Friday, September 6, 2019

Something to Know - 6 September


Steve Breen Comic Strip for September 06, 2019



Sooner or later, most administrations are tagged with a memory-lasting nickname that profiles a not-too-kind event that defines their performance while in office.  Nixon had his Watergate, which soon became the basic genesis for future examples.   Some "-gates" were less effective than others.   Today, we have the emergence  of "Sharpie-gate" which seems to define it all - deceit and falsehood and continued denial that he was ever wrong:

(Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
'What I said was accurate!': Trump stays fixated on his Alabama error as hurricane pounds the Carolinas
For a fourth straight day, Trump's White House sought to clean up the president's mistaken warnings to Alabama, releasing statements, disseminating alternative hurricane maps and attacking the media.
By Toluse Olorunnipa and Josh Dawsey  Read more »

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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

- Kris Kristofferson

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