Preference Cascade? The Anchorage Assembly’s power over public testimony to the body: Richard Evans [was allowed] to testify early, because Evans was taking time off from one of his three jobs to testify Tuesday. Evans, a painter with dried paint on his hands, said his right to free speech was something his pilot father fought [...]
awaiting the retaliation How will DammitJanet respond, I wonder…. “What does not make sense in the information you provided is that Customs and Border Control used [around 14 million] rounds for operational purposes when they rarely fire their guns,” [Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), chairman of the House’s Subcommittee on National Security] said. “It seems [...]
who said this? “To be totally reliant on what government does for us, instead of also doing for ourselves what we have the capacity to do for ourselves, is, to me, too narrow a focus,”
and Delicious …Racism is a resource and like every other resource, it’s in danger of running out. We hit Peak Racism decades ago. Peak Sexism peaked even earlier. Even Peak Homophobia peaked a while back. The cool kids are trying to push Islamophobia while peddling worn copies of Edward Said’s Orientalism that the campus book [...]
TV We caught this little movie last nite: The Seige Anyone seen it? Not particularly good; just eerily prescient….
what, now? NASA’s Langley Research Center has collated data proving that “greenhouse gases” actually block up to 95 percent of harmful solar rays from reaching our planet, thus reducing the heating impact of the sun. whaaa????? NASA’s Langley Research Center instruments show that the thermosphere not only received a whopping 26 billion kilowatt hours of [...]
right out loud Maher on his show, “whateveritis” [4/19/13], interviewing Brian Levy, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism [helluva career choice, Briiiian] at California State University in San Bernardino about the Boston Bombers [no, not the roller skating team]: MAHER: …I mean, if you read what the older brother [...]
bullpoo flinging Rep. Doug Lamborn (R) of Colorado began quoting from what he said was an unclassified version of the DIA report, which has not yet been made public… ‘DIA assess with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles. However, the reliability will be low.’ …a day ago, [...]
or – not enuff coffee …the ‘anti-drone hoodie’ [from] Stealth Wear… is a hooded shawl made of a silver-fiber material that is …”intended to thwart overhead thermal surveillance from drones.” wait for it… …they are inspired “by Muslim dress: The burqa and the scarf,” he adds. “Conceptually, these garments align themselves with the rationale behind [...]
desk clearing day Gun horror is not a productive emotion, but learned helplessness disguised as moral superiority.
heatin’ it up dumbin’ it down [Democrat Harry Reid:] “One of the things in sequester is we cut back in training and maintenance. That’s the way sequester was written. It’s just not appropriate, Mr. President, that our military can’t train and do the maintenance necessary. These men and women were Marines who were training there [...]
March 18, 2013 – 10:01 am
[Supreme Court justice George Sutherland:] “The right to life, liberty and property are bound together to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty is to take from him all that makes life worth living. To give him liberty but to take from him the property which [...]
March 17, 2013 – 11:09 am
In the Middle Ages, rats were put on trial for eating crops. Today we put guns on trial for killing people.* AD
so sad “It seems to me that all of us should begin as our foundational document with the Constitution,” Cruz began. “And the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights provides the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Cruz explained that the same phrase, “the right of the [...]
and Quality of Life Cheap is good. Money is scarce. But sometimes it’s worth spending that extra buck. Like paper plates. Sure, I can get ‘em for .007¢ apiece. But you hafta use seven of ‘em or they become instant Dali painting and there’s your yummy dinner *pl000p* on your shoe. Why not spring for [...]
EoTW! Use this thread to report sightings of the below threatened consequences… – Bears eating tourists in National Parks [State Park bear munching to be reported on another form as CA Parks are $52M in the black.] – Old Ladies being forced to eat Poor Children. – Dead Teachers by the side of the freeway. [...]
February 27, 2013 – 9:16 am
— Lying — Incompetent — all of the above If the DoT is forced thru the sequester [kinda like a sieve] it will lose 0.012% of its $$$. That’s $1B out of $79B. They say that means they cannot fund the currently funded TSA feel-coppers. Because PANIC. Also Rethuglicannnz. Republicans point out that last summer [...]
February 12, 2013 – 7:45 am
GumbyOTUS Now that the election is over, Teh iWon has his “more flexibility.” So which issue do ya think he’s gonna hit hard enough in his SOTU tonite to create a hashtag? “Climate Change” — #Brrrrrrr #DarkInHere? “Gun Safety” — #NowIsTheTime #ForMeNotForThee #TheCheckIsInTheMail&c.+WeWillProtectYou Drone-Splattering American Citizens Across Foreign Landscapes — #iDecide #ShutUpHeExplained Drone Observing American [...]
