by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, November 26. Also, check out President Obama’s Thanksgiving Day address, about the importance of generosity, including to “refugees fleeing the brutality of ISIL.”
- For today’s GOP, Thanksgiving is the ultimate hypocrisy (“The Trumpian views on immigration and refugees are at odds with how the United States was settled.”)
- U.S., Russia wage war of words over operations in Syria
- Plan A for GOP donors: Wait for Trump to fall. (There is no Plan B.)
- Donald Trump Is a Fascist (“This isn’t a partisan attack. It is the political label that best describes what the GOP front-runner has become.” Exactly, it’s simply an accurate description of who and what Trump is at this point. What does that make his supporters?)
- Obama makes holiday appeal for acceptance of Syrian refugees (Canada, not to mention France and other European countries, are wayyyyy ahead of us on this, and our country is much much bigger. Ugh.)
- Rubio: ‘God’s rules’ trump Supreme Court decisions (Yes, in a theocracy, not under our constitution!)
- Release of Chicago police video reignites debate over excessive force (What boggles my mind is anyone who could say that this shooting was “justified” in any way.)
- Donald Trump mocks reporter’s disability (There’s no depth to which this evil “human being,” using that loosely, will sink.)
- America Is Too Dumb for TV News (“What we call right-wing and liberal media in this country are really just two different strategies of the same kind of nihilistic lizard-brain sensationalism. The ideal CNN story is a baby down a well, while the ideal Fox story is probably a baby thrown down a well by a Muslim terrorist or an ACORN activist…When you make the news into this kind of consumer business, pretty soon audiences lose the ability to distinguish between what they think they’re doing, informing themselves, and what they’re actually doing, shopping.”)
- Scott sees progress for criminal justice reform effort
- Former congressman Goode named to Trump campaign team (Birds of a feather…)
- Gov. McAuliffe declares ‘no specific threats,’ says VA on heightened alert
- Virginia Uranium files second lawsuit
- Roanoke studies how to defuse media bomb after Bowers’ blunder (How about Bowers resigning?)
- In quest to honor school integration, Arlington School Board moves toward compromise (“Members approved a design concept that preserves pieces of the building.”)
- D.C. area forecast: Unseasonably mild air and sun add Thanksgiving cheer; a few weekend showers
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