Where are we going ?
… and why are we in this handbasket ?
Drop the Weapon! Drop the Weapon! *BANG*
From Gothamist:
Just how little tolerance is zero tolerance? A Staten Island fourth-grader was reprimanded and almost suspended yesterday when the principal spotted him playing with a LEGO policeman and a two-inch-long toy gun during lunch, the Advance reports.
Under the city’s no-tolerance policy regarding guns in schools, PS 52 Principal Evelyn Matroianni brought 9-year-old Patrick Timoney to her office and called his mother to say the boy might be suspended for carrying the miniature toy gun to school, pending the approval of the Department of Education’s security administrator. When contacted, the administrator reportedly said the toy should be confiscated and returned to the boy’s parents, however no other punishment would be necessary.
How much would you pay for this kinda crazy ? Wait, don’t answer yet, there’s more …
From the NYDailyNews:
A Michigan kindergartener’s make-believe gun – which he created with just his fingers – got him suspended, the Grand Rapids Press reported.
Mason Jammer, 6, who attends Ionia’s Jefferson Elementary School, pointed his finger-gun at a fellow student Wednesday and got kicked out of school till Friday.
School officials said they had given Mason numerous warnings over several months, and his gun play created discomfort for other kids.
Now how much would you pay ? If you order this insanity in the next 5 minutes we’ll throw in this beautiful piece of shit:
a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
Sometimes its hard to even joke about this shit.
What the fuck ?
From the Speaker’s own website:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a speech this morning at the 2010 Legislative Conference for the National Association of Counties (NACo). This year marks the 75th anniversary of the organization. Below are the Speaker’s remarks:
But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
Seriously .. what. the. fuck. ? I’ve never been much for insightful commentary but this just leaves me speechless … there really are no words. (aside from ‘what the fuck’).
Census
From Mark Krikorian at The Corner via Gabriel Malor at AoSHQ:
Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of the government’s business (despite the New York Times’ assurances to the contrary on today’s editorial page). So until we succeed in building the needed wall of separation between race and state, I have a proposal. Question 9 on the census form asks “What is Person 1’s race?” (and so on, for other members of the household).
Apparently, “None of your fucking business.” is not an option. Mark, however has a proposal:
we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option — “Some other race” — and writing in “American.”
Milestone: 1600 Comments
Well, here at Hookers & Booze we’ve reached our 1600th comment.
The honor goes to Nicole who said:
Hm. It’s almost like those people who think that if they don’t speak your language all they have to do is shout louder and you’ll get it. They simply aren’t loud enough yet. Soon we will all see the correctness of their ways.
Technically it was LC Aggie Sith who was #1600, but since she writes here, she don’t count.
Previous honorees:
800th Comment – TheDudeAbides
400th Comment – WAMK
200th Comment – GWK
100th Comment – LC Aggie Sith
Next stop is obviously #3200. (cause Aggie wouldn’t stop harassing me until I fixed it)
‘Deadliest Catch’ captain dies
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show “Deadliest Catch”, has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.
Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. The fisherman was flown to Anchorage for surgery.
Gallup Poll: Most Democrats Like Socialism
I can’t say as I’m terribly surprised. Still, it is odd to see it in print like that. I also find it unnerving that Dems would admit it after trying so hard to keep their socialist leanings secret for so long.
Did ya hear ?
Murtha’s dead.
Via FoxNews:
“Congressman John P. Murtha (PA-12) passed away peacefully this afternoon at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. At his bedside was his family,” read a statement from his office.
I can’t say that I care terribly much that the guy is dead. The special election will likely be entertaining.
Judge tosses out most evidence on Gitmo detainee
From PublicOpinionOnline:
A federal judge has tossed out most of the government’s evidence against a tarrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.
In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier coerced statements made while he was held under harsh conditions in Afghanistan.
However, the judge said statements he made during two military administrative hearings at the U.S. detention center in Cuba, where he was assisted by a personal representative, were reliable and sufficient to justify holding the detainee.
Musa’ab Omar Al Madhwani allegedly engaged in a 2 1/2-hour firefight with Pakistani authorities before his capture in a Karachi apartment in 2002.
Doesn’t that just make you feel all warm inside ?
From Ace:
No surprise. Either the courts must accept — and bless as Constitutional — the extraordinary treatment due to these vile monsters, and thus bless such treatment for all criminal suspects in the United States (plainly a hateful conclusion), or they must toss out all the evidence against them and set terrorists free.
And he’s right. This is precisely why these motherfuckers have been kept out of the country. This is what happens when elected officials make decisions based on the way they think things should would as opposed to the way things actually do work.
And these are the morons who style themselves as being based in reality.
Poor get poorer while the government gets richer
Here’s a little something that’ll give a you sick feeling:
From HotAir.
Update: As if that wasn’t enough … From WAMK:
Headlines to get drunk to
Mother kills newborn, can’t be charged with crime
Investigators tell WSLS the baby’s airway was still blocked. They say the baby was under bedding and had been suffocated by her mother. Investigators say because the mother and baby were still connected by the umbilical cord and placenta, state law does not consider the baby to be a separate life. Therefore, the mother cannot be charged.
As if we needed yet another example that legislators were fucking morons.
Iraqi troops in standoff with Iran
Iraqi troops massed Saturday near an oil well on the border in a standoff with Iranian forces that seized control of the site in a sudden flare up of tension between the two uneasy neighbors.
The top U.S. diplomat in Iraq said Baghdad’s speedy response to the border incursion showed that Iraq is “not going to be pushed around” by Iran.
You know the world really needs another Iran/Iraq war. It has been a while.
Poland tightens border in hunt for Auschwitz sign
Polish authorities stepped up security checks at airports and border crossings and searched scrap metal yards Saturday as the search intensified for the infamous Nazi sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp memorial.
Now who doesn’t want to own a piece of history like that ?
Testing group data shows swine flu waning in U.S.
“Between this peak week and December 9, testing rates fell by 75 percent. In the most recent week reported, December 9, testing rates were equivalent to volumes experienced in late August, when the second wave began,” the company said.
Wait … you mean H1N1 is just another over-hyped “epidemic” ?
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