August, 2010 archive
Greater Wingnuttery LIII 0
More from the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up dept.
Camp Hill state prison guard Raymond Franklin Peake 3d wouldn’t name the group but said a second guard, accused of helping him steal lawyer Todd Getgen’s AR-15, also was a member, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
QOTD 0
Isabelle Allende, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
He realized . . . that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
Kantor’s Cant 0
Congressman Kantor stumbles over a bit of truth. From TPM:
He should get some positive credit for the admission. The article goes on to list big-name Republican congresspersons who are denying the obvious.
Responsible Fiscals 0
The Booman looks at the record (emphasis added):
This was our history until Ronald Reagan came to power. During Reagan’s two terms our public debt increased eleven percent and nine percent, respectively. Under George H.W. Bush, our debt increased fifteen percent. This was rectified under Bill Clinton, whose two terms delivered a one percent and seven percent reduction in our public debt. And then came George W. Bush.
In Bush’s first term, our public debt increased seven percent. During his second term, our debt increased by a post-war record of twenty-percent.
Dialectic 0
It is interesting how the wingnut right proclaims allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America even as it does violence to the letter and spirit of that document and the ideals which it embodies.
Jim Henley at Unqualified Offerings, after taking on some zombie lies, points out that:
The hate does get tiring.
We Need Single Payer 0
So we don’t have to have “festivals” like this one:
Throckmorton participated Saturday in the three-day clinic held at the Wise County Fairgrounds.
According to Houchins, there were 4,222 teeth extractions, 1,200 fillings, 1,117 cleanings, 51 root canals, 1,247 X-rays made and 20 dentures made. The clinic opened early Friday morning and continued through Sunday.
“I saw about 21 patients on Friday, 24 on Saturday and 12 on Sunday,” Dr. Houchins noted. “We started at 6 a.m. and were there until 7 p.m. We took a short break and got some crackers and then went back to work.”
Stacy Houchins added, “It was 98 degrees under the tents one day. The people were very patient. Sometimes there was a five to six hour waiting period.”
Adventures in Stupid 0
An ex-pat comes home to the United States to visit his folks and watches day-time television for the first time. A nugget:
Baby’s Got Back(house) 0
A thrilling story of chills and spills:
Follow the link for the rest of the story.
Seen on the Street 0
The storms on Thursday eventually dropped between two and five inches of rain, depending on where you were. This picture was taken from the South Island of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel shortly after the rain started at the North End of Virginia Beach, before it had spread to the rest of the area:
A Bouncing Baby Bhoy 0
Details from El Reg.