Running out of Other People’s money [Darleen Click]
When reality meets mythology ATHENS — Greece’s combative finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, abruptly resigned Monday morning in what appeared to be the first move at conciliation by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras toward the country’s creditors after Greek voters’ rejection on Sunday of a bailout linked to austerity. Mr. Varoufakis’s announcement came as leaders around Europe sent conflicting signals about whether they would continue to support Greece, and whether a compromise
When, in the course of human events… [McGehee]
Some thoughts I’ve been having about a document lately of interest… When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
2015 Darwin nominee “blank the alligators” [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Talk about famous last words … Investigators, a w.itness and friends are revealing the harrowing accounts of the first recorded fatal alligator attack in Texas and more about the victim. A justice of the peace tells KFDM News Tommie Woodward, 28, is from St. Louis, but moved to Orange with his twin brother. He’s worked in the shipyards the past few years. “One minute he’s there and then the next
Happy 4th of July [Darleen Click]
To the country as created by the Founders, the country as it should be, the country we need to rediscover.
Shorter George Takei: “My intent isn’t racist when I call Clarence Thomas an inauthentic black man.” [Darleen Click]
George Takei had a melt-down over Judge Thomas’ dissent the other day with a deliberate misreading of how Thomas uses the word “dignity” In a nasty, racist rant captured by a Fox affiliate in Arizona, former Star Trek actor-turned-gay rights activist George Takei lashed out at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, calling him a “clown in black face.” Takei’s explosive verbal diarrhea, which can be witnessed in full here courtesy
Turns out there’s not too long a Trek from Lib activist to racist
Who knew? .@GeorgeTakei <– More proof that being liberal and gay doesn't magically endow one with nobility, intelligence, or class. Or fashion sense. — proteinwisdom (@proteinwisdom) July 3, 2015 Of course, if you’re a “progressive,” there’s a perfectly good reason why you can misrepresent a court opinion in order to call its author “a clown in blackface” and not be deemed “racist”: BECAUSE SHUT UP, RIGHT WING HATERS! Up is
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE: Oregon couple ordered to shut up about same-sex wedding cakes [Darleen Click]
Not only were the Kleins fined $135,000 for the “emotional distress” they caused a lesbian couple when the Kleins declined to bake a cake, when the Kleins expressed their opinion on the case in an interview, Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered them to “cease and desist” from ever talking about not providing same-sex weddings cakes. Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian finalized a preliminary ruling today ordering Aaron and Melissa