Freddie the German World Cup tourist says that Amish land is his favorite place so far, and he’s been to some great places.
Since Freddie started his World Cup road trip three weeks ago, he has been attracting attention on Twitter. When he went viral, everybody with clout has been giving him VIP treatment.
If you haven’t heard of Freddie, here are some of his posts describing his experiences.
Britain braces for hottest June day on record
She seems nice. Probably a druid or some other kind of pagan.
The article says that it may hit 38o C in England this week. For countries that landed a man on the moon, that’s about 100o F.
Scream Queens is campy and fun, but not dumb. It’s a slasher/thriller satire, with sharp writing and a great cast. It came out in 2015, and only ran for two seasons, but each mystery takes about half of a season. The situations are absurd, obeying slasher logic, but sort of plausible.
Sparky wants to play Juneteenth Charadethes.
Do we have to say it like that?
“Yup”
Sparky explains that for Juneteenth Charadethes, you have to act out a notable Black character. Sparky went first.
The way he was licking his chops, I had a pretty good idea.
On Morning Edition, NPR was talking about Juneteenth. It’s a big deal. They predicted that highway traffic may be reduced because everybody is off for the federal holiday. I was going to go to Aldi today, I should check if they have reduced hours.
Since Sparky is half Black, I wanted to do something special, but NPR was vague on the Juneteenth traditions. Breakfast in bed is always welcome and appropriate, so I went with that.
MPs vote against Tory call for new grooming gangs inquiry
This is dark, dark, dark. Worse than the Catholic priest scandal or whatever went on at Epstein’s island. I don’t usually get too serious, but in the UK, law enforcement, the BBC and government officials are comfortable with Pakistani men raping White girls. Our corporate media doesn’t have an incentive to spend time on this depravity, so people may not know about it.
At the start of last year, the UK Parliament voted against investigating the widespread rape of White girls, so Rupert Lowe, a member of Parliament, independently conducted the investigation.
The report looks comprehensive and legit. The events are horrible.
Oh Good Lord.
It’s customary, I get that. It’s fitting that Obama’s Presidential Center has a basketball court, but no presidential library. Why did they put these people on display for the party?
The High Schooler Who Designed the 50-Star American Flag
It was 1958, and Robert G. Heft was a junior at Lancaster High School in Ohio. His history teacher, Stanley Pratt, gave the class an open-ended assignment: make something, anything, and bring it in. Most students chose something safe. Heft decided to redesign the flag of the United States.
Heft took the challenge seriously. He sent his flag to his congressman and began a steady campaign of letters and calls. Then history caught up with his design. Alaska became a state in January 1959, and Hawaii followed that August. Suddenly the country needed a 50-star flag, and submissions poured in by the thousands.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower selected a design identical to the one Heft had sewn in his grandparents’ kitchen. On July 4, 1960, the 50-star flag became official. It has flown ever since, the longest-serving version of the American Flag in the nation’s history.
And the grade? Pratt kept his word. The B minus became an A.
Now you know the rest of the story.
On a motorcycle, even a routine drive to work is fun. Being gone since Wednesday, I needed to mow the lawn, so Sparky came out to make it fun.
His first idea, was to walk along the retaining wall to sniff out chipmunks. It looked a little dangerous, but Sparky is a free man with agency, so he can decide for himself. He is pretty graceful, so I wasn’t worried.
That looks awesome.
While foreigners are spreading out around North America for the Soccer World Cup, Americans can watch a fight on the White House front lawn.
Some of the people online who are butt-hurt because they say this is below the dignity of the presidency, wouldn’t be too shook up if President Trump was assassinated.
I don’t care about UFC or Soccer, but it’s good to see people having fun.
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