It's assholes like these that keep me up at night
I’ve got sleep apnea. That means that I use a CPAP machine to sleep. Using the CPAP machine gives me constant, 24/7/365 tinnitus. Add the tinnitus to ADHD, and I have too much in my head to let me sleep. So I listen to talk at night. BBC 4, BBC 4 Extra and Radio Australia usually. Sometimes the stories about refugees from Asia trying to make it by boat to Australia upset me. There are Aussies who are just as xenophobic and provincial as those here in ‘Muricah who are all about keeping Mexico out of the USA. Then I listen to podcasts.
I just happened to wake up in the middle of the night to pee. So I was thinking about what I was listening to. This episode of This American Life had a benign seeming title, This Week. Some of the segments are about…
- People living under surveillance from the NSA. they were defense attorneys for detainees at Guantanamo Bay
- A U.S. reporter covering what ever it is that look like trials at Gitmo of detainees
- A great science teacher in Fairfax County, VA who is quitting his job because he can’t take having to work as a teacher then do the fund raising that was needed to save his position.
- Florida is accelerating it’s execution process.
These assholes. These assholes invading our privacy for no valid reason that they’ll give us. These assholes who won’t give people the same justice that they live with. These assholes who make more money than just about anybody else in the nation who won’t get their county to pay for the best primary school science teacher in the country. These assholes in Tallahassee who can’t run courts right want to use other peoples bodies to build their careers.
These assholes doing these things so awful that someone thinks that the story about their fucked up actions are put on the radio. These assholes keep me up at night while my family can sleep.
(via Man angry over Boston bombings breaks jaw of ‘f*cking Muslim’ Iraq war veteran | The Raw Story)
Call the guy who hit the driver:
Ed Dahlberg, President
Emerald Aviation, Inc.
9998 Wakeman Dr
Manassas, VA 20110
(703) 361-3330
I just called the number: it leads straight to Dahlberg’s voice mail right now (it was a steady busy signal right after the incident). Give Ed a jingle to tell him what you think.
We are only getting dumber from sequestration.
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Disabled Woman Missing From Hayes, Virginia: The Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a 45-year-old woman who hasn’t been seen since early Friday morning 10/19/2012.
Sandra Scott was reported missing around 1 a.m. in the 8100 block of Broad Marsh Lane in the Hayes area. Scott suffers from dementia, mental health issues and a psychotic disorder that was not specified.
She is described as a white female standing 5’6” tall, weighing 125 pounds with brown, shoulder-length hair and blue eyes. She may be wearing black sneakers.
Scott is known to frequent local 7-Elevens and has been to the Virginia Beach area.
Anyone with information as to Scott’s whereabouts is asked to call the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office at (804) 693-3890.
'Smart' ALECs running Richmond - Inside NoVA
…one particular pro-business group exercises what seems to be a huge amount of influence over pro-business lawmakers. (Of course, if we ever spot any “anti-business” lawmakers out there — something that hasn’t been located since the beginning of the republic — we’ll be sure to let you know.) The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is generally described by its members as “pro-business” and “free-market.” And lawmakers who support their priorities, it turns out, also can be ALEC members — and no less than 115 current or former state lawmakers have such ties, according to the study. In fact, akin to the revolving door of congressmenturned-highlypaid lobbyists in Washington, ALEC leaders in Virginia have been known to go on to legislative leadership posts in Richmond, and vice versa. They may be totally different jobs, but they involve all the same group of people.
Earthquake registering Magnitude 5.8 in VIRGINIA
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Did David and Josh really feel it all the way up in NYC?
so ship them off to Virginia
“While I was there [in 1998] I stayed in a cheap hotel and had the window open. I was on the third floor. I called home and while I was on the phone there was a burst of 9MM automatic weapons fire in the street. My wife said it was pretty loud and was that the TV? I told her it wasn’t the TV. It was live in the street in Washington, DC, which is more dangerous than Baghdad.”—
Welcome to D.C., Tea Partiers! - DCist (Via TBD’s Andrew Beaujon)
This is the sole comment on the Maine Tea Party website’s helpful guide to DC for folks who’ll be attending Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial.
This might be only relevant to folks in DC, but it’s clogging up our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Tips like “Do not use the Green line or the Yellow line” are not sitting well with the local internet savvy populace, who don’t take kindly to people trashing their fair city.
Virginia is a place where Pat Robertson festers and Eric Cantor represents (at least in part), a lot of the right-wing national lobbying organizations have bases there. Even after the Virginia Tech massacre, the state house did nothing to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. Their Attorney General panders to misogynists and/or theocrats among other right-wing extremists. Face it, Tea Partiers are so out of touch that they might go to Richmond and think that they’ll find their leader, Jefferson Davis, there. So go on, send them south of the Potomac. They won’t know the difference. They can get on buses to throw their fusses on The Mall and when they are done, they can head back to Dixie Land.
