July, 2013 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yes, we have a trifecta of politeness today! Cash in your tickets at the window.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More familial politeness.
Tina Owens went outside to investigate, taking along a .40 caliber pistol and fired multiple shots to scare away the intruders. One of the shots went astray, said Sheriff Marano, traveling into the house wall and hitting William Owens in the chest. William later died from his injuries.
Astray my anatomy. If you are not aiming at a known target, every shot is “astray.”
Despite what the NRA would have you believe, guns are not magic wands that bestow courtesy, safety, and civility. They have one function, one that they accomplish most efficiently.
It’s not going to stop, is it?
Via TPM.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Treat your brothers and sisters politely.
The grandfather said he believed that the 4-year-old boy picked up the pistol and shot his sister in the mouth, causing a bullet to lodge in her spine.
(Yet another gun nut who didn’t make sure the damn thing was unloaded.)
“Wire Palladin, New River Valley” 0
The Roanoke Times’s Dan Casey is somewhat skeptical of some of the arrests for soliciting contract killers, especially those in which the putative mechanic is an undercover officer seemingly ready to take the job.
But in each case there was a common thread: The killer-for-hire was an undercover cop, playing a menacing role opposite some ordinary fools who’d let their imaginations run wild. That’s the kindest way to put it.
(snip)
How do those average citizens hook up with faux hit men? That was one of the things I wanted to ask Virginia State Police. From our clip files it’s obvious the agency is the leading supplier of contract killers in the Old Dominion.
His attempts to secure an interview were unsuccessful.
Twits on Twitter 0
The mayor’s twits seemed to show him at a public event, one he had said he had to miss to move his son into the dorm.
“Been here all day,” he said. “The pic posted was from a previous walk. I wasn’t there. My campaign tweets. I don’t.”
Does anyone else see a disconnect there?
(Hint: Substitute “promises” for “tweets.”)
Full disclosure:
I have no position on the election. Just on the disconnect.
Vandals in Robes 0
Sally Kalson, in the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, sums up the recent round of Supreme Court opinions.
Follow the link for her reasoning.
The Republican War on Women 0
Republicans in North Carolina are moving to use teachers to teach anti-abortion lies in school, and other news.
The relevant part starts at the 3:41 mark.
What’s with the Republicans’ pervy fascination with lady parts?
Cracking the Creep 0
In a typically long, tightly reasoned post replete with citations, Chauncey Devega explains that
Such a troubled relationship to the truth would be the stuff of a great comedy sketch if these serious matters did not involve a young person shot dead by a wannabe cop who imagined himself as possessing a license to kill.
The truth can also be inconvenient: by virtue of his actions and character, George Zimmerman is in fact a “creepy cracker.
Do please read the rest to watch Devega rip apart Zimmerman’s defense’s ludicrous attempts to invoke mythological “reverse racism.”*
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“Reverse racism” means
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I’m white; you’re not.
Therefore I should be treated special.
I wasn’t, and that’s your fault for being.
There’s more to it, but that’s the gist.