That’s the title of an article by Chris Cillizza, who frequently writes about politics for CNN. The article quickly descends into statistics (More Republicans than Democrats like Trump) and scholarly rankings (ranging from near-last to dead-last). If you want to wade through those details, go [...]
Archive for March, 2021
March 30th, 2021 - 12:58 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Law and Courts, News Media, Politics, Racism
How bad a president was Trump?
March 29th, 2021 - 9:28 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Should Michelle Obama be banned from girls’ sports?
Michelle Obama is NOT a transgender boy named “Michael Robinson.” That rumor, started in 2011 by another blog and reposted in 2014 by the late founder of this blog (here), has been debunked as a hoax. But that hasn’t stopped the post’s wild popular or prevented it from having[...]
Suez Canal reopens, but have ships gotten too big?
It’s no coincidence that the ship which blocked the Suez Canal for six days is longer than the canal is wide. Piled high with containers, it caught strong desert winds like a sail and jackstrawed into the bank. Stretching from bank to bank, and then some, it was firmly wedged in — and ha[...]
March 28th, 2021 - 2:57 pm § in Misc.
Canal drama: Ship still stuck, but progress claimed
“Rescue crews desperately trying to free the container ship blocking the Suez Canal today said they have made a breakthrough and had managed to move the skyscraper-sized vessel by nearly 100ft,” the U.K.-based Daily Mail reported on Sunday, March 28, 2021. The huge container ship, its bo[...]
GOP Senator calls for “bipartisan” compromise on voting rights. No.
“Bipartisan efforts are the key to successful voting rights reform,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said on Sunday, March 28, 2021. He appeared to be recounting past history, when Republicans were less overtly racist, and weren’t systematically engaging in voter suppression, as they are [...]
March 28th, 2021 - 1:49 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Mathew confuses God
Matthew 5:31-32 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Who said this? [...]
VIDEO: “Is this patriot enough?”
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Georgia GOP’s cynical and racist voting suppression law
Voting rights advocates argue the audacious voter suppression law Georgia Republicans have just enacted targets black voters (see story here), and undoubtedly they’re right. A third of Georgia’s population is black, and high turnout among that demographic was responsible for Biden winn[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Voting in Georgia
While white men in masks sign a Jim Crow law to keep blacks from voting, a black legislator is arrested (and later charged with a felony) for knocking on the governor’s door. (They’ll argue, “You can’t have it both ways. Either protesting is a crime or it isn’t. If the [...]
March 26th, 2021 - 5:50 pm § in Politics
Tennessee kids need birth certificates to play school sports
So Republican legislators can discriminate against trans kids, every kid in the state is now burdened with this: “Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a transgender sports bill into law Friday requiring students to prove their sex at birth in order to play in middle and high school sports. The b[...]