Saturday Afternoon Tabs

January 13, 2024

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That just feels made up (via USAT): Judge Judy endorses Nikki Haley in 2024 presidential election.
Via the Daily Beast: Fox News Kicks Mike Lindell and His MyPillow Ads to the Curb.

The network confirmed on Friday that Lindell has not paid his bills. “As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising,” a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement to The Daily Beast.

Via Axios: Mike Pence’s brother is latest Republican retiring from Congress.
Via NBC News: Ohio woman who miscarried at home won’t be criminally charged, grand jury says. The whole situation sounds tragically horrific, but that this woman even had to deal with law enforcement just underscores what pro-choice advocates have argued would happen post-Roe.
ViaThe Hill: Hunter Biden says he would sit for deposition with new subpoena.
Via Politico: Johnson confronts biggest test yet: Whether to walk away from his own funding deal.
Via TNR: Florida’s War on Books Has Found a New Casualty: The Dictionary.

The Escambia County School District, located in Florida’s Panhandle, has allegedly removed five dictionaries, eight encyclopedias, The Guinness Book of World Records, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not from its library shelves after a December investigation found those books could violate House Bill 1069.

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With the latest purge, Escambia County has now pulled more than 2,800 books from its library shelves because they might violate state law on teaching students about sex and sexuality. The other banned books cover subjects including race, racism, and LGBTQ identity. The nonprofit organization PEN America, along with county students and parents, has sued the school district for banning books.

Via Truthout: Florida Bill Could Lead to a $35,000 Fine for Accusing Someone of Racism.

8 responses to “Saturday Afternoon Tabs”

CSK

January 13, 2024 at 4:02 pm

Why do you think the Judge Judy endorsement of Nikki Haley is made up?
gVOR10

January 13, 2024 at 4:31 pm

Re FL’s war on books, Bill O’Reilly tweets they’ve pulled two of his books. Leopards/faces.
Steven L. Taylor

January 13, 2024 at 5:04 pm

@CSK: I said it “feels” (I.e., it just sounds ridiculous).

I didn’t intend to imply I didn’t actually believe it.
CSK

January 13, 2024 at 5:28 pm

@Steven L. Taylor:

I’m curious: Why? It doesn’t strike me any more ridiculous than any other celebrity endorsement.
Flat Earth Luddite

January 13, 2024 at 5:55 pm

The whole situation sounds tragically horrific…

No shirt. I’m appalled at the idea she sat there for 8 hours and had a total of three visits to the hospital. The cynic in me wonders if the ER was really that busy, or if a bureaucratic decision was made that we’ll just let her sit there rather than actually, you know, provide treatment to a minority member of the community. Then to add insult to injury, this further blows up with an officious local sheriff and a small town judge (with his head up his ass, IMO) deciding this woman needed to be punished. My disgusted cup is overflowing on this one.

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Joe

January 13, 2024 at 7:50 pm

The Escambia County School District, located in Florida’s Panhandle, has allegedly removed five dictionaries

I am reminded of the story of a couple of women approaching Samuel Johnson after he published the first dictionary of the English language. They observed that he had the discretion to omit certain words, to which he reportedly responded, “Oh, so you looked for them.”

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Bill Jempty

January 13, 2024 at 8:04 pm

@Flat Earth Luddite:

The cynic in me wonders if the ER was really that busy, or if a bureaucratic decision was made that we’ll just let her sit there rather than actually, you know, provide treatment to a minority member of the community

Back in my x-ray technician days*, the ER of the hospital I worked at lost track of a patient. She was a sexual assault victim brought in on ambulance during a crazy night where multiple victims of a gang war had been brought in also and the hospital was being expanded. The ER was overflowing, the gurney with the woman on it was put in the new area, and her paperwork was mislaid. It was about 8 hours after being brought there that the woman was finally found and given medical care. A horrifying comedy of errors but no deliberate malfeasance.

*- When in the Navy and doing a chest x-ray for some marine, this conversation took place

Me= “Take a deep breath and hold it.”
Marine= That’s funny, Doc. I said those exact same words to my wife last night.”
Gavin

January 13, 2024 at 10:13 pm

@Flat Earth Luddite:

Republicans only win elections to any public office more important than assistant dogcatcher because people refuse to accept the reality of the evil cruelty they have always and will always intentionally promote. Cognitive dissonance plus sociopathy is a familyblog of a drug interaction.

If anyone is still shocked Republicans smile and respond by feeling righteous within themselves at the injury or death of women and the powerless, you’re not paying attention.

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