May, 2016 archive
Nattering Nabobs of Negativism, Republican Style 0
Coleen Carlstedt-Johnson considers the complaints about Hillary Clinton and decides that there’s no there there. Here’s her take on one of them (emphasis in the original):
Follow the link to see what she said about the others.
Remember, the Clintons have been targets of a quarter-century of conservative calumny. It’s effective to the extent that the lies have been repeated so relentlessly that folks who don’t pay close attention have come to accept them as true.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Press Releases 0
Follow this link and read the story, then look below the fold to see what I think is the most outrageous statement in it.
Cavalcade of Calumny 0
Chris Busby reflects of the media’s inability to dig out from under Donald Trump’s blizzard of lies. A snippet:
From where I sit, the broadcast media doesn’t even try to keep up. Print media is a little better.
They don’t report, not any more. They just repeat.
Let No Stall Remain Unsurveiled 0
Reg Henry marvels at the Tarheel Potty Police and their numerous auxiliaries who would make your business their business. A snippet:
A classic script of right-wing paranoia unfolds. Select a tiny minority to be demonized, act on weird feelings about sexuality and then drag in the Almighty as justification.
Yet it’s a strange sort of Christianity that punishes the powerless and has no comfort for sobbing and confused children.
How Stuff Works, the Defense Procurement Process Dept. 0
My local rag tells the story of a captain who went down with his slip.
Loving said her orders were clear: She needed risque photographs with Riedel so the company president could use them as leverage over the officer who oversaw acquisition for the troubled littoral combat ship program, which Austal had been awarded a $3.5 billion contract to build in 2010.
I think it can be argued that the Navy officer got his foot caught in a military-industrial complex. (Much more at the link.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Inculcate politeness from an early age.
The 28-year-old father had the gun, which he is licensed to carry, when he was taking out the trash and didn’t want people to see it, so he put it in his son’s school bag, police said. The father forgot about the gun and went to work.
No charges will be filed because of course they won’t.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Better, and still nicely under 300k.
Economists’ estimates in the Bloomberg survey for weekly jobless claims ranged from 270,000 to 297,000. The previous week’s figure was unrevised at 278,000.
Wyoming estimated data last week and otherwise there was nothing unusual in the figures, according to the Labor Department.
The four-week moving average of claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, increased to 278,500 from 275,750.
Trumping the Woman Card 0
Josh Marshall tries to figure out just what Trump thinks he can accomplish attacking Hillary Clinton by blaming her for her husband’s imperfections.
Life on the Inside Is Hard 0
The Bundy Bund have discovered that jail is restricted. A snippet from the story at TPM:
Yeah, Bundy wants his gundy back.
Apparently, the Bundy Bund believed that they could take over a Federal Nature Preserve, trash the premises, terrorize the town, and just walk away, Renee, or ride off into the sunset, or something else ending in “get off scot free.”
These fellows must think that John Wayne movies are historical documents, much as the aliens in Galaxy Quest believed in Star Trek.
In other news of the Bundy Bund, legal stuff is taking place.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Who knew that the CSA has a New Jersey brigade?
Thin-Skinned in Blue 0
You really can’t make this stuff up.
(snip)
Despite the fact that the bag carried an image of a cat and the phrase “All Cats Are Beautiful” beneath the letters ACAB, the police insisted it was an acronym for the punk phrase “All Cops Are Bastards”.
What is truly sad is that you don’t have to.
(The report goes on to point out that, in the 1970s–that is almost a half-century ago)–some British punk band that I never heard of had some song that I never heard called “ACAB” for “All Cops Are Bastards.” It would seem that these cops are trying to bring the music to life.)
