Kevin Can’t Wait, Fist Restraint, Ethics, Santos, Gas Lighting Stoves, Brazil

  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is becoming impatient with some right wing obsessions:


    And the best solution:

  • News Corpse sees mr Trump and followers go after the first discovery by Biden attorneys of classified documents in a private office not in use for the last 7 years. As in why hasn’t the FBI raided Biden’s offices like they did Trump’s?
     
    Key difference:
    They were discovered by Biden’s legal team who, unlike Trump, did the right thing. They immediately notified the National Archives who took custody of them. Then Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney to investigate further and, instead of whining and accusing the FBI of conducting a “witch hunt” like Trump, Biden and his staff cooperated fully.
     
  • And there turned out to be more classified documents. Conservative Joe Walsh sees a distinction between our current President and the last one:

  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life gets into the whys and hows of the Republican long term strategy to bring to America what can only be described as fascism.
     
  • House Republicans are already taking action on abortion rights:
     
  • Nan’s Notebook celebrates a narrow decision by the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn an abortion ban, and analyzes a dissenting opinion. The question is who decides what is moral?
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil links to the stats on death by gunfire. What part of your city is most dangerous?
     
  • My longtime friend Darrell Michaels takes beautiful pictures of Egyptian sites but is a bit of a conservative crank, especially when it comes to gun safety. So Dave Dubya takes on the task of slapping poor Darrell around, using that unfair libtard weapon: facts.
     
    I suppose it had to happen sometime.
     
    Key truth:
    Most of the civilized world will acknowledge the wisdom and logic of basic gun regulation.
     
    Those who are indoctrinated with gun hysteria and paranoia over election lies, or without compassion will never accept this logic.
     
  • My friend Darrell can be found at Unabashedly American, where he apparently bristles when I refer to him as having become a conservative crank. He responds.
     
    Key description (of me):
    Another example is my leftist but God-fearing friend, Burr Deming. Burr is an amazing writer and story-teller whom I consider to be a good man and a real friend. That said, I have noticed a distinct shift with him and nearly all left-of-center bloggers as the Overton window has lurched leftward dramatically in the last few years of what is now acceptable as policy.
     
    For the record, Darrell has, over the years, been a consistent source of encouragement and strength during challenging events. I think specifically of times of danger when we feared for the life of our young Marine.
     
    Also note: I kind of like the part about “amazing writer”.
     
  • Most of us like to think we consider facts and logic, then reach a conclusion.
     
    To understand committed libertarians, you have to start with an unshakeable conclusion, then work backwards to the facts.
     
    Liberty is the ultimate good. Anything that inhibits liberty is evil.
        For some libertarians, there is an exception. If you violate someone else’s liberty or endanger their lives, government may step in.
     
    Government is evil because it legitimizes the use of force. That inhibits liberty.
        Taxation is wrong, government funding is wrong (requires taxation) and, most of all, regulation is immoral.
     
    Anything or anyone suggesting government funding or regulation is needed is evil.
        You are either on the side of freedom (No government), or you are a Stalinist. No middle ground.
     
    Climate change, at least change caused by humans, is an evil fraud, a conspiracy. Has to be.
        Climate change suggests that regulation is needed to protect humanity from future massive hardship.
        (Remember: Anything or anyone suggesting that government funding or regulation is needed must be evil.)
     
    So, it is no surprise that libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara objects to a headline suggesting prospective government support for wind and solar energy. That would, after all, involve funding and regulation.
     
    Key objectionable idea:
    “Wind power can fuel New Jersey, and what fuels wind power is political commitment.”
     
    So true, and precisely why it shouldn’t be built. “Political commitment” means force; that is, special interests using the machinery of government to force on all of us it’s pet technology, by direct subsidy and/or hampering alternatives—in this case an unreliable, costly energy source that no one would willingly invest in, build, or pay for without ratepayer/taxpayer subsidies and other government favors. No industry should be fueled by government coercion. Wind energy should succeed only by voluntary market acceptance, or fail.
     
  • Scotties Playtime and associated comments see a whole lot of documented damage from climate disaster.
     
  • In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson reviews the attempted overthrow of Brazil’s national election and discovers remarkable similarities, and one key difference, with another insurrection.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged finds a reason for startling similarities between the Brazilian and the United States attempt to overthrow.
     
  • Disaffected and it Feels So Good looks for the source of insurrection in the United States and Brazil and and finds it in Florida.
     
  • Hackwhackers goes all grahicalista on the squashing of the insurrection in Brazil.
     
  • At The Onion, Brazilians are terrified that the insurrection could lead to tedious Congressional hearings.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit sees Vlad Putin’s strategy of missile attacks on civilians including maternity hospitals, children attending school, and apartment buildings. The idea is that bullying Ukraine civilians will force them to force Ukraine to surrender to the Putin invasion.
     
    Problem is it isn’t working, The predominant reaction to missile attacks seems to be Зберігай спокій і продовжуй.
    You can guess what it means OR: You can click to get the story.
     
  • Infidel753 has video, but also makes the case in only a few sentences. China has become a major source of COVID infection because incompetence denies incompetence.
     
    Key sentence:
    To craven and weak people, saving face is more important than doing the right thing.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist Bruce seems to have fun with trolling by one of my brothers-in-Christ.
     
    Key passage comes right at the beginning:
    Trolls come and go. Over the past fifteen years, countless vile, hateful, violent lovers of Jesus have gone to great lengths to harass me, not only on this blog, but also on social media and by sending me emails.
     
    Rings true. I wish it didn’t.
     
  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has been wrestling with a spiritual question for a quarter century: Does prayer really heal people?
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever gets a knock on his door and relays to us lessons of stormy nights.
     
    Honesty is a good quality, survival is important, and rain-slick roads can rob the unsuspecting of health and life.
     
  • @whiskeywhistle98 carefully considers Mr. Rogers
    @whiskeywhistle98 #stitch with @rongeorgespfx I’m going to hell…..Join me why don’t you….#mrrodgers #tiktokmom #gutter #sweetjesus #fyp #foryourpage #humor #joke #dirtythoughts ♬ original sound – @Whiskeywhistle98-

  • The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a study by researchers at the University College London on the effect of perceived …um… phallus size and the desire to own a sports car.
     
    I wonder if that sort of preoccupation plays a part in Senator (and sometime runner) Josh Hawley’s instruction guide on masculinity.
     
    The entire issue does remind me of an internet article a while back. Apparently each male’s sex organ is about the size of his thumb. I never did finish the article. I got distracted looking at my thumb.
     
  • Clickbait satirist Reductress explains how to keep romance alive in your relationship by outsourcing your sexting.
     
  • YellowDog Granny begins with graphically expressed thoughts on age, money, and masculinity and ends with the best definition yet of home.
     
  • In Happiness Between Tails da-AL introduces us to Charles Sterling, an expert on how to write and market your book.
     
  • SilverAppleQueen is back from her trip, ready to show off a photo of her new granddaughter, and is greeted by grateful cats.
     

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2 thoughts on “Kevin Can’t Wait, Fist Restraint, Ethics, Santos, Gas Lighting Stoves, Brazil”

  2. We can’t say our friend Darrell didn’t warn us of our malevolent leftist plots.

    “The left, instead of working with the right to root out the bad cops and punish those that deserve it would rather destroy our cities and defund the police in order to embolden criminals that have even less to fear now… …Leftists whose seemingly only agenda was to burn the place down, just like the liberal cities after a mostly peaceful BLM riot.”

    These horrors of conflagration and crime are just the “tip of the iceberg” of the pro-deviancy and pro-criminal ideology “the left tells us”.

    Darrell observed, “I have noticed a distinct shift with him and nearly all left-of-center bloggers as the Overton window has lurched leftward dramatically in the last few years of what is now acceptable as policy.”

    I’d best beware of falling into complacency, when even amazing writers have fallen through Darrell’s Overton Window. Or are we to blame for moving it? I’m guessing only Darrell could be certain how and where our leftward lurch from “what is now acceptable as policy” has taken us. He seems to fear our “weaponized” FBI is on the verge of kicking in his door and snatching up his firearms. Nothing new there. Maybe he has disturbing visions of us organizing drag queen strip shows in churches, just for the children, as we plot to take away his gas stove?

    Or does our acceptance of Joe Biden’s legitimate victory over Trump push his Overton Window?

    My feeble understanding tells me the Overton Window has slipped far to the Right, when millions of Americans believe Trump was the victim of a rigged and stolen election. Eroding faith in our elections seems a dramatically rightward shift, away from the norms of a democratic republic. Sending an angry mob to the Capitol to overturn an election is certainly not a leftward shift. And PRAISING the thugs after they terrorized Congress and beat cops bloody is a lurch into fascist Putsch territory. Promoting pardons for those thugs isn’t exactly old-fashioned conservatism either.

    As best I can recall, most polls show most Americans agree that we need better regulation of deadly weapons, especially those with 30 round magazine and can be sold to 18 year-olds without training or background checks. Most Americans agree the rich should pay more taxes. Most Americans agree we should keep and protect safety nets like Social Security, Medicare and unemployment benefits. Heck most would like universal public healthcare. Protecting voter rights and fair representation and ending partisan gerrymandering have long been constant positions of the left. None of these have been a leftward lurch. And all of it is quite acceptable policy for most Americans.

    How far backwards does he want to push that Overton Window? Back to segregation. Jim Crow, child labor, slavery, and suffrage for only white men?

    I’m afraid he won’t say…

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