March, 2014 archive
The Duke of Hazardous Has Nothing To Hide 0
Just ask it.
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The motion states, “Duke intends to cooperate fully in that investigation so that it may receive a fair and unbiased assessment of its actions.”
To do that, Cooney and other attorneys for the utility contend, materials provided to the grand jury should be withheld, temporarily, from the civil proceedings underway in Wake County Superior Court stemming from DENR’s pollution cleanup enforcement actions against the company.
Speaking of Springing . . . 0
Nobody could have predicted that opening a trampoline park could lead to injuries. For example:
She picked up her son and carried him to the car.
“As I was going out the door, another attendant offered me an ice pack. That was the extent of it.”
A pediatric orthopedist at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center confirmed the break and placed the leg in a cast.
“When I told her where it had happened, she said this was the fourth or fifth injury she had seen from there in the past week,” Keck said.
“I can’t tell you how many people I’ve talked to who have said, ‘Oh, my gosh! I know someone else who was hurt there!'”
Read the rest, in which the proprietors argue that trampolines are safer than bowling alleys.
All seriousness aside, only someone who has never seen an episode of AFV could think that this was a good idea.
Next: Game entrepreneur promotes team tag during rush hour on I-95. Thrills!! Excitement!! Waivers of Liability!!
Spring Is Springing 0
I lowered my bicycle from its home near the ceiling of the garage and pumped up its tires yesterday. (I installed a little boat-trailer winch on the wall and ran clothesline through eyelets in the ceiling for a DIY bike lift/stand; the machine has been hanging over my head for the winter.)
A ride soon beckons.
Chris-Crossed 0
Dick Polman suspects that history is repeating itself once more all over again.
Just as Christie’s hired guns (hired for $1 million at taxpayers’ expense) falsely claim to have written a “comprehensive and exhaustive” report, Nixon falsely claimed in a nationally televised address that his release of Oval Office transcripts contained “all the relevant portions” of his conversations about Watergate. Just as Christie’s legal eagles are touting their report as the final word on Bridgegate – Christie knew nothing! He was screwed by a few scheming aides! – Nixon insisted that his release of 2,400 transcript pages (but not the actual tapes) would absolve him and put his scandal to rest.
In both cases, not.
More history at the link.
“The Elephant Whisperer” 0
Chris Honore struggles to understand Republican reasoning. A snippet.
How to explain why conservatives, champions of the work ethic, would vote against women earning equal pay for equal work?
He is assuming that reasoning is somehow involved.
Read the rest.
Twits on Twitter 0
God spake in Elizabethan English.
Missionaries of Hate 0
In the United States’s balance of trade, bigotry is a principle export.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness unloaded.
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DeFoe said the shooting might have happened when Council was unloading the gun.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
North Carolina continues to gut out the vote.
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“You’re talking about a town in which 60 percent of the voters are located in a pretty narrow area,” she (Allison Riggs, a voting rights attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice–ed.) said. “Counties need to know there needs to be a rational basis for this decision. They can’t just try to stick it to young voters, stick it to college students.”
It’s a strategy craven in its simplicity. If you think that they won’t vote for you, don’t let them vote.
