7. Lab-grown meat is coming, but the Alabama Legislature wants to make it illegal to sell it in the state of Alabama and the State Senate has already passed the bill that was sponsored by a cattle farmer and State Sen. Jack Williams (R-Mobile). The bill makes it a Class C felony to manufacture, sell, or distribute cultivated meat, which seems like a bit much, when the state could just force the sellers to identify the meat as lab-grown and let consumers decide.
6. Reckless thugs shooting into a crowd near the Kansas City Chiefs’ parade should not be called “thugs” according to the mayor of Kansas City because it is a “dog whistle.” But dog whistles are only heard by dogs. Dumbass Mayor Quinton Lucas said, “I disagree strongly with how he would describe that situation. I certainly do think this was criminal activity. It was lawlessness, and I think that that’s troubling. But ‘thugs’ is a dog whistle in the most classic sense.”
5. Former President Donald Trump lost a huge and obviously politically motivated court case where no one lost money and former prosecutors passed on bringing charges for allegedly inflating his wealth to obtain loans. Trump was ordered to pay $355 million and is now banned from doing business or getting loans in New York.
4. Fear not, says New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. It was just politics and other businesses need not worry about angering the wrong prosecutor because former President Donald Trump got what he deserved. “Law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about, because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior.” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall warns that the other cases Trump is facing are political as well, “Biden’s Department of Justice has given no reason for its delay in bringing these charges, or for its demand to rush this trial and short-circuit review of weighty constitutional issues. All that suggests that the Special Counsel wants to protect President [Joe] Biden by convicting his challenger right before the election.”
3. American politicians seem to think there are two reasons for us to care about Navalny’s death: To try to force Republicans in Congress to send money to Ukraine without real border security and to make former President Donald Trump look bad for not reacting the way the media demands.
2. Changes to school choice bills are coming according to the sponsor of the legislation in the Alabama State Senate, State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur). The changes seem less than likely to change the bill that much with a total cap on the bill as a starting point, requiring less from the Legislature if the total amount is not used the year before, and a portion to share testing results for schools participating in the program.
1. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is on board the gambling train, polishing the roulette wheel, rolling the dice, and shuffling the cards, has a message for those who think this is a bad bill or oppose it for other reasons, “You don’t have to gamble” which is an angle abortion fanatics would love to try as if, “if you don’t want an abortion, don’t have one,” might sway the governor. But never say never, abortion fans, a much younger Kay Ivey also argued against gambling, in part saying, “If legalized gambling raised the percent of gamblers in our state to the national average, 25,000 additional gambling addicts would be created, at a cost of more than $200 million per year in crime, lost productivity and costs for health and human services.”
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN, Talk 99.5 and News Radio 1440 from 10-11 a.m., and on Talk Radio 103.9 FM/730AM WUMP from 6 to 7 p.m.
