September, 2013 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politely hint that drivers who offend you should change their ways by shooting someone else in a tactful gesture of remonstrance.
The man fired a gun twice, hitting Seago in the leg, arm and chest, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Seago was taken to Tampa General Hospital with what the Sheriff’s Office said were non-life-threatening injuries.
Monetary Policy 0
More like this:
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U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson did not impose a fine, which could have reached $4 billion, but ordered Fields to pay $331 million in restitution, which nears the total loss for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The judge also ordered Fields to forfeit $61.6 million, which is the total of the bad loans tied to him. He also put Fields on five years of probation following prison and ordered him not to work in the banking industry during that time.
Of course, he did not have the instant immunity conveyed by having an office on Wall Street and a home in the Hamptons.
Ditching the Cooch 0
Sessoms is expected to formalize his endorsement today when McAuliffe tours the Virginia Beach Advanced Technology Center along with Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim, a Democrat also supporting McAuliffe.
This is big news in the Commonwealth.
Mayor Sessoms is nominally a Republican, although city elections are officially non-partisan (it is to laugh), but this is a resort town. For all practical matters, “Republican” and “Democrat” don’t matter all that much. What matters is “in the pocket of developers” and “not in the pocket of developers.”
Mayor Sessoms is certainly in the pocket.
His endorsement shows the division in the chart I posted yesterday between the “Corporate Cons” and the “Theocons.” I can’t say that I like his development-at-all-costs orientation, but at least he operates in the real world of trying to get practical things done.
The more our pols operate in the real world, whatever may be their party, the better off we are.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness with pastrami at my local mall just a couple of miles down the road.
A man was shot at the Jason’s Deli near Pembroke Mall on Sunday afternoon.
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An argument between two groups of people escalated to the point that one male produced a gun and shot another man in the shoulder. The injured man made his way to Sears inside the mall and dialed 911.
If he’d walked to the other side of the mall, he could have called 911 from Target, which somehow seems more apt.
Obviously, this means that everyone should be packing.
Shoot First 0
I have no doubt that, if the victim had not been Not White, he would still be alive.
I’m a Southern boy.
No doubt whatever.
The Conflicted Cooch 0
In recent years, the Commonwealth’s Attorney-General post has become a post sought by persons who want to become Governor. In the past, they have resigned when they commenced the gubernatorial race.
Not so the Cooch, and it has led to some difficulties. The Roanoke Times outlines a few:
He’s recused his office from civil and criminal cases that involve Star Scientific Inc., a Henrico-based nutritional supplements manufacturer, and turned them over to private law firms.
Likewise, Cuccinelli’s office had to back away as the prosecutor in a felony theft case it launched against the former chef to Gov. Bob McDonnell and his family at the Executive Mansion.
It has been scorched more recently by questions about the role the office played in allegedly helping a major energy company fighting a lawsuit filed by far Southwest Virginia residents who allege it is extracting gas from their land without paying them for it.
The Richmonder sees no exit:
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet more racist twits.
“Gay Police” 0
A person who stands against the haters.
Last week’s Commonwealth Court ruling ordering the county to stop issuing licenses won’t stop him, either, as long as the couples got their licenses legally.
“If a couple wants to go ahead and do it, I would as well,” Fetterman, 44, said after the ruling Thursday. “If the Health Department wants to send the gay police to come and get me, they’re more than welcome to do that.”
Speaking of the haters, a letter writer to my local rag pretty much summed it up.
Facebook Frolics 0
Using Facebook to find stolen bicycles.
I know that I would be most upset if my bike disappeared. Not just because it’s my bike, but because it came from the Urban Bike Project to which Second Son introduced me and because it’s old, like me, and still functions, like me.
But mostly because it’s fun to ride.
Light Bloggery 0
Somewhere to go, something to do.
A. P. Ticker’s Piggie of the Week 0
Warning: Grim.
The Face of Battle 0
The Face of Battle is a book that attempted to recreate for the reader the front-line soldier’s view of battle at Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. It does not paint the pretty, romantic picture portrayed in your average movie or television show.
I have read it. You should too.
Here, Thom speaks of the face of battle. His words are directed to President Obama, as they were in the context of Syria, but they apply to everyone who casually advocates blowing stuff up (something, it should be noted, that President Obama does and did not do).
