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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Share your politeness in private moments.

Officers say a man was using the restroom at the store when the gun he was legally carrying accidentally fired.

Another man in the restroom suffered what is being called a “non-life threatening” injury and was transported to the Watauga Medical Center.

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The Rotting Orchard 0

At the Tampa Bay Times, Steven Buckley writes of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. This passage left out at me:

You wonder: What are the chances four “bad apples” would show up for Floyd’s arrest? Pretty good, if the whole system is rotten.

Follow the link for the complete article.

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Profane Processional 0

Donald Trump goose steps  along carrying a golf club and a Bible (held upside down) beneath a banner reading class=”aligncenter” width=”500px” height=”px”

And AL.com’s political cartoonist, J. D. Crowe, asks and answers a question (follow the link for his cartoon):

Have we hit rock bottom yet? Not with this president.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Trumpling under false pretences.

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QOTD 0

Reinhold Niebuhr:

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Very Image of Flailure 0

Donald Trump, holding selfie stick in the midst authorities violently clearing the streets of peaceful protestors, says to aide,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Being While Black 0

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This Isn’t Kosher 0

This fellow is in a bit of a pickle.

I’m sure he feels the doors Clausen in. No doubt he will complain that he got a raw dill.

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“Where’s Waldo?” 0

At Above the Law, Elizabeth Dye notes that Donald Trump seems confused about a lot of things as to where he maintains his legal domicile.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness is a family value.

A woman and her young daughter were wounded when a gun being handled by the woman’s husband inside a Riverside home appeared to have accidentally fired, a police spokesman said Tuesday, June 2.

(snip)

(Riverside Police spokesman Officer Ryan–ed.) Railsback said the firearm was being handled by the woman’s husband, who is also the father of the girl, when it went off in the second floor of the home. The round went through the floor and hit the pair, who were on the first floor.

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

PoliticalProf.

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QOTD 0

John Arbuthnot:

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

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An American Tradition 0

Successive images of white Americans with their knees on black men's throats:  A slave trader, a Southern planter, a Klansman, a Southern sheriff during the Civil Rights movement, a contemporary policemen, as the black man says,

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(Follow the link for an excellent column by Leonard Pitts, Jr.)

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Twits on Twitter, Base Desires Dept. 0

E. J. Montini explores the tactics of the Twitterer-in-Chief. A snippet:

Trump uses events like those in Minneapolis and Louisville and others to inflame his base. These days, it also distracts from COVID-19 news.

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Bunkering Down 0

Donald Trump, deep in a bunker beneath the White House, says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Driving While Black 0

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Righting History 0

Note: When the caller is talking about Greenwood (a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma) and refers to the “18th and 19th” centuries, he has a slip of the tongue. I am certain that he meant to say either “Eighteen and Nineteen Hundreds” or “19th and 20th centuries.”

Aside:

I think that the had a slip when he referred to , but meant to say “19th and 20th” centuries.

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A Trumpled Enemies List 0

Figures labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Yet another frolicker racisms himself right out of a job.

Addendum:

Yet another frolicker fail.

I disagree with the Elizabeth Dye’s suggestion that this lawyer’s Facebook fail had anything to do with age. Stupidity and racism are independent variables from age.

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