October, 2014 archive
Voting Is Not a Right. It Is a Duty. 0
As the Republican voter suppression tactics show, if you don’t use your vote, you will lose your vote.
Via Job’s Anger.
Facebook Frolics 0
He left out the part about “violence with guns” being inherent to white culture. There is no NRACP.
In defending himself, he doth protest loudly that he has no prejudice because of course he doesn’t.
Also, pigs, wings.
“Sometimes, . . . Reality Just Needs a Little Boost” 0
Colbert takes on Pennsylvania Governor (and destroyer of public schools) Tom Corbett’s photoslop.
Below the fold in case it autoplays.
Torturous Reasoning 0
Shaun Mullen is disappointed at President Obama’s failure to grapple with President George the Worst’s legacy of torture. A nugget:
I tend to agree with Shaun on this. I do not agree when persons complain that President Obama failed to close Guantanamo; Congress prevented that. In this case, though, he had freedom to choose, and he chose wrong.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Nap politely.
The child then handled the gun and Sanders tried to grab it from the toddler, police said.
“At that time, the gun went off and Sanders was shot in the face. The child was not injured,” Houston Police said in a statement.
Via Juanita Jean.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Purity Police 0
The Roanoke Times editorial board calls out Bedford County Republicans’ decision that ideology trumps governance.
The actions of the Republicans are not surprising. In their world, ideology trumps reality every day of the week and twice on Sundays. A snippet from the editorial:
Ilya Ehrenburg was a writer who won honors even under Stalin, and was considered the very model of a Soviet writer. But late in life, he spoke of how Soviet realism and Western art forms might be able to co-exist. Esoteric literary criticism? No! A “gross ideological error,” in the words of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
(snip another example)
So what does any of this have to do with anything around here?
Just this: Last week, the Bedford County Republicans took the unusual act of voting to censure three Republicans on the county board of supervisors. Their offense? They had voted in favor of a tax increase back in April and had not come before the county’s Republican committee to explain why.
Freudian Tee Shirts 0
The other day, I was in line at a checkout behind an old white man–older than me–wearing a “Tell Congress that Guns Save Lives” tee shirt.
The back of the tee shirt proclaimed that
The reign of hate and fear ends on January 20, 2017.
Not wanting a confrontation and not knowing whether or not he was packing, I refrained from pointing out that the “hate and fear” were his and no one else’s.
Parking Wars 0
A state judge has declared a St. Petersburg, Florida, parking ordinance “unconstitutional.”
I suspect that that’s some kind of first.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 0
Hunters seem to have found their red October.
And, in more news of the polite . . . .
Addendum:
She did it to herself:
But police now say the girl had grabbed the rifle and was returning it to a safe when it fell and discharged in her Snyder Township home.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Some say they received a robo call last night telling them not to come to class. Others say they showed up ready for school only to be turned away.
The banner hanging on the front of the charter school says they’re enrolling students through the 12th grade. But parents and students at Walter D Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School in Frankford say, in fact, their high school has closed, effective immediately.
This is an example what happens when you try to privatize the public good.
