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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When someone comes to help you, treat him or her with politeness.
In a video taken across the street from his Kendall home, a man, believed to be Esquivel, is seen walking up to the AAA contract worker, who is wearing a dark baseball cap and standing behind a white pick up truck. After the two men appear to have a brief argument, the man who approached the worker shoots the worker several times, stands over his body and walks away.
Ryan’s Derp 0
Farron reports the Paul Ryan has trouble on his right flank.
Statues of Limitations 0
One more time, when you hear persons speak nostalgically of “the Lost Cause,” consider what exactly was the cause that was lost.
“The Plain Light of Day” 0
Peter St. Onge, writing at The Charlotte Observer, suggests that that is the one thing that whiteright-wing policies cannot survive.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Just the assault of the Earth, these folks:
Tulsa World reports that 40-year-old Jeremy Thacker was arrested this week after he allegedly ran over 46-year-old Shawn Birdo, a homeless man who was sleeping under an overpass. Thacker also injured two other homeless people — Cynthia Wallace and James Russell — who were sleeping under the overpass near Birdo.
Additionally, police say that Thacker hit another man in the head with a pipe outside of a convenience store shortly before his fatal attack on Birdo.
More Trumpery at the link.
H/T Badtux.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Discuss political issues with politeness.
Follow the link and figure out who was on which side.
The Pusher Men 0
These days, they wear suits and file expense reports.
Statue of Limitations, Reprise 0
Daniel Ruth addresses the current kerfuffle in Tampa about a local Confederate secessionist monument. A snippet:
Do please read the rest.
The Trumpled Budget Deal 0
Josh Marshall tries to understand why Trump cut a budget deal with Democrats. He concludes that it is completely consistent with Marshall’s theory that Trump thrives on dominance. A snippet:
But the political or ideological manifestations are secondary to the personal one. Trump needs to dominate people. Clearly Trump felt that McConnell and Ryan are not serving him well enough or loyally enough or both. So he lashed out or tried to damage them. Schumer and Pelosi were simply the most convenient cudgels available.
Follow the link for more.
It Walks Again by Night 0
Of course, there is no such thing as as “Alt-Left’ movement. The fictional Alt-Left is nothing more than the Neo-Nazi white right looking in a mirror and seeing its image in reverse.
“Uppity” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that “uppity” is still a thing.