Slow News Weeks

[walkitout]

It's been a bit slow lately. One of the recent non-news controversies involved Obama saying he shoots skeet at Camp David. The right wing demanded photographic evidence. Photographic evidence has been produced.

Yes, Virginia, he really is left-handed.

http://nation.time.com/2013/02/02/white-house-releases-photo-of-obama-firing-gun/

There was a great quote about how photographic evidence would calm everyone down, which the Daily Show or Colbert or whoever said, yeah, right, black man with a gun, _that_ will definitely calm everyone down.

Weird seeing someone shoot a long gun left handed. Not sure I ever have before.

The skeet shooting association's how-to page says that lefties do as well as righties.

http://www.nssa-nsca.org/index.php/nssa-skeet-shooting/new-to-skeet-shooting/how-to-play-the-game/

"Left handed shooters do just as well as right."

I have never participated, altho it does seem like it would be fun.

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[jinasphinx.livejournal.com]

It was Stewart. "Why wouldn't the black man who half the country is afraid of release a picture of himself holding a gun?" :)

The right is 0 for 2 on this at least. I'm thinking of how they said that Secretary Clinton wasn't really sick. And then it turned out she had a blood clot in her head. (*sigh*)