2014 archive
Life in the Garden of Winchester 0
Gun nut paradise approacheth apace.
Follow the link. Read the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There’s nothing quite like brotherly politeness.
A six-year-old child is recovering from a reported accidental shooting.
Ector County Sheriff deputies say the child was accidentally shot by his 15-year-old sibling.
Suffer the Children 0
And that’s exactly what Maine’s Republican governor is attempting to do, right along with their parents, quite illegally, by the way.
The Republican Party, the place where mean is cool.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness shows potential.
In this case, the potential was not realized.
Police are searching for a suspect.
Corruption Costs 0

The most corrupt states in the nation, according to Department of Justice prosecution data.
Facing South reports on the findings in The Impact of Public Officials’ Corruption on the Size and Allocation of U.S. State Spending by Cheol Liu of the City University of Hong Kong and John L. Mikesell of Indiana University at Bloomington. The “corruption rankings” were based on the number of public officials convicted of violating corruption laws.
A nugget:
The average “corruption gap” annually per capita? $1,308.
“This implies that the nine most corrupt states could have spent $1,308 less annually per capita, on average, if they had succeeded in maintaining only an average corruption level,” Liu and Mikesell write.
. . . Or the thirteen hundred bucks per capita could have been used fix potholes and schools, rather than to fix the game.
Wars and Mongers of War (Updated) 0
In the warmonger’s world, more war for more lies for more lives is always the answer (warning: language).
And the old men keep right on lying.
Bloodthirsty narcissistic bastards.
Addendum:
George Smith notes the lust for war amongst those who will not have to fight:
More blood is always the solution for those who remain safely in the rear.











