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2014 archive

A Picture Is Worth 0

Movie theatre shooter to victim:

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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Bully’s Pulpit 0

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Spilled container of movie popcorn.  Call out pointing to it:

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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QOTD 0

Euripides:

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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Remember Summer 0

Butterfly

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Treat your friends politely.

According to police, Colton Cline and Tyler Fetter were hanging out at Cline’s Lux Road home just after noon when Cline fired one shot.

“The intent was not homicide. We believe it was a reckless act,” police Chief John Otto told Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE.

More guns would, no doubt, have kept this from happening.

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News, Ripped from the Ticker 0

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School for Scamdal 0

The three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and Republican talking points.

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Cereal Killers 0

Bob Cesca discusses protecting yourself from aggressive popcorn.

Just read it.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another husband practices familial politeness.

A Crafton man shot his estranged wife in the head early Wednesday and then turned the gun on himself, leaving three young daughters behind, Allegheny County officials said.

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Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0

Still over 300k,
But no emergency, okay?

Jobless claims decreased by 2,000 to 326,000 in the week ended Jan. 11, the least since the end of November, from a revised 328,000 in the prior period, a Labor Department report showed today in Washington.

(snip)

The four-week average of jobless claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, declined to 335,000 from 348,500 the week before.

The number of Americans receiving extended benefits under federal programs rose by about 63,500 to 1.35 million in the period ended Dec. 28, the last week of the emergency unemployment compensation.

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“If You Call Them, They Will Come” 1

Republican dog whistle politics and the destruction of the middle class:

Via C&L, which also links to the transcript.

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QOTD 0

Dorothy Day:

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

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The Republican War on Women 0

If she’s in a nightie, he’s not responsible for what he does.

After taking a drubbing in last year’s state elections, Virginia Republicans are debating whether their party has come to be defined by its extremists. But in a congressional district in Northern Virginia, one of the state’s main instigators of culture warfare, state Sen. Richard H. “Dick” Black, is running in the Republican primary to replace longtime GOP moderate Rep. Frank Wolf. And he’s guaranteed to ignite wedge-issue passion. Exhibit A: As a state legislator, Black opposed making spousal rape a crime, citing the impossibility of convicting a husband accused of raping his wife “when they’re living together, sleeping in the same bed, she’s in a nightie, and so forth.”

No self-awareness, no self-awareness whatsoever.

More Neanderthalism (with apologies to actual Neanderthals) at the link.

Aside:

I was living in Northern Virginia when Frank Wolf started to get national attention. He was not a “GOP moderate” then.

He hasn’t changed. His party has.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 0

Surprised by politeness.

A loaded .45-caliber handgun was seized Monday at the Osceola County Courthouse from a man showing up for a child-custody case, Kissimmee police said. Luis A. Castillo was detained shortly after 2 p.m. when security officers spotted the weapon during an X-ray check of his briefcase, records show.

Castillo said he did not know he was armed because he recently switched briefcases.

Now that’s responsible, being polite without even realizing it.

Addendum:

PoliticalProf defines “responsible gun owner.”

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Chris-Crossed: the Jam Session 0

Via the Inky.

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Everybody Must Get Fracked 0

Warning: Language.

Via C&L.

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Cooch’s Parting Shots 0

Always a fighter, I reckon:

During his final days as attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli released a pair of nonbinding opinions that can be read as legal arguments against Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s campaign pledges to fight for gay rights and undo abortion restrictions.

Fortunately, Governor McAuliffe seems to be choosing to disdain Cooch’s bigotry.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed Executive Order Number 1 at the Capitol of Virginia on Saturday, which prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities in Virginia state government. McAuliffe signed the Executive Order immediately following his inauguration.

It’s safe to say we haven’t heard the last of the Cooch and the rest of the Cuckoos.

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The Garden of Deregulation 0

Because corporations can be trusted to do the right thing.

The Colbert Report
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Everybody Must Get Fracked 0

If fracking is okay for the environment, why did the industry hire the same advertising agency that told you tobacco doesn't cause cancer?

Via BartCop.

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