You sir, are no Winston Churchill.
What is Tom Cotton afraid of? All this drama queen talk seems ridiculous. You would think that all of the Soviet Union was marching towards DC.
Are people really listening to Tom Cotton? He did not disappoint. He evoked Hitler within one minute. That’s quite a record.
March 14 (3/14) is celebrated annually as Pi Day because the date resembles the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter — 3.14 for short. And this year’s date syncs up with the first four digits after the decimal point, so 3.14.15 looks a lot like 3.14159265359 (etc). That won’t happen again until 2115. In case you don’t remember from math class, Pi is an “irrational and transcendental number” with decimals that “continue infinitely without repetition or pattern,” according to PiDay.org, the official website for the holiday.
π is made in Windows using the Alt key and on a numerical pad, typing 227.
Have a great day. Measure some circles. Bake a π…err…pie. Go out for some pie.
π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π π
The Prince William County Board of Elections, which recently switched to Democratic control, has denied a request to allow several local Republicans – including Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart and Sheriff Glen Hill – to defend their seats in the June 9 primary.
In an emergency meeting Wednesday, the three-member board met to consider whether Stewart, Hill and supervisors Maureen Caddigan, Potomac; Pete Candland, Gainesville; and Marty Nohe, Coles, could defend their seats in the state-run primary — even though the local GOP committee missed a Feb. 24 deadline to make that request to the Virginia State Board of Elections.
The three-member board, which switched from Republican to Democratic control March 1, denied the request in a 2-to-1 party line vote.
This might not sound like a big deal if you are one of the folks who isn’t part of the party faithful, but I can assure you, it is.
Last night, shortly after midnight, 2 Ferguson policemen were shot and seriously wounded. The shooter is still at bay and a manhunt is underway.
Black leadership is denouncing the violence as is the Obama administration. No person of decency accepts this horrible behavior towards people who were just standing there in front of their station at the end of their shift.
So where does it end? The violence really needs to stop. We can’t have crazies picking off cops. We also can’t have cops and municipalities committing acts like those cited in the Ferguson investigation. That time has passed. The protestors have gotten pretty much all they have asked for. Maybe its time to work towards better relations in another way that exposes our officers to less violence.
What people forget is that cops don’t always see the best of society. Perhaps its a natural thing to start developing stereotypes when dealing with people who aren’t behaving themselves according to the laws of society. Cops have to resist the urge to categorize individuals. They have to rise above it. If they can’t, then they shouldn’t be cops.
Well, that’s a new twist. The letter was condescending and arrogant. The response from the Iranian Foreign Minister points out the how ridiculous the Senators have made themselves look.
npr.org:
Republican senators’ letter to Iran about ongoing nuclear talks has prompted a lengthy response from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who delivered an overview of international law as he critiqued the letter.
Zarif said he was astonished by the letter, saying it suggests the U.S. lawmakers “not only do not understand international law” — a subject in which he is a professor — “but are not fully cognizant of the nuances of their own Constitution when it comes to presidential powers in the conduct of foreign policy,” according to Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
The Iranian minister said that “in our view, this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy.”
His response (we have more of it below) came after it was announced Monday that 47 Senate Republicans who oppose a potential deal with Iran over its nuclear program had signed a letter to the country’s leaders.
Coming two weeks before the deadline for envoys to reach general terms with Iran, the signatories wrote that they had been observing the negotiations over potentially relaxing economic sanctions — and told Iran’s leaders they were concerned “that you may not fully understand our constitutional system.”
An already heated battle between the White House and Republicans over negotiations to curtail Iran’s nuclear program grew more tense Monday when 47 Republican senators sent a letter to Iran designed to kill any potential deal.
The White House responded by accusing the Republicans of conspiring with Iranian hard-liners, who oppose the delicate negotiations, and suggesting that their goal was to push the United States into a military conflict.
“I think it’s somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners in Iran,” President Obama said a few hours after the letter was made public. “It’s an unusual coalition.”
During the last joint session of the Prince William County School Board and the Board of Supervisors, Supervisors Lawson and Candland chose to pick a fight with the School Board over a budget flyer sent home. I wish they had discussed the needs of the school board, especially as it relates to textbooks.
Disclosure: up until 3 years ago I was a certified secondary math teacher so this is important to me and I think I know what I am talking about. I also have grandchildren in PWC Schools.
Kids aren’t being issued textbooks. I checked with my middle school grandson. No math book. I couldn’t get an answer about the other books. I checked with friends who have kids in the school system. Their kids don’t have text books in any of the subjects. WTF? There are classroom sets.
So I asked about homework. It seems that kids have binders and worksheets. Sorry. That doesn’t cut it. How on earth are our kids learning to read in the content areas? Apparently they are not. Reading in the content areas is a critical skill that people who move beyond high school must have to be successful. If our SAT scores are coming up short, that is one place to immediately look.
What’s wrong with young adults? Why do they do such stupid things? Is it peer pressure or that omnipresent sense of invincibility that leads incredibly stupid behavior?
It would be difficult to find fault with this speech. I am quite confident that a certain portion of Americans are up to the task because of their intense dislike of this president.
President Obama hit a homerun out of the ball park with this speech. It just kept getting better.
Personally speaking, I think I was born being a feminist. I thought traditional roles were ridiculous. I always look back to the burning question: Why can’t women work in the ABC Stores? (they couldn’t until I was well into my adult life) You know, I never got a credible answer other than they would have to deal with drunks. I suppose Captain Obvious forgot that women go to parties with men?
But I digress… What does it mean to be a feminist? Had the definition changed over the years? Are feminists bad people in your mind? Read More
I think the nation as a whole is often very critical of Lyndon Johnson. Many of us bitterly turn up our noses, especially us baby boomers, because of Vietnam. “Hey Hey LBJ. How many kids did you kill today?” still rings in my mind. Others dislike Johnson because of his “Great Society” and perceived abuses some saw. You know, welfare mamas driving Cadillacs. LBJ was rough around the edges and often came across as getting his legislative way bullying his “bourbon and branch ” buddies in to going along with him. He had a long senate history and knew how to call in favors. He lacked the charisma of Kennedy and was very often resented by everyone, especially his own party.
I find it frightening that behavior like this went on in my lifetime. I was of conscious age when “Bloody Sunday” took place. I don’t know that I was aware it even happened at the time. You don’t know what you don’t know.
I think the fact that something this major happened in the United States of America and a living person was unaware is significant. Let’s pretend for a moment that “Bloody Sunday” was 1-year-old rather than 50 years old. Would a fairly socially-aware person be sitting here admitting that they didn’t know it had happened? Of course not.
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) suggested Thursday that the solution to homelessness is wolves. Young made the comment during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing during an exchange with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. He was arguing that gray wolves should be taken off the endangered species list, criticizing the National Park Service and his congressional colleagues who seek to protect the animals.
“How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one,” Young said, calling the gray wolf “a predator.”
“We’ve got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven’t got a damn wolf in their whole district,” Young added. “I’d like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.”
Why do people make remarks that savage the weakest and helpless of our society. I think Congressman Young has hit a new low. I thought that suggesting that immigrants should be dog food was low.(See our beginnings tab)
In the race to the bottom a new nadir has been reached by Congressman Young who suggested that he would introduce wolves into someone’s district to thin out the homeless population. Does Congress not censure these people? What an ignorant, grotesque, evil suggestion. Decent human beings don’t think like this man does.
I got an email from a friend today, mimicking people who drive SUVs.
“With my SUV I can haul ass over snowy and icy streets with total impunity, without really even paying attention to anything, because my fancy SUV makes me immune to all the basic laws of physics.
It seems a lot of people with SUVs or 4WDs think that way.”Here’s a SUV wreck from earlier today in Arlington:
