This is the best sound in the world pic.twitter.com/ODzKwHQYvE
— Kelly Canuckš (@KellyCanuckTO) September 27, 2022
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara is irritated. If climate change is caused by humans and is dangerous to humanity, that means governments have to step in with rules and regulations.
Libertarians like Michael are forbidden to even think along those lines. Otherwise their internal membership would be canceled by some sort of Trumpian mental process. Or something.
So they can’t, just can’t, acknowledge even the possibility.
Michael A. LaFerrara is put out because biased media doesn’t present both sides.
Some folks do define responsible journalism as just presenting every viewpoint. If one side says it’s raining, and the other side says it’s dry outside, journalists should accurately quote both sides and call it a day.
Other folks, which is to say me, think a responsible journalist will actually look out the window and report on Hurricane Ian.
Even if Michael A. LaFerrara objects.
- News Corpse takes on Fox as they seem loath to count some Americans as Americans. News Corpse posts just one thoughtless example:
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum: āYou feel terrible for people in Puerto Rico who were just hit, and Cuba who were just hit. Thank God we have better infrastructure in our country, weāve put a lot of investment into make sure that weāre ready for these things.ā
Does she know? pic.twitter.com/xkI9Iq03jO
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) September 28, 2022
Should someone tell her? - Hackwhackers offers a fifteen second study on responses to Florida’s hurricane violence, with three contrasting leadership styles.
- Dave Dubya has been paying attention to the legal saga of Alex Jones. He especially notes one bit of testimony from a parent who lost a child to gun violence. She talks about finally confronting Jones in court.
I mean this is literally facing the biggest bully Iāve ever faced.
Dave determines why Alex Jones fits the description, then turns his gaze to another figure who may fit.
If anyone in class can guess who, you get to stay and help clean the erasers!
- Dave Columbo and Laura High go newsing (It IS a word! ‘Tis, ‘Tis!) and explain this week’s continuing Trump bad news saga.
@davecolumbo Poor guy canāt buy a break. #news #breaking #politics #political #politicaltiktok #democrats #democrat #democratsoftiktok #fy #fyp #foryou #foryoupage ā¬ original sound – Dave Columbo - driftglass is irritated that right-wing enablers, seeing the disaster Trump has wrought, now claim to have been warning us all the time.
- Frances Langum brings us the courtroom conclusion of one Jan 6 adventure. An insurrectionist discovers that aiding in the assault of a police officer with what could have become deadly force will result in seven years of confinement. But first, the judge and the officer verbally slap around the defendant for MAGA excuses.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life has a few reasoned suggests on how to wean rural conservative Christian white voters off of MAGA type fascism.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the documentation. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President, the general who led the allies to victory in World War II, would not fit in today’s Republican Party.
- Vagabond Scholar brings his 2022 summary of banned books, with the titles, the reasons, and the encouraging pushback.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson does not care for the current Republican strategy of making it trickier for other folks to vote.
- Max’s Dad takes a look at federal legislators and singles out five grifters: 2 who are smart who pretend dumb, 2 sociopaths, and 1 plain old evil.
- Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez has a remarkably low opinion of a Republican talking point:
The song in question, for folks who had missed this moronic talking point. If you think it's "a song in favor of heroin use" you must be doing some pretty hard drugs. https://t.co/7yrQpW2JZu
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 30, 2022
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz has a one word response to a law and order boast:
Uvalde. https://t.co/icTyOC8z9K
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) October 1, 2022
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors follows the debate on gun safety. You know: whether to run background checks to keep deadly firearms out of the hands of mentally ill, kids, and criminals. Whether to keep AR-15-style rifles, as well as other weapons of mass casualties out of the hands of non-military people.
That sort of thing.
Republicans say thoughts, prayers, more secure doors, more firearms in public places, and better mental health treatment will do the trick.
So tengrain totals the tally as that last proposal, mental health care for troubled kids, goes to a vote. Guess who votes against it!
Aw come on, give it a guess!
- The Palmer Report reports. Justice Samuel Alito, author of the repeal of previous rulings placing decisions on abortion with individual women, is okay with criticism of decisions. Free speech and all.
But critics go too far if they question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
Here is the problem: The Court’s reasoning in repealing abortion rights is an absurdity.
We have always been taught that the feds can’t violate the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Right?
Roe v Wade was based on the Fourteenth Amendment. The 14th says freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution also can’t be violated by state and local governments.
You with me?
The original decision on abortion freedom said the 14th included the 9th Amendment.
Well, duh!
The 9th Amendment says that any freedom the founders didn’t think to put in the Constitution or the Amendments should go to the individuals.
Period!
That’s why SCOTUS said the government of Missouri can no longer put my loved one and me in prison. Interracial marriage was once a felony under Section 563.240 of the Missouri Criminal Code.
It’s also why folks can’t be prosecuted for gay sex. Or for making love in a style not conforming to the missionary position.
It’s how gay marriage came to be legal.
And it’s how, in 1973, the court said it’s not your neighbor’s damn business, or that of a religious group, or of some politician, if you decide you need an abortion.
The Alito decision overturned that logic with two clear falsehoods.
- The 9th Amendment doesn’t say what it says. It only applies to rights that were widely recognized in the 1700s.
Nope. It doesn’t say anything like that. Nothing at all like what Judge Alito says it says. - The right to an abortion was never recognized in the 1700s.
Nope. That is historically wrong. The very first abortion law in the US was enacted by Connecticut in 1821. Before then it was legal and recognized everywhere in the country.
Some decisions can be argued on the basis of legal reasoning.
Some are so transparently non-factual and illogical as to defy legitimacy.
One wonders if conservatives are just trying to destroy the legitimacy of all courts.
They've gone from wanting conservative justices to wanting partisan decisions.
If you're looking forward to the oligarchy it's not a bug, it's a feature.
— John, who hikes (@jjhikes) September 17, 2022
- The 9th Amendment doesn’t say what it says. It only applies to rights that were widely recognized in the 1700s.
- Like an undercover spy movie, Andy Borowitz points to the bravery of Ketanji Brown Jackson as she infiltrates a shadowy alt-right group.
Having already plotted to destroy womenās bodily autonomy, the group is currently scheming to eliminate voting rights and marriage equality.
- At The Moderate Voice Robert Levine does a worldwide survey and concludes that the rights of women are under attack. Not just in Iran or the United States, but in a whole lot of countries.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit knows her history, including where Vlad Putin’s precise tactics have been employed before.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged has gotten me to thinking about George Will’s observation about technology, war, and the inability of military leaders to grasp the impact of one upon the other.
He described the general strategy at the beginning of World War I as trying to wear out machine guns with young men’s chests..
Vixen explores explanations for Vlad Putin’s apparent game plan of piling up casualties of elderly veterans atop those of young, lightly trained conscripts:
Slowing the Ukraine advance to reclaim lost territory by stacking Russian bodies in their way?
Or is Vlad simply playing us? Is he exercising a grand master plan: making it appear that he is losing because that is what he wants us to think?
She finally wonders if his only remotely viable scheme is to rely on the American front, composed of Tucker Carlson’s mouth.
Could be, I suppose. Putin-TV is giving Tuck an abundance of play.
- Tommy Christopher covers the coverage as President Biden courts a small gathering of rich folk interested in policy over their own self-interest. A whole lot of money is raised.
At least some reporters are less interested in the policy discussion and the successful fundraising than in surveying, in great detail, the styles of shoes on the racks outside.
- The headline in the New York Times reads:
Factory Jobs Are Booming Like Itās the 1970s
In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson says President Biden has been working to undo past Republican efforts to concentrate more wealth with the highest income groups. The Republican hope has been that wealth will then filter down to ordinary people. It did not work.
The new strategy of providing income opportunities at the middle class level seems to be getting results.
- PZ Myers has a brief but pretty good summary of how evolution works, including stray characteristics that happen to become important, hybrids, openness to strangers, compassion, and like that.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac covers NASA’s successful crash into an asteroid, and the denunciation by the asteroid of the unprovoked attack.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil wakes up cranky one morning, which is to say M. Bouffant wakes up.
He watches the NASA practice crash into an asteroid and believes he has a better way to save the earth.
Ummmm – not a solution I would endorse.
- After generations of abuse from white colonialists, The Propaganda Professor finds a remarkable degree of curiosity, openness, and friendliness in India. He looks for cultural reasons and thinks he may have one answer in religion.
- Green Eagle ponders divine retribution, and wonders how Christian fundamentalists regard the condition of Florida.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce attracts the attention of a bully. The fellow becomes so frustrated at the reasonable approach with which Bruce responds he suggests Bruce stand in front of a speeding train.
As the hymn says, we Christians will be known by our love.
- Rather a misstep.
Scotties Playtime reacts to a story of a girl kicked out of a Christian school for refusing to take a photo of herself in a bathtub.
- Infidel753 does not care for religion. He really, really doesn’t.
- Clickbait from Reductress provides helpful advice on how to stop praying for God to kill you after the slightest inconvenience.
- Give a man a fish… aw hell, you know the rest, right?
Not so fast, Sparky.
YellowDog Granny explains what you can do with your damn fish.
- @whiskeywhistle98 says don’t mess with mom. Just don’t:
@whiskeywhistle98 #duet with @itsme_scooter #genx ā¦Just sayinā¦.. #MadeWithKeurigContest #HausLabsFoundation #fyp #foryourpage #tiktokmom #gangsta #kids #donttryme ā¬ original sound – ā”Scooterā” - Imani Gandy is a sensitive soul:
People in the movies are always taking a swig of vodka, digging a bullet out of their side with nothing but a pair of pliers, and then dumping vodka on the gaping woundāand walking it off.
I just got a small cut on the bottom of my foot and I feel like my life is over
— š»Imani Gandy Cornš» (@AngryBlackLady) September 30, 2022
But she can still stomp on a critic:Oh no did a pronoun kill your grandpa? pic.twitter.com/doqDbDmLsT
— š»Imani Gandy Cornš» (@AngryBlackLady) September 30, 2022
- SilverAppleQueen has a very comfortable cat.
A few tweets I thought worthy:
Holy shit
Using the White House switchboard, someone at the Trump White House called a Jan 6 terrorist AS THE ATTACK WAS ONGOING
The Senior Technical Advisor for the Jan 6 Committee says there is no innocent explanation for this
This is what one would call a smoking gun!
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) September 24, 2022
I love this pic.twitter.com/VD1ZbJ5sQv
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) September 24, 2022
— Militant Centrist (@EWCiolko) September 24, 2022
Every Republican voted against a bill to prevent price gouging. Remember that and vote Blue ššš. pic.twitter.com/b5OtfVFJhW
— AbbyCat (@AbbyCattail) September 25, 2022
Just your daily reminder. It's the guns.
— David Hogg ā®ļø (@davidhogg111) September 25, 2022
Your beliefs determine YOUR beliefs. Not OUR rights.
— InfiDale (@InfiDale3476) September 25, 2022
BREAKING: A Texas audience loudly boos Trumper Senator Ted Cruz after he declares that his plan to end school mass shootings is putting more police officers in schools ā even after Uvalde school cops ran for their lives as children were slaughtered. RT IF TED CRUZ IS AN IDIOT!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) September 25, 2022
1. Venezuelan asylum seekers were here legally
2. Your parents werenāt citizens & your grandfather was deportedāyouāre literally the āanchor babyā you condemn
3. SCOTUS has long held that you neednāt be a citizen or even documented to have due process of lawYou should resign.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) September 21, 2022
After the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, state-owned TV Russia One aired news anchor Eugeny Popov gloating that Russian officials already had the top secret nuclear documents that Trump had stolen & that Russiaās military & intel agents were reviewing thempic.twitter.com/DRWPqMmKME 02
— Tomthunkitā¢ (@TomthunkitsMind) September 26, 2022
— east coast lefty ššš (@QACremodel) September 22, 2022
She really loves me. ā¤ļøš„° pic.twitter.com/4LwJUjFejO
— T. O. Burnett (@AuthorTOBurnett) September 26, 2022
Voting in Wisconsin is now a game show, "Does your vote count?" Make an error in a zip code, or somehow misspell Oconomowoc, and you lose. Your ballot doesn't count. https://t.co/2OvLrH5S4N
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) September 28, 2022
My granddaughter is spending the night. Before she fell asleep she kept saying, āI miss my mom. I want my mom.ā I said, āWeāll see her tomorrow. Besides, Iām your momās mom.ā She said, āWell, Iād like to see your daughter.ā ššš
— Iris ā¤ļø ā®ļø (@aaarz368) September 28, 2022
During WW2, The Germans built a fake wooden airfield with wooden aircraft in order to trick the allies. England was watching and waited patiently for months for them to finish, then they dropped a single wooden bomb on it. pic.twitter.com/1jAlae4g7M
— jim rose circus (@jimrosecircus1) September 28, 2022
BREAKING: Trumpās counsel responds to judge Dearie (Special Masterās) request and says that his timetable is unrealistic because āTrump actually had 200,000 pages of documents in his possession that were seized by the FBI, not 11,000.ā This is the dumbest ādefenseā Iāve ever read
— Andrew Wortman š³ļøāššŗšø (@AmoneyResists) September 29, 2022
BREAKING: I just found out one of the first things Ron DeSantis did as a Congressman was vote against Hurricane Sandy relief ā for my state of New York.
Why isn't the media pressing him on this right now in Florida?
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) September 29, 2022
Democrats are outraged that human beings were trafficked as a political stunt. Republicans are outraged that a black woman played a flute. any questions
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) September 29, 2022
Am I the only one that thinks he looks like a Dick Tracy villain? And are any of you old enough to know who Dick Tracy is? pic.twitter.com/HZjoyiQ8qg
— Derrick is PRO CHOICEā #BLM šŗš¦ š³ļøāš (@Spawn_03) September 28, 2022
As other people have noticed, amazing how Republicans turn socialist when a hurricane comes calling. pic.twitter.com/Yyon4I8QZk
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) September 29, 2022
HOLY SHIT, Rep. Elissa Slotkin is š„š„š„!!!
EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH THIS.pic.twitter.com/P2d7ZeMv3V
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!ā®ļø (@mmpadellan) September 29, 2022
Both Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio voted AGAINST aid to the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
When disaster struck Florida, President Biden immediately provided federal assistance.
Real leaders lead. They donāt play partisan politics with peopleās lives.
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 29, 2022
Millions of Americans will save on Medicare fees next year (from @AP)
Thank you, President Biden. Democrats working for the American citizen. Whereās that guy who keeps asking what Biden has done for America? I can add this to the list. https://t.co/jmpt4WCnpI
— LadyBug (@Marg10001) September 27, 2022
Heirloom instruments are meant to be played as part of their preservation. If you need an outlet for your anger at @lizzo, perhaps the Library of Congress has a historic chamber pot to lend out?
— Lynda Carter (@RealLyndaCarter) September 29, 2022
— Militant Centrist (@EWCiolko) September 29, 2022
205 Republicans vote against School-Based Mental Health Services pic.twitter.com/WjeooaL7za
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 29, 2022
Just because I said something that made you feel offended doesnāt mean that I offended you. You took offense. I just made a statement.
— InfiDale (@InfiDale3476) September 30, 2022
And I’m allowed a few of my own:
Shocking!
I'm stunned!Okay, so you're not a Democrat.
Nobody's perfect…— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 24, 2022
Rare humility for Trump
SECOND greatest to someonehttps://t.co/oIdHOEF5ja— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 24, 2022
I'm considered old, so help me here?
Was guy arrested for being Catholic?
Or for being pro-life?
Or a speaker or author?Did he assault an elderly man my age, a volunteer at a women's health clinic?
You object to arresting someone who attacks old people?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 25, 2022
From a while back:https://t.co/brtJOw5yDa
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 25, 2022
In most of our places of worship, it won't be noticed
until we go outside and discover
random people have disappeared
while the rest of us were singing hymns.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 25, 2022
Inflation seems to be going on around the world.
Hard to see a US political party causing that.
They can do something about it in the US.Like proposals to fight inflation and
prevent price gouging at the gas pump.Democrats voted for those.
You did too, right?Well?
Right?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 25, 2022
"If I had my way about it at this hour, I would today build a wall about the United States so high and so secure that not a single alien or foreign refugee from any country upon the face of this earth could possibly scale or ascend it."
Sen Robert Reynolds 1941
On Jewish refugees— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 25, 2022
Can you change the order of operations by thinking it?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
I would say yes.
Usually.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
Unless, of course, they were directly involved.
Annnd they were.Interviews like this make me realize I too could have gotten a law degree if I had just sent in more box tops.
Damn!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
I do hate to say it but…
Yeah.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
My wild imagination has Putin assiduously avoiding windows on upper floors of tall buildings.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?
— TLC_Painting (@painting_tlc) September 26, 2022
Wow!
That works?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
McCarthy: We will secure our border so your kids wonāt have to fear wondering that theyāre buying fentanyl and are going to OD pic.twitter.com/PMGxRxlUcJ
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 26, 2022
Republicans seem to be advocating regulated fentanyl vending machines for kids.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
Ouch.
Issuing forth a smug little post telling us not to take care of the earth because of heaven.And InfiDale destroys your entire point with a humorous one word response.
That has to hurt!https://t.co/F7YgCDr0qS
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
Why would Pennsylvania democratic senate candidate john fetterman have a tattoo saying ā i will make you hurtā?
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) September 26, 2022
2/
"I will make you hurt" had been to honor Johnny Cash
taken from his song about pain.And, Newt, that has been in public reports for years.
You should have known that.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 26, 2022
Had to do with Texas "Fugitive Women's law"
that can prosecute anyone
helping a pregnant woman escape
by going out of state.https://t.co/DKmaNOrbjh— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 27, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 27, 2022
"Hunk of burning love" was actually not supposed to be taken literally and acted upon.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 27, 2022
Sometimes it seems like Oz is
campaigning for Fettermanhttps://t.co/GFfKMTkYTj— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 27, 2022
Says women should be charged…https://t.co/70OzgJKAUM
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 27, 2022
They say weāre the fascists, meanwhile, they are sending 30 FBI agents to bust down the door of a man for being a Catholic pro-life advocate.
Theyāre the fascists.
— Alex Bruesewitz šŗšø (@alexbruesewitz) September 27, 2022
An interesting defense theory.
Best decided in court. Right?In the meantime, he was arrested for assault, not for unauthorized Catholicism.
Saying otherwise is manifestly dishonest, is it not?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 27, 2022
I have to agree.
I wish, I really wish,
she had not been enticed to join a lynch mob.As she was shot, that mob was breaking through a door
to get at legislators
they were trying to assassinate.I wish she had not joined that attempt.
I wish she was still alive.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 27, 2022
MEGA Billions for Ukraine while vets injured in Iraq and Afghanistan have to depend on a variety of charity organizations to provide help for them.
I donāt even know what to say anymore š¤·āāļø
— James Bradley (@JamesBradleyCA) September 27, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 28, 2022
I got the same feeling when I watched Fred and Wilma Flintstone with their friends Barney and Betty Rubble in party hats exchanging gifts on Christmas.
What were they celebrating?
Made me think maybe the show wasn't a documentary after all.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 28, 2022
Actually Obama has never endorsed the idea of open borders.
Hard though it is for me to think it, I reluctantly must conclude that, well…
Mr. McCarthy, you are not an honest man.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 28, 2022
I'm considered elderly.
So, I'll let you know.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 28, 2022
Said legal scholar Peter Shane: "Maybe from Trumpās point of view, creating delay and chaos is always a plus, but this has the feel of a giant backfire."https://t.co/f1WIQQX0Hd
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
Your ex sends you a text that says, āBaby Iām in jailā, reply with three words.
— Sassy Sara š (@sara_carrion_) September 28, 2022
You're really a good guy. My answer was "Wrong number Ahole."
— Island Queen ALLOW UKRAINE INTO NATO (@gogetadollar) September 29, 2022
Hypothetical.
If I was needed, I'd be there.
Not her fault for failing to choose wisely when she married me.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
Why has no one claimed racism or assistance oppression when having to show an ID to pick up a welfare check?
— USMC_MTBr (@pkaxiom) September 27, 2022
I am. It's funny he mentioned the check example. I think we need to do more to get people proper id's to just participate in society more fully. Should be a bipartisan issue, but you know how that goes…
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) September 29, 2022
Reminds me I still have ironing to do.
Damn!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 28, 2022
Carefully.
Very carefully.— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
I'm generally a support your local police kind of guy.
There are certainly exceptions.https://t.co/q3HnoROCsU— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
From 6 years agohttps://t.co/RqHuDHrfdf
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
That is generous. Thank you.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
To the same degree, I suppose, that removing Nazi flags and symbols from places of honor would be forgetting the holocaust.
Which is to say the someone to whom you refer should be ashamed.https://t.co/gF45K53r12
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
I'm elderly, and maybe I've gotten this wrong.
I understand he was not arrested for failure to cooperate with an investigation.
The charge was assaulting an elderly volunteer at a health clinic.Something even a few Senators dishonestly leave out.
Isn't that right, Senator?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
Sudden importance to angry conservatives of a flute.
Sudden importance to angry conservatives
of a cartoon mermaid.What could they possibly have in common?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
Ouch. That's gotta hurt.
Posting a snide comment in form of a question.
Feeling triumphant. Knowing nobody can answer it.Then getting buried under an avalanche of solid answers of Biden accomplishments.
Like this from treehuggerhttps://t.co/akzdBsPSK4
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
You've posted that before.
I'll have you know, sir, that I am a committed Christian.Your wit still makes me laugh.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
Let's see.
Ted Cruz praises Newsmax for praising Ted Cruz.Newsmax says Ted is an example of courage.
Ted hopes others will be as brave as is he himself.And Ted posts the whole thing.
Which is, I suppose, brave after a fashion.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
I do believe, sir, you just got stomped.https://t.co/hDqiZ6OEJ6
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
Summary –
Republicans say that to save & strengthen Social Security and Medicare:
1. Privatize both.
2. Put both up to annual renewal.
Vote each year whether to continue
& at what level.They say this is to save and strengthen.
They insist that attacking them for it is a lie.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 29, 2022
The uncontrolled hand flutters so close to the face are a distraction.
Makes me suspect a medical condition.
"I donāt know much about crack," he says.
I don't either.Medical experts might.
So has he seen them about whatever this may be?— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
…suggesting robust demand for workers…https://t.co/bsdzyQOgi1
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
I've heard some say alcohol can affect concentration.
It's a lie.My mind is clear. And each day I intake
4 glasses of scotch
2 bottles of wine
1 gallon milk
2 loaves bread
A can of paint thinnerAnd don't forget to pickup a newspaper on the way home
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
Yeah!
Just because he happened to take a few super secret documents on some people slipping information to us from other countries.Okay, okay, so those documents would get those people and their families killed.
Picky, picky, picky.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
Damn I'm old!
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
Why does the God of Abraham choose all the shittiest people to be His biggest fans?
— InfiDale (@InfiDale3476) September 30, 2022
Sadly true, I'm afraid.
Christianity as tribalism, without all that bothersome advice from that Jesus character.I wrote a little about that when news came of one anti-immigrant atrocity a few years ago:https://t.co/mpcEc3vAbD
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
The godless will almost always mistake a Christianās confidence as arrogance. Stand firm, assured you are on His solid ground. pic.twitter.com/jKb2uNR3Xn
— William Moore (@William39443690) September 28, 2022
The most dangerous of creatures is a believer with a weapon who knows that God is on his side.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
I appreciate your intellectual integrity.
You believe what you believe because you are convinced it is true, not because of some sort of exercise in spiritual willpower.
Seems reasonable to me.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
Jehovah's Witnesses came by yesterday.
They agreed that if I was able to convince someone to believe by scaring them with stories of hell, I would be disappointed.I repeated a line I like using:
"You worship God in your way.
I'll worship Him in His."They laughed.
I liked them— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
Some folks do try hard to believe in order to save their souls.
That does not appeal to me.
I did write a few years ago about why I believe.I don't like assigned homework in chat.
Won't be offended if you ignore.
But you may find it entertaining.https://t.co/KoeDkHonWg— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) September 30, 2022
Interesting.
In related news:
Former president Trump told a crowd how important it is to keep America gay.Similar slips, of similar importance – which is to say no importance at all.
Right?https://t.co/pbg9TMuI5w
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 1, 2022
My delicate ego is usually okay.
I might be tempted to less friendliness with someone
1) hollering in my face
and
2) close enough for me to tell what they had for lunchNever ever happens, but I can fantasize.
My loved one assures me I'm tough.
"Of course you are, Dear."— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 1, 2022
Theocide?
He believes God can be killed?
And Democrats have that in their platform?Ambitious, since they can't even kill the filibuster.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 1, 2022
Right.
Give Putin what he demands and not an inch more!And then we can have peace in our time.
Right?https://t.co/tIJOHp7ctq— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 1, 2022
So you voted against slashing taxes for the fantastically wealthy. Right?
Right?
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 1, 2022
Republicans voting against reducing climate effects have never been to the stratosphere.
On second thought.
How about we send Joe to visit southern border
and
send Republican obstructionists to the stratosphere!— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 1, 2022
4 sentences worth a glance.https://t.co/Y58A3ZE4Yj
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) October 1, 2022
– Podcasts –
I always enjoy your Saturday roundups. I look forward to reading them every week…
Thank you for your kind words.
I’ve thought for a long time that Roger Stone looks like one of the Goons from the old Popeye cartoons.
thanks for that wonderful sound at the beginning of this great post – we need it to help us deal with the rest…