March 2, 2018 6:30 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, March 2, 2018
- Oh, the hilarity. It burns.
- The Stitch is still chugging along.
- 13 out of 40 ain’t bad.
- Doubt you’ll hear about this on the telly.
- Amazon rolling in dough.
- Surely the apocalypse is upon us.
- Yep, Facebook really is spying on you.
- Not the land of breezy blondes anymore…
- A bit chilly, but the view will be nice.
- Man has heart attack, pal offers prayers and happy thoughts. Frenzied crowd attacks.
- Faster, please.
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Brave new world today. I’m doubling the rent increase on an evangelical couple so a same sex couple won’t see any increase. Then I’m taking that increase in rent from the evangelical couple and sending it to Stacey Abrams for Governor each and every month.
Legislation has consequences.
You can’t make this $h!+ up:
“How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia, How many Jews were put in the ovens because they were unarmed?” – Don Young R-AK
http://www.businessinsider.com/don-young-guns-jews-holocaust-2018-2
What does being unarmed have to do with it anyway, since they could have charged their aggressors unarmed, just like Trump said he would have done at Parkland.
That poll has Mississippi as the 6th best quality of life even though they are last or almost last in every other category. So that makes sense.
(Sorry, not a “poll”, but a “study”.)
Of course Facebook tracks you everywhere. They track you everywhere you go even if you’ve never had an account. Facebook’s business is data…yours. The more they get the better the profile for them to sell. Want to reduce the level to which you are tracked? Do the following:
Ditch Chrome (you think Google doesnt harvest every click on Chrome?)
Use Firefox and block 3rd party tracking.
Use an extension like Dissconnect, Privacy Badger, and an ad blocker (ad block plus or Ublock Origin)
Just that alone will keep Facebook at bay and make your browsing faster
A friend gave me that Kieth Richards book recently. It’s hard to read. There was a time when reading about the rock and roll lifestyle was exciting and… glamorous I guess. Now it just sounds like a wiseass narcissist trying to still be hip.
I love KR’s music, but at this point he wouldn’t be in the top ten of those who I would like to sit and have a beer with. Same with Bob Dylan and BB King.
BB’s drinking days are past, just like his breathing days.
I’d gladly buy Van Morrison a beer. Ringo too. Smokey. Jerry Lee Lewis but only one. That’s about it.
You know Jerry Lee had a garage sale a couple of years ago? His son advertised it on Facebook. He didn’t come out of the house but his wife was there in the garage signing stuff. I got a used dog food dish and a couple of cut glass cocktail glasses. That was fun.
I agree about Ringo. Van, not so sure. He seems like he can probably be pretty surly. Springsteen maybe. Pete Townsend? Keith Moon would have been fun.
Sad to say there is hardly a flicker left in Jerry Lee’s candle these days. I remember liking a book by Keith Moon’s assigned minder turned conspirator back in the day titled Full Moon. His candle was made with phosphorus.
I don’t think he drinks anymore but I would love to sit down with Kris Kristofferson. A two-star’s brat who shucked the army life, Ranger helicopter pilot, teaching at West Point to become a song writing bum in Nashville. A successful actor and successful troubadour who really can’t carry a tune in a bucket. A Rhodes Scholar guilty of lyrics like:
‘Cause there’s still a lot of drinks that I ain’t drunk
And lots of pretty thoughts that I ain’t thunk
Marvel Studios to Donate $1M to Local Boys & Girls Club STEM Program h/t WSBRadio
Delta says only 13 passengers ever bought tickets with an NRA discount.
Just saw Death Wish! My kinda flick! I’m thinking of it as an NRA recruiting film. Willis wastes more maggotts than the Orkin Man!
Wow! Strong words for an organization that lobbies for our Second Amendment Civil Right. Sad. And that billboard will not be forgotten come November. Count on that.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/376603-florida-billboard-calls-nra-a-terrorist-organization
I don’t like the billboard, but want to correct your post. The NRA lobbies for their self-interested interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, certainly not mine nor “ours”.
Sez you. Like I posted in the last week or so, they are the only, only thing standing between The Grabbers and the absolute total loss of our Civil Right.
You see the world only in extremes, so there’s no point trying to lay out facts, details, or nuance.
Just one thing, though, the NRA is not the only thing upholding a certain position on the 2nd Amendment. It’s every American who believes in that position, and can or does vote, that are the ultimate defenders.
“iInfuriated by CDC-funded research suggesting that having firearms in the home sharply increased the risks of homicide, the NRA goaded Congress in 1996 into stripping the injury center’s funding for gun violence research – $2.6 million.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-gun-research-funding-20160614-snap-story.html
Sound like 2nd amendment defense?
“But studies have gone on — just without federal funding.”
“If you put this all together, it suggests that restrictive laws seem to lead to fewer gun deaths, while the permissive laws seem to lead to more gun deaths.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/2/17050610/guns-shootings-studies-rand-charts-maps
If the NRA restricted themselves to lobbying to protect the 2nd amendment they would be a lot less evil. But they mostly lobby to protect the profits of the gun manufacturers. And they seem willing to sacrifice pretty much anything in pursuit of that effort.