Famous Football Players, Senate Hopefuls and Doggie Nuptials
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to be president and while he has no plans to improve the economy, he hasn’t a clue on how to slow down climate change, improving health care is so low it’s invisible on his platform and he doesn’t even mention fighting crime, he does plan to save your souls from the Biden-loving marxists and the Democrats and isn’t that what’s really important.
Now on to some other really important things, like when Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker questioned evolution, asking, “Why are there still apes?” and finally an explanation to the age-old question of why are people spending $250,000 on doggy weddings.
Walker, the former Heisman Trophy winner for the University of Georgia, star pro football player and likely victim of traumatic brain injury for getting whacked in the head so many times on the football field, is the leading candidate for the Republican Senate nomination in Georgia. He has the unquestioned support of trump.
Polls show that Walker is the overwhelming favorite in the race for the GOP nomination to face freshman Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Ga., in the fall.
Walker fits perfectly in Georgia, a hotbed for political cuckoos and trumpers, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who once evinced her theory that a Jewish-made laser gun was starting the wildfires in California. Then there’s State Rep. Philip Singleton who described himself on his website as a “lifelong Constitutional Christian Conservative Republican,” and said “The United States is in a desperate battle to determine the moral compass of our Nation. I believe that we must protect life. Life is ordained by our creator, begins at conception, and should be protected.”
Singleton’s political views can be described as Alt-Right. In 2021 Singleton introduced Georgia House Bill 276 banning biological males from participating in women’s high school sports. Singleton has also used social media to claim that President Joe Biden’s administration is akin to that of former German Chancellor Adolf Hitler due to the former’s use of government mandates of COVID-19 vaccines. He also supports trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud having cheated trump out of a second term as president.
And let’s not forget Georgia GOP State Sen. Burt Jones, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, who in December 2020, was one of four Georgia Senate Republicans who signed a petition calling on the Georgia General Assembly to overrule the outcome of democratic elections within the state and “take back the power to appoint electors.” The petition called on Governor Brian Kemp to convene a special session of the legislature to award Georgia’s 16 electors to Trump, who narrowly lost the state. Kemp denied the request. In January 2022, the Justice Department began a criminal investigation into Jones as one of the false electors who attempted to forge electoral certificates for the State of Georgia after the 2020 election.
Not surprisingly, his website has different spin, claiming “Importantly, Burt led the fight to restore confidence and accountability to our elections process after the disastrous 2020 cycle. In fact, Burt played an integral role in the passage of the Election Integrity Act (S.B. 202) and has been recognized nationally as a leader for election integrity, including by President Donald J. Trump.”
And then there’s Georgia GOP State Sen. Greg Dolezal, “The Conservative We Can Count On” who explained in his bio that he formerly worked as the Creative Director for 7:22, a Bible Study at North Point Community Church led by Louie Giglio, a preacher who described homosexuality as a “sin in the eyes of God, and it is sin in the word of God” and who told Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy and rapper Lecrae in June 2020, that Americans replace the phrase “white privilege” with “white blessing,” Giglio said that the “blessing of slavery” had built up the framework for the world that white people live in.
Back to Dolezal, his website notes that “Greg spent 11 years on the road serving at Tour Manager for musician Chris Tomlin. Greg currently serves as a producer for Passion City Church and team lead and producer for Passion Conferences, the largest collegiate gathering of its kind in the world,” according to his website.
Back to Walker, he made his comments during an appearance with Pastor Chuck Allen at Sugar Hill Church in Sugar Hill, Ga.
“At one time, science said man came from apes. Did it not?” Walker asked Allen.
To which Allen replied, “Every time I read or hear that, I think to myself, ‘You just didn’t read the same Bible I did.’ ”
To which Walker opined with great introspection and untold wisdom of a thousand head whacks, “Well, this is what’s interesting, though. If that is true, why are there still apes? Think about it.”
The pastor didn’t quite know how to respond and told Walker, “You know, now you’re getting too smart for us, Herschel.”
Evidently, Walker was too busy getting his bell run as a member of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, because he missed the course on evolution which explained that humans did not evolve from chimpanzees or any other great apes that are living today. Rather, humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor that lived about 10 million years ago and they are now on different evolutionary tracks.
Undaunted, during the Sunday event, Walker eloquently also wondered aloud on the legitimacy of in vitro fertilization and other forms of assisted reproductive technology.
“And then, the conception of a baby,” Walker said. “Let me tell you, science can’t do that. They’re still trying to do it, but they can’t, because there has to be a God.”
Walker, 60, has received support from trump and some other high-profile Republicans despite facing domestic violence allegations and questions about his business record and residency.
Walker’s ex-wife, Cindy Grossman, claimed in divorce filings that her former husband was physically abusive and threatened to kill her, forcing her to secure a protective order against him. She told ABC News in 2008 that Walker had pointed a pistol at her head before threatening to kill her.
Walker told Axios in December that he is “accountable” for his actions toward Grossman but declined to discuss specifics.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last year that Walker’s ex-girlfriend told police in 2012 that when she tried to end her relationship with him, he threatened to “blow her head off” and then kill himself. Another woman has alleged Walker threatened and stalked her in 2002. No charges were filed in either of those cases, and Walker denies the accusations.
Now, about the growing popularity of doggie weddings as explained in a March 16 story in the N.Y. Times, that spoke about Twixie and Cowboy, both 2-year-old Brussels Griffons, who were married at the Dallas home of the bride (Twixie), in the backyard, in a ceremony that cost $25,000.
“She wore an appliquéd lace bodice with a ruffle of layered tulle at the waist. The groom donned a handmade silk-cotton tuxedo and top hat. In front of a makeshift chapel set up for the occasion, a ceremony was led by Sam Palmeter, whose Brussels Griffon, Grinch, attended and is a friend of the couple. Fig, another Brussels Griffon, served as a flower girl.”
Doggie guests enjoyed a catered meal of puppy chow from Vestals Catering in Dallas, a puppuccino bar and activities including a ball pit. The whole megillah was footed by Twixie’s owner, Tara Helwig, 37, a fitness coach in Dallas, and Cowboy’s owner, Makayla Wilson, 22, an epidemiology data analyst in Phoenix.
Before they were officially wed, dogs that arrived as bachelors or bachelorettes had the opportunity to meet potential life partners in an area designated for “doggie speed dating.”
Not to be outdoggied, last June, employees of Village Pet Supplies & Gifts in Luzerne, Pa., hosted the “Holy Catrimony” of Toby and Noelle, two local cats, at the store. Noelle’s owner, Melissa Sulima, an attorney in Pittston, Pa., had the idea after her cat became enamored with Toby, who lives at Village Pet Supplies.
The most expensive pet wedding ever has to be the July 12, 2012, espousal of Chilly the poodle and Baby Hope Diamond the Coton de Tulear, hosted by animal lover and advocate Wendy Diamond at the lavish Jumeirah Essex House. The price tag, $270,000 and that is nothing to bark at.
The ceremony was conducted by celebrity officiant “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog,” a Yugoslavian Mount Hound puppet who puffs a cigar and lashes out insults in an Eastern European accent. The dog was created by Conan O’Brien and puppeteered and voiced by Robert Smigel.
The Jumeirah Essex House is known for being the place of death for the musician Donny Hathaway and one of the final living places for musician David Bowie and Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky.
Top that, Ron DeSantis.