2014 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Display indiscriminate politeness.
Police spokesman Scott Leamon said the person was taken into custody by heavily armed SWAT officers around 6:30 p.m., more than an hour and a half after someone began firing shots from the roof of the Starlite Motel in the 4400 block of Melrose Avenue Northwest.
And in more news of the polite . . . .
A South Carolina woman shot and accidentally killed a friend while testing out his bulletproof vest.
Sheriff’s deputies in Anderson County said the victim, 26-year-old Blake Wardell, had been hanging out in a garage with about eight to 10 friends early Wednesday when they decided to try out the Kevlar vest.
Investigators said 18-year-old Taylor Ann Kelly fired a shot at Wardell’s chest but missed the Kevlar.
Somewhat surprisingly, police found that everyone involved was sober. The results of the IQ tests, though, have not come in.
Afterthought:
So there really is a “Starlite Motel.” Who woulda thunk?
School for Scamdal 0
Eugene Robinson offers a qualifying test.
Hey! Rubio! 0
Daniel Ruth is mildly skeptical of Marco Rubio’s readiness to hold the nuclear codes.
Ready for the presidency? Rubio isn’t ready to be promoted to sixth grade.
Read the remainder for his rationale.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 1
Under 300k for the first time since I started following them here.
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The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, dropped to 323,250 from 325,250 the week before.
The number of people continuing to collect benefits declined by 9,000 to 2.67 million in the week ended May 3, the fewest since December 2007.
Unchanged: The track record of Bloomberg’s “experts,” who couldn’t pick the winner in a one-horse race.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness means keeping it clean.
The bullet struck the man’s 49-year-old father, shattering his femur, Findlay said.
Freedom of Speech Does Not Mean Freedom of Speaking Gigs 0
What the Booman said.
You can say whatever the hell you want.
That doesn’t mean I have to be forced to listen to it.
Sooooeeeee! Here Pig! Pig! Pig! 0
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Not just in Philly, folks.
Taken at the Flood 0
I have not mentioned the melting of the West Antarctica ice sheet because I kept thinking, really, what else is there to say? Soon, probably not within my lifetime, but soon, Pine View Farm and its environs–and Virginia Beach, for that matter–will be all gone because of greed and inertia.
Shaun Mullen answered my question today. Just read it.
Men Are Pigs 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Bring politeness to the playground.
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“There was a shot fired from the community beyond the tree line from the school,” Gavalas said. “We don’t know who fired the shot, why the shot was fired, was it a stray shot.”
The kids will not be permitted to play outside for the rest of the school year.
School for Scamdal, Immunity Dept. 0
Who’s to blame for Benghazi? We discussed this last night at DL.
Ask, rather, who cut the State Department security budget? (Hint: it wasn’t Democrats.)
Via Balloon Juice.