Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Threat Tour To Commence

SUN 30 JUN 1940
Naval ships and district craft on hand (all types)--1,099. Personnel: Navy--160,997; Marine Corps--28,364; Coast Guard--13,766. Total personnel--203,127.

Heavy cruiser Wichita (CA-45), with Commander Cruiser Division Seven (Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens) embarked, reaches Montevideo, Uruguay, joining heavy cruiser Quincy (CA-39) to begin a tour of Latin American ports "to furnish a reminder of the strength and the range of action of the armed forces of the United States" (see 3 July and following).

Presidential yacht Potomac (AG-25), accompanied by auxiliary Cuyahoga (AG-26), returns to Washington Navy Yard with President Roosevelt embarked, after a cruise down the Potomac River.

Total Personnel: 203,127

SUN 30 JUN 1940
Naval ships and district craft on hand (all types)--1,099. Personnel: Navy--160,997; Marine Corps--28,364; Coast Guard--13,766. Total personnel--203,127.

Heavy cruiser Wichita (CA-45), with Commander Cruiser Division Seven (Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens) embarked, reaches Montevideo, Uruguay, joining heavy cruiser Quincy (CA-39) to begin a tour of Latin American ports "to furnish a reminder of the strength and the range of action of the armed forces of the United States" (see 3 July and following).

Presidential yacht Potomac (AG-25), accompanied by auxiliary Cuyahoga (AG-26), returns to Washington Navy Yard with President Roosevelt embarked, after a cruise down the Potomac River.

Takeover By The Wicked!

An epistle from a lawyer who works for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Alabam, one Roy Moore. And a fine legal mind this Win Johnson is. You can tell by the ratio of Biblical citations to legal citations.
Time for Public Officials to take their stand one way or the other

Jesus Christ is Lord of all. He came to save the world by His death and resurrection. That world includes you, me, the family, the civil government, all the institutions of life. He came to advance His Father's kingdom, not watch man run rampant upon the earth as if Christ had never come. As if it were the days of Noah!

Public officials are ministers of God assigned the duty of punishing the wicked and protecting the righteous. If the public officials decide to officially approve of the acts of the wicked, they must logically not protect the righteous from the wicked. In fact, they must become protectors of the wicked. You cannot serve two masters; you must pick – God or Satan.

The criminal laws against homosexual sodomy are for the protection of the righteous, particularly the young, the weak, the vulnerable, who need the law to teach them right from wrong when in a vulnerable state. The U.S. Supreme Court, although it claims to have done so in 2003, cannot take something that God calls a crime and declare it not a crime.

We're facing something even worse now, the civil government taking a new step and actually requiring the approval and sanctifying by the state of an evil behavior. Five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have now opined that the States of this country and all of us must approve of so-called marriages of same sex couples.

Therefore, the civil government must now become a persecuting power; you cannot avoid it. The civil government must protect what it approves of. It must protect the advocates' employment, their business dealings, their lives in every way. Against whom? Against those who think their lifestyle is evil. That's you and me, bible-believing Christians, the Church, etc.

Public official, what will you do? Will you stand up for the law of Alabama, for the people, for the weak and vulnerable, for the law of God? Or will you capitulate? Will you become complicit in the takeover by the wicked?

"I must follow the law," you say. Law? What law? There is no law anymore, there's just opinion. One day this, one day that. When the law becomes merely the opinion of a handful of people on the courts, there is no longer any law. There is tyranny. There is chaos. But there is no law.

The young and the weak, those that are caused to stumble by courts that approve of what is evil, are those whom Jesus referred to when he said, "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones." Luke 17:2. You don't want to be complicit in allowing such stumbling blocks.

Don't use the Nazi war-crimes trial defense: "My superiors (or the courts) told me to do it." You're not standing for the rule of law when you capitulate to a law that defies God and exposes people to the wicked. You're just a coward making excuses!

Or will your conscience cause you to resign? Why would you leave the people of this State, their children, your children and grandchildren to the wolves, those who would rend the society apart with their denial of what's good and evil?

Your duty is to stand against the ravages of a superior authority that would go beyond its rightful power and force upon the people something evil. That's what the founders of our country did when Parliament exceeded its powers. That's what the Puritans in civil government in the 1600's did when the King exceeded his powers.

On Judgment Day, you won't stand in front of the media, the advocates of "Equality," or even the federal courts; you'll stand before the King of Kings, the Judge and Ruler over the Kings of the Earth, Jesus Christ. His law is not subject to the vote of man, and He, as the good and loving author of that law, does not exempt any nation from it. The law's author, speaking of Himself as "the stone which the builders rejected," said, "Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder." Luke 20:18.

What can you do? You have authority as an elected official. You also are sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution and Alabama Constitution. Find a way to do so. Don't acquiesce to the takeover (actually the takedown)!  Use your authority and every legal angle to oppose the tyrants! If necessary, just say, "No." It is not rebellion for you to say, "Your interpretation of the Constitution is wrong, beyond your authority, and detrimental to this nation." In fact, it's your duty. You're not opposing the rule of law, you're upholding it by saying that.
Context is a mug's game, but if you give a shit here it is.

Time Now Actually LONGER Than Rope

Attributed today's agony & sufferation to perhaps the extreme ennui that results when one pays attention to reactionary idiots repeating themselves as they have for the last 40 yrs. of their fascist Nixonian shit while repeatedly denying or blaming others for the wars, recessions, murder & all else that result from their policies & programs, perhaps the arrival of monsoon season,
perhaps waking after a mere six hrs. of disconnection to Chris Christie on live telebision shouting at clouds as if they were deaf.

Contributing factors all, but the added existential agony I was feeling was from the official entropy extension happening tonight.

On Tuesday, the world gets a ‘leap’ second.
Are we all gonna die?

Yes, you're all abso-fucking-lutely "gonna" die, just not soon enough for me & probably not as a result of the leap sec.
Five yrs. of entropy later:

Telling It Like It Is: Another Turd Drops In G.O.P. Punch Bowl

Typical Republican, drinking from the ladle of a silver bowl. She'll be sorry.
Surprised grotesque gargantua Chris Christie didn't displace all the piss punch in the Grand Old Punchbowl when he jumped in. Because he is a fat slob, & therefore weak & unable to control himself.

Every Republican candidate is a literal asshole, a revolting & contemptible jerk whose personality defects, paranoid delusions & twisted minds are clearly defined by in the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of the head shrinkers. And they all suffer from delusions of adequacy.

Tough-talking walking bullshit, every one. They'll show ISIS!! Like hell. Give this reporter five minutes alone w/ any of these feudalist theocrats & I'll rip their lying tongues from their weasel mouths in a demonstration of just how "tough" they really are. Seriously, there is not a one of these posing fairies I couldn't or wouldn't take in a fair fight.

And fuck Bruce Springsteen & his bogus pseudo-Spectorian music to hell. Give me ten mins. of music instruction w/ him, I'll break every one of his strum-you-to-dullness fingers & shove 'em down his anthem-howling throat. Insufferable hack.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Cruising

SAT 29 JUN 1940
Presidential yacht Potomac (AG-25), accompanied by auxiliary Cuyahoga (AG-26), departs Washington Navy Yard with President Roosevelt embarked, for a cruise down the Potomac River (see 30 June).

Destroyer O'Brien (DD-415) departs Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil, bound for Santos, Brazil, as her shakedown cruise to Latin American ports continues (see 1 July).

F.D.R. Goes Cruising

SAT 29 JUN 1940
Presidential yacht Potomac (AG-25), accompanied by auxiliary Cuyahoga (AG-26), departs Washington Navy Yard with President Roosevelt embarked, for a cruise down the Potomac River (see 30 June).

Destroyer O'Brien (DD-415) departs Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil, bound for Santos, Brazil, as her shakedown cruise to Latin American ports continues (see 1 July).

Days Shorten, Temps Rise,
Humidity Becomes Intolerable ...

... so if anyone thought I was cranky previously, they were misunderestimating me.

THE EAST IS RED!!!

Saw the latter half or so of a wonderful ChiCom propaganda epic about running the Guomindang out of some part of China or another (No subtitles, all dialog in Chinese, so we had no real idea; not, however so subtle we didn't get the big picture.) Sat. night on broadcast channel 44.6. (ICN formerly IAVC or something; Google if you care.)

Vast panoramas of underpopulated battle scenes (A cast of maybe a couple of thousand, not thousands upon thousands, most of them no doubt members of the P.L.A.) many explosions & one helluva lotta smoke. (Wouldn't surprise this reporter if a whole division's allotment of smoke grenades was used.)

Didn't need to understand Chinese when Nationalist officers were shown shooting their own soldiers who turned & ran. Later a high-ranking Nationalist officer plugged a fellow officer in cold blood in his command post. Defeatism? Refusing an order? The Nationalist officers are always surrounded by guards & American equipment, while
the Commies are true men of the people who move on foot & horseback.
Seriously. There is a fucking sabers-drawn cavalry charge in the finale, as the Nationalist forces are thoroughly routed.
Other bases touched:
  • Partisans, mostly a Red Detachment of Wymyn. Their leader sacrifices herself superheroically cutting the fuses leading to boxes stenciled "TNT MADE IN USA" w/ which the Nationalists were going to destroy a dam.
  • The noble machine gunner slaughtering scores of the enemy who is himself cut down; there's always another hero to jump in & continue the slaughter. (Three times minimum, just in the part I saw.)
  • And good shootin': Virtually every Nationalist who gets plugged grabs at his chest before falling down.
THE PEOPLE UNITED SHALL NEVER BE DEFEATED!!!

Resistance To Economic Terrorism

Man suspected of beheading his boss in France, Yassin Salhi, denies attack was religiously motivated, says source close to investigation - @Reuters
Terror nothing, self-defense again. KILL YOUR BOSS BEFORE HE KILLS YOU!! I've warned you all before.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

A-hem!

ICYMI:
How do you know if that popping sound down the block is an M-80 fire cracker, a 9 mm semi-automatic or a 12-gauge shotgun? The Eastsider asked some folks who are familiar with the sounds of the season to help tell the difference.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

SONY. ALL BALONEY.

We aren't saying maybe they should have stuck to hardware,
but maybe they should have stuck to hardware.

Why Comic Books Are Worse Than Ever:
Att'ys. (& Their Clients)

From the recent Wikileaks dump of more stuff hacked from SONY Pictures Entertainment, mentioned below.
PRIVILEGED ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION
Executive Summary – Creative Issues Second Amended and Restated License Agreement (“Spider-Man”)

2 b. Non-Exclusive To SPE. SPE and Marvel share the following:
 “Kingpin” and related characters listed on the attached Schedule 7B, but SPE may not use any of these until after Fox’s production rights to Daredevil expire. Marvel’s use of Kingpin is restricted to use in connection with Daredevil and other characters with which he appeared prior to 9/15/11.
 “Jessica Drew” and specifically listed related characters. SPE may depict Jessica Drew as Spider-Woman, and Marvel may only use her without any Spider-Man-related elements.
 Marvel and SPE must each notify the other of any intended use of these shared characters.

c. Not Granted To SPE. Certain specified characters are frozen or reserved by Marvel even though they might otherwise fit within the generic descriptions of what is granted to SPE:
 Characters listed on the attached Schedule 7A are frozen and may not be used by either SPE or Marvel. Examples are mashups between SpiderMan and other characters and/or characters to which third parties control rights.
 Characters listed on the attached Schedule 8 are reserved by Marvel.
So much more. A list of 684 "NAMED CHARACTERS", among other appendices. And this perfect example of show biz lice:
Executive Producer Credit. 3 EP credits, if Marvel is required to give EP credit to Stan Lee, otherwise, 2 EP credits. Credits may be shared. Position is at SPE’s discretion. Customary tie-ins for excluded ads and video items. Marvel may not designate any Disney creative or executive personnel to receive EP credit.
Television Series. Animated logo, bug logo and 3 EP credits, if Marvel is required to give EP credit to Stan Lee, otherwise, 2 EP credits.

8. FEATURED VILLAINS. SPE has the right to notify Marvel of the one or two featured villains in upcoming Pictures. After receiving such notice, Marvel can’t feature that villain (other than in “cameo roles” in any animated TV series episodes that are first broadcast on TV or sold in the home video market from receipt of that notice until 30 days after the home video release of the applicable Picture.
Honestly, you petty bastards.

Page the last of seventy & one:
PRIVILEGED ATTORNEY-CLIENT COMMUNICATION
Anthropomorphic Variations
1. Croak & Badger
2. Punfisher / Frank Carple
Spider-Man 1967 television series
1. Dr. Atlantean
2. Dr. Matto Magneta
3. Mole and the Molemen
Spider-Woman 1979 televisions [sic] series 1. Mirium, Vampire Queen and mother of Blade
Note: This is a non-exhaustive list of Marvel Reserved Characters and is included for the sake of clarity.
Note: Nothing in the agreement is intended to amend, limit, or expand SPE’s rights under the license agreement with Marvel relating to Ghost Rider.
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Executive Summary – Creative Issues Second Amended and Restated License Agreement (“Spider-Man”)

Executive Orders

THU 27 JUN 1940
Rumania yields to Soviet ultimatum and cedes Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.

President Roosevelt declares a national emergency and invokes Espionage Act of 1917 to exercise control over shipping movements in territorial waters and in vicinity of the Panama Canal.

President Roosevelt establishes National Defense Research Committee (Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman) to correlate and support scientific research on the mechanisms and devices of war; among its members are officers of the Navy and War Departments.

Heavy cruiser Wichita (CA-45), with Commander Cruiser Division Seven (Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens) embarked, departs Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, en route to join heavy cruiser Quincy (CA-39) at Montevideo, Uruguay (see 30 June).

Destroyer O'Brien (DD-415) reaches Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil, as her shakedown cruise to Latin American ports continues (see 29 June).

Rumania Cedes Bessarabia And Northern Bukovina To Soviets

THU 27 JUN 1940
Rumania yields to Soviet ultimatum and cedes Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.

President Roosevelt declares a national emergency and invokes Espionage Act of 1917 to exercise control over shipping movements in territorial waters and in vicinity of the Panama Canal.

President Roosevelt establishes National Defense Research Committee (Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman) to correlate and support scientific research on the mechanisms and devices of war; among its members are officers of the Navy and War Departments.

Heavy cruiser Wichita (CA-45), with Commander Cruiser Division Seven (Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens) embarked, departs Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, en route to join heavy cruiser Quincy (CA-39) at Montevideo, Uruguay (see 30 June).

Destroyer O'Brien (DD-415) reaches Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil, as her shakedown cruise to Latin American ports continues (see 29 June).

Weakened Links

Note natural waste area (formerly dirt).
Corporate Nippon-America (a Trans-Pacific Partnership):
On Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, a four-man team from Norse Corp., a small “threat-intelligence” firm based in Silicon Valley, arrived early for an 11:30 a.m. meeting on the studio lot of Sony Pictures Entertainment, in the Los Angeles suburb of Culver City. They were scheduled to see Sony’s top cybersecurity managers to pitch Norse’s services in defending the studio against hackers, who had been plaguing Sony for years.

After a quick security check at the front gate and then proceeding to the George Burns Building on the east side of the Sony lot, the Norse group walked straight into the unlocked first-floor offices of the information security department, marked with a small sign reading info sec. There was no receptionist or security guard to check who they were; in fact, there was no one in sight at all. The room contained cubicles with unattended computers providing access to Sony’s international data network.

The visitors found their way to a small sitting area outside the office of Jason Spaltro, Sony’s senior vice president for information security, settled in, and waited. Alone. For about 15 minutes.

“I got a little shocked,” says Tommy Stiansen, Norse’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “Their Info Sec was empty, and all their screens were logged in. Basically the janitor can walk straight into their Info Sec department.” Adds Mickey Shapiro, a veteran entertainment attorney who helped set up the meeting and was present that day: “If we were bad guys, we could have done something horrible.”
Sony & their stockholders certainly deserved it.

More from the business side of the show bidnis; currently not caring enough to find previous linkage on the subject, help yourself (as if you could possibly care more than we do).
Members of the Turtles, whose hits included “Happy Together,”
have sued Sirius contending they are owed royalties. That case remains unresolved.
Spengler Dampniche has risen from the grave to pimp a new tome.
Theme park designer and screenwriter Ben Tripp blew up on the horror scene a few years ago with his incredibly popular zombie novel Rise Again (published in 2010) ...

70 Yrs. Ago This Wk.

History showing again & again: Operation Bagration, from gentleman scholar & meatspace pal Brick Wahl.

Friday, June 26, 2015

You'd Think Gawd Could Come Up A Better Way Than Terrorist Murder To "Use" Someone, But The Prez Doesn't

What the fuck's the matter w/ the President? He's lost whatever sanity he may have had:

Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof 'didn't know he was being used by God,' says President Obama
at funeral

Is the fucking President saying that The Big Fucking Killer In The Sky deliberately killed nine possibly innocent people to get his point across? Gawd & Obama are a pair of sick bastards, aren't they?

NO, B.O! WRONG & STUPID!! STOP IT!!!

President Obama says church is
'a place where our dignity as a people is inviolate'
As opposed to our "dignity" as goats or chickens or something? And cold-blooded terrorism is dignified now? If the churches support dignity let's fill the pews w/ sleeping homeless people every night. Otherwise it's all bullshit.

Sorry, but church is for people scared of death, & for relieving adults of their money & children of their sexual innocence.

Is there a politician in this world of shit & pain who can think beyond the crudest clichés or has any connection to an unfiltered reality? What about the "bitter clingers"? B.O. forget all about them? One would wish that a lame duck President had the intestinal fortitude, commitment to truth or just something decent in him that would enable him to start telling the truth, or at least stop lying about everything.

Vaterland Security Blows It Again

The cretins in the gov't. warn us to watch for ISIS/ISIL terror next wknd., yet didn't mention the much more distinct possibility of home grown all-American racist homo-haters going nuts in the wake of recent SCOTUS decisions & Slaver Flag removals & killing anyone who isn't a member of the Council of Christian Crackers.

This reporter was half-surprised (& half-disappointed) there wasn't an attack on President Corporate Consensus-Seeker when he was in Charleston today. Maybe the crazed crackers haven't had time to get their shit together. Yet.

20 Mins. Later: Digby on why the reactionaries are unwilling to face the evils they've created.

No Angels Singing Up Above ...

Vice President Joe Biden on SCOTUS ruling: 'All marriages at their root are about love. In America, our laws now recognize that simple truth. Love wins today and we couldn't be prouder'
Love, L-U-V? Please.

SHUT UP HIPPIE! Knock off the bogus & bourgeois Romantic hearts & flowers crap you old fool. Like everything else in this world of shit & pain it's about power, control, & exercising them on everyone you possibly can. There ain't no such thing as love.
And would anyone like to wager when the first armed attack/bombing of a same-sex wedding will happen? A matter of time in this nation of violent, religiously-crazed sad sacks.

Why Isn't America Number One?

Look at this. Look at this & be outraged!!
Tunisian security official: Only 1 gunman, a young student, was responsible for hotel attack that left 28 dead - @AP
What's wrong w/ our once-exceptionally murderous nation? Just one of their lousy gunmen was able to get three times (plus one) as many humanoids as wimp-American Dyl-Ann Roof. The N.R.A. is falling down on the job; teach our children how to kill effectively, damnit!!

By the way, was this "call to violence by Islamic State extremists" a reaction to the Supreme Court's decision? And how long until the first law-abiding gay-fearing citizen w/ an arsenal shoots up a same-sex wedding?

P.S.: I am not a cynic. I just know what goes on in what passes for minds in these United Snakes. There's a killer out there right now, just waiting, maybe for that body armor he ordered w/ his mommy's credit card, maybe for a few thousand more rounds. And you could be among his next victims!

Words Of Warning To Middle-Class Sheep/Pigs Seeking "Legitimacy"
From A Corrupt & Evil Society

Marriage, like the family, is a corrupt bourgeois institution. Do not participate.
Frankly, you pathetic squares & brain-dead sheep, whatever your sexual orientation (Mine is who fucking cares about it? It's pointless & boring.) if you think you need a piece of paper from the gummint telling you w/ whom you may or may not fuck, visit in the hospital or own "property", you've already lost! The truly decent & rational thing would be to outlaw marriage & civil unions entirely. 150 yrs. after the end of the Civil War, don't allow yourselves to be enslaved to bullshit morality. Neither property nor privilege shall be honored!

You can file this one under "Whatever it is, I'm against it!!"

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Armistice Effective, Hostilities Cease

TUE 25 JUN 1940
Franco-German armistice becomes effective and hostilities cease.

Act of Congress abolishes Construction Corps of the Navy; constructors are given line officer status designated for Engineering Duty Only (EDO). In addition, the status of those line officers who had previously been designated for Aeronautical Engineering Duty Only (AEDO) were redesignated EDO.

Destroyer O'Brien (DD-415) departs Buenos Aires, Argentina, for Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil (see 27 June).

Hostilities Cease

TUE 25 JUN 1940
Franco-German armistice becomes effective and hostilities cease.

Act of Congress abolishes Construction Corps of the Navy; constructors are given line officer status designated for Engineering Duty Only (EDO). In addition, the status of those line officers who had previously been designated for Aeronautical Engineering Duty Only (AEDO) was redesignated EDO.

Destroyer O'Brien (DD-415) departs Buenos Aires, Argentina, for Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil (see 27 June).

Three Turtle Thurs.

Scenes From The Revolution

Hah! When do we start overturning & burning in these United Snakes?
The police serving & protecting capital.
Next Uber-mobile I see gets a rock through its window. Air-polluting bastards.
As it happened. Uber explained.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Bad Link!

The podium's there, but no one's home.
Piyush "Call me Bobby" Jindal's website, news section:

BLOG

Bobby’s Top Eight Op-Eds on Repealing Obamacare

  • June 24, 2015
  • |
  • Team Jindal
Couldn't Brainiac's typist make up a nice round ten for him?

Tip o' le chapeau to tengrain for inspiring us to find something at B.J.'s site other than the creepy family surveillance videos. Starting to get quite the pervert vibe from the pencil-necked geek & amateur exorcist.

New Links!

Golf links, not informative or interesting links. Ha ha!
In 2015, further golf course enhancements take place in the form of creating natural waste areas that require minimum water to maintain. This is done in an effort to conserve water in the perpetually dry Los Angeles basin desert in future years.
As opposed to conserving water in past yrs.? Redundant, & barely literate. (See below.)
Lonely bag w/ natural waste area.
And in the Christ, What an Asshole Dep't.:
Should you have the opportunity to visit our Club, we do ask that you turn cell phones off, as talking on cell phones in the clubhouse and on the course is prohibited, However, discreet reading of text and email messages is acceptable.Please be sure to follow the appropriate dress attire while you are on the premise.
  • Appropriate Attire for Gentlemen
  • Appropriate attire for golf such as golf slacks and shirts with collars and sleeves
  • Shirts must be tucked in at all times
  • Mock turtlenecks and turtlenecks are not allowed
  • Collarless shirts, tank tops, sweat pants, cargo pants or cargo shorts are not permitted on the premises.
  • Hats are to be work outside only with the brim/bill facing front.
  • Golf shorts are permitted but are not to be more than 4 inches from the mid-knee
  • Denim is permitted on any day in the Macbeth Bar, Outside Patio, Grill Room and Locker Room areas, unless specifically stated for a Club event. The denim must be free from holes and tears and be in good condition.
  • Flip-flops are not allowed.
  • Appropriate Attire for Ladies
  • Shirts must have either collars or sleeves or both. Skirts, divided skirts, golf dresses and tailored slacks are the acceptable attire to be worn in the Clubhouse and on the golf course.
  • Denim is permitted on any day in the Macbeth Bar, Outside Patio, Grill Room and Locker Room areas, unless specifically stated for a Club event. The denim must be free from holes and tears and be in good condition.
  • Tennis attire, tank tops, drawstring pants, jersey knit fabrics are not permitted.
  • Flip-flops are not allowed.
One might ask, what if one is neither a lady nor a gentleman, & has no pretensions to be anything beyond a human being/humanoid?

Franco-Italo Armistice

MON 24 JUN 1940
Charles Edison, who had devoted himself to accelerating naval construction and to technical advances in the naval service, resigns as Secretary of the Navy. Lewis Compton, Assistant Secretary of the Navy since 9 February, becomes Acting Secretary. Edison will become Governor of New Jersey.

France signs armistice with Italy.

Japan requests that British close the Burma Road, thus severing the Allied supply line to China.

Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely relieves Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees as Commandant, Eleventh Naval District and Commandant Naval Operating Base, San Diego, California.

Frogs Surrender To Wop-A-Dagoes

MON 24 JUN 1940
Charles Edison, who had devoted himself to accelerating naval construction and to technical advances in the naval service, resigns as Secretary of the Navy. Lewis Compton, Assistant Secretary of the Navy since 9 February, becomes Acting Secretary. Edison will become Governor of New Jersey.

France signs armistice with Italy.

Japan requests that British close the Burma Road, thus severing the Allied supply line to China.

Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely relieves Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees as Commandant, Eleventh Naval District and Commandant Naval Operating Base, San Diego, California.

Do Not Patronize This
Libertarian Shithole

Burn it before it takes root! You have about a yr.
New York Whole Foods chain faces city probe after investigators found 'worst case of overcharges' - @NYDailyNews
People in Silver Lake might be interested in some self-defense arson at the site of the new Whole Foods on Glendale Bl. Or we could simply murder Whole Foods' rent-seeking parasite CEO John Mackey, a loud-mouthed buffoon who at the least deserves a punch in the mouth. One good sock from each & every one of his wage-slaves would seem fair. I'll hold him.

Beatles '65

George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, & John Lennon of the Beatles on their hotel terrace in Milan,
Italy, with Il Duomo Cathedral in the background before their show at the Velodromo Vigorelli on June 24, 1965.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Squids Brawl In Lisbon Suburb

SUN 23 JUN 1940
Portuguese police arrest 30 sailors (three of whom are injured in the fracas) from light cruiser Trenton (CL-11) in street brawl in Santo Amaro Oerias, a suburb of Lisbon.

Destroyer Herbert (DD-160) proceeds from Casablanca, French Morocco, to Lisbon with American refugees.

Drunken Sailors

SUN 23 JUN 1940
Portuguese police arrest 30 sailors (three of whom are injured in the fracas) from light cruiser Trenton (CL-11) in street brawl in Santo Amaro Oerias, a suburb of Lisbon.

Destroyer Herbert (DD-160) proceeds from Casablanca, French Morocco, to Lisbon with American refugees.

O.K. By Me To Keep Selling These

Don't tread on irony:
Available (at least visible) as we type, click later & see if they're gone.

Click Now While You Still Can!

We update the item immediately below.
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Interesting: Amazon results have decreased from 908 to 854 w/in an hr.

Waiting For Amazon To Unwrap
Itself From The Flag

Now that eBay has taken the Confederate crap from their figurative shelves, how long until Amazon removes such articles from their profit stream?

1-24 of 908 results for Patio, Lawn & Garden

One could do a bit of textual analysis on the above offerings.

And one might note that the actual Confederate Battle Flag/Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia is square, not 3x5 as most of the offerings here, although in a sense the 3x5/4x6 (Easier to manufacture in those proportions?) version is simply the "Confederate" or "Rebel" flag, which has less to do w/ heritage or honor & more to do w/ this:
All 38-ish pp. well worth a peep. You'll see John Deere tractors superimposed on the Stars & Bars, & what's the deal w/ the single or three deer on it?

In conclusion:

Cracker Barrel Philosophy

Not racist!!!
Say, why are we supporting the Republican Party, a cracker asks:
The GOP has a very different outlook. We value White identity. The GOP condemns White identity. We value Southern identity. The GOP condemns Southern identity. We want to preserve the White race, and the South, as a trust and a solemn obligation to future generations. It is something we see as a moral and religious duty. In contrast, the GOP has no objection to replacing our people, so long as a head of lettuce is a few cents cheaper or nannies and pool boys are more affordable.

To the Republican Party, the United States is nothing more than a marketplace, an economy, or a shopping mall. Presiding over this economy, which they call our “nation,” is a monied class of billionaires and multimillionaires who are distinguished by nothing but their devotion to avarice, and the GOP exists to ensure that their pampered lives are made a little bit easier, and that they will pay less in taxes, less in wages to their workers, and put up with fewer annoying government regulations.

Although the Republican Party claims to support “Christianity” and “values,” it is the party of Larry Craig, Mark Foley, and as we recently found out, Dennis Hastert. In South Carolina, the Republican Party is the party of former Gov. Mark Sanford, who abandoned his wife to run off with his Argentine mistress. Why would such a party make any serious effort to conserve traditional Christian values?

As Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal have recently shown, and as Miley Cyrus and Kim Kardashian remind us every week, the Republican Party is incapable of preserving traditional values, civility, or even America’s tenuous grasp on reality. Republican electoral victories have translated into nothing but cultural debasement. These spree shootings are a constant reminder of how the Republican Party has failed to preserve “values.”
LATER: What the hell, let's look at (at least link to) someone who's now proud to be a Republican:

Republican Senator’s Adviser Formerly Served As Editor Of Neo-Confederate Magazine

One of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s longtime advisers was the editor-in-chief of a neo-Confederate magazine — a magazine Graham gave an interview to in 1999. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, the adviser disavows his former views.
Plenty of drooling examples from his "disavowed" views nonetheless.

Today (Tues.) In Turtles

Monday, June 22, 2015

Frogs Formally Quit

SAT 22 JUN 1940
Franco-German armistice is signed at Compiegne, France. France is divided: one zone is occupied by the Germans; the other administered by the French government from the city of Vichy. Free French government is established in exile in England by General Charles DeGaulle. Among the terms of the armistice is the specification that the French fleet, except portions necessary to safeguard France's colonial interests, will be gathered in French metropolitan ports and demobilized and disarmed under German and Italian control.

Destroyer Dickerson (DD-157) arrives at Bilbao, Spain; she will remain there, safeguarding American interests, until 3 July.

Prince Konoye Fumimaro forms new Japanese cabinet with General Tojo Hideki as Minister of War and Matsuoka Yosuke as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Frogs Surrender To Krauts

SAT 22 JUN 1940
Franco-German armistice is signed at Compiegne, France. France is divided: one zone is occupied by the Germans; the other administered by the French government from the city of Vichy. Free French government is established in exile in England by General Charles DeGaulle. Among the terms of the armistice is the specification that the French fleet, except portions necessary to safeguard France's colonial interests, will be gathered in French metropolitan ports and demobilized and disarmed under German and Italian control.

Destroyer Dickerson (DD-157) arrives at Bilbao, Spain; she will remain there, safeguarding American interests, until 3 July.

Prince Konoye Fumimaro forms new Japanese cabinet with General Tojo Hideki as Minister of War and Matsuoka Yosuke as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Palace Of Meat & Potatoes

In-N-Out Burger, Westwood

Gallows Humor

Billy Wilder's 109th birthday. Only 20 days ago we were hanging out.
Said 20 days ago being three yrs. & a day since Mrs. W. exited.
Carroll O'Connor (d. 21 June 2001, coincidentally) & family in background.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Shipping News

FRI 21 JUN 1940
Heavy cruiser Wichita (CA-45), with Commander Cruiser Division Seven (Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens) embarked, arrives at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, en route to join heavy cruiser Quincy (CA-39) at Montevideo, Uruguay (see 27 June).

Destroyer Herbert (DD-160) arrives at Casablanca, French Morocco (see 23 June).

Destroyer Dickerson (DD-157), attached to Squadron 40-T, departs Lisbon for Bilbao, Spain (see 22 June).

Ship Movements

FRI 21 JUN 1940
Heavy cruiser Wichita (CA-45), with Commander Cruiser Division Seven (Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens) embarked, arrives at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, en route to join heavy cruiser Quincy (CA-39) at Montevideo, Uruguay (see 27 June).

Destroyer Herbert (DD-160) arrives at Casablanca, French Morocco (see 23 June).

Destroyer Dickerson (DD-157), attached to Squadron 40-T, departs Lisbon for Bilbao, Spain (see 22 June).

Turning The Other Cheek & "Enjoyment"

Seems somehow appropriate.
Someone should point out to Sandy Rios that no matter how much she enjoys religion as social control, eventually the subjugated run out of cheeks to turn.How nice that the hateful hostess had a "favorite" part of America's latest massacre. Always look on the sunny side, right?

And no fan of any Prez, but I didn't hear much enjoying in what was played. Or any fucking "festering" either.