Bloomberg’s anti-gunowner organization? Nnnnn, probably not It’s too good not to be true, but it’s too stupid to actually be true. ~ story ~ I’m just postin’ it, ’cause some GFWs* seem to have learned about guns by watching Bugs Bunny cartoons. Hey, we can all use a snicker on a Monday. ________ * Gun-Fearing [...]
High school senior forms petition with over ONE THOUSAND signatures against Michele Obama speaking at their high school graduation ‘because it would overshadow the students’ big day’ … A furor over what the Topeka school district considers an honor has erupted after plans were announced for Obama to address a combined graduation ceremony for five [...]
Ordinary tools, such as pliers, screwdrivers and wrenches, are “weapons” and so a Chicago school was correct to punish a teacher who brought them to class for a visual aid, according to a new court decision. [more] So, they gonna search students’ cars in school parking lots for *gasp* toolkits? Background check and permit for [...]
April 19, 2014 – 11:10 am
Hey, a SCOTUS guy said it, not me. (What? Well, yeah, okay, I’ve said it, too; but nobody listens to me … nor should they, now that I think about it.) Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a crowd of law school students that if taxes in the U.S. become too high then people “should [...]
[peeks out from under covers] Is it safe to come out now? ___ Ref
… what’s with your Bison Party thing? Wellp … it’s something like this. ~ vid ~ There’s some iconic imagery in there. And, no, this episode isn’t over.*
Wellp, heeere’s an interesting item, brothers an’ sisters. Looks like the MB’s new international office, now located above an old, disused kebab shop in the north-west London area of Cricklewood*, is being moved to-ooo … [adjusts glasses, scrolls through the story] (Ah! Here it is.) … Graz, Austria. [pulls up GoogleMaps] Hmm, evidently, some of [...]
April 13, 2014 – 10:03 am
If you’ve ever wondered how bureaucracies manage to accumulate massive power without effective opposition, here’s an example. Basically, they create their own justification; doesn’t really matter whether or not that justification is valid. After all, it’s the way it should be. Hey, it’s for the, you know, greater good and stuff. Seven months after being [...]
April 12, 2014 – 11:09 am
Well, therrre’s your problem. In late March, the Chicago Board of Education announced an ambitious plan to implement its “turnaround” model for three low-performing elementary schools in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods. The turnaround process involves the sacking of every teacher and staffer at each of the schools … Naturally, the union bosses aren’t happy that [...]
“Snortin’ Harry” Reid ~ vid ~
Hey, it could’a been worse*, I suppose. Look closely. ~ ROLLOVER ~ By the way, check out the library-pic Pshop. Think mebbe they were covering up Churchill busts or bongs or sumpthin’? _______ * By “worse” I mean in the Progmedia’s eye. Hey, I got nuthin’ against CSA flags as such. You know dang well [...]
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During a heated debate in the Illinois legislature … Democratic Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, who is Hispanic, tried to appeal to her fellow minorities. In the process, she took a racial shot at her Republican colleagues, claiming that “we’re [minorities] all over on this side [of the aisle], right?” When a black Republican objected, LaVia [...]
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couldn’t happen to a bigger jackass* This one is worth $100K, in cash, in $20 bills, in a little briefcase, tomorrow. _______ * Poetic license. Of course it could.
April 10, 2014 – 11:56 am
Julia’s back Yeah, that glaring, Biden-quality error is pretty funny, especially when you consider that it’s a promo for the series, Veep. (What? Yeahhh, John Hancock’s signature does makes a pretty nice tramp stamp.) (What? No, I deleted the joke about the First and Second Amendments.) (What? No, I only watched one episode; and, no, [...]
