[Political Insider] Confederate Railroad, a prolific and popular southern country-rock band, has been removed from the lineup at the Du Quoin State Fair in Illinois due to their name.
The decision was made by the state Department of Agriculture according to a statement in response to very little public outcry, creating a controversy where there had previously been none.
"The Illinois Department of Agriculture has removed Confederate Railroad from our 2019 Du Quoin State Fair Grandstand lineup," State Fair Manager Josh Gross said.
"While every artist has a right to expression, we believe this decision is in the best interest of serving all the people in our state," he added.
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The decision was made by the state Department of Agriculture according to a statement in response to very little public outcry, creating a controversy where there had previously been none.
The professional left has that down to a science, with the help of a compliant media.
[Babylon Bee] BEAVERTON, OR‐Nike has released a new patriotic shoe just in time for the Fourth of July: the Sanders Air Marx, the official, signature shoe of Senator Bernie Sanders.
Every pair of Air Marx is emblazoned with Sanders' signature and iconic "crazy old man" silhouette. The shoes pack in all kinds of useful features for people living in a socialist regime, including the following:
• New ActiveShrink technology helps the shoe shrink right along with you as you wither away from starvation
• Breadline Padding Plus helps you stand in breadlines for hours hoping the government is generous enough to give you some food
• A Venezuelan flag, or optional Soviet Russian flag, to show your true patriotism
• A patented air pump that helps you pump up your wheelbarrow tire as you slave away farming food for the government to redistribute
• Comfy and aerodynamic design that helps you chase zoo animals more effectively
• The shoes are completely edible and can be boiled into soup or gruel in a pinch
• The shoes are not available for purchase but will be given from Nike according to their ability to each customer according to their needs.
"I'm happy to team up with Nike to release this shoe," said Sanders. "I will make millions of dollars off this deal, which is not hypocritical because it's me and not you."
The Sanders Air Marx is only available in one size, as Sanders remarked: "who needs a choice of shoe size when there are starving children in the world?"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] BEAVERTON, OR‐Nike has released a new patriotic shoe just in time for the Fourth of July: the Sanders Air Marx, the official, signature shoe of Senator Bernie Sanders.
