Page 14 - June 16 Issue
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Valley Extra








                                                           Our Corner of the Valley



                       By Scott Taper  packing and browsing TV     delivery center by a man     to be perpetrated by        annual indulgent stay
                                       for anything about the      who had a problem with       immigrants or radicalized   with Pop-Pop.  It may be
              Today was going to be    Warriors before my flight   his manager and several      religious zealots.  It was   a welcome relief when
           a happy day as I prepared   the next day.  At least,    coworkers whom he            almost a relief to know     they take over the TV and
           to travel to see my week-   that’s what I planned to    executed before killing      that we are still our own   watch cartoons and the
           old grandson, celebrate     do.                         himself.                     worst, heavily armed        Disney Channel all day
           father’s day with my           I turned on the TV          Then there was news       enemies.  I can only hope   instead of CNN or local
           daughter, her husband,      and BAM! :  A mass          from London where an         that my travels go well     news.  The world we will
           and growing family.  My     shooting of Republican      apartment was completely     and I can return with my    leave them will be theirs
           son-in-law, a professional   congressmen while          engulfed in fire that        granddaughters for their    soon enough.
           photographer is panning     the prepared to play a      (looked very suspicious)
           for the fathers-in-laws to   baseball challenge against   killed 12, and displaced
           take a picture together     their counterparts, the     74.  And still later, a
           and, additionally, use me   Democrats.  Several         California military base         Scott Taper is a bi-
           in a celebrity lookalike    republican congressmen      is allegedly attacked.
           photo shoot as well.  Just   shot by a man from         But that was a false            weekly contributor.
           about everybody these       Illinois who supported      alarm.  But one thing
           days thinks Laurence        Bernie Sanders. He was      was very obvious about
           Fishburne resembles me      killed. Then, in the midst   everything that happened      staper@scitechcal.com
           (I’m older, I maintain      of that breaking news       today; indeed, it was
           that he looks like me).  I   story , BAM!, a mass       the elephant in the TV
           was going spend the day     shooting in San Francisco   room…NONE of these
                                       at the UPS sorting and      mass shootings appears




















































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