On Friday, October 20, 2023 at 9:40:34 AM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
> I would not have thought that being aware of what's going on around you would be a problem. For some people it's apparently a big problem, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders has found a simple, elegant solution. All you need to do is legislate the word out of existence.
>
> "Sarah Huckabee Sanders to sign executive order eliminating 'woke, anti-women words' from state government use
> Sanders says 'government should reject language that ignores, undermines, and erases women'""
>
> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-executive-order-eliminating-woke-anti-women-state-government
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> "George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works, the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984"
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> https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/george-orwell-explains-how-newspeak-works.html
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> TB
>
> "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others." Orwell

She exhibits all the symptoms of dumbassedness, lackwittedness, and addlepatiness combined. There may also be signs of jiveassedness I'm not sharp enough to detect.

Enjoy the day,
dmc

On Friday, October 20, 2023 at 2:00:28 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
> On Friday, October 20, 2023 at 12:12:50 PM UTC-7, dm_callier wrote:
> > On Friday, October 20, 2023 at 9:40:34 AM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
> > > I would not have thought that being aware of what's going on around you would be a problem. For some people it's apparently a big problem, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders has found a simple, elegant solution. All you need to do is legislate the word out of existence.
> > >
> > > "Sarah Huckabee Sanders to sign executive order eliminating 'woke, anti-women words' from state government use
> > > Sanders says 'government should reject language that ignores, undermines, and erases women'""
> > >
> > > https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sarah-huckabee-sanders-executive-order-eliminating-woke-anti-women-state-government
> > >
> > > "George Orwell Explains How “Newspeak” Works, the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984"
> > >
> > > https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/george-orwell-explains-how-newspeak-works.html
> > >
> > > TB
> > >
> > > "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others." Orwell
> > She exhibits all the symptoms of dumbassedness, lackwittedness, and addlepatiness combined. There may also be signs of jiveassedness I'm not sharp enough to detect.
> >
> > Enjoy the day,
> > dmc
> If you have not detected "jiveassedness" you have missed the best part of the story. She has that going on for her--"in spades".
>
> "‘Podiumgate,’ ‘Lecterngate’: No matter what you call it, it’s a questionable mess
> Arkansas governor’s purchase of a $19K lectern has critics chomping"
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> "If we lived in a better world, we’d all be willing to believe the governor’s spokesperson when she says the purchase of a $19,000 lectern with a state credit card was an “accounting error.”
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> Of course, we don’t live in that world. We live in a world where the purchase of a platform for giving speeches, and the excuses for ignoring state purchasing rules, deserve close scrutiny from Arkansas voters.
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> This rapidly evolving furor began on social media Sept. 15 when Blue Hog Report blogger and attorney Matt Campbell posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders “bought an $18,475 custom podium, w/travel case, just before her European trip.” The total cost, according to an invoice from Beckett Events LLC, was $19,029.25, which includes a 3% credit card processing fee of $554.25.
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> (For the sticklers among you, I’m going to refer to the podium as a lectern, which is the proper term. However, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary website says the nouns are interchangeable in modern usage.) "
> [snip]
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> https://arkansasadvocate.com/2023/09/27/podiumgate-lecterngate-no-matter-what-you-call-it-its-a-questionable-mess/
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> She's been trying to dance around this one with changes to their "freedom of information" laws, but that doesn't seem to be helping her. Like all of these stories, the actual participants are trying to muddy the water as much as possible.
>
> TB

I admit to my ignorance. With so much other chicanery in the news, I've not given Alabama politics much attention. Looks like I've been missing an impressive show of comedic venality.

Enjoy the day,
dmc