Month: October 2023

This is actually Burr’s friend Ray.

Burr was the target of a violent attack on Tuesday. The attack occurred on a public parking lot in Maryland. The perpetrator is, as yet, unidentified. Detectives are working on it.

Burr’s right arm was broken in several places. A recommendation of complicated surgery is under medical review.

Burr is in extravagant pain, but is in relatively good spirits.

A family member remarked that on his last visit he caught COVID and now this. Wondered what curse will come on his next visit.

Burr’s answer:
Frogs.

More information as it becomes available.

Was hoping to overcome a very bad cold by now (COVID ruled out – Yayyy)

Skipping this week’s blog list.
Back next week.

Begin with hope:

It’s Friday…

And on Fridays we dance 💃 🕺

🎥 Masaka Kids Africana
pic.twitter.com/5iF0yrMfXB

— Jessi 💫 (@its_jessi_grace) October 13, 2023

• Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit asks a pertinent question about Hamas and babies.
   
• Infidel753 runs down a few generally missed facts about the terrorist attack from Hamas.
   
• Green Eagle spent some time as a resident of Israel and has personal observations.
   
• Nan’s Notebook goes Biblical, exploring possible religious justifications for geographic claims in the Middle East.
   
• At The Moderate Voice Jason Streck wants Israel to be careful in responding to Hamas monstrosities and avoid the temptation of committing war crimes of its own.
   
• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz suggests that the only place to stand in the Israeli‑Palestinian violence is in opposition to violence and terrorism no matter the source.
   
  Key imperative:
  The only thing good people can do in living nightmares like we’re witnessing right now, is to mourn the disparate nature of the suffering.
   
  Key reactive:
  We should condemn terrorism wherever it shows up.
  We should decry brutality whatever its source.
   
  My thought:
  Pastor Pavlovitz’ prescription requires untangling and simplifying to avoid both‑side equivalence.
   
  In this case:
  Any good cause, no matter how good, does not mitigate the pure evil of a terrorist attack.
   
• In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, pacifist Bruce takes both‑sides to a new level, while considering whether Hamas is evil.
   
  War is evil. It is never justifiable.
  Both sides, in fact all sides, in war are evil.
  Hamas is evil.
  Israel is evil.
  We are evil.
  Because peace is good.
   
• Vixen Strangely sees Republicans who see the Hamas attack as “a great opportunity”, and watches Senator Tim Scott, the one with a rep as a nice guy, make a clumsy attempt to put the Great Opportunity into dirty practice.
   
• Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson seems to have little patience with Republican disinformation:
   

  "Biden admin wanted Israel to stand down after the attack."

  "Israel has a right to defend itself and its people – full stop." – Joe Biden

  I am not a fan of Biden on foreign policy, but his statement was a clear endorsement of Israel defending itself, not standing down. https://t.co/u3uPfC0kqJ

  — James Wigderson (@jwigderson) October 8, 2023

  
  And even less with Republican prayers for political violence:
   

  Remember the other day when I posted that at least Trump supporters aren't demanding human sacrifices? I may have been premature about that. https://t.co/oPd0r6GhMN

  — James Wigderson (@jwigderson) October 8, 2023

• Tommy Christopher has the CNN reaction as mr Trump calls out Never Forget!. Except it isn’t in reference to the Holocaust or to the terrorist attack, but rather to Netanyahu’s lack of personal loyalty to Trump.

Continue reading “Terrorism in Israel, MyPillow Trumped, Speaker Squeaker, Jordan Jumped”

I wish I loved anything as much as this dog loves walks.

📹: Jesse Stellick pic.twitter.com/EwWaeSwLbx

— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) October 4, 2022

• Scotties Playtime summarizes it all through news snippets (beautifully done) as the Republican Party in nominal charge of Congress
  seems not in charge of itself:
  • Ousts Kevin
  • Gets Personal with Gaetz
  • Plenty Petty with Pelosi
  • Blames Democrats for not keeping Republicans from attacking each other.

   

• Hackwhackers goes to the X‑box formerly known as the artist Twitter for reactions to the sQuashing of Kevin McCarthy.
   
• In the chaos that has become of the Republican House, the Palmer Report resorts to mathematics and discovers that it’s easier to predict who can’t be next Speaker than to forecast who can.
   
• At The Onion, the House is finally closing in on electing a new Speaker: Kevin McCarthy’s 8^th grade bully.
   
• Author John Scalzi at Whatever cannot spare a lament for back-stabbed Kevin McCarthy.
   
  Key tactical advice:
  Don’t give a stabber a knife, a firebug a box of matches, or a sloppy drunk the keys to your car, especially when you’re riding shotgun without a seatbelt.
   
• Andy Borowitz reports as Republicans hold an emergency meeting to decide who has to sit next to Matt Gaetz.
   
• A few folks, including mr Trump, have floated the notion that mr Trump might become Speaker Trump.
   
  Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson has a better candidate:
   

  I WANT BIGFOOT FOR SPEAKER. pic.twitter.com/F6pPrbkEKM

  — James Wigderson (@jwigderson) October 4, 2023

• Green Eagle has an interesting question about Constitutional law. If mr Trump is elected Speaker of the House (implausible, not impossible), would he be considered a member? And if he became a member, would he be immune from arrest or prosecution?
   
• News Corpse has a few of the wingnuttier members of the wingnuttiest fringes of the wingnut party pushing for Donald Trump as Speaker of the House, now being joined by cheerleaders at the Fox network.
   
  Trump seems to want it.
   
  Yeah, it’s news, but bored skeptics may be forgiven:
   
  
  Meanwhile, Trump’s attack on the judge can be understood as the summary ruling orders the exposing of longstanding Trump company shady financial maneuvers.
   
  Key translation of Trump’s panic attack aimed at the judge:
  It’s a Travesty of a Sham of a Mockery of a Travesty of
  Two Mockeries of a Sham!!

Continue reading “Oust Ouch, Fraud, Rant, MAGA Nuts, Sub Secrets Blabbed, GOP Debates”