2014 archive
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.
(snip)
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.
Lost at Sea 0
Back when we had a boat, we were out one day on the upper Chesapeake. The sea was calm and the sky was clear and sunny.
As we ran down to Still Pond Creek, my bright orange baseball cap blew off, so, natch, I circled back to get it. I saw it disappear into the wake and knew almost exactly where it went.
It still took me 15 minutes to find it in waves of much less than a foot.
People constructing conspiracy theories about how difficult it is to find the wreckage of a plane in rough seas in a far corner of the world (and planes generally don’t have great float characteristics) have obviously never tried to find something floating in the sea.
Work-Study 0
This is a good ruling.
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“[P]layers receiving scholarships to perform football-related services for the Employer under a contract for hire in return for compensation are subject to the Employer’s control and are therefore employees within the meaning of the (National Labor Relations) Act,” wrote Peter Sung Ohr, director of the NLRB’s regional office in Chicago, in his decision.
I am skeptical that this will hold up. Too many persons, including regulators and judges, like to tail-gate at their alma maters, but anything that further exposes the corruption and hypocrisy of the National Cartel College Athletic Association is a good thing.