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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner” shows off her politeness.

Police say Maria Morales, 51, was arrested under suspicion of manslaughter and negligent discharge of a firearm and was booked into the Madera County Jail.

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“We have a witness that was next door that heard people laughing and seemed like they were just having a good time,” Sgt. McCombs said.

According to McCombs, Morales was showing the victim her gun while trying to detach the magazine; that’s when the firearm went off and hit the victim in the head.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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Craven Images 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini wonders just what kind of God these Republicans worship anyway?

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but If Often Rhymes”* 0

Now it is Dick Polman who hears a rhyme.

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*Mark Twain.

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Disparate Treatment 0

At the San Francisco Chronicle, law professor Samantha Buckingham wonders how Donald Trump’s numerous criminal trials might have gone if he were not protected by his (reputed) wealth.

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QOTD 0

Ameen Rihani:

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

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Extra Special Bonus QOTD 0

Bob Cesca:

Make politics boring again.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy comments on the Youtube page:

Mangy Fetlocks is a proud Wisconsinite, and although he wasn’t REALLY asked to write the official Republican National Convention Song, he learned from Trump that it’s not what you do, but what you SAY you do that matters in our post-truth MAGA America, and Mangy SAYS he wrote the National Convention Song and Mangy has been an official in a children’s soccer game once, so his claim is just as honest as Trump’s pussy-grabbing statements or his “I never took any documents” claims.

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The Enemy Below 0

Title:  JAWS, 50th Anniversary.  Image:  Uncle Sam swimming in the sea as a great white shark labeled

Click for the original image.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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Republican Unreality Theatre 0

Seth discusses the Trumpification of the GOP.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes a child to politeness.

Officials said the boy found a gun stored in a bedroom and shot himself. His father attempted to revive him until first responders arrived, but the toddler died at the scene.

Sheriff Gerald Sticker says the gun was between the mattress and the box spring, accessible at eye level to the child. The father reportedly kept the firearm for safety reasons but did not secure it properly.

Just another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

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Our Surveillance Society 0

Couple sitting in restaurant with drone buzzing above them.  Woman says,

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In related news, the EFF wants you to know that your car may be watching you.

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The Emperor’s New Clothes 0

Florida Man.

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QOTD 0

John HOpe Franklin:

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

Aside:

Which is precisely why so many of the New Secesh are attempting (again) to erase the past.

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The Job Seeker 0

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Secret Servant 0

Apropos of the previous post . . . .

Via Job’s Anger.

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Stray Thought 0

“Yes, but will it hold up in court?” is no longer a valid rhetorical question.

We have seen that, with the application of enough juice for a long enough time to the correct vulnerable points, anything, regardless of legality or morality, will hold up in court.

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The Party’s Over . . . 0

Thom argues that the Republican Party of Eisenhower, Dirksen, and, yes, even Reagan, is no more. It’s been replaced by a xenophobic racist establishmentarian personality cult.

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The Reconciliation 0

J. D. Vance on the phone to Trump:  And, again, sir, I'm so sorry that I called you AMerica's Hitler and so relieved that you took it as a compliment.

Image via Bark Bark Woof Woof.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymmoronic “responsible gun owner.”

Yet another gun that (is claimed to have) fired itself.

When deputies arrived at the home, a man related to the teen told detectives he was “handling a firearm in another room of the house when the gun accidentally fired.”

The bullet went through the wall and struck the girl, authorities said.

Emergency personnel airlifted the teen to an area hospital.

We are a society of stupid.

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