This is how ya do it, guys. Distinguished Flying Cross - with Valor.
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Friday, June 22, 2018
A Podcast
Bob Cesca - every Tuesday and Thursday.
"Every time Trump delivers one of his coke-rants, an angel gets the clap."
Today's Tweet
When the approach to political debate became "say whatever makes a librul mad", it was a relatively short step to reach "do whatever causes people to suffer".
Think about it: This president built tent cities in order to separate, cage and jail immigrant children faster than aid was provided to American citizens in Puerto Rico.— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) June 22, 2018
Tell the @GOP to put country before party and #ImpeachTrump here - https://t.co/MqMFGyXc5t pic.twitter.com/cZ7evivUMc
Just A Thought
A coupla days ago, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley announced we'd be withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council, saying too many of the countries involved in it are asshole regimes that don't really give a fuck about human rights.
Then we got word about the Kids-Held-Hostage mess at almost exactly the same time.
Now, there's plenty of reason to believe it's just another episode of Cult45 stepping on their own dicks, but that could be assigning too high a probability that it's the kind of coincidence that is pretty goddamned rare in politics.
Daddy State Awareness Rule #1:
Just for the fuck of it, let's throw in the simple fact that 45* never mentioned anything about NoKo's abysmal record on Human Rights when he was giving Kim that long luxurious tongue bath.
And we should prob'ly try to remember a little something about the Muslim Bans too.
There is no bottom. The Daddy State will always find a way to go lower.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with Stephen Miller now. With Bannon gone, Miller could be 45*'s only really solid connection to the hardcore MAGA-rubes that comprise "the base".
Then we got word about the Kids-Held-Hostage mess at almost exactly the same time.
Now, there's plenty of reason to believe it's just another episode of Cult45 stepping on their own dicks, but that could be assigning too high a probability that it's the kind of coincidence that is pretty goddamned rare in politics.
Daddy State Awareness Rule #1:
Every accusation is a confession
Just for the fuck of it, let's throw in the simple fact that 45* never mentioned anything about NoKo's abysmal record on Human Rights when he was giving Kim that long luxurious tongue bath.
And we should prob'ly try to remember a little something about the Muslim Bans too.
There is no bottom. The Daddy State will always find a way to go lower.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with Stephen Miller now. With Bannon gone, Miller could be 45*'s only really solid connection to the hardcore MAGA-rubes that comprise "the base".
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Oy
Poe's Law reigns supreme.
Even after I confirmed it at Time's website, I felt compelled to check it - a lot.
Even after I confirmed it at Time's website, I felt compelled to check it - a lot.
The Wheels Of Justice
...go 'round and 'round - pretty fucking slowly sometimes.
ABC News:
The U.S. Marine who marched with neo-Nazis in last summer's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been found guilty in a summary court-martial after he reportedly bragged online about participating in the violence that day.
Lance Cpl. Vasillios Pistolis was convicted Monday of failing to obey an order or regulation and making a false official statement under Articles 92 and 107 in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to the 2nd Marine Logistics Group.
BTW -
Freikorps (pronounced [ˈfʀaɪ̯ˌkoːɐ̯], "Free Corps")
In the aftermath of World War I and during the German Revolution of 1918–19, Freikorps consisting largely of World War I veterans were raised as right-wing paramilitary militias, ostensibly to fight on behalf of the government against the Soviet-backed German Communists attempting to overthrow the Weimar Republic. However, the Freikorps also despised the Republic and were involved in assassinations of its supporters. The Freikorps were widely seen as a precursor to Nazism, and many of their volunteers ended up joining the Nazi militia, the Sturmabteilung (SA).
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| Charlottesville Aug 12 2017 |
The U.S. Marine who marched with neo-Nazis in last summer's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been found guilty in a summary court-martial after he reportedly bragged online about participating in the violence that day.
Lance Cpl. Vasillios Pistolis was convicted Monday of failing to obey an order or regulation and making a false official statement under Articles 92 and 107 in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to the 2nd Marine Logistics Group.
Freikorps (pronounced [ˈfʀaɪ̯ˌkoːɐ̯], "Free Corps")
In the aftermath of World War I and during the German Revolution of 1918–19, Freikorps consisting largely of World War I veterans were raised as right-wing paramilitary militias, ostensibly to fight on behalf of the government against the Soviet-backed German Communists attempting to overthrow the Weimar Republic. However, the Freikorps also despised the Republic and were involved in assassinations of its supporters. The Freikorps were widely seen as a precursor to Nazism, and many of their volunteers ended up joining the Nazi militia, the Sturmabteilung (SA).
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Today's Tweet
Here's a very thinly-veiled version of The 14 Words:
#ICYMI Check out the segment from tonight about the changing demographics in America pic.twitter.com/eM1VJkN8OG— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 20, 2018
Can you say "Ethnic Cleansing"? Slobodan Carlson wants you to be his friend.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Today's Tweet
Just when you think the Press Poodles are starting to learn, they shit in the kitchen again.
The NYT spoke to Stephen Miller on the record with audio and they spiked it because the White House “were not comfortable using the audio...when they found out his voice was going to be on a podcast they were not happy about it. So they asked us not to use it.”— Josh Sternberg (@joshsternberg) June 19, 2018
The Church Rears Up
Teach a Baptist to read, and you get a Methodist.
Send a Methodist to high school, and you get an Episcopalian.
Put an Episcopalian through Seminary, and you get an atheist, which means you've come full circle.
Because religious doctrine is an after-market accessory. Nobody's delivered with a factory-installed belief in spooks and pixies.
But anyway - at least the Methodists have been on the right side of history for a while.
Sam Hodges, UMC.org:
More than 600 United Methodist clergy and laity say they are bringing church law charges against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a fellow United Methodist, over a zero tolerance U.S. immigration policy — a policy that includes separating children from parents apprehended for crossing into the U.S. illegally.
However, an authority on church history and polity said he’s unaware of a complaint against a lay person ever moving past the district level.
The group claimed in a June 18 statement that Sessions, a member of a Mobile, Alabama, church, violated Paragraph 2702.3 of the denomination’s Book of Discipline.
Specifically, the group accuses him of child abuse in reference to separating young children from their parents and holding them in mass incarceration facilities; immorality; racial discrimination and “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the established standards of doctrines” of The United Methodist Church.
All are categories listed in 2702.3 as chargeable offenses for a professing member of a local church.
- and -
The Book of Discipline allows for a church trial and even expulsion of a lay member, but the first step in a long process would be for the member’s pastor and district superintendent to solve the complaint through “pastoral steps,” Lawrence said.
“I’m not aware of any circumstance in the 50-year history of The United Methodist Church when a complaint against a lay person moved beyond the stage of its resolution by a district superintendent or a pastor,” he added.
Wright said the group’s goal in filing charges was to prompt such discussions.
“I hope his pastor can have a good conversation with him and come to a good resolution that helps him reclaim his values that many of us feel he’s violated as a Methodist,” Wright said.
He added: “I would look upon his being taken out of the denomination or leaving as a tragedy. That’s not what I would want from this.”
Wright said the complaint has been emailed to Sessions’ home church in Alabama, and to a Northern Virginia church that Wright said he understands Sessions regularly attends.
Sessions’ pastor at the Alabama church did not return calls.
Send a Methodist to high school, and you get an Episcopalian.
Put an Episcopalian through Seminary, and you get an atheist, which means you've come full circle.
Because religious doctrine is an after-market accessory. Nobody's delivered with a factory-installed belief in spooks and pixies.
But anyway - at least the Methodists have been on the right side of history for a while.
Sam Hodges, UMC.org:
However, an authority on church history and polity said he’s unaware of a complaint against a lay person ever moving past the district level.
The group claimed in a June 18 statement that Sessions, a member of a Mobile, Alabama, church, violated Paragraph 2702.3 of the denomination’s Book of Discipline.
Specifically, the group accuses him of child abuse in reference to separating young children from their parents and holding them in mass incarceration facilities; immorality; racial discrimination and “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the established standards of doctrines” of The United Methodist Church.
All are categories listed in 2702.3 as chargeable offenses for a professing member of a local church.
- and -
“I’m not aware of any circumstance in the 50-year history of The United Methodist Church when a complaint against a lay person moved beyond the stage of its resolution by a district superintendent or a pastor,” he added.
Wright said the group’s goal in filing charges was to prompt such discussions.
“I hope his pastor can have a good conversation with him and come to a good resolution that helps him reclaim his values that many of us feel he’s violated as a Methodist,” Wright said.
He added: “I would look upon his being taken out of the denomination or leaving as a tragedy. That’s not what I would want from this.”
Wright said the complaint has been emailed to Sessions’ home church in Alabama, and to a Northern Virginia church that Wright said he understands Sessions regularly attends.
Sessions’ pastor at the Alabama church did not return calls.
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