Saturday, December 31, 2016

Room For One More ... IN HELL!!

Still hrs. left in this yr. of painfully shitty inanity & morbidity. Anyone else just want to get it over w/ before it's too late?

A New Yr.'s Eve At Sangley Point

WED 31 DEC 1941
Pacific
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of Pacific Fleet in ceremonies on board submarine Grayling (SS-209) at Pearl Harbor.

Japanese submarines shell Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii.

While returning from attempting to aid destroyer Peary (DD-226) (see 28 December), small seaplane tender Heron (AVP-2) is damaged but fights off, over a seven-hour span, a series of attacks by Japanese reconnaissance flying boats (Toko Kokutai) and land attack planes off Ambon, N.E.I. Heron shoots down one seaplane whose crew refuses rescue.

Submarine rescue vessel Pigeon (ASR-6) transports armed party [Lieutenant (j.g.) Malcolm M. Champlin, USNR] to Sangley Point which brings out Luzon Stevedoring Company lighter loaded with 97 mines and eight truckloads of aerial depth charges Pigeon then tows the barge to a point four and a half miles off Sangley Point and capsizes it in 11 fathoms of water. The sailors also destroy the aircraft repair shop at Cavite and one irreparable PBY.

U.S. cargo/passenger ship Ruth Alexander, en route from Manila to Balikpapan, Borneo, is bombed and irreparably damaged by Japanese flying boat in Makassar Strait, N.E.I., 01°00'N, 119°10'W, one man is killed in the bombing. She sinks on 2 January 1942. Dutch Dornier 24 later rescues all 48 survivors.

Japanese destroyer Yamagumo is damaged by mine off Lingayen.

Philippine steamships Magellanes and Montanes are scuttled, most likely at Manila.

2016 Summed Up

The Yr. In Pictures

We are not going to sugarcoat reality for sensitive little flowers. Just what the hell do you think makes flowers grow?We remind you: Everything's made of shit & you're all dying; therefore, stop pretending. Hell, why bother breathing?

Friday, December 30, 2016

Stupid Wage-Slaves, Your Bosses Will Work You 'Til You're In Your Graves

Was not kidding when I wrote the headline 30-some yrs. ago.
Patrick Coffee / Adweek:
CEO of Dentsu, Japan's largest ad agency, says he will resign after government investigation into its culture of overwork  —  Dentsu chief executive officer Tadashi Ishii announced today that he will resign next month after leading the network for more than five years.
Let the punishment fit the crime: This reporter remembers when an honorable Japanese C.E.O. would have committed ritual suicide after causing the death of an employee. Or even after going bankrupt.

1,000 Words Worth

Trump & his buddy, 85-yr. old wretch, criminal & convicted manslaughterer Don King, who is, for reasons unknown, holding two American flags sandwiched between two Russian flags. Mr. King is also violating the U.S. Flag Code:
The flag should not be used as "wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery", or for covering a speaker's desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general (exception for coffins).

The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, firefighters, police officers, and members of patriotic organizations.
Think ol' Trumpy will take away King's citizenship?
[Image source, for doubters.]

Today In "Fuck The Police In The Ass W/ A Splintered Broomstick"

An L.A.P.D. pig killed someone in a romantic rivalry, & the other pigs covered it up. Other L.A.P.D. cover-ups also noted in the item.

Suggestion: Don't have adulterous sex w/ pigs, & don't marry anyone who does. In other words, yes, fuck the police, no, not literally, it could get you killed.

Brazil says Greek ambassador murdered by wife's policeman lover

Plus which:
David Smiley / miamiherald:
Fired Miami cops joked about using black neighborhoods for target practice  —  Three rookie Miami police officers fired two days before Christmas joked in a group chat with other cops about using predominately black neighborhoods for target practice, an internal affairs investigation found this month.
Also too:
Mitch Mitchell / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Attorney: Viral video not an isolated incident among Fort Worth cops  —  FORT WORTH  —  Riding the backlash of last week's viral video involving a Fort Worth police officer, the attorney for a black man shot in July by another officer released a video Tuesday of the incident, which he said was unjustified.
A 73-yr. old grandfather was shot at seven fucking times by one fucking cop, near his family's house. At least one of the rounds was fatal.

Man With Dementia Shot And Killed By Bakersfield Police Was Holding Crucifix

P.S.: Lotta good Jesus-on-a-stick did gramps, huh?

Oink oink oink:
S.P. Sullivan / New Jersey Online:
N.J. trooper pulled over women to ask them out, covered it up, state says  —  TRENTON — A New Jersey state trooper has been suspended without pay after an internal investigation found he was pulling over women to ask them out on dates and falsifying police records to cover it up, authorities said.
It never stops:
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 
Medical examiner ‘threatened’ by Clarke over jail deaths
And that concludes today's cavalcade of criminality, cover-ups & racism in New World policing. How many will die at the hands of the pants-pissing pigs (Or the Phillipine President?) tomorrow?

Todaymorrow Night In Security Theatre: "Garbage Truck, Mmmmm Moldy Garbage Truck ..."

An excusereason to post a tune we like:
Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Garbage Trucks Will Help Protect New York for New Year's Eve  —  When revelers begin arriving at Times Square on Saturday to ring in the new year, they will hear the familiar sound of police helicopters overhead, go through the mandatory bag screenings and see the usual mass of police officers.

Stop Me If You've Heard This One ...

Older than I, so in the public domain. Nonetheless.

Still Dead?

Now that Saddam Hussien's been worm food for 10 yrs., can we ask how that Operation Enduring Freedom clusterfuck has worked out so far?

Thursday, December 29, 2016

West Remains Best, Coast Still Most

What's The Matter W/ California? Not A Goddamn Thing, Compared To Kansas or Texas!

Well, no whites have suffered more abrupt, rattling demotion than California’s. Yet, California whites, who have plenty of experience with actual immigrants, voted against Trump by a 5 percentage point margin. Reading and triangulating 2016 election exit polls shows Californian whites vote very differently from other whites around the country – including those in New York, a similarly affluent, educated Democrat bastion. New York whites supported Trump by a 6-point margin, a pro-Republican switch of 12 percentage points from 2008. At the opposite political node, Texas’ white folks may be tasting diversity but want none of it; they handed Trump a 43 percentage point landslide.

The stark absence of either a pro-Republican majority or rightward shift among California white voters in 2016 is unique. What makes West Coast whites different – particularly younger ones, whose voting approaches nonwhites’?

[...]

Californians certainly had past periods of racial animosity. In the 1980s and ’90s, a growing older white population fueled Republicans, their traditional defenders. Harsh anti-crime rhetoric, policing and prisons proliferated; taxes and schools were cut; immigrants politically lashed.

Today, more than a decade later, Republican office holders are vanishing from the Golden State. The surge in the older white population has ebbed. Youngsters are not stepping up. Among California white millennials (age 18-29) – the future of whiteness – Trump lost by better than 20 percentage points.

Clearly, Trump’s image of immigrant-driven drugs, rape and murder has not descended on increasingly multiracial California. Just the opposite. The decline in California’s white population has accompanied sharply falling rates of crime, violence, rape, gun deaths, school failure and related ills. Doubtless there’s no connection, but the ironies are staggering.

The biggest improvements are among younger and nonwhite populations, the ones most shaped by immigration. The worst social trends, especially for crime, gun deaths and drug overdoses, plague older, less educated whites – the population most likely to support Trump.
We really are wonderful, aren't we?
[McClatchyDC]

More Darwin Award Types Like This, Please

He let him hold what now? Oh, oh, a loaded gun. Well. There are, of course, no "accidents".

Gun-loving conservative columnist accidentally killed after letting teen boy hold his firearm

Our reaction?

Local Action: No Snow &
"Another Fucking Brentwood"

From The Eastsider, by Dan Gershon.
It never snows in the Southland. Hasn't for 54 yrs., anyway, 'though there used to be snow about every decade before that. The storm of '62 also hit the S.F. Bay Area, where I was. Helluva surprise for the then eight-yr. old Bouffant to wake up on a Sunday morning & see snow on the ground. Made a snowperson, threw snowballs & everything.

Many pics of a snowy L.A. at the link, this is my favorite, from the 1921 storm. Doesn't appear La Brea continued north of Sunset then. A gas station now occupies where the two-story bldg. on the left is. Bldgs. on the right are the then-Chaplin Studios, which eventually became A&M Records & is now the Jim Henson Co.
Note also: Local avg. temperatures rising.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

The (Premature) Whining Never Stops

Richard Johnson / Page Six:
DC private schools giving Kellyanne Conway the brush-off  —  MORE FROM:  —  Kellyanne Conway is worried establishment elites in Washington, DC, are so prejudiced against President-elect Trump that she won't be able to get her kids into private school in the nation's capital.
Why can't she her spawn attend public school? Is this unintentional irony or hypocrisy:
Kellyanne Conway is worried establishment elites in Washington, DC, are so prejudiced against President-elect Trump that she won’t be able to get her kids into private school in the nation’s capital.
Oh, never fucking mind then, she's not an "establishment" elite, just some stuck-up witch who doesn't want her children w/ the commoners.
While in DC on Wednesday with her kids looking at schools, Conway told me, “I would not characterize myself as ‘worried’ so much as amused by the silence and sighs on the other end of the phone when friends and allies have made preliminary inquiries on our behalf.”
Perhaps, Mrs. Conway, if you called these schools yourself, rather than outsourcing your parental duties to your elite cronies & connections, there wouldn't be as many silences & sighs. As in, "Sweet Jesus, another privileged & entitled creep who thinks she can use her elite connections to get her brats in here."
Mrs. C., not well lit & w/o tee vee make-up, 'cause that's just the kind of jerk we are!
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

No Wonder Trump Likes Netanyahu: They're Both Lying Crooks

Justice to be done? We bolded the good stuff.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has reportedly approved a full criminal investigation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into allegations of bribery and fraud.

Netanyahu will be investigated by police for two separate cases and will be called in for police questioning in the coming days, Channel 10 reported on Wednesday.

Asked by The Times of Israel, the Justice Ministry — under whose auspices the attorney general operates — declined to comment Wednesday evening on the report. There was no immediate response from the Prime Minister’s Office.

Earlier this month, Zionist Union MK Erel Margalit and Eldad Yaniv, a lawyer and Labor party activist, petitioned the High Court of Justice to demand the Attorney General answer why had not yet opened an investigation despite what they called “overwhelming evidence.”

Writing on Facebook hours before the Channel 10 report, Yaniv said that Mandelblit “realized there was no other choice but to open an investigation’ after meetings with senior investigators.

“The police have weighty proof linking Bibi to suspicions of bribery and fraud,” Yaniv wrote.

Police recently received new documents as part of a secret inquiry into the prime minister that began almost nine months ago, Channel 2 reported Tuesday. Based on those files, police turned to Mandelblit requesting that he agree to a full criminal investigation. The report stated that among the suspected offenses are bribe-taking and aggravated fraud.


In June, Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich gave his go-ahead to the hush-hush probe by the Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit, but demanded full cooperation on secrecy and that no details be leaked to the media.

Mandelblit also reportedly instructed employees in the state prosecutor’s office to look into allegations that Netanyahu accepted 1 million euros (about $1.1 million) from accused French fraudster Arnaud Mimran in 2009.

In May, State Comptroller Yosef Shapira issued a critical report on Netanyahu’s foreign trips, some of which were taken with his wife and children, from 2003 to 2005, when he was finance minister.

Earlier this month, in an apparently unrelated case, there were calls for the prime minister to be investigated for his role in a Defense Ministry deal to purchase submarines from a German company partly owned by the Iranian government.


The affair dominated public debate in the country last month, as accusations surfaced that the prime minister may have been swayed in the decision by business ties his personal counsel David Shimron had with the submarines’ builder, ThyssenKrupp. The purchase was opposed by parts of the defense establishment, including former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon.

On Sunday, police descended on the Defense Ministry to gather information relating to a ship-building contract with Germany, as part of a probe into how negotiations for multi-billion shekel naval deals were handled.
Whenever the right is in power, kleptocrats follow, New World & Old.

Hey, here's an idea! Let's have Philippine President Duterte throw Netanyahu out of a helicopter as he claims he will w/ corrupt Philippine officials. (Then if someone will push the Pres. out of the chopper immediately after ...)
“If you are corrupt I will fetch you with a helicopter and I will throw you out on the way to Manila,” he said in Filipino yesterday in a speech at the Camarines Sur provincial capital after he visited disaster-stricken areas affected by Typhoon Nina.

“I have done that before, why should I not do it again?” said Duterte ...
I dare say it's probably not too soon to call for the assassination of every head of state in this miserable world of shit & pain. Maybe not Canada's Justin Trudeau, but then again, he's part of a political family. Might not be a bad idea to exterminatenip all potential political dynasties in the bud while we're cleaning out the other scum.

Nihilism now!! (There are no remaining options.)

Ah, Look At All The Stupid People
Where Do They All Come From?

"Although it is not true that all Republicans are ignorant buffoons, it is true that most ignorant buffoons are Republican."
(Tip o' le chapeau to John Stuart Mill.)
These fools can not be reasoned w/. What, then, can be done w/ them?

[PuffHo, TP & memeorandum.]

We Are All Fucked, Good & Hard

Further to the item immediately below:
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The Republican plot to devour retirees' nest eggs  —  Perhaps the most monstrous thing about the American medical system — and the bar for that title is high indeed — is predatory billing.  —  A great many medical providers adjust their prices based on how defenseless the patient is …
And from another "crank":

Thanks, New York Times, for compromising away seniors’ Social Security income

How about some child abuse? You'll note this rat bastard Republican brutalized his own son; now he wants to hurt everybody else's. Fucking thug.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep's Vision Of Post-ACA World: You Wait To Treat Your Kid's Broken Arm  —  A Republican congressman outlined the way he would like to see the health care system operate if Obamacare is repealed, as GOP lawmakers are promising.  It is a brave new world in which parents would wait …
RELATED:
Plus which also too, 'bout an hr. later:
Nearing retirement age? Sucks to be you. One of the Reps. whose office made it seem like he might be opposed to Paul Ryan's Medicare Phaseout plan, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA), is actually clearly in favor - though he says he wants to see the precise details.
Yes yes, this is "old" news, but that doesn't make it any less relevant. Or less horrrifying. These bastards are pointing a gun at me; I have every right to stand my ground & shoot back. (And not w/ any sissy "votes", either.)

 Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Many People Just Voted Themselves Out of Health Care?  (Updated) (Updated again) (And again)  —  My original update was right!  Screwed up dates.  So it's back to around 5 1/2 million Trump chumps.  —  As Greg Sargent points out, the choice of Tom Price for HHS probably means the death of Obamacare.
Only a slight indication above of their destructive plans for your Social Security, of course.

Thanks For Nothing, 2016!

I waited & waited; all day Xmas, & Boxing Day, & even yesterday, in case the delivery was late or whatever, but nothing. NOTHING!! No new teeth, no camera to replace my drowned one, no guns, no ammo, no money, no big damn two-axle truck w/ which to squash suburban squares on the sidewalk or at the Xmas market ... NOTHING!!

So. I have no friends (Which I should have realized when the people I knew let me become homeless, the rotten "homeowner" shits w/ their fucking houses.) & even mythical creations don't care.
But 2017 looks as if it will be a killer. Literally.

Because, dear non-friends, when there is no more Social Security or Medicare, & brain-dead brain surgeon Ben Carson has eliminated housing subsidies, I will be broke, on the street, & completely justified in giving myself carte blanche to kill & kill again. I figure if I can take 10 or 20 of you rat bastards w/ me it'll be more than worth it. But I'm thinking big. Anyone have any advice on making ricin? 💣Or have any spare dynamite? Also pressure cookers.💣
And fuck Eddie Vedder & his lame mid-tempo music to hell. Should've been whining about my troubles all over craigslist, huh?

Asshole Of The Day

Get this mobbed-up greaseball at (3:27), when he sez: "He's the President-elect, really, he's not really Trump anymore, I don't think." Th' fuck? ("I don't think" is doubtless correct.) I suppose frightfully insecure Daddy Trump makes Little Tony call him Mr. Trump.Jesus Fuck. Are we going to have to listen to Trump's Chumps whine about how he isn't "respected" enough, after all that super-respectful birth certificate shit Trump was on about for yrs.? Fuck that noise.

Also note the wop-a-dago's flag lapel pin, which defaces the flag. To wit:
The flag should never have any mark, insignia, letter, word, number, figure, or drawing of any kind
placed on it or attached to it.
Disrepectful asshole.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Couldn't Have Put It Better Myself

Right-wing pansies get panties in bunch when tables turn:
Katie Frates / The Daily Caller:
‘FUCK YOU. GO TO HELL’: Georgetown Prof Loses It On Muslim Trump Voter  —  A Georgetown University associate professor had a month-long meltdown after a Muslim woman explained why she voted for President-elect Donald Trump.  —  Asra Q. Nomani, a former Georgetown journalism professor …
Earlier this yr. ...
This is Trump's gift to every grandchild in America:
Grandpa and Grandma are proud to say, "Fuck Your Feelings!"

Caption by Progressive Eruptions.
FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!! (And if they think telling someone where to go is a "vicious attack", they have much to learn.)

Did You Know?

That this hot mess is "America's #1 Most-Trusted Republican News Source"? (Redundant, too.) Well, now you know.
So "kike" is now in the official Republican lexicon?

And do compare & contrast the two images. Which one's the bigger poseur, the amiable dunce w/ senile dementia or Mr. Thinks-He-Looks-Like-a-Hard-Ass? (May well be what someone experiencing, say, a hemorrhoid flare-up does look like, of course.)

Sick & Tired, Have My Doubts ...

Current physical & mental state after forcing myself out of the bunker to buy some moloko, & seeing the sheep consuming at after-Xmas sales: NAUSEA!!Could barely move one foot before the other; wanted only to curl up in a whimpering ball of pain & disgust
in the aisle at Target & then never move again.
No Los Angeles either, while we're at it. Enough, already!

Republican (Crime) Family Values

He seems nice:
David Edwards / Raw Story:
SC GOP lawmaker pulls gun and punches woman in head because she caught him cheating: police  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  South Carolina Republican state Rep. Chris Corley was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly beating a woman who reportedly caught him “cheating.”
RELATED:
 Maayan Schechter / Aiken Standard:
South Carolina Rep. Chris Corley arrested, charged with domestic violence  —  A bond has been set after S.C. Rep. Chris Corley was arrested after police say he assaulted his wife and pointed a handgun at her.  —  Corley, 36, who represents Graniteville in Aiken County in the South Carolina House …

Death To Whitey, By His Own Hand

Surely it's not wrong to feel schadenfreude for morons who cut off their noses to spite their ignorant, slack-jawed faces.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
These coal country voters backed Trump.  Now they're worried about losing Obamacare.  —  Last night, CNN aired a terrific segment on people from coal country who voted for Donald Trump — but are now worried that his vow to repeal Obamacare will deprive them of crucial protections that enable them to stay afloat financially.
"You made your bed so now lie in it! You dug your grave so now die in it!"

Monday, December 26, 2016

"Conservatives Are Not Necessarily Stupid, But Most Stupid People Are Conservatives"

On which fucking fake news planet do these losers live? How many believe the moon is made of green cheese?
A new poll shows 52% of Republicans actually think Trump won the popular vote
Bestial in their ignorance & wilful stupidity. I'd really like to see a poll that shows how many (if any) Republicans "actually think", period.

Asshole Up-Date

They're typing again ...
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Sorry, But Our Fight Against Liberal Fascism Has Only Just Begun  —  I wish I could tell you that, having dodged the naggy bullet that was Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit, we can now spend the next four years being left alone.  But that's not in the cards.  Liberals won't - because they can't …
Yes, "liberal fascism" & "godless commies". They're always about 60 yrs. retarded in Republican Land. By the way, Kurt Schlichter, were you & all your little asshole friends planning to leave decent & normal people alone for the next four yrs.until Trump is impeached? I rather doubt it.

D For The Dearly Departed

Departed Flo danced w/ Dino.Dead Davie Jones hatin' on America.Look at this. It's as if hundreds (if not thousands, perhaps) of notable people die every wk.! Can you believe it?

One I may've missed but it's been so long (3 January this yr.) I can't be sure: Canuck jazz keyboardist Paul Bley.
In 1957 Bley stayed in Los Angeles where he led the house band at the Hillcrest Club. By 1958 the original band, with vibes player Dave Pike, evolved into a quintet with Bley hiring trumpet player Don Cherry, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins
sez the Wikipedia. The YouTube states:
Just as the famous 1940-41 Jerry Newman recordings at Minton's and Clark Monroe's Uptown House captured the transition from swing to bebop, the music on this CD (compiled here on one set for the first time ever) marks one of the first steps from bebop into what would soon be called "free jazz". The whole quintet consisted of modern players working with the same concept: a freer way of playing jazz, which transcended the strict confines of melody, harmony and rhythm. They would create a whole new idiom by constructing music via the interplay of simultaneous collective improvisation.

Sunday, December 25, 2016

HOLIDAY 🕱MORTALITY & MORBIDITY REPORT🕱: B.H.P.D Entrapment Victim George Michael Dead At 53

Mr. Michael is "said to have 'passed away peacefully at home'" in Blighty, per the Beeb. See here &/or here for the smutty stuff.

Also recently dead (probably wouldn't have known had we not clicked the Michael item) Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt, at 68. We can assure you this was some hot shit in 1968.
They gave up on the psychedelic Bromo-Seltzer, went back to the boogie, & never charted again in the States.

On hold in Britain: Elizabeth II, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina, Consortionis Populorum Princeps, Fidei Defensor, 90, too illin' w/ a "cold" to make Xmas services. Not really defending the faith there, Queenie!

Holding in these United Snakes: Carrie Fisher, some kinda princess/royalty.

Anticipating (Eagerly?): Holiday & post-holiday increase in mortality.

We sincerely hope your 🎅Christmas🎅 has been as much fun as ours, & we'll see you all in hell💩2017💩! (Or not. There are no guarantees, are there?)

Not Yet Inaugurated, But Here's The First Scandal Of The Trump Admin.

Real record-setters on Team Lump, aren't they? Especially chinless hairless humanoid chihuahua Miller, & Delgado, who is (obviously) a complete idiot.

This is but the first of many actions that will clearly demonstrate the complete lack of judgment, common sense & reason to which we are about to be subjected.
Has there ever been a larger collection of has-beens, never-weres, nobodies & wanna-bes than the Trump Organization, the campaign & now the appointees?

Interesting sidebar: Lizard person/Trump "counselor" Kellyanne Conway apparently didn't get the memo about which gender its lizard masters have assigned it. "Other" men. Heh indeed.
Here Ms. Conway is seen unhinging her lower jaw just prior to consuming the small animal wrapped around her throat.
Dominick Reuter-AFP-Getty Images

Sunday Scheduled Item

It's Sunday, it was scheduled (A wk. ago Thurs.) & it's an item alright.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Twice A Yr. We Pretend To Care, The Other 363/4 You Can Go Fuck Yourself, Poor Person!

Homeless, poor and children remembered at Christmas

And then entirely forgotten & ignored for 11 months, until the next holiday of hypocrisy, Thanksgiving. Rat bastards!

Friday, December 23, 2016

Acorn Academy Update

Nope, Popular-Vote-Loser-Select Trump isn't "mentally ill", he is psychologically disturbed. Which sounds worse, actually. Shorter Stalinist condemnation of Trumpy-the-Toad.Longer one available at HuffPo. And a HuffPo update:
Note: A clinical psychologist wrote the author to confirm (and expand upon) the dire analysis of Dr. Lynne Meyer and the concerns of the three professors in this article. It is worth including here, especially her very unique perspectives on the role of Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

“Dr. Meyer is spot on in her assessment in the video. It is particularly good to hear her make the distinction between mental illness and personality disorders with their pervasive, inflexible, permanently fixed and incurable patterns of pathological behavior. This is one aspect of Trump’s problem that’s routinely misunderstood, even by some experts.

She also makes an excellent observation, among many, about Trump’s grandiosity being behind his refusal to have daily intelligence briefings.

Another, and related reason is the fact that he is cognitively so limited that such briefings make no sense to him (and that’s why he wants Ivanka, for example, or Jared with him during similar occasions, to help him understand what’s being said). Additionally, and also relatedly, his profoundly deficient attention makes it impossible for him to focus on any stimuli that do not provide him with adulation.He’s quickly bored by and dismissive of anything that does not have to do with himself.

The point about him getting worse in the future also cannot be overstated. An increasing paranoia combined with growing sadistic vindictiveness is pretty much a given. We have seen it consistently in other leaders, past and present, with this character defect.

And being so impulsive and without a conscience, he won’t stop for a moment before putting his primitive impulses into action. Those who believe that they can somehow “control” him, or that our democratic “checks and balances” can withstand the collusion between his personal pathology and that of his willing sycophants, are deluded, I’m afraid.

The man is unfit to run a lemonade stand, much less a country. That so many have decided to ignore his profound character defect, or turn it into an asset in their eyes, is horrific, but, sadly, not surprising”
Buckle up for your ride in the toad-mobile, America!Reality, or reality television, is not Disneyland. You may never see the light at the end of the tunnel in the real world.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like
Never-Ending Hell, Everywhere You Go

Thursday, December 22, 2016

S-38 Sinks Enemy Ship, For Variety

MON 22 DEC 1941
President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill open discussions in Washington (Arcadia Conference) leading to establishment of Combined Chiefs of Staff. The Arcadia Conference, which lasts into January 1942, results in a formal American commitment to the "Germany First" strategy. In addition, the United States and Britain agree to form a Combined Chiefs of Staff as the supreme body for Allied war planning, to confer regularly in Washington. The Anglo-American allies also agree that there should be one supreme commander directing operations in each theater.

Pacific
Japanese bombers and attack planes, covered by fighters from carriers Soryu and Hiryu, bomb Wake Island for the second time; the last two flyable USMC F4Fs (VMF 211) intercept the raid. One F4F is shot down, the other is badly damaged.

American troops (Task Force South Pacific) (Brigadier General Julian F. Barnes, USA) arrive at Brisbane in convoy escorted by heavy cruiser Pensacola (CA-24). This is the first U.S. Army troop detachment to arrive in Australia.

Japanese submarine I-19 shells unarmed U.S. tanker H.M. Storey southwest of Cape Mendocino, California, 34°35'N, 120°45'W, but fails to score any hits and the American ship escapes.

Japanese commence invasion of Luzon, landing troops at Lingayen, P.I.; submarine S 38 (SS-143) torpedoes and sinks Japanese army transport Hayo Maru in Lingayen Gulf, 16°00'N, 120°00'E.
[This was moved two days & turned into a touching Xmas Eve story by The Silent Service, embedded here.]

USAAF B-17s bomb and damage Japanese army oiler No. 3 Tonan Maru off Davao, P.I.

Atlantic
TU 4.1.3 (Commander George W. Johnson), assumes escort duty at MOMP for convoy ON 47; the convoy is dispersed the following day.

Telling-The-Truth Thurs.

Never have I been so happy (& completely, entirely justified) in hatin' on the loud-mouthed asshole minority that has convinced itself it is the real America & backed a confused, deluded & pridefully ignorant loser ("One of them! One of them!") into the White House.

At this point the anticipation of Inauguration Day & the almost immediate ruin of this nation of sheep (not to mention the more-than-zero possibility of atomic destruction of this world of shit & pain) is like waiting for an Xmas where was a chance (unlike this yr.) I'd get presents.

HEIL DRUMPF!!!

DEATH TO AMERICA!!!

DEATH TO THE WORLD!!!

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Winter 2016 Solstice Postice

Wasn't sure the days would ever get longer, but whatever else has gang agley this annus horribilis,
our shittier-by-the-moment little planet does continue to revolve around the local star, & at the expected rate & angle.If anything should be celebrated (Although not worth that much celebration; if anything's a given it would be Sol appearing every day.) it's continued revolution. So eff Xmas w/ a red-hot poker.[NB: Above musical selection possibly Not Safe For Wage-Slaves: Many "fucks" & "fuckings" for a mere (1:48).]

Weasel-Dick Weds.: "Rule Of Law" Now Officially Over. Thanks, Newt!

Shorter Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich, Constitutional conservative & American patriot:
If that Constitution thing & those laws get in the way of shoveling tax money into Trump's pocket, fuck them!
In all fairness, pardoning crooks & crooked Presidents is a time-honored Constitutional thing. Nonetheless, if somebody gives me a bus ticket, a shootin' iron, & enough ammo & walking around money to keep me going, I will shoot Newt Gingrich in the street like the rabid dog he is.
 Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Gingrich suggests Trump pardon advisers who break the law  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that Donald Trump  —  could pardon members of his administration who break the law.  —  Referring to a law that could prevent Trump from hiring his daughter and son-in-law to serve …
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 Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Gingrich Suggests Trump Simply Pardon Family That Breaks Anti-Nepotism Law  —  Newt Gingrich said Monday that President-elect Donald Trump could simply pardon members of his administration who may break anti-nepotism laws, adding that Trump's business ties require “a whole new approach” …