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The Lake Effect 0

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts looks at Kari Lake and Mike Lindell’s latest attempt to resuscitate their failed attempt to overthrow Arizona’s 2020 presidential vote count and concludes that there’s no there there.

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Misting Water-Colored Memories of the Way We Were 0

Frame One:  Katie Britt says,

Via Job’s Anger.

Aside:

Q. Why didn’t she say “four years ago,” when Donald Trump was still in office.

A. Because she knew the answer.

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Vaccine Nation, Quack Quack Quack Dept. 0

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When They Played Their Charade . . . 0

. . . they were like children posing.*

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*With apologies to Henry Mancini.

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The Handmaid’s Fail 0

David discusses Katie Britt’s groveling self-serving misdirection play* about who’s to blame for her ludicrous and fallacious response to the State of the Union address. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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*Ask me nicely, I’ll tell you what I really think.

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Trapped by the Transcript 0

David dissects the duplicity. (Warning: Short commercial at the end, but you can certainly skip that.)

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Lies and Lying Liars 0

Sam and the crew discuss (one of) Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt’s lies in her response to President Biden’s State of the Union address.

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Foxy Shady 0

Seth takes a closer look at the shovelers of–er–shinola.

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The Hunt for Hunter 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Via David Pakman’s Youtube page, Brittany Page explores the New Secesh’s attempts to whitewash (I use that term advisedly) slavery and slaveholders. (As my two or three regular readers know, I have found David to be a reasoned and reliable commentator.)

Afterthought:

I had ancestors who wore the grey. Indeed, one of them is immortalized in the Harper’s Ferry wax museum signing John Brown’s death warrant.*

I do not deny them, but neither do I try to justify what they did. (Understand, perhaps, as one who trained as an historian, but not justify.)

Those who refuse to learn from past evils doom themselves to repeating them.

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*I may have mentioned this before in these electrons, but it was a moment for me when, on a visit to that museum some years ago, Second Son, still in school at the time, looked at the exhibit and said, “So, he was on the wrong side.”

That brought home to me with emphasis that, yes indeed, he was on the wrong side.

It was the wrong side then, and it is the wrong side now.

And it is still rising again after all these years.

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The Greene New Spiel 0

David dissects the dissimulation. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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Republican Thought Police 0

In the course of a longer article about the Republican Thought Police in Alabama, Dr. Robert O. White II reminds us something George Orwell once wrote:

In his essay The Freedom of the Press, Orwell says: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Included in this is the right to speak, think and express one’s self without being questioned by the state police.

Follow the link for the rest of White’s article.

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The Hunt for Hunter 0

David points out that even Fox News admits that there’s no there there.

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Twits on Twitter X Offenders 0

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Republican Thought Police 0

Teacher, writing the word

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Impeacher Men, Reprise 0

Jim Jordan, Boris Badenuv, and James Comer sit at a table behind a card labeled

Click for the original image.

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The Impeacher Men 0

Emma and the crew dissect the disinformation.

I lived in Delaware for many years and Joe Biden was one of my Senators. I did not know him personally (though I did see him on the train to Washington from time to time).

During the time he was my senator, I knew him to be an honorable man.

“Honorable” is a concept that today’s Republican Party, which, as I have noted, is a vile and loathsome thing, does not understand.

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A Pillow of the Community 0

Looks like he’s had the stuffing kicked out of him.

A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden.

Lindell, natch, claims he will appeal.

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Vaccine Nation 0

The editorial board of the Tampa Bay Times notes that, as more and more persons are falling for lies about vaccination (politely referred to as “vaccine hesitancy”), measles cases are increasing. (I can still remember suffering from measles when I was a young ‘un, before the vaccines came along, and mumps, which is much more serious in adults than in children, nearly killed my parents when I was a pre-schooler.)

The Times offers a simple bit of advice:

. . . listen to your doctor, not the clown on TV.

Follow the link for the complete editorial, where they point the finger of blame squarely at those who propagate this stupid.

Aside:

We have over two centuries of proof, starting with the smallpox vaccine, that vaccines work.

Unfortunately, we have no vaccine against stupid.

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Foxy Shady 0

David parses the perfidy.

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