- From the “Oh Please, Oh Please” Department – Anthony Weiner, disgraced former Congressman from New York, has begun exploring the possibility of running for mayor of New York City. Mr. Weiner resigned from Congress after he was caught sending suggestive photographs of himself to women he wasn’t married to. As someone who likes to sit on the political sidelines and throw pexcrement at the clowns on the field, I support this effort. I will never turn down easy blog fodder.
- From the “Cutting Off One’s Nose” Department – The Air Force’s Air Combat Command has announced that it will begin standing down combat air units on April 9 due to cuts to its funding. These cuts, as part of the budget sequestration, will cause the amount of training for pilots and crews to drop by 45,0000 hours between now and October. This will mean that in a crisis, our Air Forces may not have enough qualified pilots and crews to respond to an emergency. In unrelated news, the Obama family enjoyed a wonderful concert at the White House the other night that included ‘talents’ such as Cindy Lauper, Queen Latifah, and Justin Timberlake.
- From the “So What?” Department – Global warming experts are predicting that areas, such as France, where some of the best wine in the world has been produced for centuries, may lose that crop as the climate changes. Instead, wines may become a viable crop in places such as Britain, the American Northwest, and China. I would be alarmed at this, but I have read some Roman texts that discuss how good the wine from Britannia was, so rather than this being the end of the world, it could be a return to something that has happened before. While true wine connoisseurs may shudder at the thought of such a monstrosity as a Welsh claret, I look forward to trying it in my lifetime. My Norse blood also would like to see what vintages might be grown in Vinland.
- From the “Oopsie!” Department – The Environmental Protection Agency is in a bit of hot water after it released personal details on thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmentalists groups. The environmentalists had requested information on large-scale farms and feeding operations under the Freedom of Information Act, but apparently the EPA didn’t scrub personal information from the data it sent in response. The agency has requested that the information be returned. Apparently the EPA hopes that the groups that have the information don’t own a copier or a thumb drive. Stuff like this is why even the farmers I’ve known who weren’t “gun people” knew how to use a shotgun or a rifle. Never know when some varmint might come around the house and cause trouble.
- From the “Mine, Not Thine” Department – A commercial by an NBC newsperson which encourages its watchers to realize that the responsibility to raise children is a societal and governmental, not a personal, responsibility has started a firestorm. Apparently, us knuckle draggers here in the back country can’t get it though our thick skulls that the fruits of our loins are the property of “society” and should be raised and educated in a way that is palatable to those who rightfully dwell in ivory towers and take nourishment from the ambrosia of life. These enlightened individuals cannot understand how we might find it insulting for them to believe that they and they alone know what is the ‘right’ manner to raise and educate our children. Of course, my point is that I have a hard time handing over the care and feeding of my children to an organization that couldn’t make a profit running a whorehouse. Until the government shows success in providing housing to the poor, crime control in urban areas, and education to children whose parents are uninterested, I’ll just be over here teaching my kids to read and think for themselves, thank you very much.
- From the “PSH” Department – A man in Connecticut has been arrested after police discovered he was committing the heinous crime of shooting tin cans in the woods with a BB gun. Apparently enjoying a few moments of peace in the great outdoors is verboten when the President is in the neighborhood. The man was officially arrested for breaching the peace, threatening, and interfering with police, so my guess is he didn’t take kindly to police demands that he put away his official Red Ryder carbine action 200 shot range model air rifle.
News Roundup
Posted by daddybear71 on April 10, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/04/10/news-roundup-184/
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Drang
/ April 10, 2013Been growing pretty darned good wine here in the American (Pacific) Northwest for years…
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Drang
/ April 10, 2013Okay, growing grapes, making wine. And beer. And now whisky, and whiskey, too.
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daddybear71
/ April 11, 2013A veritable cornucopia. Kentucky has started growing some pretty good wine too.
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Gordon
/ April 11, 2013I own a small farm, and the annual Burning of the Farm Census has become a family event. Each year we get a letter, ominously claiming that my response is required by law, asking about how much land we’ve farmed, what we’ve grown on it, whom we’ve hired to help, etc. The mailer itself contains text that openly contradicts the envelope’s “Thou Shalt Respond” dictum, and my conversation with their semi-literate point of contact failed to clarify anything. So we use the hefty questionnaire as firestarters. This year they sent us a second copy, because we hadn’t ever answered the first, which was nice because the wood stove season has been longer than we expected.
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MaddMedic
/ April 11, 2013Ahem..
You used ‘NBC’ and ‘newsperson’ in the same sentence which may lead some to believe NBC is an actual ‘News’ station.
They ain’t!!
Political Hacks for the left maybe..
Please endeavor to not make such misleading statements in the future.
Somewhat like saying the VPC or CSGV were actually against ‘violence’ and not some inanimate tool..
Thanks
Madd…
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