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Here’s a recap of the week…
BML Monday: Racism, Satire & Schools
…tough to be ahead of the reality curve
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. Sadly it seems to be more and more the case.IN A HANDBASKET today is the idea of “digital racism.” Think of it as cultural appropriation for social media. Somebody already is. The Babylon Bee is having a tough time with satire. Much of what they publish as commentary turns into reality. They just happen to be predicting it.
Culture wars in our schools are raging hot. The latest: a principal at a Tallahassee Christian school has lost her job on the altar of indecency. Each school will have to draw its lines, but this one seems a bit extreme.
In more education idiocy, an Illinois school laid down the LGBT law to students who complied with the school’s directive. The school then threatened discipline for them doing just what they were told.
Finally, parents are getting it. One mom is standing up for her kids and everyone else’s when she said race based admissions to schools for the academically strong are helping nobody.
Representative Tyler Sirois will join us tomorrow at 8am with an update on the legislative session. It’s been an interesting one and I look forward to Tyler’s time with us. Yet, I have to wonder, does this super-majority body know the ammunition it is giving opponents on second amendment issues?
Let’s get our talk week started.
BML Tuesday: Values Lost
Mar 28, 2023
In perusing headlines in show prep I had to wonder if the TSA has a problem. A trans-woman (a dude) claims a TSA agent hit her in the testicles. An NFL player describes his TSA search as a sexual assault. Does TSA stand for testicle searching agency? The TSA is IN A HANDBASKET this morning.
Yesterday saw a tragic shooting at a Nashville elementary school perpetrated by a transgender person. 3 kids, 3 adults and the shooter died. Apparently there was a manifesto and a lot of planning for this attack.
Are we losing our values? One poll is indicating that and Bill Maher takes on the left with the idea of merit falling behind race in things we value.
Representative Tyler Sirois joins us in our 8am hour. It's been a busy couple of weeks in the legislature with school voucher expansion now law, the expansion of the parental rights in education law, the legislature advancing some firearms measures while ignoring others, limiting lawsuits and more. We’ll catch up on the legislative session in that final hour today.
BML: WIDE OPEN WEDNESDAY
…Brevard Interim Superintendent Suspended
The choices are vast on this WIDE OPEN WEDNESDAY.
A top female swimmer has ripped ESPN a new one and it’s well deserved. It’s shamed the former sports, now political network into silence.
The rest of media can’t report facts and is completely confused on reporting the Nashville school shooting, all because of the shooter’s gender.
Brevard’s interim Superintendent of Schools is too big for his britches and clearly demonstrated it with his manifesto directed at his bosses, the school board. The board has placed him on leave. If his contract doesn’t carry a big buy out, it’s time to cut him loose. He serves as the best example that Brevard needs to get out of the education establishment to find a real leader who can manage our schools.
Back to media- they sure don’t like being exposed for their partisan jabs at conservative officials and Team DeSantis is giving them more than they can handle.
The IRS appears to have been weaponized against Matt Taibbi with a house call.
Could the D-33 Rep. be the new president of Florida Atlantic University? He says so. The governor agrees. Only D-33 could put a stain on the glory days for FAU basketball by making the week of their first Final Four appearance all about him!
Those stories are on my mind as we start the day. What's got you thinking?
It’s your day to take us anywhere you like with WIDE OPEN WEDNESDAY!
BML Thursday: Can Conservatism Survive?
…School Board responds to Schiller screed
American values on the decline, an interim superintendent of schools trashing his bosses and our community, sacrificing hard work for feelings and more will drive our Thursday conversation. Florida Today’s John Torres will join us in our final hour with a look at journalism and government as well as the school board conundrum.
Opening the day we’ll see what has overpaid female soccer players miffed now, NPR admitting it was wrong on transletes and the NHL reconsidering a bad decision to hold PRIDE NIGHTS. Then, can conservatives adapt in a changing America? Can we do that when the idea of accomplishment is under attack?
We’ll see what you think as the Space Coast’s morning conversation evolves on today’s BML.
BML Friday: Trump Indicted!
…Judge A. B. Majeed at 8am
Just when we were thinking it may not happen, it did. After announcing the grand jury in Manhattan would not be meeting again for a month or so, the indictment of President Trump was announced. The president is anticipated to turn himself in sometime next week. You’ll have from 6:42 to the end of the 7am hour to have your say on the matter. In our 8am hour Judge A. b. Majeed joins us to outline the legalities of this event and those to come.
We’ll have a couple of stories to open the day: an interesting twist to the NCAA Final Four and IN A HANDBASKET we’ll explore Pronoun Police inserting themselves in inappropriate places.