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Daily Twitter Digest – 2011-07-17

Kip — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:10:00 +0000

A brief whiff of sanity: Court holds cop can't claim he "accidentally" used his Glock rather than his taser. http://bit.ly/ody6t1 #tlot #fb ->
If you click on my link and it's your first time renting from Redbox, they'll give you a free one-night onlin… (cont) http://deck.ly/~ZBsI5 ->
Not-Money is hitting new all-time highs in Asia. http://bit.ly/qteypS #tlot #fb ->

Daily Twitter Digest – 2010-05-05

Kip — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:10:00 +0000

There is no such thing as a "First Amendment right to free parking on Sunday." http://is.gd/bVlsi #atheism #tlot #fb
Wiegel-Bigot-WaPo-Gate: A contest to see who can shout "I'm a putz" most loudly from the highest mountaintop. #lgbt #tlot #fb
Audit: AZ school districts illegally using sales tax revenue to replace rather than add to classroom spending. http://is.gd/bWbHx #tlot #fb
What, no taser? (funny) http://is.gd/bWbZK #fb

Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-11-18

Kip — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:10:00 +0000

Fun With Liberals™: SEIU declares jihad against Scouts who cleaned park trails for free. "There's to be no volunteers." http://is.gd/4XYpR 10:07:28
RT @JamesOTB: National Debt Hits $12 Trillion, Will Double By 2019 … http://bit.ly/I64im 10:11:20
Morning TV commercials. How long before JCPenney goes under? A store without any real demographic niche can't long survive. 2010? 2011? 10:14:46
Another "All items (1000+)" morning. Alas… 10:17:41
One more time: The only reason there are starving people in the world is because thugs with guns keep them starving. http://is.gd/4XZkn #fb 10:25:50
Are you a Web 2.0 parasite? http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-17/ #fb 10:35:05
We? "Why did we rush into Treasurys even as the government was planning to double the federal debt burden in a decade?’” http://is.gd/4Y0uY 10:54:13
From his cold, dead (moral defective) hand… http://is.gd/4Yvas #tlot 00:51:25
Redneck cop tasers 10-year girl because mom asks him to. Police chief says no big deal. http://is.gd/4Ywb2 #tlot #fb 01:29:37
HHS Secretary would like to remind you that the federal government will – duh – ignore doctors when politics warrant it. http://is.gd/4Ywlw 01:34:01
Speaking of rednecks: theocrats in Tennesee schools – http://is.gd/4Ywsr; theocrats in Oklahoma prisons – http://is.gd/4Ywu8 #tlot #atheism 01:41:10
That phantom AZ district that reported Obama-saved jobs? That was just a fluke, right? Right? Right? http://is.gd/4YwDR #tlot #fb 01:47:49
Meanwhile, stimulus created 10 new jobs … in 11 new Congressional districts. Just a fluke, right? Right? Right? http://is.gd/4YwGl #tlot 01:49:43

Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-11-09

Kip — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:10:00 +0000

A brief splash of sanity: AZ grocery workers rally *against" a strike, & protest their (anti-democratic) union. http://is.gd/4QTzr #tlot #fb 09:36:40
Who needs a taser when you can just show someone the Kumari Fulbright picture? http://bit.ly/LolSe #fb 01:12:21

Daily Twitter Digest – 2009-09-24

Kip — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:10:00 +0000

Death panels? That's just silly talk. P.S. "savings can only come from changing the way the system treats dying people" http://is.gd/3D9To 08:59:17
What, no taser? http://is.gd/3Di8l #tlot #fb 10:34:06
What the Deuce? http://is.gd/3EefE #tlot #fb 23:58:51

Daily Twitter Digest — 2009-07-29

Kip — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

deaf + mentally disabled + umbrella = Tase him, bro! http://snipr.com/o7ook #taser #

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Linkfest: Sunday Updates

Kip — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:10:31 +0000

Time to clean out the aggregator —

ITEM: Another police tasering of a child in a school setting. This time: a 13-year old girl. The officer's excuse? "[She] is not a normal-sized 13-year-old child. She is 5'4" weighing 185 pounds and very strong." This comes less than a month after taser-wielding police killed a 15-year old boy. Flagship post here; most recent post here.

ITEM: The White House has announced that it plans to knowingly breach its fiduciary duty to taxpayers by purchasing 17,600 "green" vehicles from Detroit automakers. The General Services Administration doesn't actually need the cars (though it will scrap older but still perfectly functioning cars in a classic case of the Broken Window Fallacy). Rather, the administration openly concedes that the sole purpose of the $285 million pork-barrel program is "supporting auto demand during this period of restructuring in the industry." Previous post here; full archive here. (Via Blagnet.)

ITEM: A major new study of the federal restriction of over-the counter pseudoephedrine (a/k/a "the war on sniffles") has concluded that the program, meant to curb methamphetamine production, has been a complete failure. (PDF – 45 pages. Via Marginal Revolution.)

ITEM: A reminder that Friday, April 17th is the annual Day of Silence, in which gay and gay-friendly students peacefully protest bullying and discrimination by refusing to speak in class. Previous post here; see also here.

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PERSONAL UPDATE: Hiatus re-commences this week. Expect little or no blogging. But be sure to follow me on Twitter.

Linkfest: Sunday Updates

Kip — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:54:31 +0000

Time to clean out the aggregator —

ITEM: A 15-year old boy in Michigan died after being tasered by police, who initially defended the act because the boy" attempted to fight the officers." If the boy was unarmed, then the use of the taser was almost certainly inappropriate. An investigation is underway. Flagship post here.

ITEM: A federal district judge has ruled that adding "under God" to the Texas Pledge of Allegiance (which is recited in Texas schools) is not a violation of the Establishment Clause. The judge cited precedent suggesting that "under God" is sufficiently non-specific to survive First Amendment scrutiny, as well as the fact that students can opt out of the recitation. Flagship post here; see also here.

ITEM: The New York City Council has extended rent regulation for another three years. To do so, the Council had to formally declare a "housing emergency" — the "emergency" has existed for sixty years now.

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REMINDER: Substantive blogging will continue to be light for the next few weeks. But I still Twitter up a storm!

Daily Twitter Digest — 2009-03-22

Kip — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

"Electrosol is now Finish." I swear marketing people are aliens here to undermine civilization. P.S. What was wrong with "Franco-American"? #
P.S. I'm still waging jihad against Bumble Bee for covertly shrinking their tuna fish cans from six ounces to five. #
Finally reading the Yoo memos. Page after page of bait and switch (e.g., "federal government" suddenly becomes "the executive" etc.). #
Cops taser & kill 15-year old boy who "attempted to fight them." Was he armed? If not, then can't 2+ cops subdue a kid? http://is.gd/osXm #
You now have no legitimate excuse for not knowing the Coase Theorem: http://snipr.com/ecof7 #

Daily Twitter Digest — 2009-02-13

Kip — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:59:59 +0000

First the Duggars, then the Octo-Bimbo, now comes the 13-year old father. It's almost enough to turn one aretaic: http://snipr.com/bt8k9 #
Speaking of the Octo-Bimbo, behold your taxes at, ahem, "work" — http://snipr.com/bt8p2 #
Radio station is playing the full-length "Sopranos" theme. It's actually a quite boring song after 30 seconds. #
Obama's "earmark-free" stimu-pork bill contains the largest earmark in history, $2b (bought, incidentally, by Blago): http://is.gd/jqqP #
Krugman: "Let’s start with the politics." I wasn't aware that he also won the Nobel Prize in Politics. http://is.gd/jo0V #
A reminder that I mocked "liberaltarianism" before it became fashionable: http://is.gd/i2rb #lptwits #
The inventor of the taser is dead (but not by taser) at age 88. My posts on police taser abuse: http://tinyurl.com/bhcjsl #lptwits #
"11 percent of U.S. adults who use the Internet also send status updates on Twitter" http://tinyurl.com/b5dre6 #
Who's the more foolish — the fool or the fool who converts him to PDF format? http://tinyurl.com/bh6pmr #

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