Monday, August 3, 2009

Headlines - Monday

It seems that the changing racial landscape of America has a lot of white people scared.

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Get psyched for Return of the Swine Flu, coming as soon as late August to a human disease vector near you. [UPI]
 
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Stupid Bint With Guns
 
Some moronic woman on Long Island, who is apparently one of the people who is paranoid about FEMA setting up detention camps (yes, the same FEMA that is so competent that they couldn't figure out that an entire city was drowning), was arrested while trespassing on a National Guard base. She had a rifle, a shotgun and over 500 rounds of ammo in her car.

A few points:

First off, I'm unclear on the concept of how one trespasses "outside" of a place. You have to be on the property to trespass against it.

Second: Look, people, if you are going somewhere to take photos of a place, especially if it is a place you probably shouldn't be taking photos of, leave the weapons at home.

Third: No repeat missions, especially if on an earlier one, you tried to question the security guards.

Fourth: Google Earth. If that's not good enough, you can probably buy satellite imagery on the web.

Fifth: Know your weapons. If you are going to bring your guns with you and if one of your guns uses detachable magazines, ammunition in boxes is almost useless. They weren't even on stripper clips. What was that moron planning to do; fire off thirty rounds and then go hide while she slotted 30 more rounds into her one large magazine?

Now here is the big point: Some crazy white woman is arrested while scouting a military base and she has two guns in her car with lots of ammo. Other than those of us in Lefty Blogostan, that remains a regional story.

Now let's change two facts. Let's take the guns out of it, to make it less sensational. Probably a non-story outside of the local newspaper, right?

So let's make her a Muslim. I'll bet that Fox News devotes ten hours of coverage to it and that BillO has rants about it on at least five shows. Glenn Beck would probably have a stroke on the air.

Any takers?

I didn't think so.
 
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Next thing ya know, they'll figure out how to let repiglicans think. Nah, maybe not.

via Raw Story: an AP story on Virginia Tech students engineering a car that can let blind people drive.The buggy they designed uses a laser sensor to figure out the road ahead. A special vibrating vest worn by drivers communicates speed and warns when to stop. And a headset relays voice commands signaling which way to turn.

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Oh god oh god the government might transfer some Guantanamo prisoners to our Native Soil, where they can bomb innocent civilians from their maximum-security prisons. [Washington Post]
 
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Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ): investigate the investigators of the anthrax mailings: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/01/holt-on-anthrax-mailings-investigate-the-investigators/
 
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The big beneficiary of the "turn in your shitty car for hot dollars" scheme: Ford Motor Company, which saw an uptick in monthly sales for the first time since the Edsel was taken off the line. [Bloomberg]
 
....and because the program is so successful, Republicans would like to end it immediately. [AP]
 
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h/t Dick
 
What to do ...after you have publicly committed a monumentally stupid error in judgment?  Defend it to the bitter end, no matter the consequences to your country.
 
Johnny Walnuts...douchebag.
 
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-08-02-mccain-palin_N.htm?csp=34
 
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These stats, if even close to accurate, are mind boggling.  Proof positive of the power or propaganda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda) to influence a society to think - and act - in ways that are clearly contrary to their very well being.
 
http://www.gallup.com/poll/121982/Seniors-Skeptical-Healthcare-Reform.aspx
 
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Sometimes ya gotta think Old Abe shoulda let Jeff Davis have his way.
 
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/birthers-of-a-nation/
 
 
 

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