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Open Thread for November 19, 2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 7:07 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 192021

Yesterday, I woke up a few minutes early and just stayed up. Heaven knows ehwn I’ll be up today, though – the eclipse was last night. Since eclipses go by real time rather than by clocks, I couldn’t be exact about exactly when it would start, but I was guessing somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes after midnight. I’ll let you know after the fact.

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HuffPost – Paul Gosar Censured For Violent Anime Video Targeting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Quote – The vote passed mostly along party lines, with only two Republicans — Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), who is retiring — seeing it necessary to condemn Gosar for sharing a video that depicted him slicing the throat of one of their Democratic colleagues.
Click through for more. Yes, he was stripped of all his committee assignments, thank God. And forced to stand alone in fromt of the House to hear the censure read aloud. However, he was unapologetic. He has learned nothing.

politicsrus – What Has Joe Biden Done For Us? (four episodes)
I did use Episode #1 on the video thread, but now that there are four episodes, I have decided to post the links here, together, rather than separating them out. The last three in particular are excellent messaging of what is in the Infrastructure bill (now law) I hope they will continue coming out.
Episode 1 – Accomplishments
Episode 2 – Water
Episode 3 – Broadband
Episode 4 – For Children

Daily Kos (Rule of Claw) – The Math Didn’t Add Up: The Reason President Biden Asked The FTC To Investigate Gas Gouging!
Quote – So the formula is price of crude divided by 42, divided by 2 times 3. Going by that gas pricing should be about $2.78 per gallon. Of course this is not a perfect assessment as there are from time to time other market factors to consider. But not apparently, this time. And I for one do not believe the President would make this move capriciously. This is the sort of thing that you do when you already know the answer and just want the suspect to implicate themselves.
Click through for ancillary details. There is no low the GOP will not stoop to. The only surprise here is that they never tried it before.

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Video Thread 11/18/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:58 am Open Thread, Politics

Nov 182021

Glenn Kirschner – New Reporting Reinforces Trump’s Criminal Liability for Avoidable COVID Deaths: An Analysis

The Lincoln Project – Biden Delivers

politicsrus – From the Darkness (no dialogue – background “Bridge Over Troubled Waters”

Ring of Fire – Marjorie Taylor Greene Brags About Being Fined $60,000 For Being An Idiot

CNN – Jim Acosta with John Dean

Liberal Redneck – Rittenhouse Trial

Beau – Let’s talk about income, public health, and Trump….

Open Thread for November 18, 2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 7:18 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 182021

Yesterday, I overslept, having stayed up too late the day before, trying to get too much done. This week, I can handle that. I’m glad it wasn’t last week or next week. The weather was drk and cold, although without precipitation, which probably also contributed.

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Mother Jones – I’m Moving to Portugal, See You Never
Quote – [I]n a lot of ways telecommuting chained workers to their offices even more by making sure that their work was always present, in their computers and in their cellphones. Something needs to get done late? It’s not waiting until you get back into the office. Your boss is going to email/Slack/text you tonight to do it…. Portugal is done with all of that.
Click through for story. It’s short, but loaded. Why can’t we have nice things?

Wonkette – Six Colorado High School Students Take Bullets For Gun Freedom
Quote – Monday afternoon, six teenagers were hanging out at Nome Park in Aurora, Colorado, across the street from their high school. For no reason anyone can yet determine, the teens were shot by gun-toting cowards who drove away after the sneak attack. The students, aged 14 to 18, were hospitalized with what the police describe as non-life-threatening injuries. However, one student required emergency surgery.
Click through for details, video, and summary of gun laws. Sadly, we have our share – matbe more – of crazies hereI can only speculate they are most active in Aurora and Boulder on the mistaken assumption there are no liberals in colorado Springs.

Reason – Cops Thought Sand From Her Stress Ball Was Cocaine. She Spent Nearly 6 Months in Jail.
Quote – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled last week that two Atlanta police officers are not entitled to qualified immunity from a civil lawsuit brought against them by Ju’zema Goldring for malicious prosecution. Goldring says the officers falsely accused her of jaywalking and cocaine trafficking, based on a field test of a powdery substance inside a stress ball she had in her purse.
Click through for mixed information. At least ahe’s alive.

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Video Thread 11/17/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:50 am Open Thread, Politics

Nov 172021

Glenn Kirschner – New Reporting Reinforces Trump’s Criminal Liability for Avoidable COVID Deaths: An Analysis

CNN – Jim Acosta and Carl Bernstein It was a couple of days ago – but it is substantial.

Ring of Fire – Investigation Says 13 Trump Officials Broke The Law During 2020 Campaign

Crooks and Liars – Lauren Boebert

Mrs. Betty Bowers – One Nation Under the Wrong Impression

The Five Laws Of Stupidity

Beau – Let’s talk about Bannon being indicted and the impacts….

Open Thread for November 17, 2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:46 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 172021

Yesterday, again quiet. I got a few things done (never as much as I’d like to, of course.) I hope you can stand a day of good news … goodness knows there’s enough bad news out there.

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Democratic Underground – I think I Spotted Antifa
Quote – Wearing a military beret and a Polish wartime resistance armband, 94-year-old Wanda Traczyk-Stawska stunned the crowd at a pro-EU rally when she thundered “Be quiet, stupid boy! You lousy bastard” at a member of a far-right group attempting to disrupt the gathering over a loudspeaker.
Click through for more and a great picture. I couldn’t possibly honor every hero here – if I tried I wouldn’t be able to do anything else – but she is special.

Daily Kos (Gabe Ortiz) – ‘Dad, welcome back’: Advocate for deported veterans wins his own fight to return to the U.S.
Quote – “Thanks to a law passed in recent years that allows immigrants to challenge old convictions if they weren’t warned about potential immigration consequences before accepting plea deals, he was finally able to get the conviction undone,” The Union-Tribune reported.
Click through for full story. I needed a hanky and Pat probably will too. Others might also.

Furtive ferret: one of North America’s rarest mammals turns up in Colorado garage
Quote – “This is extremely rare,” Schmal said. “Black-footed ferrets are nocturnal and extremely shy. For some reason, this one left the colony and was seeking shelter. “We’re just glad it appeared healthy, not starving or sick, and we were able to capture it and return it to the colony.”
Click through for story. Walker Ranch is in Boulder County, so I’m guessing Nettles lives in or near Boulder. I don’t blame him for not wanting the exact afddress out.

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Video Thread 11/16/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:51 pm Open Thread, Politics

Nov 162021

Glenn Kirschner – Why Mark Meadows Must Now be Indicted for Contempt of Congress (just as happened to Steve Bannon)

Meidas Touch – Why the Rittenhouse defense may be MORE WORRIED than the media would have you believe (God, how I hope he’s right!)

Ring of Fire – CNN Host Warns That Republican ‘Nuts Are Being Normalized’

John Fugelsang on Stephanie Miller – “America Is Not Divided, White People Are Divided.”

Armageddon Update – Armageddon Update | One Year Ago Today (“Today” interpreted loosely)

Parody Project – MONEY SUCKS THE CONGRESS DOWN

Beau – Let’s talk about the other 14 characteristics…

Open Thread for November 16, 2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:40 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 162021

Yesterday was another pretty quiet day. I’ll take all of those that I can get. Incidentally, as it is now a new week, maybe Nameless can get a tech out to look at his computer. I surely hope so. But it’s also the first workday after a holiday week, so it might not be today.

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Crooks and Liars – The New Face Of The GOP?
Quote – So try to imagine what will happen if Rittenhouse is acquitted. Trump will issue a statement somehow taking credit for it. Fox News will fly Rittenhouse to New York for triumphant interviews. Social media will erupt with joy, as millions of conservatives cry “Suck it, libs!” He’ll appear on T-shirts and bumper stickers; maybe he’ll speak at the next Conservative Political Action Conference. And don’t be surprised if Trumpist candidates start seeking Rittenhouse’s endorsement and asking him to appear on the campaign trail with them.
Click through for more, including (paywalled) link to Washington Post. The only light I can see at the end of this tunnel is that George Zimmerman eventually got into enough non-political trouble to get dropped like a hot potato, and it’s probably safe to expect that to happen to Rittenhouse also (and maybe even his mother, God willing).

AP News – Workers at federal prisons are committing some of the crimes
Quote – More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking cash to smuggle drugs and weapons, and supervisors stealing property such as tires and tractors.
Click through for details. I’d file this under “No shit, Sherlock.” No prison is any better than its warden … and in 2019, the warden was Bill Barr (and before him, Jeff Sessions.) Not that that is an excuse, of course.

The 19th – The word missing from the vast majority of anti-trans legislation? Transgender
Quote – More anti-trans bills were introduced in state legislatures in 2021 than in any previous year on record. The 19th reviewed the text of 102 bills in seven states that were primarily designed to restrict access to sports or gender-affirming care for trans youth, like hormones and puberty blockers, and only seven bills mentioned the word “transgender.” Only eight passed, primarily those focused on sports, although legal battles in several states have barred most from going into effect.
Click through for story. Granted there are (probably) fewer transgendered people than just about any other minority group, there are certainly enough to account for a large (and disproportionate) number of suicide and murder victims. And no one is free until and unless we are all free.

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Video Thread 11/15/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:10 pm Open Thread, Politics

Nov 152021

Glenn Kirschner – Judge Rules Against Trump BUT Appellate Court Temporarily Blocks Release of Documents. What’s Next?

Meidas Touch – How Ron DeSantis manipulated ‘useful idiot’ Trump

Thom Hartmann – Trump’s Authoritarian Storm Is Upon Us Now

politicsrus – This Is Episode 1 HD

Now This News – Endangered Komodo Dragons Hatch at San Antonio Zoo – Some good news. They are gonna get BI-I-I-IG.

Rocky Mountain Mike – Bannon

Beau – Let’s talk about hot books in Virginia….

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