Overnight Open Thread (12-26-2013)

Quote of the Day

"We in the United States may not believe that we are engaged in an ideological struggle with anybody, but other people are engaged in an ideological struggle with us. We in the United States may not believe that there is any real threat to our longtime alliance structures in Europe and Asia, but other people think those alliances are vulnerable and have set out to undermine them. ...We are intellectually, economically and militarily unprepared to contemplate Great Power conflict, let alone engage in the hard work of renewing alliances and sharpening strategy. But History is back, whether we want it to be or not. Happy New Year."

Quote of the Day II

I said in an earlier post, and I'll say again here:  The Left makes inroads into institutions, while conservatives abandon them.  Theirs is the better tactic.  Or, as I've also said before, Leftists have horrible ideals and great tactics; conservatives have great ideals and horrible tactics.

Obama Engaged in a Campaign of Civil Disobedience Against ObamaCare

Heh. At this point I don't even know what parts of the law will still be operative later this week. And Obama probably hasn't decided that yet either.

In the great tradition of American civil disobedience, President Barack Obama is defying a law. It's just one that he himself lobbied for, signed, and lost a house of Congress over. Even Henry David Thoreau would be hard-pressed to understand this one.

It's Good to be Part of the Nomenklatura

So you don't have to worry about those pesky laws meant for unimportant people.

No charges will be filed against a Montrose city councilwoman who said she forgot her handgun was inside her purse when she brought it through security last month at Montrose County Regional Airport, while the councilwoman has agreed to participate in adult diversion, Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said Friday.

Or regulations about letting your service weapon get stolen through sheer negligence.

Jesse Jackson Is Desperately Seeking Relevance

So he's trying to insert himself into the A&E-Duck Dynasty affair.

Rev. Jesse Jackson weighed in on the raging Duck Dynasty controversy over star Phil Robertson's opinion on homosexuality, claiming, "the statements uttered by Robertson are more offensive than the... driver" of civil rights icon Rosa Parks' bus.

According to the Daily Mail, Jackson added: "At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law." But Robertson said what he said "without cover of the law." And Jackson said the statements Robertson made in answering a GQ reporter's question were given "in a context of... 'white privilege.'"

...Instead, Jackson is demanding that Robertson's "indefinite" suspension be upheld and he also wants a meeting "within 72 hours with A&E executives and Cracker Barrel's CEO to discuss the future of Duck Dynasty memorabilia."

Yes I'm sure Jackson is very interested in di$cu$$ion$ about ra¢ia£ h€aling. With Jesse Jr. in the pen I guess someone's gotta run the family shakedown business even if it means coming out of returement.

Unemployed Single Mom Borrowed £1,700 From 8 Payroll Loan Companies To Buy Hundreds of Christmas Presents for her Kids

And now she says she can't pay them back. And somehow it's all the loan companies' fault. Irresponsibility thy name is Katie McGill.

A single mother-of-two who lives on benefits used payouts from eight payday loan companies so her children could have a special Christmas.

Unemployed Katie McGill borrowed £1,690 from the controversial firms and will have start paying back £3,000 from January 2.

The 28-year-old from Devizes, Wiltshire, took out the loans of between £80 and £380 to buy 'hundreds' of presents for her children, but now fears she will not be able to provide for them when she tries to cover the repayments.

She bought a bike, a TV and a DVD player for both Mya-Renee, three, and Calvin, eight, and took them for a meal.

The jobless mother said: 'There were hundreds of presents under the tree. Their gran passed away this year so it was nice to be able to treat them.

'They got loads of computer games for their Xbox, they got a new TV and DVD player each, new bikes and loads more.'

I suspect her plan was to use her sob story to get people to give her enough money to pay off the loans after Christmas. Sadly it'll probably work.

End of the Line for Red Lobster?

I have fond memories of the lobster as a kid including the time they had an all-you-can-eat-shrimp night and a young Maet discovered he really, really, really liked shrimp. And the manager was really, really glad to see us finally leave.

Red Lobster isn't making enough money and its parent company, Darden, (which also owns Olive Garden and other chains), all but rang a death knell when it announced today that it would either spinoff or sell the seafood chain. While no Red Lobster locations are disappearing for now, this is bad news for the chain.

Yet Another Hate Crime Hoax

A man who told police he had been robbed and beaten at a Paris health food store a few days before Thanksgiving was arrested after he allegedly withheld information about the incident and has now been charged with filing a false report.

Joe Williams, 32, of 803 E. Wood St. was arrested Friday afternoon after turning himself in at the Henry County jail.

Williams originally told officers he had been beaten and robbed Nov. 20 at Healthy Thyme, which is at the same address as Williams' home. There was also a fire, and Williams had a homosexual slur written on his forehead.

Officers later found inconsistencies in Williams' story. Paris Police Sgt. Ricky Watson said Williams failed to bring up certain facts known to investigators on three different occasions.

"I can tell right now you don't know shit about dynamite."

Heh. Shit being the operative word here. It's a slow build so stick with it until the end.

Global Warming Researchers Trapped in Antarctic Ice

Yahoo group. That is all.

The group thingy. And the middle class.

And my Twitter spew.

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