it burnzzzz Tweet: Robert Griffin III @RGIII In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness 1:41 PM – 30 Apr 2013 12,936 RETWEETS 5,024 FAVORITES REtweet: Aaron Nagler @Aaron_Nagler Oh shut up. RT @RGIII In a land of freedom, we are held hostage by the tyranny of political [...]
April 10, 2013 – 10:37 am
working for …someone The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental groups… information included individual names, email addresses, phone numbers and personal addresses. Though the EPA has already sent out the documents, the agency now says it has since redacted sensitive details and [...]
one for everyone! Here’s how it is in Jolly Ol’… The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) warns employers that they risk ‘potentially costly legal action’ unless they allow staff to follow their ‘religion or belief rights’ in the workplace. Belief rights, eh? This could include giving believers time off to go on pilgrimages, such [...]
a nation of veal calves Microaggressions.
“There oughta be a LAW!!!” …or something In the United States, there are no laws against cannibalism per se… “I’ve got to defend my children, and yours, and do what’s right to save lives,” [Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg] said. … “arbitrary and capricious,” … unworkable and unenforceable, with confusing loopholes and voluminous exemptions. …has anyone [...]
“In Stock & Ready to Ship” Police department buyback programs are one way to get illegal guns off the streets. Sales of these bracelets are raising funds for buyback programs in Newark, New Jersey, and someday in other cities as well. Steel bracelets are made from guns seized by the Newark Police; brass bracelets are [...]
February 15, 2013 – 8:07 am
*blink*blinkblink* Spoken in Congress: We are at the bone almost. And sequester that is across-the-board cuts will literally destroy us and put us in a recession. I don’t want to hear the fact that the president is divisive. The President is leading and he has led well. The American people are listening. When are our [...]
January 25, 2013 – 8:45 am
“I smell mustard….” Jerry Brown, Gov of CA [pictured above] gave the State of Teh State address yesterday. How we doin’, Uncle Jer? We have promises to keep. And the most important is the one we made to the voters if Proposition 30 passed: that we would guard jealously the money temporarily made available. This [...]
December 4, 2012 – 8:18 am
crazed junkies run amok Bob Costas, being too small to actually carry his own opinions, used the Royal We to “quote or paraphrase” some other fella about the crazed murder/suicide of that football player: [Costas, doubling down on the quote marks: ] “But here,” wrote Jason Whitlock,” is what I believe. If Jovan Belcher didn’t [...]
November 14, 2012 – 8:22 am
[California] this week begins auctioning off greenhouse gas emission credits, thereby generating billions of dollars that politicians will spend on programs supposedly connected to reducing global warming. Let’s take another run at that: “…thereby generating billions of dollars from the citizenry of CA that politicians will spend on programs supposedly connected to reducing global warming [...]
October 25, 2012 – 7:48 am
“religious hatred” Maria Alyokhina, 24 [who has a five-year-old son named Filipp] , and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22 [who has a four-year-old daughter named Gera], were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” in August and sentenced to two years in jail… The women’s lawyers said they had tried to argue that they should be allowed [...]
October 20, 2012 – 7:00 am
reasons ‘n’ dots Dot: On Oct. 11, … Labor Department … ["reported"] Jobless claims… had fallen by 30,000 to 339,000, their lowest level since February 2008. …But within hours, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Labor Department analysts announced that one major state had failed to fully document jobless claims. …California Employment Development Department director [...]
October 19, 2012 – 7:00 am
something ain’t right, here The functioning of this outfit is “less than optimal.” (AP) – The CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within 24 hours of last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a spontaneous mob upset about an American-made video [...]
October 17, 2012 – 7:04 am
nevermind the crazy woman in the corner So is it clear yet to anyone that “debates” are the dumbest, least useful way on the planet to choose a leader? JELL-O wrestling would be more effective.
October 9, 2012 – 8:57 am
Let’s join these people tgether Yes, let’s join together all the European states, some of whom have grudges centuries old, yet still lively. Some of whom have within their own borders centuries-old grudges of one village against another. Let’s pretend — because we want to [also: Profit] that all the people are just as urbane [...]
October 8, 2012 – 11:05 am
tkx for Teh InnarToobz, Al! From ThomasM comes this shot: “I shot this photo at Watergate Exxon on Friday. It’s about a mile from The White House on Virginia Avenue. Note the Washington Monument in the background.” So why isn’t Diane Feinstein calling for a major investigation* into this? Is this a recent spike? Or [...]
October 8, 2012 – 8:49 am
bite me, Jerry How’s your hippie utopian paradise workin out for ya, there? Just over 8.5 billion recyclable cans were sold in California last year. The number redeemed for a nickel under California’s recycling law: 8.3 billion. …the recycling rate for certain plastic containers was even higher: 104%. CA fruits ‘n’ nuts are gooood recyclers! [...]
October 7, 2012 – 7:46 am
California Why are prices here so much higher than elsewhere in the nation, including areas just over the border? California has made itself a closed market for auto fuel by mandating expensive seasonal gasoline blends, purportedly to reduce air pollution–nobody ever compares the contribution made by special fuels to those from automotive clean air technology [...]
October 3, 2012 – 7:47 am
big revelations in Human Nature This year, prompted by changes in federal school-lunch rules, Central Florida students are not allowed to turn down the healthful produce… Gee. I wonder what that will lead to? …they estimated that students tossed $75,000 of produce in the garbage. WOW! Who’d a thought of that?!? School Board members say [...]
