September, 2014 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
Jesse Singal explains how to game the play.
Suffer the Children 0
The Daily Show takes on the border goons.
Excerpt:
If this is Operation Normandy and the children are invading us, wouldn’t that make us the Nazis?
Below the fold because it may autoplay.
Plus ca Change 0
Things that haven’t changed since I was a young ‘un:
The hemline war
The Washington Post reported that Miranda Larkin’s family moved to Florida just eight days before the first day of school. Larkin dressed for classes without realizing that her black skirt was an inch too short for Oakleaf High School’s dress code.
and the hair-length battle.
The boy was sent home from South Plaquemines High School when classes resumed Aug. 8 because his dreadlocks extended beyond the collar of his shirt, in apparent violation of the school dress code.
After he returned to school the following week with his hair pinned up, school officials told the student his dreadlocks remained in violation.
Rastafarians believe Leviticus 21:5 forbids them to cut their hair, and dreadlocks are central to their religious beliefs.
Because conformity is a family value. Freedom of religion and especially freedom of expression are not.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 0
Practice makes politeness.
Roanoke police say a man apparently was shot while at a Northeast Roanoke gun range this morning.
(snip)
Witnesses who were in other lanes of the range at the time told officers that they looked over to see the man injured, Lee said. Police are working to determine how the man came to be shot.
Addendum, the Next Day:
The police have concluded that this was intentional self-politeness.
Rand Gestures 0
Zandar channels Bob Cesca on Rand Paul’s flippity-flops on ISIS. A nugget:
Who does he think he’s fooling with this? Republican primary voters who will flay him leading up to 2016? General election voters who will laugh him out of the room? He knows he’s in trouble . . . .
War and Mongers of War 0
Below the fold in case it autoplays.
Excerpt:
No strategy was our strategy the last time we started a war.
Also, there’s a short commercial, but it’s worth it.
The Regent’s “Skillset” 0
Pap and others discuss the fall of the Regent.
The Congressman probably should have stayed home.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The polite want you to drive drive defensively.
Or else.
Police said 43-year-old Derek Flemming got out of his SUV at the next stoplight, approached the Dodge pickup, and asked the driver: “What’s your problem?”
The other driver then rolled down his window and shot Flemming in the face, killing him, police said.
Legacy, Bushie Style, Reprise 0
Pap discusses how the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq led to today in Iraq.
Marketing the Mayhem 1
In the Roanoke Times, Megan Doney highlights the hypocrisy of the Armament Advertising Agency NRA. A nugget:
“A Good Walk Spoiled” 0
I think he should have used a niblick.
The Fall of the Regency Is Complete 2
There is tragedy in this. I am convinced that, to the end, they will be convinced of their virtue, that they were indeed entitled to these things because they were entitled to these things.
Spill Here, Spill Now 0
Buccaneer Petroleum loses one in court.
. . . But U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier’s ruling could nearly quadruple what the London-based company has to pay in civil fines for polluting the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 spill.
Barbier presided over a trial in 2013 to apportion blame for the spill that spewed oil for 87 days in 2010. Eleven men died after the well blew.
The judge essentially divided blame among the three companies involved in the spill, ruling that BP bears 67 percent of the blame; Swiss-based drilling rig owner Transocean Ltd. takes 30 percent; and Houston-based cement contractor Halliburton Energy Service takes 3 percent.