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Archive for June, 2021
June 19th, 2021 - 8:42 am § in Politics
GOPer compares Arizona “audit” to joining the military
Here’s what Eric Greitens, a Republican running for a Missouri U.S. Senate seat, says about the Arizona GOP’s private, unofficial, dodgy search for “Chinese ballots” and other make-believe discrepancies in Democratic-leaning Maricopa County’s : “I’ll tell yo[...]
June 18th, 2021 - 11:11 pm § in Misc.
What are UFOs?
I don’t know. Probably a variety of things, some ordinary, others maybe defying explanation. Use your imagination: Frozen turds dropped by passing intergalactic spaceships? They’re receiving renewed attention because of an impending Pentagon report, which by all accounts won’t say [...]
June 18th, 2021 - 2:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Trump lawyers face sanctions
“Sidney Powell and other attorneys who defended former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election have been summoned for a sanctions hearing in a Michigan federal court,” The Hill reported on Friday, June 18, 2021. “On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lin[...]
It’s a bad idea for Catholic bishops to sanction politicians
“The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops … has voted to proceed with drafting a formal statement on the meaning of communion, which will include whether President Biden and other politicians should be denied the rite based on their stance on abortion,” The Hill reported on Friday, [...]
June 18th, 2021 - 12:25 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Deserve had nothing to do with it
Ashli Babbitt, the Capitol rioter who died from a police-inflicted gunshot wound to her shoulder, has become a symbol. To Trump supporters, she’s a martyr, which is nonsense; to some of her critics, she’s a domestic terrorist, which almost certainly is an exaggeration. By all appearances[...]
June 17th, 2021 - 11:01 pm § in Politics
GOP hopeful threatens to kill rival in Florida congressional race
In they-deserve-each-other news, a Republican candidate for the House seat being vacated by Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) informed a conservative activist in a private phone call he is going to have his GOP primary rival killed, Politico reported on Thursday, June 17, 2021 (see story here), and she prom[...]
June 17th, 2021 - 10:12 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
St. Louis gun wavers plead guilty
Update: Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis attorney couple who brandished guns at Black Lives Matter protesters peacefully walking past their home, pleaded guilty to misdemeanors and will pay fines, CNN reported on Thursday, June 17, 2021. They also will surrender the guns they used to threa[...]
June 17th, 2021 - 6:42 pm § in Misc.
Trump confesses: “We didn’t win”
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June 17th, 2021 - 11:19 am § in China, Foreign Affairs
Top U.S. general doesn’t think China could seize Taiwan now
America’s top general believes China’s military “does not currently have the capability to take Taiwan by force and is not likely to try” anytime soon, The Hill reported on Thursday, June 17, 2021 (read story here). Gen. Mark Milley (photo), chairman of the Pentagon’s j[...]