Mates, for today's blog yer Captain'll be taken a break from the daily grind of "Trumpf this" and Trumpf that".
It can wear out one's Soul!
Have I mentioned that Trumpf's name is found 38,000 times in the Epstein Files? And only half of the files have been released.
But I digress. I'm taking a break from all that today.
Gas prices here just jumped overnight to $4.34 per gallon, almost $2 per gallon more than before Trumpf started his little non-war.
Are we winning yet?
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes...
As yer Captain was driving home one afternoon last week, I spied a license plate on a vehicle, the sort of which I had never seen before.
There, staring back at me from the bumper of an SUV was the Jolly Roger!
On an official Tennessee license plate!
Mates, if there was ever a reason to live in Tennessee - BUT THERE'S NOT! - it would be to hang this plate off the back of me own "Flyin' Dutchman"!
It's bad enough to be represented by Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, but Marsha Blackburn?
Lord help us!
["Stay focused, Captain!"]
"Crusade Against Darkness!" it said on the license plate.
Sounds ominous!
The Captain wanted to know more.
But seein' as I was headed for a gas station - did I mention...? Oh, never mind - and the other vehicle was headed for the open highway, I didn't have the opportunity to ask.
As is the way with such vanity plates, a portion of the proceeds from the annual fee at registration go to a charitable cause. So I asked Dr. Google.
"Crusade Against Darkness" is a phrase taken from Helen Keller, an amazing woman of another generation who lost her sight due to an illness at 19 months old. Nonetheless, she did great things with her life, not the least of which was to become an advocate for people with disabilities, especially the vision-impaired.
In 1925 she reportedly challenged the Lions Club to become "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness".
To this day, a major outreach of the Lions Club is to provide vision services, collect used eye glasses and make them available to children and others with vision impairments.
Here's the fun part: they chose the "Jolly Roger" as their symbol due to the eye patch!
Get it?
Hey, that's all I've got for today. Take it or leave it.
It's Cinco de Mayo and there's a margarita calling my name!
And for those of you who support I.C.E. and Trumpf's vile, anti-immigrant rhetoric, I better not see you at the cantina today. This is not your holiday to celebrate!
Go drink your Busch Light with your own kind!
