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What’s in a Name? 0

According the Steve M. quite a bit. Speaking of bits, here’s a bit from his article:

The naming of wars can be politicized. Some American Southerners have rejected the name “Civil War” for the conflict fought on U.S. soil starting in 1861, preferring to call it “the War Between the States” or “the War of Northern Aggression.” Russians call World War II “the Great Patriotic War.”

If we call Trump’s urban invasions a war, we should give the war its correct name: the War on Democrats. That’s literally what it is.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Sam talks with Ari Berman about how John Roberts’s Supreme Supremacist Court has been working to gut the Voting Rights Act that, per the Encyclopedia Britannica, “aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.”

America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.

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“ICEBlock” 0

Caption:  Muriel's practical application of iceblock.  Image:  Man sunbathing at the beach.  woman says to him,

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Crowd Control, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0

U. S. Tennis Association to broadcasters: If persons boo Trump, don’t tell anyone.

Vie Joe My God.

Afterthought:

I guess they don’t want to hurt Donald Trump’s tender fee-fees.

If only Donald Trump showed such any concern for anyone else’s tender fee-fees.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” performs random acts of politeness.

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QOTD 0

Soren Kierkegaard:

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Speaker MIke Johnson as the RCA dog listenint at the Victrola for

Via Driftglass.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones, who served as Idaho Attorney-General and on the Idaho State Supreme Court, reveals that he is somewhat concerned about the fate of the rule of law in the United States. A snippet:

The country and world have witnessed a rude shock since the first day of Donald Trump’s second presidency. Trump has imposed a raft of illegal tariffs, violated the nation’s asylum laws, unlawfully impounded funds appropriated by Congress, unlawfully depriving individuals of their constitutional rights, misused his position to enrich himself, threatened to prohibit mail-in voting, and committed a long list of other unlawful acts. Most Republican members of both Houses of Congress have failed to act as a check to this unlawful behavior, refusing to stand up for the rule of law.

Other nations, friend and foe alike, have seen the rapid erosion of the rule of law in America and are reconsidering the wisdom of continuing to rely on the US as a safe haven for investing in the future.

His entire article is worth a read.

Also, too.

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The Fifth Horseman, One More Time 0

Afterthought:

The sign in front of RFK Jr. as he testifies reads “The Honorable Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.”

I submit that said statement is an oxymoron.

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The Key to the Club 0

In the course of a longer article about Donald Trump’s plan fever dream to evict Palestinians from Gaza so at to turn it into a Trump resort–and the cruelty, avarice, and cold-heartedness inherent in said play–Tom Moran mentions, almost in passing, the lesson that Trump’s dupes, symps, and fellow travelers have learned. It’s quite simple, really.

Flatter Trump, and you’re in the club. Challenge him, and you’re dead meat.

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The Internet Devolution 0

Sir Rodney:  What will become of media in the future?  Fortuneteller:  Unlimited access will be granted to all.  People will be so bombarded with media that it will affect their attention spans.  And, dang it!  They've stopped reading.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

When persons make innocent, honest mistakes, point out the error of their ways with politeness.

A woman was attacked while mistakenly walking up the wrong driveway when searching for her acquaintance’s house, with the homeowner shooting at her 17 times as she fled.

(snip)

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QOTD 0

Bob Cesca:

I don’t give liars the benefit of the doubt.

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Shell Game 0

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What Are the Odds? 0

Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro has a question:

Week 1 of college football drew historic TV ratings. That’s proof, it’s being said, that pay-for-play and the portal aren’t the fan turnoffs they were supposed to be. But isn’t it just as likely that online gambling has a lot to do with getting more people to a TV? What do you bet?

Next time you see one of those “you can bet from your phone” commercials, remember that those for-profit competition casinos couldn’t afford to buy all those ads if they weren’t cashing in on the marks and suckers who forget that, in the long run, the house always wins.

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The Fifth Horseman, Reprise 0

Senator John Warner (who I have voted for before and will happily vote for again) calls out RFK Jr.’s hockeypuck and highlights his willful malicious ignorance.

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The Fifth Horseman 0

THe Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse are joined by RFK Jr.  One asks,

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A Report from the Front 0

Eric Chastain, a retired army veteran, writes of what it’s like to live in under military occupation–in this case, in Washinton, D. C. He is not sanguine. Here’s a tiny bit of his article.

The sight of troops with weapons patrolling sidewalks, boarding trains and standing post outside coffee shops has now spread from the nation’s second-largest city to the nation’s capital. What was once extraordinary is quietly being treated as routine.

That should alarm us all.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Accomplished? Not really.

An accomplice? Who we knockin’ over, boss?

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