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SADLY, NO!SHORTER ENTIRE GOP “ESTABLISHMENTIN OTHER NEWSORANGEISTHENEWBLACKDAVID BROOKS Via Paul Campos at LGM, we read that the NYT’s Peter Baker has decided it’s not worth bickering about who killed who:. While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that each person or party entertains only their own preferred variant, resisting contrary information. SADLY, NO! » MAMA, DON’T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE ABOVE, David Harsanyi, JD, LLM (Swampitucky School of Law, ’81, ’84) Shorter David Harsanyi, Beck’s Blazing Blog of Blather Daddy Bloomberg on Freedom If the government has the po SADLY, NO! » SEARCH RESULTS » SOCIALISM It’s such a shame that EU countries can’t enjoy the same standard of living that we do here in.what’s that? UK standard of living rises above that in America for the first time in a century For the first time in more than 100 years, British living standards have risen above those of Americans, a SADLY, NO! » “DADDY’S GIRL!” By popular demand, here is my write-up of “Daddy’s Girl,” an essay about “courtship and fathers’ rights” by Sarah Faith Schlissel.. WARNING: Children, pregnant women, and people with heart conditions should not attempt to read “Daddy’s Girl.”Sadly, No! is not responsible for any severe brain injuries that you incur while slamming your head on your keyboard. SADLY, NO! » AND NOW A WORD FROM BENJAMIN SHAPIRO LEGAL Shorter Ben Shapiro: Ben Shapiro, Human Wingnuts Online: If You Disagree With Obama, Are You Anti-American? It is only un-American to criticize a Republican President. In fact, it SADLY, NO! » MEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLD… This is a take so hot, it’s officially 2 Hot 2 Touch, by one Douglas Heye:. Trump is uniquely positioned to cut a deal to prevent school shootings Wait, don’t leave — that’s SADLY, NO! » KEEP FUCKING THAT CHICKEN… This blog, The Poor Man (RIP) and The Rude Pundit (Lee’s still in business!) kept me sane through the darkest W days, when it seemed obvious to me that the “wrecking all things virtuous and true” (REM) was going to proceed towards its logical, inevitable conclusion, and “the grownups” either didn’t care or were actively supporting the plundering. SADLY, NO! » WACKIPEDIA AND THE LIMITS OF “NEW MEDIA” Via Kevin Drum, we have an example of why the “New Media” can be a very, very dangerous place:. A false Wikipedia ‘biography’ By John Seigenthaler “John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960’s. SADLY, NO! » THIS IS GONNA BE FUNNY Anti-Defamation League v.s. Evangelical Christians- SMACKDOWN: Warning that the Evangelical right has made alarming gains in social and political influence, a leading Jewish church-state watchdog is calling for a tougher and more unified Jewish response. SADLY, NO! » JUST ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER So I was reading the news recently and it turns out that Obama had been using the entire US security apparatus to spy on every single person in the US (or maybe beyond as well, who knows?). Which i SADLY, NO!SHORTER ENTIRE GOP “ESTABLISHMENTIN OTHER NEWSORANGEISTHENEWBLACKDAVID BROOKS Via Paul Campos at LGM, we read that the NYT’s Peter Baker has decided it’s not worth bickering about who killed who:. While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that each person or party entertains only their own preferred variant, resisting contrary information. SADLY, NO! » MAMA, DON’T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE ABOVE, David Harsanyi, JD, LLM (Swampitucky School of Law, ’81, ’84) Shorter David Harsanyi, Beck’s Blazing Blog of Blather Daddy Bloomberg on Freedom If the government has the po SADLY, NO! » SEARCH RESULTS » SOCIALISM It’s such a shame that EU countries can’t enjoy the same standard of living that we do here in.what’s that? UK standard of living rises above that in America for the first time in a century For the first time in more than 100 years, British living standards have risen above those of Americans, a SADLY, NO! » “DADDY’S GIRL!” By popular demand, here is my write-up of “Daddy’s Girl,” an essay about “courtship and fathers’ rights” by Sarah Faith Schlissel.. WARNING: Children, pregnant women, and people with heart conditions should not attempt to read “Daddy’s Girl.”Sadly, No! is not responsible for any severe brain injuries that you incur while slamming your head on your keyboard. SADLY, NO! » AND NOW A WORD FROM BENJAMIN SHAPIRO LEGAL Shorter Ben Shapiro: Ben Shapiro, Human Wingnuts Online: If You Disagree With Obama, Are You Anti-American? It is only un-American to criticize a Republican President. In fact, it SADLY, NO! » MEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLD… This is a take so hot, it’s officially 2 Hot 2 Touch, by one Douglas Heye:. Trump is uniquely positioned to cut a deal to prevent school shootings Wait, don’t leave — that’s SADLY, NO! » KEEP FUCKING THAT CHICKEN… This blog, The Poor Man (RIP) and The Rude Pundit (Lee’s still in business!) kept me sane through the darkest W days, when it seemed obvious to me that the “wrecking all things virtuous and true” (REM) was going to proceed towards its logical, inevitable conclusion, and “the grownups” either didn’t care or were actively supporting the plundering. SADLY, NO! » WACKIPEDIA AND THE LIMITS OF “NEW MEDIA” Via Kevin Drum, we have an example of why the “New Media” can be a very, very dangerous place:. A false Wikipedia ‘biography’ By John Seigenthaler “John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960’s. SADLY, NO! » THIS IS GONNA BE FUNNY Anti-Defamation League v.s. Evangelical Christians- SMACKDOWN: Warning that the Evangelical right has made alarming gains in social and political influence, a leading Jewish church-state watchdog is calling for a tougher and more unified Jewish response. SADLY, NO! » JUST ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER So I was reading the news recently and it turns out that Obama had been using the entire US security apparatus to spy on every single person in the US (or maybe beyond as well, who knows?). Which i SADLY, NO! » “DADDY’S GIRL!” By popular demand, here is my write-up of “Daddy’s Girl,” an essay about “courtship and fathers’ rights” by Sarah Faith Schlissel.. WARNING: Children, pregnant women, and people with heart conditions should not attempt to read “Daddy’s Girl.”Sadly, No! is not responsible for any severe brain injuries that you incur while slamming your head on your keyboard. SADLY, NO! » QUITE A WEEK OR ALARMING VECTORS The latest from TNC is frigging righteous. I wish he had written it earlier, the accusations that whichever minority group clamoring for basic human dignity or some outspoken SJWs or whatever is “why Trump won” have died down – so there’s less opportunity to slap idiots in the face with this.

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No one will be surprised that things have been interesting over at the shrieking harpy’s anti-Muslim klaven lately. Particularly now that it is clear that the Norwegian madman was influenced by extremist anti-Muslim lunatics like Pam and her ilk at Brussels Journal, Gates

of

SADLY, NO! » JIM RUTZ TUESDAY: “HOW PRAYER VANQUISHED REAL Because you can never have enough Jim Rutz, here’s his latest column, called “From Basket Case to Boomtown Without a Dime of Aid” (and surprisingly, the title is not a reference to Jim’s mental state):. One of the worst places in the world was Kiambu, Kenya, a suburban district nine miles north of the capital, Nairobi. “For years, their slogan was ‘Kiambu: We’re Still Better Than

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Mark Steyn dutifully quotes Steve Forbes; both demand that the Obama Administration copy the Irish government’s corporate tax scheme which they allege is totally awesome. Or else: The growing gap between US corporate rates and other developed nations is a massive disincentivization for real human beings to start and grow a business

here.

SADLY, NO! » IT’S A HOT TAKE, EXCEPT IT’S COLD AND DOESN’T We now know he picked Kamala Harris, which is fine; there’s no surprises there. (Welcome back btw) Worth noting that the VP position wasn’t necessarily to succeed the president — that tradition was not established until late in the game (John Tyler when William Henry Harrison died in 1841) and the succession wasn’t encoded into law until Truman, who did without a VP entirely for his SADLY, NO! » WACKIPEDIA AND THE LIMITS OF “NEW MEDIA” Via Kevin Drum, we have an example of why the “New Media” can be a very, very dangerous place:. A false Wikipedia ‘biography’ By John Seigenthaler “John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960’s. SADLY, NO! » IS MARIE STILL STUPID? HAPPILY, YES Here’s a choice bit from Marie’s latest stinkbomb:. Congressman Murtha, a septuagenarian with a penchant for crying in public these days, told “Nightline” recently: SADLY, NO! » COACH DAVE UPDATE Yes, it’s true.It’s our own Coach Dave.. A local evangelist spoke with 10TV Thursday night after his son was arrested for possessing child pornography. Zachary Daubenmire, recently hired to teach special education at Licking Heights High School, was out on bond Thursday after admitting to downloading video of young girls having sex with adult men onto a family computer.

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Brad, you’re making the common mistake of believing that wingnuts respond to reason. Here’s what they would say in response: “Bush is a good Christian man. SADLY, NO!SHORTER ENTIRE GOP “ESTABLISHMENTSEB IS BACKMEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLDEUROPEAN APOCALYPSE Via Paul Campos at LGM, we read that the NYT’s Peter Baker has decided it’s not worth bickering about who killed who:. While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that each person or party entertains only their own preferred variant, resisting contrary information. SADLY, NO! » MEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLD… Meanwhile in bizarro world. This is a take so hot, it’s officially 2 Hot 2 Touch, by one Douglas Heye:. Trump is uniquely positioned to cut a deal to prevent school shootings. Wait, don’t leave — that’s just the headline. With yet another tragic mass shooting in the books, we’ve fallen back into a familiar, almost comfortable place SADLY, NO! » IT’S A HOT TAKE, EXCEPT IT’S COLD AND DOESN’T First: history isn’t math, so who gives a shit. Second — two of those five served as presidents after having been elected, so whether Biden’s VP pick provides a first-class, high-quality candidate for later seems like a very unimportant consideration. Besides, the review of the 5 VPs to become Ps is what one would expect from a hot take SADLY, NO! » AMAZING DONALD Archive for the ‘Amazing Donald’ Category. « Older Entries . 7 SADLY, NO! » KEEP FUCKING THAT CHICKEN… Keep fucking that chicken. Posted on January 6th, 2018 by Sadly No. Wow – a 4-month gap between posts is likely a new record for this humble blog. That is not going to be good for business. Indeed, that is not going to be good for anyone. It would be quite an understatement to say that I care a great deal about this blog. SADLY, NO! » 2003 » NOVEMBER President Convicted Embezzler Chalabi is on the case!. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment » « Older Entries SADLY, NO! » 2004 » MAY Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for May, 2004 SADLY, NO! » 2005 » SEPTEMBER Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for September, 2005 SADLY, NO! » 2003 » AUGUST Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Looking for 9th circle of

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Via Paul Campos at LGM, we read that the NYT’s Peter Baker has decided it’s not worth bickering about who killed who: While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that each person or party entertains only SADLY, NO!SHORTER ENTIRE GOP “ESTABLISHMENTSEB IS BACKMEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLDEUROPEAN APOCALYPSE Via Paul Campos at LGM, we read that the NYT’s Peter Baker has decided it’s not worth bickering about who killed who:. While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that each person or party entertains only their own preferred variant, resisting contrary information. SADLY, NO! » MEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLD… Meanwhile in bizarro world. This is a take so hot, it’s officially 2 Hot 2 Touch, by one Douglas Heye:. Trump is uniquely positioned to cut a deal to prevent school shootings. Wait, don’t leave — that’s just the headline. With yet another tragic mass shooting in the books, we’ve fallen back into a familiar, almost comfortable place SADLY, NO! » IT’S A HOT TAKE, EXCEPT IT’S COLD AND DOESN’T First: history isn’t math, so who gives a shit. Second — two of those five served as presidents after having been elected, so whether Biden’s VP pick provides a first-class, high-quality candidate for later seems like a very unimportant consideration. Besides, the review of the 5 VPs to become Ps is what one would expect from a hot take SADLY, NO! » AMAZING DONALD Archive for the ‘Amazing Donald’ Category. « Older Entries . 7 SADLY, NO! » KEEP FUCKING THAT CHICKEN… Keep fucking that chicken. Posted on January 6th, 2018 by Sadly No. Wow – a 4-month gap between posts is likely a new record for this humble blog. That is not going to be good for business. Indeed, that is not going to be good for anyone. It would be quite an understatement to say that I care a great deal about this blog. SADLY, NO! » 2003 » NOVEMBER President Convicted Embezzler Chalabi is on the case!. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment » « Older Entries SADLY, NO! » 2004 » MAY Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for May, 2004 SADLY, NO! » 2005 » SEPTEMBER Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for September, 2005 SADLY, NO! » 2003 » AUGUST Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Looking for 9th circle of

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SADLY, NO! » UNCATEGORIZED Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category SADLY, NO! » WELL, KAREN, UNOFFICIALLY, WE CAN CALL Well, Karen, unofficially, we can call anything whatever we want*. Posted on November 15th, 2018 by Sadly No. Because even when it’s about small, inane stuff there’s never any reason not to spout factually inaccurate nonsense. The short-fingered vulgarian says: SADLY, NO! » KEEP FUCKING THAT CHICKEN… Keep fucking that chicken. Posted on January 6th, 2018 by Sadly No. Wow – a 4-month gap between posts is likely a new record for this humble blog. That is not going to be good for business. Indeed, that is not going to be good for anyone. It would be quite an understatement to say that I care a great deal about this blog. SADLY, NO! » MAMA, DON’T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Libertarians. ABOVE, David Harsanyi, JD, LLM (Swampitucky School of Law, ’81, ’84) If the government has the power to suggest voluntary sodium guidelines for restaurants, it also has the right to tell fags that they are not allowed to get married. ‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies

and

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SADLY, NO! » 2008 » MAY When Two Neptunes Appear In The Sky, It Is A Sure Sign That A Midget In Glasses Is Being Born SADLY, NO! » JUST ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER So I was reading the news recently and it turns out that Obama had been using the entire US security apparatus to spy on every single person in the US (or maybe beyond as well, who knows?). Which i SADLY, NO! » 2004 » DECEMBER Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for December, 2004 SADLY, NO! » 2004 » NOVEMBER Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for November, 2004 SADLY, NO!SHORTER ENTIRE GOP “ESTABLISHMENTSEB IS BACKMEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLDEUROPEAN APOCALYPSE Via Paul Campos at LGM, we read that the NYT’s Peter Baker has decided it’s not worth bickering about who killed who:. While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that each person or party entertains only their own preferred variant, resisting contrary information. SADLY, NO! » MEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLD… Meanwhile in bizarro world. This is a take so hot, it’s officially 2 Hot 2 Touch, by one Douglas Heye:. Trump is uniquely positioned to cut a deal to prevent school shootings. Wait, don’t leave — that’s just the headline. With yet another tragic mass shooting in the books, we’ve fallen back into a familiar, almost comfortable place SADLY, NO! » IT’S A HOT TAKE, EXCEPT IT’S COLD AND DOESN’T First: history isn’t math, so who gives a shit. Second — two of those five served as presidents after having been elected, so whether Biden’s VP pick provides a first-class, high-quality candidate for later seems like a very unimportant consideration. Besides, the review of the 5 VPs to become Ps is what one would expect from a hot take SADLY, NO! » AMAZING DONALD Archive for the ‘Amazing Donald’ Category. « Older Entries . 7 SADLY, NO! » KEEP FUCKING THAT CHICKEN… Keep fucking that chicken. Posted on January 6th, 2018 by Sadly No. Wow – a 4-month gap between posts is likely a new record for this humble blog. That is not going to be good for business. Indeed, that is not going to be good for anyone. It would be quite an understatement to say that I care a great deal about this blog. SADLY, NO! » 2003 » NOVEMBER President Convicted Embezzler Chalabi is on the case!. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment » « Older Entries SADLY, NO! » 2004 » MAY Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for May, 2004 SADLY, NO! » 2005 » SEPTEMBER Sadly, No! I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it. Home . Archive for September, 2005 SADLY, NO! » 2003 » AUGUST Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Looking for 9th circle of

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states:

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I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION AND I WON'T RESPOND TO IT.

* Home

AND IN THIS CORNER, WE HAVE… Posted on December 10th, 2019 by Sadly No Via Paul Campos at LGM

,

we read that the NYT’s Peter Baker has decided it’s not worth bickering about who killed who: > While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s > capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become > axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that each person or > party entertains only their own preferred variant, resisting > contrary information. In one corner, Baker identifies the following culprits: * Mr. Trump, whose myriad false statements and public lies is the Rorschach test of truth… * With the help of social media, friendly news outlets and congressional Republicans willing to follow his lead… * The report debunked Mr. Trump’s conspiracy theories about the origins of the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election * Mr. Trump’s insistence that he did nothing wrong has forced at least some Republicans to accept and promote his account even when it contrasts with available evidence. * A Republican lawyer presenting the case to the committee on Monday went so far as to say that the evidence did not show that Mr. Trump asked Ukraine’s president to investigate former Vice President

Joseph R. Biden Jr.

* Richard M. Nixon

* The culture of dishonesty has resulted in multiple people once in inner circle pleading guilty or being convicted of lying

to the authorities

* onetime national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn * former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen * several campaign aides * sometime adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. * Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, made clear during testimony before Congress in September that he felt perfectly free to lie on television In the other corner, we have:

* Lyndon B. Johnson

* Bill Clinton the first president ever found by a court to have testified falsely under oath

and:

* Mr. Trump, who regularly accuses critics of whatever they have accused him of, has taken to calling the congressman “Shifty Schiff” and likewise complains that the parody he gave of Mr. Trump’s July 25 call to make a point was dishonest EVEN THOUGH MR. SCHIFF MADE CLEAR IT WAS NOT A VERBATIM RENDERING. So, a Democratic president who left office 50 years ago lied, and Bill Clinton lied about sexual relations with that woman. In addition, a Democratic congressman has been accused by liars of lying, though no actual evidence is presented to support that claim. I know all I can conclude is that clearly both sides do it, so it makes sense that the “expert” quoted to support this narrative is “Ben Domenech, the founder of The Federalist, a conservative news site.” That shit makes a lot of sense. Posted in Amazing Donald

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WELL, KAREN, UNOFFICIALLY, WE CAN CALL ANYTHING WHATEVER WE WANT…* Posted on November 15th, 2018 by Sadly No Because even when it’s about small, inane stuff there’s never any reason not to spout factually inaccurate nonsense. The short-fingered

vulgarian says:

> Trump continued, “Remember how long it took to get Florida? But I > had, fortunately, enough votes, and they were sitting there waiting. > The panhandle was so devastating to ‘Crooked Hillary’ — > that thing came in, then all of a sudden Broward came in. And I won > by, you know, I won by a lot of votes. I call it four Yankee

> stadiums.”

Trump won Florida by 119,770 votes

.

Yankee Stadium’s capacity (football) is 54,251

.

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THE RIGHT WING EMBRACE OF AUTHORITARIANISM… Posted on March 31st, 2018 by Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™ I mean it is not a new development, and attempts have been made to obfuscate that tender mercy, but nonetheless we are watching it unfold before us with a rapidity and force that should shiver any logistical

timbers…

It would seem that we have been more than a bit alarmed by the developments of the ridiculousness on display, as well as a bit afeared at what has become of this land we inhabit. In any event, for those that enjoy the continuation of this space, thank you for putting up with the decline…. I am no longer able to laugh about this shit…I would rather smoke reefer and contemplate…. Posted in Uncategorized

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MEANWHILE IN BIZARRO WORLD… Posted on February 17th, 2018 by Sadly No This is a take so hot, it’s officially 2 Hot 2 Touch

,

by one Douglas Heye:. > Trump is uniquely positioned to cut a deal to prevent school

> shootings

Wait, don’t leave — that’s just the headline. > With yet another tragic mass shooting in the books, we’ve fallen > back into a familiar, almost comfortable place in Washington. Both > sides, especially on social media, go into their respective corners > and essentially do not come out. Both sides do it — you know this is gonna be good. > On the Republican side, we tend to offer thoughts and prayers and > not much else. On the Democratic side, there are immediate > calls for gun control, while mocking any Republican who offers > thoughts and prayers as not only insufficient, but castigating > anyone who does not support the Democratic agenda on gun control as > being ultimately complicit in an attack. Much of the media echoes

> the sentiment.

So in these debates, the Republicans want to do nothing, while the Democrats want to do something and point out that Republicans are assholes for refusing to do anything. So clearly both sides are responsible for nothing getting done. The side that does nothing, and the side that wants to do something and calls out the other side for being assholes. Anyway — please do go on: > I was always struck by the reaction of colleagues whenever the 2007 > Virginia Tech shooting was mentioned. Over time, I learned > that it was a recognition of the work of so many in the > immediate aftermath and how the government response to the Virginia > Tech shooting was an example of how to get it right. Getting it right is a sliding scale it turns out, because a mere 3 sentences later we’re told: > Ten years, later, it’s clear these actions — correct though they > were — are not enough. You think? These actions, meaning the NICS Improvement Amendments Act

of 2007

,

are those about which the NRA wrote at the time

:

> In several ways this bill is better for gun owners than current law. So clearly it had to be a really meaningful and impactful measure designed to address gun violence. So what should we do? > Many activists seem to mistakenly think that gun control is the only > solution for immediate change. Indeed, we can take reasonable, > proactive steps to help prevent future attacks, while protecting our > Second Amendment rights. These need not be mutually exclusive. Also, these need not be specified in any meaningful or even meaningless way. If you pretend to care about doing something, it will be done. But let’s get back to the headline — why and how is Trump uniquely positioned to cut a deal to prevent school shootings? Behold the entirety of the argument put forward. > But at a time when loud voices often rule the day, more calm voices, > working together to solve this and other challenges surely is a > better solution. Perhaps paradoxically, this creates a unique > opportunity for President Trump to bridge this divide. He has a > credibility with his base that other Republicans do not. He is the > only person positioned to garner support for a deal that will > simultaneously protect public safety and the Second Amendment. So… the fact that we need calm voices means Trump has a unique opportunity to do something (what?), because his street cred with the Republican base is unparalleled. I can’t see any faults in this logic. I think Douglas should just go back to offer prayers, because it will take a miracle for President “I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with

”

to “come up” with something. Posted in Amazing Donald

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JUST ONE DAMNED THING AFTER ANOTHER Posted on January 27th, 2018 by Sadly No So I was reading the news recently and it turns out that Obama had been using the entire US security apparatus to spy on every single person in the US (or maybe beyond as well, who knows?). Which is of course truly shocking and apparently means that Obama is going to jail — for good measure restrained like Dr. Lecter

.

Anyway — since President Youppi

*

has been in office for a year which has prompted many contributions to the Trump assessment genre that, like the President, is driven first and foremost by hyperbole so inane it makes it hard to keep a straight face when reading it. (And really impossible to know if the writer is deranged or thinks everyone else is). Brent Smith

,

the “Common Constitutionalist ” and Walter from The Big

Lebowski thus

writes:

> TRUMP GETS MORE DONE IN 1 YEAR THAN MOST DO IN 4 Which I guess is par for the course though I do wonder why they didn’t just publishing these columns earlier, as in > TRUMP GOT MORE DONE ON HIS FIRST DAY THAN ALL PRESIDENTS COMBINED! Too late for that now, sadly. As for Brent, it turns out he’s very excited because it doesn’t matter how much you cut taxes on the wealthy, it’s only fun if you make life even more difficult for poor

people:

> And here we go again, with yet another example of conservative > policy. With little fanfare, the Trump administration now will allow > states to require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work for their

> benefits.

Besides a tax cut and the North and South Korea getting along better (!), Brent doesn’t actually list other accomplishments so I was left rather disappointed and left with no other choice than googling Trump

accomplishments

for which the first result comes from TownHall** (because of course). And lo and behold the list of the 7 greatest accomplishments! * Moving The American Embassy To Jerusalem * Improving The Economy * Hurting NFL Attendance * Pulling Out Of The Trans-Pacific Partnership * Trump’s Tax Plan Delivered

* Decimating ISIS

* Nominating Judges

Hurting NFL attendance is a of President Youppi accomplishment? Do they know Colin Kaepernick isn’t playing anymore? * I know — that’s what I’ve called Brent Bozell many times in the past but his hair is losing some of its orange so it’s time to

pass the torch.

** Of course Google is liberal and thus bad, but the first result is TownHall, so it can’t be Google’s fault that the first result is

garbage, can it?

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KEEP FUCKING THAT CHICKEN… Posted on January 6th, 2018 by Sadly No Wow – a 4-month gap between posts is likely a new record for this humble blog. That is not going to be good for business. Indeed, that is not going to be good for anyone. It would be quite an understatement to say that I care a great deal about this blog. Going by blogspot

,

the first post dates back to July 2003 — when I was but a young man (who didn’t know what he wanted to be). The times offered fertile grounds for the Sadly, No! variety of blogging, at a time when there wasn’t much of it (blogging that is — inane commentary predates this blog and the internet). Bush II was a terrible president, and those who supported him and were around in those days, whether they fancied themselves honest intellectuals (David Frum), always wrong timepieces (Bill Kristol), plain crazy alternate reality would-be economists (Donald Luskin), or those who decided that throwing away their reputation in the service of incompetent power (Colin Powell, Tony Blair), deserved every profanity-filled blog post ever written. The army of court jesters that also appeared (Justin Darr and Amber Pawlik come to mind) was the icing on the cake. So from that day on, and thanks to a large number of extremely funny and great writers over the years, the blog continued. Eventually, as student life became working life, and as working life became married life, and married life became father of 1 and then father of 2 life, I had to, as we say at work, prioritize. So that over the last few years 99% of my contribution has been paying the bills. (Granted the traffic no longer requires much bandwidth, but a database that comprises over 800K comments and over 9,000 posts does limit low-cost options). Fact checking Donald Trump is probably most like explaining gravity

to a chicken

.

Neither one cares, and even if you did find the best way of explaining it ever, it wouldn’t make a difference. Some Republican officials may pretend to be shocked at Trump’s behavior, but corporations and rich folks can never have enough money so unless Trump starts pushing for an increase to the minimum wage he need not worry. As for the Fox News viewers contingent, I can’t decide if they believe everything Trump says, or if they are simply happy every one of his pronouncements is a big fat “fuck you” to people they don’t like (which is the overwhelming majority of Americans at this point). So as much as Trump and his enablers can never get enough ridicule, it’s been harder to find the time and energy to contribute. A lot of really awesome blogs continue to be around — and while no one may care what I think, I don’t see how one gets by not reading LGM , No More Mister Nice Blog

, or alicublog

. Many of the blogs I read daily many moons ago are still around, though I often wonder why. When things have reached a point where your blog consists exclusively of open threads, daily reminders that self-driving cars are a stupid idea, and posts that would have been interesting had they gone on for more than 3 sentences rather than limiting themselves to Twitter-length (because why not I guess?), then why bother at all? At various times over my years of Sadly, No! neglect I’ve come back to say I am back — only to disappear again. So my aim for this first 2018 post is simply to say hello. Let’s see what happens. Posted in Amazing Donald

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APOLOGIES FOR THE DELAY Posted on September 28th, 2017 by Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™ Which for all intents and purposes is an apology for the fact that I got nothing, and have been looking at that empty bucket for nigh on three weeks hoping that one morning I will awake and find within sustenance or inspiration, but each day has ended in a failure to see the worthiness in an attempt to find a gag writhing within the daily assault on the body politic, both currently occupying the same bag and being set upon by cloven hooved and cliven brained reprobates for whom an entire new lexicon is going to have to be established to deal accurately with the new norms that are being committed to the cultural asylum on a daily basis, so that some new, coarser, and more agregious ones can take their place on the morrow. Simply keeping up with the Madness is nearly a full time job, and as I may have mentioned It is my belief that one of my favored vectors of humor is hanging by a thread which is all I will say about that for fear of contributing…. So in any event, tapping back into some Sadly Lore and to justify this exposition…It is now finished and if you so choose, you may now comment upon a thread about nothing… Posted in Uncategorized

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QUITE A WEEK OR ALARMING VECTORS Posted on August 26th, 2017 by Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™ It is not every damn week that one gets to witness a near total eclipse of the freaking sun and watch a storm be upgraded from tropical to category III hurricane headed straight for the Texas coast within the very same week, and the fact that some will get to experience both the totality of eclipse and eyewall of Hurricane from the safety of their own backyard is simply fascinating to me…I mean, what the fuck are the odds? I am not a betting man per se, but I do appreciate probability, the confluence of unrelated events, the evangelical nuttiness of Texas, and cannot help but wonder a couple of things…I have had to wonder how quickly the Fundigelical Swiss accounts have been fattening during the first year of the Victory of the TurDumpo and any number of cynical promises he might fullfill for them, such as (for interest and shits@grins™) the second coming of jeebus xmas, the whole revelations endgame fantasy baseball shootin arn match™ among a holee effing hosts of other grifting opportunities all the while returning Amercia to her antebellum roots after draping his cock and balls fishing tackle upon every doornkob in the place, you know, because he can…I would apologize for sharing these thoughts brief though they are, but as a wise man once stated, misery loves

company…

Anyway for those of you who might be in the path of harms way, I hope that you have battened down the hatches gotten the hell out of the way and are otherwise safe and secure, because shit is going to get real…And I will have to admit that I am just a bit jealous, because I am a weather nerd and would like to actually see one of those…I am always jealous of that one weatherchannel dude who films from the beach as the eye crosses overhead… Anyhow, landfall has been made: https://icons.wxug.com/data/weather-maps/radar/united-states/united-states-current-radar.gif Stay safe gulf coast Texans… Posted in Uncategorized

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ECLIPSE IS A COMING

Posted on July 31st, 2017 by Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™ In 22 days some of us in these United States will get to observe one of Natures most amazing displays, a total eclipse of the sun. Now the event itself happens with a surprising amount of frequency

But they pop up in

random parts of the world and are only visible in a narrow band along the path cut by the shadow of the moon as it crosses between planet and star…For those of us not within that narrow band we will be able to observe a partial eclipse, and those are very cool as well…but this one is as close as I been to one, and 94% of the sun blocked will be impressive but this being possibly the first thing I ever put on my bucket list, before I ever knew such a thing existed, compels me to conspire to make an attempt to make it to totality. And I would suggest that any of you reading this make a similar attempt if you

are able…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse Posted in Uncategorized

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THE YOUNG LADY GREY

Posted on July 28th, 2017 by Provider_UNE_AndPlayersToBeHatedLater™

That

is the adorableness that is the kitten, now, young lady cat that I rescued a few months ago, and I realized that I had not yet posted a shot online….At least not this morning…So here we go… Posted in Uncategorized

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