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The Legacy 0

Frame One:  Aide says to Donald Trump in the Oval Office,

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QOTD 0

Jules Feiffer:

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

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School for Scamdal 0

Pap and Frank Schaeffer discuss the home school scam and its origins as a proxy for re-segregating schools.

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How Stuff Works, “Social” Media Dept. 0

Rat types on phone:  I feel so lonely all the time.  Woman types back:  I do too.  (Repeat the concept several times.)  Pan out to see that everyone typing on a phone is in the same cafe.


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Pennsylvania Republican Goes Down the Rabbit Hole 0

Calling this hare-brained is an insult to rabbits.

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The Pusher Men 0

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Scofflaw 0

In The Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky makes a case that Donald Trump’s “Executive Order” to destroy the ACA is disordered (sort of like its signer). The short version is that a law cannot be overturned by Presidential fiat.

Here’s how he starts;

President Donald Trump’s elimination of subsidies to help lower income Americans afford health care is illegal and just plain mean. The result is that millions of people may lose their health care coverage, but with no savings in cost to the federal government. This is simply an attempt by the president to accomplish by executive fiat what he could not do through Congress: the gutting of Obamacare.

The plain truth that no one wishes to confront is that Donald Trump is walking the path to despotism.

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“There Be Dragons” 0

Picture of U. S. White House

The American Dream is endangered by a cataclysm of stupid and hate and bigotry and incompetence as it has not been endangered by before.

In the past, two or three of those characteristics have occupied that house from time to time. But not all four simultaneously.

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Listen to the Silence 0

John Romano did, and he heard something.

Sometimes, the truth is in the silence.

You can learn more by what a person does not say than when they are shouting from a mountaintop. Or so it seems when it comes to Florida politicians.

Follow the link for what he learned.

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The Court Is in Sessions 0

No room at the inn.

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QOTD 0

Jack Horner:

Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.

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None Dare Call It Terrorism . . . 0

Get out of Jail free card

. . . if the terrorist is white like me.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Domestic discord.

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Sty-Mates 0

Alfred Doblin considers the similarities between Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.

Just read it.

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The Pusher Men 0

Via C&L.

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So Much Winning . . . . 0

Warning: Language.

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All the News that Fits 0

Not so bright, Bart.

Lukas Podolski has received an apology from ultra-conservative news website Breitbart, who used an image of the ex-Germany international alongside a story about illegal immigration, with the striker threatening legal action.

The website originally published an article entitled “Spanish Police Crack Gang Moving Migrants on Jet-Skis” with a picture of the ex-Arsenal star on a jet-ski before it was swiftly changed.

Follow the link for a screenshot of the Breitbart lie.

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Final Jeopardy? 0


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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to your friends.

Cowlitz County deputies said it was just before noon Saturday when a 13-year-old boy called 911 to say he accidentally shot his 13-year-old friend.

Deputies said he thought the gun wasn’t loaded.

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David Brin:

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

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