2013 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Do not feign politeness.
And, in more news of the inadvertently polite . . .
If more persons packed heat, this no doubt would not have happened, because polite.
School for Scamdal 0
Blue Gal explains Benghazi:
Better Ensure No Girl Hilary Accesses the Zone of Influence.
Listen to the whole thing.
City Lights 0
Virginia Beach is not a city.
Virginia Beach, as much as I love my home state (you can take a Virginian out of Virginia, but you can’t take Virginia out of Virginian), is a suburb with a thyroid condition.
This is a city.
Philadelphia.
A city.
Light Bloggery 0
Family matters through Monday.
47 Shopping Days until Christmas 0
Early Christmas shopping? Paul Collins explains that the backstory is not what you might think. A nugget:
The December rush on stores, Kelley explained, brought “a bitter inversion of the order of holiday cheer” for overwhelmed clerks and delivery boys. Early shopping was part of Kelley’s crusades for child labor laws and an eight-hour workday, because the last few weeks before Christmas were exactly when overtime and seasonal child labor were most abused.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
DIY politeness at the Home Depot.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
A little better.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure, fell to 348,250 last week from 357,500 the prior week.
Economists’ estimates in the Bloomberg survey ranged from 323,000 to 350,000. The prior week’s claims were revised from an initially reported 340,000.
In an almost-unprecedented aberration, Bloomberg’s “experts” got it right.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
If you wonder why the Republican Party is so determined to gut out the vote, just read this.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When it comes to politeness, don’t chicken out.
Investigators said that the victim had attempted to drive around an older brown Buick Regal which appeared to be stalled in the drive-thru line when the suspect got out of the passenger’s side of the car and began cursing.