POST 1136 Late Addition BSO Update! In his so-called press conference yesterday, Trump once again rattled his sabre, saying that he won’t rule out military force to take back the Panama Canal, seize Greenland and force Canada to become our 51st state. And the reporters at the press conference and elsewhere stared fixedly into that… [read more]
January 6 Special
POST 1135 From Adam Kinzinger’s Country First post today, The Truth About January 6th – Never Forget: Sadly, the incoming administration and their allies have tried to normalize the events of January 6, 2021, and distort the truth. Here’s the truth, 4 years ago, Donald Trump incited a Mob that marched to the United States… [read more]
Frail Societal Memory
POST 1134 Memory, If Any Today, the story of the Second World War stands at the edge of remembered history, as the participants of humanity’s greatest trial are at the end of long human life spans. – Steve Schmidt, Danger Ahead So, too, the memory of the Great Depression, driven by Robber Barons, whom today… [read more]
The Light
POST 1133 Tree of Life Synagogue Joe Biden wrote two months ago, on the sixth anniversary of that awful mass murder, “. . . a gunman armed with an AR-15, multiple handguns, and hate in his heart, opened fire and killed 11 Jewish worshippers [sic] and wounded six more, in the deadliest act of Antisemitism… [read more]
Our Problem
POST 1132 This Piece is Entirely One-Sided Here’s why. No Democrat is threatening violence on anyone. No Democrat is in a militia practicing to assault the Capitol Building on January 6, 2025 or is preparing to send Christmas cards with pictures of themselves brandishing an AR-15 and lusting over the blood of patriots. No Democrat… [read more]
Just A Little Insanity
POST 1131 Spend just one hour at the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, AL and then tell me if that’s the Great America we should make again. Consider the brutal slow murder of George Floyd or the self-appointed neighborhood guard George Zimmerman who murdered Trayvon Martin and got away with it, as did the murderers in… [read more]
U-Turn
POST 1130 From Wikipedia: A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.[1]: 54 [2][3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century.[4] [emphasis JA] That term was coined then, but we’re reviving that dreadful threat right now. With obviously predictive value, here are two variations of… [read more]
What It Looks Like
POST 1129 We begin with a quotation from Anne Applebaum, writing in The Atlantic about the conditions that precipitated the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. “There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair.” We shed no tears for this brutal dictator and murderer, but don’t imagine that because… [read more]
How We Fell Off the Sled – v 2.0
POST 1128 A short while back I wrote that We’ve Fallen Off The Sled because we really have been dumped from our metaphorical transportation to a more perfect union. I had a perfectly serviceable 9-point post detailing how we did that, but I’m quite sick of election postmortems (likely, you are, too), especially when all… [read more]
A Thought Experiment and Explanation
POST 1127 A Balancing Act Everyone believes in freedom. Everyone wants it. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” You can read Jefferson’s “Liberty” (yes,he capitalized it)… [read more]
