I was on Virtually peaking with Marcy Wheeler last night We talked about Boston, and stuff.
Marcy said something VERY interesting: We have NO IDEA why these two guys did what they did — especially we don’t know that it was not just some kind of Columbine thing. The “terrorism” label is too soon.
A recent comment (deleted) called for killing masses of people. It was political hyperbole, but a bit more serious and it would have been forwarded to law enforcement. Right-wing eliminationist rhetoric is taken seriously.
Beat me by 3 months!
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I’m moving the site to WordPress. It will look funky for a while, and then it will be better.
Happy Holidays from the Johnsons:
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Many thanks to Paddington the little white dog, without whom there would be no card.
Here is last year’s: Holiday Card From The Johnsons
Well I just had surgery yesterday for a “femoral hernia.” Beforehand I was trying to figure out how to let readers know if I died, but I didn’t. So there.
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I write this for AlterNet: 6 Reasons We Need to Protect America from Texas Politicians | Alternet
It looks like the influence of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing nutcase-creation machine might have tipped Texas Republicans over the edge and into dangerous territory. Their politicians are flying right off the rails. Is it time to think about setting up border checkpoints around Texas to protect ourselves? Even better, maybe we should just build a big fence around the state to keep their elected officials in.
Today is this blog’s 10th anniversary!
Go here, start at the bottom, scroll up. July, 2002.
Ten years ago we were still reeling from the Bush v Gore Supreme Court decision appointing Bush President, where they ruled that allowing the counting of all of the votes would “threaten irreparable harm” to George Bush.
It was the blogs that showed people that there were lots of other people who were upset, who saw things going on that were not right, the the national media and the elite pundits were full of shit, that people were not alone!