August, 2014 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your life partner.
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“We found Jane hysterical, stating she had shot her husband,” Winslow Police Chief Shawn O’Leary said Sunday morning about the officers’ arrival at the house. Winslow EMS and Delta Ambulance also responded to the emergency 911 call.
(Anti-)Drug Cartels 0
Frank Carabino has a few thoughts about drug cartels.
Not, not those drug cartels–the other drug cartels, the ones that profit from warring on drugs. A snippet (much more at the link):
Expanding public access to legal marijuana is bad for business.
Locking people up for minor drug offenses and maintaining a monopoly on the bountiful pain-relief industry are two aspects of the status quo that law enforcement and physician groups have an interest in maintaining.
His point regarding law enforcement is obvious. Warring on drugs has been been a prime source of funding and power for police agencies; it’s also brought them lots of cool toys (as we have recently seen displayed in Ferguson) and property. In addition, it enables them to feed the prison industrial complex with thousands of new captives every year.
We are not normally so willing to view the actions of medical associations so cynically, but do not confuse your kindly family practitioner with his or her professional association. Remember that the AMA coined the term “socialized medicine” over half a century ago in its campaign against President Truman’s effort to improve Americans’ access to health care for fear it might cut into its members’ wealth. You don’t get much more cartel-ly than that.
Close Encounters of the Repugnant Kind 0
Connie Schultz had one recently. Read her report.
Hate Sells. It Also Pays 0
Chauncey Devega gives an example.
“Family Values Republicans” = Endless Amusement 0
Now comes the Regent, another “Family Values Republican” whose self-vaunted “family values” are revealed as a sounding brass, a tinkling cymbal, signifying nothing.
Today the Regent says, “I don’t blame my wife,” even as he blames his wife.
Remember, in Republican World, “Family Values” are not values.
They are tactics.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Let the young discover politeness.
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Police say the boy discovered a gun, which went off while he or a playmate was handling it. The 3-year-old sustained a head wound.
Wars and Mongers of War 0
George Smith. Read it.
On the Ground in Ferguson, Mo. 0
Chez reports from the scene. (Among other topics, he addresses the reality of those reputed “outside agitators.”)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness builds family values.
We’re told Detroit Police investigators are trying to get to the bottom of exactly happened next. What we know for sure is that the officer’s reported mistress was shot in the thigh.
