“Fox News host Harris Faulkner accused President Joe Biden of threatening a border official by merely clearing his throat” (see story here, watch video below). Look, Fox News isn’t journalism, it’s entertainment catering to people who attend Trump rallies and make down paymen[...]
Archive for January, 2023
How to test whether the Supreme Court is crazy
File a lawsuit asking the court to: reinstate Trump, remove Biden and Harris from office, remove “the 387 members of Congress who voted to certify Biden’s election,” ban all of them and Mike Pence from “ever running again,” and award the plaintiff $3 billion of damages for [...]
How to take guns out of the wrong hands
The rest of the world thinks America’s gun policies are crazy. A majority of Americans think so, too. Guns are simply too accessible, and in the hands of people who plainly shouldn’t have them. We really don’t need examples; mass shootings, school shootings, and gun crimes speak fo[...]
Shouldn’t there be consequences for liars and people who believe them?
Of course there should be; and, when dealing with me, there are. If someone repeatedly lies to me, I don’t believe them, trust them, or involve myself with them; I’ll walk away from them. You can’t have a relationship with me if dishonesty is the backbone of your character. This we[...]
January 9th, 2023 - 1:19 am § in Environment, Misc.
A whale is born (video)
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A conversation between two election crackpots
Fox talk-show host Maria Bartiromo, who used to be a respected financial journalist before she left CNBC to become a flack for Trumpism, dished up a plate of Kari Lake election denialism on her show on Sunday, January 8, 2023 (see story here). Formatted as an interview, but in actuality a backscratc[...]
January 8th, 2023 - 2:31 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Rep. Greene admits being a sucker
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as a lot of things to put behind her. For her, banishment from House committees tops the list. Democrats, who disciplined her for publicly advocating violence against Democrats, are now a minority. Newly enthroned House speaker Kevin McCarthy had previously promise[...]
What it’s like without a free press
In South Sudan, 6 journalists were arrested for filming the president pissing in his pants. Read story here In Phoenix, Arizona, a Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested for reporting while black. Read story here — West Virginia’s GOP governor got a reporter fired for reporting on abuse [...]
January 6th, 2023 - 10:07 pm § in Politics, Republicans
6-year-old gunman shoots teacher
That’s not a typo. A six-year-old kid shot a teacher in a first grade classroom in Newport News, Virginia, on Friday, December 6, 2023 (read story here). The teacher, Abby Zwerner (photo, left), 25, was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. She was shot in the chest. Police, who arreste[...]
January 6th, 2023 - 4:32 am § in Law and Courts
The case against the Idaho murder suspect
“In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed while they slept in an off-campus three-story rented home in Moscow, Idaho. On December 30, 2022, a suspect, 28-year old Bryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested,” Wikipedia says (here). Ok[...]