Month: September 2017

 
From patrickB at Bjork Report:

Tuesday, August 29, 2017
…of charity, humanitarianism, and good will. Watching scenes such as these in Texas always leave me bereft of any clear explanation as to why our country appears so often divided and unwilling to reach some middle ground.

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Wondering why a few conservative friends are less than impressed.

• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged has special praise for individual efforts to save the helpless in Houston. I think of it as a natural disaster Dunkirk.
   
• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz invites Joel Osteen to regard the heroics of Houston rescuers as inspiration to a more Christian sort of Christianity.
   
• A few of today’s versions of Christianity sometimes embrace false witness. A developing conservative narrative is found via Saving Common Sense. My friend T. Paine joins in praising those individual rescuers in Texas and defending them from ridicule by nationally known liberal leaders. Maddow, Maher, and Olbermann are mentioned. No examples of that liberal derision seem to be included.
   
• Speaking of non-factual tales, this week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Gary Legum. Seems Keelyanne Conway now boasts about Donald Trump’s humility.
   
• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger finds that, by a substantial margin, a majority of the American public thinks my President is on the wrong side of immigration and the pardon of an anti-Hispanic sheriff. I have a thought or two on Sheriff Joe.
   
• Foreign affairs columnist Brij Khindaria at The Moderate Voice points out growing concern among analysts in European and Asian capitals that President Trump might use North Korea to divert attention.
   
• Andy Borowitz reports on how President Trump’s horrific spelling has a reassuring effect on the nation. It means he can’t correctly enter nuclear codes during a tantrum.
   
• Not all satire is non-physical. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors reports as unidentified person or persons have left realistic fake Trump merchandise. At the Trump Store. In Trump Tower.
   
• T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, is angry at Republican office holders for their lack of success in fulfilling the legislative agenda voters really want. Like ending PBS, NPR, Planned Parenthood, NEH. And, most of all, slashing corporate taxes.
   
• Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post doesn’t much care for Arizona’s perennial Republican candidate for pretty much everything, Kelli Ward. I have expressed some …uh… non-agreement with the tasteless Kelli Ward.
   
• Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass notices an unusual difference. in the Kentucky Capitol Rotunda, between Confederate and non-Confederate statues.
   
• At Stinque, nojo takes a look at the valley girl type romanticizing of violence by those too cool kids who pick up the banner of “Antifa”.
   
• At The Onion, Antifa organizers announce plans to disrupt a neo-Nazi rally or whatever else is going on. You know it’s satire when you get to “organizers”.
   
• MyCue23, at Random Thoughts, suggests we are losing the ability to experience outrage at things that matter because of a reflexive outrage at everything.
   
• You see someone yawn. Sometimes you feel a sudden urge to yawn yourself. The Journal of Improbable Research has found a study on contagious yawning among sheep. Photos are included.
   

Sheriff Joe is Not a Good Guy

President Trump has pardoned Joe Arpaio. Good folks are angry.

They have a good case. Why aren’t they making it?

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From Helen Philpot at Margaret and Helen:

From Helen:

Margaret, that man is so stupid if he threw himself on the ground he would miss. And in that ridiculous hat he looks like something the dog is hiding under the porch. Honestly honey, I just don’t like him. He makes my ass itch every time he opens his mouth.

At the same time thousands in Brazoria County were being told literally to get out now because a levee had been breached, Trump was declaring job well done and commenting on the size of the crowd that showed up to hear him talk. My God that man thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow. At one point he actually marveled about how famous the FEMA director was becoming on TV as if FEMA Director Brock Long should be paying attention to his Neilson ratings.

Look, I don’t care what shoes Melania was wearing and I don’t care that Trump didn’t do any photo shots with victims. I don’t even care that he’s selling that USA hat he was wearing for $40 dollars on his own website. Ok. Maybe I care a little bit about that.

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From Neil Bamforth at MadMikesAmerica:

A group of scientists, (it’s always a group of scientists isn’t it?), have discovered many Brits are not taking the medicine prescribed to them by their doctors. It didn’t sound like an awful lot of research actually went into reaching this conclusion if you ask me. A group of people supposedly taking various medications were tested and, it appears, one in three weren’t actually taking them.

After the result of said research, the number grew dramatically to almost everyone taking what they were supposed to take – probably on the grounds that they felt a bit guilty at being found out.

As another result of said research, the scientists have concluded that doctors, after prescribing medication to a patient, should regularly get them to provide a urine sample to prove they are actively taking their medication.

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From Dave Dubya:

Treating drugs and their abuse as a medical, rather than law enforcement problem, is really the bottom line. Treatment is always a better solution over incarceration. It is ineffective, costlier, and more destructive to families to punish users as criminals.

The best way to win the “war on drugs” is to end the war on drug users.

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From Green Eagle:

What crime did Arpaio commit, after all? He used his legal power to select people based on their ethnicity, and then place them in what he himself called concentration camps.

You may want to argue about exactly what a person needs to do to be classified on the same degraded level of humanity as Nazis, but this is certainly it.

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Wondering why a few conservative friends are less than impressed.