2010 archive
Limbo 0
I know these folks. Ever since I first met them, they has been planning and talking about this, taking pains to play by the rules and do everything within the law and above board.
And now they are twisting slowy in the wind.
Americans Are Weird 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
The rule in question is designed to keep persons from spilling vuctuals on the floor to attracting varmints. It is anti-varmint victual, not anti-infant ingestion.
Light Bloggery 0
Family business.
Back tomorrow.
Dress Code 0
This is an oldy but moldy. I heard it on Michael Feldman’s show and found a transcript here.
Dress Code: It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary.
If we see you wearing $350 Prada shoes and carrying a $600 Gucci bag, we assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise.
If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so that you may buy nicer clothes, and therefore you do not need a raise.
If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and therefore you do not need a raise.
Driving while Brown 0
Arizona racial profiling on hold:
Key parts of (Arizona) SB 1070 that will not go into effect Thursday:
- The portion of the law that requires an officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested if there’s reasonable suspicion they’re in the country illegally.
- The portion that creates a crime of failure to apply for or carry “alien-registration papers.”
- The portion that makes it a crime for illegal immigrants to solicit, apply for or perform work. (This does not include the section on day laborers.)
- The portion that allows for a warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe they have committed a public offense that makes them removable from the United States.
The ruling says that law enforcement still must enforce federal immigration laws to the fullest extent of the law when SB 1070 goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Individuals will still be able to sue an agency if they adopt a policy that restricts such enforcement.
Bolton did not halt the part of the law that creates misdemeanors crimes for harboring and transporting illegal immigrants.
Reactions from Arizona pols and their promises to appeal are at the link.
The Economy Is in the Toilet Indicators 0
Karen explains:
Joe was at a woman’s house the other day. She has leaks on all 3 toilets she has in her house. He was able to repair 2 of them, but the 3rd has to be replaced. She’s going to check with her neighbor to see if they have an old toilet they changed out, that she can have. Her house has been on the market for 18 months, with no serious offers. And she’s in prime area, in Golden.
More at the link.
The Entitlement Society 0
The Boston Globe, on Tony Hayward’s $18,500,000.00 severance pay for performance package from Buccaneer Petroleum:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Miss Manners would be proud.
One:
I feel the same way about tailgaters, but trying to off them is probably not the best way to express it:
Haislip was tailgating Crickenberger, who then ran a stop sign, a sheriff’s news release said.
“Crickenberger became mad as to the way Haislip was driving,“ the release said.
When Haislip pulled off at the Harvey Williams Garage, Crickenberger followed him. Cursing between the men turned physical, the release said, and Crickenberger reportedly took a .380 handgun from his car and shot Haislip in the neck.
Two:
And squeezing off a couple of rounds withing city limits just for the heck of it is frowned upon by persons within range:
Three:
The Driving Lesson.
Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeremy Boggs said in court Tuesday that Campbell fired six times at the vehicle Samual Campbell was driving north on Jack’s Hill Road. Boggs said four of the shots hit the vehicle and two missed.
“Campbell believes that his uncle did this because he accuses him of driving too fast on the roadway,” the search warrant stated.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout, quoted by his daughter, Rebecca Stout Bradbury, in the introduction to The Bloodied Ivy:
An educated person is one who has the capacity to distinguish the important from the unimportant . . . .
The Journey Home 0
Teenage girl steals puppy.
Parents find it was stolen and make her give it back.
It says something that this is considered news.
Spill Here, Spill Now 0
Buccaneer Petroleum’s approach to drilling: They thought they were playing with Tinker Toys and Erector Sets.
From the St. Petersburg Times:
Meanwhile, there are a plethora of allegations that BP pushed workers to speed the completion of drilling using cost-cutting methods. The rig rental was costing about $1 million a day and work was 43 days behind schedule. On the day of the explosion, BP managers didn’t bother with a time-consuming “cement bond log” test that would have discovered problems in the cementing of the well. The company also did not use 21 “centralizers” to position the well before cementing — the recommended number — and instead used just six. And there are other examples where the company chose the less expensive and more risky option. It may not be that any one of these actions alone led to the blowout, but the combination was deadly.
Misdirection Play 0
The Nation analyzes the instant replay of the Sherrod play. To anyone who has studied the race-baiting demogues of the Jim Crow era, the Pitchfork Ben Tilghmans and the like, it’s a familiar strategy, much older than the excerpt below describes. Fake left with the race and go right with the economy:
Breadlines, Anyone? 0
Why more stimulus is needed:
The report, a result of a survey by the National League of Cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties, showed local governments are moving to cut the equivalent of 8.6 percent of their workforces from 2009 to 2011. That suggests 481,000 employees will lose their jobs, according to the report, which said the tally may yet rise.
VoteVets Energy Ad 0
Aside:
The slap at Iran may be good marketing, but it ignores that Iran imports more fuel than it exports; I believe I’ve read that it has the resources, but not the refining capacity.
Via the Richmonder.
Stray Thought 0
It’s not black folks who are afraid to confront racism in America. They confront it every day.
It’s we white folks.
Lynchpins of Lying 0
The failure of anyone, federal, state, or local, to attempt to stop lynching, not just in the South but elsewhere, for centuries, is one of the most shameful facets of American racial prejudice.
And now Republicans are trying to quibble over what constitutes a lynching. From TPM:
This one’s really one for the history books under the subheading of right-wing #outragefail, as the young folks might put it. Lord starts off vaguely sympathetic and works up into a crescendo of high-dudgeon because Sherrod says her relative was lynched when in fact he was arrested by a sheriff and then beaten to death on the courthouse steps while allegedly resisting arrest even though he remained handcuffed through the fatal beating.
“Lynching” referred to the killing, not to the weapon.
For a detailed take-down of Lord’s lie, see the Inverse Square.
Words cannot measure the depth of disgusting to which this falls.