It’s Wednesday…
And on Wednesdays we’re ferocious! 🥰
🔊🎶
in/omeupetzinho pic.twitter.com/g6cmVz1epm— Jess 🌻 (@jessi_asli) April 20, 2022
- Infidel753 explains new weapon technology, a cheaper, smaller, quicker, more effective version of Israel’s Iron Dome, named Iron Beam. It might protect entire populations from missiles.
It will probably not be perfected in time to help Ukraine. But it might eventually provide something the world has not experienced since the early years of the Eisenhower administration: national safety from nuclear attack.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit applies her own military background and suggests one major reason Russian combat tactics have been so ineffective in Ukraine.
- Nojo has an affinity with Ukrainian humor.
- Robert Levine of The Moderate Voice does not know how Putin’s invasion of Ukraine will end, but he can take an informed look at some possibilities.
- Julian Sanchez sees Putin borrowing from the Governor of Florida:
I see Putin is finally standing up to Critical Ukraine Theory. https://t.co/szEkG08334
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 23, 2022
- Tommy Christopher brings us the laughter as President Biden pokes a bit of fun at Republicans going after Mickey Mouse.
- We can imagine a couple of bystanders spotting a well known figure standing next to a cardboard cutout. In Hackwhackers the couple see DeSantis with Mickey Mouse, point out the inherent silliness of the controversy, and get an unexpected response. It is the first in a series of cartoons illustrating rationality in reaction to Florida conservatives.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony notes that Governor DeSantis has gone full bore against textbooks containing subversive ideas: like American history and …well… math.
- Andy Borowitz reports as DeSantis warns that math makes children gay.
- Green Eagle declines to add his definition to all the opinions of what comprises fascism but can see a couple of characteristics history can reveal.
- Dave Dubya likes political debates between actual candidates. So do I. I especially like the rare clashes about actual policy ideas. Dave sees a pattern as Republicans indignantly reject the idea of future Presidential debates. Seems debates are unfair.
- driftglass has a few direct quotes about a recent ex-President by a couple of current Republican legislative leaders.
- Kevin McCarthy has gone all Schrödinger, having wanted Trump to resign over the insurrection, then not wanting any such thing, then never ever having wanted any such thing, then trying to explain recordings showing that he wanted exactly that. Quite an embarrassment. News Corpse takes a look at national coverage of the pretzel reality that has become poor Kevin, and notices one network that is not the same as all the others.
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson chronicles the disjointed week for Republican public officials, with attacks on Disney cartoon characters, banning of math books, photos of Mr Madison Cawthorne in lingerie and jewelry (emphasis on Mr), winding up Friday with yesterday’s weird testimony from Ms Greene.
- When I first came across it, I was a little annoyed. It was obviously a crude, unimaginative photoshop effort. But no stun is stunning enough these days.
tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors brings us the genuine, for real, actual photos of Republican bad boy, poster child for conservative party animal hypocrisy, Madison Cawthorn: all decked out in women’s underwear. Not a photoshop at all.
- Okay. Basic population stats. If you take every resident of every country in North America, South America, Central America, and put them into Mexico and get all of them to cross into the US, every man woman and child, you could get a billion immigrants. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, takes a look at one of the nuttier wingnut claims.
- The Palmer Report explores the seemingly endless agony of the fearful, cowering Kevin McCarthy, surrounded as he is by Republican sharks. His strategy seems to be to genuflect in all directions.
I dunno.
Seems to me that when you see sharks circling around you in every direction, the best strategy might not be to bleed.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil watches the testimony as Marjorie Taylor Greene mimics a character from an old television series while completely forgetting any documented public statements she may have made advocating violence against Democrats.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson listens to Ms Greene’s sudden memory lapses and goes all Peter Gabriel on her:
Empty stomach, empty head
I got empty heart and empty bed
I don't remember
I don't remember
I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything at all
I don't remember, I don't recall
I got no memory of anything
Anything at allhttps://t.co/WGaUgAflUn https://t.co/kEbqzgckoX— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) April 23, 2022
- Not all Republican inspired voting restrictions are aimed at racial minorities. Scotties Playtime has the videos. Plural. Some folks want only adult males to vote. And some want only men who are sufficiently masculine.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life takes a look at mask related incidents in relation to the psychological, behavioral, and social concept of moral injury.
- Something you don’t see every day. PZ Myers has the story of the arrest of an anti-LGBTQ terrorist for threatening to murder a dictionary.
- Last weekend, Grung e Gene saw America celebrate Easter with a series of mass shootings.
- I like reading most anything written by libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara, if only for the reminder that most anything can be proven if it is first accepted as a hard premise.
Take, for example, the premise that any government regulation is evil because it leads to the abolition of human freedom.
Simple enough.
If a serious problem is posed the only answer to which is government regulation, the problem itself must be a fiction. Or the serious nature of the problem must be a fiction. Or workable regulation is a fiction. Or something!
And so it is with global warming.
Since Mr. LaFerrara insists, as an unassailable premise, that government regulation is evil, global warming must be a fiction. Or, at least it cannot be as serious as environmentalists say it is. Or it is not caused by human activity. So regulation cannot be a solution.
This does leave a few questions. For example:
Why do the overwhelming majority of scientists say that global warming is a threat to human existence?
Why do they point to the human use of fossil fuel as the primary cause?
Libertarians most often suggest that mainstream science is the captive of environmental activism. Scientists are either part of an overarching conspiracy, or they are individually intimidated by rabid extremists.
Since no economic benefit to environmentalists is apparent, what could possibly motivate these activists?
Mr. LaFerrara reveals the knowledge that the conspirators do not want us to know. They are all cultists. They see nature as having intrinsic value over human well being.
They want to take us all back to the stone age, the natural condition of our animal species. He has even scoured the internet for stray quotes, which he presents as representative of scientists, regulators, and advocates for …say… electric vehicles or solar panels.
That is why I like most anything by Michael A. LaFerrara.
If you start with an unquestioned premise, you can prove to yourself an amazing amount of hidden knowledge as yet unrevealed to the rest of us ordinary mortals.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger charts, state by state, temperature change since the first Earth Day in 1970.
- In MadMikesAmerica, Michael John Scott explains why septic tanks and a host of other systems with a long history of reliability are now failing.
- Prosecutors in Texas finally dropped murder charges against that lonely woman after she was arrested and accused of a self-induced miscarriage.
Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group discuss in podcast the criminalization of pregnancy and outcomes, and the issues involved in the State of Texas against Lizelle Herrera.
- When we say we believe in God, Nan wants us to be specific. Who, exactly, is God?
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce quotes a Christian author who insists that God must be real because humans are hardwired to believe.
I confess it does remind me of how the late Isaac Bashevis Singer summarized what was once a raging religious debate about pre-destination vs free will.
We have to believe in free will.
We’ve got no choice.
- It was Easter, and @whiskeywhistle98 just couldn’t find the words
@whiskeywhistle98 #stitch with @alliewheelz ahhh…#easter #tiktokmom #trend #PassTheBIC #dirty #sweetjesus #fyp #foryourpage ♬ original sound – @Whiskeywhistle98- - Reductress brings disappointing news as a member of a cult deliberately misuses therapy language to get out of being a ritual sacrifice.
- If you’ve been thinking about podcasting, you may want to glance through Happiness Between Tails. da-AL has some promotion tips for podcasts.
- SilverAppleQueen goes sadly, beautifully, poetic at a broken marriage.
- The Onion explains what not to say to someone having a panic attack.
- YellowDog Granny provides a gardening tip.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
Now, this is how it's done. The owner of a South Dakota hotel said she was banning Native people. Tribal leaders quickly issued the hotel a trespassing notice, citing an 1868 treaty. Can we evict Stitt in OK? pic.twitter.com/PHlZhnMlT9
— GeeGee (@GeeGeeAkili) April 16, 2022
https://t.co/qV9RgeVPDB pic.twitter.com/JLZvNBEZLD
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 17, 2022
President Biden is not perfect, but he is kind, humble, and compassionate. You have to be an evil, close-minded SOB to hate the man. If I were ever to meet the President, I would consider it an honor. I'm very proud to have voted for him.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) April 18, 2022
My family has a relationship with addiction and this spoke to me. pic.twitter.com/wBHtUwApe6
— Jack Jernigan (@JackJernigan1) April 6, 2022
Radar detectors? https://t.co/IRIvm6NiMV
— Shelia Darden (@srd0459) April 18, 2022
The two party leaders today
Trump:
“Happy Easter to failed gubernatorial candidate and racist Attorney General Letitia James…”
Biden:
“As we reflect today on Christ’s Resurrection, we are reminded that with faith, hope, and love — even death can be defeated”
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) April 17, 2022
Clint wants to know what Ukraine was wearing when the assault happened.
He also wants to know why they haven’t given in to Russia’s demands to make the assault stop.
Don’t be like Clint. https://t.co/vv20hamw60
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) April 16, 2022
If you watch one thing today make it this pic.twitter.com/5rybcqL14b
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 19, 2022
We can hope… https://t.co/EPEaiUDeSH
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 21, 2022
New: Jan. 6 committee member Jamie Raskin tells @GuardianUS if the Capitol attack succeeded in stopping Biden’s certification, “Trump was prepared to seize the presidency and likely to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law”
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) April 20, 2022
This sums up differences between republicans & Democrats pretty well, agreed?
h/t @lindyli #Republicans #Democrats pic.twitter.com/muCcIAoNN2— 👽 McSpocky™ 🗣🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊💉 #StandWithUkraine (@mcspocky) April 21, 2022
I need more life hacks from this goddess. pic.twitter.com/jhVFwsv683
— Danielle Daly (@danooli_dani) April 8, 2022
My hobbies include smoking marijuana and hunting with my dog pic.twitter.com/qLoYAmfrjx
— Dark Angel Indii (@Indian_two) April 17, 2022
Stalin is the reason why NATO was necessary. Pootin is the reason why it's still needed.
— Paul Gerard (@Economics2020) April 22, 2022
Here's the audio:
Kevin McCarthy tells Liz Cheney, privately, after Jan. 6 that he's going to call Trump and tell him to resign.
This contradicts McCarthy's denial.pic.twitter.com/INVXGaxt5O
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 22, 2022
CARLSON: We bring you the latest on the Terrifying Thing That Is Very Clearly Not Happening
HANNITY: Are our children safe from the Terrifying Thing That Is Very Clearly Not Happening?
INGRAHAM: Parents are outraged by the Terrifying Thing That Very Clearly Is Not Happening
— Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel) April 19, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
I'm considered elderly, mostly because of age, but I don't remember the last time there was a property requirement to vote anywhere in the US.
Possibly that's because the last state to abolish property qualification was North Carolina in 1856.
It was considered quite the reform
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 16, 2022
Okay.
I laughed https://t.co/nmqIQ85q8e— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 17, 2022
Yeah, that fills everyone's heart with love. https://t.co/ltKlWYb5M0
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 17, 2022
After giving it some thought, I would say…
… yes, definitely.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 17, 2022
I think this backs you up.
From a few years ago:https://t.co/T7kvCE8XT6— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 18, 2022
Suspicious
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 18, 2022
We may get around to dating.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 18, 2022
I have given a bit of thought to that at times.
Once was on hearing a particularly horrific policy change during the Trump admin.https://t.co/0iJm9zeeGO— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 19, 2022
Possibly because we went to vote, not to worship.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 19, 2022
Hasbro stock is up 'cause MAGA's are rushing in to get easy-bake ovens for testicle tanning.
— Jeff 🌊 ☕ 🪴 (@wellsy57) April 18, 2022
I'm going to bed, and hopefully not having nightmares!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 19, 2022
I would watch, Mike. Honest.
But I can't get out of something I happen to have scheduled at the exact moment of your event.
What time is that event again?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 20, 2022
I think I remember those two!
They were standing together at the end of a hall in a Stanley Kubrick movie about some hotel.
Right?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 20, 2022
An adjective rich environment.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 21, 2022
Is he saying the video was captured and edited by his enemies?
Or was the one on camera an O'Reilly double?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 21, 2022
Touches us and many our age https://t.co/5QI0a08zgQ
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 21, 2022
I doubt I'd get permission from my wife.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 21, 2022
Also, don't get the two confused.
.
I'll never do that again.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 21, 2022
Mr Assange has been a bit less cautious when it comes to exposing ordinary innocent people to injury or death when they simply got in the way:https://t.co/BOArHoLqnI
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 22, 2022
In a recent TikTok, Taylor Lorenz explains why it’s bad to engage in a doxxing campaign of an individual and shares her horror at media revealing a full name without getting comment. Incredible pic.twitter.com/ad19fY0dJh
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 20, 2022
I see your point.
Problem is that darn Constitution.Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says she can't be part of Congress if she "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion"
If, out of principle, we want to abolish Section 3, must we move on to re-examine the 2nd Amendment?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 22, 2022
Thank you.
You may be trying to reference a segue. A Segway is a transportation device.The quote was from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment which is the basis of the legal action against this member of Congress.
The question is whether it applies to her.
Do you have an opinion?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 23, 2022
I usually respond to logic and evidence with logic and evidence of my own.
Occasionally I do make simple assertions backed only by opinion or snark.
I never expect unsupported statements to be accepted as proof.Do you?
Here's your problem:
Saying it's so don't make it so.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 23, 2022
Interesting, the vitriol in response to what I see as a legitimate question.
I'm considered elderly, and I may miss nuance in a site with which I am unfamiliar.
I seek clarity, not confrontation. But if that is the price for clarity, I'm okay paying ithttps://t.co/HtL0LAS3uI
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 22, 2022
Understandably, you have been misled.https://t.co/6fcXJrI4Qp
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 23, 2022
Actually, it was an attempted insurrection.
A violent attempt to prevent a transfer of power.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 23, 2022
Let's see:
No logic
No evidence
Just saying soSaying so
don't make it so.https://t.co/jdpAzUJNdx— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) April 1, 2022
– Podcasts –
thanks for including me in your roundup! much appreciate it 🙂
They want to take us all back to the stone age, the natural condition of our animal species. He has even scoured the internet for stray quotes, which he presents as representative of scientists, regulators, and advocates for …say… electric vehicles or solar panels.
Obviously, yes, what those people are advocating is the path back to the stone age. Primitive, stone-age neanderthals made extensive use of solar panels, and electric vehicles are commonly found at their grave sites. They also have exhaustive government regulations of their crude spears and stone tools. So obviously these advocates want us to be like them.
The Great Math Textbook Purge in Floriduh turned out to resemble ordinary greasy corruption rather than actual outrage over CRT Math Common Core Gay indoctrination….when the smoke cleared, there was only one textbook left standing; a textbook published by a Houston company owned by the Carlyle Group.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/04/19/desantis-textbooks-florida-woke-one-publisher-allowed-k-5-math-classes/7357965001/