Property Is Theft, But MP3s Are Worthless, So ...

Just used one of those torrent deals. Seems to have worked like a charm. How long will this last?

Out Stocking Up On Water ... Back Later

Scientists worry about the effect of the Easter Sunday Border Quake.

Experts say the larger question is whether the temblor made quakes more likely along more dangerous fault lines, such as the Whittier — which produced the deadly 1987 Whittier Narrows quake — and the San Andreas.

Scientists are particularly interested in the Whittier fault because it's connected to the Elsinore and runs under heavily populated areas.

Bring on the destruction & horror already. The tension's more likely to kill us than any eventual earthquake.

EARTHQUAKE!!!

BRACE FOR AFTERSHOCKS!!!

Sound Advice

You assholes have already been fucking w/ us.

Info & income limit redacted for privacy purposes, snoops.

Am'ts. removed because they're None of Your Fucking Beeswax, Jack! We are not receiving "$    .00." Yet.

It is not in your best interests to continue this course.

That is not a warning, it is a threat. We add that Members of Congress thinking of laws preventing crazy people (Who will kill them w/o a second thought if they continue to eff w/ us.) & terrorist suspects from owning guns are also under threat.

Or, to put it in terms even a Congressional Republican can understand:

America: You're Especially,Exceptionally Retarded!

Pretty graphics telling an ugly story.

How much longer will you fucking sheep take it?

Right until you're dead, if you're anything like the rest of them, & of course you are!

Seriously, you whipped dogs, will even your corporate & political masters literally rubbing your noses in their shit wake you up?

We keep removing your blinders, & you insist on putting them back on. When you're at the glue factory & the blinders come off for the last time, it'll be too damn late. Happy rendering, suckers!

Awake Before Noon!

Why? Whyyy? Whyyyyy?

Further Visual Abuse

Enough to make one insert the proverbial knitting needles in the peepers, but, dog w/ bone style, we couldn't let go of this example of America we discovered while digging for the item immediately below.

People who dig Ayn Rand.

The Eyes Are A Reflection Of The Soul

Not to mention the rolls of fat.

Is that a herpie on Greer's upper lip?

Mrs. Greer w/ husband after someone went his bail.

Like many real Americans, former Miss University of Miami (Of course! Although she looks more like a WWE Diva now.) Lisa Greer is storing fat in her upper arms for the coming winter. Looks to be a long & cold one, farmers!

Oh, Crud

Post-meal. Baseball game on telly. Ennui, exhaustion increasing. Must reach coffee.

Blame BHO

Ennui led us to peruse the L.A. Times' obsessive homicide listings. We'd heard chatter that murder, at least, was down city-wide, though we weren't following that up; just hoping for something grim & vile. Nothing but banality, though.

However, the chatterers weren't kidding. The Times has been recording all homicides in Los Angeles County since 1 Jan. 2007. Our Times-defined neighborhood (population 115,070.3, per the 2000 Census) had 14 in 2007, & another 14 in 2008. 2009: Four. So far this yr.: Two. One domestic violence, one standard LAPD operating procedure: Black guy w/ a learning disability is shot by officers who saw him "reaching into his waistband."

Los Angeles police officials said officers shot Washington early Saturday morning after he reached into his waistband for what they believed was a weapon.

Washington died from a single gunshot wound to the head shortly after midnight.

Although no weapon was found, officers said they feared for their lives because Washington did not respond to their commands and appeared to be reaching for his waistband.

Or "appeared to be reaching for his waistband." While being of the African-American persuasion.

Annals Of Blowing Shit Up:"Starfish Prime"

Text & images.

No Mas

1945

1949

1955

1969: Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., during his court martial in 1971.

Past Paranoia

All decent people know how much Glenn Beck sucks, but if he (& his aging fans) weren't a sad & powerless joke, this could be happening:

Had Beck been a public figure at the time of King's famous speech, there is little doubt on "which side of history" he would have stood: the same side as every other far-rightwing Mormon. Had they been contemporaries, Beck would have condemned King as a "progressive cockroach" surrounded by communists, or as an outright communist himself. We know this not only because he has imported such tactics into the present. We know this because his Mormon heroes were viciously anti-civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.

Beck has repeatedly, respectfully, and recently played audio of men like Ezra Taft Benson, a Mormon apostle who thought the civil rights movement was a dastardly communist plot. Benson also wrote the forward to a book of race hate whose cover illustration featured the severed, bloody head of an African American.

Beck's favorite author and biggest influence, meanwhile, is W. Cleon Skousen. The author of four of the ten books on Beck's 9.12 Project required-reading list, Skousen supported the Birchite view captured in the title of a September 1965 cover story in the John Birch Society Bulletin, "Fully Expose the 'Civil Rights' Fraud, and You Will Break the Back of the Communist Conspiracy!"

The Benson/Skousen axis of the 1960s, of which Beck would have been a energetic party to, was a multi-generational affair. In 1965, Salt Lake City was plunged into hysteria when Reed Benson (son of Ezra) and Mark Skousen (nephew of Cleon) spread rumors that the NAACP was sending two thousand Black Muslims to attack the Tabernacle. When general panic ensued, the Utah National Guard was placed on alert and began practicing riot maneuvers in anticipation of the invasion. After calm was restored, the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP both condemned the Bircher-fomented race-war hysteria in Utah. (Both groups have also condemned Beck.) The next month, the Bulletin published articles describing blacks as "savages" and civil rights leaders as "animals."

Getting dilrods to show at rallies is all well & good, but when was the last time one of these hucksters managed to get the National Guard called out?

Check For Fleas & Buboes Immediately

Hope for the Great Cleansing springs eternal:

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Alamos Campground in the Angeles National Forest has been shut down after a squirrel captured there tested positive for plague.

The campground will remain closed for at least ten days, according to Los Angeles County public health director Jonathan Fielding.

The squirrel was caught about two weeks ago.

All the squirrel burrows in the area near Gorman will be dusted for fleas, which can transmit the disease from wild rodents to humans.

Then, further tests will be performed before the campground is reopened.

There have been four cases of human plague in L.A. County since 1984, none of which were fatal.

Always w/ the fact-based party-pooping at the end. Killjoys.

KTLA News
12:59 PM PDT, July 5, 2010

Just A Few Things & Concepts We Despise:

AC/DC, Americans, Australians, Canadians, The English-Speaking Peoples & The Remainder of Humanity, Music & The State of Nevada, as summed up:We don't know who or what the fuck Anastacia is, but if she's part of any group we didn't address, fuck them too!

Conditions Are Right

America has been drinking & blowing shit up real good since Friday afternoon (at the latest). The actual Fourth of Independence has passed, yet there's another day off. The inexperienced are in charge, & there's no reason for people not to have a few more.

Eagle looking ready to peck out your America-hating eyes.

Also Not On The Radar

It's difficult ignoring two large scale events at once, but we've been juggling while on the tightrope for yrs.

The Old Get Old, & Older

Can we stop w/ the patriotism, or must we keep up appearances because today is Independence Day (Observed)?

'Way back up in the woods....'

(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/July 3, 2010)

Chuck Berry plays his classic "Johnny B Goode" while displaying some of his signature moves -- this at the age of 83.

Rock’s first poet and original guitar hero confessed during his hour-long set to tiring easily these days. So he alternated such rollicking anthems of youthful liberation as “Roll Over Beethoven,” “School Days” and “Sweet Little Sixteen” with slower numbers, including “Every Day I Have the Blues” and “Wee Wee Hours,” in which he let his big Gibson electric guitar do most of the singing.

The man who invented much of the musical lexicon for his instrument reeled and rocked with a perplexing string of chord progressions and melodic runs during his solos, the logic of which might have been perceptible only to certain breeds of guitar-loving dogs. Yet just when you thought he’d completely abandoned musical cohesion comprehensible to anyone this side of Thelonious Monk, those long, limber fingers would slip back into the exhilarating dimension he largely defined more than half a century ago.

That might have been fun. This too.

Heels on wheels

(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/July 3, 2010)

Model "Rotten Kitty" of Los Angeles draws attention to a 1928 Essex at Hootenanny, where car culture intersects with roots music and a punk attitude.

If one likes that sort of thing.

Nation Of Sheep:What Can I Say?Nation Of Sheep:U-S-A! U-S-A!

Gobble Gobble(Oh, Wait, Wrong Holiday. Heh-Heh.)

A Patriot In Action!

Flags: ✔ Lady Liberty: ✔ No bald eagle?

Patriotic Pig Propaganda

Civilization In Peril Again

Nice image, although our ulterior motive is that the headline reminds us of a theater (once on Hollywood Blah, at Normandie) that often featured amusing titles on its marquee. Our favorite was "Greek Lightning," but this is close enough.

Greece lightning: Ancient Parthenon lit from above as storm breaks over Athens

Hammer of Zeus: A flash of lightning illuminates the sky over the 2,500-year-old Ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill during a heavy rainfall in Athens early this morning

Dirt-Eating Hippies Enter World Of Paranoia

Nervous obsession w/ "healthy" eating is more psychiatric bogosity, damnit, & will lead to this sort of thing:

I told you this was coming. Years ago, I warned NaturalNews readers that an attempt might soon be under way to outlaw broccoli because of its anti-cancer phytonutrients. This mental health assault on health-conscious consumers is part of that agenda. It's an effort to marginalize healthy eaters by declaring them to be mentally unstable and therefore justify carting them off to mental institutions where they will be injected with psychiatric drugs and fed institutional food that's all processed, dead and full of toxic chemicals.

Our immediate thought is that this guy will not be hauled off & doped up because he's suffering from Healthy eating disorder.

Not that we completely disagree w/ people who are paranoid about the "psychiatric establishment."

The Guardian even goes to the ridiculous extreme of saying, "The obsession about which foods are "good" and which are "bad" means orthorexics can end up malnourished."

Follow the non-logic on this, if you can: Eating "good" foods will cause malnutrition! Eating bad foods, I suppose, is assumed to provide all the nutrients you need. That's about as crazy a statement on nutrition as I've ever read. No wonder people are so diseased today: The mainstream media is telling them that eating health food is a mental disorder that will cause malnutrition!

Ummm ...

Silly Nation, Stupid Songs

Recorded in Britland. Why does Don hate America?Actual listening unnecessary. (We certainly didn't.)

Entropy

No amount of coffee & napping can relieve us of the eternal boredom & somnia of humanoid existence. None.

Patriotic Correctness

We'll be staying seated & watching telebision this 4th of July wknd., rather than going outside or enjoying the company of friends. (Why should this wknd. be any different? Chronology & calendars, poo.)

But we don't need viewing advice from the Brain Police, thank you.

Writer, editor and lecturer on timeless film
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Picnic (1955)
The Searchers (1956)
The Music Man (1962)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
American Graffiti (1973)
All the President's Men (1976)
Breaking Away (1979)
Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)
Glory (1989)

From a nameless hack at Tucker's House of Lost Souls, a slideshow w/ brief descriptions. If we didn't know better we'd think the HuffPo expects its viewers to read at a level higher than the average People viewer.
‘Miracle’ (2004)
‘Apollo 13′ (1995)
‘Mr. Smith Goes To Washington’ (1939)
‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ (1942)
‘All the Presidents Men’ (1976)
‘Independence Day’ (1996)
‘Rocky’ (1976)
‘The Music Man’ (1962)
‘Forrest Gump’ (1994)
‘Schoolhouse Rock: America’ (2007)

Liberal Media Bias Exposed!

Deseret Media Companies (DMC) is a for-profit arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and manages KSL radio and other media outlets.

The DMC "Mission Statement" calls for the dissemination of "light and knowledge" along with the promotion of "integrity, civility, morality, and respect for all people."

Fascism if we've ever seen it.

Burst Of Patriotism

Not to imply that the "Scandinavians" are not real Americans.

Fooled again: Multiculturalism is not patriotic, it is liberal undermining of whatever the hell it was that made America great.

On The Street W/ The Big Malig

We have discovered the cleverest pod mall architect in all of Korea Town.

New Blogger At TNR?

Sometimes we see something & later the brain misfires more than usual.

Attention, Would-Be Motherfuckers!

Missed your big chance, but here are the dates you should have in mind for milfery, according to Slate. (Helpful, aren't they?)

"They have expectations—expectations that their partnership will be celebrated and even romanticized—but that is often not what transpires," the site's founder says. This logic isn't just visible after the first Sunday in May; the day after Valentine's Day is actually the most popular sign-up day of the year. (The day after Mother's Day is second, followed by the day after New Year's.)

Possibly useful to hubbies who want to keep wifey from straying as well.

A Momentary Pause ...

.. in our non-stop non-coverage of FIFA World Cup 2010. Spent much of the day outside the bunker (10 separate bus boardings!) & just as you air-polluting, industry-enabling automobilists listen to crap on your car radios when out & about, we too have a radio we listen to. (Keeps our thoughts at bay.)

Point being, if you thought Ass. Football was dullsville on the screen, try listening to one of the games on the radio.

Year Of The (Crazed, Violent) Woman

We have NutMeg pushing people around, & next-door in Nevada we have Sharron Angle & her "Second Amendment remedies." Angle's pretty much a lying sack of reactionary batshit, as changes to her website indicate.

Added: More linkies to Ms. Angle's craziness from NotionsCapital, w/ image.

Pantload Watch

Ennui & links drove us to NRO: The Corner, where we found this fruit, once low-hanging but now stinking up the jungle floor:

Many might say, "Oh, poor Bill Buckley, he must be just spinning in his grave," but we suspect that Jonah G. would be his favorite, if this is any indication:

Up The Canucks!!

As a Yank who has had the sex (And more than once, too!) w/ a ladywoman of the Canadian persuasion [Hi, REDACTED!], we'll therefore pretend to give a shit & wish a happy day to all those above whichever parallel it is that artificially divides our two great nations.

Gawd Save The Queen.

Miles Davis Copenhagen '69

Still in the acoustic bass period.

BÖC NYC '79

Half-Way Through Another One