Author: Burr Deming

Asians Attacked, Defund, Capitol Riot, Dirty Dozen, Ron Johnson, Immigration

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  • After a gunman kills mostly Asian women at three locations during a bad day, Max’s Dad looks at killing sprees at Black and Jewish religious gatherings, mass murder of Latinos at a grocery store, a murderous riot at the nation’s Capitol Building, and detects a pattern.
     
  • Police seemingly accepted at his word the shooter’s assurance the murders in Georgia did not constitute a hate crime. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit tries to understand that strange investigative procedure, by looking into the targeting of Asians, with a bit of help from a description of growing up Asian in Georgia. Not all physical violence results in death. Not all harassment is physical. But the toll can still be high. And the environment may affect the occasional police spokesperson.
     
  • Okay, so it looks like the guy had to be targeting Asian women. But Glenn Geist at MadMikesAmerica protests. Yeah, there is a lot of anti-Asian bigotry in our history, especially in the century previous to the century previous to now. But this shooting? A pattern? Those three massage establishments each happened to be owned by Asians. If you shoot a lot of folks at random with eyes closed at those locations, you’ll hit a lot of Asians. Besides most every sex-for-sale establishment is overwhelmingly Asian, something I didn’t know.
     
    Well, Glenn sometimes writes such things. He recently encountered the phrase Jesus used to describe the chance of someone of great wealth making it into the Kingdom of God, that it would be easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle. Glenn responded that Jesus would never have voiced that socialist malarkey had he taken a walk through today’s America.
     
    Glenn is my brother-in-Christ, a self confessed Christian, as am I. One day, perhaps, he will teach me how to reconcile his belief that the vision of the Son of God is limited to His own place and time on earth, and that we ought not take what He says in scripture as Universal Truth.
     
    Just for the record, Cherokee County Georgia, where the suspect is being held, is less than 2% Asian. Atlanta, where two of the three shootings happened, is less than 4%. In little Acworth, where the other murders were committed, Asians make up about 2% of 1%, or .0002 of the population. But hey! Who knows who you’ll hit if you close your eyes on a bad day, especially if you target Asian owned businesses that, by some strange coincidence, also happen to have a lot of Asian employees.
     
  • Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo join once more in podcasting from Rewire News Group. This week they react to the shootings.
     
  • Like me, she was born during the Truman administration. But unlike me, this elderly Asian woman was the target of unprovoked street violence. Tommy Christopher has the story as this 76-year old Chinese woman, attacked while waiting for a bus, put her attacker in the hospital.
     
    Sounds like a feel good story, like she’s a bit of a super-hero, or at least a hero. But reports are she was angry, frightened, injured, and lucky. She was yelling at her assailant as he was wheeled away on a gurney, but she was also bleeding from multiple punches to the face, and she was in tears.
     
    Let’s not feel good. We should be mad as all hell.

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Smart President, National Big Week, Jan 6, Right Fury, Hate Crimes, Dog

  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson explains that this was a big week for America because of the massive economic rescue bill, to be sure, but for other reasons as well.
     
  • At The Onion, the Stimulus Bill did pass this week, but only after the parliamentarian ruled the minimum wage part had to go, due to an obscure rule requiring poor citizens to needlessly suffer.
     
  • Infidel753 takes a well deserved victory lap for pointing out, before it was widely acknowledged, that Joe Biden was a very smart candidate and would be a very smart President. Seems the first seven weeks, with a record-breaking win, proves our President is even smarter than that. AND the country does not yet seem tired of winning.
     
  • In MadMikesAmerica, Michael John Scott reports on President Biden’s condemnation of hate crimes against Asian Americans. There seems to be much more than enough to condemn.
     
  • Reporters sometimes approach a dark sort of comedy as media tries to make both sides equivalent even when the effort is a mental strain. Tommy Christopher reports on one reporter who demanded to know what President Biden will do to reunite migrant families, the demand being voiced during a discussion on a task force the President has just created to reunite migrant families.
     
  • At Ant Farmer’s Almanac, Vice President Harris denies a rumor about the President’s dog.
     
  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has figured out exactly why Trump lost.
     
  • To be fair, not all on the right are what we euphemistically call cultural conservatives. Those would be conservatives who hate Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal because she is non-white, a woman, an immigrant, and a defender of religious freedom, even for Muslims. More classical conservatives join in disliking her left of center politics.
     
    Now, those on the ragged right have another reason to grudge upon. Frances Langum reports as Representative Jayapal demands ethics investigations of three Republican House members to determine their role in preparing, inciting, then assisting January 6 rioters as said rioters searched the Capitol Building for legislators to assassinate.
     
  • Where conservatives see outrages, Dave Dubya sees a pattern. If every conservative controversy was removed, they would seek and find others. At the core, conservatives are angry and upset because they want to be angry and upset. Seuss and potatoes? Really?
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged acknowledges that Republican legislators are not exclusively furious about decisions by private entities on whether to keep publishing children’s books containing racist imagery, and whether to address plastic potatoes as “Mister”. They are also angry about the refusal of intolerant liberals (okay, okay, like me) to express sufficient awe at the many and varied accomplishments of Mr. Trump. She seems oddly dismissive of their concerns. She must be one of those intolerant leftists (okay, okay, like me).
     
    About Mr. Trump, while he did entice voters to destroy Republican majorities in the House and Senate, I admit I would rather focus on his failures than on those major accomplishments.

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Major Issue for National Conservative Personalities

found on Twitter by Burr

 
The current state of contemporary conservatism
 

CPAC, Gold Calf, Corrupt, Obstruct, TX Cold Dark, COVID, Wage, Potato Seuss

  • Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains radically new developments in scientific thought and what they imply about future warp travel through space:
     

    Yahoo News has more.

  • Max’s Dad has a not-exactly-balanced summary of CPAC. Man, I do enjoy what this guy writes.
     
  • Dave Dubya considers the recent CPAC convention, with all its Trump worship, as a true reflection of the current state of contemporary conservatism. He examines several of the myths unequivocally embraced at the gathering.
     
  • I’m still in awe at the comically explicit evil represented by the golden idol of Mr. Trump, presented for worship to the CPAC convention. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz is more familiar with Exodus than most of us. But even those members of my religion who are just dimly aware of our Book of Faith know about Moses and the Tablets and idol worship. Pavlovitz wonders at the fate of the faithful, after the thousands of years since the disaster of the Golden Calf, when so many of us still can’t get it right today.
     
  • If Cecil Price and Bull Connor found themselves in a 1960s grudge match, most folks of good will would have hoped both would lose in a double knockout followed by a long recovery in the same hospital room. Scotties Toy Box links to reactions as the Wall Street Journal criticizes very-former-president Trump, Trump attacks the WSJ, and the publication calmly slaps the retired insurrectionist around.
     
    Okay, okay. If we really have to choose, I suppose I’d vote for the publication. The old saying is you should never get into a fight with those who buy ink by the barrel.
     
  • Iron Knee at Political Irony finds an apology floating around net for criticizing once-upon-a-time President Trump, but containing enough caveats that a cynical person might suspect a touch of insincerity.

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Trump Calf, COVID, Biden, Tucker, Rush, QAnon, GOP Violence, Texas Cold, Pain

  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged argues that the Golden Calf figure of Donald Trump, largely sponsored by a Christian group, was not exactly an idol dedicated to a perceived god. Conservatives see Trump more as a mascot.
     
    I dunno. I doubt the theory holds up. But she makes a brief, cogent, and entertaining argument.
     
    I confess, my first thought was about the collective conservative abandonment of yet another commandment, that second little bullet point on the tablets carried from the mountain by Moses. I have had similar thoughts before.
     
  • Dave Dubya offers a well targeted character analysis of a former president and submits for our consideration a warning.
     
  • In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson considers how we got to half a million American fatalities and a crippled economy and reviews current efforts by Republican legislators to sabotage COVID relief efforts.
     
  • We see so much death and wish we had had better policies. North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz suggests one reason for hope: a President who understands tragic loss.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever takes a quick peek at the first month of the Biden administration. In the Capitol Building, we have the usual knife fight. At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, we have a largely quiet, almost unnoticed, national repair worker laboring to fix four years of damage and neglect.
     
  • CalicoJack in The Psy of Life explains current national politics, with Biden, Trump, Cruz, and more, this way: we are in the middle of one of the most fascinating natural experiments in modern American history.
     
  • News Corpse watches Tucker Carlson insist QAnon does not exist because he can’t find their website, and helps out with links to those who manage to quote or defend the not-so-nonexistant movement, including Tucker himself.
     
    A philosophical question occurs to me. Can a fish find evidence of water?

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Stephen Miller!!!! Says Housing Migrant Children Who Arrive Alone is Inhumane

found on Twitter by Burr

 

Stephen Miller: Far-right,
anti-immigration
policy advisor to Donald Trump

Chief Architect of:
Travel ban
Turning away desperate, legal refugees
Pulling migrant children away from parents

 
Wisdom from Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez