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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to the love of your life.

The elderly male told deputies he was in a room by himself testing out a new magazine he had purchased for his 45 caliber handgun. He loaded the magazine and placed it into the gun. He pulled the slide back on the gun and loaded a bullet into the gun to make sure the magazine would feed the bullets reliably.

According to the man, after loading the gun he removed the magazine and went to pull back the gun’s slide to remove the live bullet. That is when the gun suddenly went off and the bullet traveled through the wall into the adjoining room where his wife was seated.

Had the wife been packing, no doubt she could have prevented this.

Just ask the NRA.

Afterthought:

The whole damn country is suffering from lead poisoning.

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Facebook Facial Frolics 0

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QOTD 0

Gertrude Stein:

We are always the same age inside.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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The Elephant in the Doom 0

GOP Elephant standing at a microphone as a man with a head shaped like a gun and labeled

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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Bot Nut 0

Reg Henry waxes poetic.

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Secret Source 0

Donald Trump to Jared Kushner as Fox News appears on the television:  Jared, would you please leave the room while I get my security breifing?

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Surprise your neighbor with politeness.

The noise from the gunshot jolted her awake at 3 in the morning. She heard a knock at the door a short time later, but was afraid to answer.

She says the gunshot turns out to have been accidentally fired by a neighbor, who was cleaning their assault rifle.

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Hey! Rubio! 0

Banner:  Get Yours Today:  the New, Improved MR-15 Marco Rubio Assault Rifle.  Diagram of rifle pointing out its parts:  Rapid firing hollow talking point that also fire thoughts and prayer; extra water reserve;

Via Juanita Jean.

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“There Are Lies, Damned Lies, and Then There’s the Trump Administration” 0

Warning: Language, and lots of it.

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QOTD 0

Oscar Wilde:

True friends stab you in the front.

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Profiteers of Misery 0

Part One.

Part Two:

Aside:

Brodock is quite correct about doctors’ not knowing how much health care costs. When I told my doctor how much one prescription he gave me cost, he nearly fell off his chair. It was almost 10 times the cost of an equivalent over-the-counter nutritional supplement. He okayed my using the OTC product.

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Delta of Venal, Reprise 0

Jay Bookman calls BS on Georgia Republicans and their attempt to punish Delta Airlines by taking away an (unneeded–Delta is quite profitable) tax break. A snippet (emphasis in the original):

(Georgia Lt. Gov.–ed.) Cagle also writes:

“Being a conservative in America today means being ridiculed and belittled by many elements of the news media, Hollywood, and – increasingly – corporations who feel the need to take positions on social issues.”

Cry me a river, snowflake.

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Trade Wars and Mongers of Trade Wars 0

Image One:  Trump says,

Click for the original image.

Jared Bernstein looks at the bigger picture.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness is no joke.

Officers then began to investigate the scene and spoke with Brown who told police the shooting was an accident after the two were joking about a social media post called, “Why are you lacking,” according to court documents.

Brown allegedly told police he grabbed the gun off of a coffee table and pointed at Crews and did not realize the weapon was loaded, police said.

Brown allegedly pulled the trigger and said he saw the flash from the gun and then realized Crews was shot in the face, police said.

Guns and stupid do seem to seek each other out, do they not?

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The Volume of Volumes 0

Two publications:  A think book labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Jammin’ 0

The one cat is fascinated by the printer (the other cat doesn’t give a damn, but he loves him his grocery bags). Whenever printing is going on, she’s there.

Cat watching printer output.

Shortly after this picture was taken, she stepped on the output tray so as to read the output or whatever the heck she thought she was going to do and caused a paper jam.

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Republican Family Values 0

Boy, Republicans sure value themselves them families!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

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QOTD 0

Edmund Burke:

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

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Walleye Pikers 0

People who live in glass houses . . . .

The glamorous $5 billion campus, called Apple Park and built for more than 13,000 employees, was championed by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as a temple of design. He believed that the campus’ glass-encased, ring-shaped centerpiece could become “the best office building in the world.” But in January, as office workers began moving in after five years of construction, several employees walked into glass panes. It is unclear how many people hurt themselves, but The Chronicle found at least three incidents in a review of 911 audio and incident reports obtained from Santa Clara County in a public records request.

Three people suffered head injuries, including a middle-aged man who hit his head so hard against a glass window that he was bleeding on his eyebrow and expected to have stitches, according to 911 audio (for a transcript of the calls, click here).

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