2019 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Get a leg up on politeness.
Aside:
Clearly, this fellow is competent to pack heat.
Also, pigs, wings.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald skewers the Alabama Attorney-General Marshall’s claim that “he would never use the law as a means to politcal ends.” A state court recently ruled that a hastily-passed Alabana law to protect Confederate monuments was unconstitutional; Archibald argues that Marshall’s decision to appeal that court’s ruling is as political as it gets. A snippet:
Marshall will do everything in his power to make sure places like Birmingham and people like the descendants of slaves have no say in whether the monuments to the Confederate Lost Cause stand on their land and in their faces like a giant middle finger.
Petty Arseny 0
Shorter Donald Trump: I’ll take your ball and go home.
QOTD 0
Charles James Fox:
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
Aside:
He was speaking of George III of England, but the words still ring true, do they not?
Winter Morning 0
H/T Susan for the pic.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Again, politeness is child’s play.
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
Misdirectioned Play
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You can argue that it’s also a misdirection play, as Russia is over there———————>.
Suffer the Children 0
Donald Trump’s government shutdown is now taking food out of the mouths of children.
Vance County Schools officials announced on Facebook late Tuesday that lunch menus “have been revised to a minimum level to conserve food and funding” starting Jan. 21. The county is about 50 miles northeast of Durham, along the Virginia state line.
More at the link.
Parks and Wreck 0
The San Francisco Chronicle looks at the Trumpling of the national parks. A snippet:
But that 2013 shutdown, he said, was “a stewardship act”: Without employees on duty to manage and provide stewardship, the parks would be vulnerable. “I think we’re actually seeing that play out now,” he added.
Wildlife has been dining on garbage that normally would be collected and secure — a wildlife buffet that contributed to the decision to close Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and raised dangers of human-bear encounters at parks from Yosemite in California to Big Bend in Texas.
Much more disturbing stuff at the link.
Phoning It In 0
All you folks who just had babies, remember, in just 13 years, you will have a teenager.
