Sentences with phrase «screed on»

It appears that the suspect purchased his firearm legally [select: at a gun shop, at a sporting goods store, at a superstore, at a pawnshop, from a friend, from a licensed dealer; at a gun show; online] despite [select: a history of violence; a history of mental illness; a public screed on Facebook detailing his plans].

Ground floor: 75 mm screed on 300 mm Kore EPS, on 75 structural screed on 200 precast hollowcore suspended floor.

I have a lot of new artwork which is approaching the quality of the cover used earlier for my screed on «not knowing».

Continue reading «A Screed on Copyright»

«The BTF should be ashamed of itself for foisting this half - baked screed on the public and calling it «research.»

Thematically rich and pointedly written, the film is a black - comedy screed on the legacy of the Catholic Church, its various sex scandals and its waning influence, and though a melancholic solemnity guides the existential second half, «Calvary» never loses its predestined focus.

BOOKS Screenwriter John Sayles reviews screenwriter William Goldman's screed on screenwriting.

Expect a few people to send you a screed on why they are the best candidate and don't need to prove it to you or anyone else, and besides, it is your job to choose them, not the other way around.

Sen. Craig Johnson's statement in response to Gov. David Paterson's lengthy screed on New Jersey's property tax cap deal and his call for Albany lawmakers to follow suit by publicly declaring their respective positions on the subject is worth noting.

He also claims he kept an accurate and logical tally of the number of drinks the woman had, so he seems to think he had a scientific reason for writing a long - winded screed on a local Facebook group that evening.

No longer simply producing easily dismissable screeds on cheap paper for certified bigots, Holocaust deniers have developed increasingly sophisticated methods of tailoring their message to different audiences and presenting what may, at first, seem a respectable array of institutions and scholarly publications.

Mr. Poland, don't delete your unjust ad - feminam attacks and screeds on my account, although the thread is becoming monotonous, and I will refrain from further postings after this.

Not exact matches

Weaker elements include a filler chapter on education reform, and a one - sided screed about YouTube and Spotify that could have been written by the entertainment industry.

In November, musician Damon Krukowski penned a frustrated screed about the grand sum of 21 cents received from Pandora for the 7,800 times one of his band's songs was played on the service.

Then when I say «we don't know if everything is cause and effect» you go on a screed about how that is not supported by what we do know.

So far the deeds have yet to match the screed — Mark was absent from the pulpit the Sunday after this broke and his sermon preached on 8/16 was only done live in front of the small 8:30 pm service at Bellevue which is where his sermons are taped for distribution to the other campuses the following week.

He might plausibly have claimed that he relied on the bad reporting of another, in partial (but only partial) extenuation of his unwarranted screed.

Hours before the Observer published fresh, damaging allegations about how the various pro-Brexit campaigns colluded, possibly illegally, in the weeks before the UK's knife - edge EU referendum, Vote Leave Campaign Director Dominic Cummings published a long screed of pre-emptive defence on his blog.

It was a home - made attempt at holding local officials accountable — black text on a green background, rough photo - shopped images and lengthy screeds.

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

Simply elaborating on the complexity of wicked fast food franchises offering naturalized Mexicans the chance to own a business and, perhaps, advance within the corporate structure while raping (again literally, with a plant super (Bobby Cannavale) putting the wood to his helpless charges) their own kind in the production - side would have instantly transformed Fast Food Nation into a thoughtful examination of the impossibility of our industrialized situation instead of an inchoate screed delivered by idiots to like - minded idiots.

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HIM: One good film stretched to two, doing little with second POV and insisting on having characters speak in screeds.

Levine exhibited scant optimism about the movie's prospects, and some of the most influential critics, including Pauline Kael and John Simon, dismissed it, as later would a writer at the New Yorker, Jacob Brackman, whose screed went on for some twenty pages.

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

Proof that someone else watching The Pelican Brief decided that its great unplumbed racial subplots would be worth a Grisham picture of their own, enter the patently offensive A Time To Kill, underscoring its liberal screed by opening with caricatures of rednecks at war with caricatures of black people: basketball hoops on the one side, Confederate flags on the other; front - yard barbecues, late - night cross-burnings; marble halls of justice, raucous Baptist churches; Kevin Spacey's DA summation on the one side all superego, Matthew McConaughey's tear - jerking monologue on the other all soul.

Michael Moore's screed against the American health care system Sicko, Laura Dunn's cosmic meditation on the environment and political action The Unforeseen — MIFF 2007, Julian Temple's ultimate music documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten — MIFF 2007, Chris Smith's poetic parable of class and poverty The Pool — MIFF 2007, Shane Meadows pitch perfect recreation of 80's England, This is England, and finally, a year late because I saw it late, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Half Nelson, which would make my top five in any year and is easily one of the best American independent films of the decade.

Sure enough, when the Assembly's budget proposal was unveiled, an 11 - page screed against charters was on the table.

This gets right to the heart of the matter: the latest attack on charters is really an anti-capitalist screed more than anything else.

Education Next Editor Paul Peterson has already done his part with a screed in National Review complaining about the Obama Administration's efforts on this front.

I recently read, with great dismay, the summer screed of Gordon MacInnes on the state of education, education reform and school choice in New Jersey.

Lest you think that there is a scintilla of truth to Vogel's «we're all on the same team» claim, it is dispelled quickly in the form of a noxious and offensive screed by Jeff Bryant that's accessible on the CTA home page.

I suggest before you return with another screed against Amazon that you do your homework, look at what the prime price points are for selling e-books and actually answer some of the questions that have been posed to you instead of just going off on another anti-Amazon rant.

I won't embark on an anti-NY screed here.

I've on and off wondered how «safe» Roth accounts are and things like this anti-Roth screed in the LATimes and this blog post at the Atlantic talking about the sad fiscal shape of the US has me wondering again.

Now that topic may also be worth a screed by Oliver on the «Last Week Tonight» show.

Their paper on the costs of 401ks is not a reasoned fact - based argument but a screed based on half - truths and sheer fiction.

During his Fresh Air interview, Carr refers to his October 23 column («basically a screed,» he says), in which he took on big media — in particular, The Tribune Company and Gannett.

Artists like Louis Masai, who is not listed as one of the artists who sent the letter to McDonald's according to Artnet News, posted lengthy screeds against the advertising on their Facebook pages:

Your screed is blatantly, obviously, and pathetically nothing more than an attempt to save your own face by throwing mud on F&R.

The Lottâ s Seitzâ, Singers, Michaels and the rest of the gang of six have worked assiduously to get their screeds onto op ed pages of many newpapers where they are read by millions of people while folk who write science have their stuff read by maybe a hundred in some refereed journal or maybe a thousand on some blog such as this.

The floor was insulated with 200 mm of Ballytherm PIR insulation beneath a 75 mm screed, while 400 mm of Isover Metac insulation was installed in the roof on the flat.

In a new screed against a free exchange of ideas on climate change, «Earther» Brian Kahn argues that those who question global warming orthodoxy have no right to voice their opinions in public.

Screeds of info here yet you are quite in conscience and calm in your right to sling mud at the «200 ″ minds that find this important enough to comment on?.

Given their background, they focus on screeds from liberal commentators which reinforce a false sense of a «war» against the scientific community.

Wikimedia Foundation boasts of its transparency, yet its own profile page on Wikipedia is an empty redirect page pointing to a long Frequently Asked Questions list that reads like a blatant yet evasive self - promotional screed and does not provide the solid, detailed who - what - when - where reportorial information of other Wikipedia foundation entries such as those of the Ford Foundation or the Pew Charitable Trusts.

The rest of Singer's screed can be read on Watts site, but since the» Scientific Climate «leader it replies to appears in Nature vol.

Trust me, I sitting on a long boring screed about why, but I'll spare ya'll... for the moment

Overall U-value: 0.58 Floor Before: Original suspended floor (and solid floor in kitchen) with carpets After: Compacted and blinded hardcore sub-base, Primary DPM, 300 mm Platinum EPS at 0.030 conductivity, second DPM / separating layer, 100 mm concrete slab on blinded sub-base, 40 mm floating screed laid directly onto slab, Membranes and slab taped and sealed to wall plaster using Pro Clima products including DA - S.

Note that the Guardian writer who did a piece on this screed is the editor of the «Annals of Improbable Research and organiser of the Ig Nobel prize.»

A post on the B - SCREEDS blog at the Legal Information Institute announced the launch: