2013 archive
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
No surprise here, as teabaggery takes it toll.
(snip)
The partial government shutdown this month trimmed 0.25 percentage point from fourth-quarter economic growth and cost the U.S. 120,000 jobs in October, Jason Furman, head of the Council of Economic Advisers, said at a White House briefing earlier this week.
Economists’ estimates in the Bloomberg survey for jobless claims ranged from 320,000 to 365,000 after the prior week’s previously reported 358,000. Applications surged in prior weeks as California worked through a backlog caused by a switch in computer systems.
The four-week average of claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, increased to 348,250 last week from 337,500. No states were estimated last week.
Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen! 0
Faded glory.
I remember seeing her traversing the Chesapeake when I was a young ‘un.
There’s a picture of her at the link.
QOTD 0
Horace Greeley:
The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Afterthought:
By this measure, Wall Street is the heart of darkness.
Cooch and the Cuckoos: Support Slip-Sliding Away 0
Longest serving Virginia Republican in the Virginia General Assembly endorses McAuliffe.
Via The Richmonder.
Facebook Frolics 0
Barnum was wrong.
There’s more than one born every minute.
Susie Sampson’s Sister’s* Silly Sports 0
The incoherence of some of the answer is astounding.
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*Will the real Susie Sampson please stand up?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
“How many more?” indeed.
I got my answer sooner than I expected. Another gun for safety’s sake:
Ringhardt left the handgun on a table and went into another room to take a nap. When she awoke, she found the 5-year-old boy lying in the living room with a gunshot wound.
The child is dead and sitter is in jail.
And in news for the polite, it’s not a good idea to leave your politeness stick in an unlocked garage.
Cooch and the Cuckoos Vex the Polity 0
In this case, it’s one of the cuckoos, Lt. Gov. candidate E. W. “Fire and Brimstone” Jackson, who’s backpedaling.
The evangelical Christian minister from Chesapeake has been on the defensive for declaring in a sermon in Northern Virginia last month that people who don’t follow Jesus Christ “are engaged in some sort of false religion.”
Note that he said it just last week; it’s not something dredged up, as they say, from the deep dark past.
Follow the link for his lame attempts to paint his comments as rational.
I’d like to say more, but I’m rather speechless. I think his conduct speaks quite nicely for itself, though.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Simulated politeness has a price.
How many more?
History Lessons 0
Bill Maxwell has been reading his son’s history assignments and has discovered something about teabaggery: Its willful misreading of history.
A nugget:
More history at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential on the school bus.
Stray Thought 0
Senator Ted Cruz is the reincarnation of Senator Joe McCarthy.
Different topics, same tactics.
Shutdown Shenanigans 0
When I lived on the Main Line a long time ago, I always looked forward to Clark DeLeon’s writing; he had a delightful column on bits and pieces in the Metro (I forget exactly what it was called) section. Eventually, he left the Inky and I left the Main Line.
Recently, he was back in the Inky writing about the recent Republican decision to ungovern America. A nugget:
“Pardon me, Is the majority always drunk?”
Theft of Services 0
What happens when public responsibilities are taken over by private(eers).
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Today has been a blood-red letter day for politeness.
More guns will, no doubt, prevent this from happening again.