September, 2014 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More filial courtesy.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/1qizzPx) reports the boy’s 15-year-old brother was handling a .22-caliber rifle Wednesday afternoon inside a home and the gun fired.
QOTD 0
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld:
The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
Twits on Twitter 0
ABL wonders whether Twitter likes itself them twitter stalkers.
None Dare Call It . . . . 0
Dick Polman says, “Say it, dammit.”
And yet – quite inexplicably – nobody has called him a suspected terrorist. Which, at this writing, is the most accurate description of all.
But why hasn’t anyone labeled him that way?
Follow the link for his answer.
No Joe King 0
The Sacramento Bee’s Jack Ohman delivers another masterful parody of a political ad.
iJunk 0
It’s just an overpriced cell phone, folks.
A Picture Is Worth 0
Too true to be funny.
Merchants of Death 0
I have a Google alert set up for various aspects of gunnuttery. It’s my only Google alert, because, I guess, I collect stupid.
It was quiet over the weekend, but today it has delivered almost a dozen messages. This is the latest. Some nutcase killed his daughter and all of his grandchildren.
It’s not going to end, is it, not so long as the NRA can marshal its legions who worship their artificial penises?
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
Get the tee shirt!
An activist with the anti-fracking Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League videotaped a conversation outside the hearing venue between Betsy Ashby, an activist with the Jackson County Coalition Against Fracking, and some of the men, who were not knowledgeable about fracking. One of the men who identifies himself as Christian Bradshaw of Winston-Salem and who has a Shale Yes T-shirt draped around his neck confesses in the video, “We did not know about none of this.”
Ashby reports that before filming began, another man who was part of the group told her he was bused there from a Winston-Salem homeless shelter and came for the money. That same evening, a reporter with The Sylva Herald spoke with a man who was part of the Shale Yes group and said he was an Army veteran living at the Bethesda Center for the Homeless in Winston-Salem and came because he was told fracking would help the environment. He said he felt misled.
More frackery at the link.
Raybelline 0
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Under 300k again. The overall trend seems positive.
(snip)
The four-week average of initial claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, decreased to 299,500 from 304,250 the week before.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 63,000 to 2.43 million in the week ended Sept. 6, the lowest since May 2007.
In related news, if Bloomberg’s “experts” offer to help you pick today’s trifecta, run away.
Slur ’em Again, Harder! Harder! 1
What is it about being a high school principal that breeds the stupid?
When I was a student, my high school principal fought a stupid war against boys’ having “Beatles haircuts” (I’ve told the story elsewhere in these electrons). Now comes a principal who fights a stupid war to protect an ethnic slur because, I guess, ethnic slurs are a tradition.
Afterthought:
The phrase “egomaniacal authoritarian martinets” does come to mind.
