2015 archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Invasive specious:
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Smith said the (Virginia’s Department of Conservation and Recreation–ed.) department, which has just 13 people to oversee 55,000 acres, doesn’t allow the building of structures or postings by citizens on its preservation areas.
The hanging of the flag is “not something that we would condone,” he added.
Follow the link to see the reporter try to put a good face on sedition.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your friends.
The firearm discharged while Jordan was examining the gun, according to Capt. John Lewis of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office. Lewis also stated that the transaction was legal.
(And yet another gun fires itself . . . .)
Republican Jesus, Reprise 0
In the Roanoke Times, Halford Ryan traces the lineage of the “religious right.” A snippet:
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One hundred and fifty years later, the same backward mindsets, still mired in the miasma of scriptural fundamentalism, are even now hawking their biblical bigotry with regard to human sexuality.
Do read the rest.
“Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . .” 0
They must needs water their lawns, come hell or high water, and high water doesn’t seem to be an option.
“These are estate-size lots, and it takes a lot of water to keep that much grass green,” said Morada resident Ed Schroeder, 72, a retired hospital executive. “If we switch to meters and everyone lets their lawn go, it will change this whole neighborhood.”
God forbid that the public good take precedence over their front yards.
There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See 0
Farnsworth is not quite so charitable as Peter St. Onge.
Loyalty Oaths 0
Out Roanoke way, a long-time Republican is fed up after trying to vote in a “firehouse primary” (whatever that is–sounds sort of like a caucus).
I’ll quote a bit of his article, but, really, you should read it.
One asked if I was in support of the “principles of the Republican Party” and the second required that I affirm that I would support/vote for whomever the Republicans had nominated to run in the November election.
Believing for a split second that Vladimir Putin would suddenly appear and congratulate me for showing up to ensure that he would receive the usual 96.7 percent of the vote, I was incredulous.
When I responded that I had no idea what the “principles of the Republican Party” were . . . (read the rest–ed).
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
In a corollary to the Ten Commandments, it is directed that you be polite to your father and your mother.
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Dober’s son’s gun accidentally fired about 2:15 p.m. at 10205 P St., police said.
Police did not release the name or age of Dober’s son and said they had not arrested him. He is an adult, police said.
. . . and yet another gun that fires its own damned self, yet another gun nut who will not be held responsible for his nuttery.
And then there’s this.
A. There’s Nothing Left To Photograph 0
Q. Why don’t pictures of plane crashes occupy the front pages of newspapers for days after the crash?
Furrfu.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.