"Sheila Dills – the Majority Caucus Chair for the Oklahoma House of Representatives – showed the world that she doesn’t love or respect America, its veterans, and fallen soldiers, by not focusing 100% of her attention on the Pledge of Allegiance this past Tuesday on the House floor.
Well, at least that’s what happened according to her own logic.
While the rest of the State House indivisibly stood and pledged allegiance to the flag and to the Republic for which it stands, she creepily snapped photos of Facebook of freshman State Rep. Mauree Turner – our state and country’s first non-binary Muslim state representative – and then shared the following now-deleted Facebook post…"
How dare the Muslim state rep just stand for the pledge. She must have been dancing on rooftops after 9/11. And she’s ‘gasp’ a democrat. /s
The caption on that picture is “Donald Trump doing lord knows what to Kim Reynold’s face.” If you click on the link and see the full-size picture, prepare to lose your breakfast.
Every time you think Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Alabama are the stupidest states around, Louisiana can be counted on to say “Hold my beer.”
" Maria Montessori Academy Director Micah Hirokawa said on the school’s Facebook page on Friday that he “reluctantly” sent out a letter explaining families are allowed “to exercise their civil rights to not participate in Black History Month at the school,” the Standard-Examiner reported.
Hirokawa said “few families” asked not to participate in instruction related to Black History Month. But he declined to say how many parents or their reasons for making the decision."
In the “Gotcha!” Department, under the subhead Grasping at Straws:
I believe this is AP White House correspondent Zeke Miller, but he’s wearing a mask, so I don’t know for sure. For all I know this is what Carrot Top looks like when he’s not on stage.
REPORTER: “Why is the president going to Delaware this weekend?”
PRESS SECRETARY JEN PSAKI: “He is from Delaware and has a home there and is going to spend the weekend with his wife and family there.”
REPORTER: “But guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as you know, in the last briefing just a couple of hours ago … people should avoid travel. Is there an exception to that policy?”
PSAKI: “Well, the key, Zeke, is ensuring that people don’t take steps to make others vulnerable, in our effort to get the pandemic under control. As you know, any president of the United States, Democrat or Republican, obviously takes Air Force One, a private plane, when they travel. Delaware is his home, and so he looks forward to spending the weekend there and some time with his family.”
I only hope that Jen replied in her most patient, kindergarten-teacher voice to make sure the Reporter got that there was no evil, nefarious, threatening hidden meaning in Joe and Jill’s trip home for the weekend.
Looking in Google Maps, it’s about 112 miles to Wilmington, Delaware from the White House. Couldn’t the president take a helicopter there instead of Air Force One? It seems like overkill.
Louie Gohmert, aka the Stupidest Person in Congress (although he has a lot of competition lately) is pissed off that he got fined for skirting the metal detectors.
No, you idiot. This is exactly about following the rules, which you refused to do, which is why you got fined. Party of Personal Responsibility my ass.
Just the guy with the nuclear football and the Secret Service detail would probably crowd a helicopter. Plus AF1 is outfitted as a flying White House so the President is not away from secure communications and such while in flight.
Actually, I’m not sure it’s a bad idea at all, although there are obviously potential downsides. Plenty of legal paraprofessionals know LOTS about the law, and would probably do a great job with a whole bunch of legal work. As long as they have to follow professional codes of ethics, and as long as their potential clients know the score, I think that relaxing some of these occupational licensing rules is often a good thing.
Also, there are about a half-dozen states that already allow people to become lawyers without a law degree, although their systems are somewhat different from the one being introduced by Arizona. I can’t remember all of the states, but I know that California allows you to become a lawyer if you spend time working and studying in a law office or judge’s chamber, and pass the bar exam.