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The Privatization Scam 0

Caption:  News:  Texas Senate classifies a family of four making $160,000 as

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At Northjersey.com, Laura Morowitz argues forcefully that Donald Trump’s hostility towards immigrants is fundamentally nothing more than another case of mean for the sake of mean.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels constrained to expose his portable phallus to a fellow driver.

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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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

PoliticalProf.

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QOTD 0

T. S. Eliot:

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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Sportsball 0

I did not watch the Super Bowl. I have better things to do with three hours of my life than watching large persons run into each other at high speed, like, for example, watching reruns of Just Shoot Me, which is an absolute hoot.

And don’t get me started about the corruption unseemly practices of the IOC and FIFA.

But, as someone who lived in the Philly area for many years, I must say, I find the outcome of today’s game to be somewhat gratifying.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy imagines Donald Trump’s dystopia.

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Disappeared 0

If it’s not on the website, then it never happened.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Michelle Goldberg hears a rhyme from the not too distant past. A fit from her article (emphasis added); the entire piece is worth your while.

. . . the first days of the second Trump term have a distinct Coalition Provisional Authority vibe. For those lucky enough not to remember, the Coalition Provisional Authority was the administration that George W. Bush and his team put in place after charging heedlessly into Iraq, convinced that it would be easy to remake a government about which they knew next to nothing.

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*Mark Twain.

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The Straw Man 0

The stupid.

It burns.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep Hire 0

Persons look into the Treasury Dept. to find a person in a KKK suit at a computer.  The Klansman says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Donald Trump spreads racist bigoted xenophobic bunk about immigrants.

Katharine Davies Samway and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez debunk de bunk.

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The Fifth Columnist 0

At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Trudy Rubin sums up Donald Trump’s foreign policy:

Harm your friends, help your enemies.

Follow the link for her evidence.

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QOTD 0

Michael Elphick, in the voice of Ken Boon:

It’s not where you start. It’s where you finish.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Patriot Gamers 0

Two men in pick-up flying the Stars and Bars and a Nazi flag pass a demonstration where -immigrants are flying the flags of their home countries.  One man in pick-up says to the other,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Privatization Scam 0

And it is a scam. You can voucher on it.

(At about the eight minute mark, Emma and the crew veer off from that subject and discuss listener comments. but the part up to that is well worth a listen.)

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Making America Grate Again 0

Title:  Anne Frank's Hiding Rebuilt in New York.  Image:  Couple looking over the hiding place.  Woman says,

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Aside:

On Thursday’s episode of the Bob Cesca Show, one of the participants–I forget which one–made a remark that resonated with me: that what’s happening today seems to echo the end of Reconstruction.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Speaking of that daily oxymoron, “responsible gun owner” . . . .

Deputies with the Levy County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) said a 5-year-old child is dead and an adult female is in critical condition following their response to gunshots at an Inglis home Thursday night.

(snip)

The initial investigation determined two children were playing in a room.

One child accessed an unsecured firearm and the gun, a 9mm Glock, accidentally discharged.

The discharge in the hands of a five-year-old may indeed have been an accident on the part of said five-year-old, but placing the gun in the hands of said five-year old I would consider negligence.

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Establismentarians, Boebert Is the New Gohmert Dept. 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Nick Gier skewers Lauren Boebert’s fanciful and fabricated claim that the United States Constitution does not–er–establish separation of church and state. He reminds her that

No, Congresswoman Bobert (sic), our founders—conservative and liberal—were wise enough to reject the dangerous idea that your favorite pastor should direct the government.

Follow the link for the wealth of historical evidence that he musters.

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