Apr 14, 2019
Apr 13, 2019
Mayor Pete
Yes - you have to articulate the values that inform your policy.
But you can't ignore the absolute need to demonstrate how those values - through the implementation of the policies - work to improve people's lives.
Not to solve their problems for them, but to remove obstacles that the Republicans (mostly) have been putting in everybody's way for more than a generation.
Pete Buttigieg:
But you can't ignore the absolute need to demonstrate how those values - through the implementation of the policies - work to improve people's lives.
Not to solve their problems for them, but to remove obstacles that the Republicans (mostly) have been putting in everybody's way for more than a generation.
Pete Buttigieg:
Go Katie Go
Yes - more moms on Capitol hill please.
Hero of the week. Wow. https://t.co/RyEe3YzCH8— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 13, 2019
Apr 12, 2019
Today's Eternal Sadness
Every year, more Americans are killed by grade-school kids with guns than are killed by illegal immigrants and Muslim terrorists combined.
Atlanta Journal Constitution:
A 6-year-old girl has died after being shot by her 4-year-old brother in Paulding County on Monday evening, authorities said.
Atlanta Journal Constitution:
The girl was identified as Millie Drew Kelly on a GoFundMe page set up to help with the family’s expenses.
The accidental shooting happened about 6 p.m. inside a car parked in the driveway of a home on Laurelcrest Lane in unincorporated Dallas, Paulding County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ashley Henson previously told AJC.com.
“They were all loaded up to leave the home and the car wouldn’t start,” Henson said. Their mother hopped out to find the source of the problem, and somehow the young boy got hold of a handgun, he said.
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After speaking with the children’s mother, detectives believe the handgun was retrieved from the center console, and the 4-year-old accidentally discharged it.
“They were all loaded up to leave the home and the car wouldn’t start,” Henson said. Their mother hopped out to find the source of the problem, and somehow the young boy got hold of a handgun, he said.
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“Our hearts break for this family and we hope God puts his healing hands around them during this difficult time,” Sheriff Gary Gulledge said in a statement Thursday morning.
No charges will be filed.
We don't have an immigration problem. And we don't have a Muslim Terrorism problem.
We have a gun-violence problem - fueled by a hyper-macho culture that spouts bullshit rhetoric about killing our way out of our problems, and is happy to cash in on our misery by supplying us with the means of our own destruction.
We don't have an immigration problem. And we don't have a Muslim Terrorism problem.
We have a gun-violence problem - fueled by a hyper-macho culture that spouts bullshit rhetoric about killing our way out of our problems, and is happy to cash in on our misery by supplying us with the means of our own destruction.
Apr 11, 2019
Policing The Womenfolk
Vox:
A bill recently introduced in Texas would make it possible for women to get the death penalty for having abortions.
The bill would criminalize all abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest, and would make it possible to charge a woman with homicide for having the procedure, according to the Washington Post. The state of Texas allows capital punishment for homicide.
Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a Republican state legislator who introduced the bill, says it wouldmake people “consider the repercussions” of having sex.
“My bill simply accomplishes one goal,” Tinderholt said in a statement to media on Wednesday. “It brings equal treatment for unborn human beings under the law.”
So I guess it's time to reprise a little thing I posted a while back.
Let's say you have a chance encounter with a woman of your acquaintance at the grocery store or whatever - you don't know her well, but you know her - and you notice this usually very fit, very svelte woman is looking a bit round. You ask how she is, and rolling her eyes and giving out a big sigh, she tells you she's pregnant - again - almost 5 months into this one, which is the 4th time around - 9 years after her last one - and she is obviously not all that thrilled, having gotten the first 3 kids well into school and just getting her career back on track and this throws a pretty big wrench in the works, etc etc.
You exchange pleasantries and go on your merry way.
A year or so later, you see her again. She's looking her usual great self, and you ask about the new baby. Without going into detail, she tells you "it just didn't work out". You notice she doesn't seem to be all that sad about it, and you find yourself wondering if she's done something illegal.
What is your civic duty at that point? Do you call the authorities and report what seems to you to be her suspicious behavior?
That stoopid thing in Texas isn't going anywhere - not this time - but they keep doing it because it brings in the Taliban cash, and riles up the rubes to get out the vote, and one of these days, they might make it stick.
But in the end, here's the thing, Skeezix:
Let's say you have a chance encounter with a woman of your acquaintance at the grocery store or whatever - you don't know her well, but you know her - and you notice this usually very fit, very svelte woman is looking a bit round. You ask how she is, and rolling her eyes and giving out a big sigh, she tells you she's pregnant - again - almost 5 months into this one, which is the 4th time around - 9 years after her last one - and she is obviously not all that thrilled, having gotten the first 3 kids well into school and just getting her career back on track and this throws a pretty big wrench in the works, etc etc.
You exchange pleasantries and go on your merry way.
A year or so later, you see her again. She's looking her usual great self, and you ask about the new baby. Without going into detail, she tells you "it just didn't work out". You notice she doesn't seem to be all that sad about it, and you find yourself wondering if she's done something illegal.
What is your civic duty at that point? Do you call the authorities and report what seems to you to be her suspicious behavior?
That stoopid thing in Texas isn't going anywhere - not this time - but they keep doing it because it brings in the Taliban cash, and riles up the rubes to get out the vote, and one of these days, they might make it stick.
But in the end, here's the thing, Skeezix:
- Tadpoles ain't frogs
- Caterpillars ain't butterflies
- Ain't nothin' goin' on in my daughter's uterus that's any of your fuckin' business
So fuck the fuck off, you fucking fuck.
The Un-Crisis
While what's left of the president's cabinet secretaries (Barr and Mnuchin particularly) are stalling, covering up, and stonewalling, Cult45 continues to pimp the fear - because they've got nothing else.
The Empty Wheel:
THE FACTS: THERE IS NO CRISIS AND NO EMERGENCY, JUST TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN
After mixing it up with a old conservative over spring break — someone who doesn’t watch Fox News but spends too much time with people who do — it’s clear Trump’s and Fox’s lies have deeply infected right-wing minds.
They believe Trump’s falsehoods about a crisis at the border, that there was reason for Trump to declare an emergency.
They’re also incapable of fact checking. They’re authoritarians and believe whatever current authority figure tells them; the motivation to validate authority doesn’t exist.
They appear unable to analyze what they do see to make an independent assessment of their own. It doesn’t occur to them to ask, What would be so bad a family with toddlers and infants would flee their home, walking over a thousand miles for more than a month and through a desert to escape?
They’re sheep — our country is regressing under the leadership of fascist sheep.
I wanted to cram a bunch of facts in this conservative’s head but I honestly don’t know if they’d bother to read anything I gave them because I’m not a Fox talking head.
Fact: Trend data from DHS’ Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) about so-called illegal immigrants border crossings indicates it has trended lower over the last 15 years:
Apr 10, 2019
The Four Goals
Anthropocene - the age of humans - a time when people will determine the future and the survivability of their own kind without directly considering the vagaries of nature.
A time when humans will decide whether or not the world remains a place where humans can live.
We're fucked unless we figure some things out.
A time when humans will decide whether or not the world remains a place where humans can live.
We're fucked unless we figure some things out.
- end our use of fossil fuels
- shift to a system of food production that reduces our reliance on meat proteins and puts less pressure on fresh water resources
- manage the oceans
- Preserve current wild lands, and allow some of the developed lands to return to a wild state
The short version is all about reversing the typical bullshit that says we have to accept The Tragedy Of The Commons as gospel and inevitable.
Apr 9, 2019
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