“Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ and the state needed to ‘do a better job with mental health,'” NBC News reported on Monday, June 20, 2022. Then added, “— yet in April he slashed $211 million from t[...]
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June 20th, 2022 - 8:56 pm § in Misc.
Airplane seating classes
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June 20th, 2022 - 5:03 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
You don’t have to like it, just shut up and eat it
American politics is a diner, not a white-tablecloth restaurant. The food can be hard to swallow. New Mexico held a routine primary this month. And, as MSNBC reported, “the process was largely unremarkable. Candidates ran, voters participated, ballots were counted, and election results were an[...]
June 20th, 2022 - 4:47 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Kevin McCarthy is a lousy chess player
There’s no chance Kevin McCarthy, GOP House leader, deliberately sabotaged his own party; so let’s take that explanation off the table right away. He’s just a lousy chess player. As an MSNBC journalist explains (here), when McCarthy “dispatched a trusted ally … to nego[...]
June 20th, 2022 - 2:29 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Few things are more nauseating than crooks feeling sorry for themselves
Here’s an item from today’s CNN news: “Todd and Julie Chrisley are speaking out about the “very sad, heartbreaking time” for their family after they were convicted of conspiracy to defraud banks of more than $30 million in loans.” (See story here.) The Chrisleys [...]
June 20th, 2022 - 11:20 am § in Politics
Are GOPers trying to normalize violence? Sure looks like it …
You expect it from the gutter-crawlers who populate the darker corners of the GOP; but Republican candidates are increasingly adopting violence as a campaign theme — and making it seem okay. The latest: Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens (who, himself, is a gutter crawler) in the camp[...]