What happens when you combine a 10-year-old lad with a can of ether, two pounds of Pyrodex, and a new bow with flaming arrows?
Jinglebob tells all in my nomination for the best read of the morning.
Apr 14, 2011
A little gun grab in Iowa
A citizen of Storm Lake suggests that cops get a clue about the laws they're paid to enforce.
An agitated deputy sheriff is bad enough. It's worse when he's ignorant of the perfect legality of an empty and cased shotgun in a vehicle.
It's a fairly small deal by the usual standards of police misbehavior, but it makes a guy wonder how this deputy would handle a more complex situation.
At least someone in the department had the grace to apologize.
An agitated deputy sheriff is bad enough. It's worse when he's ignorant of the perfect legality of an empty and cased shotgun in a vehicle.
It's a fairly small deal by the usual standards of police misbehavior, but it makes a guy wonder how this deputy would handle a more complex situation.
At least someone in the department had the grace to apologize.
Apr 13, 2011
His Obamaness Speaks.
I thought the speech was cute; "cute" in the '50s sense of a well-crafted scam to con a naif into giving you money.
Yes, restoring U.S. solvency -- if possible at all -- will require new net revenue. It is the the adjective "net" which queers the Obama deal. Is there a soul alive who doesn't understand that the sworn duty of politicians is to keep sucking so they can spend whatever it takes to buy your vote?
It is as though the lawmakers and all their pals view our intelligence as a silly virgin with a self-regenerating hymen.
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(A Chuck Grassley release after the speech plausibly claims that, over the past few decades, each one dollar of new federal revenue, has been seen as a license for $1.17 in spending. Compound that a few times, Bunkie.)
Yes, restoring U.S. solvency -- if possible at all -- will require new net revenue. It is the the adjective "net" which queers the Obama deal. Is there a soul alive who doesn't understand that the sworn duty of politicians is to keep sucking so they can spend whatever it takes to buy your vote?
It is as though the lawmakers and all their pals view our intelligence as a silly virgin with a self-regenerating hymen.
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(A Chuck Grassley release after the speech plausibly claims that, over the past few decades, each one dollar of new federal revenue, has been seen as a license for $1.17 in spending. Compound that a few times, Bunkie.)
Apr 12, 2011
La Belle France
Just when things are going less horribly for the better (I think) guys, the French foreign minister is telling NATO what a bad job it's doing running the Libya war. He is Alain Juppe. He may be best remembered as the politician convicted of felony theft of taxpayers' money.
NATO General Mark Van Uhm, a Hollander, told him to bugger off. That counts as a score for the Dutch if you ask me.
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Meanwhile, France and Britain are bickering about sending aid to alleviate the misery in Misrata. Wouldn't they just. Five gets you ten the snit is about who tells Uncle Sam that he's expected to foot the bill.
NATO General Mark Van Uhm, a Hollander, told him to bugger off. That counts as a score for the Dutch if you ask me.
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Meanwhile, France and Britain are bickering about sending aid to alleviate the misery in Misrata. Wouldn't they just. Five gets you ten the snit is about who tells Uncle Sam that he's expected to foot the bill.
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