Duh-Oh! Missed another Anglo-centric Sunday Night Dance Party.

Well, that hit me like a tonne of bricks.

Yes, my selections this week were ... white, white, very white.

Thanks for the knock upside the head!

Always happy to have you listening in!

jezebels and delilahs are the best kind!

JL

Yeah that's YOU I'm talking about, Canada, Australia & Great Britain!

And here I'd have to say that I thought renouncing Satan and All His Works would free up my Sunday social calendar a bit. But those Jezebels and Delilahs are still chasing after me.

Good night, everyone - take care and stay safe!

Burning In Love

Love Changes Everything

Wave Babies

Still an hour or so left, everyone! Don't be shy - chime in with your favourites from the eighties ...

All The Lovers In The World is from 1990.

A Criminal Mind

Cosmetics

Strange Animal

Moonlight Desires

The Visitor

Kids Wanna Rock

Cuts Like A Knife

Summer of '69

Keep On Lovin' Me, Baby

Sorry, I couldn't find the sexy version, ahem.

Voodoo Thing

Here he is with a tune off his debut album in 1988,

Five Long Years

Hey Hey My My (into the black) - Neil Young at FarmAid, 1985

Keep On Rockin' In The Free World

Streetheart - Under My Thumb

I Rock Myself To Sleep

This Could Be The right One

Enough is Enough

Sign of the Gypsy Queen

"Lightning smokes on the hill rise
Brought the man with the warning light
Shoutin' out, you had better fly
While the darkness can help you hide
Trouble's comin' without control
No one's stayin' that's got a hope
Hurricane at the very least
In the words of the gypsy queen"

I Like To Rock

Cover Girl

Here's the track off their 1980 album Young and Restless ... title inspired by, you guessed it, the popular soap!

Young and Restless

Don't It Make Ya Feel

Featuring the late great Brian "Too Loud" Macleod and Darby Mills...

Turn It Loud

Just One More Time

Whatcha Do To My Body

I'd like to get started with a favourite PRiSM tune from 1980 ... try sitting still to this one!

American Music

One Crackpot Demand. I like it.

OCD! Yes, sir.

Do we have a song for that!? Yes... yes, we do, and the video on this one is to die for.
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This one is dedicated to OCD and Death Harris:

All dressed up with nowhere to go...

One Crackpot Demand. I like it.

No anglo-saxons arrived as 'human property', did they?

Wow. So you're saying that you're unaware that the Anglo-Saxons made slaves of the Britons they conquered?

I've heard of 'indentured' anglos, but not enslaved ones.

So you're completely unaware that the Anglo-Saxon word for "Briton" is used interchangeably for "slave."

Well, allow me to clear that up for you, then. I've grown quite used to cleaning up your misconceptions. You're welcome. :)

By the way, Stucki, I hope we'll see you at the big Sunday Night shindig - you must have some eighties favourites, right? :)

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, circa 1880... the one with the loud cannons.

https://youtu.be/VbxgYlcNxE8?t=725

Anglo-Saxons....why are the Jutes left out of your club? Perfectly Germanic tribe who barged into Britain.

I know, right!? No love for the Vandals and Visigoths either.

How do Roman buildings and aqueducts fit into the AS narrative.

They sat stonefaced and idly by while being conquered.

The Romans were Italian....yet Italians aren’t in the Country Club...the US Census didn’t even classify Italians White until well into the 20th Century. Should I mention the Jesus problem ....why not?

I like the way you think. Check out the nice Italian work at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre... practically commedia dell'arte. :)

Pretty sure you meant this for me.

I Googled 'Incongruous', and it was defined as "Debating the merits of smallpox transmission conspiracy theories in the midst of the Covid19 pandemic".

So you're saying you're "incongruous"?

After all, wasn't smallpox among the N-As a 'done deal" from the time the first infected European sneezed on the first uninfected N-A?

That was an awfully nice attempt at moving the goalposts, Stucki, but I'm not playing football today. Batter up. :)

LOL. You are easily amazed. Let me help. Some things are important, relevant and interesting and some things are useless, repetitive and boring. You and your grifting and trolling fall into the second category.

Exactly this!

BTW - you can leave me out of your boring and repetitive talking points about "dodges to avoid addressing my claims and questions" because I already have more than enough info about One Stupid Demand and you only make two claims:

1. Big Money is The Problem.
2. One Stupid Demand is The Answer.

Exactly this!

I like this "One Stupid Demand" term of JFCs. We could even alternate it with the similar "One Crazy Demand" so we could refer to Don's obsessive compulsive disorder as OCD.

Push the button so the commenters here can feel "superior" by being on the historically correct side of events from the past while ignoring the Deathocrats, Republikillers and big money interests employing today's version of eliminating the opposition.

Thank you for that glimpse into your ailing psyche. Not to defend Stucki, or anything of the sort [just kidding, Stucki], but discussing history is something that he floats in on occasion and we inevitably end up doing. I would wager it surprises no one else here in the least that the resident board troll would spout off and attempt to define him as "pushing the button," and it sure as hell doesn't surprise me that you would disparage the responses in a ridiculous declaration of how somebody "feels," followed by another grievance bitchfest that the content of the responses didn't focus on your repetitive obsession.

Read carefully and allow it to permeate: Everything isn't about you, Don, and every utterance on this blog is not required to discuss your obsession, particularly, especially, and least of all the author's posts.

It is amazing the amount of research that some of the same commenters can do when their buttons are pushed that can't even seem to find my comments that previously answered their recycled claims/questions they are again using as dodges to avoid addressing my claims and questions in the current thread.

If that word salad I've quoted above was directed toward me, I agree that I am amazing. Yes, kidding. Of course, I am amazing in many and multiple ways [I believe we all are... with the exception of the obvious crazies, of course], but it doesn't take much "research" to find someone else's research replete with links to physical proof and then blockquote it and supply two links. Obviously, I am infinitely amazing because I did post two links in one comment box, but I owe all that to MtnCaddy... the true mountain man because he lives at higher elevation than the original mountain man... no offense, Stucki, but he does physically reside in thinner air, which goes a long way to explaining that time that me and EM wondered if he was inebriated, but I digress.

But back to Dopey Donald Harris, I mean Death Harris, if you believe I can't find your comments, then you haven't been paying attention... that whole head in your ass problem that you frequently display. Meanwhile, Stucki doesn't appear to suffer your affliction and seems aware that commenters here enjoy discussions of history/social studies. Lastly, if you believe those said discussions on the "current thread" are "dodges to avoid" yourself and your obsession, then you are negatively touched and far beyond any professional help.

So to recap: Methinks we got us a classic case of troll jealousy and delusions of grandeur. Stucki got a "wow" in response to history, while everyone else said "not today," and Death was ignored!

Sorry, still don't follow. Sounds like you're describing the black immigrants, not the anglo-saxons? No anglo-saxons arrived as 'human property', did they? I've heard of 'indentured' anglos, but not enslaved ones.

it's a response to your question of how (other than natural superiority) anglo-saxons came to dominate the north american colonies.

JL

yep, that's always been a bit of an issue.

real jesus, fake jesus

Sorry, I don't follow. Which question?

that's the method more than the cause. for the time being i stand by my geography hypothesis. and obviously, whoever made the first pie was bound to conquer the world.

JL

The answer to your hypothetical question is “arriving to the USA as human property that can be bred by their owner to produce more human property.” Brute force subjugation upheld by law.

Oops, sorry, meant to direct that one to Kick. At my age, those things happen.

So-o-o-o-o serious.

Next time you comment on something, put a little more fun into it, okay!? Heh.

Which should be next to never.

:-)

It doesn't have to be exclusively eighties, if you'd rather not, but it looks like it will be a focus. It certainly works for me, though for a long while I purposely stayed away from the eighties. Since that time I have discovered it may be my favourite decade, second only to the seventies.

See you later tonite!

I Googled 'Incongruous', and it was defined as ...

Are you talkin' to me? I'm not part of that discussion.

It is amazing ...

Yeah, that is what I meant by my 'wow' ... notice I placed no emphasis on it. Heh.

I Googled 'Incongruous', and it was defined as "Debating the merits of smallpox transmission conspiracy theories in the midst of the Covid19 pandemic".

After all, wasn't smallpox among the N-As a 'done deal" from the time the first infected European sneezed on the first uninfected N-A?

LOL. You are easily amazed. Let me help. Some things are important, relevant and interesting and some things are useless, repetitive and boring. You and your grifting and trolling fall into the second category.

BTW - you can leave me out of your boring and repetitive talking points about "dodges to avoid addressing my claims and questions" because I already have more than enough info about One Stupid Demand and you only make two claims:

1. Big Money is The Problem.
2. One Stupid Demand is The Answer.

Both are assertions supported by nothing more than other unsupported assertions.

As usual, your political analysis is warped and infantile. Keeping Howie Hawkins off the ballot in some states is not on par with genocide and Howie was not "eliminated".

Sorry, that old Native-American myth about smallpox being intentionally spread among their ancestors by means of infected blankets is pure nonsense/bullshit.

I never referred to it as a myth or as being spread among anyone's ancestors.

Consider that one on par with the more modern fiction that the word 'squaw' was coined to mean something equivalent to 'vagina' as an insult to N-A women. Totally bogus.

Seriously? This squaw stuff again, Stucki? Regardless, your attempt at a straw man argument doesn't change historically documented letters wherein the British approved and used the tactic. There are links to the actual letters wherein the tactic was discussed and approved below.

These are the pivotal letters: multiple links to archived correspondence

* Colonel Henry Bouquet to General Amherst, dated 13 July 1763, [262k] suggests in a postscript the distribution of blankets to "inocculate the Indians";

* Amherst to Bouquet, dated 16 July 1763, [128k] approves this plan in a postscript and suggests as well as "to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race." (This postcript spans two pages.)

These letters also discuss the use of dogs to hunt the Indians, the so-called "Spaniard's Method," which Amherst approves in principle, but says he cannot implement because there are not enough dogs. In a letter dated 26 July 1763, Bouquet acknowledges Amherst's approval [125k] and writes, "all your Directions will be observed."

Historian Francis Parkman, in his book The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada [Boston: Little, Brown, 1886] refers to a postscript in an earlier letter from Amherst to Bouquet wondering whether smallpox could not be spread among the Indians:

Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them. [Vol. II, p. 39 (6th edition)]

I have not found this letter, but there is a letter from Bouquet to Amherst, dated 23 June 1763, [189k] three weeks before the discussion of blankets to the Indians, stating that Captain Ecuyer at Fort Pitt (to which Bouquet would be heading with reinforcements) has reported smallpox in the Fort. This indicates at least that the writers knew the plan could be carried out.

It is curious that the specific plans to spread smallpox were relegated to postscripts. I leave it to the reader to ponder the significance of this.

Several other letters from the summer of 1763 show the smallpox idea was not an anomaly. The letters are filled with comments that indicate a genocidal intent, with phrases such as:

* "...that Vermine ... have forfeited all claim to the rights of humanity" (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June) [149k]
* "I would rather chuse the liberty to kill any Savage...." (Bouquet to Amherst, 25 June) [121k]
* "...Measures to be taken as would Bring about the Total Extirpation of those Indian Nations" (Amherst to Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of the Northern Indian Department, 9 July) [229k]
* "...their Total Extirpation is scarce sufficient Attonement...." (Amherst to George Croghan, Deputy Agent for Indian Affairs, 7 August) [145k]
*"...put a most Effectual Stop to their very Being" (Amherst to Johnson, 27 August [292k]; emphasis in original).

I also supply a link below to "Colonial Williamsburg" where extensive research is provided regarding the British and their use of this tactic. They too discuss the Fort Pitt historical documents, among other things, including the use of the tactic by the British against the American Revolutionaries. George Washington also documented it in his letters.

Colonial Germ Warfare

The Fort Pitt incident is the best documented case of deliberately spreading smallpox among unsuspecting populations, but it likely was not the first time such a stratagem was employed by military forces. It appears that Ecuyer and Amherst proposed the same idea independently at about the same time, suggesting that the practice was not unusual.

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When the American siege of Boston began in April 1775, smallpox was epidemic among civilians there. Most British soldiers had been inoculated, and the British were inoculating those troops who had not had the disease. Washington suspected some of the civilians leaving the city had been inoculated in hopes of spreading the disease among the Continentals. In December deserters coming to the American lines said that "several persons are to be sent out of Boston, ...that have been inoculated with the small-pox" with the intention of spreading the infection.

Washington's aide-de-camp thought the report was an "unheard-of and diabolical scheme." Washington heard the story with disbelief. He wrote that he could "hardly give Credit to" the information. A week later he told John Hancock:

The information I received that the enemy intended Spreading the Small pox amongst us, I coud not Suppose them Capable of—I now must give Some Credit to it, as it has made its appearance on Severall of those who last came out of Boston.

A Boston physician said "that he had effectually given the distemper among those people" who were leaving the city. Rumors and suspicions of British efforts to spread disease in the American troops were persistent throughout the war.

Smallpox played a role in the failure of American forces to capture Quebec. It was rumored that General Guy Carleton, British commander in Quebec, sent infected people to the American camp. Thomas Jefferson was convinced the British were responsible for illness in the lines. He later wrote: "I have been informed by officers who were on the spot, and whom I believe myself, that this disorder was sent into our army designedly by the commanding officer in Quebec." After the defeat at Quebec the American troops gathered at Crown Point, where John Adams found their condition deplorable:

Our Army at Crown Point is an object of wretchedness to fill a humane mind with horrour; disgraced, defeated, discontented, diseased, naked, undisciplined, eaten up with vermin; no clothes, beds, blankets, no medicines; no victuals, but salt pork and flour.

In most cases the evidence against the British is strong, if circumstantial, yet some evidence is quite explicit. When the British sent an expedition to Virginia in 1781, General Alexander Leslie revealed to Cornwallis his plan to spread disease among the Americans. He said that "above 700 Negroes are come down the River with the Small Pox," whom he proposed to distribute "about the Rebell Plantations." His motive was clear, but it is not known if he carried out his plan.

It is evident that the British had few qualms about the tactic of infecting the general population as well as the enemy army with smallpox. In 1777 a British officer, Robert Donkin, published in New York a little book entitled Military Collections and Remarks. In a footnote he offered a suggestion:

Dip arrows in matter of smallpox, and twang them at the American rebels, in order to inoculate them; This would sooner disband these stubborn, ignorant, enthusiastic savages, than any other compulsive measures. Such is their dread and fear of that disorder!

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I have little doubt you'll discount the historical proof from hundreds of years ago that the British employed these tactics against not only the Native Americans but the British Traitors to the Crown and Continental Army... because that's generally what righties do these days... ignore historically documented facts -- up to and including hours and hours of evidence documented on film circa 2021, January 6 to be exact -- in favor of the fabricated propaganda that fits their worldview.

Sorry, that old Native-American myth about smallpox being intentionally spread among their ancestors by means of infected blankets is pure nonsense/bullshit.

Consider that one on par with the more modern fiction that the word 'squaw' was coined to mean something equivalent to 'vagina' as an insult to N-A women. Totally bogus.

Spreading infectious diseases was a by-product of 'colonization' (or whatever you choose to call it). The white folks suffered from the same diseases they spread, and it was never planned nor intentional, plus, the natives responded in kind, (Think syphilis)

Not that JFC said that it was, but you are incorrect about it "never" being "planned nor intentional."

It seems to me that you are equating/confusing 'domination' with 'population', are you not? That's classic non sequitur reasoning.

~ C. R. Stucki

Possibly, but no more than you have in your initial post. What is "white" society? The religion is middle eastern, the governmental system is Greek. Popular culture is mix from all over the world. Hell, even capitalism requires some narrowing of it's historical development to purely assign as a western European (not American) invention.

That's what I'm talking about, Bashi. Good form. Your post reminded me of this group of right wingnuts that me and some of my crew had the pleasure (displeasure) to run into. I've mentioned on this blog before how I once came to inadvertently encounter a meeting of the KKK. I had never in my life... up until that point, of course... run into such a large group of imbeciles assembled in one location. While we were being detained at gunpoint by these cretins, there was this large creepy sounding moron going on and on about Black people (not the actual word he used) and Brown people (not the actual word he used), and Jewish people (not the actual word he used). When the oversized bald guy was finished squealing out insults like a stuck pig (I declare, he likely had to have used two king-sized bedsheets to cover the circumference of his girth) he asked them to all bow their heads and pray.

He cleared his throat: "Lord, Jesus..."

I started laughing and could not get control of myself... this was at gunpoint while being asked what I found so funny. When I was finally able to attain my composure, the king-sized bedsheets guy said: "In Jesus' name we pray, amen," and I lost it again.

When we finally got out of there, one of my crew said: "Why in tarnation couldn't you stop laughing? Did you just want to get us injured? What was so dang funny?"

I couldn't help myself. Porky Pig in white sheets and a pointy pillowcase had spent 30 minutes waddling back and forth and going on and on about white superiority to Black people, Brown people, Jewish people (again, not the words he used), and then they all hit their knees and prayed to a Jewish man, invoking his (anglicized) name repeatedly. Amen.

The United States is a nation full of an inordinate amount of people who are too ignorant to understand their butt-ugly ignorance, and I mean that in the nicest way possible... if that's possible. :)

it was never planned nor intentional

Not that I said that it was, but it wouldn't be surprising if it was. There are plenty of Republicans intentionally doing it right now and they know that people of color are disproportionately affected.

Regardless, when the "natives" died off from imported diseases, it helped the "white" immigrants get the upper hand.

I just consulted the Google dictionary for the official definition of "supremacist", and found "One who believes that a particular group is superior, and should therefore dominate society."

Nope! *blows whistle* I respectfully call comma foul. You've inserted a comma before the word "and"... bad form. Comma foul!

You've eliminated the qualifier that the person believes their group is superior and should therefore dominate society.

That raises a couple questions in my mind. First, is there any question as to whether 'whites' do or do not "dominate society"?

Your query is superfluous to the definition of "supremacist" because the definition isn't whether or not the group actually is superior but that they believe they are superior and should therefore dominate. Big difference.

The Google definition of "supremacist" is:

supremacist

noun

a person who believes that a particular group, especially one determined by race, religion, or sex, is superior and should therefore dominate society

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It doesn't say anything about "White," Stucki. That handiwork was all yours.

How could anybody dispute that they, in fact, DO?

Easy. Just put your lips together and blow... like whistling except words come out.

And second, does that fact not constitute some degree of prima fascia evidence that they are indeed "superior"?

No... and it's "prima facie evidence." Hmmmm... I wonder why you're spelling it like "fascist"?

And if you say 'no' to that, then what could be the alternative explanation(s) of how/why they do? If not 'superior', then what? Meaner, greedier, more aggressive, or what?

I'm not quite sure, but I think it's more like pure unadulterated inbred ignorance.

the more likely answer is that european geography made it much more difficult than most other continents on earth for any of the hundreds of independent city-states to conquer and control its neighbors. over time, those geographic limitations produced cultures that were stronger, meaner and more aggressive. and i mean "cultures" both in the sociological sense and the epidemiological sense.

JL

Spreading infectious diseases was a by-product of 'colonization' (or whatever you choose to call it). The white folks suffered from the same diseases they spread, and it was never planned nor intentional, plus, the natives responded in kind, (Think syphilis)

It seems to me that you are equating/confusing 'domination' with 'population', are you not? That's classic non sequitur reasoning.

Possibly, but no more than you have in your initial post. What is "white" society? The religion is middle eastern, the governmental system is Greek. Popular culture is mix from all over the world. Hell, even capitalism requires some narrowing of it's historical development to purely assign as a western European (not American) invention.

So, what do you mean?

In regards to the plan's proposal to replace 100% of America's lead pipes and service lines, I've heard some of them whining that pipes are not infrastructure.

You know what my response is?

The Keystone Cops are still butthurt about their XL pipeline having its permit revoked by President Biden on Day 1 in office. Pipes are only infrastructure to Republicans when there's oil running through them.

the key word in your definition is "should." while it is beyond doubt that certain people of european descent HAVE achieved a superior position in society, through which they dominate, it's an entirely different question whether that position is deserved. it's yet another question whether whatever got them there qualifies as merit, much less whether the category to which they attribute their position has anything whatever to do with said merit.

JL

Meaner, greedier, more aggressive

Yep. That's how the Europeans took over the place in addition to bringing disease with them. Now, it's maintained through lying, cheating, and killing. Oddly enough, spreading deadly disease is still featured.

The Party formerly known as the GOP has ceased to be able to govern. They're incapable. In order to successfully govern, a political organization must have an agenda on which they agree, and the only things on which the GQP seems to agree are:

* taxes bad
* government bad
* Democrats bad - socialism/communism - QAnon cult crazy

If you don't believe that government is inherently bad, elect the GOP and find out; they'll run it off the rails and prove it to you. They've never not proven "government bad" in my lifetime, and Democrats are elected to specifically clean up the inevitable wreckage of the bad government they promised. Every. Single. Time.

Health care plan? So easy. Really terrific. Second to none. We have two plans coming out. Repeal and replace. We haven't failed; we're negotiating. Phenomenal health care. We're signing a full and complete health care plan. Two weeks. Very soon. It's just about completed now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4STwwbRRURI

Infrastructure plan? So easy. Really terrific. Second to none. We have two plans...

It seems to me that you are equating/confusing 'domination' with 'population', are you not? That's classic non sequitur reasoning.

Nice troll there but world wide Asians dominate followed by Indians. So, are you going to toss aside your conservative/libertarian views and jump on the capitalistic communism of the Chinese or convert to Hinduism?

That raises a couple questions in my mind. First, is there any question as to whether 'whites' do or do not "dominate society"? How could anybody dispute that they, in fact, DO? And second, does that fact not constitute some degree of prima fascia evidence that they are indeed "superior"?

And if you say 'no' to that, then what could be the alternative explanation(s) of how/why they do? If not 'superior', then what? Meaner, greedier, more aggressive, or what?

The President’s directive today has been the subject of some confusion. LAST WEEK, he sent to Congress his budget for the fiscal year starting in October 2021, which honors his commitment. For the past few weeks, he has been consulting with his advisors to determine what number of refugees could realistically be admitted to the United States between now and October 1. Given the decimated refugee admissions program we inherited, and burdens on the Office of Refugee Resettlement, his initial goal of 62,500 seems unlikely.

While finalizing that determination, the President was urged to take immediate action to reverse the Trump policy that banned refugees from many key regions, to enable flights from those regions to begin within days; today’s order did that. With that done, we expect the President to set a final, increased refugee cap for the remainder of this fiscal year by May 15.

I have long learned, through endlessly frustrating "news reports" throughout Biden's long career in public service, that it is never a good bet to accept media accounts of what Biden does and why he does it at face value. My radar goes up particularly when his motivation is chalked up to timidity.

What was quick? The realization that there was initial confusion about what Biden said and what motivated him to say it?

Please. Anyone who knows anything about Joe Biden knows that media reports indicating Biden caving to pressure in keeping such a low limit on refugees that Biden has always opposed knows that those media reports were faulty - as per usual, when it comes to Biden, I hasten to add.

I think a reassessment of the MDDOTW award is in order, to be saved for those times when Biden really deserves it.

wow, that really is disappointing. it may be hard to undo 4 years of abuse in 100 days, but it sure seems like this oversight could be corrected a whole lot faster than is currently happening.

JL

Obey, a Wisconsin congressman, had made his share of sausage as chair of the Appropriations Committee. “Remember when David used to say that all the time?” Pelosi asked, still steaming. “‘OK, there’s the group that’s going to go pose for holy pictures. Now let’s legislate over here.’

“And that’s experience,” Pelosi declared.'
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/15/nancy-pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-481704

This is a perfect example of how important it is for voters to pay close attention to the "down ballot" candidates. This could also reiterate how much more the state representatives can affect the voter's day-to-day existence than the Federal government. And it would of course be an opportunity for a Democratic politician to highlight his/her support for meaningful police reform.

All without saying the word "Republican" once.

I read it as "all govt buildings should be Greco-Roman, like all the ones in DC are." And don't forget Brutalism. Lot of anti-Brutalism going around, which is understandable seeing how pug-ugly the old FBI HQ is...

The Trump thing I had forgotten, though, but you're right he did try to weigh in on it. Wasn't that one of his "get an executive order ready for him to sign, he wants to be on teevee today" things? That's how I remember it, anyway...

-CW

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-maintains-trump-low-refugee-cap_n_6079bd18e4b0bc5a3a569c98

But the MDDOTW award stands, sorry.

-CW

Could easily be summed up with my own catchy phrase "want the benefits of the #herdcommunity? Participate in #herdimmunity.

But then again I am one of those liberty hating libs that believes that one should participate in something for the greater good.

T'aint it amazing how many of the right to lifers are also anti-mask and anti-vax? Life sucks when the karma wheel lands on your little wedge...

Whoop! Whoop! Great point about how super freaky some of the MAGA crowd seem to be.

Pass the braised shoulder, please.

But I'd draw a finer line about their odd choice to take a stand on public architecture. Everything they say is not a position AGAINST non-European and FOR European architecture, i.e. it's not about whiteness per se (something you got, a little, with your dig about the Italians suddenly being included as honorary Anglo-Saxons). It's against Modernism - which was invented by Europeans, and which dominates global architecture irrespective of whether the principals are Chinese, Mexican, or German. What the KKK Caucus wants, in line with a Trump policy issued to the shock of the architectural community a few years ago, is a return to pure Classicism as a requirement for public architecture. White? sure. But so is Modernism (Corbu, meet Eero; Ludwig, Walter, glad you could drop by). One might almost congratulate the KKK Caucus for having at least one position that is actually 'Conservative' rather than White Supremacist; that the past it insists is superior to the present is white is not the point, so much, because the present and future that it opposes is also white - but progressive.

As to the Talking Points, a good list and terse, as they should be. I particularly like 2, "Who Cares?"; I'm not at all convinced by 5, "Truly Free Speech". Talk is cheap, and so is speech - I'll believe that corporations are going to stop supporting the Republican Party when I see it, not when I see a feel-good petition and PR campaign or two.

In addition to that rodent, one of the oath keeper ring leaders was a trans woman. She says she has been “treated harshly” and is at “particular risk in custody” because she is transgender. Poor her. Keep her locked up.

The terrorist who was shot dead was married and they had a live-in girlfriend, a throuple.

Republicans have become so super freaky, it's just not surprising that Dems have resorted to cannibalism. Keeping up with the Joneses is hard to do.

I'm confused.

Biden keeps the cap on refugees for now because the system is in such a state that it cannot administer an increase at this time.

So, Biden will raise the number of refugees to 125,000 later this year. Campaign promise more than fulfilled! Right?

Biden is the last political leader on the planet who will buckle into timidity, much less so under so-called pressure from the current incarnation of the GOP.

What am I missing!?

It's a little early in the administration to be taking on the silly Russ Feingold mantra of 'we want what we want when we want it!'

I'm confused. Biden keeps the cap on refugees for now because the system is in such a state that it cannot administer an increase at this time.

So, Biden will raise the number of refugees to 125,000 later this year. Campaign promise more than fulfilled!

Biden is the last political leader on the planet who will buckle into timidity, much less so under so-called pressure from the current incarnation of the GOP.

What am I missing!?