January, 2015 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
What better time to demonstrate your allegiance to the Secesh than Martin Luther King’s birthday?
Suffer the Children 0
Bankruptcy of the pocketbook, meet bankruptcy of the spirit.
Often, the filings have come on the eve of a trial. In Portland, the archdiocese filed for bankruptcy before jury selection for a negligence trial. In San Diego, the filing came hours before the start of the first of more than 40 sexual abuse lawsuits.
Here, the bankruptcy filing freezes more than 20 lawsuits against the church, as well as three abuse trials scheduled to begin Jan. 26. And with more than a year before the window closes on the Minnesota Child Victims Act, which lifted the civil statute of limitations for child abuse cases, more cases could emerge.
Twits on Twitter 0
In Case You Have Forgotten Choose Not To Remember . . .
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. . . read this.
Yes. That is what it was like, and that is what some persons consider the “Good Old Days.”
Via PoliticalProf.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Rear your children politely (emphasis added).
According to Colleyville city spokesperson Mona Gandy, the gun discharged and Johnson’s 10-year-old daughter was struck by a bullet that went through a wall of the home.
The wording of the story indicates that this was yet another gun that fired itself. Nevertheless, for some fool reason, the person who was holding it at the time has been arrested. . . .
Words and how they are used matter, folks.
Ignorance Is No Excus–Oh! Wait! 0
This is what a blank check looks like.
Hollow Honor 0
Politicians love to talk up the “heroes”* in our military, to pontificate on Veterans Day, to pose on the parade grounds, until it comes time to care for soldiers and sailors and their progeny.
Then, all bets are off.
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In politician-speech, all soldiers and sailors are “heroes,” whether or not they have done something heroic. Calling them “heroes” beats giving them decent paychecks, funding the Veterans Administration, or giving a damn about them when they come home.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Demonstrate politeness to your public officials.
The vice president and his wife were not at home at the time.
The Secret Service says the shots were fired at around 8:25 p.m. on a public road outside the secure perimeter near the home in Greenville, Delaware.
At this point, it remains unclear whether this was sedition, stupid, or a confluence of the two.
Skule Daze 0
I haven’t paid much attention to the “free community college” proposal because I knew it was a non-starter out of the box, though it might be a laudable goal.
Frankly, a more laudable goal would be ending the student loan scam and the charter school/testing scams.
Reducing the amount of money that real universities waste on big-time sports might also be a good idea.
Via Job’s Anger.
Apocalypse Now, Wingnut Dept. 0
Jonathan Chait examines the history of Republicans’ frequent boouts with the vapors and finds historical precedent. He uses a New York Times op-ed by Karl Rove operative Peter Wehner as a springboard. Here’s a bit:
Wehner proceeds to assert that conservatism “isn’t a rigid ideology, it leaves itself open to self-examination and self-correction. Authentic conservatism has a high regard for things empirical, for facts that can lead us to better apprehend the truth.” This is also pretty much the opposite of actual American conservatism.
It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know 0
One more time:
Had he been done for shoplifting a package of Cheetos from a Cumberland Farms, he’d be wearing orange and living in solitary and never heard from again. All he did was sell out the pubic trust for a Rolex and a ride in a Ferrari, not at all comparable to lifting a bag of Cheetos, but he’s white, wears nice suits, has a square jaw, and looks good in meetings.
Also, no doubt, he has “suffered enough“(tm).
To quote the likely apochryphal words of the Emperor Augustine,
Words fail me. Nothing I could say could express the depth of my feelings on this matter.
