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Archive for July, 2022
July 18th, 2022 - 9:41 pm § in Politics
Gun safety lesson
“On the same day four people were killed in a mass shooting at an Indiana mall, and less than two months after a mass shooter at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, slaughtered 19 children and two teachers,” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) tweeted his opinion of any renewed effort to regul[...]
July 18th, 2022 - 7:47 pm § in Misc.
Arizona led nation in TP panic
Nowadays everything is researched from 13 billion year-old-stars to toilet paper shortages. The Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 may have begun in Seattle, where the first U.S. case of Covid-19 was reported, and shoppers here promptly emptied shelves. But this rocket reached its apogee in Phoenix[...]
July 18th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Drop boxes weren’t a problem
“The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems,” KING 5 News reported on Monday, July 18, 2022 (see story here). Washington, which has 100% mail voting, uses drop boxes, but this report is based on a nationwide survey o[...]
Objective Truth v. Subjective Belief
This is the battle of the new century, and it’s not going well for the good guys. It feels like 1940, struggling to hold the beachheads in England and Dunkirk (but, as you’ll recall, the good guys won that one; the lesson being to never give up the good fight, no matter how dark the [&he[...]
Is rationality returning to politics?
It sure needs to. There are some hopeful, albeit still small, signs. There are so many stories about crazy Republicans you can get lost in them. You have to look at the big picture. That’s where the hopeful signs are. Chief among them: Trump’s influence and grip on the GOP appear to be w[...]
July 15th, 2022 - 8:03 pm § in Politics
Election fraud found in NY governor’s race
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), GOP nominee for New York governor, a prominent promotor of Trump’s election lies, has been accused of election fraud, Newsweek reported on Friday, July 15, 2022 (see story here). When Rep. Zeldin voted against certifying the 2020 election, he argued, “This debate [...]
July 15th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Politics
GOP abortion warriors victimize innocent doctor and girl
A 10-year-old rape victim and an innocent doctor have been snared by the GOP’s abortion warriors and it’s ugly. First they claimed the girl didn’t exist; then the rapist was arrested. Next, Indiana’s GOP attorney general threatened the doctor for not reporting it; but she did. Now he’s th[...]
July 15th, 2022 - 4:41 pm § in Politics
GOP plots revenge against Jan. 6 committee
“House Republicans are plotting revenge on the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection,” CNN says, “as the GOP weighs a broader effort to re-litigate some of Donald Trump’s biggest election grievances if it recaptures the House majority.” See st[...]
July 15th, 2022 - 4:20 pm § in Business, Law and Courts
Talk about bad customer service …
CNN reports “47 Hertz customers have filed a lawsuit against the rental company that describes horror stories.” These stories included being arrested at gunpoint, spending days in jail, and losing their jobs. All because they were “falsely reported as having stolen its rental cars.[...]