January, 2015 archive
Snown’t Go There 0
This is odd, if you get my drift.
Barbara Davis, 61, was arrested after allegedly attacking her 60-year-old neighbor, causing “minor injuries.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness must start at an early age.
“Business Experience” 0
Daniel Ruth reviews the record of Jeb “Oh God Please Not Another” Bush. A snippet:
The Miami Herald has reported that between 2007 and 2010, the Cash McCall of Miami served as a board member and consultant to InnoVida, which sounds a bit like Lucille Ball’s tipsy commercial for Vitameatavegamin, and was about as successful.
For all that keen consulting, Bush, R-Betamax, hauled in a cool $15,000 a month. InnoVida was supposed to manufacture lightweight building materials for affordable housing, which sounds like a bully idea. But the firm went belly up in bankruptcy court and its founder, Claudio Osorio, went to the federal slammer for 13 years for running a Ponzi scheme.
There’s more. Lots more.
And, in related news . . . .
Torturous Reasoning 0
In a letter to the editor of the Roanoke Times, J. D. Hansard observes:
After 9/11, we were faced with a group of murderous and cruel enemies, but they had no army, no air force and no navy. They lacked weapons of mass destruction. But Cheney and Bush decreed that the threat to us was so great that we must abandon George Washington’s idealism.
Read the rest.
It’s Comcastic! 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Full Disclosure:
When I lived in Comcast territory, my Comcast service was excellent. But that was then . . . .
Mitt the Flip Diva
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Mitt flips his hat out of into out of* the ring while Steven M. sums it up. A nugget:
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention my favorite line from the Times story:
He (Romney—ed.) added that it was “unlikely” that he would change his mind.
Oh, for crissake, Mitt. Just stop. We know this is killing you and you still want to leave the door open a teeny, tiny, crack, but it’s closed, it’s locked, and it’s bolted. Nice knowing you. Now go away.
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*As of this afternoon. Tomorrow is another day.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Reports of the polite keep pouring in.
It turns out the shooting was accidental and self-inflicted. The man shot himself in the leg, officials said.
The Galt and the Lamers 0
Whom someone admires says much a person (and about a political party).
Timing Is Everything . . . 0
. . . and there is no good time for a washing machine to overflow.
Yesterday was interesting.
#SwipeDeniers 0
GOP Health Plan: Don’t Get Sick. If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly 0
John Romano comments on those states that still refuse to expand Medicaid so as to take full advantage of the Affordable Care Act:
How about Florida, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Nebraska and Wisconsin? They all lag behind the U.S. average for percentage of residents 25 or older with bachelor’s degrees, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
And how about Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia? They’re among the states with the highest number of convictions of public officials in federal court from 1976 to 2010, according to the website FiveThirtyEight.com.
Do read the rest.
