December, 2017 archive
So Much Winning . . . . 0
Farron looks gleefully at the track record of candidates endorsed by Donald Trump.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Ryan Bills of Las Vegas, Nevada, was charged with criminal mischief, a serious misdemeanor, Storm Lake police said. His case did not appear in Iowa’s online courts records system Tuesday afternoon.
More Trumpling at the link.
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Thursday 0
When fellowship is needed, join us . . . .
When: Thursday, December 14, 6 p.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
More here.
Trumpling Women 0
Warning: Language.
Hey, Little Girl, Want Some Candy? 0
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Sanity Claus.
Immunity Impunity
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Bob Egelko explores Donald Trump’s lawyer’s claims that, to paraphrase Richard Nixon, if the President does it, it’s not illegal. A snippet:
“That would mean that if the police were corrupt, you could never investigate the chief of police,” said Hadar Aviram, a professor of constitutional law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. “The law enforcement system is not the private police of the president. It belongs to all of us.”
Republican Family Values 0
Eric Shepherd reminds us to watch what they do, not what they say.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom and his guest discuss methods that Republicans use to steal democracy.
Hunger Games 0
Warning: Language.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
An 11-year-old boy was shot in the hip accidentally by his 13-year-old brother while the two were hunting with their grandfather on Sunday about three miles north of Iowa City.
Follow the link for more news of the hunt . . . and the hunted.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
It came out a tie. Like the man who was trying to pull up an oak tree who finally quit and muttered, “You can’t pull me up either.”
Stout, Rex, Where There’s a Will (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 81
News Hawks and News Hawkers 0
Dick Polman considers the source.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A jury of their peers . . . .
The Associated Press, via ABC News, reports that attorneys for defendants argued on Friday that it would be wrong to only pick jurors from a pool of urban residents because they could be prejudiced against the defendants for political reasons.