A Washington D.C. diner recorded a conversation between Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and President Trump in which the senator promised to help Trump prevent the renaming of military bases bearing Confederate names. Read that story here. Congress has already passed a Defense Authorization Act containing [...]
Archive for July, 2020
July 30th, 2020 - 2:54 pm § in Politics
Relief bill stalls in Congress; who will get blamed?
$600 extra weekly benefits, evictions on the brink The extra $600 a week of unemployment benefits and eviction moratorium that have kept millions of households afloat and in their homes while shut out of their livelihoods by Covid-19 are ending on July 31, and Congress has failed to extend them. Eve[...]
July 30th, 2020 - 11:01 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Herman Cain at Trump’s June 20 Tulsa rally
No masks or social distancing. Now he’s dead from Covid-19. Read story here. [...]
July 29th, 2020 - 9:45 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Mexico Introduces New Sport .. WALL SCALING
(TA News, Mexico City) OOM .. the Olympic Organization of Mexico, is announcing that it plans to introduce a new sport: WALL SCALING. Years after it was first promised and at a cost of more than $10 million per linear mile, President Donald Trump is confident that his newest stretch of a strengthen[...]
July 29th, 2020 - 6:36 pm § in Misc.
Sheriff threatens to stop taking calls from public library over its support for Black Lives Matter
“A Nevada sheriff told a local library system not to bother calling 911 after it expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement,” CNN reported on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. “That message came from Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley … a day before the county’s pub[...]
July 28th, 2020 - 10:44 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump’s “No ****, Sherlock!” moment
Trump in a White House briefing: “Nobody likes me,” the president said in a rare moment of self-reflection. “It can only be my personality, that’s all.” Which reminds me of an old political joke. Two congressmen, a novice and a veteran, were flying home. As they approached the novice&#[...]
July 28th, 2020 - 11:34 am § in Racism
Police identify “umbrella man” breaking windows in Minneapolis rioting
They haven’t released his name to the public yet, pending filing of charges, but believe the 32-year-old suspect is a member of Hell’s Angels and Aryan Cowboys, a white supremacist prison gang, and was “seeking to incite racial tension,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.[...]
July 27th, 2020 - 10:25 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The Tortoise and the Hare
“The 2020 presidential election is the story of the tortoise and the hare,” AOL News opines. “President Trump is a frenetic and unpredictable presence, like the rabbit in one of the most famous of Aesop’s Fables. He is always full of sound and fury, yet what it signifies is often[...]
July 27th, 2020 - 3:33 pm § in Donald Trump, Racism
Trump refuses to pay respects to Rep. John Lewis at rotunda
The casket of Rep. John Lewis is in the Capitol rotunda, where he is lying in state, in tribute to the civil rights icon. Many are paying their respects. But one is not. “No, I won’t be going, no,” Trump told reporters when asked if he planned to attend. Read story here. Lewis became a [&helli[...]
July 27th, 2020 - 2:46 pm § in Politics
GOP Senator describes slavery as “necessary evil”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a potential future GOP presidential contender, is drawing fire for describing slavery as a “necessary evil,” although he did so in the context of how he believes the Founding Fathers viewed it. He used the words in floor remarks about a bill he introduced to withh[...]