2015 archive
Headline of the Day 0
No, it’s not more tragedy in Africa.
It was a two-door sudan. Here’s the screengrab:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The polite mail it in.
While in route to Connecticut, the package arrived at a processing and distribution center in Springfield, Massachusetts. When a U.S. Postal Service employee picked up the package, the gun discharged. The employee was not seriously injured, but sought medical attention for ringing ears and stinging hands.
Now, about those intelligence tests . . . .
Via Southern Beale.
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
The California experiment continues to shrivel in the sun.
But something was missing: the river.
The river that runs through America’s 10th-largest city has dried up, shriveling a source of civic pride that had welcomed back trout, salmon, beavers and other wildlife after years of restoration efforts. Over the past two months, large sections of the Guadalupe have become miles of cracked, arid gray riverbed. Fish and other wildlife are either missing or dead, casualties of California’s relentless drought.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
God forbid that they should relinquish their emblem of treason heritage.
More rising again at the link.
World-Nut Daily Sees the Fright . . . 0
. . . and reports on the fly-by in the ointment.
Discovering How To Lose Friends and Influence People 0
I reckon that Discover Card’s current internet ad campaign, in which they cover up your browser window for a few seconds, is supposed to get attention.
It’s got mine. If I still* had a Discover Card, I’d cancel it immediately, cut it up in little pieces, and mail it back to them postage-due.
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*Had one once. Got rid of it long ago.
Teabag Arithmetic 0
BadTux explains how it works.
Here’s one of his analogies:
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*In the political theatre, it’s almost certain that any performance billed as “common sense” isn’t.
The Candidates Debate 0
Daniel Ruth surveys the aftermath. He is less than sanguine.
You know you are in deep trouble when former governors George Pataki of New York and Jim Gilmore of Virginia based their pitches on infusing “new blood” into their campaigns. Pataki is 70. Gilmore is 65.
Follow the link for the rest of his post mortem. Also, don’t miss the review at Margaret and Helen’s place.
A Question of Decorum 0
What does one wear to a shotgun wedding: A morning suit or hunter’s orange?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Monumental doings down the road a piece.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Canadians live up to their reputation for politeness.
Taylor said shortly after police received another call from a neighbour who said they had “accidentally discharged a firearm inside their residence.”
Reverse Linguistic Spin Zone 0
Teabagger brings new meaning to the word “beard.”
Chris-Crossed 0
Chris Christie makes more stuff up.
In response to a question about his seemingly poor economic record in New Jersey – nine credit downgrades, 44th nationally in job growth and one pension fund crisis – Christie said that when he came into office, “we balanced an $11 billion deficit on a $29 billion budget by cutting over 800 programs in the state budget.”
Christie did do a lot of cutting, but he did not eliminate an $11 billion deficit in the yearly state budget.
Follow the link to the separate truth from the lies.