The Post In Which I Lose All Can

I just can't with Carson today. 

Carson compares slaves to immigrants coming to ‘a land of dreams and opportunity’:

 "'That's what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less,' said Carson, speaking extemporaneously as he paced the room with a microphone. 'But they, too, had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.'" 

Just...wow. Nope.

I wasn't the only one who can't even. Samuel L. Jackson noped better than I'm able to, though:

So, here's  a pretty picture:

And here are some links!

• Library Land
• Dial-A-Story Offers Storytime Experience at Home "Some libraries have adopted an alternative to face-to-face storytimes: Dial-A-Story, a free program that allows patrons to call the local library and listen to taped stories. Many libraries record their own staff reading stories, but not all have the extra time. Dial-A-Story offers a starter program with fifty-two taped stories but has more than seventy-five additional titles libraries can choose from. Many libraries change the story by the week, but some leave the same story up for as long as a month."
• International
• North Korea fires four ballistic missiles into Sea of Japan "Jeffrey Lewis, director of the US-based East Asia Nonproliferation Program, told CNN the North Koreans' recent behavior was the sort 'you see from a state that is planning to deploy nuclear weapons to its military units.'" In the seeming race to start WWIII, North Korea is a leading contender. I don't know - my money's still on Russia.
• Related: Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles
• Erdoğan accuses Germany of 'Nazi practices' over blocked political rallies "The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has lashed out at Germany for blocking several rallies on its soil in the run-up to a referendum in Turkey, likening its stance to Nazi practices.... Authorities in Cologne, in North-Rhine Westphalia, and Gaggenau, in Baden-Württemberg, cited security concerns for the cancellations."
• War Consumes South Sudan, a Young Nation Cracking Apart "South Sudan’s war and its full ugliness are engulfing new, previously peaceful areas of the nation, spelling horror for the victims and signifying something deeper: This country is cracking apart."
• U.S. News
• Non-Trump
• Marines being investigated over salacious photo sharing of women service members  "On its Reveal web site, the Center for Investigative Reporting found that since Jan. 30, more than two dozen women, including active duty and enlisted service members had been identified by their rank, full name and military duty station in photographs posted and linked to from a private Facebook page called 'Marines United.'"
• GOP releases bills to repeal and replace ObamaCare Looks like it's...good for those with money, bad for those without. Basically, if you were one of the 20 million people who gained insurance under the ACA, you're SOL.

The two measures dismantle the core aspects of ObamaCare, including its subsidies to help people buy coverage, its expansion of Medicaid, its taxes and its mandates for people to have insurance....

In its place, Republicans would put in place a new system centered on a tax credit to help people buy insurance.  

That tax credit would range from $2,000 to $4,000 a year, increasing with someone’s age. That system would provide less financial assistance for low-income and older people than ObamaCare, but it could give more assistance to younger people and those with higher incomes. 

• Gold Star father Khizr Khan cancels speech in Toronto after organizers report his travel privileges were under review "Khan has lived in the U.S. since 1980 and is a naturalized U.S. citizen."
• People Walk Out As Ala. Official Pushes Voter ID At Selma Anniversary Service "'You cannot have a democracy where voter suppression is normalized, where people will politely let people say to them what they're doing, in their face and in their church, and it's okay,' Barber said. 'To respect injustice is to be a part of it.'"
• All Trump
•  Former U.S. intelligence chief rejects Trump wiretap accusation Probably because the claim is crazybeans. Where would he even get that idea? Oh - Breitbart, of course. Yep. Crazybeans.
• Trump to Undo Vehicle Rules That Curb Global Warming This is just stupid. Let's assume, just for a second, that global warming really is a Chinese hoax. Even so, no one wants to breathe carbon monoxide, and everyone could use more fuel efficient vehicles! Why in the world would you not encourage something that counters air pollution and saves citizens money? Unless, of course, your primary allegiance is to corporations and your end goal is to make them money - at the expense of anyone else in any way necessary.
• The Trump Administration's Dramatic Narrowing of Its Travel Ban

Washington Attorney General Robert Ferguson said Monday the state was reviewing the legal implications after the new order’s announcement. But legal experts noted Trump’s rhetoric and past comments could still threaten the revised order in court.

“Some of the challenges to the initial order would be blunted by the changes reflected in the newly issued travel ban, but the most fundamental constitutional infirmities in the original ban, stemming from its grounding in anti-Muslim sentiment rather than in any rational assessment of danger, all remain,” said Laurence Tribe, a Harvard University constitutional law professor.

• Related: Five ways Trump’s new travel order is different from the earlier “Muslim ban”