2013 archive
Update from the Foreclosure-Based Economy 0
Bonuses for stealing homes.
Sequestrian Dressage 0
Boots on the ground.
Most of the employees — about 2,200 — work for the 6th Air Mobility Wing, which is MacDill’s host unit. Another 900 work at U.S. Special Operations Command and 450 more at U.S. Central Command, the nation’s two premier combat commands.
Nothing can ease unemployment more than more unemployment.
It’s the “misery loves company” theory of economics.
“Frozen Bee’s Knees” 2
This bee seems to like the blue salvia. It leaves the red salvia alone.
I think it’s a bumbledy bee, but it seems a bit on the small side compared to the one that once chased me from the barn to the house when I was a kid.
It’s not a good idea to accidentally step on a bumbledy bee. Bumbledy bees have smooth stingers and can sting repeatedly with no harm to themselves.
And I do mean repeatedly.
There was indeed no place to hide.
The Wedding Industrial Complex 0
Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up (see the second letter).
Good Morning, Starshine 0
The long-time entertainment critic–as long as I can remember, and I grew up reading that paper–at my local rag reminisces about his encounters with some movie stars.
Read it. It will give you smiles.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
News reports of polite celebrations continue to surface.
Guns don’t make persons safe.
They make persons stupid.
Flag Daze 4
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, Virginia Division, sued the city after its passage of the ordinance in 2011. U.S. District Judge Samuel Wilson dismissed the lawsuit in June 2012, calling the city’s ban “eminently reasonable” because it banned all non-government flag displays, not just the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
You know my opinion of the Stars and Bars, the cause it represents, and those who would honor it.
Just in case you don’t, it is the flag of slavery, oppression, and Jim Crow. Any other attempted explanation is sophistry and delusion.
This was a good decision. The city of Lexington should not have to participate in promulgating the propaganda of sophistry and delusion.
(Bonus: Follow the link and read the comments–and those are the ones that were passed by the mods.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Them What Have 2
And this surprises you how?
The results were discouraging.
MarketWatch found that insider trading may be one of the most common crimes on Wall Street and one of the least prosecuted. And that was only the beginning. MarketWatch discovered that the problem for retail investors goes far beyond a failure of regulators to identify insider-trading violations.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More signs of polite celebrations:
In related news, Daniel Ruth considers a recent incident in Tampa, which has been mentioned in these electrons.
All the News that Fits 0
Mark Washburn of the Charlotte Observer has unearthed the rules for local television news. What he found does not surprise.
A nugget:
If we send you to the coast for a hurricane, stand out in the storm while beseeching people to take shelter. Go find some civilians outside in the storm and remark on how they are foolishly risking their lives.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Celebration time.
Lt. Randy Horowitz said police believe the gunshot wound “was a result of someone shooting randomly into the air, likely from a distance, and not an intentional act.”
There is a doctoral dissertation in researching the correlation between gunnuttery and stupid.
Via my local rag.
Facebook Frolics 0
One man’s joke . . . .
At issue is whether a Facebook post of a photo taken inside a courtroom this year was a harmless joke or a damaging misrepresentation, according to the lawsuit and response, filed in Circuit Court this spring.
Frolicky details at the link.