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September, 2015 archive

The Law’s Delay 0

More evidence that a Republican majority is incapable of governance, this from down the road a piece (more at the link):

Krista Ricks, a teacher at Beverly Woods Elementary School, wants North Carolina legislators to know that their foot-dragging on the budget has left her homeless.

It’s not that she’s destitute. She’s working and getting paid.

But until the folks in Raleigh pass a 2015-16 budget, it’s not clear what her salary is. Until her lender can verify her salary, she can’t close on her newly built house, which is finished and waiting for her to move in.

But it’s a public school teacher, so why should they care?

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What It Was, Was Football 0

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Billboard:  Dear Kim Davis, You can't trade your daughter for three goats and a cow.  That means we have already redefined marriage.  (Signed)  PlantingPeace.org

Via Raw Story, which has details.

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Chartering a Course for Disaster 0

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Red Scare, Republican Style 0

Via C&L.

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QOTD 0

Phyllis Diller:

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.

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And Now, a Moment of Zen 0

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Chris-Crossed 0

Afred Doblin points out the, in Chris Christie’s world, being governor means never having to say you’re sorry.

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Religious Freedom, Wingnut Style 0

Checkout clerk to customer:

Via PoliticalProf.

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Drill Here, Drill Now 0

Take that, you cow.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Every time I think it can’t get any crazier, it does.

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The God in the Mirror 0

Tony Norman considers the much-married Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis, her enablers, and their symps, dupes, and fellow travelers. A nugget:

Once again, God was dragged kicking and screaming into the most common of debased religious fantasies — the one that imagines that God is just teeny enough to be reduced to the sum total of one’s own picayune bigotries.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Sexist legal twits.

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iJunk 0

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Donaldo Trumpez 0

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QOTD 0

Charles Mingus:

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

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Cruzin’ 0

Title:  The Apprentice.  Image:  Ted Cruz saying,

Yes, they are intending to shut down the government over a lying video.

Via Juanita Jean.

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“The Sixth Zero” 0

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The Feared Frisbee Lobby 0

The International Olympic Committee has become a parody of itself. Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:

Ultimate Frisbee, if you can believe it, was recently recognized by the International Olympic Committee as a sport, and thus a candidate for inclusion in the Summer Olympics, perhaps by 2024. Well, we once laughed at synchronized swimming, too. Still do, come to think of it.

The concept of “ultimate Frisbee” violates the spirit of Frisbee.

What’s next: Ultimate Simon Says*?

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*Simon says, “Jump off that bridge.”

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Chicken Hawk 0

Dick Cheney looking at Obama's Iran deal and saying,


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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Persons discussing the Republican campaign.  One of them conclues with


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