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From driftglass:

From Raw Story:

Hugh Hewitt claims Trump just forgot to fly flag at half staff for McCain: ‘It’s an egregious oversight’

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt opined that the White House had not flown its U.S. flag half staff on Monday because of a simple “oversight.”

The White House on Monday broke protocol by fully raising its flag less than 48 hours after the death of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

During a panel discussion on MSNBC, host Craig Melvin wondered why President Donald Trump had not issued a proclamation to keep the flag lowered….

Craig Melvin wonders why President Stupid had not issued a proclamation.

Do you know what I wonder? I wonder why MSNBC is still putting Hugh Hewitt in front of a camera and asking his opinion about anything.

Actually, that’s not true. I don’t wonder at all.

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From The Onion:

WASHINGTON—In a timely tribute to a woman they are calling a fearless American hero, the White House released a statement Monday recognizing and honoring the woman who called then-presidential candidate Barack Obama an Arab during a town hall event in 2008. “It is with great reverence that we celebrate the courage, life, and work of the woman who told John McCain at a 2008 campaign rally that she couldn’t trust Barack Obama because he was an Arab,” the statement read in part.

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From Michael John Scott at MadMikesAmerica:

John McCain, the last Republican, and American war hero wrote a farewell letter to Americans in which he expressed thanks for the privilege of serving and said the nation’s “present difficulties” would pass. Here are four excerpts…

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From Iron Knee at Political Irony:

I’m not really upset at Donald Trump. I mean, he is who he is and he doesn’t even hide the fact that he is a racist who only cares about himself. What bothers me are the one-third of Americans who continue to support him no matter what happens.

If his supporters were around 15% or less, I wouldn’t care. Traditionally almost anyone can find that many Americans to support them, no matter how crazy they are.

My question is, what will it take for ardent Trump supporters to stop supporting him?

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From The Moderate Voice:

I had never heard of the term Resignation Syndrome until very recently. But when I came face to face with a child suffering from Resignation Syndrome, I recognized it immediately from something I encountered many times in the past. Currently it is impacting mainly refugee children. It was first recognized as a medical condition in Sweden, impacting children of refugees whose families were turned down for asylum.

What commonly happens is when the family and child hear this news, the child starts to shut down psychologically thinking Life is hopeless since they will be forced to return to the terrible conditions they just left. In the face of this trauma, the child takes to bed abandoning food and drink and entering a catatonic state where even painful stimuli do not arouse them. This is obviously a very serious medical condition as the child needs feeding tubes and saline drips to stay alive.

What brought this medical condition to the forefront of my mind was the ex-Honduran family that has worked at our home since 1994. As I have mentioned in the past, some members of this family are Green Card holders, some U.S. citizens, some illegal and one 9 year girl who is a “dreamer”. This is pretty typical of extended immigrant families as it takes years to work through all the ins and outs of our immigration system. She has been in the U.S since she was 2 years old.

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From nojo at Stinque:

Anyway, Obamacare passed, we bought insurance, and last winter, out of the blue, they mailed us a Shit Kit — poop on a stick, mail it back. That was fun! They included a cute little biohazard baggie and everything!

Time passes, and eventually we get the results in the mail — along with an invitation to schedule a colonoscopy. Blood in the Stool, worst Dylan track ever. But the hospital roto-rooter team is backed up, and they can’t snake a cam up our ass until late July. No problem! Probably hemorrhoids. Maybe we’ll have to buy one of those cushions.

Ever have a colonoscopy? We have pictures we’d love to share with you. Lucky for us, they didn’t find the gerbil.

They did find polyps.

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From Frances Langum:

Often, the highlight of the MSNBC broadcast day is Rachel Maddow’s handoff to Lawrence O’Donnell. You can learn a lot in the brief conversations these two veterans have about the news of the day.

And last night they discussed the Trump Organization’s reimbursement to Michael Cohen for the Stormy Daniels payoff.

It turns out no matter how Trump’s company put that on their 2017 taxes, it’s admission of a felony.

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• Every news outlet that does not lick Trump’s full brogues has carried this. And pretty much everyone has read and heard it. But it happened this week, so lets go with Associated Press for Trumpian alternative facts as Rudy Giuliani actually says it: Truth isn’t Truth. Oddly enough, I commented on this almost 3 months before it happened.
   
• Green Eagle finds consciousness of guilt in wanting to outlaw speaking truth to investigators.
   
• Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post looks toward the future and envisions an unpleasant abode for the First Family.
   
• driftglass has a pretty good collection of Republican pontification, back in Clinton years, on the virtues of impeachment.
   
• M. Bouffant at Web of Evil shares negative thoughts on excuses offered by California Republicans caught in corruption.
   
• At The Onion, in a show of Republican principle, GOP leaders are demanding the resignation of Duncan Hunter after discovering that he is poor.
   
• Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass wants to march after listening to Beto O’Rourke, who has some small chance of beating Ted Cruz in Texas.
   
• E.A. Blair at MadMikesAmerica analyzes the 22nd Amendment, the constitutional provision that caused me to vote for Hillary. It was enacted by Republicans in 1951 as a petty move in a sort of retro-revenge against FDR. It provides term limits for presidents.
   
• In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, atheist and former pastor Bruce gets mail challenging whether he was ever a true Christian. We who live in faith do very often come across with overbearing condescension, do we not? As my father used to tell it, there is no human more arrogant than a Christian holding four aces.
   
• Max’s Dad takes Max to see Pearl Jam, then provides us with a brief, witty, review of each song. He does love him some Pearl Jam.
   
• The Journal of Improbable Research finds a study on whether superfluous apologies (as in “Sorry to hear you have a headache”) affect social influence. One experiment: will a stranger be more willing to lend you a cell phone if you offer a signal of empathy?
   

 
From PZ Myers:

But then he gets personal.

I trust I may be pardoned for one allusion, howbeit it is rather personal. One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head.

He said that? He was proud of whipping a woman in public?

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