June, 2014 archive
“Frankenstein Politics” and Cantor Can’t 0
Via Delaware Liberal, where cassandra_m quotes this bit:
Carol Leifer: “Vote, and get a free bobblehead!”
Richard Clarke: “We do!”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite at the old ball game.
National Collegiate Cartel Athletic Association
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Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire*:
Certainly it would “change the fabric.” The fabric is rotten and corrupt; it allows old men, like CBS Sports presidents, NCAA executives, and college presidents and coaches, to profit from the uncompensated labor of the young by labeling them as “amateurs,” when they are in fact professionals.
(You do know what a “professional” is, do you not? A “professional” is someone who takes money for it. An “athletic scholarship” is money. Q. E. D.)
Our society has become based on theft of labor.
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*I’m pretty much fed up with professional sports (this includes college sports, for reasons made clear above), with the possible exception of major league baseball, but I always read Bob Molinaro’s columns because he is one damned fine writer. You should too.
The Negotiation Dance 0
I spent almost a quarter of a century in the railroad industry.
I never saw a strike last more than a day or two. This sort of stuff is routine. It’s part of the dance.
It’s called “regulation.”
“Regulation” helps make stuff work in an orderly fashion.
Cantor Can’t 0
I am too far away from 7th district to know whether Lee Camp is correct, but I know enough about Cantor’s cant to know that claims that he was not wingnut enough are a load of hooey.
Eric Cantor could give lessons in wingnut.
Life in the Garden of Winchester 0
Gun nut paradise approacheth apace.
Follow the link. Read the rest.
Everybody Must Get Fracked . . . 0
. . . even if they just say no.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There’s nothing quite like brotherly politeness.
A six-year-old child is recovering from a reported accidental shooting.
Ector County Sheriff deputies say the child was accidentally shot by his 15-year-old sibling.
Suffer the Children 0
And that’s exactly what Maine’s Republican governor is attempting to do, right along with their parents, quite illegally, by the way.
The Republican Party, the place where mean is cool.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness shows potential.
In this case, the potential was not realized.
Police are searching for a suspect.
Corruption Costs 0
The most corrupt states in the nation, according to Department of Justice prosecution data.
Facing South reports on the findings in The Impact of Public Officials’ Corruption on the Size and Allocation of U.S. State Spending by Cheol Liu of the City University of Hong Kong and John L. Mikesell of Indiana University at Bloomington. The “corruption rankings” were based on the number of public officials convicted of violating corruption laws.
A nugget:
The average “corruption gap” annually per capita? $1,308.
“This implies that the nine most corrupt states could have spent $1,308 less annually per capita, on average, if they had succeeded in maintaining only an average corruption level,” Liu and Mikesell write.
. . . Or the thirteen hundred bucks per capita could have been used fix potholes and schools, rather than to fix the game.
Wars and Mongers of War (Updated) 0
In the warmonger’s world, more war for more lies for more lives is always the answer (warning: language).
And the old men keep right on lying.
Bloodthirsty narcissistic bastards.
Addendum:
George Smith notes the lust for war amongst those who will not have to fight:
More blood is always the solution for those who remain safely in the rear.
