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• Vagabond Scholar has a round up of the best blog posts of 2020. Those of us who didn’t make the cut can sue or demand recounts.
   
• If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good cartoon has to be worth at least a hundred. In Hackwhackers we find a few hundred to ponder about COVID, the old, and the New Year.
   
• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger shows that Americans are investing a lot of hope in 2021.
   
• Jonathan Bernstein looks back, finding political bright spots in the year that was, including high-turnout, Mitt Romney’s sudden courage, and a few more.
   
• Infidel753 looks back to 2020 and before, drawing a dozen political lessons to be applied to 2021 and beyond. I especially agree with the one about chanting dumb things that drive sensible voters away.
   
  At the risk of bruising the delicate sensibilities of our beloved Aunt Tildy, one quote:
   
  There’s no way of knowing how many votes we lost because of talk of abolishing private medical insurance and “defund the police”, but it was probably quite a few. Yes, yes, I know “defund the police really means blah blah” — shut the fuck up.
   
• John Scalzi at Whatever makes an astute point about the final, long awaited end to 2020. It isn’t quite here yet.
   
• driftglass celebrates the irony of the turning of the year: an elderly new President chasing out a brat-child old president.

Continue reading “Best Posts, COVID, Hope, Bright Spots, Lessons, 2020 Not Over, Calvary, Lin”

 
…support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic
 
From momwino98:

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I may be too old to be young, but I’ll never be too old to be immature
 

 

 

‘Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman’

 

 
From David Edwards Raw Story:

“Any concern that the allegations of wrongdoing against Rev. Warnock could possibly be a drag on the Democratic ticket?” Doocy wondered.

“None whatsoever,” Ossoff insisted. “Here’s the bottom line. [Republican Senator] Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman. Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman. And so she is stooping to these vicious personal attacks to distract from the fact that she’s been campaigning with a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.”

“We deserve better than that here in Georgia,” he added. “And I want to encourage everybody to make a plan to vote on Tuesday.”

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From David Robertson at The Moderate Voice:

Back in 2016, one of my Melmacian friends heard the song The Twelve Days of Christmas. She thought that the gifts in the song were the gifts that she needed to give me, and that is what she did. Every day for twelve days, I received every gift for that day mentioned in the song.

So, on the 13th day of Christmas, I returned these gifts for me:

12 Drummers Drumming (I don’t need a marching band in my house.)

22 Pipers Piping (I wish that they would pipe down.)

30 Lords a Leaping (Since when is the game of leap-frog a Christmas activity?)

36 Ladies Dancing (If “Dancing with the Stars” didn’t want them, then why should I?)

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From Boston Dynamics:

 

From News Corpse:

However, it isn’t just Trump who is suffering from this deeply delusional defect. It has spread like an epidemic throughout Trump World. His dimwitted cult disciples are fully indoctrinated into believing that a cabal of thousands of coup conspirators have “stolen” the election without leaving behind a single shred of evidence. And Trump’s remaining dead-ender confederates in the White House persist in propagating a victory that exists only in his diseased mind.

Chief among those stubborn Trumpians is his combination press secretary and campaign mouthpiece, Kayleigh McEnany. She spent some quality time Monday night with Senior Fox News Trump-fluffer Sean Hannity where she tried to pass off a provable lie about alleged voting irregularities:

“This happened in the places where it needed to happen. Which is why the four metros, the only four where Joe Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton, were Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Detroit. The four he needed in the four key states.”

McEnany’s disinformation appears to have been cribbed from a tweet by the ultra right-wing pollster, Rasmussen. Their tweet linked to an article by the notorious Internet conspiracy crackpot, Gateway Pundit, who sourced his info to the website Townhall. Of course, the article was utterly fictional. Even Townhall later disclaimed their own post.

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Besides saving statues of slave holders
 
From Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American:

It includes a measure known as the Corporate Transparency Act, which undercuts shell companies and money laundering in America. The act requires the owners of any company that is not otherwise overseen by the federal government (by filing taxes, for example, or through close regulation) to file a report that identifies each person associated with the company who either owns 25% or more of it or exercises substantial control over it. That report, including name, birthdate, address, and an identifying number, goes to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The measure also increases penalties for money laundering and streamlines cooperation between banks and foreign law enforcement authorities.

America is currently the easiest place in the world for criminals to form an anonymous shell company which enables them to launder money, evade taxes, and engage in illegal payoff schemes. The measure will pull the rug out from both domestic and international criminals that take advantage of shell companies to hide from investigators.

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