What a week we've been through.
Hopes for maintaining Roe vs Wade flattened.
The Supreme Court tipping its hand on that.
Trump revealed to have attended a debate with Biden after having tested positive for COVID-19.
Out-of-hand racist jokes by Lauren Boebert.
Infighting among congressional Republicans.
And the college football world, and its values, turned upside down.
The omicron variant is here as well, further emphasizing the need for vaccination. And testing.
Where to start...
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First, let's apply some logic to what we heard from the Supreme Court this week regarding abortions.
The same people who want to mandate what women can't do with their bodies are the same people who don't want a mandate for COVID vaccinations in their bodies.
More simply, the same Republicans who support banning abortions in the name of the sanctity of life are the same ones who have blocked every attempt at gun control that produced four dead bodies and many more wounded, by a 14-year old, at Oxford High School in Michigan.
Yet, people keep voting for them.
Fuck 'em, I mean it, fuck 'em.
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If you listened to the oral arguments regarding the Jackson v Dobbs case before the Supreme Court, you probably came away thinking Roe v Wade, for 50 years the law of the land, was in trouble.
And you'd be right.
Questioning by the conservative justices seemed to tip their hand that their vote to legitimize this would overturn Roe v Wade and essentially eliminate reproductive rights for women in this country.
But the most pertinent comments came from liberal just Sonia Sotomayor, who said, in essence, overturning Roe would not allow the court to "survive the stench" of the decision being overtly political, as Mississippi legislators outright stated they were introducing the legislation because they believed that they had a conservative-enough court to uphold it.
And God effin' damn it, they appear to be right.
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In former chief of White House staff Mark Meadows' new book, due out this week, he reveals that Trump had tested positive for COVID just before his September 2020 debate with Joe Biden.
Not only did he attend anyway, putting everyone, including Biden, in jeopardy, but his family, in attendance, did not wear masks in the hall in Cleveland, as mandated.
Trump never cared who died of COVID. Including his family, I guess.
He was hospitalized three days after debate.
Republicans are truly the party of death.
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) did not just allegedly call Democrat Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) a terrorist - she actually did it.
And isn't backing down from it. Omar has subsequently received overt death threats.
Boebert once wanted to carry a gun into the House of Representatives.
With any luck, it would've gone off in her pocket and she'd have shot herself in the foot.
Meanwhile, Republicans continue infighting among themselves, with reckless Marjorie Taylor Greene and traditional Republican Nancy Mace trading more than barbs.
And with Kevin McCarthy refusing to publicly rebuke Boebert or Greene, the Democrats have about their only hope of the Republicans self-destructing in their effort to take the House in 2022.
Hopefully.
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If you play football for Notre Dame, how do you feel about your coach bolting for another job with your team?
As I heard a radio commentator say, when Kelly met with his team, if he met with his team, you can bet some 'F' bombs were tossed his way by players so heavily recruited, who helped him win more games than any other Notre Dame coach.
All those wins and one dead student assistant later, he's now the head coach at LSU. Money talks.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
Hope you had a Happy Hanukkah.
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