Month: November 2016

 
From Max’s Dad:

Protesting Trump is as about as American as you can get. Now I know the lynch mob that is in charge now thinks that protesting is all anti-American now that they perceive of the Great White Fascist America they believe they have created. They never protested when that Halfrican Obama won in 2008 and again in 2012. We just accepted and moved on. Yeah sure ya did.

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From Infidel753:

The Republicans have a nasty theocratic surprise waiting for us — the grotesquely misnamed “First Amendment Defense Act”, which is in fact a national version of the pro-discrimination “religious freedom” laws enacted in places like Indiana and North Carolina over the last few years. So far from “defending” the First Amendment, it would make religious taboos and prejudices a blanket excuse for violating the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, preventing the federal government from enforcing any limit on discrimination when that discrimination is motivated by religion. Any form of discrimination against gays would become legal under federal law. Obstruction of access to birth control, or to pretty much anything else that some knuckle-dragger decides he doesn’t like, would be similarly protected.

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From The Big Empty:

These two quotes pretty much spell it out for me. No appeasement. No compromise. Trump and his Republican minions want to destroy our democratic system of government. Working or colluding with them or anyone who voted for them is shameful and an affront to the Constitution of the United States.

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From Frances Langum:

Next thing you know, the way we determine unemployment and labor-force participation is going to be just fine.

On Wednesday’s Talking Points Memo Bill O’Reilly took time to praise Obama for things he and Republicans had campaigned against, and encouraged Trump to do things the Republican Congress blocked Obama from doing.

Because of course he did.

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From Michael John Scott at MadMikesAmerica:

About It wasn’t too long ago we all thought erstwhile New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, kneeling at the feet of Donald Trump, would be appointed to a plum job in the Fourth Reich. Well, it seems, just like the outcome of the election, we may have been wrong about the future of the real author of Bridgegate.

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From John Scalzi:

Late last week I was interviewed about Trump and his incoming administration, and one of the things that came up was the practical issues involving government, as in, to what extent should the Democrats (or anyone) work with Trump and the GOP to make deals, pass laws and so on. My answer to this was that I was pragmatic about it and that if the Democrats could get something out of Trump and the GOP that they liked, then they should go ahead and take it. Not that they shouldn’t fight (oh, they should), but to take what they can get through the normal processes of government.

Note this interview was on Friday, and over the weekend, among other things, Trump moved noted white nationalist and anti-Semite Steve Bannon into a formal White House adviser role, a move hailed by both the KKK and the American Nazi Party.

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From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:

New Creation Church in Hillsboro, Oregon thinks maintaining a certain image and look is vitally important. To further this end, church leadership established certain qualifications for worship team participants:

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From Patricia Smith at The Moderate Voice:

One hundred fifty-three years ago on November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln stood up to say a few words on a battlefield in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. He said “the world would little note nor long remember what we say here.” But that is not true. President Lincoln’s speech is still studied not only in history books but in literature books. He also said that “we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.”

He was right, of course.

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• Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post suggests that, with the ascension of Mr. Trump, we are about to graduate to the nineteenth century. Jack will be resisting the change.
   
• Manifesto Joe at Texas Blues considers the immutable nature of political party loyalty and is still amazed at what was produced for national leadership.
   
• The Moderate Voice hosts a guest voice to provide an Irish perspective on Donald Trump which perspective is not wholly positive.
   
• osirisopto at Mock Paper Scissors looks over impending government and political personnel changes and reveals both good and bad news.
   
• Last Of The Millenniums reminds us what registering non-Christians looks like.
   
• Max’s Dad reflects on Veteran’s Day and his father’s experiences in the last World War. He finds bitter irony.
   
• Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes remembers his on-the-beach encounter with a beautiful young lady who, a few years later, was at the center of a national scandal in Britain.
   
• In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce thinks about a cynical return to preaching in order to scam believers out of their money, but decides he can’t match others in pulling off the hypocrisy.
   
• MadMikesAmerica reports on a successful community effort to pressure a hospital to stop using live dogs for medical training.
   

Electoral College Gets a Failing Grade

Think you know history? Think you understand why the Electoral College was formed?

Think it was all about distrust of “tyranny of the majority” and big vs small states?

Think again.

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