June, 2014 archive
Legacy, Bushie Style 0
The Booman sums up the wreckage left by President George the Worst:
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
One veteran employee says she was instructed not to return phone calls from residents who expressed health concerns about natural gas development.
“We were absolutely not allowed to talk to them,” said Tammi Stuck, who worked as a community health nurse in Fayette County for nearly 36 years.
Another retired employee, Marshall P. Deasy III, confirmed that.
Deasy, a former program specialist with the Bureau of Epidemiology, said the department also began requiring field staff to get permission to attend any meetings outside the department. This happened, he said, after an agency consultant made comments about drilling at a community meeting.
In the more than 20 years he worked for the department, Deasy said, “community health wasn’t told to be silent on any other topic that I can think of.”
No doubt this was because there is no chance that pumping large quantities of secret, likely toxic, liquids into the earth with enough pressure to break rock deep under the ground is as safe as a pillow fight at a elementary-school sleepover.
Also, pigs, wings.
Much, much more at the link.
Via C&L.
Porous 0
Bob Molinaro sees some weaknesses in the D.
Add NCAA If college athletics aren’t meant to be entertainment, I want Emmert to explain all the basketball games that TV schedules for 9 p.m. on school nights.
Droning On 0
(Emphasis added.)
(snip)
But hobbyists have been relatively free to operate drones in public areas, provided they stay below 400 feet and are flown away from populated areas and full-scale aircraft.
A lawyer who represents drone enthusiasts called the NPS’ temporary ban “overly broad” and said he expects it will be greatly narrowed when it goes through the federal rule-making process.
. . . because their right to self-gratification (and drone-mounted spycams) outweighs everyone else’s right to peace and quiet and privacy in the wilderness.
And, in other drone-related news, the sky is indeed falling.
Mystery Solved 0
We are sharing a flat with Sheddinger’s cat.
At the Heels of the Heeled 0
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s James E. Causey spends a day with someone who openly packs heat, a whatchamaycallem open-carrier who is concerned, he says, with self-defense. A nugget:
I wonder what it’s like to feel the need to be armed wherever you go, to walk the aisles of Target and Walmart and even your local bank wrapped in fear . . . .
Dustbiters 0
More banks blanked.
It’s difficult to tell from the press releases whether the valleys are related.
Twits on Twitter 0
Yet another racist twit who wishes to use “freedom of speech” as a cloaking device for bigotry.
Soooeeee! Soooeee! Here Pig! Pig! Pig! 0
What happens in Vegas . . . .
Rounding Error 0
Inquiring minds want to know.
(I also want to know the name of the restaurant, so I can avoid it.)
Nitty-Gritty 2
Getting to the gritty-nitty:
According to Holley’s arrest report, The two men lived next door to one another. Holley and Blacknell fought regularly and their latest disagreement started Tuesday night. Police did not say what started the argument but a witness said it was over an insignificant issue.
Afterthought:
Properly cooked grits should not be greasy, at least, not until you add the red-eye gravy.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Neighborly politeness.
“The damn gun doesn’t usually shoot,” he said, according to the arrest report. “You have to squeeze the hell out of the trigger to shoot it.”
In more news of the polite, at least one person knew to check whether his gun was loaded. It was.
Now, about those intelligence tests . . . .
