Eating
Their Young:
Lawyers, smelling money in the water, are telling fossil fuel
companies that Exxon will not be the only target of climate change
damages lawsuits and that the damages will be immense. At the same
time there are other lawyers soliciting for clients to populate the
same lawsuits.
Uncooperative:
Teens in Colorado have deliberately refrained from becoming pot
heads following that state's legalization of marijuana, just to piss
off the Republicans.
From
Our Comments Section:
“It is unrealistic to
think that constant monitoring of civilian communication such as
emails, U.S. Post, or telephone calls would uncover activities of
"lone wolves," who, by definition, act alone and on impulse
with little or no specific planning other than acquisition of an
automatic weapon and some ammo, unless the moment an automatic weapon
is purchased (along with additional large amounts of ammo) that info
is immediately related to law enforcement and the suspect is
immediately followed and/or apprehended -- action that is currently
unconstitutional.”
Competitive
Edge: The top
EU court has fined Intel $1.2 billion for bribing European computer
makers not to use AMD's chips. Intel is fighting the fine with a
claim that the court did not analyze “all relevant circumstances”
to see whether
the bribery actually worked. If it didn't, no harm no foul, right?
Gunz
R US: Then
next time the oaf next door claims that mass shooting wouldn't happen
if a lot more people carried handguns, tell him that highly trained
police officers miss their targets 82% of the time. Ask him how
accurate a half-drunk civilian will be in a dark bar with people
screaming and running back and forth and masses of adrenaline pumping
into his system, and five or six other patrons brandishing guns and
shooting wildly. And then ask him if he wants to be standing there
with a gun in his hand when SWAT bursts through the door.
Nearly 100 people are
killed by guns in the US every day. Automatic weapons are a danger,
but the real danger is
a Congress controlled by the gun lobby.
Protect
And Self-Serve:
Every day in the US, three police officers are arrested. Mostly for
simple assault, drunken driving and aggravated assault, but a
significant number of sexual crimes also make the list, along with
stealing money in various ways. Nearly 40% of the crimes were
committed while on duty.
Golden
Rules: If you
want to work at the Ark Encounter theme park, it is best if you are
heterosexually married. Ken Ham, using $18 million of the Kentucky
taxpayers' money to build his creationist wet-dream, insists
prospective employees affirm they believe in creationism, disavow
homosexuality and promise not to engage in premarital sex.
See
No Evil: When
House Democrats 'occupied' the well house and refused to disband
until some effective gun legislation was passed, NRA sponsored
Republicans shut down
the cameras
inside the US House of Representatives, depriving
we the citizens (and voters) from watching
A
Parting Shot:
6 comments:
I certainly appreciate your daily updates and the insights you provide, but I have to differ with you on the Democrats latest efforts at "gun control legislation". Here's a somewhat different take on their attacks on the Constitution and due process (rather than crafting sensible legislation restricting access to unnecessary weaponry for all of us…), see this:
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/22/dramatic-house-sit-in-on-guns-is-undercut-by-focus-on-secret-racist-watchlist/
...and this...
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/21/democrats-war-on-due-process-and-terrorist-fear-mongering-long-pre-dates-orlando
and I'll just add to the above comment that this is the John Lewis who had "never seen Bernie Sanders", which is code for Bernie Sanders never offered to share any loot with him. Hillary got Goldman Sachs to pony up for John, big time. John is proud that his corruption is important enough for Goldman Sachs to brag about bagging him.
http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/talks-at-gs/john-lewis.html
Enough with the guns already! Like their automotive counterpart, the problem isn't the instrument, it's the idiot weilding it! The proverbial 'nut behind the wheel/trigger!'
We have yet to witness a mass killing attributed to 'insane happiness' [albeit, truth be told, I seriously doubt any of us 'would know it when we saw it'...]
Widespread unhappiness, much of it directly attributable to Spirit in the Sky and those who 'displease' its adherents are responsible for the bulk of the wholesale killing...although it's not murder if you wear a uniform, regardless of your rationale or lack thereof.
Removing Spirit in the Sky from the equation, there is also the 'lunatic fringe' who weren't too tightly wrapped to begin with. Many of these individuals 'used to be' institutionalized but Republican budget cutting turned them loose to fend for themselves among the general population. [Not that institutionalizing anyone 'cures' them of anything but they are no longer a threat to society when they are under lock and key, heavily sedated.]
Then there's the few who feel aggreived by whoever's in charge, that government is preventing them from pursuing the kind of life they feel entitled to. [You can start filling in your own blanks as there are a jillion of 'em. I like to call this abberation the type that doesn't value 'civil society'. Rules aren't for them and all they want is to live life 'their way' [but they can't because society has outlawed aspects of what they want to do. (like clubbing the pretty girl down the street, dragging her into a cave, knocking her up and making her stay there while take care of the brat...in filth an squalor regardless of what SHE thinks about the whole deal.]
Looks like we cirled back to the mentally incompetent but this is of the variety that can pass for 'normal' on the surface. They can walk the walk and talk the talk with the best of us, they're just batshit crazy on the inside!
How ironic it is this personality type that often becomes a CEO for precisely this 'unique' quality? [lack of empathy]
Despite dkallem's disagreement with me, I wholly agree with him that the reeal need is for "sensible legislation restricting access to unnecessary weaponry for all of us".
Point well taken. The next revolt will not be like those of the past. The only way to resist rule by the point of a gun is to refuse to cooperate altogether.
In that respect, disarm everyone! [Starting with the uniforms and the badges.]
Thank you for highlighting a portion of my commentary from yesterday -- I feel quite honored...
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