Thursday Stuff

Here is a BBC report on the latest mass shooting carnage in this country; according to this story, 13 are dead (developing story of course), including the shooter, though there are at least two twists to the story this time around…the person pulling the trigger was a veteran, and he actually DIDN’T use an AR-15 but, apparently, a .45 caliber handgun with an extended magazine (update is here, and that means of course that it’s time for “thoughts and prayers,” because we can’t expect that much of anything else will happen on the national level, can we?)…

Oh, and by the way, I have a message for Republican voters in Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota: you DO realize, don’t you, that you just elected politicians from the Trump/Kavanaugh Party to the U.S. Senate to replace Dems who will do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the issue of gun violence, right? Were you soooo scared about the alleged “immigrant caravan” full of MS-13 gang members and ISIS murderers coming to our border that you took leave of your senses? Apparently so (and oh, by the way, let’s not forget this too.)

And I would bother to chastise Texas and Florida also, but even though I know there are some great Democrats in these states, they’re comparatively hopeless at the moment and probably for the foreseeable future...

…and speaking of the election that just took place, Hasan Piker tells us more…



…and Trevor Noah weighs in also on the news, including that ultra-bizarro presser the Gropenfuhrer held yesterday where Jim Acosta was called out (if I ever see Acosta, the first drink is on me), and also the departure of immunity gnome Jeffy Sessions (and cannabis stocks went crazy yesterday on the news of the firing – have to get a piece of that action somehow)…



..and though this remains a great tune, I’ll look forward to the day when I no longer feel that I need to respond to a news tragedy by including it in one of these posts.