‘ “Although in the 1990s the average number of attacks per year was 70.1, the average number of attacks per year in the first 11 years of the twenty-first century was 307.5, a rise of more than 400%,” writes Dr. Arie Perliger, Director of Terrorism Studies at the CTC.’
Hmmm. Maybe we shouldn’t give up our guns just yet.
Ok, you got me — I lied about the Obama part. But the gun nuts really are shooting each other. Now that I think about it, maybe we should just buy them more ammo.
Gun Show Shootings: At Least 5 Hurt In Accidental Incidents In Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina.
“With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, “SUBWAY FOOTLONG” is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length,” the chain posted on its Australian Facebook page in response to a customer’s complaint.
Which is just what I said three days ago.
Subway says “Footlong” is just the name of its subs, not “a measurement of length” – NYPOST.com.
Back in 2009, the asshole CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, said that Obamacare is like socialism. He’s now revised his remarks: “It’s more like fascism.”
Bite me.
The Subway sandwich chain is trying to trademark “footlong” and is issuing cease-and-desist letters to other companies that use the term. Some companies, such as Pizza Hut, are opposing the trademark registration.
I don’t see what the problem is — Subway’s sandwich isn’t 12″ long, it’s only 11″. I can foresee the day when I see a poster that urges me to buy a Subway footlong(TM) with an asterisk to a footnote that says “Subway’s registered trademark for it’s 11″ hero sandwich.”
Casey’s sues Subway over rights to ‘footlong’ – USATODAY.com.
As far as I know, not raising the debt ceiling could push the US over a fiscal cliff into the murky swamp of default. It wouldn’t be good for Dave and Charlie Koch and it wouldn’t be good for me.
That said, I think we’re going to have to do major surgery on Social Security (e.g., lower benefits, raise the age of eligibility, raise the cap on contributions). And I don’t believe the current Medicare regime is sustainable either — we’re going to have to reform that, too.
So do I align with the Dems or the Repugs?
I believe the Dems will screw me through incompetence, and the Repugs will screw me because they want to. I’ll stay with the Dems, thank you.
Even The Koch Brothers Disagree With The GOP On The Debt Ceiling.
In March, 2012, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed SB 98 into law, allowing students to read inspirational messages of their choosing at assemblies and sporting events. It went into effect on July 12.
In a response that I dearly wish I had thought up, the Satanic Temple is holding a rally to support Scott because he “has shown unwavering fortitude and progressive resolve in his defense of religious liberty.”
I love this, even though I think the Satanic Temple is a hoax. Their website looks good but includes no officers, no contact information, no times or places for meetings. And their domain name was registered two weeks before the Governor signed SB 98 into law.
Anyway, good for the Satanists. Next, they should ask for school vouchers.
Satanists Plan Rally For Rick Scott For His ‘Defense Of Religious Liberty’.
It looks like it IS legal to record police officers while they’re doing their job.
Supreme Court Inaction Boosts Right To Record Police Officers.
Glenn Hubbard, Dean of Columbia’s business school, testified on behalf of Countrywide in a lawsuit. His analysis concluded that Countrywide’s loans weren’t any worse than the loans produced by other mortgage originators, and that therefore the monstrous losses that investors in those loans suffered were due to other factors related to the economic crisis – and not caused by the serial misrepresentations and fraud in Countrywide’s underwriting.
‘In a video posted to YouTube and Facebook on Wednesday, Yeager made his threat in a profane speech, but removed the video by Thursday morning. . . .
‘ “I’m not f*cking putting up with this. I’m not letting my country be ruled by a dictator. I’m not letting anybody take my guns! If it goes one inch further, I’m going to start killing people.” ‘