July, 2014 archive
“Alien Invasion” 0
The Bangor Daily News’s Chris Busby worries about the little green men . . . .
“Oh, my God,” I thought. “The federal government” — long suspected of hiding evidence of extra-terrestrial contact on secret bases in the Nevada desert — “has shipped the spawn of space creatures into our state without alerting the local authorities!”
(snip)
Well, as you can imagine, I was plenty embarrassed when I read the article more closely and realized the “aliens” LePage was warning us about are actually poor little kids from Central America, not gator-faced gremlins from Alpha Centauri.
Read the rest.
Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
- I shot a bullet into the air.
It came to earth I know not where.
All who hear this must now ken
I am the politest of all the men.
“The reality is that the trajectory of that bullet, we can show, came from quite a distance away because one shot was in a higher portion of the window, when it exited, it came at a lower portion of the window,” said Sgt. Jeff Edwards.
Edwards said the bullet could have been fired from as far as two miles away – likely from a rifle.
The stupid, it burns.
Hey! Rubio! Victimology Dept. 0
Shorter Marco Rubio:
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If you don’t tolerate my intolerance, you’re intolerant.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“Obamacare Is Made of People” 0
Jon Stewart tackles the D. C. Federal Court’s fantastickal reasoning for sabotaging the Affordable Care Act.
Below the fold in case it autoplays.
Driven to Distraction 0
Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.
I’ve seen drivers eating, shaving, even reading books propped on their steering wheels at low and high speeds, but I haven’t seen that.
Everybody Must Get Fracked 0
And to hell with them when they do get fracked. Just sacrifice them (emphasis added).
(snip)
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection—which oversees the oil and gas industry—has no ongoing or planned health studies, though it is researching air and water quality at certain sites, Scott Perry, the agency’s director of oil and gas management, said at a media event last month. None of the hundreds of millions of dollars in impact fees the state has collected from the industry since 2011 has gone to state or local health departments.
Revenue for the Plutocracy trumps the well-being of the populace every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Under 300k.
(snip)
The four-week average of jobless claims, considered a less volatile measure than the weekly figure, decreased to 302,000, the lowest since May 2007, from 309,250 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits declined by 8,000 to 2.5 million in the week ended July 12, the fewest since June 2007. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.9 percent, today’s report showed. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
None of Bloomberg’s “experts” were even close. I don’t know why they even bother.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your playmate.
They told officers they believed the gun was unloaded, and that it was fired accidentally.
One boy was hit in the right ankle. He was taken to University Hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening wound, police said.
“It was fired . . . .” I love the passive voice; clearly the gun is the victim here.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
As Republicans stick their fingers in their ears and go “la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.”
Update:
I don’t know what happened to it either. It was there when I wrote the post.
Swamp Things 0
Dick Polman marvels at wingnut opposition to a non-binding U. N. treaty designed to help disabled persons. A snippet (emphasis added):
This is the kind of stuff that passes for deep thought in the fever swamp; nevertheless, most Republican senators owe their jobs to fever-swamp voters. Which means that the odds for ratification approximate the odds of the ’14 Phillies morphing into the ’27 Yankees.
Please do read the whole thing.
