Month: January 2018

• Rounding up some remarks on some profane presidential remarks

  From the New York Times (strong language ahead): President Trump on Thursday balked at an immigration deal that would include protections for people from Haiti and some nations in Africa, demanding to know at a White House meeting why he should accept immigrants from “shithole countries” rather than from places like Norway, according to people…

  John Kelly

  January 12, 2018

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• An etymological stroke of “genius”

  Over the weekend, President Trump took to Twitter to defend his sanity and intelligence: Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming…

  John Kelly

  January 9, 2018

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• An etymological “epiphany”

  You know those 12 Days of Christmas we’re always partridge-in-a-pear-treeing about? They end on January 5th, or Twelfth Night, when many celebrants end their yuletide festivities by taking down the decorations. As its name suggests, Twelfth Night is the 12th night after Christmas and the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany, which many Christians…

  John Kelly

  January 5, 2018

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