Bespoke Falconry:
Neiman Marcus is now selling bespoke falconry furniture as a Christmas gift. "Gazing upon your portable case and matching custom trunk, you marvel at the 20-karat gold-plated perch, hand-carved stands, leather perch scale, and hand-sewn glove, anklet, and exotic-skin hoods by Ken Hooke, the world's preeminent falconry hood maker. The setup comes with with matching Chatwin chairs, foldout table by Richard Wrightman, "the foremost designer of bespoke campaign" and "a handmade backgammon board from Alexandra Llewellyn." You get to pour yourself a drink from lead crystal decanters, and cut your cigars with a "matching cigar cutter by David Linley". All yours for $150,000.
The Most Crowded Spot in America:
Hart Island, just off from New York City, has been a Civil War prison camp, a mental asylum, a workhouse for the poor, and even a missile base, but it's current function is as potter's field, where around 900,000 people are buried. The bodies are laid in mass graves by inmates from nearby Riker's Island. One third of the dead are infants, some are homeless, and others are unclaimed bodies from the city morgue
The Cut and Run Cowards at Guns & Ammo Magazine:
Apparently Guns & Ammo magazine is run by cut and run cowards who are so terrified of extremist gun-lunatics that they even give a nod to safety and common sense.
Neiman Marcus is now selling bespoke falconry furniture as a Christmas gift. "Gazing upon your portable case and matching custom trunk, you marvel at the 20-karat gold-plated perch, hand-carved stands, leather perch scale, and hand-sewn glove, anklet, and exotic-skin hoods by Ken Hooke, the world's preeminent falconry hood maker. The setup comes with with matching Chatwin chairs, foldout table by Richard Wrightman, "the foremost designer of bespoke campaign" and "a handmade backgammon board from Alexandra Llewellyn." You get to pour yourself a drink from lead crystal decanters, and cut your cigars with a "matching cigar cutter by David Linley". All yours for $150,000.
The Most Crowded Spot in America:
Hart Island, just off from New York City, has been a Civil War prison camp, a mental asylum, a workhouse for the poor, and even a missile base, but it's current function is as potter's field, where around 900,000 people are buried. The bodies are laid in mass graves by inmates from nearby Riker's Island. One third of the dead are infants, some are homeless, and others are unclaimed bodies from the city morgue
The Cut and Run Cowards at Guns & Ammo Magazine:
Apparently Guns & Ammo magazine is run by cut and run cowards who are so terrified of extremist gun-lunatics that they even give a nod to safety and common sense.
The Nature of Delayed
Gratification:
Those who can delay gratification do
better in life, and those who watch nature are more likely to
delay gratification.
Those Who Live in Glass Houses:
How about a glass
cabin on a budget for $500? Very cool.
America Is Much Healthier Than You Know:
A few years back,
Robert Ohsfeldt of Texas A&M and John Schneider of the University of Iowa asked the
obvious question: what happens if you remove
deaths from fatal injuries from the life expectancy tables? Among the 29
members of the OECD, the U.S. vaults from 19th place to first. Japan, on the
same adjustment, drops from first to ninth. Bottom line: we are
healthy as hell, but we are not risk averse. We engage in stupid-risky
behaviors. In short, we are Americans, not Japanese.
American is Much Less Wealthy Than You Know:40 percent of all American workers (39.6 percent to be precise) make less than $20,000 a year. According to data released this week, 49.7 million Americans are living in poverty. The wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
American is Much Less Wealthy Than You Know:40 percent of all American workers (39.6 percent to be precise) make less than $20,000 a year. According to data released this week, 49.7 million Americans are living in poverty. The wealthiest one percent of all Americans have a greater net worth than the bottom 90 percent combined.
Butt Smellers:
Clever canines catch colon cancer cues contained in crap.
Deeply Flawed Social Security "Study":
8 comments:
As well analyzed here, Dick Metcalfe seems to think that the First Amendment means that no journalist can be criticized.
Um, no. And his readers are the advertisers' customers, after all.
I agree that the 1st Amendment does not mean that you are immune to criticism. Nope. Does not say that. Never has. Full agreement.
That said, it's a pretty scared and weak handed magazine that cannot weather (and publish) a few letters and "back at ya" columns.
The idea that everyone has to march lockstep is an idea from another time and another country, not America.
Good people can (and do) disagree on a lot of things from guns to immigration, from abortion to public schools. Who knew truth to suffer in a free an open debate?
And yet, the gun nuts are terrified of a free and open debate, aren't they?
The NRA, which once said "guns don't kill people; crazy people and criminals do," has now decided that we cannot even look up the barrel of the gun at the crazies and criminals.
The web site that your link sends us to is a perfect example of the fear. They are not content to put the actual words of the 2nd Amendment on the masthead. Do you live in Kentucky? No? Me either! I live in America, and the U.S. Constitution is what governs, as well as Congress, the President the U.S. Supreme Court.
So what does the Supreme Court say?
In the 2008 Heller case, the Supreme Court said, in an opinion written by gun-owning, right-wing conservative Atonin Scalia, that gun rights are a right that can be restricted for time, place, manner and safety reasons.
I quote:
"Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. [United States v.] Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those ‘in common use at the time’ finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons."
Now it appears that even the IDEA that folks who own guns should be required to take a simple gun safety course is anathema?
Screw that.
If you want to lose the 2nd Amendment, continue on down that road and see how many voters follow you into that muddle and mud. Heck, even in Kentucky they have gun restrictions -- it’s unlawful to carry a concealed firearm on or about one's person in that state.
P.
Actually, the blog in question is written by Pennsylvanians. I don't know where you get the Kentucky angle, but it's not germane to their blog.
The masthead is even more absurd then, as the line in that masthead is NOT from the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (the one that matters), NOR is it from the state Constitution of Pennsylvania at any time, but from the 1790 Constitution of Kentucky, and it is language that was repealed more than 160 years ago. In short, we might as well be quoting the French!
The funny thing here is how little people actually seem to know about either the First Amendment or the Second Amendment. Neither say what people seem to think they say.
P
I doubt that anyone who can pick up the tab on bespoke falconry hardware would ever be seen doing this;
"pour yourself a drink from lead crystal decanters, and cut your cigars with a "matching cigar cutter by David Linley"
Surely there would be a hovering lackey to handle such mundane tasks ?
As a matter of fact, the language is from the present Pennsylvania Constitution.
http://www.pahouse.com/pa_const.htm
I am not inserting this for debate, simply correction of facts. As you well know, internet debate is a pretty worthless endeavor unless you have a lot of time to waste.
Best Regards,
Richard Grossman
Slippery Rock Pennsylvania
Sounds like you did not read past the masthead, Patrick! You seem obsessed with it.
Meanwhile, I was referring to Metcalfe's "how dare they criticize me" response, mainly.
I agreed with you on what the First Amendment says Chas, but it's hysterical that the gun nuts are not actually comfortable quoting the REAL and entire 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. They also are afraid to quote Heller which was written by a gun-owning conservative strict Constitutionalist. Do you believe Muslims have the right to RPGs and carry them through airports? Every state has gun laws. The gun nuts are tossing the Second Amendment and Heller. Insane in the brain.
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