"An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from carrying out any activities in the country and ordered the seizure of the group's funds..." -Reuters

"Fetch your service revolver, Watson. The game is afoot!"

I question the timing. Funny this happens just a few days after a clear electoral rebuke to those two Colorado state reps, getting recalled for rushing through a gun ban ( Read more... )

Was eating at a restaurant in Berkeley, and the group at the next table over were telling a story about how they named their son d'Artagnan, and how he has the nickname, 'Dart' at school now.

In response, the other woman at the table says, "d'Artagnan? Is that from Game Of Thrones?"

Yes, Obama has made many mistakes that have led us to this point, small and large. None of them are fixable so besides understanding them there is nothing to be done about them. We know that Obama and his people would refuse to understand them and would make the same choices regardless so it makes little point ( Read more... )

http://www.ascensionhelp.com/blog/2013/08/23/why-i-am-no-longer-a-light-worker/Read more... )

For some reason I didn't pick up REAMDE, by Neal Stephenson, immediately. Something suggested I hold off. I knew that it would wait for me. And it did. A week ago I saw it, possibly a remainder, on the rack outside a San Francisco bookstore by my work (Alexander Book Co.) for $4.99 in hardback. Now was the time ( Read more... )

We begin with the first crux of the biscuit - the definition of 'natural-born citizen.' Nothing has been definitively judged on this exact case nor will the Supreme Court make a statement until one member of a major party brings it up against another member of a major party. Several other cases touch vaguely upon it, like the cases involving ( Read more... )

"You know how Mitt Romney told President Obama, 'You don't pick winners and losers, you pick losers?' You don't pick winners and losers, you pick Weiners."

At least Reagan had the excuse of actually trying to release American hostages.

But other than that, the parallels are all there.

Yes, we all know that it's a ginned-up racially biased prosecution. Crump, the Martin family lawyer, needed an arrest so he could bring civil cases against the city and the housing development to get himself hefty fees, the family some walking around money, and everyone in the racial greivance department, especially those in the Florida government ( Read more... )