Holy heck, but how many other legends are we going to lose this year? (I don’t want to know)
January 12, 2016
POTUS SOTU: how much BS B4 wishing for SMOD? [Darleen Click]
Not watching. Not listening. YMMV.
January 10, 2016
Meanwhile, in Portlandistan … [Darleen Click]
Hippie to take Peace Concert to ISIS-controlled Syria ISIS generally doesn’t respond well to music. But that isn’t stopping James Twyman, an author and musician based in Portland, Oregon, from planning a trip to ISIS-held territory in Syria later this month to help bring peace to the region through the power of a musical-prayer concert. “Performing the peace prayers in ISIS Controlled Syria will be the most important and dangerous
January 9, 2016
Saturday cartoon – Calvin meets Han Solo [Darleen Click]
This mashup is just too fun not to share! More here.
January 9, 2016
Obama’s parting gift to America: Subprime 2.0! What could possibly go wrong? [Darleen Click]
Welcome to 2007 … Subprime 2.0: The White House is rolling out a new low-income mortgage program that for the first time lets lenders qualify borrowers by counting income from nonborrowers living in the household. What could go wrong? The HomeReady program is offered through Fannie Mae, which is now controlled by Obama’s old Congressional Black Caucus pal Mel Watt. It replaces the bankrupted mortgage giant’s notorious old subprime program,
January 8, 2016
#NoTrueMuslim — The attempted assassination of LEO Hartnett in Philadelphia [Darleen Click]
The suspect, of course, doesn’t really mean what he is saying … The man caught in surveillance footage ambushing a Philadelphia officer in a squad car, shooting him multiple times, claimed he acted “in the name of Islam,” police said at a news conference Friday. The suspect’s gun had been stolen from police in 2013, Commissioner Richard Ross said. The man wore “Muslim garb,” a law enforcement source told Fox
January 8, 2016
Washington State legalizes indecent exposure/sexual harassment … [Darleen Click]
… in the locker room If you live in Washington State and you’re a woman, and a man walks into a locker room and starts undressing in front of you, it is now illegal for you to ask him what he is doing there, much less ask him to leave. If you have discomfort with the situation, you have to leave the locker room quietly. The naked guy gets to
January 7, 2016
Sticks and stones may break my bones … [Darleen Click]
but your words criticizing Islamic terror are even worse … The Interior Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia declared that while the mass sexual assault carried on in the city of Cologne New Year’s Eve was bad, right-wing rhetoric in response was equally bad or worse. Witnesses say the mass assault was carried out by a group of young men numbering at least a thousand, and that they
January 7, 2016
Trump v artists — get ready to recalibrate your Irony Meter [Darleen Click]
When artists are confronted with speech they don’t approve of … Artists in Burlington were quick to respond after Trump’s campaign announced New Year’s Eve that he would appear Thursday at the Flynn. Many who posted on Facebook expressed dismay that the candidate whose controversial positions include a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States is coming to their community that’s known for its all-inclusive views. […] Artists also