September, 2017 archive
Where’s the Buck? 0
Pap and Ed Schultz discuss Donald Trump’s DACA dodge. Their conclusion may surprise you.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a leg up on politeness.
QOTD 0
Rex Stout:
In the midst of the most difficult and chaotic problems, I have never missed a meal. A stomach too long empty thins the blood and disconcerts the brain.
Nero Wolfe in Stout, Rex, Some Buried Caesar (New York: Bantam Dell, 2008), p. 192
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When someone comes to help you, treat him or her with politeness.
In a video taken across the street from his Kendall home, a man, believed to be Esquivel, is seen walking up to the AAA contract worker, who is wearing a dark baseball cap and standing behind a white pick up truck. After the two men appear to have a brief argument, the man who approached the worker shoots the worker several times, stands over his body and walks away.
Ryan’s Derp 0
Farron reports the Paul Ryan has trouble on his right flank.
Statues of Limitations 0
One more time, when you hear persons speak nostalgically of “the Lost Cause,” consider what exactly was the cause that was lost.
“The Plain Light of Day” 0
Peter St. Onge, writing at The Charlotte Observer, suggests that that is the one thing that whiteright-wing policies cannot survive.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Just the assault of the Earth, these folks:
Tulsa World reports that 40-year-old Jeremy Thacker was arrested this week after he allegedly ran over 46-year-old Shawn Birdo, a homeless man who was sleeping under an overpass. Thacker also injured two other homeless people — Cynthia Wallace and James Russell — who were sleeping under the overpass near Birdo.
Additionally, police say that Thacker hit another man in the head with a pipe outside of a convenience store shortly before his fatal attack on Birdo.
More Trumpery at the link.
H/T Badtux.
