April, 2015 archive
Playing Cops and Robbers 0
As Tony Norman points out, it’s no longer a game if you let Barney Fife have the bullet.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not too bad.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, was little changed at 282,750 compared with an almost 15-year low of 282,500 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 40,000 to 2.27 million in the week ended April 4, the fewest since December 2000. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.7 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
The “Libertarianism” Con 0
Once again, a Libertarian is a Republican who is ashamed to admit it.
Don Quixote Was a Realist 0
I am receiving emails from folks who, thanks to an offhand remark by Jon Stewart, call themselves the “Warren Wing” and want to browbeat Senator Elizabeth Warren into running for the Democratic nomination for President.
Senator Warren has repeatedly declared that she does not want and will not run for the nomination. Who the hell are they to question that?
Also, as a practical political consideration, she can likely do more good as a Senator for many years than she can do as a President for no more then eight. Furthermore, browbeating is seldom a propitious tactic.
I suggest that the “Warren Wing” grow up, live in the Real World where real stuff gets done, and stop tilting at windmills.
Furrfu.
Afterthought:
One of the failings of many of my fellow lefties is the notion that the only election that matters is the Presidential election. This bunch should go “Warren Wing” themselves a few state legislatures and learn how stuff works.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
Honest to Pete, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Oh, the Humanity! 0
There is no such thing as a “humane” execution.
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Most of the time, folks are sentenced to death, not because of what they have done, but because of who they are.
Certainly, the argument can be made that some deeds are so heinous that their perpetrators forfeit the right to live amongst society–I’ve made that argument myself–but I have realized that, until and unless the justice system stops getting it wrong over and over and over, the death penalty must end.
TSA Security Theatre 0
And this surprises you how?
Police learned of the illicit activity last month when an official with the TSA’s inspector general’s office contacted them “in regards to a possible Unlawful Sexual Contact” at Denver International Airport, according to a Denver Police Department report first disclosed by CBS4.
Opportunists take opportunities. It’s what they do.
Scam Alert 0
Beware the E. Z. Pass scam.
In related news, we’ve gotten at least three of the IRS scam phone calls in the past week.
In the case of these two scams, at least, the guiding principle is, “If it doesn’t come by U. S. Mail, don’t pay it no nevermind.”
The Privileged of American Citizenship 0
As Will Bunch explains, the “privilege of citizenship” does not mean what you may think it means. A snippet:
Swampwater 0
Read J. M. Ashby on the cover-up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another sacrifice to NRA Paradise.
Buckeye police are investigating an accidental shooting involving a young boy.
It happened shortly before 5 p.m. in the Tartesso neighborhood in Buckeye, near 311th Avenue north of Thomas Road. Police said the 7-year-old was shot with a handgun.
As of the dateline for that story, police don’t have any idea how it happened or whether anyone else was involved.
A New Dimension House-Hunting 0
I guess when you find the place of your dreams . . .
Stevens County Sheriff Kendle Allen says deputies following a tip found the cabin Thursday morning about 10 miles from its original location. He says the structure had been placed on stilts and was sitting at the end of a private road east of Springdale.
