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2017 archive

Coming Home To Roost 0

Josh Marshall.

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Biblical Literalism 0

Roy Moore points at stone tablet that says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Facebook Frolics . . . 0

. . . come home to roost.

The internet is a public place. Govern yourselves accordingly.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness goes on.

As the woman was driving her vehicle scouting for deer, she drove over a bump in the road. The gun discharged and she was struck in the foot. Her husband was a passenger in the vehicle and was not injured. GF&P declined to release the name of the injured woman.

Whatever happened to “unload your weapon white transporting it”?

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How Stuff Works, Trickle-On Economics Dept. 0

Directors in

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Thom and Greg Palaste discuss the Republican operatives who are attempting to discredit Roy Moore’s victims and their histories of gutting out the vote.

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QOTD 0

Fred Allen:

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

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The Court Is in Sessions 0

Dick Polman looks down the Sessions memory hole.

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A Cavalcade of Trumpery 0

Will Bunch steps back and looks at the big picture.

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Who Ya Gonna Call? 0

Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up!

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite at the dining table.

An incident report said police responded to the North Cedar Street restaurant just before 3 p.m. and found Cynthia Smith, 57, of Goose Creek, laying on a bench after being shot in the buttocks.

Smith, a retired S.C. Probation and Parole officer, had a gun stored in her purse without a holster, and when she moved the purse, the gun went off, injuring herself and Jacqueline Duchene, 48, of Goose Creek. Duchene was shot in the leg.

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Russian Impulses 0

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Remembrance 0

Badtux notes the intellectual acrobatics. The gist:

It’s interesting that the same people who keep telling blacks to get over that whole slavery thing, already, seem to be the same people who want to keep all those statues of slave-owners on every street corner in the South because they’re still not over the Civil War.

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Thoughts and Preyers 0

GOP Congress offers thoughts and prayers:  Dear Lord, in the wake of yet another horrific U. S. gun massacre, please give us the strength and wisdom to pass tax cuts for the rich.  Amen.

Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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An Audience of One 0

Juanita Jean does the math.

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QOTD 0

Erica Jong:

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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Geeking Out 0

Running Windows 7 in VirtualBox in seamless mode on Slackware –Current under the KDE desktop environment.

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Chasing the Bait and Switch 0

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Flagging Interests 0

Father:  This debate over what disrespects the flag seems to be ongoing.  Curtis:  The Federal Flag Code, established in 1923, states a flag should never touch the floor,  nor be used as apparel or bedding, should never be used in advertising, nor as a costume on handkerchiefs or paper plates.  Father looks nonplussed as Curtis says,

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Political Hacks 0

Shaun Mullen parses Julian Assange’s very strange embrace of Vladimir Putin.

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