Donald Trump on renaming U.S. military bases originally named for Confederate military figures.
There’s something inherently un-American about a U.S. military base named after someone who moved Heaven and Earth to fight against the United States.
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Worst Quote of the Week – June 12, 2020
“This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about Black lives – and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will.”
– Tucker Carlson, railing against the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Best Quote of the Week – June 12, 2020
“We’re not the country of just the president, we have a Congress, we have a Supreme Court, but, most of all, we have the people of the United States, the ones who vote. The ones who vote him in and the ones who vote him out. I couldn’t vote for him in 2016. I certainly cannot in any way support President Trump this year.”
– Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stating he will vote for Joe Biden in November because President Donald Trump has “drifted away” from the Constitution, is a chronic liar and is “dangerous to our country.”
Image: Ron Sherr
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Photo of the Week – June 5, 2020
President Trump holding a Bible outside St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 1 – looking much like he holds up a USD 100 bill, when he wants a woman’s p***y.
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Worst Quote of the Week – June 5, 2020
“I did know that following the president’s remarks on Monday evening that many of us were going to join President Trump and review the damage in Lafayette Park and at St John’s Episcopal Church. What I was not aware of was exactly where we were going when I arrived at the church and what the plans were once we got there.
– U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, revealing he was aware of a plan to visit a Washington, D.C., church – where President Donald Trump posed for photos displaying a Bible – but that he didn’t know exactly what would happen when they arrived.
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Best Quote of the Week – June 5, 2020
“Please, if you don’t have something constructive to say, keep your mouth shut.”
– Art Acevedo, Houston police chief, in response to Donald Trump’s advice to state governors to “dominate” people protesting the recent shooting death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
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Preparing for the Next Pandemic
This is an excellent essay perspective on the current COVID-19 crisis from writer Charles Ray.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana – 1905
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” – Winston Churchill – 1948
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which began in Wuhan, China in December 2019, in just a few short months had become a global pandemic, by mid-May 2020, infecting more than four million people worldwide, and causing over 300,000 deaths. In the United States alone there were over one million confirmed cases and over 85,000 deaths, with cases reported in every state and territory.
COVID-19 has disrupted trade, travel, and economies, forced millions to live in physical isolation from friends and relatives, and put added strains on already strained international relations in ways that not even the last world war did. In some areas, commerce has come to a virtual standstill, unemployment has skyrocketed to levels never seen before, and…
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Worst Quote of the Week – May 29, 2020
“Well I did wear – I had one on before. I wore one in this back area. But I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”
– President Donald Trump, in response to a reporter on why he didn’t wear a mask while touring a Ford plant.
Writer, artist and fellow blogger Art Browne (my kindred brother in weirdness) proposed this alternative:
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