Archive for February 23, 2012
I Hear Republicans Screaming At Their Rear-View Mirror
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein
Maryland Senate Approves Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Republicans Would Let Your Dog Drown
This is what the Republicans want for our country:
Imagine your home catches fire but the local fire department won’t respond, then watches it burn. That’s exactly what happened to a local family tonight.
A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.
The homeowner, Gene Cranick, said he offered to pay whatever it would take for firefighters to put out the flames, but was told it was too late. They wouldn’t do anything to stop his house from burning.
Each year, Obion County residents must pay $75 if they want fire protection from the city of South Fulton. But the Cranicks did not pay.
The mayor said if homeowners don’t pay, they’re out of luck.
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It was only when a neighbor’s field caught fire, a neighbor who had paid the county fire service fee, that the department responded.
Meanwhile, on the same planet: This happened today in my “liberal” community:
Photo: Via Daily Camera
Longmont firefighters on Thursday afternoon pulled a dog out of the Oligarchy Ditch near 21st Avenue and Main Street after a passerby noticed the dog in the water.
“It seemed like he couldn’t get out,” said James Sheriff. “It looked like he kept falling over into the water. He almost fell totally under a couple of times.”
Sheriff said that about 1:30 p.m., he was walking back to his job at BC Services on 21st Avenue after eating lunch at Burger King, when he noticed the dog.
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“It looked like he was too tired to get out,” Sheriff said. “He was shivering like crazy.”
Shannon Owen, vet tech at The Animal Hospital, said that the dog is OK and was returned to its owner.
What kind of life do you want?
Democrats: Stop Gloating Already
God I hate seeing articles like this:
How the GOP’s Looming Election Disaster Is, And Isn’t, Like 1964
IT’S ONLY FEBRUARY. Anything can happen between now and November.
Stop!
Berkeley Police Blame Occupy Protesters For Man’s Murder
This is how the establishment slowly turns the public against groups it doesn’t like:
The Berkeley Police Department has come under fire this week for not responding to a call that evolved into the killing of a man Saturday.
Blame for the alleged murder of Peter Cukor, 67 — who was beaten to death outside of his Berkeley Hills home Saturday evening — has been passed between the police department and Occupy protesters who marched from Oakland to the UC Berkeley campus that evening.
Berkeley police have acknowledged that they were keeping officers on standby to monitor the march to the campus’s International House when Cukor first called at 8:45 p.m. to report a suspicious person “hanging around” his property.
However, at that time, the police department was only responding to criminal, emergency, in progress calls, according to Berkeley Police Department Lt. Andrew Greenwood.
After phoning police, Cukor walked to a nearby fire station for help and, on his way back, was bludgeoned to death, according to Greenwood.
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“I’m totally freaked out by what happened,” said Cathy Romanski, a staff member at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a resident of the Grizzly Peak area where the murder occurred. “The police didn’t come when we needed them because of Occupy Oakland,” Romanski said. “I want them to know what they did — that a person died because of their protests. It’s appalling.”
However, Wendy Kenin, an Occupy Oakland protester, said the Occupy Oakland march did not leave until after the assault had already been reported, so blaming the department’s lack of response on the protesters is unfair.
“They are over-responding, and they are putting all their manpower into a peaceful demonstration when they should be responding to calls about potential violence,” Kenin said.
So what if this had occurred oh, say, during a visit by President Obama? Would the police blame the murder on him? Of course not. Or what if it happened on UCBerkeley’s graduation day? Would the police blame it on the students or the university? No. The Occupy people are convenient scapegoats and the Berkeley PD should be ashamed of what it’s doing here.
Ice Wave Frozen in Time
OK folks, it’s break time. Time to take 57 seconds (you can do it!) out of your day to check out this spectacular, humongous hunk of ice filmed in the Antarctic. It looks like a huge wave that froze instantly as it was curling in mid-air.
Enjoy.
Women (Not) in Government — USA
As long as we’re taking moves toward dragging women back to the 1930′s here in the good ol’ U. S. of A., here’s a pretty darn shocking fact that I’m sure will make our current flock of Republican politicians get all warm down there in the area at the top of their legs: The United States ranks 71st in the world for the percentage of women serving in elective office. 71st folks!
We’re behind Malawi, Bangladesh, the Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Sudan and Ethopia for God’s sake.
So, send this post to all your Republican friends and make their day.
More on the “Liberal Media”
These would be my Tweets of the Day about Romney getting away with lie and flip-flip after lie and flip-flop:
(I’ll never forget that summer of 2004 when all we heard were (1) rants from the Swift Boaters and (2) rants about how Kerry was for it before he was against it.)
What “liberal media?”
The Associated Press Rolls Out New Logo
The Associated Press has rolled out a new logo, the “first significant change in AP’s look in 30 years.”
The new one is on the right.
Not an improvement imho. I like the old one.
Meet the Head of California’s Fish and Wildlife Commission
This would be Daniel Richards, the president of the California Fish and Wildlife Commission:
It is unclear whether Richards killed this magnificent mountain lion, as
The picture came to light after it was posted on the website of Western Outdoor News, the largest hunting and fishing newspaper in California.
It shows Mr Richards dressed in camouflage, standing in snow-covered woodland, proudly hoisting up the creature which slumps over in his arms.
called for Mr Richards to give up his role.
On the MLF’s website, it stated: ‘While technically no laws were broken, California residents are disgusted and calling for Richards’ immediate removal from the Commission.
‘Since Richards proudly and openly defies the priorities of the people he was appointed to represent, clearly he can’t be trusted and he needs to go.’
