Archive for May, 2014
Tyranical Chipotle Tramples Freedom
I was going to write a post parodying wingut reaction to Chipotle’s decision to ask its patrons to not menace other patrons by brandishing their firearms. But winguts these days defy parody. Here is the hysterical whine of the “Tea Party Nation” on the topic:
The Scam of Wilmington Property Tax Increases
You may have heard that the Mayor’s office and the City Council have reached a compromise on the city budget. I think that it is the Mayor and Council President Theo Gregory who have reached the compromise, since no Council votes have been taken yet. Forgetting that detail, the 9.9% Hair on Fire increase (this was the one that if they didn’t get it, they wouldn’t be able to maintain city services — even though this tax increase would cover the current budget shortfall enough to produce an almost $3M budget surplus. Now, the “compromise” is a 5% property tax increase that leaves the city with a $1.4M surplus. The Water and Sewer rates are being reduced to 5% increases each (from 8% and 7% respectively), and the City will still not be paying its share of these bills.
![Tuesday Daily Elsewhere [5.20.14]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2230/2129528037_74aa289a6c_o.jpg "Tuesday Daily Elsewhere [5.20.14]")
The Markell Unclaimed “Scandal”
I read the News Journal article yesterday, and I shrugged. Then this morning we received this comment on another post:
ANnnnnyyyy coverage on the Jack Markell unclaimed property semi scandal?
Is it a scandal, though? Even a semi-one?
Monday Open Thread [5.19.14]
Corporations are planning for Global Warming. Why can’t Republicans?
Though major international corporations tend to be amoral machines for collecting revenue without regard to fairness or human life, they do have one thing going for them: when there’s money on the line, they don’t waste time fucking around. […] Failing to plan for global warming due to some weird anti-science bias could potentially cost them billions of dollars. Therefore they will plan. (This will not stop them from making ample political donations to the Republican party, sadly.)
We got more good Obamacare news inside, as well as the latest polling data from around the country.
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![Monday Daily Elsewhere [5.19.14]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2294/2129515767_6175a47b89_o.jpg "Monday Daily Elsewhere [5.19.14]")
![Sunday Daily Elsewhere [5.18.14]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2260/2129527689_98f046e660_o.jpg "Sunday Daily Elsewhere [5.18.14]")
Radical Right’s “Traitors Spring” Fails Miserably.
So, if all had gone to their deluded plain, 10 to 30 million people who rush the White House and the Capitol Building and force the President, Vice President and the congressional leadership from office. How exactly is not said, but one can assume that they would not have gone willingly, since all were legitimately elected to their terms of office less than two years ago. So we are left to assume that they will be violently forced from office. But as the picture shows, only a few hundred, if that, showed up. Coup organizers said that the 10 to 30 million expected were scared off by the rain on Thursday and Friday. Which seems reasonable. Because if you are going to violently topple your government, it better be a sunny day.
![Saturday Daily Elsewhere [5.17.14]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2032/2130295552_0486a7d224_o.jpg "Saturday Daily Elsewhere [5.17.14]")
Celebrating 60 Years More Of School Segregation?
Much is being written and broadcast this week about the U.S.A. celebrating 60 years of school desegregation by way of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. This was the year I graduated from my mostly segregated high school.
Friday Open Thread [5.6.14]
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The hero cat, Tara, seen in the viral video saving a four year old kid from a vicious dog attack, will somehow throw out the first pitch at a minor league game in Bakersfield next week. I hereby predict that this cat will become the 2016 Republican nominee for President, since no human Republican can win.
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