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QOTD 0

Steve Allen:

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is “holy war.”

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February 21, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

School for Scamdal 0

At the Des Moines Register, Steve Westerberg dissects the lies that lying liars are spreading about public schools and libraries to advance an agenda of racism and privatization.

He focuses on Iowa, but it’s happening all over the country.

Here’s one bit of bunk he debunks; follow the link for more.

Spreading widely rumors that there are public school students identifying as cats, and that those students are being accommodated by schools providing kitty litter in the bathrooms. This ridiculous rumor has no basis in fact, yet continues to circulate across the country, including Iowa.

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February 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors, Republican Lies |

Suburban Guerillas 0

No, not that suburban guerrilla.

This suburban guerilla.

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February 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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February 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Title: How To Talk to a Person Who Doesn't Think Like You Politically. Rat is talking to a guy. Rat: I see, well, that's a very interesting opinion. May I suggest a different way to look at this. Man: Sure. Rat: Great. Well, I think we all bring different prespectives to the issues. Man: Right. Rat: Perspectives based on our past, our experience, or education. Man: Agreed. Rat: So I think the point is this. You may just be a moron. (Frame: Not Like That.) Rat: Have you considered hitting your head with a shoe until your brain restarts? Man: Leaving now.

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February 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Speaking of Too Many Guns and Too Much Stupid . . . 0

We are a broken society.

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February 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.

Too many guns and too much stupid is a lethal mixture.

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February 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers, Gunnuttery |

Twits Own Twitter 0

Man in Tesla to service station attendant: Can I get the windows tinted so no one will recognize me?

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February 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon, Political Theatre |

QOTD 0

Henry Cabot Lodge:

Animosity is not a policy.

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February 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy comments at the Youtube page:

Releases of information from the Dominion Voting Machines lawsuit against Fox Network have that Fox commentators knew The Big Lie by Trump about a ‘stolen election’ was complete bullshit, but they pushed it anyway, knowing that it helped to boost ratings. Mangy Fetlocks offers this humble song about it.

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February 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Republican Lies |

“I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means” 0

The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun tries to understand the Republicans’ War on Woke.

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February 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors |

Thought Control 0

Read the article that David discusses.

Aside:

David’s distinction between Orwellian and Huxleyan dystopias provoked a thought or two.

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February 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Culture Warriors, Hate Sells |

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another responsible gun owner demonstrates that said phrase is an oxymoron.

The stupid. It burns.

Now, about those IQ tests for persons who think they should have access to firearms . . . .

Oh! In more news of gunnuttery. . . .

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February 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini explores the evidence.

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February 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Republican Lies |

Who Coulda Knowed? 0

Man in Haxmat suit labeled

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February 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon |

Motivations for Meanness 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Bernard Golden explores seven factors which he posits contribute to group violence. Here’s part of what he says about one of them, characterized as “Relative Deprivation and Basic Needs”; follow a link for a discussion of the seven.

The white supremacist slogan, “You will not replace us,” is an example of perceived deprivation and related threat. It referred to a contention that the white race is facing extinction, in part due to the perceived manipulation of non-whites by Jews. It derives from “The Great Replacement Theory,” described by French writer Renaud Camus in a 2012 book of the same name. Camus advocated that Europe was being overrun by the huge migration of black and/or Muslim immigrants who would replace traditional European culture with their own. The members are united in their belief of superiority coupled with fear of losing their identity and even their freedom.

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February 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors, Hate Sells |

QOTD 0

Helene Deutsch:

. . . the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

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February 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

The Liar of the Land 0

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February 18, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Republican Lies |

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” is hoist on her own petard.

We are a society of stupider.

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February 18, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

Stray Thought 0

It occurs to me that the fatal flow in Tesla’s self-driving car fantasy is that the developers–and Elon Musk–think that life is a video game.

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February 18, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Personal Musings |
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