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Over the past couple of days I've noticed that folk on the right in America have used the left's rhetorical of hatred of GWB as somehow equivalent to the right's rhetorical of hatred for Obama.

However I think this to be a false equivalency.

"I hate George Bush" seems to me to be a personal emotional response.
'Second Amendment Solutions" is a call to arms.
Selling guns with "You Lie" (the words Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out loud at President Obama during a congressional speech in 2009) is rather different from calling Bush a "lying scumbag" in print.

The difference is quite specific: the weaponisation of the debate. If folk don't see that, then I don't suppose it's up to me to point it out.

Personal update

We look like we're moving out on the 21st of this month, and moving in to our new house on the 4th of Feb.

Two weeks without a place to live should be just about manageable. [Fingers crossed.]

Today I have to take Poor Mad Felix out for lunch. He's not had a good time of it lately. Last weekend his dad died. His court case was rescheduled and comes up in two weeks time.

All in all, it's a bit frantic, my dears.