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Month: January 2017

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Weekend Immigration Protests

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Tom

By the way, there is much more to talk about regarding the Executive Order on Immigration and its impact over the past weekend (detainees at airports, ACLU, sta...

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Behind the Tweet: Rumors are true

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Tom

Here’s another beauty: That’s completely preposterous. Pure fear-mongering. Throwing gasoline onto a fire. Whatever other metaphor I can think of. I...

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Executive Order On Immigration

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tom

I’m not pleased with Trump’s Executive Order restricting immigration. It runs contrary to the spirit of America. I understand the need to vet immigr...

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Behind the Status: This is funny to us

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Tom

Note: This is my first post after making some changes to the site’s infrastructure. I hope it’s still working. Here’s another fun bit of conse...

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Behind The Status: Trump Wall

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Tom

In case you think I only rag on liberal viewpoints, here I will passive-aggressively respond to a very conservative Facebook post: The true purpose of The Wall ...

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Behind The Tweet: Silencing of federal government

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Tom

Here’s another tweet I saw going around: Silencing of federal governmentGag ruleActual NazisThreat of martial law$20b border wallGoldmann-Sachs cabinetSta...

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Twitter and Censorship

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Tom

It’s time for some basic education on what censorship means again. News came out yesterday (24 Jan) that the EPA had received a directive to cease using i...

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Spicer, Take Two, and Executive Actions

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Tom

Sean Spicer’s second press conference (23 Jan) was considerably better than the first one. His tone was much more moderated and he seemed more in command ...

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On Alternative Facts

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Tom

Kellyanne Conway said on Meet The Press Sunday morning that Spicer had provided “alternative facts” in his press briefing. I just watched the clip f...

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That Press Briefing, Amirite?

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Tom

Well Trump certainly knows how to set a tone, I’ll give him that. I specifically linked to CNN’s YouTube video because if Twitter is to be believed,...

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