By Howie Katz


News And Unusual Events That May Not Be Widely Circulated By The Media Plus An Occasional Bit Of Humor. A BarkGrowlBite Publication Which Refuses To Be Politically Correct. (Copyrighted articles are reproduced in accordance with the copyright laws of the U.S. Code, Title 17, Section 107.)
By Howie Katz
By Howie Katz
By Howie Katz
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is serving time in prison for being white and for piss-poor police work
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is serving time in prison for the murder of career criminal George Floyd. But Chauvin did not murder Floyd.
George Floyd died of his own doing. An autopsy revealed that he had ingested a fatal dose of Fentanyl. What kept him alive was that he also had methamphetamine in his system. The deadly effect of the Fentanyl, a powerful depressant, was offset by the meth, a stimulant.
The autopsy also revealed that Floyd had a bad heart. That would help explain why he complained, "I can't breathe." An officer's body cam clearly showed Floyd complaining that he couldn't breathe way before he was thrown to the ground and pinned there by the cops.
One doesn't have to be a pathologist to figure out that a combination of drugs and a bad heart contributed to Floyd's demise, if not actually the direct cause of his death.
Pinning Floyd to the ground for nine minutes while waiting for an ambulance was piss-poor police work.
Chauvin and his fellow cops should have placed Floyd inside a police car while awaiting an ambulance. Or they could have driven him to a jail where the booking officers would have called for an ambulance if they felt it was necessary. The arresting cops could have even rushed Floyd directly to a hospital.
Floyd's death set off Black Lives Matter protests and riots.all over the country. That resulted in Chauvin's political lynching.
Had Chauvin been white, there would have been no protests and he would not have been charged with a crime by both the State of Minnesota and the federal government.
The Minneapolis cops who pinned Floyd to the ground are not the only law enforcement officers that are victims of the BLM riots. Ever since those riots, America's white cops who used deadly force against black men or women have been targeted with criminal investigations by woke prosecutors, even when the use of that force was clearly justified
Chauvin is only guilty of being white and of piss-poor police work, not of murder.
Ben Shapiro, a strong ally of President Trump, and other MAGA supporters have urged the President to pardon Chuvin.
Trump has pardoned the rioters who attacked police officers as they stormed the nation's capitol on January 6, 2021. He has also pardoned some of his crooked supporters.
But Trump hasn't pardoned Derek Chauvin who has committed no crime but is rotting away in prison. Why not?
Memorial Day is a special time during which we should pay homage to all those brave members of our military who died fighting for our country
Nowadays, if it were not for the boob tube, most Americans wouldn't know what Memorial Day is about
By Howie Katz
The iconic photo of US Marines on Iwo Jima raising the American flag at the top of Mount Suribachi. In thirty-six days of fighting on the island, nearly 7,000 US Marines lost their lives
Memorial Day should be a solemn day during which we remember and honor all those who lost their lives fighting for our country, from the Revolutionary War through the war in Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, nowadays most Americans wouldn't know what Memorial Day was about if it weren't for the boob tube. Instead of honoring the fallen heroes, Americans use this day off from work for family reunions, a day at the beach, or to have a good time at Amusement parks like Disney World. They could care less about those who died so that they could enjoy this and every other day.
Take just one war, World War II. During that war, more than 400,00 American soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen died fighting in the European and Pacific theaters.
Some of the American soldiers who were killed in action lie on the beach at Normandy
The Normandy American Cemetery, near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, containing the graves of 9,386 dead.
US Marines crawl their way up the coastline of Iwo Jima, while under heavy fire from the surprisingly intact Japanese defenses
One battle is personal for me. Two of my high school friends died fighting on the sands of Iwo Jima. One of them, Freddie Warren, preceded the legendary Y.A. Tittle as quarterback of the Marshall Mavericks football team. Thus, Memorial Day has not been a joyous day for me.
And a word about American POWs. Those who were captured by the enemy were no less heroes than those who died in combat.
US Marines taken prisoner by the Chinese at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea
American POWs in North Vietnam
By Howie Katz