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January, 2020 archive

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to your neighbors.

The report states that Witt admitted that he believed the gun had a loaded magazine but did not think there was a live round in the chamber.

Witt called police immediately to report the shooting and said he thought someone in the neighboring apartment was struck by the bullet.

When police arrived, they were told a 23-year-old woman was showering in the next-door apartment when she was shot in the shoulder. There were five people in the woman’s apartment at the time, three of them were small children.

He did not think that there was a live round in the chamber, but he was too lazy to check.

Furrfu.

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QOTD 0

A. A. Milne:

War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

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Twelfth Night 0

Magi on camel says to Holy Family in stable,

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Afterthought:

“Cleaning up homelessness” and “mopping up the homeless” are not the same thing.

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The Squeeze 0

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“Can You Give Me Sanctuary, I Must Have a Place To Hide . . . .” 0

Above the Law reports that Donald Trump has decreed that the District of Columbia is his own little sanctuary city just for his ownsome. A snippet:

The president has repeatedly ducked the process server in a defamation suit brought by Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who claims he sexually assaulted her in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman years ago. Now he argues in a proposed order filed Friday that the Supreme Court of New York County lacks personal jurisdiction over him because he’s not a New York domiciliary.

Much more at the link.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness can be such a gas.

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Medical Mystery 0

Doctor ot patient having a medical test.  Doctor says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Twits threatening war crimes.

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The Lies of the Land 0

Will Bunch points out that it’s starting all over again once more. A snippet:

And the shocking events of the last 100 hours or so — beginning with the provocative and impulsive President Trump-ordered assassination of an Iranian general — have been like a PTSD flashback on acid of blatantly lying government officials and chest-thumping warmongering TV pundits, on top of the dull ache of realization that that for six decades now you’ve watched the United States and its leaders learn absolutely nothing.

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QOTD 0

Gifford Pinchot:

Innovations never happen as planned.

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The Art of the Con 0

Atrios spots a pattern.

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The Tree Looks Different from the Other Side 0

Explorers “blazed a trail” because the tree looks different from the other side.

Noz looks at the other side of the tree and discovers some true equivalences.

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Facebook Frolics 0

The bullies’ pulpit.

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War and Mongers of War 0

Shorter PoliticalProf: Beware of false prophets (and their false prophecies).

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Regress 0

Caption:  What a difference a decade makes.  Image:  Reverse evolution from a man labeled

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Correlation or Causation? 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Angle for politeness at the old fishing hole.

Vidor Police Chief Rod Carroll said the 15-year-old was fishing when the shooting happened around 8:25 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 4.

(snip)

“So the 19-year-old gave the pistol to the 15-year-old, and then the 15-year-old gave it to the 10-year-old, and at that time the gun was, as we’re seeing right now, accidentally discharged, striking the 15-year-old,” Duncan said.

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QOTD 0

Jim Hightower:

There’s nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A Facebook Trumpling.

The Root has more.

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