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February 22, 2018

New Teacher Training Syllabus?

Summer between high school and college: Attend basic training and Airborne School at Fort Benning, GA

Summer between freshman and sophomore years: Attend Special Forces Assessment and Selection at Fort Bragg, NC

One year break between sophomore and junior years: Attend Special Forces Qualification Course at Fort Bragg

Summer between junior and senior years: Attend Ranger School at Fort Benning

Six months into her first year...

"Mrs. Jones, will you sing us a nursery rhyme?"
'Why certainly, child...

February 21, 2018

How Trump's proposed bump stock ban will actually work

Step 1: Trump sends out a tweet saying he has directed the DOJ to issue a regulation banning bump stocks.

Step 2: The DOJ will rightly point out that Trump's edict requires legislative action.

Step 3: The Republicans in Congress will create a bill that has a bump stock ban plus some combination of:
$30 million for Trump's May Day parade
$45 billion for the wall
a repeal of Medicaid
increase in the Social Security retirement age to 86
immediate deportation of all DREAMers
a federal abortion ban
legislative repeal of Obergefell v Hodges
or three or four other things the Republicans will use to attack the Democrats during the 2018 campaign whether Democrats sign off on them or not

Step 4: The Democrats filibuster the living shit out of this atrocity of a bill. Our leadership will get up and say, "if it was a clean bump stock ban we'd sign readily, but this isn't. It is nothing more or less than a way to try to kill the Democratic Party." Fox News will paint our leadership as unpatriotic and willing to kill children to advance our legislative agenda.

Step 5: The bill dies.

Step 6: Trump will then send about 300 tweets blaming the Democrats for not passing the bump stock ban.

Rinse and repeat.

February 20, 2018

We could do this today WITHOUT sullying the Second Amendment

Ban online ammo purchases.

February 19, 2018

Smoking and stupidity are always a bad mix

http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/crime__fire/20180219/woman_burned_at_gas_station

A woman was burned in Moses Lake (WA) on Saturday after she was reportedly smoking in a vehicle as a man pumped gasoline into a garbage can that was inside their car.

About 8:15 a.m. emergency responders responded to a report of a vehicle fire at Cascade Grocery, located in the 8000 block of Valley Road Northeast. Deputies discovered a 1988 Ford Tempo was parked at the gas pumps and the unidentified male driver of the car attempted to pump gas into a garbage can, which was in the back seat of the car.

“The female passenger, who was smoking a cigarette, apparently caused the fumes to ignite, engulfing the car. The woman got out of the car but sustained severe burns. A bystander drove her to Samaritan Healthcare in Moses Lake for treatment. Her current condition in unknown. The male driver ran away on foot,” stated Grant County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kyle Foreman.

The fire was extinguished and deputies reportedly located a large amount of marijuana in the truck of the car, which was seized as evidence.
February 19, 2018

I found a new dating website...

It's for deplorables only.

https://trump.dating

You have to be straight to sign up. You do not have to be single, in keeping with their messiah's own sexual preferences.

It's also a very handy reference for the rest of us...if you find a nice person on one of the "conventional" sites you can cross-reference your match to the Trump Dating website to know whether you should stay the hell away from that person.

February 17, 2018

How not to steal metal



http://www.cdapress.com/local_news/20180217/pipe_dream_a_nightmarefor_this_alleged_thief

Today's candidate for immortality is Brett K. Anderson of Post Falls, Idaho.

He decided to make a little extra money by stealing some 40-foot irrigation pipes and selling them to a metal recycler. The only thing he had to haul them in was a car, so he rolled down both back windows and stuck them through. To his credit, he only hit three oncoming motorists.

Anderson claims this is "the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life." It's hard to disagree with that sentiment.
February 17, 2018

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun...

...is keeping him from getting one in the first place.

February 6, 2018

Folks, e-file your taxes now

I e-filed last Saturday. My federal refund arrived today.

February 6, 2018

Let's draft a special one-appearance-only all-star "Eagles" to go to the White House!

The question is, who are the 53 dirtiest active players in the league who aren't on either team that played Sunday? Besides Burfict, Suh and Incognito, who we got?

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