Author: sherrinichols

Kara Swisher has become the most important tech writer around (not that she already wasn’t a really good one), because she’s willing to call tech leaders on their nonsense.

Comparing Sean Spicer, Shadow President Bannon, and Joseph Goebbels In their own words.

Border Patrol agents were forcing green card holders to give up their green cards on threat of not being able to return to the US for five years.

The ACLU received $24 million in online donations this weekend. They’re going to need that, and more. I’ve given; have you?

If you can’t get through to your Senator’s DC office, try a local office. If the first local office is too busy, work your way down the list. Keep those phones busy, and remind your Senators that you expect them to stand up for your values, not try to find common ground with bullies!

The pro-life movement doesn’t deserve the name. Once again, too many have demonstrated that they don’t care about the lives of people who live and breathe and might be different than them, but only about some abstract potential of might be human beings on whom they can project goodness and innocence, and who demand nothing of them.

It’s impossible to claim a biblical justification for a pro-life view, and believe that banning Muslims from the US is not only acceptable, but the right thing to do. Jesus didn’t say anything about only welcoming the stranger if you were safe. We aren’t told to love our neighbor as ourselves only if we aren’t afraid. Jesus didn’t promise safety and protection from all harm.

Of course, we are safe. We live in a very safe country, and Muslims are not a threat to that safety. We have met he enemy, and he is us. Our own fear and paranoia is the biggest threat we face, and we’re failing the challenge.

Feeedom and safety lie in turning away from fear towards love. Care more for the living than the maybe someday living.

Today was Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Today pro-life groups held their March for Life in DC, and the Vice President addressed the rally.

Today the White House issued a statement recognizing Holocaust Remembrance Day which notably never mentioned Jews.

Today trump signed an executive order halting the admission of refugees from Syria, putting a 120 day moratorium on refugee admission from numerous other Muslim majority countries (but not the home countries of the 9/11 attackers), and said in an interview that Christian refugees will be given priority.

Republicans want to build a wall on our border, make health care unaffordable for millions of real live people while agonizing of the rights of the unborn, and put America first, despite our being the richest, strongest country in the world. And they want us to believe they’re doing it in the name of restoring America to a Christian nation.

Why does trump believe there was massive voter fraud? Besides the obvious reason, which is that fewer people wanted him to be president than his opponent, he apparently also got some inside information from a friend, golfer Bernhard Langer. In his telling of it to Congressional leader, Langer told his good friend trump that he had tried to go vote fo trump in his home of Florida, but had been turned away, while all these people who looked like they shouldn’t have been allowed to vote, because they looked like Latin Americans, were allowed to cast provisional ballots.

Bernhard Langer should not have been allowed to vote, of course, because he is not an US citizen; he is a German citizen with permanent residence status in the US.

But a story from a friend about some brown people being allowed to vote is enough to push trump into believing that there was massive voter fraud. No, not a racist at all. I’m sure that the story would have been exactly the same had those alleged illegal voters been white, and trump would have been just as convinced.

Given trump’s relationship with the truth, I will withhold judgment on whether Langer is racist, and indeed on whether Langer is friends with trump, has ever talked to trump, tried to vote, and maybe whether he lives in Florida.

Maybe Langer was just trying to get a discount on initiation fees at Mar-a-lago; the initiation fee to join has doubled since the election. Hey, gotta cash in while you can; can’t let a business opportunity go to waste. If you wait until you’re an ex-president, it might be too late. You might have been impeached!