Tab Clearing Friday
Quick takes from the week.
Some links from this week’s news that I never had time to fully write about:
A couple of good columns from AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire on the CRT debate in Alabama:
- Alabama lawmaker wants to ban critical race theory, so I asked him what it is
- Of Myths, Monsters and Critical Race Theory
And a tweet on the general topic:
Via WaPo: Texas governor puts $250 million down payment on a border wall because there is not a better way to spend such funds like, say, on the electrical grid.
Via the DMN, Texas Reps. Cloud, Gohmert and Roy vote against awarding Capitol police gold medals for actions on Jan. 6. Because, reasons, I guess.
From the correlation may not be causation, but… file:
Things that make you go “hmm?”
And, for no reason, LBJ orders some pants:
The LBJ call makes me laugh every time.
Maybe it’s the drawl, but it could easily be a relative.
“…the crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight. Makes me do crazy things to the dog.”
The historical revisionism and/or ignorance Biden showed in asserting that the US does not interfere in the elections of other countries amused me.
Just for everyone’s edification, here’s a list of US interventions in foreign elections and/or regime changes since world war 2:
1948 Greece
1949 Syria
1949-1953 Albania
1953 Iran
1954 Guatemala
1956 Syria again
1957 Haiti
1957 Indonesia
1958-1960 Laos
1959-present Cuba
1959 Cambodia
1960 Ecuador
1960 Congo
1961 Dominican Republic
1962-1964 Brazil
1963 Iraq
1963 South Vietnam
1964 Bolivia
1965 France
1965 Indonesia again
1966 Ghana
1967 Greece again
1970 Costa Rica
1971 Bolivia again
1973-1975 Australia
1973 Chile
1974 Portugal
1975 Angola
1975 Zaire
1976 Argentina
1976 Jamaica
1979-1989 Afghanistan
1979 Seychelles
1980-1992 Angola again
1980-1989 Libya
1981-1987 Nicaragua
1982 Chad
1982-1984 South Yemen
1982-1984 Suriname
1983 Grenada
1987 Fiji
1989 Panama
1991 Albania again
1991 Iraq
1993 Somalia
1999-2000 Yugoslavia
2000 Ecuador again
2001 Afghanistan again
2002 Venezuela
2003 Iraq again
2004 Haiti again
2007 to present Somalia again
2011 Libya again
2012 to present Syria for a third time
2014 Ukraine
2016 Brazil again
2018 Bolivia
2018 Ecuador
2019 Brazil again
I love the smell of democracy spreading in the morning.
@PT:
I had the same thought.
@Steven L. Taylor: @PT:
For me, what’s scary/funny is that, growing up, I had Scandahoovian-descended uncles (who’d never been further south than Tacoma) who sounded just like LBJ. One of the reasons it’s so easy for me to speak/understand the regional dialect? But I always thought LBJ was unfairly maligned as prez. Not a perfect man but even with the hand he was dealt, he got folks out of the back of the bus.
@Unsympathetic:
AYFKM?
wut?
If you define “interference” as “expressing an opinion” then your list might work.
Otherwise: Noam Chomsky meets Ron Paul, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and enjoy a Cambodian clusterf*ck in a burning wilderness of mirrors.
aka the moronic inferno.
“Whatabout, whatabout, whatabout this,
Whatabout this, and whatabout that,
And whatabout things unconeccted at all,
And whatabout, whatabout s***”