February, 2014 archive
Don’t Mess with Texas 0
And I mean “mess” the same way they mean it in the Navy.
Dunn Deals 0
In a typically long and tightly-reasoned post (and one that I have been anticipating), Chauncey Devega reacts to the Michael Dunn vertict.
Here’s a nugget, but you owe it to yourself to read the whole thing.
Dunn had many options that day. However, his prime directive and modus operandi was to act with hateful and impulsive violence and to shoot at a car full of black teenagers because he did not like their music and “bad attitudes”.
White supremacy hurts the cognitive, moral, and reasoning processes of white people. In Michael Dunn’s world you do not ignore the wishes and whims of a white man.
Peezza Hut 0
You couldn’t manage to make this stuff up.
Bad Presidents 0
Chris Hayes and his guests wonder, just which one was the worst.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Senior Moment 0
I’m so old, I remember when The History Channel was about history.
Fear Mongers 0
Professor Emeritus John C. Raines muses on an unholy alliance. A nugget.
But, strange to say, I am also talking about the enemies of the terrorists. Yes, the National Security Agency, the CIA, the FBI, and the immense security systems of the military, local police, and private security firms. They all depend upon us feeling afraid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to farm animals.
“If there was something strange in the pasture, the donkeys would alert,” Todd Garrett said.
But now, Clyde will have to work alone while investigators determine who shot and killed Bonnie over the weekend.
The Duke of Hazardous (Updated) 0
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State regulators expressed concern five days ago that the second pipe could fail, triggering a new spill. The water coming out of that pipe contains poisonous arsenic at 14 times the level considered safe for human contact, according to test results released by the state on Tuesday.
Poor little Duke energy. It’s the victim here.
A little housekeeping might have cut its profits last year. It only made $2.7 billion.
Addendum, Later That Same Morning:
Learn about the gallant hordes dedicated to protecting the Duke of Hazardous from the eco-freak insurgency.
The Self-PleasuringFulfillment of the Siege Mentality
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Steven M. suggests that the One Per Cent are embattled in their own minds (even though any objective measure shows that they are completely in control of everything). A nugget (emphasis in the original):
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The rich want to believe that they’re under siege, too. That would make them heroes just for continuing to show up at their offices, and for giving a few people jobs. If the rich are under siege, then whatever they want government to do to the have-nots — cut the social safety net, permanently refuse to raise the minimum wage, transfer even more of the tax burden to the 99% — is justified, because those people are trying to harm them. That makes the millions the rich contribute to pro-plutocracy, pro-inequality politicians the only reasonable response: What? We’re supposed to have a social contract? With these savages who want us dead?
Follow the link, if only to see the title of his post. It is a gem.
Also, see this post, which offers additional support to his thesis.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More pub politeness: now it’s a shooter in Shooters.
Twits on Twitter 0
An apparently inexhaustible supply of racist twits.
The Lost Cause 0
The measure, sponsored by Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, would have created a commission to oversee the work of trying to identify and mark the graves of Virginians who were enslaved at the time of their deaths.
The Committee seemed to fear that recognizing the graves of Virginia’s slaves would cost too much.
Aside:
It is rare that Bob Marshall is on the right side of an issue. This appears to be one of those times. However, he did wait until after the deadline for introducing new bills had passed . . . .
