- There will be no outdoor sleepovers the night before Inauguration, which is sexist against hobos. [DCist]
- D.C. will get a commemorative quarter, just like a real state! The coins will feature Duke Ellington, who, fun fact!, was born in North Carolina. Oh, the city still won’t have a senator or a (real) congressperson. [Washington Post]
- In news that will come as a surprise to no one, commuting to D.C. is officially the worst thing in America. [DC Examiner]
- Some hunters shot the shattered the glass window of a daycare, which they apparently mistook for a deer. [WTOP]
- Fancy schoolchildren at Malia and Sasha’s new Sidwell Friends School are teasing other fancy school children. [Gawker]
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This is why all daycares and children should be painted neon orange.
Police said no one was injured in the shooting about 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday and the hunters, who were hunting with shotguns…
They hunt deer whith shotguns?! Why, are RPGs illegal?
[re=197807]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Yes, you hunt deer with shotguns, but you use deer slugs, not shotgun shells. And if you’re a really shitty shot you miss the deer and hit daycare centers instead.
Do the Sidwell Quakers cheerleaders do a, “smash them, kill them” cheer?
[re=197817]pondscum[/re]: Thanks, that sounds slightly less appalling. I’m ignorant, as the only animal I hunt is tofu, which, I’ve been assured, doesn’t feel pain.
[re=197817]pondscum[/re]: Deer slugs are also great for shooting burglars and potential son-in-laws. Just sayin’.
[re=197833]SayItWithWookies[/re]: WHAT??!! You think those cute little soybeans have no feelings? Obviously, you have never walked through a soybean field. (only those from farm states who have “walked beans” will get this…_)
[re=197843]Gorillionaire[/re]: .00 shot works better for that, as does my 9mil.
[re=197844]pondscum[/re]: Now you’re telling me The Silence of the Edamame is some sort of lie?
Okay, I looked up walking beans — what did we ever do before the internets?
http://brianmpei.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/farm-boy-walking-beans/
(some sort of javascript snow effect going on, but it’s not too annoying).
[re=197817]pondscum[/re]: Damn, you must have to be pretty close to the target to get one with a shotgun. Around here everyone uses a 30.06 or similar. (And a scope, because you get too close to those daycare kids and they get fidgety and hard to bead.)
I hate to be all factual, but Duke Ellington was born in Washington, DC. Ellington’s *dad* was born in North Carolina.
Memo to Daycare Centres. Stop putting pictures of Santa’s reindeer and Bambi on windows.
I have to agree. Oatmeal does, indeed, suck.
What about
being passed outsleeping in the park AFTER theinaugurationcoronation and the subsequentdrunken orgiesballs and concerts? Can we sleep off our exuberance then??[re=197866]bup[/re]: well, then, that make Duke a North Carolinian and not a DC native and thus not the king of DC currency. Do we HAVE to file a lawsuit before the SCOTUS AGAIN!??
THAT DAYCARE CENTER’S COMING RIGHT AT US!
I got a Canada quarter in change the other day, and it was dated 1985. Why did Canada get a quarter before any of the states?
Hey, what the hell? My 50-State Quarters folder has five extra lines at the end, but next year they’re releasing six new quarter designs! Washington DC, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands! How the hell am I supposed to make this work? We need to sell one of these territories before the balance of my album is thrown off.
We just had a similar hunting incident here in upstate New York. The bullet pierced the wall of a house and hit a crib from which the child was removed minutes earlier. Christ! Why not just hunt adjacent to a WalMart parking lot? Dingleberry brains!
“Some hunters shot the shattered the glass window of a daycare [center]”
Let’s be truthful here. Because of the reflection in the glass, the hunters thought they were shooting at a pack of plaid-wearing, gay homosexual lesbians.
Why does Wonkette hate the Second Amendment?
Sidwell doesn’t have a football team. They only play varsity non-competitive frisbee golf.
Wasn’t just about a week ago that some toddlers in another daycare were wounded by some “hunter”?
They must be issuing a lot of “deer” tags on the east coast this season. Thank god there are no standards for gun ownership in this great country.
[re=197970]Larry McAwful[/re]: When they planned the set, the Northern Marianas were Jack Abramoff’s — but now that it’s in foreclosure we have to give it a quarter. Beats raising their minimum wage, though.
Courtesy of Wiki:
In some areas, rifles are prohibited for hunting animals such as deer. This is generally due to range concerns; shotgun slugs have a far shorter maximum range than most rifle cartridges, and are safer for use near populated areas. In other areas, there are special shotgun only seasons for deer. A modern slug shotgun, with rifled barrel and high performance saboted slugs, is the top choice for hunters who must hunt with a shotgun, as it provides rifle-like power and accuracy at ranges up to 125 yards (110 meters). This advantage also provides an interesting challenge for local governments who attempt to limit shooting in densely populated areas as the power and accuracy of shotguns with rifled barrels (or rifled slugs in smoothbore barrels) give slugs the power to cut through brush and tree limbs where smaller caliber rifle ammunition would typically ricochet or stop. Slugs for smoothbores, with their larger diameter and lower accuracy, are still suitable for wooded areas too. Their maximum effective range is about 75 yards (70 m).
If they were using slugs… could have been buckshot but they generally don’t make it more than 100 yards max.
[re=198159]Grimnir[/re]: Daycare centers around these parts are pretty safe as the local deer are so tame all a hunter needs is a loaf of bread and a club.
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