Author: Burr Deming

Hand Munch, Max’s Dad’s Dad, Carols, Bethlehem, Trump, COVID, McConnell

  • Finger sandwiches, I think. @momwino98 enjoys Christmas dinner:
     


    • Max’s Dad misses his dad, loves a Beatles tune his father shared, and mourns a bit of religious bigotry that kept the song out of the funeral.
       
    • Damn, I’m old. nojo remembers carols that are way out of my memory. See how many you recall.
       
    • The Moderate Voice applies Trump standards to a transformative event in my own religion.
       
    • In MadMikesAmerica, Michael J. Scott explores the myth of Bethlehem. The star, the wise men, Bethlehem itself. Could be none of it is true.
       
      Michael has been my friend for years. He would have no mission concerning my faith. Indeed, such details probably bounce harmlessly from the beliefs of most Christians. Still, my brothers and sisters in Christ do share with me a vulnerability. It is that ours is an historically based belief.
       
      This comes from what I have written in the past.

      I do love the idea that God would come to earth as human, experiencing more temptation, pain, and struggle than most of humanity. So my faith would be shattered if it was proven to me that Jesus died running in panic from Gethsemane with a Roman spear in his back.

    • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz vividly describes the fight-against-death struggles and the constant care, naming health care workers as bruised angels struggling to lift victims out of nightmarish hell.
       
    • Nan’s Notebook illustrates, with stories from those she knows, how we tend to regard the pandemic as a sort of theoretical, perhaps good citizenship, thing. That is until a friend or family member gets hit with COVID. It was real for me from the start. Got more real when family, those I admire, got hit.
       
      This thing is deadly dangerous, folks.
       
    • Not to worry. Reductress proves that COVID is not real. Three spirits have not visited to provide important life lessons. Okay, that beats other COVID-denialist arguments I’ve heard.

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    Flakes, Vax Held, Hack, Trickle Downed, Trump Bounced, Dr Jill, Barr None

    • @momwino98 tries very hard to explain why cornflakes were invented:
       
       
    • Iron Knee at Political Irony draws an unfortunate holiday-in-the-night-of-COVID parallel as one phrase has a tragic double meaning.
       
    • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has news on how our madcap Trump administration can screw up everything but a lightbulb. State officials are being told that up to 40 percent of scheduled vaccines will not be delivered after all.
       
      Pfizer has warehouses filled with millions of ready to go doses, but can’t get the okay from federal authorities to ship. I can only speculate, but my guess is that nobody has explained to Trump and company that vaccines can’t work without vaccinations.
       
    • Yikes. It’s documented. Trump COVID policies, the downplay of risks, the denigration of simple protective masks, the mega-spreading events, the lack of preventative action were not a series of simple myopic bumblings. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged reacts to recently revealed memos showing deliberate, directed policy. No longer a conspiracy theory, this administration actually ordered policies calculated to get as many unsuspecting people infected as fast as possible.
       
      The internal memos confirm the horror: a deadly experiment testing a Darwinian construct. As the amateur theory went, several million deaths would have been in the past and forgotten by accountability time. A sort of survival game. The fittest would survive and the world would go on. Modeled after the black death plagues of the middle ages that wiped out large sections of Europe, it would be herd immunity: curing through culling.
       
    • So Vladimir Putin’s cyber-intelligence people have successfully penetrated every computer on every desk of pretty much all of the executive branch, including the military, the State Department, and agencies in charge of our nuclear weapons.
       
      Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit listens carefully to my president’s outraged reaction ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ outrage against those supporting accurate election counts. Nothing about the Russian cyber attack campaign. She draws one obvious conclusion.
       
    • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson details the attack and the horrific damage to national security. Contrasting reactions show President-elect Joe Biden taking on the role of a responsible Commander-in-Chief, and Donald trump taking on the role of ‑well‑ whatever he plays these days.
       
    • John Scalzi at Whatever sees Biden winning and winning until everyone is tired of all that winning. To those who insist it isn’t over for my president, John has a message involving a crudely expressed description of a common biological urge.

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    Danger: Letting More People Vote Might Change Election Outcomes

    found on Twitter by Burr

     
    He said this out loud?
     

    Taking Notes

    He thinks that if people vote, Republicans will lose. I agree

    “typically non-voters” Hmmm-m-m-m- Anyone care to guess his meaning?

    Will Your Way to Power Against Voters: Exploring a Trump Slogan

    Burr on Twitter

     


     
    More on Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl

    An earlier film by Riefenstahl—The Victory of Faith (Der Sieg des Glaubens)—showed Hitler and SA leader Ernst Röhm together at the 1933 Nazi Party Congress.

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Election, Supremes, Pardons, Time of Year, Hunter Attax, Gohmert Decay

    Texas has no standing, now must sit     [Image from Daily News]
    • I’ve been thinking about how often Joe Biden has run for President. He lost twice. He lost in 1992. He lost in 2008.
       
      But in 2020 he has, so far, won …like… nine times. Ten with last night’s Supreme Court ruling. That would be 3060 electoral votes. All those lawsuits and weird workarounds and threats and armed attempts at intimidation keep the fun going and going, in a potentially violent, dangerous sort of way. It’s like (and don’t correct me, I’m on a roll here) watching Rocky IX and wondering who will win.
       
      But nojo is one of the wisest sages on line, and he warns that the erosion of democratic principles will continue. The coup will keep on as a never ending enterprise. There is always the slavery holdover electoral college that quadrennially becomes a dice throw. The fake-danger might not be so much fun, or fake, in the end. Remember Westworld from the wayback machine? The fun will be over when democracy is killed.
       
    • The Onion takes an electoral stand saluting those courageous Trump supporting legislators who have pledged to bravely stand up against American voters.
       
    • Gingrich Fox contribution: The objective fact is I believe Trump probably did actually carry Georgia… News Corpse uses Newt’s now semi-famous statement to show that Republicans have forsaken democracy in favor of faith based elections. Don’t count the votes. Just believe as hard as you can.
       
      I dunno. If you slice the words thin enough, I might buy the objective fact that Gingrich believes something deranged.
       
    • The new Supreme Court non-ruling, knocking down the latest bit of Trumpish legalish gibberish, was an unusual sort of split decision. 2 justices wanted to reject the application to overturn the election. The other 7 didn’t want to hear it all all. So the vote was:
      2 NO
      7 HELL NO.
       
      Which leads us to a bit of wisdom from Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez:

    • After Trump has forced the nation to join him in reliving his 2016 win over and over, Sarah Cooper realizes that our torture is now rewarded.
       
    • Aside from keeping on keeping on and on and on, trying to override the election, two more issues seem to be engulfing the declining outgoing administration: the escalating pandemic and the preparation of a phenomenal number of unexpected pardons for various criminal activities. As Andy Borowitz reports, the White House is meeting the parallel crises by offering curbside amnesty pickup.

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