Quote of the Day -- Constitutional Threat Edition

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children."

--General James Mattis, retired United States Marine Corps General, also served as 26th US Secretary of Defense under this President

From the article: 

James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

Thanks, Republicans!

The Ugliest, Most Dangerous, Most Untrue Advertisement I've ever seen.

A friend posted this on his Facebook page today. It says it's from the NRA.


And what he said about it is dead on, too, no pun intended.

Beware folks, the NRA is advocating basically a civil war with this ad that is nothing short of stochastic terrorism. They are calling for gun owners to make a violent response to freedom of assembly, a First Amendment right. This is a message to incite domestic terrorism. The use of words like "assassinate" are a dogwhistle to the faithful gun cult.

Liberals hate that the rightwing is so misinformed. The Right Wing has marketed the message to hate Liberals. 

This may not end well. 

I have seen many Right Wingers saying lately that Liberals should be rounded up and shot. or worse. with folks inciting people to take action on that. 

We are all Americans and we should be working together to make America a better , more equitable place. Liberty, equality and fraternity.

This video inciting hatred of neighbor on neighbor is a most shocking and unpatriotic piece of propaganda. 

It is stochastic terrorism and should be branded a hate crime.

--Richard Trombly

If there is any silver lining, so to speak, on these clouds of ugliness, it's this.

Fewer and Fewer Americans Own Guns

American gun ownership drops to 

lowest in nearly 40 years

Fewer Americans Own Guns, 

But Those Who Do Own More Than Ever

Fewer Americans Own Guns, 

But Those Who Do Own More Than Ever

Here's hoping sanity and intelligence and calm, rational thought and true patriotism wins out, ultimately.

Happy Fourth, y'all.

Quote of the Day -- On Republicans and What's Wrong With America

From Missouri's own St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in a letter to the editor:

Republicans pick ideology over sensible economics 

“As Thomas E. Mann and Norman Ornstein in their terrific book It's Even Worse Than It Looks have said:

‘Let’s just say it. The Republicans Are the Problem. The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier-ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.'"

In case you want to know what they mean

As always, click on picture for better viewing.

Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012

With conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart's sudden, surprising death last evening of a heart attack, I think two things need to be noted. First is that it's a bit surprising--not tremendously but somewhat--that the idea is already "out there" that this President's Administration was "no doubt" responsible for it is sad, a bit scary and extremely unfortunate. Hopefully that will end soon but I don't look for that. The idea that the Clinton Administration had their attorney assassinated is still, to this day, floating around out there, crazy as that is. I look for this to have a similar, disappointingly long lifespan. The second thing to note on this event is that divisive, ugly, angry, emotional discord in any country--this or any other--is not healthy or productive, period, and that goes for any political camp or viewpoint. Discussions and facts and statistics and data and reasoned, calm, intelligent debate naturally makes sense and needs to be promoted. People that take this route do their country no good service. This nation sorely needs the day back of calm, quiet, reasoned but still passionate conservatives of the likes of William F. Buckley, not what we're given to today. Links: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/andrew_breitbart/index.html; http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9156

From Jefferson City, with love

Click on the two separate pictures for easier reading.

Here's some great news about the media out today

The Right-Wing Talk-Radio Flame Out        

Thank goodness and good riddance.


After all, hate and ugliness and demagoguery and race-baiting and division and negativity can only take you so far, ultimately, fortunately. 

Quote of the day--on The United States of America

"...the present election offers us a choice: not a choice among those who call themselves Republicans, Democrats, or Tea Partiers, but a choice between sustaining the paralyzing divisiveness that we have seen over the past two years and committing ourselves to co-operation, collaboration, and--yes--political compromise across ideological lines. Without such a commitment, I fear for the survival of these dis-United States. "  --James Herrenan


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