2012 archive
Mitt the Flip’s Off-the-Cuff Links 0
Kelly Fordon, daughter of long-time Republican Congressman John William Stanton of Ohio, muses on the content of Mitt the Flip’s character(s) (emphasis added):
(snip Romney’s remarks about “the 47%”)
That moment sparked the feeling I’ve had on the few occasions I’ve had the misfortune of running into racists who believe that because I’m white I’m “in the club” and willing to listen to their prejudiced diatribes. Simply put, I was horrified. Mitt Romney believed that he was preaching to the choir. He felt comfortable enough to show his true colors. Later he said he was speaking off the cuff, which any politician will tell you is code for “speaking from the heart.”
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Sandy Sayings 0
As the storm approaches Philly, Field observes:
Afterthought:
The hypocrisy of “small government” conservatives is not that they want small government.
It’s that they want big government that benefits them, and only them and no one else, and, by God, they want it for free.
God Forbid Kids Should Explore Their World 0
This will take all the fun out of t-ping your 10th-grade English teacher’s front lawn.
Snap Secure, a smartphone security app created by Princeton, N.J.-based cloud service applications company Snap My Life, already functioned to control who children talk to by phone, text with and what they browse online.
The app, which comes with a $5.99-per-month subscription, is one of dozens of products developed by tech companies specifically for parents to monitor children’s locations. Snap Secure has rolled out new features just in time for Halloween that takes the surveillance up a notch by allowing parents to set perimeters on a GPS-enabled map that limits where a child is permitted to travel. If a kid steps outside of the marked area, parents receive a notification and can check the map to see just how far the child has strayed.
All seriousness aside, we seem to have a generation of paranoiac papas and meddling mamas. Maybe it was ever so, but cyber-stalking one’s own kids adds a new dimension.
I suspect that, if this practice grows, it will spur kids to defy the surveillance to do things which, if they weren’t relentlessly spied on, they might not otherwise do.
Road Hogs 0
Heh.
Lockhart police also shot video of a herd of the wild pigs rushing across the highway Wednesday night.
“It’s not unusual to see hogs crossing the local roads,” said Roescher. “We have a big hog problem around here.”
Up the Bay Creek 0
When I first saw this development rising like cheap Lego houses from the marsh, I thought it was the most godawful ugly visual atrocity I had ever seen.
The faux Victorian architecture and garish colors–houses tricked out like streetwalkers in hot pink, bright yellow, powder blue, and kelly green–would make a Disney set-dresser blush.
It is difficult to resist schadenfreude at its comeuppance.
Colonel Wilkerson Does Not Mince Words; He Minces the Republican Party 0
And he considers himself a Republican, to boot.
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Republican Jesus 0
Inspired by Richard Mourdoch, the “rape is a gift from God” candidate, Tony Norman riffs on the God revered of the wingnutosphere. A nugget:
“I am the god of the 1 percent. You shall have no other gods before me. I help those who help themselves and visit poverty over many generations to those who would redistribute the wealth that I have freely given to those who luxuriate without guilt in my love. I reward the spirit of material excess because I hate poverty and the poor who have rejected my ways.
“I am a vulgar god who never tires of the misery perpetuated by those who exploit the resources of the planet for tax breaks and personal gain. The smoke of belching coal plants and runoff from hydraulic fracturing pleases me. Let those who refuse to rape the earth that I have made in six days be accursed.
Suffer the Children 0
How is this not ritualized sadism hiding in a cassock?
Twits on Twitter 0
I don’t think they let him keep his Twitter-er in his cell . . . .
Lake Reynolds, a 17-year-old junior, allegedly posted a message Thursday night on Twitter that said, “Planning on pulling a Columbine tomorrow guys, be prepared!” a Cherokee Sheriff’s Office spokesman said.
A Scrapple Scrap 0
Voting is not a right. It’s a duty.