In 2005, the last year for which a complete FBI Uniform Crime Report is available, there were 14,860 homicides committed in the United States.
10,100 were committed with firearms.
If you isolate the 7,543 handgun murders from the 2,557 murdered with a different kind of gun, you still are left with one weapon of choice that outpaced [...]
Archive for March, 2007
The Butcher’s Bill
Posted in Guns, NRA on March 30, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Go Wish David Holt a Happy Birthday!!!
Posted in David Holt on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You heard me! Wish this good friend of mine, this future good friend to all the voters of District 89, a happy 24th (Damn, I feel old) birthday.
Georgia’s "Bring Your Gun To Work" Bill
Posted in Georgia, NRA, nutcases on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Georgia legislature is currently considering a bill that would keep companies from banning guns in their parking lots. It’s an absurd piece of legislation pushed by— No surprise here— The NRA, who seems content with nothing short of creating a “wild west” world where everyone that walks the street does so with a pistol [...]
Congratulations, Pesky Fly!
Posted in Chris Davis, Marilyn Sadler, Memphis Flyer, Memphis Magazine, Pesky Fly on March 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I was quite pleased when I went to the Memphis Flyer website and saw that Chris Davis won Green Eyeshade (Who came up with that name?* See update below) award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his two excellent pieces on the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast found here and here.It’s well deserved, my friend.
Another local [...]
Rove Double Feature – Wanksta, The Prequel
Posted in Karl Rove on March 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Pay attention to the Young Republican interviewed about four minutes into this clip. (Hat tip to Crooks and Liars)
W’s Favorite Historian
Posted in Andrew Roberts, George W. Bush on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It seems that Clueless Leader’s favorite historian is about as well-informed as his science advisors. From Slate:
Roberts is as sloppy as he is snobbish. I am seldom bothered by minor errors from a good writer, but Roberts’ mistakes are so extensive, foolish, and revealing of his basic ignorance about the United States in particular, that [...]
Wanksta Rap
Posted in Karl Rove on March 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
All you playa haters, all you sucker MCs, you better step off and not be fronting or MC Rove will have to pop a collar and get Jam Master Cheney to bust a cap in your ass.
The Other Cheap Labor
Posted in Rent-a-Womb Act, Texas State Legislature on March 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Stacey Campfield must have friends in the Texas State Legislature.
They are now considering the Rent-a-Womb Act, a piece of legislation designed to discourage abortion by giving money to women that put their children up for adoption.
And just what is the princely sum that is offered up to these women in exchange for four months of [...]
Now THAT’S What I Call A Testimonial.
Posted in David Holt on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Longtime Democratic Activist and Shelby County Democratic Party Executive Committee member Joe Young wanted to make sure I brought this here for you to read:
I rarely post comments on blogs. In fact, I’ve posted only one blog previously on my friend Steve’s Leftwingcracker. There’s always an exception and I recognize this as an exceptual exception. [...]
Vade in pace, Rome.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I know, I know. It’s a couple of days late. But there are members of my family that I will miss less than I’ll miss Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, so I was in no hurry to say goodbye.
There will be no more “Rome”. Anything that is as expensive to film as that was [...]
"I believe they want to kill the death penalty."
Posted in Shelby County Commission, death penalty, moratorium on March 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The quote above comes from Shelby County Commissioner Wyatt Bunker.
I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I certainly do.
The Shelby County Commission spent two hours last night debating a resolution urging the state legislature to continue the moratorium on Tennessee’s use of the death penalty, set to expire in May. The resolution died, as [...]
Holt for 89
Posted in David Holt on March 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Get over here and see why you should support this young man. I’ve had the good fortune of knowing him for about three years, but not everyone is as lucky.
When he’s ready to run for a full-time seat, I’ve got his back. If everyone gets to know him like I do, he’ll win [...]
Bush and his Scenery
Posted in George W. Bush, US Military on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
During the presiden’t nationally televised hissy fit in response to the House vote to set a deadline for withdrawal from Iraq, I remarked to a friend that there was a very attractive woman in uniform standing behind Bush. For perhaps the first time ever, I understood what women see in “men in uniform”. If this [...]
The Weekend In Brief
Posted in Freedonian Newsdesk on March 26, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I took the weekend off and came back to find all this on the Freedonian Newsdesk:
Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental drug overdoseAnd I still care just as little as when I speculated seven weeks ago that it was likely an accidental drug overdose.
It is now suspected that the failed hit on the Iraqi [...]
Where Are the REAL Libertarians?
Posted in Faux Libertarians, Libertarians on March 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Abraham Lincoln was fond of asking people “How many legs does a dog have if you call its tail a leg?”. Whoever he was talking to would usually say “Five”. Lincoln would then say “No. Because calling its tail a leg doesn’t make it one.”
Reading up on conservative principles on the internet, [...]
Number 47 Said to Number 3…
Posted in Abraham Jackoff, George W. Bush, J. Steven Griles, Jack Abramoff, Sue Ellen Wolldridge on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another day, another jailbound Bush administration official.
J. Steven Griles pled guilty to obstruction of justice today in the Abramoff matter. It was part of a plea bargain from the more serious charges levelled against him when he gave false testimony to the Bureau of Indian Affairs twice on Abramoff’s behalf.
As I read CNN’s coverage of [...]
Draft David Holt!
Posted in David Holt, District 89 on March 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
So I was talking to a few friends last night, and we were discussing good people to get the interim appointment to fill the District 89 seat recently vacated by Beverly Marrero now that she’s a state senator.
The Shelby County Commission chose wisely to pick someone that wasn’t going to be running for the office [...]
Never Too Early to Start the 2008 Race Baiting, Huh?
Posted in Ed Stanton, Jake Ford, Joe Ford Jr, Julian Bolton, Lee Harris, Nikki Tinker, Ron Redwing, Steve Cohen, Tyson Pratcher on March 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The Memphis Flyer brought us this article from Roll Call yesterday about opposition to Steve Cohen forming up for 2008. The most striking thing about it— Most of the old familiar faces are back, and they’re still not any more creative than they were during last year’s primary.
Ron Redwing claims that that several black community, [...]
Oh Happy Day!
Posted in George W. Bush, House of Representatives, Iraq on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The House just approved a bill tying withdrawal from Iraq (Provided that the Iraqi government doesn’t meet benchmarks) by September 2008 to a bill funding the war.
216 Democrats and 2 Republicans voted for it. 198 Republicans and 14 Democrats voted against it. Two Democrats and one Republican abstained.
This bill is about something the White [...]
Even a Cat In Heat Hits the Right Note Once In a While
Posted in Darfur, Yoko Ono on March 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of my exes used to live in the Dakota. She used to tell tales about what an unbearable neighbor this woman was.
And if you’ve not heard her singing voice— How can it be described? Think of Geddy Lee from Rush. Now imagine the sound he might make as he gets his testicles waxed. You’re [...]
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