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A Party with a Platform of Profundity 0

Black woman:  What will you do about inflation?  Republican Elephant:  We'll throw Hunter Biden's laptop at it.  Black Woman:  High gas prices?  Republican Elephant:  We'll ban wokeness.  Black woman:  Immigration:  We'll import more Canadians with hammers.  Black woman:  Crime?  Republican Elephant:  We'll help Trump commit them.  Black woman:  Abortion?  Republican Elephant:  We'll put Herschel Walker and Dr. Oz in charge.  Black woman:  Democracy?  Republican Elephant:  We're not Democrats.

Via Juanita Jean.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrated that said phrase is an oxymoron.

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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Dis Dishonorable Discourse 0

For Veterans Day, Frances Coleman shared some memories of her father, who fought in World War II (as did my own father).

She mused about what he fought for–and about what he didn’t fight for.

More than 400,000 American soldiers didn’t die in World War II so that today, we could spuriously accuse one another of stealing elections. They did not die so that manipulative candidates could maliciously pit voters against one another. Nor did they die so that we could try to limit, rather than expand, people’s access to the ballot box.

Especially, they didn’t die so that this country’s worst enemy could become its own people.

Follow the link for the rest of her article.

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Freedom of Screech 0

Joe Patrice dissects ALEC’s latest antic.

It is breath-taking in its linguistic contortions.

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QOTD 0

Alexis de Tocqueville:

“The will of the nation” is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

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The Endless Loop 0

Alexander:  Wow.  Four more subscribers to my Youtube channel.  If I keep this up, I'll be an influencer.  Dagwood:  That's great.  But what exactly do you want to be an influencer of?  Alexander:  Getting more subscribers to my Youtube channel, of course.

Click for the original image.

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Republican Family Values 0

Leonard Pitts, Jr., marvels at the heartlessness of the party of mean for the sake of mean.

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A Shining City on a Hill 0

Trudy Rubin thinks the shine has worn off from Reagan’s “shining city.” A little bit from her article:

America now inspires the world for the wrong reasons: nationalism, conspiracy theories and attacks on the press.

Follow the link for her reasoning.

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Corralling the Crazy 0

The moral of the story is simple. Don’t vote for stupid.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another random act of politeness claims the life of yet another child.

Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Twits who are not who they say they are.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0

. . . and they’re mailing it in.

Darryl Lelie, the owner of Seafood Kingz on City Island (in the Bronx–ed.) said he’s been trying to track down the person responsible for placing this unsettling cartoon depicting racial stereotypes in his mailbox last week.

(snip)

At least three businesses here (The Bronx–ed.) including Archie’s tap and table and Caliente’s seafood – another black owned business – were allegedly targeted.

The story goes on to say that, for all practical purposes, that particular neighborhood used to be a sundown town.

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QOTD 0

Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker:

TV has become nothing more than the petri dish where this country grows its idiots.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Courting Disaster 0

Robert Reich is less than impressed by the track record of Supreme Supremacist Court Chief Justice John Roberts. A nugget:

Since he became Chief on September 29, 2005, the Roberts Court has done more to reduce the voting rights of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the early 19th century.

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Portnoy’s Complaint 0

Case dismissed.

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“The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past.” 0

Uncle Sam lying on a psychiatrist's couch before Abraham Lincoln as the psychiatrist.  Above Uncle Sam, a speech bubble shows Donald Trump's face, an arm with a Nazi swastika tatoo, a gun, a nightstick, a KKK hood, a lynch noose, etc.

Click to view the original image.

Aside:

The post title is from Faulkner.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” is polite to his hunting companion.

Guns are instruments of death. They should be treated with caution and respect.

Words desert me.

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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Facebook Frolics 0

Yet more hate-full frolics.

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All the News that Fits 0

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out Tucker Carlson:

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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