June, 2014 archive
The Never-Ending Story, NRA Style 0
Yet another is sacrificed to bring forth Gun Nut Paradise.
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The victim was identified a 14-year-old freshman Emilio Hoffman, who was “loved by all,” police Chief Scott Anderson said at a Tuesday news conference. He said Emilio was found in the boys’ locker room.
“Good guys with guns” is a myth, a lie, a fairytale, a stimulant for the diminutive phallus brigade, a marketing ploy, a sounding bell and a tinkling cymbal signifying nothing–nothing other than more sales for the Merchants of Death.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Unintentional politeness is the politest kind.
The friend told sheriff’s deputies that he did not realize the gun was loaded.
Cantor Can’t 0
Unfortunately, the fellow who bested him in the primary is even loonier.
None Dare Call It “Terrorism” 0
Dick Polman wonders why suicide shooters are not described as terrorists. A nugget:
Here’s a little test: What if the shooters hadn’t been white Americans (a married couple, “the Millers”)? What if, instead, the shooters had been extremist Muslims who covered the dead cops with an Al Qaeda flag and yelled “Allahu Akbar”? Rest assured, we’d all be invoking the T-word in a climate of national hysteria, with Fox News fulminating about the lone wolves roaming among us.
Pakistan has suicide bombers. We have suicide shooters.
Other than the choice of weaponry, there is no damn difference between the two.
Everybody Must Get Fracked, Inconvenient Truth Dept. 0
Facing South reports:
Though a state investigation — conducted by the Texas Railroad Commission in response to an official complaint filed by landowner and Parker County resident Steve Lipsky — said it found the chemical analysis of the water inconclusive, experts shown the results say the commission was simply wrong. “And not just by a little,” reports local ABC-affiliate WFAA News who shared the results with several scientists, “but by a lot.”
Do read the rest, then answer this essay question:
Why did the official scientists get it wrong?
Suicide Shooters, the Sequel(s) 0
Field expects more. A nugget:
You can only foam at the mouth for so long over your computer keys, and shoot beer cans in your backyard before you want to act out on the hate that has been building up for years from listening to
whiteright wing hate radio, and conspiracy nuts like Glen Beck and Alex Jones.
The Rich Are Different from You and Me 0
They have ways to get out of jail for free.
Cenk is sometime a bit over-the-top, even for me, but not here.
Real Big Men 0
The bogie man will get you if you call the cops on the diminutive phallus brigade.
All the News that Fits 0
Wendell Potter wonders whether the establishment press attended the same Senate hearing as he. A nugget:
The focus of all those stories was a brief exchange toward the end of the hearing between Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin about whether the color of President Obama’s skin might explain why some people are opposed to the law.
In politics news, as in entertainment reporting, it’s all about celeb gossip. In politics news, though, real events, data, and statistics matter, but the gossip is what reporters give us.
School for Scamdal 0
Sam Seder and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., explain the scam.
Quid pro Quo 0
Today’s Virginia Republican Party, aided by a turncoat Democrat, could give corruption lessons to Jimmy Hoffa.
Suicide Shooters Strike Again 0
Gun nut paradise approacheth apace, as suicide shooters commit yet another act of gun nut terrorism.
Residents at an apartment complex where it appeared the two lived together said they had a reputation for spouting racist, anti-government views, bragging about their gun collection and boasting that they’d spent time at Cliven Bundy’s ranch during a recent standoff there between armed militia members and federal government agents.
In related news, Leonard Pitts, Jr., explodes their myth that the Old West was a John Wayne movie:
