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From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

I think the tendency to assign blame when a high-profile individual is found dead or dying in his cell is very reasonable. Being off suicide watch a mere three weeks after a previous attempt sounds suspicious as hell. Assuming murder, though, goes a bit further than I think is necessary. Here’s what we know about Epstein: the man was a highly self-driven person who pursued money and power in order to live a life that was completely unaccountable to the law. He displayed the sociopathic ability to use and manipulate people in order to evade responsibility for his actions. In addition to having obtained an absurdly lenient plea deal, it seems evident the Epstein also finagled money out of at least one benefactor (probably more) and never faced the music for that.

Jeffrey Epstein’s “art”, if we could can it that, was escape. He got away with things.

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From Green Eagle:

Well, I never bothered to write a post about this because it seemed so obvious to me, but I have firmly believed since Jeffrey Epstein was arrested that he had only a very short time to live.

Let’s cut to the chase here: this egomaniacal, evil billionaire has escaped the law over and over again, and there was no reason to believe that he wouldn’t do it this time too. Any person with half a brain knows he was killed, and we know who had him killed.

It’s a funny country we live in, where Republicans are allowed to spend years and God knows how many tens of millions of dollars spreading the lie that Hillary, and in fact all Democratic leaders, are participants in a gigantic Satanic pedophile sex murder cult, while Democrats are not allowed to make the clearest assertions about Republican treachery without a signed confession witnessed by God and the lord Jesus. Well, to hell with that attitude, which is just another way of rolling over and playing dead.

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• Infidel753 has never been much for gun control, but he is incredulous at some of the things conservatives blame for multiple mass murders. Video games? Really?
   
• There has got to be a great beating emptiness right where the man’s heart should be. Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged brings the photo: my President and his First Lady holding the little baby, both parents of the infant having just been murdered in the El Paso massacre, a real tragedy. The photo shows Mrs. Trump smiling, while my President beams broadly while giving a joyful thumbs up. Vixen calls it ghoulish. Good word for it.
   
• Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass reacts to multiple shootings with a certain skepticism about religious faith. In the face of horrible suffering, tragic injustice, I can’t say as I blame him. Don’t know as I’m ready to join him. I will say that, to honest believers, evil in the world is one of the two most critical moral difficulties we face.
   
• North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz takes another look at conservative tribal Christianity, and suggests a missing ingredient. Jesus is nowhere to be found.

Continue reading “Violent Video Games, Trump Thumb, El Paso Baby, Shootings and God”

Consoling victims and families by boasting about crowd size and attacking former Texas Congressional Representative Beto O’Rourke.

He can’t help himself.

 
From Max’s Dad:

I cannot stand Quentin Tarantino. I love Quentin Tarantino. There’s my dilemma. Ive seen most of his movies, both hated and loved them, yet still have this love/hate problem. Lets all agree they are ALL over the top, feature horrific violence. and drop too damn many N bombs.

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is not any of those. Its a perfectly understandable story. Using real life people in fictional situations (this is NOT history folks) the movie moves like a Western in its storytelling and back story to explain what is going on.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as soon to be washed up 1960s actor Rick Dalton. Dangling to his career by his fingertips, Dalton plods along in Hollywood guest starring on TV Westerns and detective shows. Accompanied virtually everywhere by his stunt double, Cliff Booth, played by Brad Pitt, Dalton struggles to remain viable. With tons of 1960’s TV and commercial references, it is right in the wheelhouse of people my age. I cant count the number of times I broke into a smile over some dumb ad I remembered or a TV theme playing in the background.

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From News Corpse:

Democrats Using Naughty Words

The United States just suffered through an extraordinarily painful week that saw its citizens being slaughtered by gun violence from California to Texas to Ohio. These were the 249th, 250th, and 251st mass shootings in year that is only 217 days old. The nation is sick with grief and fear. And the situation wasn’t helped much by a presidential address wherein Donald Trump promised nothing and shifted blame.

As the sorrowful stories of the victims and their families flow out, the media is generally engaged in expressions of sympathy and efforts to keep the public informed as details about the incidents and perpetrators continue to unfold. Well, most of the media. But over on the Fox News website Monday afternoon, the headline story was a curious and callous exploration of what Fox apparently thinks deserves top billing during this crisis. The headline reads: “2020 Dems unleash profane attacks on Trump, Republicans over mass shootings.”

That’s right. Fox News is headlining the use of naughty words by Democrats who were reacting to tragedies in a manner that most people would consider human. But to Fox this was more worrisome than anything else related to the horrific events of the past week, or any other news story.

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From Scotties Toy Box:

Very important that people understand what is happening in healthcare access in the US. We are paying a lot more and it is going toward the profits of drug companies and insurance companies. Every year in my home our healthcare costs go up and we find we are being squeezed by both the requirements of our health insurance / employer and also the costs of tests / treatments / medications. We worry what the employer will cut out of our coverage to save costs. We have talked of cutting coverage on some things and hope we wont need them to slow the increases in premiums. Our system of healthcare is broken in the US and we really need to start over with a universal healthcare program such as Medicare For All.

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From Glenn Geist at MadMikesAmerica:

Most Americans don’t remember the international movement and it’s multiple assassinations, but it was once the source of much fear and trembling – and political cartoons. Most have not read the philosophy behind it either which is troubling because so much of it re-emerged unnoticed in the guise of movements within the Republican party in the last couple of decades. One can see, or believe he sees the thoughts of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in the Tea Party movement, the Sovereign Citizen rebels and many other places masquerading as Conservative Republicans.

“I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will.”

Said Anarchist philosopher Proudhon and I became interested in him years ago because of his eloquent rants against religion, but there is far more to the man (or less in a way) than his hate of Theocratic assertions.

Government is bad, and all laws are the enemy of Liberty, opined several GOP members during the Obama administration and without attribution.

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[‎8/‎7/‎2019 11:54 AM]

Me:
I figured it out. What a pain. I have to punch the phone icon on the Jabra headset before making the call. Then I have to quickly move the Sound setting up on the volume mix on my PC. Then I have to find out the client isn’t at her desk after all that.
 
So I have to throw my shoe across the room, but I haven’t put my shoes on because I’m working from home so I have to throw a sock instead. NOTHING is going right.

[‎8/‎7/‎2019 11:57 AM]

Co-Worker:
omg! I’m glad you’re so smart and figured it out!

[‎8/‎7/‎2019 12:05 PM]

Me:
Yeah, it’s true. I am special. Now I’m trying to find my damn sock.

[‎8/‎7/‎2019 12:08 PM]

Co-Worker:
It couldn’t of gone far…

[‎8/‎7/‎2019 12:10 PM]

Me:
I’ll call information. The operator should know.

[‎8/‎7/‎2019 12:13 PM]

Me:
Okay that worked. She said it was behind the sofa. So I have it now.

 
From Andy Borowitz:

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday morning, Trump said that the more than eight hundred and fifty thousand likes that Obama’s post had garnered as of Tuesday night were “phony,” and called the seeming popularity of the post a “rigged hoax.”

“There is absolutely no way that eight hundred and fifty thousand people liked Obama’s post,” he said. “I know a lot of people, and absolutely none of them like Obama.”

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