{"id":46782,"date":"2023-10-11T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T22:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46782"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:45:42","slug":"warning-do-not-go-on-a-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/warning-do-not-go-on-a-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"WARNING: Do Not Go on a \u201cPicnic\u201d!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The \u201cWoke Virus\u201d pandemic has already infected many on the left, and a new outbreak has struck UNLV.
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Last weekend, the Environmental Law Society at the Boyd School of Law had scheduled a picnic to be held at Lake Mead.
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But apparently some \u201cwoke warriors\u201d got their nose bent out of shape and pitched up a storm.\u00a0 That led to the Society sending out the following notice days before the scheduled event\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cHello Boydians! In light of recent information regarding historical and offensive connotations associated with the word \u2018picnic,\u2019 we have chosen to rename our event to \u2018Lunch by the Lake.\u2019\u00a0 The Environmental Law Society strongly promotes diversity and inclusion, and we sincerely apologize for any harm or discomfort the initial title may have caused.\u201d<\/em>
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How asinine.\u00a0 And these people are going to be\u00a0LAWYERS<\/u>\u00a0some day?
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The woke crowd\u2019s war on \u201cpicnics\u201d isn\u2019t something new. Dave Huber of The College Fix reports that a similar effort to ban \u201cpicnics\u201d was launched back in 2020 at the University of Michigan.
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The allegation was that people who attended lynchings often held picnics while watching the hangings and, therefore, the picnics themselves were racist.
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In response, Reuters reported: \u201cFact check: The word picnic does not originate from racist lynchings.\u201d
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David Pilgrim, curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, said \u201cit\u2019s possible someone used the word \u2018picnic\u2019 to refer to lynchings, but what we know for a fact is that\u2019s not where the word \u2018picnic\u2019 came from.\u201d
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Indeed, Huber notes that the word \u201cpicnic\u201d actually \u201ccomes from the 300-plus-year-old French word \u2018pique-nique,\u2019 meaning a potluck-like social gathering.\u201d
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Which is exactly how the Society characterized it\u2019s gathering: \u201cThis is a potluck event, so we encourage everyone to bring along some snacks or dishes to share.\u201d
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Anyone who felt \u201charmed\u2019 or \u201cuncomfortable\u201d by the word \u201cpicnic\u201d shouldn\u2019t be in a college or university classroom.\u00a0 They should be in a padded room, fitted with a straight-jacket, and administered lots of anti-woke medication.
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And they can watch me having a picnic outside their window. Pass the deviled eggs!
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BREAKING: This Just In\u2026<\/strong>
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Republicans have settled on Steve Scalise as the new House Speaker. In a secret GOP caucus ballot, Scalise won 113 votes to Jim Jordan\u2019s 99.
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Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei confirms he voted for Scalise. Now as long as 217 members of the caucus vote\u00a0for him on the floor, this Speaker kerfuffle can be put in the rearview mirror.
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And while I\u2019m on this subject\u2026
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Establishment Republicans are having a cow over the eight conservative GOP members who voted to remove former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which was accomplished after every Democrat in the House voted for his ouster as well.
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I\u2019m hearing a lot of bitching and kvetching that this small minority of conservative Republicans wields so much power to counter the position of the vast majority of Republicans in the House.
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I don\u2019t know if what the eight did was the right call or not. Conservatives of good conscience can agree to disagree on this.\u00a0 However\u2026
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Have you noticed the same people who want to tar-and-feather the eight conservatives are pretty much the same people who never said a peep when liberal Republicans such as Sens. Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, and Lisa Murkowski voted with Democrats to pass liberal bills opposed by the vast majority of their GOP colleagues?
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Why is it OK for a handful of liberal Republicans to vote with liberal Democrats and spit in the eyes of conservative Republicans but it\u2019s not OK for a handful of conservative Republicans to return the favor?
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Sauce for the goose\u2026
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I Asked, You Answered\u2026THANK YOU!<\/strong>
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I just want to thank everyone who responded to my request for opinions on the Nevada U.S. Senate race yesterday.\u00a0 Great feedback.\u00a0 Helped me a lot.
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Interestingly, the majority of opinions I received on the various candidates are pretty well encapsulated by this one response I received this morning\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI agree (Sam) Brown needs more than \u2018I was injured\u2019 story. (Jim) Marchant is a loser. Don\u2019t know (Jeff) Gunter. I just met Tony Grady and fell in love!\u00a0 How do we get him a money machine?\u201d<\/em>
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Indeed, many of the responses related to Brown were along the lines of \u201cWe respect and appreciate your sacrifice on the battlefield, but we already know about that and are tired of hearing it.\u00a0 Tell us what you\u2019ll do as our senator and how we\u2019ll benefit from it.\u201d
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Also got a number of responses heralding Tony Grady as the best-qualified person for the job.\u00a0 But as I teach in my campaign training seminars, it\u2019s not the best candidate who wins. It\u2019s the best campaign. And campaigns cost money.
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Tony really needs to step up his game if he\u2019s to have any shot.
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The responses about Marchant were few but mostly along the same line: He\u2019s a serial loser who can\u2019t win a general election.\u00a0 He should drop out.
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As for Dr. Gunter and his campaign strategy of running as THE Trump candidate, the majority of those mentioning him stated they\u2019d never heard of him.\u00a0
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As for opinions on whether Trump\u2019s backing would help or hurt him, they were pretty much split; with some saying they\u2019ll follow Trump\u2019s lead while others say a Trump endorsement would have the exact opposite effect.
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Or as one person wrote: \u201cIf one (candidate) would come out and be an avowed anti-Trump candidate, I would give them a hard look.\u201d
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Anyway, I very much appreciate the feedback.\u00a0
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And in light of your responses, I\u2019m going to continue staying neutral in this race for a while and see how things shake out.\u00a0 We still have five months before filing for office opens next March.
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7 Worst Habits of Highly Unelectable People<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Picking the wrong race<\/li>\n
  2. Picking the wrong district<\/li>\n
  3. Picking the wrong issues<\/li>\n
  4. Picking the wrong time<\/li>\n
  5. Picking the wrong consultants<\/li>\n
  6. Picking unnecessary fights with the media<\/li>\n
  7. Picking door-knocking over fundraising<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong>
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    \u201cEvery promise I made as governor, I’ve delivered on 100%. I’ll do the same as president. But not only that, I’m going to deliver on other people’s promises. So I will follow and deliver on Donald Trump’s promise to build the wall and have Mexico pay for it.” \u2013\u00a0Ron DeSantis<\/em><\/strong>
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    Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views, and founder of CampaignDoctor.com.\u00a0 You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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