This is quite a sermon
I’m no connoisseur of homilies or sermons, but
Archive of entries posted on January 2017
Nasty mean-spirited neo-Nazi
Why was this Muslim ban put in place so quickly and with no exceptions for green card holders and people already en route or currently traveling abroad? If Vox’s reporting is to be believed, and I know of no reason not to, it’s primarily due to the views of senior political adviser Steve Bannon. …for …
Bye bye, Olympics?
“That man in the White House” may have cost Los Angeles a chance to host the 2024 Olympics and the United States a chance to host the 2026 World Cup in soccer. How? By banning Muslims from entering the country. “But wait,” you say. “It’s only for ninety days and only for seven countries and …
R.I.P. Mr Coffee
Hey, this coffemaker lasted five-plus years before it died! That’s pretty good for this household. I bought it in January of 2012; previous ones lasted less than two years and sometimes as little as one. But why do they die mid-brew? It’s an outrage.
Muslim ban
If it weren’t so tragic for so many people this would be pathetically funny. Just read the details in this CNN tick-tock. Administration officials weren’t immediately sure which countries’ citizens would be barred from entering the United States. The Department of Homeland Security was left making a legal analysis on the order after Trump signed …
Keep them Muslims OUT!
But Trump’s efforts to do so with today’s executive orders may be unconstitutional. If so, it may be due to a single sentence in the majority opinion Justice Alito wrote in the Hobby Lobby case. That was the one in which five justices said privately-held corporations didn’t have to comply with Federal rules they objected …
Internal Resistance to Trump
This is quite something. The vulgar talking yam (© Charlie Pierce) hasn’t yet been in office a full week and already there are more than 50 unofficial Twitter accounts from within the Federal Government dedicated to publishing information in defiance of his team’s edicts that their agencies not communicate with the public. Many appear to …
Trump Mountain
As Trump begins his reign of terror, this seems appropriate for the week:
Life in the right-wing bubble
More “alternative facts!” Yesterday Trump signed a memo freezing Federal hiring. In announcing this, Spicer shed further light on the plan at a press conference Monday, claiming that it “counters the dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years.” Now look at the official Office of Personnel Management numbers for the Obama years: Year …
Grrr, wind
While the rest of the country particularly in the Southeast had much worse damage, we had our own