I had a dram last night I was walking in a fine university and cultured city. The Ignorant Red Rage of The Christian Satan – was dead! I awoke and thought about the Culture War Gavin is having with Santis de Devil.
Seer Jon
Is Gavin Newsom planning to run for president? – Orange County Register (ocregister.com)
By DAN WALTERS | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: July 6, 2022 at 10:08 a.m. | UPDATED: July 6, 2022 at 11:37 a.m.
President Gavin Newsom? California’s governor repeatedly insists that he’s not interested.
“I don’t know how many times you can say no in ways that others don’t say no,” he told one journalist who asked the question recently.
“Yeah, I mean, I have sub-zero interest,” Newsom told another. “It’s not even on my radar.”
That’s what he would say if he is truly not interested in mounting a run for the White House. But at this stage, it’s also what he would say were he interested, so the denials lack face value.
I had a dram last night I was walking in a fine university and cultured city. The Ignorant Red Rage of The Christian Satan – was dead! I awoke and thought about the Culture War Gavin is having with Santis de Devil.
Over the last few years, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed laws that changed college tenure systems, displaced Florida universities from commonly accepted accreditation practices, and enacted yearly “viewpoint diversity surveys” from both students and faculty. If the responses are not up to par with the state’s legislature, they will be at risk of losing funding.
Unfortunately, now the norm is, these are more intellectually repressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed.”
Republicans have long believed that colleges are places that unfairly push liberal perspectives, which led to DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE Act” which regulates what schools and workplaces can teach about race and identity. The legislation went into effect Friday and is already being challenged by University of Central Florida associate professor Robert Cassanello.
Cassanello, who teaches classes in civil rights movements, slavery and Reconstruction, says the law “restricts his ability to accurately and fully teach these subjects.” The state has asked the judge to dismiss the suit.
On Thursday, the board of governors for Florida’s public university system moved forward in approving regulations for enforcing the law, which could result in discipline and termination for those who do not adhere. Universities could also lose funding if they refuse to cooperate.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the DeSantis administration represents an existential threat to higher education in the state of Florida,” said J. Andrew Gothard, the statewide president of the United Faculty of Florida and an instructor in the English department at Florida Atlantic University told The Washington Post.
Others are worried that universities and colleges will follow DeSantis’ lead. Fairfield University mathematics professor Irene Mulvey said Texas is not far behind and that this could foreshadow worse things to come. “It’s a trend in the larger culture wars … where you see these politicians trying to throw red meat to the base and stir people up.”
Are the Last Rational Republicans in Denial? (msn.com)
Republicans such as Senator Mitt Romney—an honorable man for whom I voted in 2012—and a handful of others in the GOP, including Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, should take note of Yakovlev’s phrase. Over the weekend, The Atlantic published a plea from Senator Romney for Americans “across the political spectrum” to stop ignoring “potentially cataclysmic threats.” The senator from Utah is right to be worried about the detachment of so many Americans. But Romney, Cheney, and Kinzinger cannot rescue their party, either—at least not in its current form.
Liz Cheney Wins the GOP’s Manhood Contest (msn.com)
Long Live London, Fleming, Pynchon & Presco
Posted on October 10, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
The London Eulogy
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John Presco
We are the Tones in the Stone and the Words in the Sword. ,I born the granddaughter of James Bond into the world three years ago. Victoria Rosemond Bond was born April 16, 2018
Talitha Dina Pol was born in Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), daughter of the artists Willem Jilts Pol (nl) (1905–88) and Arnoldine Adriana “Adine” Mees (1908–1948).[1]
Her father subsequently married Poppet John (1912–97), daughter of the painter Augustus John (1878–1961), a pivotal figure in the world of Bohemian culture and fashion. She was thus the step-granddaughter of both Augustus John and his muse and second wife, Dorothy “Dorelia” McNeil (1881–1969), who was a fashion icon in the early years of the 20th century. By Ian Fleming‘s widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, Augustus John had a daughter and Talitha’s aunt, Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), who became a noted cellist.
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Not having a clue that James Bond would die on an island, I posted Red Rock Sailor on my 007 Facebook. Two posts later and the moderator shut to group down because of spoilers. I did not know till Oct. 10 2021 that Oct. 8 was the premier showing in the US. I have been reborn – a writer!
John Presco
Why a wave of social media ads may signal a potential DeSantis White House run
By Jason Lange and Alexandra Ulmer – 3h ago
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By Jason Lange and Alexandra Ulmer
© Reuters/OCTAVIO JONESFILE PHOTO: Conservative activists and elected officials from across United States attend CPAC 2022, in Orlando
(Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a rising Republican star, has been careful not to nurture growing speculation that he will make a presidential bid in 2024. He has brushed off questions about his political ambitions, while the party’s presumptive front-runner, Donald Trump, repeatedly hints he will run again.
But there are signs that DeSantis could be preparing for a White House run even as he campaigns for another term as governor in November’s midterm elections.
A Reuters analysis of DeSantis’ social media ads shows he has dramatically expanded his out-of-state ads in recent months, an indicator, say some political analysts, that he may be laying the groundwork for a national campaign.
In the first three months of this year, political ads sent through DeSantis’ Facebook and Instagram pages were overwhelmingly concentrated in Florida, as one would expect from a man running for office in the state.
But by the April-June period, they were spread roughly evenly between Florida and the rest of the country, according to a Reuters analysis of regional spending data for social media ads compiled by New York University’s Cybersecurity for Democracy project.
DeSantis’ increase in out-of-state ads suggests a move toward building a nationwide network of supporters, said three Republican strategists, including Ron Bonjean, who was an adviser to former president Trump’s 2016 presidential transition team.
Aprovocative new campaign ad in which Republican congressional candidate Jerone Davison uses an AR-15 rifle to defend his family from “a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods” met Wednesday with mixed reaction online.
© Arizona PBSCongressional candidate Jerone Davison participates in a Republican debate on Arizona PBS on Monday, May 9, 2022.
Davison, a former NFL player and pastor, is one of five Republicans running for the GOP nomination in Arizona’s 4th Congressional District, which includes parts of Tempe, Mesa and Chandler.
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He posted the 24-second clip with the caption “Make Rifles Great Again,” with an emoji of a bicep curl, which is often used to indicate strength.
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The video starts out like a standard Republican campaign ad in words:
“Democrats like to say: ‘No one needs an AR-15 for self-defense. That no one could possibly need all 30 rounds.'”
However, the initial image of the a Ku Klux Klan member hints where the ad is headed. As the Klan member walks toward Davison’s house, he sits in his kitchen sipping coffee in a cup that displays the American flag and then clasps his hands together and places them toward his face as if he is praying.
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