It’s TGIF after a very tough week for many of us, emotionally and otherwise. Anybody who thought armed guys marching around with Nazi, Rebel and other flags of hatred would be content with merely exercising their free speech on the public commons discovered otherwise. The resistance is targeted. There will be more victims. But as we know too well, it’s not just Nazis who promote, condone and benefit from white supremacy. Defeating them will take a lot more than getting that man squatting in the White House back into the private sector or a high security cell-block.
However, we all need a break. So here’s a brief respite, a window into something you probably wish you were outdoors doing:
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QUOTATION
"What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. This is not a modernization of the Act. This is a euthanization of the Act."
~Jay Inslee, on a bill updating the ESA (September 29, 2005)
TWEET OF THE DAY
His mind was lost a long time ago. But his fat bank account nonetheless remains intact.
BLAST FROM THE PAST
At Daily Kos on this date in 2004—Nebraska GOoPer abandons Bush on war:
The outgoing congressman of Nebraska's 1st CD, Republican Doug Bereuter, is apologizing to constituents for his war vote. In a dramatic departure from the Bush administration, Republican Rep. Doug Bereuter says he now believes the U.S. military assault on Iraq was unjustified.
"I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action," Bereuter wrote in a letter to constituents in the final days of his congressional career
"Knowing now what I know about the reliance on the tenuous or insufficiently corroborated intelligence used to conclude that Saddam maintained a substantial WMD (weapons of mass destruction) arsenal, I believe that launching the pre-emptive military action was not justified."
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Ivanka’s got nothing. What’s up with these Civil War statues? History, or idolatry? Or worse? Robert E. Lee actually sucked. Trump’s tiny hands were never clean on Civil War history. The walls close in on the White House. Perhaps a parting shot at Bannon?
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