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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Courting Disaster 0

Voice comes from Supreme Court saying,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Asininity in Albuquerque:

A woman is accused of bringing a gun inside Duran’s Central Pharmacy on Sunday and dropping it, leading to another diner being shot in the head.

Follow the link for the full saga of stupid, for, as we all know

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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The Rule of Flaw 0

Seth satirizes the capitulation of they-call-themselves conservatives to the consummate con artist.

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Submarine Attack 0

Florida Man.

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A Notion of Immgrants 0

Methinks Atrios pretty much nails it.

Aside:

Today’s Republican Party understands buy-partisan. Indeed, it is a treasured Republican Family Value.

In contrast, it finds the concept of bipartisan repelling.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

The get fiendlier every day.

The Transportation Security Administration found a record-setting 6,737 guns at airport security checkpoints in 2023, the agency announced Wednesday. The number of firearms found by TSA officers last year surpassed the previous year’s record of 6,542 guns and was the highest annual total for the agency since it was created in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.

The agency said approximately 93% of the weapons were loaded, which TSA Administrator David Pekoske said was “concerning.”

Much more at the link.

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QOTD 0

Barry Commoner:

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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None Dare Call It (Domestic) Terrorism . . . 0

. . . but, according to the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, it most certainly is.

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The Grifter’s Game Plan 0

Lucy:  How's your plan for noble activism going.  Danae:  I'm still looking for an angle that has universal appeal.  It needs to be vague but sound specif . . . something that will alarm people when I tell them their way of life is under attack, then give me tons of money to save them.  Lucy:  So . . . a couse based on imaginary victimhood?  Danae:  Oh, and questioning my cause is blasphemy and treason.

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Words Have Meanings . . . 0

. . . unless, of course, you live in Florida.

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Russian Impulses 0

Thom talks with Heidi Siegmund Cuda about the mechanics of Russian interference in the 2016 election via the Disinformation Superhighway.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0

GOP Elephant stands before a poster of Janury 6 rioters storming the Capitol saying,

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Republican Thought Police 0

You can’t make this stuff up.

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QOTD 0

Paul Harvey:

Self-government won’t work without self-discipline.

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Putin’s Fifth Column 0

Thomas Geoghegan offers a theory as to why the Trump and the Trumpettes are so hostile to the U. S. aiding Ukraine in its battle to defeat the Russian invaders. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:

Aid to Ukraine, as Biden and the Democrats have made it, requires a belief in the U.S. or at least a belief in electoral democracy, civility, and our constitution. But that is what the far right attacks. Biden frames support for Ukraine as bolstering democracy over authoritarianism and order versus expansionism. Aid to Ukraine is also an implicit judgment of Trump—the moral equivalent of denouncing January 6 here. And, of course, aid to Ukraine was the casus belli of Trump’s first impeachment when the 45th president threatened to make military aid to Ukraine dependent on Volodymyr Zelensky’s complicity in smearing the Bidens. For Trump and his allies, Kyiv’s comic actor turned wartime hero is a mortal enemy far more dangerous than Hunter Biden Liz Cheney. Zelensky’s integrity and self-sacrifice are antithetical to Trump’s disdain for public purpose. Trump does not even feign any interest other than private interest. Of course, aid to Ukraine is in trouble—it is a defense of democracy in which the Trumpian far right no longer believes.

The whole piece is worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.

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Twits Own Twitter X Offenders 0

It looks like the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” is at it again.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Patrick Henry once said

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

It appears that the New Secesh beg to differ. It appears that they are choosing to secede again, only, this time, without bothering to put it in writing.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another child . . . .

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