Songs Sung True...

The Schloss-Blog is tuning up for karaoke, but it's not going to be too pretty, we're afraid. Before we take the mic though...

...a high school football coach who prays at the 50 yard line after games had his right to do so upheld by the Supreme Court in Kennedy v Bremerton, a blow to separation of church and state.

Some parents fear that defending this could adversely impact the chances of their sons playing if they don't join him or any other coach now with that SCOTUS blessing.

What do you think, guys? When you played, would you have felt intimidated?  What do you think, football moms?

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The National Football League, so concerned about concussions, is petitioning the International Olympic Committee to have flag football declared an Olympic sport.

Can't want for the game against Russia.

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We're going to have a new British Prime Minister.

Who cares?

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Donald Trump is going to run for president again.

A few things here:

1) He could be running under indictment, in multiple states and federal jurisdictions;

2) But he'll use that for fundraising;

3) It would be a badge of honor for him;

4) Then again, if he did win in 2020, like he says, then he can't serve a third term;

5) As of the moment though, polls show him losing to ultimately unpopular Joe Biden.

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New York has enacted a new law to restrict and monitor gun sales and possession.

Take that, Supreme Court.

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President Biden has signed an Executive Order protecting women's reproductive rights. It goes as far as an executive order allows the man in the White House to go.

It broadens access to abortion pills and protects against some prosecutions that some state laws allow for performing and/or assisting those seeking abortions.

But with too many other things he has done in his administration, it may be too little, too late.

Until he gets Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to get their heads out of their asses, Democratic legislative platforms have little hope.

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We don't notice it in our everyday lives, but a United Nations report cites that we are using up 12 percent of our wild tree species around the world, especially in Africa, where greater than the international average of one in three people use wood for cooking.

Yes, 1 in 3 people use wood for cooking, on average, around the world. Not everyone has an Abt or Best Buy to shop at down the block.

This trend though is doing harm to more than a thousand wild mammal species.

Camping across America this summer? Before you light that campfire...

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I mentioned karaoke. This is "karaoke lamentation America," and where the right-wing fascists are taking us. Recognize this old one?

And though the past has its share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But its protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey

The spirit was freedom and justice
And its keepers seemed generous and kind
Its leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won't pay it no mind
Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
Now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told

And I know you recognize this one:

Blossom fails to bloom this season
Promise not to stare
Too long (this is not America)
For this is not the miracle

There was a time
A storm that blew, so pure
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have the faintest idea

For this is not America

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A new report compiled by leading American Republican judges and leading conservative jurist Ben Ginzburg reveals conclusively that every fraud claim brought in every suit by Trump and his supporters - all 64 of those filings - had no basis of fraud whatsoever. Not even a single precinct anywhere in any battleground state would have been overturned due to fraud. This was indeed the cleanest, safest election in history.

Maybe, just maybe, enough idiots, enough members of the basket of deplorables, will finally believe that.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

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