Monday, December 31, 2012

Another Yr. In Review

A "best of" we will recommend: Danziger's faves of the passing yr.
Looks as if you'll have to click.

Our 2013 Wish

We asked Santa for population reduction by any means necessary in the new yr.

So please don't let fascists spoil your fun. (Alternate take?)Get out there, binge drink, & drive home in a drunken fucking blackout.If the pigs try to fuck w/ your highway liberty, aim at their heads, as they may be sporting Kevlar® vests.

Bye now.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

America's Future: The Children
It Hasn't Killed Yet

Parking dispute may have led to Maine shooting deaths: police

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts | Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:11pm EST
(Reuters) - A dispute between neighbors over street parking may have led to the shooting deaths of two Maine teenagers, authorities said on Sunday after charging a 74-year-old man with murder in connection with the incident.
Derrick Thompson, 19, and his girlfriend, Alivia Welch, 18, were killed on Saturday night in their apartment inside a two-unit home in Biddeford, Maine, about 15 miles southwest of Portland, state police spokesman Steve McCausland said.

Thompson's mother, Susan Johnson, 44, who reported the shootings to authorities shortly after 7 p.m. EST, was being treated for gunshot wounds at Maine Medical Center in Portland, state police. A six-year-old boy also was removed from the building uninjured.

James Pak, who owns the building and lives in the other unit, was arrested on Saturday and charged with two counts of murder.

Police had been summoned to the residence earlier on Saturday because of an argument over parking, McCausland said. A Biddeford police spokeswoman said the city banned street parking from 8 p.m. until 7 a.m. to allow for snow removal.

McCausland said the dispute appeared to have been resolved before the shooting occurred but gave no further details.

Pak was being held in a local jail and was expected to appear in court on Monday or Wednesday. It was unclear whether he had an attorney. (Edited by Karen Brooks and Paul Simao)
Figures it would be a landlord, doesn't it?

Gawd, Gubmint & Guns

From the people who killed Newsweek, yet another compare & contrast. First, miserable excuse Michael Medved sticks w/ what he knows: Being holier-than-thou.
The problem isn’t religious conservatives and their abiding faith in God; it’s mainstream liberals and their blind confidence in government.
We're quite sure there's a significant difference between "abiding faith" & "blind confidence" & that Mr. Medved will make it clear at the first possible chance. Maybe after he's finished w/ that cancer cure he's working on.
Consider the current dispute over the right response to gun violence. At its core, this argument comes down to a visceral disagreement between relying on self-defense or on government protection. Gun-rights enthusiasts insist that the best security for law-abiding citizens comes from placing formidable firearms into their hands; gun-control advocates believe we can protect the public far more effectively by taking guns away from as many Americans as possible. In other words, conservatives want to address the threat of gun violence by giving individuals more power while liberals seek to improve the situation by concentrating more power in the hands of the government. The right preaches self-reliance while the left places its trust in the higher power of government.
Now contrast w/ those who wholeheartedly believe what M.M. was saying, & the formidable firearms he'd place in their hands:
Pastor Paul Revere doesn’t recognize the authority of the State of Oregon, the United States of America, or anyone else that presumes to have some command over him. He answers only to God. “We believe there’s only one sovereign,” Revere told The Daily Beast. “And it isn’t us. Jesus said to render to Caesar that which is Caesar’s and render to God that which is God’s.”
If you love freedom, liberty, self-reliance & every other pathetic fascist platitude you'll sho' nuff want these freaks to have the most formidable firearms possible.
They are “sovereign citizens,” inspired by any number of complicated and cockamamie theories that all draw the same conclusion: we are not subject to your “laws.” And they are becoming an increasing headache for cops, public defenders, prosecutors, bailiffs, and judges all over the U.S., because when they inevitably land in court for driving without a license or failing to pay taxes, they clog up the system with reams of nonsensical paperwork. Their obfuscatory filings are so inundating that harried prosecutors often drop the charges against them—a victory for the sovereigns’ otherwise quixotic cause.

Sometimes the battles get bloody long before they see a courtroom, too. In 2010, 16-year-old sovereign Joseph Kane gunned down two police officers in West Memphis, Ark., after a routine traffic stop. The boy killed the officers with an AK-47 after his dad, 45-year-old sovereign Jerry Kane, got into a scuffle with one of the cops attempting to frisk him. Both Kanes were killed later that day in a shootout with police. Since 2000, “lone-offender sovereign-citizen extremists have killed six law enforcement officers,” according to the FBI.

Revere doesn’t advocate such violence*, but his website, where he explains that “grownups have been tricked into obeying the laws of humbugs, rather than the laws of God,” is chock-full of admonitions about why and how best to disobey such humbugs, even as it will surely land his followers in jail.

“If you have given your allegiance to Jesus Christ, and you live your beliefs, you will go to jail,” he writes. “It is inevitable because the world will hate you.”
Keep whining, Pastor Revere; everybody loves a martyr.

And Mr. Medved should hope there's gummint around to protect him when these citizens decide to follow orders from their vengeful God about what to do w/ the people who killed Jesus Christ.
*We don't advocate violence either, but if you touch us we'll break your fucking arm.

Marking

Threats: Idle, Or ...?

We can only assume that Senators of the Greedy Old Party decided not to fuck w/ Social Security
“Chained CPI won’t be a part of the deal,” Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) told reporters.
as an act of self-preservation, because people like us would slit their fucking throats (& not w/ votes) if our (Or anyone's. We'll be magnanimous.) Social Security insurance were to be fucked w/.
Democrats said earlier that Republicans had demanded a politically contentious reduction in Social Security benefits, known as chained CPI, in exchange for President Obama’s request to extend emergency unemployment benefits and cancel deep cuts to the Pentagon and other agency budgets.
But we're only safe until a long-term something is reached, judging from Senator Reid (Dipstick-NV):
“We’re willing to make difficult concessions as part of a balanced, comprehensive agreement, but we’ll not agree to cut Social Security benefits as part of a small or short-term agreement.”
It's almost as if the Senator is clearly stating that it'll take serious money from Wall Street before cuts to payments & "privatization" for workers under 55.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Friday, December 28, 2012

Lost In The City Of Light/Night

(Now, text to break up the all-photo format. Not much, but some.)

Granted, most of the objets d'art appear uninteresting & the text we're about to reproduce is a load of arty/pseudo-aesthetic codswallopcrap (Not to mention the tee vee program tie-in - See? Everyone, Frog or no, is out of ideas.) but in the next 30 days we should be able to drag our fleshy & other baggage to this mess for no reasons other than proximity & free admission. Now stand back, 'cause here it comes!
LOST (in LA) is an exhibition and an innovative dialogue between LA artists and French artists. It reproduces the quintessential Los Angeles experience of being lost in the heart of this metropolis. Layers of time and space appear to be interlaced together atop a hill hidden in the middle of the city.

LOST – one of the influential TV series of this decade – is considered by many artists as a source of inspiration as well as disappointment, as it struggles to deliver a true formal link that would connect the different layers of time and space. The exhibition comes from the desire expressed by artists to create this formal link. On this hill located between the Hollywood sign, Venice Beach, South Central and Downtown LA, these different layers of time and space intercept, connect, disconnect and reconnect again.

Despite this fragmentation, we move around the space, guided by the works themselves, sometimes through their dialogue and at other times through disaccord. While they all try to develop their own “black box,” they strive to become transitive works, able to generate a multi-layered net of connections with their surroundings.

The works of art reposition themselves in a larger field – the exhibition – ergo taking on new meanings. With its absurd and “pataphysical” desire to bring a formal contribution to the TV series, the exhibition LOST (in LA) in turn might find its place in a larger field and contribute to the definition of itself.
... ?

And an Internet video, but what doesn't have an Internet video?Being a bit of a Francophiliac fuckstick we'd already covered Froggy aesthetes looking askance at Los Angeles; about the time we found the above art talk the same flick came across the desktop (another pro vote here.) paired w/ this:which may be of interest.

Backlighting & Not

Mtns., Moon, Star

Beautiful Music

"Too much comedy, too much making fun of stuff."

Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada* and Ray Collins of the rock group
'Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention' perform onstage
at the Garrick Theatre upstairs from the Cafe Au Go Go
on May 24, 1967 in New York, New York.

Alternate Take

via RS:
Frank Zappa and Ray Collins of the Mothers Of Invention
at the Garrick Theatre in New York, 24 May 1967.
PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

*Last (original) Mother of Invention standing.

Another Mother

Joining the heavenly chorus Xmas Eve was 75-yr. old Ray Collins,
an original M. of I. & Soul Giant.
In need of a guitarist, he suggested Zappa, whom he had met in 1961 and who lived in Ontario and Cucamonga. Zappa was also a writer of sardonic, musically adventurous songs, and within two years the Soul Giants - whose members included drummer Jimmy Carl Black and bassist Roy Estrada - had become the Mothers of Invention, were signed to Verve Records and recorded their 1966 debut album "Freak Out!"

Collins sang lead on some tracks of that album as well as 1967's "Absolutely Free" and "Cruising With Ruben and the Jets" from 1968. He sat out 1968's "We're Only in it for the Money" and quit the band.

"Too much comedy, too much making fun of stuff," Collins said in an interview in 2009. "I just wanted to make beautiful music. I was raised on Johnny Mathis and Nat King Cole."
We'll tell you one thing: When the band started almost 50 yrs. ago no one expected that the death of a guy who hadn't been a member since 1968 would be an AP story on the CBS website, or whatever the equivalent of that was in 1965.
CLAREMONT, CALIF.Ray Collins, who invited guitarist Frank Zappa to join the band that eventually became the Mothers of Invention, has died at age 75.
Collins' friend Patrick Brayer tells the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin that the musician from Claremont, Calif., died Monday, five days after a heart attack.
Collins brought Zappa to R&B cover band the Soul Giants in 1964. By 1966, they had become the Mothers of Invention, releasing their first album, "Freak Out," on Verve Records.
Collins sang on three albums, then left the Mothers, saying their comedic approach to music didn't suit him.
He pursued little music afterward and spent his last years living in a van, but was a well-known character and conversationalist on the streets of Claremont, a college town east of Los Angeles.
© 2012 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

'Tis The Season (For Murder)

Words fail us often enough, but this ...
A man has been arrested for allegedly setting a homeless woman on fire as she slept on a bus bench outside a Van Nuys drugstore.

The victim, a 67-year-old woman who was often seen outside the Walgreens at Van Nuys Boulevard and Sherman Way, was lying on a bus bench at around 1 a.m. Thursday when the crime took place, according to a live report on KTLA.
Our emphasis:
The suspect, a man in his 20s, allegedly went inside the store and purchased an accelerant that he then poured onto the sleeping woman before tossing a lit match on her body, reports City News Service. A witness who saw the suspect exit the store and set the woman on fire called 911 to report the crime, then followed the suspect until authorities arrived on scene. The unidentified suspect was then taken into custody by officers with the Los Angeles Police Department. The victim is hospitalized in critical condition; should she not survive, the suspect's charge will be elevated to reflect his alleged role in her death.
The horror never fucking stops, does it? How much more fucked up can you people get before someone or something gives every last one of you what you deserve? Plus which, should anyone be able to advise us which, if any, part of this
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may be deleted so the fucking thing won't auto-play, please advise ASAP. (Or "A sap.") Thenk yew veddy much.

Scab Of A Nation, Driven Insane

The Old Testament's culture of death:
Most Americans—not just my friend Li—find murder to be more acceptable fare for children than sex or swear words.

Our peculiar hierarchy of priorities may be due in part to the influence of Abrahamic religion on Western Civilization and the unique standing accorded to the Bible in American Christianity specifically. The Bible amalgamates the mythology and legal codes of a specific kind of culture: a clan-based tribal society in which herdsmen struggling for survival in an arid and increasingly denuded environment. Males competed to control females and territory while maintaining the purity of bloodlines and inheritance; gods that were modeled on warlords competed for fealty. Consequently, while codes governing sexuality and blasphemy were strict, codes governing violence were complicated.

Yahweh himself originated as a war god. Non-Hebrews were regarded with hostility and indeed, much of the founding story of the Israelite people comprises tales of triumphal genocide. The violence in in the Bible is so extreme that it defines vast portions of the book:

[Edmund Leach] looked at the Bible through the eyes of a communications engineer and asked: what message are these authors trying to get through to the reader? The answer, Leach thought, was that they were trying to obscure the fact that mankind began through incest (Adam and Eve) and so the strategy was to compile a list of atrocities so heinous that, in the end, the original incest would come to look like a harmless act.

Whether history or mythology or some fusion of the two, the Bible stories, when tallied, include an estimated 25 million violent deaths.
Jesus would like you to smash every creep in the face w/ a rock.Cop kill a creep, pow pow pow.Video from War in Context.

Labor News

Things looking up for working people as job creators get theirs.
Assam tea workers burn boss and wife alive
Around 1,000 workers at the privately-owned M.K.B. Tea Estate attacked the plantation owner's bungalow on Wednesday and set it on fire in violence blamed on festering labour unrest in the tea-growing region, police said.

Mridul Bhattacharya and his wife Rita were burned to death as workers armed with home-made weapons prevented police from rescuing them, they said.

"The body of the planter was charred beyond recognition and reduced to ashes while the body of the wife was found lying in the kitchen," local police officer A. Das told AFP by telephone.
Hope for the new yr.: "Workers armed with home-made weapons."

LATER, from the Guardian:
On Wednesday, around 700 workers armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows surrounded the house and set it on fire, trapping the couple. The house had burned down by the time police reached the remote region in Tinsukia.

Obits

Today's morbidity report was stole whole from LA Observed. First body: Fontella Bass.Number two: Jack Klugman. End of a generation. Well, end of the last of the cast of 12 Angry Men.
©
No idea where the 12th dude is.
This reporter was quite impressed by 12 Angry Men on first viewing ('65, 66?) when we were much younger, much less cynical, & had not yet served on a jury.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Almost Mobile

But still no earthquake. What, mega-volcanoes [followed by tsunamis] would be about the worst the planet alone could deal?

Three Hr. "Quote" Trailer

Now we'll be sure to avoid this one like the plague. You may not want to bother w/ more than this opening paragraph. We didn't.
Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers. “Django Unchained” feels like a three-hour trailer for a movie that never happens, a slavery-revenge melodrama cum salt-‘n’-pepper action film that would be awesome if it actually existed. Like so many trailers, it’s packed with memorable scenes that don’t go anywhere, and keeps promising payoffs that remain theoretical. It’s got Western scenery on a grand scale and scenes of madcap comedy involving inept members of the Ku Klux Klan. It’s got veritable geysers and fountains and gushers of blood, an ocean of fake gore even by Tarantino’s standards. You could claim that he’s “quoting from Sam Peckinpah” with those slapsticky water balloons full of blood, except that that’s not quite it. It’s more like he’s quoting from crappy ‘70s drive-in movies that were quoting from “The Hills Have Eyes,” which was quoting from something else that was quoting from Peckinpah. (I may be missing an intermediate stage there, such as a cannibal film that was dubbed from Italian into Spanish and projected once, with the reels out of sequence, at a downtown Los Angeles theater in 1983.)

New-Look Still Fat Frank Luntz

Further evidence that beards are for oafs like this to hide their weak first & morbidly obese second & third chins.
CBS, probably.
Reason fat boy is in "the news."

The Most Wonderful Time ...

8 dead in Christmas Day fires, riot in Philippines, officials say; approximately 5,000 homeless - @AP

Ho ho ho you stupid fucks.

Radio Haze

Jack Benny, dead almost 39 yrs. today. Armed Forces Network, 1974.

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Inside The Well-Armed Mind

The always liberal New Republic claims that real American people just trying to defend themselves are racists, but as we all know, that makes them the racists, nyah nyah!
This is part of what makes the post-apocalypse such a desirable, ecstatic condition: You can maintain your scruples but act violently anyway, because you must. The apocalypse reveals the savagery at the root of human social life, and so it allows the strong to be strong, and the true survivors and leaders to shed their humility, failure, and anonymity and become who they truly are.

The Doomsday Preppers want to protect themselves and their families from the marauding hordes who have not prepared themselves, who will flee the doomed cities seeking food and shelter in the suburbs and countryside. This is the terror: of society collapsed, gone mad, reduced to violent, fatal encounters between strangers–the provident and improvident, those who know how to survive (and therefore are worthy of surviving) and those who don’t, those who foresaw and those who were complacent, those who valued their families and those who were careless, those possessing the moral judgment of true Americans and those who lived in the sinful cities. None of the Preppers on the program live in cities. None are African American, Jewish, Muslim, Asian, or Hispanic. It is a Tea Party conservative demographic right down the line. The hordes they fear are the very same aliens who reelected Barack Obama.

Every apocalyptic fantasy emerges not only from fear but also from desire: the wish that the catastrophe occur. The real-life Preppers look forward to the days of violence when they can shoot down the useless, starving urban refugees the way humans shoot down zombies. They’ve stocked their weapons and ammo; they train, they teach their children. The basic fantasy of justified violence in a world without social structures or law is the same as in “Walking Dead” and “Revolution.” These are fantasies of an imagined world in which genuine, just, democratic, caring social life on a large scale is impossible; that the real human reality is violent struggle and the survival of those who know how to use violence to get what they want.
The effete New Republican limits himself to high-brow cable tee vee drama when jumping to his conclusions, not the pseudo-factive end of the human/"civilized" world porn that's also quite popular (& preferable because everybody dies or is vaporized).Or everybody just, you know, disappears.Between zombies, Armageddon, Nostradamus, Mayans & the ephemeral nature of civilization & technology it's obvious Americans, at least, would just as soon it was over & done w/, already. This American for damn sure.

LIFE IS SHORT ...

... TIMES ARE HARD

HERE'S YOUR FUCKING CHRISTMAS CARD!

Best wishes for the New Year: See you in Hell in 2013!

S.C.: Duck & Cover

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Squeal!

Trouble in Breitbart's paradise (which we would know as hell) as Dana Loesch files suit. Can't believe she's selling herself so short, but she only wants US$75,000.00; shouldn't several million be the opening number to be negotiated? Surely her career as an "Internet editor" is worth more than that.

Anyway, here's the truly funny part, which the Stephanie Miller Show has been on (like wrinkles on a Sears suit): D. Loesch's squeal. Original:& w/ Ann Romney protesting.Credit: Ann doesn't like Dana's squeal by 47of74

Hey necrophiliacs, free speech has never been less "free," has it?

Winter Brubeck

Leaving many of our holiday music selections to the late Dave this season.

Friday, December 21, 2012

"Isn’t fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really
the filthiest form of pornography?"

Yes it is Wayne. You of all people should know, w/ your "guns will save the world (or at least white people)" fantasies. Buzzfeed:

10 Things The NRA Blamed For The Sandy Hook Massacre

Not guns. At a press conference Friday morning, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre offered some other villains.
Gawker:

While the NRA Was on TV Talking About the Need for More Guns Some Guy Was Walking Up and Down a Road in Pennsylvania Shooting People

Sounds Of The Season

Welcome, winter.(This one composed 5 July 2012.)

It's Here!

[Editor (for once) thinks about the future: What are things like seven-&-a-half mos. from the now of 8 May 2012, when this item was composed?]

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Our Future

Will We Forget Newtown’s Kids?

Above headline at last made us link these two tabs-open-for-an-Internet-eternity items. Subject? No one gives sweet fuck all about "the children."
It seems as if every major interest has political clout – except children. They can’t vote. They don’t make major campaign donations. They can’t hire fleets of lobbyists.

[...]

Their parents and grandparents care, of course, as do many other private citizens. But we’re no match for the entrenched interests that dominate American politics.
This real-world illustration of America eating its young may be worth a click & a glance.
[S]chools use the correctional system as a misplaced mechanism for discipline, with children being sent to detention facilities for offenses as minor as wearing the wrong color socks to school. A juvenile county chief judge testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that these are not isolated incidents, but rather systemic trends that bombard prosecutors and courts with a glut of cases in which kids pose no danger but merely “make adults mad”
This kind of thing makes us think it probably is a good idea to arm students.

Local Action Story

Yikes! People here really are shits, aren't they?
Now, I live in Los Angeles. I moved here from New Mexico 10 years ago. Can you tell me what is wrong with everyone here? Where are the nice people? When I try to be nice they look at me like a hopeless simpleton. When they try to “act” nice it never feels sincere. Like part of a show.

Like dinner parties where everyone has to leave at 8 because the host is going out later with “other people.” Or people invite you out with them to a play and then they spend the whole time on their cellphone texting someone and making plans to meet them “as soon as the play is over.” And then asking you to drop them off at this other person’s house. Is this normal behavior?

[...]

Do I sound mopey and self-pitying? But I’m not! It’s just that it’s Christmas and I send out cards and I don’t get any back! Only from my dentist! What’s wrong with everyone!?!

Why is everyone such a bad tipper? Why do people yell at each other in church parking lots!?! Why do people take you out to lunch one day and then the next day complain to your boss that you talk too much?!

Why does someone say her wedding reception was “ruined” because her mother-in-law wore the wrong color dress? That’s crazy, right? That’s L.A., right? L.A. is making me crazy, right?

In L.A., at a wedding I went to, the only decorations were pictures of the bride — that’s not right, is it? Giant posters of the bride? A website of the bride? A video of the bride on an endless loop? Party favors with teeny-tiny pictures of the bride? And she doesn’t greet her guests because she’s too busy getting more pictures taken! Is it me? That’s crazy, right? Or do I just not appreciate how exciting it is to be young and beautiful? Should I hang out with the old and deformed? Would they like me better after plastic surgery?
Depends on just how curable your ugly is.

Wish she'd revealed whether she worked in show bidness or something even worse like real estate.

Public Apology

Please pardon the hell out of us for not responding to comments & even e-mails in a timely manner of late. Don't think we don't appreciate all you unemployed bums taking the time from your empty days to leave your idle musings here, but there's just so much telebision to watch, & it's been aggravated by the addition of several more high-definition channels to the local line-up. All hail TimeWarnerCable!

Also have been stocking up on ammo & polishing, cleaning, lubricating & otherwise preparing our weapons, just in case some son-of-a-bitch in Washington, D.C. tries to cut our fucking insurance payments &/or housing subsidy. BRING. IT. ON!

(Note to self: OK. Minimum daily requirement of one item for today done, & at least one scheduled daily through the 26th. Tahiti vacation, here we come. Bye-bye, suckahs!)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Getting The Spirit

OK, coming in strong at #6.
Except we've been exploited!!

Previously, it showed even under different terms. And linked here, not to some thief's tumblr.
The "original." (Actual orig. was on a hard drive that went the way of all hard drives. Which is why we were looking for it. Reduce, reuse, recycle.)

Good Riddance

Sayonara, sucker.
Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times
Robert H. Bork with President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
Above, one of many reasons he won't be missed.

Don't Blame The Guns!

Gotta love that on FOXNews it's a "School Tragedy," as if Sandy Hook Elementary collapsed in an earthquake or burned down w/ a tragic loss of life, rather than a "School Massacre" or "Shooting" or something honest.
That's FoxNews "legal analyst" Peter Johnson Jr. there.
He is a piece of human garbage spouting the party line.
If you must ...

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

No Guns Today

Plenty of hypocrisy though.

Photo: Gun racks at Dick's Sporting Goods are empty in Danbury, Connecticut, a few miles from Newtown - @JoNBCNews

No doubt the weapons that were on display are now in a region that may be running short due to panic buying.

Xmas, 60 Yrs. Ago Today

Friday and Smith search for a missing boy. The first sign that the case is serious is when blood is found. Further probing reveals the boy's parents had purchased him a .22-caliber rifle for Christmas -- and the weapon is missing, removed from its wrapped package.Public Domain. Original air date December 18, 1952.
IRONY ALERT (1910PST 18 December 2012): Ho ho ho, this was scheduled several wks. ago (w/ absolutedly no idea of then-future events) as soon as we noticed the morbid Xmas theme & that today would be the anniversary of its first airdate. Still haven't watched it, but we'll bet it's not entirely disconnected from the current situation.

Just A Shot Away ...

Valuable resource for murder/suicide.

Same Shit, Different Day

"The female caller gave out that address, our dispatcher then heard the female party hollering 'no, no, no,' followed by gunfire. A male caller then got on the phone and said he was going to kill himself," Schwartz said.

A recording of radio chatter provided by RadioReference.com reiterates that the shooter was in contact with the dispatcher before taking his own life.

"Weld County advising that they have an open line into the residence. They had a caller advise that he had shot multiple people inside the house, family members" a Longmont dispatcher radioed at approximately 4:22 a.m.

"I heard shots at 4:13 this morning. Woke me up and my wife," said neighbor George Vibbert, who also said deputies asked him and his wife to stay away from their windows.

"I heard three [shots] then screaming after that," said Joyce Vibbert.

Schwartz said the dead found inside the home were two adult males, 1 adult female and a female of unknown age who is believed to be an adult.
State in question: Colorado.

End Of The Line

Monday, December 17, 2012

Freestyling At FOXNews

Never watch or listen, but were curious: Were they even covering it? We then spent several mins. watching FOXNews' The Five spend several mins. discussing it. Same old & tired talking points: Hope that it isn't politicized, more guns, no more "gun-free" zones, & the necessity of armed janitors & teachers in schools. Also: No politics, please.

That Was Quick. And Final.

Context."Sent the dog in to drag out the body?"

More Guns, No Reasoning

John Fund is full of shit concerning voter fraud. Why would anyone assume that anything he's typed on the subject of massacres has any closer relation to truth?
In all of the fevered commentary over the Newtown killings, you will hear little discussion of the fact that we may be making our families and neighbors less safe by expanding the places where guns aren’t allowed. But that is precisely what we may be doing. Both criminals and the criminally insane have shown time and time again that those laws are the least of the problems they face as they carry out their evil deeds.
Nothing he types changes the grim reality of 20 murdered first-graders. Not one word.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Shots Fired Somewhere Again

Always disappointing (To us, if not to "normal" or average people.) when no one is hit. Perhaps this was merely a false flag attempt by liberals to make gun owners look nutty or something. Text & transcript.

The Enemy Is Within

Bert the Turtle, a nation looks to you.

List

List apparently by "policy guy" Ezra Klein, & read by Rachel Maddow. How many of this yr.'s mass killings had you already forgotten?Remember, you are under no obligation to watch all of it.

Giant Stack Of Articles About
Cold-Blooded Globalist Front Men

Can you count the lies?Musical bed.

In Passing

Why this huge damn space here? Come on, Blogger. You don't want to make us angry.

UPDATE (1829PST 15 December 2012): Fuck this shit. The third video claims to be unavailable, so we're losing it & the huge damn empty space that came w/ it.

10 Shopping Days Left

Not Xmas-y at all.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Great Moments In Reactionary Thought

"#WAR" Fucking fuck, give us all a break & just bring it the hell on already, bee-otch!

We're All Going To Die!!

Via LAist, Jessica P. Ogilvie warns:
Angelenos, another storm is brewing for the weekend, so bust out the blankets and the fur coats because shit is about to dip down into the 50s.

That's right! The National Weather Service reports that not only is it going to start drizzling tonight (whattup, winter?!), temperatures will get down and stay down below 60 degrees. Tonight might also bring -- wait for it! -- SNOW to the grapevine area of I-5.

The rain will reportedly stay mostly on the coastal areas, and move out of the area by tomorrow. But! In addition to this weekend, it looks like storm patterns are going to stick around through the middle of next week.
Hokey Smokes! Definitely will be sporting pants tonight, may even close the windows.

Today's Top 12

SOURCE: Associated Press and other news reports, Violence Policy Center, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. GRAPHIC: Bonnie Berkowitz, Alberto Cuadra, Cristina Rivero, Laura Stanton and Sisi Wei - The Washington Post. Published July 20, 2012. Updated Dec. 14, 2012.
This one was not known to us.
Note: Several of these gunmen killed other people in the hours or days preceding their mass shootings.
Can't embed the (semi-interactive) graphic, but it's a good one. The above & the Texas Tower of 1966 are the only two of the top 12 to have happened before 1984; half of them since 2007. Three of 12 in Texas, two in Colorado. Trending?

Bullet Dodging

Sad enough when this happens to anyone, anywhere, but this could have been us!

Holiday Smoking Gun Humor

Two-Faced Tucker

Tucker Carlson's Daily Killer would like a word w/ you:
The DPMS Tac2 combines the longer gas system of a rifle with the shorter barrel of a carbine to make a strong case for the AR platform’s adaptability.
Check the specs: This is not a weapon designed for hunting, unless you have to take out 10 or 20 exceptionally dangerous deer at once, rapid-fire style. It is designed for murder.

Also, a Twit compendium:
Liberal reporters, elected officials, pundits and Hollywood entertainers are blaming the National Rifle Association, calling for gun control and expressing no apologies for being political immediately in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school shooting on Friday
Imagine that. Who should be apologizing to whom, gun merchant Carlson? Is it still too soon to "be political" about the Clackamas shooting? When is the time, Tucker?

It's The Most Wonderful Time — BLAM! POW!! RAT-A-TAT-TAT!!!

Well. Sleep in 'til 1130PST & anything can happen. Too soon to discuss? According to MSNBC, Presidential Press Secretary Carney (From the James Brady Press Room, ha ha ha.) has already said today is a day to "focus" the victims, not on "policy" or some such crap. The Prez himself scheduled to speak in about 15 mins.; will he have the intestinal fortitude to mention America's little problem? It's possible that, 18 children under 10 being among the victims, this may shock people more than the deaths of two people over 40 in a mall, although we suppose it will take dead fetuses before certain reactionary elements react to this in any way beyond "Don't politicize this tragedy!"

Sounds as if the family is at fault here, as the shooter was going after his mother. From personal experience, we always blame the parents: Stop nagging your children, assholes, it never ends well!

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Democracy In Action

What can one expect from old fat white guys?And which side are the fascists? Hard to tell, w/ all the white shirts & dark suits, but we're sure one side is so anti-communist as to be pro-Nazi. Damn, more Ukes.OK, based on our first choice, we must be on the anything Ukrainian list.

Making Us Sick

Roll Call calls it the "obstinate factor." An elected cracker-ass fuckhead from Jaw-juh expresses it a bit more colorfully.
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia, a staunch conservative who sits on the Republican Steering Committee that made the decision to remove the lawmakers, said he became increasingly angry while listening to the discussion and ended up providing the most detailed defense yet for the decisions.

“I couldn’t help but kind of speak up for the steering committee and the leadership,” he told CQ Roll Call in a phone interview after the meeting.

“What I tried to explain to them was, it didn’t have anything to do with your voting record, a scorecard, your work across the street or anything else. It had to do with your ability to work within the system and to try to work. And to be, I guess, constructive in things. And I said, ‘I guess you could say it was an asshole factor,’” Westmoreland said. “Now I wasn’t calling any member in particular an asshole, I was just trying to describe an environment where some people that you’re trying to work with, they just don’t want to work within the system.”
No surprise, you don't need the DSM to diagnose most of these jerks, but it's a fine reason to play one of the most important two minute & eight second songs of the second half of the 20th century.Even shorter:Fucking creeps.

Sabotage & Terrorism Dep't.

Presented as a public service in coöperation w/ your gov't.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Harbinger: It's, Like, All Shakespearean

Rick Moran's firm belief that a tide has turned in Michigan indicates how much trust we should put in his very serious take on events, the last four paragraphs of which we reproduce here.
And what was the diehard union activists' reaction to the tidal shift* in Michigan politics? Did they show any humility, any sense that they appreciated their circumstances?
Oddly, Rick seems more interested in humiliating unions than in businesses suddenly taking off when they're given liberty, freedom & opportunity. It's as if there were another agenda.
The numbers that I've shown suggest that they might have been humbled a little, but they weren't. Instead, they took to the streets like the brown shirts [Ahem! — Ed.] of a bygone era to force their will on the rest of us. These YouTube videos demonstrate their reaction better than anything that I could write: [Sic. We assume from the colon that videos were supposed to be here. We aren't going to embed them & make Moran look any less moronic. — Ed.]

At this moment, the only people who seem to be unable to come to grips with reality are the president, Democratic members of Congress, union workers, and other useful idiots. Unfortunately, they represent the majority of voters in this nation, and thanks to them, President Obama has four more years in office.
Isn't the reality that the majority of this nation is union workers, welfare bums & whores slutssingle women? And they & the other useful idiots won the election, which, we've heard, has consequences. At least when old Euro-descended people win.
Since the typical second term of a president is less successful than his first, can the nation survive four more years of Obama? That's questionable given the fact that his first term was a disaster, but only time will tell for sure. This much is certain, though: if you are smart, you will begin to prepare for some dark days ahead. The auto unions' reaction to changing conditions in Michigan may be a harbinger of things to come.
Another changing Michigan condition is that the legislature won't have enough reactionaries & ruling-class lick-spittles to pass such a bill in the next session. We do appreciate that Mr. Moran is afraid of people defending their economic interests & that he may get a punch in the mouth in the dark days ahead, & is probably stockpiling gold & ammo as we type. Let's American-think: Who'd win a class war?
*The tide goes out, the tide comes in. Who can explain it? Michigan results: BHO 2,564,569, WMR 2,115,256.

Not To Be Tried At Home

Had to run this:P.S.: As far as we're concerned, you may try this at home, or anywhere the hell else. Really, who gives a fuck?

Election Wrap-Up

Tuesday, December 11, 2012