September, 2015 archive
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., decodes de code.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad, according to Northjersey.com
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Employers have added an average of 221,000 jobs a month in the past three months, a solid pace and above the average of 189,000 in the preceding three months. The unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1 percent, a seven-year low.
(I just couldn’t face Bloomberg’s caterwauling about how its “experts” were wrong yet again.)
An Acme of Candidates 0
Reg Henry thinks that the Republican candidates are truly Looney-Tooney. A nugget:
I nominate Bobby Jindal for the part of Wile E. Coyote, Genius.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Vulture capitalists give feathered vultures a bad name.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Proposed headline: Hen House Strikes Back at Fox.
Fox News was found in breach of British broadcast code that says, “Factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual matters must not materially mislead the audience.”
More at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Ensure that children have the opportunity to be polite.
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Mayor Craig Randall said he was told by police that the couple’s 3-year old child was believed to have fired the weapon.
Just another day in NRA Paradise.
The Republican War on Women 0
Bruce Lowry thinks it will be unrelenting through the campaign season. A nugget:
Yet equally difficult to watch are the lengths to which Republican presidential hopefuls will go to thrash Planned Parenthood, a group that has, for the most part, done an awful lot of good while administering vital reproductive health care services, particularly to low-income women. In that frame of reference, the level of viciousness, even from Governor Christie, is hard to register.
Of course, he is quite wrong in the first sentence of the excerpt. There can be no rational debate about an irrational lie, other than to point one’s finger and say, “That’s a lie.”
Textual Interpretation 0
Words fail me. Just read it.
“Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves” 2
Wisconsin Republicans seek new ways to punish the poor for being.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.
Chris-Crossed, Godfather of the Guard Dept. 0
Chris Christie doesn’t seem to be adept at playing soldier, if news coming out of the New Jersey National Guard is any indication. A nugget:
“It’s like the mob,” said Brian K. Scully, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who says he lost his job because he refused to help cover up the general’s affair. “One minute you’re the ‘made man.’ The next, you get a bullet in the back of your head. Only here, it’s career assassination.”
