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Archive for April, 2015
April 22nd, 2015 - 8:48 am § in Misc.
Pork and Corruption
Disclosure Of Junkets By Congress Members The House Ethics Committee has quietly done away with the requirement that lawmakers disclose their all-expense-paid trips on annual financial forms, National… talkingpointsmemo.com[...]
April 22nd, 2015 - 8:00 am § in Misc.
US #1 .. in Child Poverty
The numbers are staggering: US is ‘world leader’ in child poverty[...]
April 21st, 2015 - 10:48 pm § in Misc.
It hurts all of us when reporters can’t make a decent living
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter quit his job and took other work because he can’t afford to remain a reporter. “Kuznia, who was the series’ lead reporter, told the Los Angeles Times he … had difficulty paying his bills. He was also unable to afford a house and couldn̵[...]
April 21st, 2015 - 10:42 pm § in Misc.
Last Chance to Buy Your Tickets for The Ball Celebrating The Firing on Fort Sumter
The Ball Starts Saturday, April 25 at 5 pm, and dinner will be served * at 6 pm. Description of event: We would be delighted if all guests attended in dress appropriate to the middle of the nineteenth century, but recognize that not everyone is a reenactor and owns period clothing. Here is a web[...]
April 21st, 2015 - 10:29 pm § in Misc.
Dick Cheney resembles a killer
Photos: Robert Bates (l), Dick Cheney (r) I’m not saying Dick Cheney is a killer. Oh no, I’m not suggesting he killed anyone, what I mean is him personally pulling the trigger, except he blasted a guy’s face with a shotgun once, but [...]
April 21st, 2015 - 10:02 pm § in Uncategorized
Why is this man smiling?
Robert Bates, a millionaire insurance executive whose hobby is playing cop, is shown here leaving a Tulsa courtroom after pleading not guilty to second-degree manslaughter charges for shooting a suspect with his gun instead of his taser. Why shouldn’t he be smiling? Far from being in jail, he&[...]
April 21st, 2015 - 9:16 pm § in Politics
The evolution of health care
Republicans don’t believe in evolution. But here’s proof that evolution is real. (Click on image to enlarge) [...]
April 21st, 2015 - 8:31 pm § in Uncategorized
Scott Walker resembles a killer
Photos: Scott Walker (l), Joseph McEnroe (r) Okay, this isn’t quite fair; playing guilt-by-association games is a patented Republican speciality. I’m just having fun being a make-believe Republican for a couple minutes, kinda like that Tulsa insurance guy played at being a [...]
Davey Jone’s Locker: finding a passport and going ashore in China
As you may recall last year on Disremember 5TH I flew to Sacramento to take this ship, the S.S. Kauai out of lay up and sail her to the yards in Nantong China. Well late Friday night March 13TH, the Seattle Port Agent calls me and says I need to go to the clinic first […][...]