The unimportant news thread

[Ken B]

Someone asked why Diner threads get so gnarled. one reason.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/17/over-80-percent-of-americans-support-mandatory-labels-on-foods-containing-dna/

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Ban dihydrogen monoxide!! Did you know that dihydrogen monoxide is a major factor in the vast majority of drownings and slip and fall accidents, and that it is a major component of acid rain!? Why won't somebody pleeaaassssseee think of the children!?!?!?1?

[Ken B]

Ban dihydrogen monoxide!! Did you know that dihydrogen monoxide is a major factor in the vast majority of drownings and slip and fall accidents, and that it is a major component of acid rain!? Why won't somebody pleeaaassssseee think of the children!?!?!?1?

http://dhmo.org

[Todd]

Nothing fishy here.

[Ken B]

Nothing fishy here.

The news today is that there is a secret passage into his apartment!

This next link ties together some issues we have discussed. 1) gun laws and 2) selective enforcement.

The short version is that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department warned NBC News that it could not possess an actual high-capacity magazine, but NBC News went ahead and did it anyway. The MPD recommended a warrant for Gregory's arrest, but that request was nixed by the D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan because — my paraphrase — Gregory was just too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent.

That attitude stood in stark contrast to the D.C. Attorney General's vigorous prosecution of other lesser-known people who also were nice people and had no other criminal intent, but violated D.C.'s gun laws.

http://nblo.gs/12R0S3

Whether a law is good or bad it is surely wrong in general to have one standard for rich offenders who commit the crime in front of a million witnesses, and another for the poor man convicted on a cop's say-so.

[North Star]

An MP from Greater Manchester died after drinking a fatal amount of spirits during an official dinner in Poland, an inquest has heard.

[Ken B]

ORLANDO, Florida — A trial to determine whether U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson's wife committed bigamy when she wed the congressman has been delayed because she required emergency surgery to remove breast implants.

[Ken B]

Nothing fishy here.

Further update! Not just a secret passage but

Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner said Thursday she believes that a prosecutor who died under suspicious circumstances was murdered in a plot to implicate her government in a cover-up of a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.

[Ken B]

This could be dropped on several threads but I'll put it here.

If you look hard enough you find anti-semites just exactly where you should expect to find them

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/inebriateme/2015/01/professor-shocked-shocked-to-find-out-prominent-nazi-was-an-anti-semite/

[Todd]

It will work this time.

[Ken B]

It will work this time.

Someone, I forget who, remarked that the best way to understand any organization's behavior is to assume it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

[North Star]

Someone, I forget who, remarked that the best way to understand any organization's behavior is to assume it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Robert Conquest's 3rd Law of Politics:

The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

[Ken B]

Robert Conquest's 3rd Law of Politics:

Merci.

The Great Terror is one of my favourite books. I also like Conquest's summary, addressed to western leftists, of the evidence that came out of the KGB archives: "I was right you fucking fools." 

[Florestan]

I also like Conquest's summary, addressed to western leftists, of the evidence that came out of the KGB archives: "I was right you fucking fools."

[Sergeant Rock]

The weather in parts of Arizona appears dire 

https://www.youtube.com/v/iXuc7SAyk2s


Sarge

[Ken B]

The weather in parts of Arizona appears dire 

https://www.youtube.com/v/iXuc7SAyk2s


Sarge

He did a good job reacting.

[ibanezmonster]

The weather in parts of Arizona appears dire 

https://www.youtube.com/v/iXuc7SAyk2s


Sarge

Lol, I saw that one yesterday. Would have been nice if it had been prepared, so he could comments like, "And the gates of hell are opening up in Cave Creek, with a forecast of demon armies spreading to Wicked... err, Wickenburg."

[Ken B]

Two of our regulars are vindicted once again.

Todd was right about the spread of animism and the attentendent decline of human rights.
Florestan was right about the American left being self-righteous f*ck-wits.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/30/being-a-multi-cultural-community-with-indigenous-roots-of-many-doesnt-let-you-strip-away-first-and-fifth-amendment-rights/

[Ken B]

In Detroit beatings will continue until morale improves
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/01/30/detroit-seizes-homes-to-fund-corruption/

[Ken B]

Kids and guns. http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27995159/toddler-wounds-both-parents-with-1-shot-from-handgun