If white racists kidnapped a black man and tortured him while saying, "fuck blacks!" it would have been labeled a hate crime before they'd even finished, but when it's black racists, well, we just don't really know yet.
Sanity prevailed, though, and it's been labeled a hate crime. Good.
There's a bunch of links to this horseshit all over the place, but they all say about the same thing, so I'm not going to beat a dead horse.
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And here we go! Republicans working on repealing Obamacare, and the Democrats fire up their hyperbole generators: "MAKE AMERICA SICK AGAIN", blares the sign next to the podium, as if Obamacare had actually fixed anything rather than make the cost of health care "necessarily skyrocket" in its wake.
But, Democrats, please go on, and continue to use the same tired tactics which led you to lose big this past November.
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This is really cool. It's a computer which would fit in your wallet.
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Not yet, but someday it will be. Promise.
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So tonight it's extra-friggin'-cold outside. I'm home and warm.
Tuesday was the memorial service for my father-in-law. It was quite nice. My wife had a lot to do, and needed help, so I spent my three bereavement days helping her; today was the first day this year that I went to work, and the first time since Christmas Eve that I worked a full shift.
It was an exhausting weekend. Wednesday, we slept in; I had to run a couple errands but that was done pretty quickly.
Really miss the guy, we do.
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Not a lot else going on. Further bulletins as events warrant.