March, 2015 archive
Pretzel Logic 0
One thing about growing up in the Jim Crow South was this: Racists, along with their sympathizers and apologists, did not have to twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they weren’t being racist. They just admitted it.
Patriot Games 2
According to Atlanta’s Channel 2 News, conservative “patriot” Michael Sibley confessed to police that he was trying to educate people that terror strikes can happen anywhere and without warning when he planted the bombs last November.
Words fail me.
And You Thought the Days of Airplane Hijackings Were in the Past . . . 0
You were, as my old boss used to say, “in error.”
Stray Thought 0
Evil is evil and stupid is stupid and ever the twain shall meet.
And then, for the cherry on top of the sundae, there’s tedcruz.com.
Alternate Universe 0
The Rude One lets his imagination take flight.
The Suckers Took the Bait 2
The geeks were biting that day, and the anglers reeled in a big haul. (Details at the link.)
Bit-coin is little more than three-card monte with added electrons.
“Where’s the Birth Certificate?” 0
Bob Cesca tears into the big pile of IOKIYAR in Ted Cruz’s backpack. Here’s a sample.
Read the rest. It’s a sociological study in Republican hypocrisy.
Be Careful Out There . . . 0
. . . because the next person ain’t.
Theft of Labor–It’s a Thing 0
“Right to work” laws are not about the right to work. They are about the right to underpay for work. They are a fraud and a scam, dressed up in a three-piece suit.
If the Republican Party could have its way, it would bring back the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, because only regulations can prevent more Triangle Shirtwaist Factories from happening and, in Republican World, regulations are scarey and bad and impinge on the fee hand of the market.
After all, those Triangle Shirtwaist Factory ladies had the right to work. They were at work when they died, weren’t they?*
While “right-to-work” advocates among business elites claim to be generously protecting the individual freedom of workers to avoid paying union dues, this display of concern is simply “a fraud,” King declared. “Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone.”
Recent data bear out King’s conclusions. The Congressional Research Service concluded in a December, 2012, report that states like Wisconsin, which permitting (sic) “fair-share” or “union-security” provisions showed sharply higher median wages: $50,867 compared with $43,641 in right-to-work states, a 16.5% differential amounting to $7,226 per year. Workers in “right-to-work” states are much less likely to have healthcare and pension benefits as well.
Follow the link. Read the rest.
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*Yeah. I’m in a mood. But it’s a legitimate mood.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The polite always act like gentlemen.
Police in Myrtle Beach have ruled an early morning shooting outside a strip club was an accident.
The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/1OjItMd ) that 24-year-old Christopher John Clarida was charged with unlawfully carrying a weapon after a gun he had discharged about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday outside Derriere’s Gentleman’s Club.
Why the hell would one need a firearm at a strip club? Oh, I forgot. There’s a reason it’s called ammosexuality.
Snake Oil 0
In an article syndicated in the Bangor Daily News, Dana Milbank notes the Republican Party’s novel and creative celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. A snippet:
“We do not rely on gimmicks or creative accounting tricks to balance our budget,” the House Republicans say in the introduction to their fiscal 2016 budget.
True, the budget does not rely on gimmicks. The budget is a gimmick.
