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Monthly Archives: March 2019
The right to become a one-man army
From The New York Times: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand on Thursday announced a national ban on all military-style semiautomatic weapons, all high-capacity ammunition magazines and all parts that allow weapons to be modified into the kinds of … Continue reading
Posted in gun nuts, humor, mainstream media
Tagged AR-15, Assault weapons, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand, NRA, Parkland, Sandy Foot, Virginia Tech
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D.C. is a cesspool, not a swamp
Swamp Rabbit was reading from a newspaper column by a guy who dissed the Trump administration for hesitating to ground all of Boeing’s 737 Max airliners, even though two airplanes of this type have crashed and burned in the past … Continue reading
Posted in environmentalism, humor, mainstream media, Politics
Tagged Boeing, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, lobbyists, Max 747s, the swamp, Washington D.C.
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Bribery can get you into top schools. (This is news?)
The mainstream media is obsessed this week with parents who got their under-qualified kids into prestigious colleges by using a fixer who funneled bribes to “certain college officials,” as Alia Wong of The Atlantic put it before stating the obvious: … Continue reading
Re Murdoch and Trump: Who’s zoomin’ who?
Swamp Rabbit was replacing a plank on the front porch of my shack while I read aloud from Jane Mayer’s comprehensive takedown of Fox News: …As the President has been beset by scandals, congressional hearings, and even talk of impeachment, … Continue reading
Posted in humor, mainstream media, movies
Tagged Charles Foster Kane, Donald Trump, Fox News, Jane Mayer, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, useful idiot
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