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- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson tells us that some fellow named Stephen K. Bannon is refusing to testify or produce documents in response to a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan 6 lynch mob insurrection. He invokes executive privilege as claimed by Donald Trump. She explains the legal issues, beginning with: This is a weird argument.
- Okay, so Steve Bannon is relying on an obviously bogus claim of Executive Privilege.
- Donald Trump is not President, so he cannot claim the privilege.
- If he could claim the privilege it could not apply to criminal acts, like what looks to have happened in connection with the Jan 6 insurrection lynch mob.
- Even if, by some cosmic sleight of hand, the lynch insurgency was not criminal, Bannon was not employed by the Trump administration in January. So… executive what?
The investigating committee will meet Tuesday to vote on holding Bannon in contempt. Some very smart people ask an obvious question.
Since the obstruction is sooooo obvious, why in the whole wide warming world will they wait until Tuesday?
The Palmer Report examines that question and explains why Tuesday is the absolute perfect time.
- Every once in a while, we’ll hear of a special American flag connected with some battle or other historical event. Flags are flown for short periods of time over the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. When we are told we will be saying the Pledge of Allegiance to such a flag, it is intended to give us an additional connection with something special, something national.
Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, watches a new tradition, saying the Pledge to a flag carried by the Jan 6 insurrection lynch mob.
Connection with a special bit of American history, I suppose. Makes you kind of proud, doesn’t it?
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson becomes impatient with a fellow conservative who suggests the main Jan 6 lynch mob transgression was that the mob entered a government building:
- In MadMikesAmerica, Joe Hagstrom compares Donald Trump to Jesus of Nazareth. Guess who wins!
- Hackwhackers unexpectedly finds common ground, complete agreement with Donald Trump.
- Andy Borowitz reports that, for the sake of efficiency, Donald Trump will avoid putting the nation through the trauma of a costly election. He will skip the 2024 campaign and go straight to claiming he won.
- driftglass targets MSNBC for enabling the rehabilitation of conservatives who are loudly against the monster they helped to create.
The monster being the once conservative party that has gone over to out-and-out fascist.
I dunno. I’m still with Winston on this.
“If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.”
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the receipts. What unites Congressional Republicans is their active attempt to destroy the US economy.
- Green Eagle goes into WingnutLand and patiently walks through bits of misinformation, disinformation, ridicuLogic, and Critical Conspiracy Theory. Okay, okay. Patiently might be a little strong. Actually each item is a little slice of fun.
- Well there has been a bit of network hypocrisy for a while.
And, of course, there was a snide Tucker comment this week.
Suddenly, we are presented with a strange confluence into Snide‑Hypocrisy.
News Corpse explains how the paternal leave policy that a sneering Tucker finds hilarious is also Fox policy for employees. Giggle at that, Tuck!
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life holds that, even though Fox News misinformation fuels the COVID surge in rural America, there is a deeper reason that Fox News misinformation IS ABLE to fuel the COVID surge in rural America.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz goes into ICU after brain surgery to remove a tumor, and comes out as a witness to the desperate suffering of healthcare workers struggling to save others.
- Reductress reports that, although we have a lot of unvaccinated adults, there is an unexpected upside.
- Tommy Christopher has the numbers on the strength of popular resistance to vaccination mandates. When asked, if presented with a choice of vaccination or job loss, the number who said they would choose to lose their job goes all the way up to zero. Zero? Yup.
- At The Moderate Voice foreign affairs columnist Brij Khindaria explains how global warming is the primary cause of, but will become a mere introduction to, the next global catastrophe.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil reports on a creative plan by a pro-Trump candidate to lower the seas back to safe levels. So elegantly simple!
- NOJO finds that a species of bumblebee is becoming extinct, not because of global warming, but rather because humans are awesome engineers!
- Here’s to freedom of speech!
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit brings us the ongoing harassment of a Black family by a creep next door, the city and community seemingly unable to do anything at all about it.
- SilverAppleQueen gets a flyer for gay and lesbian rights, the flyer also being pretty much against the concept of transsexualism.
- In Scotties Toy Box, Texas teachers have been told they must balance any books about the Holocaust with books from an opposing perspective.
Yikes!
But teachers say that restriction only skims the surface of the educational mess in Texas.
- Once extremists achieve their goals, where do they go next? Imani Gandy says after the Supreme Court ends abortion, anti-abortion rights activists will go for an astonishing next step.
- At The Onion, Remington introduces a bold new development in firearms: ammunition for sensitive skin.
- Lindsey Graham is taking a stroll through the Valley of the Weird.
tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has more on Lindsey and the Gucci invasion.
- Frances Langum reports that Matt Gaetz reports that his friends report that they believe the FBI is reading his text messages.
My take?
No theory that anyone who is even partially rational can believe would involve Matt Gaetz having friends.
- You thought Christmas was still a couple months off? PZ Myers posts a warning about the annual War on All that is Holy. Thank you Fox Network!
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara acknowledges that Chris Columbus had a few flaws like his religious zealotry, his enslavement and oppression of natives but kind of likes Columbus Day anyway because, after all, nobody is perfect.
- Julian Sanchez points out that current widespread acceptance of demonstrable falsehoods might argue for skepticism about ancient religious beliefs:
- Nan’s Notebook contains a few profound thoughts on the nature of belief itself.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce is asked about his former believing life as an Evangelical preacher. Was he transphobic?
- Infidel753 provides an example of the trashy trolls he weeds out of the comments section. Internet gardening is a perpetual chore.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac headlines an unusual souvenir from William Shatner’s newest space adventure.
- @momwino98 awakens to a bad morning start:
@momwino98 Yep..It’s Friday..This is me..😂😂 ##thisisme ##itreallydoesntgetanybetter ##MakeItCinematic ##tiktokmom ##fridayvibes
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Howdy Burr!
Scottie’s Toy Box is actually a dot net site not a dot com site. I thought you’d like to know. If you click on your link, you get the site doesn’t exist error message, but if you change the com to net, you get to his site.
The continued support for vaccine resistance continues to amaze me. People will watch a perfectly preventable disease kill themselves, their children, their wives, husbands, aunts, uncles, friends, and relations near and far and still decry the vaccine. The capacity for human beings to rationalize their beliefs is as astonishingly powerful as it is resilient to appeals to change.
I was so struck by this that I went out and looked for historical parallels and found that the Medieval European witch hysteria fit pretty well. It was sobering to realize that there were Swiss villages that killed nearly 80% of the women there, meaning the menfolk were burning their wives, mothers, and daughters. And, that it went on for 200 hundred years.
I concluded that we have a whole lot of crazy to get through before we reach the witch hunt level of hysteria.
Sobering thoughts indeed.
Huzzah!
Jack
It’s changed.
Thanks for the heads up, Jack.