, and it gets more and more dangerous so the likelihood of, uh, it Being sunk on the, uh, intended last voyage is, is higher than on another voyage.

[00:33:08] And, um, I'm telling you about these two ships in order to tell you about another one. And this is another ship on the Great Lakes called the Eastland. The Eastland was an excursion ship based out of Chicago at the time. And it sank at its pier. in 1915. Just rolled over. Three years after the Titanic had sunk, and these two ships are linked in two ways.

[00:33:38] And one is that more passengers died on the Eastland than died on the Titanic. That's a surprise, I'll bet. It's a little bit of a tricky statement because uh, the Titanic had far more crew. It had to have stewards and stewardesses and cooks and so on as where an excursion boat didn't and Crew to sustain long voyages and a lot more engines So that's that's that's why but over 800 people almost 840 people died on the Eastland drowned Right at the pier Pier side because it turned over Well, why'd it turn over?

[00:34:17] Because, in 1912, the Titanic had sunk and it was determined that one of the factors in all the deaths, even though half the lifeboats had been, uh, had pulled away almost empty, but still there were not enough lifeboats and, uh, the authorities said everybody has to have enough lifeboats for all the passengers on the ship, so they hung a bunch of lifeboats on the Eastland.

[00:34:45] Enough to make it top heavy, and when enough passengers went over to one side, it's one theory. It was enough to make it tip over on its side, and hundreds and hundreds of people died.

[00:34:59] So that's how it's linked to the Titanic. Well, how's it linked to the, uh, Carl D. Bradley and the Daniel Morrell? Well, the Carl D. Bradley and Daniel Morrell weren't able to launch any of those lifeboats. And it was determined that lifeboats were pretty much useless. Lifeboats of that style were useless on those ships.

[00:35:22] Not only that, but, uh, These ships are never going to be 100 miles from shore, because the farthest you can get from shore in Lake Michigan is, uh, about 40 miles. Therefore, There's always going to be a ship nearby and unlike, unlike the freighters that go, that go right up through November, the excursion boats, they're only going to be out there in warmer weather.

[00:35:45] You could probably give everybody a life jacket. So in this case, you definitely have lifeboats that were put on supposedly for a good reason, but they weren't just useless. They were worse than useless. They were dangerous. And they made hundreds and hundreds of people die.

[00:36:09] Okay, the mass shooting du jour. Let's talk about today's mass shooting. We covered the school shooting in Sweden. We have two more school shootings and a mass shooting to discuss. There were two school shootings in Hamburg, Germany, same city, last week. One boy killed a classmate and at another school, two school boys barricaded themselves in a room with what turned out to be a toy gun.

[00:36:36] But that still counts to the gun ban obsessed. Hamburg is also where the mass murder took place at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses last month, killing six of our sympathies, and we can only watch as they do not create any new gun laws there. That's all for today. Please leave any comments on our Facebook page, catch our latest videos on Rumble, YouTube, and TikTok.

[00:37:03] Thanks.