May, 2018 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
Firearms frolics. Here’s a sample:
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The fake accounts included the name of Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old student and suspect that police say is now in custody, and included a photo taken from his Facebook that had been changed to include a hat from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Soulless bastards.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is a family value.
According to the report, Rivera-Calderon is alleged to have then pulled a handgun from his waistband, loaded it and pointed the handgun at the victim, saying “I ain’t playing with you.”
Your TV Is Hooked on Drugs 1
Pap argues that Big Pharma has an inordinate influence on TV news. He has a point.
I don’t necessarily buy his position that “mainstream media” cannot be trusted. The term is too broad; if it’s amended to “mainstream television,” which is what he focuses on, I accept it.
I long ago concluded that TV news, local or network, broadcast or cable, is not worth my while (Fox News, which is aggressively mendacious and actively toxic, is another beast entirely).
Apocalypse Now 0
Via Job’s Anger.
Afterthought:
If Donald Trump knows what “2 Corinthians” is or says, I’ll eat my hats. And I have a lot of hats.
When I worked at Amtrak, one of the conductors on my morning commute called me the “hat guy.”
The Republican Reality Sham 0
Eugene Robinson calls out the hypocrisy of Republicans’ claims to represent “real Amurricans,” implying that others are somehow ersatz Americans. A nugget:
Russian Impulses 0
Shaun Mullen does a deep dive into the reeking stew of Donald Trump, Russian agents, and Hillary Clinton’s emails, reverse-engineering the recipe and laying out the list of ingredients.
A snippet (all caps in the original):
The events surrounding the June 6, 2016 meeting — both before and after — suggest that Trump not only encouraged members of his campaign team to assist Russians working for Vladimir Putin to interfere in the forthcoming election, but expected the meeting to pay dividends for his long-shot bid for the presidency because it would provide new ammunition with which to assail the chief target of his incendiary stump speeches — Hillary Clinton.
Emolumentous 0
Shorter Dick Polman: The “For Sale” sign is up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 2
Crossing the teas of politeness . . . .
As she did that, he headed into an outbuilding to get a glass of sweet tea off the shelf above his head.
As he brought the tea down, however, it apparently knocked off the firearm, which landed on the floor in a way that the hammer clicked and the gun went off.
Stray Thought 0
I used to live in a country. Now I live in a joke.
Nobels No Bells Are Ringing
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As of today, it looks as if Donald Trump’s attempt to cut a deal with North Korea will likely be a flailure. Jay Bookman takes a look at the situation; a snippet (emphasis added).
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The alternative Trumpian response — anger and frustration that his dreams of being world peacemaker have been dashed, making him look foolish in the process — is equally likely and even more troubling. History tells us that Trump is not a man who responds maturely to public failure; his instinct is to get vindictive and lash out blindly, blaming everyone but himself. And in this context, that could get an awful lot of innocent people killed.
Afterthought:
Not many are saying this outright, but it’s clear that Kim Jong-Un has played Dealmeister Trump like a drum. Kim kept dropping the breadcrumbs, and Trump obligingly gobbled up the bait. Now drops the hammer.
In the process, Trump has given the despotic regime in North Korea a patina of international legitimacy it has not previously had, which, methinks, was Kim’s goal throughout.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
My old boss used to say, “It’s a poor carpenter who blames his tools.”
In more news of the polite . . . .
Both Sides Don’t 0
Thom talks to a caller who equates George Soros with the Koch Brothers. Thom explains why that bird won’t fly, then explores the darker aspect of Republicans’ Soros fetish.
(Misplet wrod corrceted.)
