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In Translation 0

John Amato decodes de code:

Whenever Republicans say the words “voter integrity,” what they mean is disenfranchisement of all Democratic, minorities and disabled senior voters.

Follow the link for context.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A privileged communication? Or evidence for the prosecution?

Aside:

Yes indeedy-do. Yesterday’s B. C. comic pretty much nailed it.

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QOTD 0

Alice, in the Warner Brothers cartoon, The Honey-Mousers:

I’ve seen better heads on a glass of beer.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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The Me Veneration 0

Frame One, title:  After the ballroom,, the Arch, the Gold Coin, the banners, the special edition passport, and all the rest--a look ahead at--Further Tributes to Donald Trump.  Thank you for your attention to this matter.  Frame Two:  Mount Rushmore now showing four images of Donald Trump.  Trump says,

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All the News that Fits 0

SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.

Here’s a tiny bit of his article:

All of this is disgusting of course, but even more disgusting has been seeing our captured national media frame this crisis in terms of a political horse race.

(snip)

So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.

The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.

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Suffer the Children, Reprise 0

Sam and the crew talk with Nicholas Enrich, former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations, about the damage done to USAID by the Trump maladministration.

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Suffer the Children 0

As has been amply demonstrated, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.

For example, as Nicholas Kristof notes in a column about the Trump maladministration’s cuts to foreign aid,

A Boston University researcher estimated that the aid cuts cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide in their first year. A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Rat says to Pig and Goat,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

He responded to parental discipline with politeness.

A Bemidji, Minnesota teenager was charged by juvenile petition last week with shooting his parents, telling police he became “irate” after they revoked his cellphone privileges.

Thus passeth another day in NRA paradise.

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QOTD 0

Honore de Balzac:

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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The Man without a Plan, Reprise 0

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The Man without a Plan 0

Stephen R. Nagy looks at Donald Trump’s (mis)conduct of foreign policy and concludes that it tends to be–er–rather impulsive. A snippet:

There is a coherent argument that Trump understands exactly what he is doing and that the appearance of impulsiveness is itself the strategy, designed to keep counterparts off balance.

But the evidence increasingly cuts the other way.

Follow the link for his analysis of said evidence.

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Trumponomics 0

Donald Trump hols a bucket for a man as a man shakss money into it from a taxpayer.  Trump says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Presumed Guilty 0

Rick Stron discusses cases of black persons reported to police for being.

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to poison our polity.

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Captain by Crook or by Hook 0

GOP Elephant as a piarate peering through a telescope in

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

If you wish to force your moral views on other, do so with politeness.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Over-hyped? El Reg reports that, paraphrasing cURL developer Daniel Stenberg, “. . . as far as Stenberg is concerned: They’re (AI bots–ed.) only as good at finding security vulnerabilities as the humans who programmed them.

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QOTD 0

Tom Stoppard:

It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

If it sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it’s the Looney Tunes theme.

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