- At our favorite Wisconsin conservative site, RightWisconsin, State Senator Patrick Testin rails against discriminatory abortion. He points to Iceland as eradicating Down’s Syndrome by forcing potential parents toward abortion. A number of sites do indeed carry the story.
Only one problem. It isn’t true. It took me under a minute to research it. I wonder why neither a state legislator, nor his staff, nor the staff at my favorite Wisconsin conservative site, none of these folks, could find time in their busy schedules to verify the tale before printing the story or, in the case of the good Senator, sponsoring actual legislation.
- Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims gets between anti-abortion protestors and the pregnant women they are trying to bully. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged has mixed feelings. She loves his courage and caring, and has serious reservations about some of his tactics. This strikes me as Vixen wisdom, not reflexive bothsiderism.
- Tommy Christopher brings us an interview with a 12 year old on the recent school shooting in Colorado. He heard the distant shots seeming to come closer and prepared himself to go down fighting.
- Green Eagle runs through published arguments about the word shall in the law that mandates the Treasury Department to hand over Trump tax returns to Congress. Green Eagle has a novel suggestion about applying administration definitions to re-define NRA arguments about strict gun control. On the other hand, we all COULD maybe respect plain language after all.
- This is for those of us who have not read all 448 pages of the redacted Mueller Report, and who keep hearing my President proclaiming his exoneration. Dr. Mark Bear, at MadMikesAmerica, quotes a few passages to demonstrate compellingly that exoneration does not mean what Mr. Trump thinks it means.
- Frances Langum documents the ever so incremental move of my President from claims of no obstruction to essentially no obstruction.
- Andy Borowitz reports that Attorney General William Barr was unable to get his food order filled at Arby’s when he could not give any direct answers to a bewildered employee at the drive-thru window.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives runs through, in some detail, how dangerous conservative lawlessness, and dishonest testimony about it, is not confined to Mr. Barr or this administration.
- nojo puts together a series of quotes, mostly by conservatives about the need for democracy elsewhere, to demonstrate the fall of democracy in America.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger takes a quick look at the only two Presidents in the past 40 years who have reduced the deficit.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors walks us through the clumsy Trump attempts at negotiations as he trips over his shoelaces into a trade war.
- This week’s note in Trumpian “Alternative Facts” comes in a video hosted by the Dallas Observer as a teacher encounters controversy in grading a math quiz.
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“Only one problem. It isn’t true. It took me under a minute to research it. I wonder why neither a state legislator, nor his staff, nor the staff at my favorite Wisconsin conservative site, none of these folks, could find time in their busy schedules to verify the tale before printing the story or, in the case of the good Senator, sponsoring actual legislation.” – Burr
Simple. It doesn’t have to be true. It’s not about it being real.
Trey, are you implying in some way that these folks are less than completely honest?
“Regardless of how one might feel about the use of abortion as birth control (and I do oppose it), I would hope that people from all walks of life can come together against using abortion as a tool of discrimination.”
I can’t. If abortion is legal and isn’t wrong, it isn’t our business why someone goes through with it. (Hey, that sounds pretty conservative!) And I most *certainly* would not deny a mother the right to do it over genetic disorders that will affect that mother’s own life.
This is pretty simple reasoning to follow and even to imagine, so I’m not sure why Testin struggles with it.
The Dallas Observer math quiz link leads to an article titled “Does Everybody Hate Chip and Joanna Gaines Now?” An utterly fascinating read, to be sure, but…