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George Floyd Debate:
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Vax, Voter Crush, Blood Creed, Q, Knee Kill, Gaetz Open, Psaki, Short Piers

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  • John Scalzi at Whatever had his 2nd vax a couple of days before I did and had about the same after-effect: which was pretty much nothing. I felt extra sleepy yesterday morning so I didn’t get to work until 6:00 AM. Not sure if that was an effect or was independent. I know, I know, Tobacco Institute. Point is, after the jab I’m fine, Scalzi is fine, pretty much all God’s children are fine (Halleluia). So do it!
     
  • CATO fellow Julian Sanchez joins fellow fellows in a podcast about vaccine passports and vaccine certifications. The distinction is that passports are government administered (bad), and certifications are issued by private corporations and organizations (good).
     
    Well… probably good if done correctly. Which it would be, if it is done by corporations (excellent) and not government (horribly evil).
     
    I am somewhat elderly, so I may be missing something. I don’t know of any national figure promoting a federal vaccine passport.
     
  • Coca Cola and baseball have denounced restrictive voting laws. Now Ant Farmer’s Almanac reports on a similar stand by another, even more universally beloved, icon.
     
  • Advocates for harsh voter laws do bob & weave a bit to dodge the accusation. Keep people from voting? Who, us? Don’t be ridiculous. We just want election integrity. That’s it! No more than that.
     
    Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged takes a close look at the newest argument for restrictive voting: that it’s a really good idea to make it hard for those people to vote. Yup, they’re saying it out loud, in front of God and everybody.
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara makes his point with the headline: Statistical Disparities Don’t Proof Discrimination in Voter ID Laws. Proof? Okay, perhaps he was relying on spell-check and posted what he didn’t Nintendo.
     
    Michael is unimpressed with statistics that show voting restrictions pose a disproportionate burden on minority voters. After all, shouldn’t citizens be willing to demonstrate their patriotism by putting a lot of extra effort into exercising their rights?
     
    Besides, just because a restriction happens to put more of a burden on minorities doesn’t prove that the discrimination was intended. It could be mere coincidence. So it really doesn’t count.
     
  • Andy Borowitz is following the ongoing voting rights debate as Coca Cola, Delta, and baseball boycott Georgia. Senator Mitch McConnell urges corporations to follow the good example set by Congressional Republicans and refuse to get involved in actually governing the country.
     
  • nojo observes the growing number of corporations objecting to choke holds on voting and the resulting Republican anger at those companies. How cynical, how opportunistic of these CEOs.
     
    nojo points to marketplace logic. Politicians might succeed in keeping folks from voting. But people who can’t vote can still buy stuff. And paying attention to the consumer is what politicians once did for voters.
     
  • If you would like to cut through competing claims to see what the Georgia law actually says, Scotties Toy Box helps out with a brief overview you can scan, and a few lines of law in between to back up each point. Nice to be able to glance through the dozen or so large headings to get the drift, and look to the normal print for the details. Color highlighted so you won’t miss what relates.
     
  • Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo at Rewire News Group go to free-wheeling podcast with everything we need to know about three new legislative trends: voter suppression, abortion bans, and anti-trans discrimination.
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz asks Christians to look to instructions directly from scripture, teachings explicit in our faith, and what we know from the depths of our souls: that voter suppression is not only undemocratic, it is evil.

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Chauvin, Fox, Shootings, Asian Attacks, Passports, Gaetz Who, Pesky Voters

  • The annual celebration is upon us, but toxic attitudes among conservative Christians toward immigrants with brown skin are year-around.


    Thank God the Holy family did not encounter some of my brothers and sisters in Christ.

  • PZ Myers briefly summarizes the arguments in the trial of Officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck. The arguments in Chauvin’s favor so far are foolish, silly, self-defeating, bigoted, far-fetched, and a long, long distance from being a coherent defense. So it’s safe to say they just might work.
     
  • At The Onion, the Chauvin defense team praises the officer’s restraint in not killing bystanders.
     
  • News Corpse speculates on the reluctance of the Fox network to provide full coverage of the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
     
  • Nan’s Notebook reviews horrible death by gunfire and is frustrated by thoughts and prayers.
     
  • nojo contemplates the nation’s mass shootings and remembers one noticeable American incident from half a century ago that did not happen in this hemisphere. Those of us born in the Truman administration will remember the horror.
     
  • Tommy Christopher reacts as others react as Lindsey Graham reacts to the death and carnage of recent mass shootings with a video of himself shooting an assault rifle.


    So Lindsey, how are those sensitivity sessions going?

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