Seldom Balanced – Usually Fair
From tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:
O.K. the Russian Puppet, Trump has been sworn in as President of the United States. Obama is a private citizen. The men and women living on the street are still cold and hungry. Your doctor bills, mortgage, rent and cable bill still need to be paid on time.
In short little has changed since Thursday except now the Russian Puppet, Trump can implement his “plan” to steal everything that isn’t nailed down and sell off the rest.
From nojo at Stinque:
We’re not sure what we expected. We’re not sure we expected anything. Coming of age in the Seventies, in liberal college-town Eugene, “protests” were such a tired tool that we mercilessly mocked each week’s low-attendance chantfest. “Moral preening” was not an expression in currency at the time, but it would have fit.
So we woke up Saturday morning, saw the initial reports of the crowd in DC: Good for them. No, really: It already looked more packed — and clearly more joyous — than the Inauguration the day before, and symbols matter a lot these days. Just ask the Hamilton cast.
And then we saw a video of the Denver crowd.
From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives:
A column by Paul Mulshine, Donald Trump talks to a Jersey guy about a long-overdue debate on climate change, point to a hopeful new approach to climate change from the new Donald Trump Administration. You never know with the erratic Trump, who, as the Christian Science Monitor reports, went from the ridiculous claim that global warming is “a hoax fabricated by the Chinese” to being “open to upholding the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases.”
But as Mulshine reports, Trump has consulted a top skeptic of the theory of CO2-caused climate catastrophe.
Vicious Dislike of Donald Trump
Criticisms hurled at our new President are not only unfair.
They are wounding in ways we can only begin to imagine.
From MadMikesAmerica:
A matter of hours now until the bandwagon, the juggernaut, the circus of horror rolls into view.
Cardboard and water paint and glue like a beggar in patched clothes, like a thing made in a junkyard from rusty pieces of abandoned failures pushed and pulled by clowns.
From John Scalzi at Whatever:
I was asked in e-mail if I had any particular thoughts about the end of Obama years. I have quite a few, some of them complicated, but the short version is that I’ll be sad to see Barack Obama go. He was arguably the smartest president of the nine whose administrations I’ve lived through, and one of the most decent in his personal life. These two qualities don’t guarantee one is a great president — Jimmy Carter was both smart and decent, and it didn’t do him a great deal of good in his four years — but in this case it didn’t hurt and probably helped. He wasn’t perfect, but I don’t grade on perfect. Given what he had to work with, namely, the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression and GOP opposition and obstructionism that was historically cynical, Obama did very well indeed.
From John Pavlovitz:
Dear Jesus,
We regret to inform you that as of January 20th, 2017, your services are no longer required.
As will happen, changes have occurred in recent months that have now rendered many of your past duties obsolete:
Empathy is no longer deemed necessary, and so loving your neighbor as yourself is a rather wasteful use of current resources and manpower.
From The Last Of The Millenniums:
The ‘debate’ over popular vote vs. electoral college?
It shows there is no Trump mandate but really a distraction.
Early morning Tweet storms?
Shows a lack of self control and a very, very thin skin but also a distraction.
No. There are solid reasons why Donald J. Trump will not be a legitimate President.
From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:
While I have been able to shake off much of the psychological damage done to me by my Evangelical upbringing, Bible college training, and the 25 years I spent in the ministry, several pernicious, frustrating problems remain — my inability to see myself as someone capable of doing good things and my inability to accept the praise of others.
This inability stems from Evangelical teachings on the nature of man, pride, and self-denial. I started out in life being told that I was a vile worm of a boy, who if left to his own devices, would turn out to be a sin-filled, lustful, degenerate man; that the only hope for me was to repent of my sins and accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior; that if I would do so Jesus would miraculously change me from a hell bound sinner to a heaven bound saint. Like most saved, sanctified, bought-by-the-blood, filled-with-the-Holy-Ghost Christians, I spent most of my life trying to live according to the impossible teachings of the Bible and the church. No matter how “good” I was, there was always unmortified sin lying deep within my soul, ready to come to the surface if I but for one moment thought that I could live my life in my own strength.