Abortion, COVID, Fauci, Jan 6, Lincoln Project, Kamala, DeSantis Military

  • It seems a staple on the right that pregnant women must be prosecuted if they are suspected of aborting the fetus or in any way causing their own miscarriage.
     
    A few misguided souls on the left greet the prospect of the coming Supreme Court ruling with some glee. It might help win enough seats next year to save the Republic.
     
    Infidel753 explains, step by step, why the controversy should be regarded as about an essential freedom not a political chess piece.
     
  • This involves real people. Legal scholar Imani Gandy says abortion is part of a larger pattern. She brings the true stories of a few actual victims from an ongoing state and local war on pregnant people.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged elaborates on the flippant suggestion of adoption as the solution as Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks an extraordinarily loutish question.
     
  • Sarah Cooper explains a flaw in Supreme Court thinking on women, abortion, and adoption:
     

  • Nan’s Notebook points to an obvious group that has no legitimate voice on controlling the bodies of pregnant women, which is to say men. She also has obvious advice for anti-abortion women.
     
  • This hits home:

  • Andy Borowitz reports on a new variant of non-intelligence, discovered in Texas. The mutation has developed immunity to all information.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has the news. When it comes to vaccines, seems the sheriff of Los Angeles County is a paranoid loon.
     
    The Sheriff refuses to vaccinate because when you get the vaccination, the Chinese get your DNA. Honest, says he, the FBI themselves told him. Really they did.
     
    Doesn’t say whether they had tears in their eyes or called him sir.
     
  • MadMikesAmerica watches as Death consoles a disappointed Omicron.
     
  • This answers one inane argument:

  • Frances Langum takes notes as Jimmy Kimmel provides an eloquent, compelling, and funny rant defending Anthony Fauci from Senate Republicans and Fox personalities. Saving lives occasionally offends delicate conservative sensibilities.
     
  • News Corpse follows the occasion as once-upon-a-president Donald Trump hosts a recent event of devoted followers, and leads the cheers for Corona-19 in the hope that each new death might hurt Joe Biden.

  • Seeing COVID in purely political terms has been a recurring pattern with Mr. Trump. In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson chronicles what new revelations are telling us about a week in the life of Donald Trump while he was still President.
     
    A COVID test indicated that he was carrying the virus. So he went ahead and exposed a whole lot of others. The list is impressive. Among those who contracted COVID were Chris Christie, Kellyanne Conway, and Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Mike Lee (R-UT). Also exposed to his infected presence were his nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, a host of others attending a ceremony in her honor, a gathering of Gold Star families who had lost children, parents, and siblings to combat in service to our nation, a large group of reporters at a press conference, and campaign opponent Joe Biden at a scheduled debate.
     
    That last appears to have been deliberate, with other members of the Trump family in on it, exposing even members of the audience to infection.
     
    Throughout all this, the meetings, conferences, the Gold Star family ceremonies, knowing all the time that he carried the virus, Mr. Trump did not even bother wearing a mask.
     
    When the secret began leaking that he had tested positive, he blamed the Gold Star families, speculating that they had infected him, rather than the other way around. He knew better, but better that they be blamed than himself.
     
    An all around nice guy.
     
  • Here’s one debate worth memorizing:
     

  • Julian Sanchez is right about how many confessions Donald Trump has made:
     

  • Joe Gangelman at The Moderate Voice summarizes investigative reporting that more closely links Mr. Trump to active planning for mob violence.
     
  • Hackwhackers goes into the search for Jan 6 lynch mob insurrectionists and reveals the secret FBI weapon that has led them to arrests and prosecutions: the rank stupidity of the culprits.
     
  • driftglass is really, truly, down on the conservative but anti-Trump Lincoln Project.
     
  • During an argument decades ago, a co-worker put the question to me this way:
    Are you drunk or stone cold stupid?
    I considered for a second, then said
    No, not really.
     
    Peter Doocy of Fox Network has tried every variant of snide questioning at White House press conferences. Press Secretary Jen Psaki has made gentle, friendly blood letting – that would be Doocy’s blood – into an art form. But this week Doocy took sniping to a new low over the departure of senior adviser Symone Sanders from the staff of Kamala Harris.
     
    The question had to do with whether Vice President Harris was unhappy with the quality of her staff, forcing her senior advisor out, or rather she was so difficult a person to work for that a hostile atmosphere forced her senior advisor to leave.
     
    Tommy Christopher seems to have had it with the Doocy pattern.
     
  • In Scotties Toy Box, Scottie explores the new civilian military force Governor DeSantis wants to establish under his personal control.
     
  • The Palmer Report watches what happens as movie star Matthew McConaughey considers running for Governor of Texas. Matthew tries hard to thread a needle between science followers and anti-vaxxers, managing to do what nobody thought possible: enrage both sides equally. Thus ends his not-quite candidacy.
     
  • Having, in the past, gone through a situation with a family member in legal trouble PZ Myers has a lot of understanding for Chris Cuomo who secretly tried to use his news anchor position to help out his sexually offensive brother, then governor of New York. Professor Myers doesn’t think Chris Cuomo should have been suspended by CNN, but rather that he should have been fired outright.
     
    That understanding that comes from family history does not come close to the level of sympathy. In fact, the conduct of the Myers family in response to criminality would have served as a good example for the Cuomo brothers.
     
  • At The Onion, Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center acknowledges a clerical error that resulted in prisoner Ghislaine Maxwell (think Jeffrey Epstein) spending the night alone and unsupervised in the prison’s noose room.
     
    Oops. Okay, I know it’s a parody. Sheesh,
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has friends around the globe, some of whom are concerned about the United States. He let’s them know that it’s not as bad here as they think. It’s worse.
     
  • Nojo is inspired by the documentary mini-series Get Back to rewrite the history of the Beatles.
     
  • Aren’t those Stones something? Still going strong after all those years? I don’t know how Fred and Barney do it.
     
    Okay, so it’s a Dad joke. I am considered elderly by some. I suspect that has to do with age, but I suppose friends and co-workers might simply forget that I am hilarious.
     
    CalicoJack in The Psy of Life draws a parallel, asking whether the nation should go the way of the Rolling Stones or take the Beatles path.
     
    Which is to say:
     
    Break up like the Beatles, with MAGA world skipping on down the authoritarian, White Supremacist route while blue America goes with rights, equality, and a social safety net.
     
    Or
     
    Stay together to the end like the Stones.
     
  • Green Eagle points out that the current congressional conservative tolerance for violence is not new. There is an even more direct example in pre-Civil War history.
     
  • Every election year that Congress is not in the control of Republicans, the party charts out what they would do differently. Remember the policy laden Contract with America of Gingrich fame. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors tells of a change in strategy as Mitch McConnell unveils the new Republican policy list: Nothing. No policies. No agenda. No program. A blank piece of paper untouched by any writing utensil.
     
    Reads the news item:
    Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won’t release a legislative agenda before next year’s midterms.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger knows something about the level of American approval for the three recent convictions in the Arbury murder case.
     
    I have a mixed reaction to one question: Was justice served by the guilty verdicts? My answer would hinge on the word served.
     
    Justice, in a society ruled by law, is held back by limits imposed by legality and social ethic. Real justice would have been much harsher than a lawful nation could tolerate.
     

  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit has one or two things you absolutely need to keep in mind – okay a few things, alright several, FINE a long list of things you want to think about before pulling a gun on anyone in any circumstance.
     
  • Of course, we had to have these:

  • SilverAppleQueen gives us a bit of history about what inspired the founders to insist on a Constitutional separation of Church and State and why we should revive their fear of an evangelical theocracy.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce goes off on Biblical literalists focusing mostly on the first three verses of Genesis: asking, among other things, who God was talking to.
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research explains how Google Street View protects the privacy of anyone accidentally caught in the lens by automatically blurring faces. This occasionally produces startling results, with one example in Raffadali, Italy that I suspect could carry a moral lesson for those of us who say we follow Jesus, but carry brutal attitudes toward women, people in need, refuges fleeing tyranny, or simply the least of these.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson doesn’t care for Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers, but he gets impatient at one criticism about the recent vehicular homicidal crash into a holiday parade.
     


    And he has little use for another form of blame:
     

  • On Twitter, a participant posts this:
    #WaukeshaMassacre was the worst terrorist [sic] attack in America since 9/11
    It was committed by a BLM
    [sic] activist out on bail because of Defund The Police [sic] Democrats [sic]
    Which is why the MSM is calling it an accident
    [sic]
     
    Sick.
     
    Fortunately, Dave Dubya calmly sets things straight with a single sentence:
     

  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara encounters a post by a self-described Anarcho-Communist and finds a crushable opponent. Michael attacks both Communism and anarchy.
     
  • Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes reviews a wonderful pen, loses it, gets another, conjoins that loss and gain with his daughter’s electronic pet puppy and brings in the death of Princess Diana, recovers the old pen and manages to weave it all into an well written, thought provoking tapestry.
     
  • Reductress carries a heartwarming story of a woman who discovers a skincare hack and finally achieves smooth texture with the use of a giant zamboni.
     
  • @momwino98 goes Ted talking, making an obscure, esoteric point about who you owe your time to.
     

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