Monday Stuff

(I also posted here.)

Well, here we go again…there’s probably more we need to find out about this latest gun carnage in our country, but apparently this lone lunatic actually DIDN’T use an assault rifle, but did somehow get ahold of a silencer for at least one of his two .45-caliber handguns (here – and how the hell is THAT legal also?)…also, it seems that in January, the GOP legislature in Virginia killed a bill to ban large-capacity clips such as the one used by the shooter (here)…figures…



…and speaking of murderous violence, I neglected to mention that last Friday was the 10th anniversary of the killing of Dr. George Tiller; here is Cenk Uygur with a TYT commentary from that time (more here)…



…and as long as we’re on the subject of abortion, the NowThis clip tells us about the battle being fought over it in Alabama; yeah, I have to admit that there are times when I have to check my own sense of entitlement also…easy to feel like “oh, look at this nonsense going on in the south – what is wrong with these people?” when in reality, we have no bragging rights whatsoever above the Mason-Dixon Line…and besides, that’s just more of the “divide and conquer” strategy that the other side wants so we keep yelling at each other while they keep giving tax cuts to the one percent (or even a fraction of that), starting wars without end, wrecking our public schools, stealing our health care, trying to rob us of Social Security, etc. - and I think this is some telling stuff also…



…and Sam Seder and the TMR crew tell us about Bernie Sanders pushing back on someone in Nevada who said he didn't campaign enough for HRC...I personally did not blame Bernie for that because I could see that he was campaigning as he said, but I DO blame the "Bernie or Bust" crowd who kept screaming about the super-delegates, which I admit was idiotic on the part of the DNC, but it seemed like some of Bernie’s supporters would not brook the idea of HRC as their candidate and were looking for ANY excuse...to be honest, I think there were a lot of dirty tricks going on to rev up the animosity between the Clinton and Sanders camps, launched by Bannon and co. probably with Russian help, and Bernie couldn't be expected to both campaign and clean up that garbage at the same time...I think his staff should have been more wise to that stuff, and this may be a bit of a tipoff...



…and I think it’s pretty safe to say that Jeff Daniels in on a bit of roll here for the reasons that Brian Tyler Cohen describes…



…and given the first clip – well, I wish it wasn’t time for another one of my “gun” songs, but apparently it is.