Cities On Flame ...

... More Like The Exurbs, Really

10,000+ acres consumed & counting.Kraproom Moorpark in big trouble.

Fuck Alla Y'All To Hell

He's a convicted criminal, lock him up!!

Waiting ...

1523 PT.

Prime Cut Of Meat

Never Forget!

“Remember... the fifth of November...” Q: "What is November 5th?" JL: "In England it's the day they blew up the Houses of Parliament so we celebrate by having bonfires every November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day. It just was an ad lib: it was about the third take, and I got to remembering, and it begins to sound like Frankie Laine, you know, when you sing, (sings) "Remember the Fifth of November." I just broke up, and it went on for about another seven or eight minutes. We started ad libbing and goofing about, but then I cut it there and just exploded, it was a good joke. Haven't you ever heard of Guy Fawkes? I thought it was just poignant that we should blow up the Houses of Parliament." — John Lennon interview with Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec 1970

Dimbulb Lennon was wrong; the plot was thwarted & the Houses of Parliament were not blown up. Yet he had the nerve to ask "Haven't you ever heard of Guy Fawkes?" To speak more ill of the dead, this is a better explosion. Play at full volume.

Same Shithead, Different Day

He Knows Most Of It Anyway

From Spy magazine's very first issue in 1986, via Digby's Hullabaloo. This reporter can not wait to piss, shit & spit all over the bastard's grave. W/ ballots. Hah hah, just kidding.

Tool Time II

As phony as the day is long.

NaNoWriMo nothin', November is National Model Railroad Month, by National Model Railroad Association declaration.

In October, before I learned (still don't care) about model railroading month from some damn online hobby shop that has my e-mail I decided to change the track plan in a way that involved changing the layout too. Once I realized I could use milk crates for benchwork I promised myself I wouldn't do any carpentry (Who am I, Jesus H. Christ?) for the Hellbound Train to Nowhere but the necessity for more track length for operations & the good luck of finding former Ikea (& cheaper) three-quarters inch shelving all over the streets made me buy a hand saw, & now I've ordered a jigsaw, which I should have originally, as my ability to cut a straight line by hand & eye is poor. And I didn't intend to wire anything either (I'm not Edison either.) but I'll have to get a freaking soldering iron. Let's hope this wk.'s Friday Finger (if I get to it) won't be a shot of my bloody severed finger, or be dictated from a burn ward.

The track looped around the ominous industrial complex (note abandoned track at upper left) but I decided (not uninspired by a YouTube video) a yardstick bridge between the two peninsulas would be a better deal, & a spur may be run to the ominous plant via one peninsula or the other.

Obviously will involve adjustments to the plywood & pressboard. Can't wait to start sawing!

Jigsaw arrived! No wood is safe!!

Say, you think it would work as a bone saw?

Amazing, really. Ordered it yesterday & it was here before 1300, from Phoenix or somewhere, the environment be damned!

Tool Time

Two of your corporate masters, Walt Disney & General Electric, would like a word w/ you. 15 mins. 12 secs. worth:31 mins. 46 secs. worth:How'd they forget guns?

Horseshit The Information Industry Was Very Excited About

How many column inches (or the digital equivalent) did these damnable idiots waste on ambulatory cream cheese sculpture* Hugh Hewitt's hissy fit?

New York Post:

Hugh Hewitt quits Washington Post after storming off livestream talk over dispute with liberal columnists: 'I won't come back'  —  Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt resigned from the Washington Post after he stormed off a livestreamed discussion on Friday amid a dispute …

Discussion:

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:   Hugh Hewitt storms off Washington Post live show

Sean Burch / The Wrap:   WaPo Columnist Hugh Hewitt Storms Off WaPo Live Show: 'I Won't Come Back ... I'm Done'

The New Neo:   Ordinarily mild-mannered Hugh Hewitt quits the WaPo on air

Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Trump booster quits Washington Post after livestream meltdown

acecomments.mu.nu:   Hugh Hewitt Quits the Washington Post On-Camera and Storms Off the Set Calling the Paper a “Unfair Election Ad”

Scott Johnson / Power Line:   Hugh Hewitt takes a hike...

PBS NewsHour:   Brooks and Capehart on who holds the upper hand in the presidential race

Oliver Willis / Daily Kos:   Watch: Right-wing Washington Post columnist quits and walks off livestream

David Rutz / Fox News:
Longtime Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt quits newspaper

Discussion:

Hanna Seariac / Deseret News:   Conservative columnist at The Washington Post quits, after saying show was unfair

Harold Hutchison / Daily Caller News Foundation:   'I'm Done': Hugh Hewitt Abruptly Leaves Live Show After Calling Out WaPo Columnists For Making ‘Unfair Election Ad’

DNyuz:   Hugh Hewitt abruptly quits Washington Post over inaccurate, biased reporting: ‘Unfair election ad’

Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:   Hugh Hewitt Quits Washington Post After Confrontation During Paper's Live Show

Matt Vespa / Townhall:   'I'm Done': Hugh Hewitt Explodes During Washington Post Show

Phillip Nieto / Mediaite:   Veteran Washington Post Columnist Quits After Walking Out of Live Event

What's New Today:   Journalist Quits Popular Newspaper After Walking Off Live Show

Debra Heine / American Greatness:   'I'm Done!' Hugh Hewitt Quits Washington Post; Storms Out of Room During Live WaPo Broadcast Over Bias

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:   Hugh Hewitt, Conservative Columnist, Quits The Washington Post

Bailey Allen / WHDH-TV:   Hugh Hewitt quits The Washington Post after storming off newspaper's live show

John Sexton / HotAir:   Hugh Hewitt Was Right to Walk Out on Capehart and Marcus

Blaze Media:   Trump campaign complaint accuses Washington Post of ‘illegal in-kind’ contributions to Harris campaign

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:   Hugh Hewitt quits Washington Post after storming off live event

Alex Christy / Newsbusters:   Hewitt Storms Off WashPost Live, Resigns After Capehart Shames Him For Correcting Fake News

Luke Gentile / Washington Examiner:   Hugh Hewitt quits Washington Post after walking off live show: Report

Politico:   Trump is laying the groundwork to challenge an election he might lose. Pennsylvania is ground zero.

more at Mediagazer »

 Irie Sentner / Politico:
Hugh Hewitt resigns from Washington Post after storming out of live interview

Discussion:

Amy / Twitchy:   Hugh Hewitt Walks Off Of WaPo's ‘First Look’ Over Voter Interference Lies (WATCH)

Mike Bedigan / The Independent:   Pro-Trump columnist Hugh Hewitt dramatically quits the Washington Post after storming out of interview

Wendell Husebø / Breitbart:   WaPo Show Implodes After Hugh Hewitt Abruptly Quits During ‘Unfair’ Segment: 'I'm Done'

Cullen Linebarger / The Gateway Pundit:   MUST SEE: Washington Post Propaganda Show Implodes When Conservative Radio Host Walks Off Set After Slamming Hacks for Their Lies About Trump and the Election

Nic White / Daily Mail:   Washington Post columnist storms off live broadcast after being challenged by liberal colleagues

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton / BizPac Review:   'I'm done!' Hugh Hewitt rips off headset, storms off ‘unfair’ WaPo Live stream

Bonchie / RedState:   MUST-SEE: Hugh Hewitt Explodes on Hack Reporter During Washington Post Video, Storms Off and Quits

The proverbial series of irritable gestures that is today's conservatism.

And w/ that we wish bon voyage to another All-American garbage can of ignorance & foolishness.

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*Credit for that wonderful turn of phrase to Betty Cracker of Balloon Juice.

A Lip-Lock On A Love Muscle

Your Republican Party, 2024:

Trump: *Stroking and pretending to deep throat a microphone stand* pic.twitter.com/8AJFj8RIzM

— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) November 2, 2024

Vote for him; he's awfully good at that. Two words: Closet case.

America Eats Its Young: The Jungle Returns

"Hey kids, do you like our chicken nuggets? Think of the fun you could have making them in one of our completely unregulated processing plants!"

So much idiocy to bemoan this has been sitting in the hopper since 29 Oct. Then this advert reminded me. Notice they're not trying to move anything specific, just burnishing their image.

John McCracken / Investigate Midwest:

GRAPHIC: Tyson Foods under investigation for employing minors amid surge in US child labor violations
Companies fined millions as child labor law breaches spike 35% over the past decade.

Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it by those who do. Kill & process the bosses.

Live!

Shorter:

Friday Freak Out

Bonus track from Weds.As suggested in a comment there.The original.

Big Talk From One Sick Fuck

Off w/ his head!! You know that if a firing squad were lined up in front of Lumpy the stench would be overwhelming.

Trump on Liz Cheney: "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face." pic.twitter.com/Mtx1fbLtwE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 1, 2024

Someone really should watch his fat mouth. Big talk w/o back-up won't go over well in prison. Bet he'll go over real fast in the lock-up 'though.

Preview?

The headquarters of a Bangladesh party that supported the country's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina was set on fire on Thursday night. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the Jatiya Party offices in Bangladesh’s capital and it wasn't immediately clear if anyone was hurt. (AP video shot by: Abdullah Apu)

Guessing there'll be plenty of this sort of thing next Tues./Weds. Maybe worse. Dunno if Pakistan is awash in guns like the third-world garbage can that is America.

Washington Post: “The report, published Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund, an independent research group, found that the overall rate of firearms deaths in Mississippi was nearly twice that of Haiti, an impoverished Caribbean nation where violent gangs control large swaths of the country and whose president was assassinated by gunmen in 2021.”

“Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama also had higher firearms death rates than Mexico, where rival drug cartels are engaged in bloody conflict. Montana’s death rate from guns was higher than in Colombia, where drug trafficking is rife. Wyoming, Arizona and Oklahoma all ranked above Brazil. Suburban New Jersey had a higher gun death rate than Nicaragua, Mali and Djibouti.”

Not Feeling It

Hallowe'en, That Is (Or Anything Else, Really)

Slept until 1345 PDT, because I can. (Anyone who still has a job is a sucker-ass chump. Wise up, losers!)

News & Nuts From All Over:

Hoping for plenty of assassinaction over the wknd. The tree of liberty must be watered w/ the blood of tyrants & wanna-be tyrants, & I think we all know who that is, unless we are idiot cultists in complete denial! 

What? No further baseball until next March?He'd better do better next yr. Pearl Harbor is not yet forgiven. 

Sadly, will not be attending the Dodger victory parade tomorrow. 1100? Are you people insane? The sun may not even be visible at that early hr.

Happy Halloween Garbage People! pic.twitter.com/QhEeKTzFuW

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 31, 2024