Congressman shares photo celebrating guns at Christmas, days after a school shooting

Congressman shares photo celebrating guns at Christmas, days after a school shooting

"Santa, please bring ammo," Rep. Thomas Massie wrote as he posted the image of him and his family posing with guns in front of a Christmas...

Insanity is contagious. -Joseph Heller

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Parents of Michigan school shooting suspect are held on $500000 bond after manhunt
• White Nationalist Group Holds Disturbing Demonstration at Lincoln Memorial
• Jeanine Pirro Blames Michigan School Shooting on 'Liberal School Personnel'
• Parkland Parents, Others Rebuke Rep. Thomas Massie For Posting Pro-Gun Photo, Days After School Shooting
• Fauci Blasts Ron Johnson for Accusing Him of Covid Fear-Mongering: 'How Do You Overhype' 780,000 Dead Americans?

I can’t comment on The Crumbleys until I read a 9-part New York Times report explaining their economic insecurities. - John Fugelsang

One month from today will be exactly one year since the deadly insurrection and coup attempt at our Capitol. Meanwhile, not one elected official, not one former occupant of the WH, has been prosecuted or otherwise held accountable as they continue to poison the body politic. - Steven Beschloss

How Many More Dots Need To Be Connected To Stop The Next Coup Attempt?
A former official for D.C. National Guard has issued a shocking accusation against two generals who he believed perjured themselves before Congress in their testimony about the events of Jan. 6.

In a stunning memo to the Jan. 6 committee obtained by Politico, Col. Earl Matthews accuses Army Gen. Charles Flynn (brother of Michael Flynn) and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of wholesale fabrications about their accounts of the attack on the Capitol.

Omicron is Greek for, "Anti-Vaxxers are going to kill us all." - John Pavlovitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Brags to Mark Levin He Stayed in Office Four Years Because He Fired James Comey
• Trump Rages at 'F*cking Idiot' Mark Milley Over Afghanistan in Mar-a-Lago Speech
• Trump responds to report that he tested positive for COVID before debate, says 'Biden goes around coughing on people all over the place'
• Mark Meadows helped endanger lives to make money off his book: Ex-Homeland Security aide to Pence
• Jim Jordan: Liberals must be destroyed because they are successors to 'evils' of Nazis and slavery
• Sidney Powell’s Group Raked in Nearly $15 Million in Donations Off Election Lies
• Pressure grows to remove Boebert from committees

It would be nice if parents who are working so hard to keep the teaching of American history out of our schools would do the same about guns. - Andy Borowitz

Apparently, Trump Voters Have Died at 3x the Rate of Democrats

People living in counties that voted for former President Trump in the last presidential election are nearly three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who live in counties that voted for President Biden, according to an analysis conducted by NPR.

I'm tired of pastors living in mansions, while their flock lives in the fields. - John Collins

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden orders flags be flown at half-staff through Dec. 9 to honor Dole
• 'Let’s just get it done': Democrats look to finalize Biden's $2 trillion bill
• Ilhan Omar Excoriates GOP for Condoning 'Shocking and Unacceptable' Anti-Muslim Attacks, Rips Kevin McCarthy as 'A Liar and a Coward'

So forcing you to wear a mask is unconstitutional but forcing you to give birth is not. This is beyond the upside down world. - Irishrygirl tweet

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Business/Tech News

• A 'Let's Go Brandon' store has opened in Massachusetts selling right-wing merchandise
• Toyota to build $1.3B battery plant near Greensboro, N.C.
• Trump social media startup receives commitment of $1 billion from unidentified 'diverse group' of investors
• Trump's new social media company is under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission
• Chris Cuomo Fired Days After CNN Reportedly Learned of a Sexual Misconduct Allegation 'Unrelated to the Gov. Andrew Cuomo Matter'

I admire the state of Alabama's single-minded determination to be great at college football and bad at everything else. - TheTweetOfGod

Texas Is #1 In Plastic Pollution

Former shrimper Diane Wilson watches in disgust as a Taiwan-owned factory in Texas spews millions of plastic pellets into the Matagorda Bay.

For years Wilson has been documenting this pollution by Formosa Plastics Group, the world's fourth largest plastic manufacturer. It set up shop in 1983 south of Houston in Point Comfort, near the waters where she used to catch shrimp in abundance.

In Europe we are closely following the political situation in America. Flabbergasted why these people aren’t arrested yet! - Georgina Stulen tweet

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8 Days Until AHNC's 21st Birthday.

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Odd News

• Homeowner tries to smoke out snakes, burns down house
• Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’
• An Oklahoma cafeteria worker faces possession charges after she brought cookies baked with marijuana to teachers
• Wrong number sparks 20-year friendship between Florida woman, Rhode Island man
• Treasure of rubies, emeralds and sapphires found by mountain climber from a 50-year-old plane crash are his to keep

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A Giant Ginkgo tree, Japan. Photo by Kaji Nori

Peace.

The parents of the Michigan high school shooting suspect are charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the rampage

The parents of the Michigan high school shooting suspect are charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the rampage

The parents of the 15-year-old charged in this week's deadly shooting at Michigan's Oxford High School were each charged Friday with four counts of homicide involuntary manslaughter...McDonald said James Crumbley bought the gun four days before it was used in the shooting. His son, sophomore Ethan Crumbley, 15, was with him and later posted on social media about the gun, calling it "my new beauty." Jennifer Crumbley also posted about the gun on social media, calling it "his new Christmas present," McDonald said.

UPDATE: James and Jennifer Crumbley fled arrest, they have abandoned their child who is in jail. 

What dreadful, dreadful people.

When I was young, kids had in-school drills in case Russians wanted to kill them.

Now, kids have in-school drills in case other Americans want to kill them. - John Fugelsang

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Facebook Sold Ads Comparing Covid Vaccine to Holocaust According to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan
• Oklahoma sues to exempt National Guard from Pentagon vaccine mandate
• ‘Absolutely Disgusted!’ Local Sheriff Rips Minneapolis Police Over Protester ‘Hunting’ Scandal
• Hundreds of US military explosives stolen, lost

More American children have died this year to protect the 2nd Amendment than members of the military. - Travis Akers

Putin Really, Really Wants Ukraine Back
Russia has amassed more than 94,000 troops at the border of Ukraine and could invade the country by the end of January, the Ukrainian defense minister said Friday.

Trump knew he had COVID and went to debate Biden but Ilhan Omar is the real terrorist. - OhNoSheTwitnt

Republican Shenanigans

• Appeals court hears arguments in E Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against former president Trump.
• Alleged Tucker Carlson Email Thanking Hunter Biden For Helping His Son Leaked: 'I Can’t Thank You Enough'
• Judge orders pro-Trump election lawyers to pay $175,000 in sanctions
• Baldwin calls Trump criticism following 'Rust' shooting 'surreal'
• North Dakota school superintendent slams critical race theory, calls to teach 'Christian heritage'
• Haley hits the stump in South Carolina
• Conservative group targeting Kelly, Hassan, Cortez Masto in multi-million-dollar ad blitz
• Ex-employee testifies Maxwell told him 'not to look Epstein in the eye'
• Trump's White House doctor facing fresh scrutiny over Covid test timeline
• ‘I’m being terrorized’: Woman melts down in court as she faces punishment for threatening Black teenagers

Republican research shows that a fetus begins learning about critical race theory in the first trimester. - Frank Conniff

Florida, You In Danger Girl.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday proposed reestablishing a World War II-era civilian-military force that he would control.

DeSantis pitched the idea of creating the Florida State Guard, which would be independent of federal control, while speaking about his military budget proposal.

That Florida State Guard sign looks like a child designed it.

Why do we put Supreme Court nominees under oath when there is no consequence when they lie? - Bradley Whitford

Republican Parent of the Year

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden administration releases new plan to combat human trafficking
• Top Democrat calls on Biden administration to fire the Trump-era head of federal prisons, citing inmate abuse and the death of Jeffrey Epstein
• Dr. Fauci Lashes Out at Fox News, Says He's 'Astounded' They Haven't Disciplined Lara Logan Over 'Slanderous' Mengele Remarks

If you don't get vaccinated, Republicans, somebody will pry the gun from your cold, dead hands. - Middle Age Riot

I Love Having A Compassionate President
A 9-year-old girl named Avery in Massachusetts got some words of encouragement from President Joe Biden over the weekend when she met him and said that, like him, she has a stutter. The girl's mother, Jessica Gifford Nigrelli, posted about the exchange on Facebook. 

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Business/Tech News

• Nevada to make unvaccinated state workers pay insurance surcharge
• Manchin to vote to nix Biden's vaccine mandate for larger businesses
• Los Angeles police announce 14 arrests in connection to smash-and-grab thefts
• Federal watchdog warns security of US infrastructure 'in jeopardy' without action

The American Dream now is to move out of the country. - SundaeGirl tweet

I 💓 The Coast Guard
Today in Golfito, the United States Coast Guard (CGC) vessel STONE completed a six-day patrol in search of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in collaboration with the National Coast Guard Service (SNG) of Costa Rica. This patrol is part of Operation Southern Shield, a one-month mission that will include joint patrols in maritime waters of the Exclusive Economic Zones of Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. Operation Southern Shield is the first US Coast Guard patrol dedicated to illegal fishing in Costa Rican waters.

I’m converting to Judaism so I can be done with the holidays by December 6th. - Conan O'Brien

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11 days until AHNC turns 21!

Thank you so much for the birthday wishes!

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Odd News

• International Space Station swerves to avoid space junk, Russia says
• How to see the comet Leonard as it nears Earth in coming days
•  Plumber finds cash, checks behind loose toilet in wall at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church
• Colombia seizes hundreds of arachnids being illegally smuggled to Europe
• Man caught trying to use fake arm to get vaccine shot

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Seeing Earth versus Jupiter makes me feel minuscule.

Peace.

Supreme Court signals support for upholding Mississippi's restrictive abortion law

Supreme Court signals support for upholding Mississippi's restrictive abortion law

The nation's top court heard oral arguments in a challenge to Mississippi's 15-week abortion law, which many see as a bid to overturn Roe v.

If it were men who got pregnant, Brett Kavanaugh would be bragging about how many drunken abortions he's had. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Judge says Trump 'stoked' crowd on Jan. 6
• Ron Johnson Claims Fauci Has 'Overhyped' Omicron: 'Did the Exact Same Thing With AIDS'
• 'Picked Up My Phone and Called Joe Rogan': Dana White Got Covid and Phoned Podcaster for Medical Advice
• White House announces new aggressive steps to combat COVID-19
• Germany to launch nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated
• Police say Texas woman pulled gun, threatened to shoot over parking space

As long as we're overturning settled law, I've got some thought about the Second Amendment. - Michael Ian Black

Mark Meadows Is Such A Wuss

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows rolled over for Donald Trump by agreeing with the former president that the reporting about his upcoming book is “fake news.”

The Chief’s Chief became a major media focus when The Guardian flagged previews that Meadows wrote Trump tested positive for the coronavirus just days before his first debate with his eventual successor, Joe Biden.

Robert Mueller said the President of the United States was guilty of a felony and could be prosecuted when he left office. 

I don’t know what else he could have done besides run naked down the street with his hair on fire. - Angry Staffer tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• McConnell predicts there will be no shutdown
• Brian Kilmeade Asks Trump if Melania Is Refusing to Return to the White House if He Runs In 2024
• New York Times Rejects Rubio's Accusation Outlet Has Concealed Damning Documents About China: 'Simply Wrong On the Facts'
• Laura Ingraham Calls Democrats the ‘Party of Death,’ Vows Conservatives Will ‘Shrink the Court’s Power’ If Roe Not Overturned
• Don Jr. TORCHES Democrats, Says They 'Are Going Out and Making Heroes of Pedophiles'
• Head of Koch-Backed Americans for Prosperity Resigns Over Allegation of 'Impropriety'
• RNC Chair and Newsmax Host Repeat False Claim That Pelosi Is Moving to Florida: 'She Just Chose DeSantis'
• Jared and Ivanka Try to Reenter Polite Society, Are Promptly Told to F--k Off

Dr. Oz Hopes to Replace Rand Paul as Biggest Quack in Senate. - Andy Borowitz

So How Are Things Going At Liberty "Christian" University?

 A Liberty University professor has been arrested by the school’s police force.

Documents from the Lynchburg General District Court show William Atwell has been charged with sexual battery and abduction by force or intimidation.

So if you testified under oath that Roe v Wade was settled and then rule to overturn it, that would be perjury, correct? - Tim Hannan

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Rock The Voter News

• Schumer warns of 'Republican anti-vaccine shutdown'
• Manchin won't rule out backing GOP effort to defund Biden vaccine mandate
• Symone Sanders Leaving Post as Senior Adviser to VP Kamala Harris
• Dr. Fauci Has Been Rejecting Invites to Go on Fox News Since July: Report
• Joe Biden Has Succinct Retort When Asked If Trump Put Him At Risk For COVID-19

No offense America but I’m kind of glad I live in Canada. - Markfry809 tweet

Texas Blocked From Blocking Social Media Bans Or Something Like That. LOL.

A federal judge has blocked Texas from enforcing a law that aimed to block social media companies from banning users based on political views. 

Judge Robert Pitman issued the order Wednesday in favor of two industry associations that sued to block the Texas law. 

“Social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate content disseminated on their platforms,” Pitman wrote. 

To everyone who voted 3rd party to "send a message to the system," the Supreme Court is sending a message back. - saguinescu tweet

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Senator Susan Collins says she favors passing legislation to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law. 

Does anyone else think we WOULDN’T be in this mess if she didn’t help the GOP steal a Supreme Court seat? - Chip Franklin

Business/Tech News

• Burger King Is Selling Whoppers For Only 37 Cents This Weekend
• Disney names Susan Arnold as board chair, replacing Bob Iger
• WTA Suspends Tournament Play in China Amid Concern for Peng Shuai’s Safety
• Facebook taking steps to secure accounts of activists, journalists, officials

THROWBACK THURSDAY from my archives

Why is Fox News the only network (besides CSPAN) carrying the daily White House briefings?

Trump was on TV almost every day. Just constant.

During this pivotal time why wouldn't CNN & MSNBC want to run daily White House briefings and let the press secretary inform the American people? - Don Winslow

Fox News Pulled Out Of The UK Due To Low Ratings But They are #1 In The USA!

Fox News notched 71 of the top 100 cable telecasts in the month of November, the network said in a statement, continuing to crush its cable news competitors CNN and MSNBC, neither of which ranked one telecast in the top 100.

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has arrived in the United States just in time for Republicans to invite it over for Christmas. - Middle Age Riot

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Twelve Days Until AHNC Turns 21

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

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Odd News

• Saga of Tiny Drill Hole in the ISS Continues as Russia Sends Investigation to Police
• 44-foot pyramid of washing machines breaks Guinness World Record
• People in 'Blue Zones' live longer. What's the secret? Follow the Blue Zone Power 9 rules
• Firefighters Smashed the Windows of a BMW Parked in Front of a Hydrant and Ran a Hose Through Them
• Skysurfer does 160 helicopter spins for Guinness World Record

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The Maned Wolf is the largest canine of South America. Its markings resemble those of foxes, but it is neither a fox nor a wolf. It is the only species in the genus Chrysocyon. It weighs between 20–30 kg and up to 90 cm at the withers. Those long legs!

Peace.