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Facebook Frolics, Reprise 0
From a New Mexico State Department of Justice press release:
The press release also states that the Zuckerborg will have to pay $25,000,000,000 in civil penalties.
One more time: You don’t use “social” media. “Social” media uses you.
Follow the link for details.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.
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“As he’s bending over, looking at his credit card, he’s carrying this Glock in his waistband, and it is very uncomfortable because he’s bending over, so he takes his Glock out of his waistband and lays it down,” Judd said. “The child is in the backseat playing and he (the father) is now trying to figure out how to get whatever device he’s working with to pay for their dinner when all of a sudden he hears a loud pop.”
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Jane Larkin argues that Donald Trump rhymes with Neville Chamberlain.
Methinks it’s worth a read, but I have quibble. Chamberlain made a grave mistake, yes, but his was at actually a mistake, and an honest one. Trump and honesty–oh, never mind.
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*Mark Twain.
Republicans’ Claims of “Republican Family Values” . . . 0
. . . has always been a con and a scam and a misdirection play. David discusses an example thereof:
Via The Charlotte Observer, Rex Huppke has more.
This New Gilded Age 0
Michael in Norfolk makes an important point.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness.
Too many guns. Too much stupid.
We are a broken society.
Stray Thought 0
It appears to me that Donald Trump’s gut reaction in any disagreement is to side with the overdog.
Russian Impulses 0
Thom comments on the increasing number of persons who are calling out Trump’s fealty to Russia.