The sun only hit the wall for an hour today, so it’s a chilly day. Portland is in an inversion, so the air is overly polluted, and it’s setting off my COPD. TGIF!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:55 (average 5:40). To do it, click here. How did you do? If I win, some other puddy tat may have that bird.
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MoveOn Channel):
Appalachian Grandma
Amen Granny! The false god of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the opposite of real authentic Christians, has horns and a pitchfork. RESIST!!
From NY Times: Michael T. Slager, the white police officer whose video-recorded killing of an unarmed black motorist in North Charleston, S.C., starkly illustrated the turmoil over racial bias in American policing, was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison, after the judge in the case said he viewed the shooting as a murder.
The sentence, which was within the range of federal guidelines, was pronounced in Federal District Court in Charleston about seven months after Mr. Slager pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of Walter L. Scott when he shot and killed him in April 2015. The case against Mr. Slager is one of the few instances in which a police officer has been prosecuted for an on-duty shooting.
“We have to get this type of justice, because being a police officer is one of the most powerful jobs in the country, and it should be respected,” L. Chris Stewart, a lawyer for Mr. Scott’s family, said after the hearing, which was punctuated by tears and grief. “But that doesn’t mean you’re above the law. That doesn’t mean you can do as you please.”
This is an all too rare win for justice against deadly abuses of power by the thin blue line. I hope that Slager takes advantage of prison programs to help him correct the criminal thinking that empowers his Republican authoritarianism and Republican Racism. RESIST!!
From Alternet: Steve Curtis, the former chairman of the Colorado GOP, has been found guilty of voter fraud for forging his ex-wife’s signature on a ballot.
As The Denver Post reports, Curtis may face up to three years in prison for forging his ex-wife’s signature on a Colorado ballot in November 2016 after she’d moved to South Carolina in 2015. He was arrested in February after handwriting analysis and DNA testing revealed he’d committed the forgery.
Isn’t it ironic that, contrary to Republican claims, voter fraud virtually never happens, but when it does, the perpetrator are virtually always Republicans? RESIST!!
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6:12 At least it didn’t attack me.
MoveOn – WooHoo! I just bookmarked Isaiah 10 myself a couple of days ago. Preach it, sister! (Amos 8 isn’t half bad either.)
NYT – Darrin Bell did a cartoon about it with the message spelled out by a sky-writing flying pig. Very apt.
AlterNet – Colorado has a Republican Secretary of State and a Republican Attorney General. Some county clerks are Republican, others not so much. I really want to know who I have to thank for catching this, getting on it, and staying on it through to conviction. If it’s a Republican, I may faint.
Cartoon – Yup.
Appalachian Grandma
Wow! BIG kudos for this Appalachian Grandma! Ya gotta have a listen to this Appalachian Grandma come right out speaking what’s on her mind. Only 2:46 minutes long. (CC). Thanks for finding this gem!
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Actually, comparing the Rethuglican Party to the grinch is entirely unfair to the Grinch.
MO: Work it !! Great Grandma!!! Love, love, LOVE her!!! So awesome!!
NYT: I like your statement, Tom, about the prison programs that are available, and to re-think his thought processes of killing an innocent man.
AN: Glad he got caught, and was found guilty.
Cartoon: Word.
We had snow here last night. Enough on the ground to make snowballs/snowmen. Fun night all around w/family too. Hope that you have a good, relaxing evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Appalachian Grandma: Almost brought me to tears! This is a good place to insert the words from Revelations, Chapter 21:27 and chapter 22:15—”Those who lie will not enter the City of God.” And who lies more than the Republican Pseudo-Christians. Borrowing words from the Beach Boys: “Go, granny, go!”
NYT: About time!
Steve Curtis Story: Man! Now we got to find a way to cleanse the voting roles of all them uppity white males!
Sorry to hear about air pollution setting off your COPD, TomCat. Better take it easy before things get worse.
NYT: Good to see justice done and a white cop incarcerated for murder of a black man “for fear of his life”. We haven’t seen many of those and we may have to savor these cases as Drumpf and the Republicans are “restructuring” the courts with his appointment of right wing candidates.
Alternet: There seems to be little or no voter fraud on Democrat’s side of the line, but even de voter fraud on Republican side is few and far between and petty at best, even when coming from Republican chairmen. Nothing compared to the fraud Republican officials commit when “purging voter rolls” or “losing voter rolls”, to name just a few.
Cartoon: The GOP has tried before, but this year it looks like they’re going to get it done.
Thanks, hugs and AMEN to all!