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Republican Family Values 0

Sign:  U. S. Border Patrol Youth Detention Center.  Image:  Coffin-shaped wire cage topped with barbed wire.

Image via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness continues . . .

Things turned tragic for a father and son from Utah who came to the area looking to hunt bears on Tuesday, after an accidental discharge put the son’s life in jeopardy.

(snip)

“He got out of the car, chambered a round — when the round was chambered, the gun accidentally went off,” Griffeth.

. . . and yet another gun is reported to have fired itself.

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In the Zone 0

Update: Grammatical erorrs correxted.

At The Charlotte Observer, Mary Newsom reminds that “single family residence” zoning (as opposed to residential vs. industrial vs. commercial zoning”) has its origins in racism. A nugget:

In The Color of Law, author Richard Rothstein tells how early zoning ordinances specifically banned blacks from certain zones. The Supreme Court outlawed that in 1917, but in many cities, Rothstein writes, “To prevent lower-income African Americans from living in neighborhoods where middle-class whites resided, local and federal officials began … to promote zoning ordinances to reserve middle-class neighborhoods for single-family homes that lower-income families of all races could not afford.”

Meanwhile, federal rules and redlining kept black families from getting mortgages, and housing developers couldn’t get financing without whites-only covenants in the deeds.

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QOTD 0

Nora Ephron:

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Alabama Bound 0

In more ways than one.

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The Initiation 0

Title:  Trump's Trade War.  Image:  Farmer wearing MAGA hat bent over as Donald Trump smacks him in the read with a paddle labeled

I’ve cited this quotation from Lyndon Johnson before, but it bears repeating, because we are watching it play out during every day of the Trumpling:

If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll even empty his pockets for you.

Image via Juanita Jean.

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How Stuff Works, Exclusivity Dept. 0

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The Rule of Lawless, One More Time 0

Shaun Mullen.

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Misdirection Play 0

The Washington Post goes down the rabid hole.

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The Rule of Lawless, Reprise 0

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QOTD 0

Marcus Garvey:

The whole world is run on bluff.

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Dragonfly 0

Dragonfly at rest

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Antidisestablishmentarians* 0

The Rude One points out the obvious that’s so obvious no one else I’ve seen or heard, including me, has noticed it.

The recent wave of abortion restrictions in states such as Alabama are prima facie establishment of religion (warning: rudeness at the link).

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*Look it up.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Brexit bots.

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A Picture Is Worth, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

Pregnant woman says,

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“Keep Them on ICE” 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness goes to the dogs.

Deputies spoke with five residents who said the incident started when one man told Collins to get his “aggressive” dog off his property. Collins became upset and backed his vehicle into the man’s driveway, yelling at him and others involved.

“At which point, Mr. Collins did retrieve a handgun and pointed it at the victims and said, ‘I will take care of all you … right now’,” LCSO Inv. Sgt. Chris Bowen wrote in a report. “All parties involved said the gun was chrome or silver in color. … Prior to my arrival, officers discovered in a flower bed in front of the defendant’s residence a tan and silver air soft pistol.”

No one was shot, and the dog lover has been charged with multiple counts of assault.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

On the schoolboard, then off again.

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QOTD 0

Al Pacino:

Vanity is my favourite sin.

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