Current Economic Situation

From the customer before me: Two pints of Ben & Jerry's® & 22.3 oz. of Screamin' Sicilian Pizza®, US$20.97, put on a Mastercard. Yup, 21 bucks of debt for a junk food dinner & dessert. Making America Healthy Again!!

In other consumption news, purchased a 200 sq. ft. box of Kroger Aluminium Foil® for eight bones from a guy selling them from a folding table under an awning on the sidewalk. Retail at Ralphs: US$13.99! Six dollars saved, &, I s'pose, open to charges of receiving stolen property & aiding & abetting. Come & get me, coppers!

Heard This Before?

Speechifyin'

How 'bout this one?

Ebola Up-Date

Mostly because the editor likes the image of the sign.

The World Forgot About Ebola. The Organization Fighting It Has Never Been More Worried

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be the largest ever.

From WIRED, possibly paywalled. Headline's all you need. See y'all in the boneyard.

George Gershwin's Birthday Too

Gershwin & Coltrane, two of America's musical giants, born on the same date. Who'da thunk it?Gershwin died too young too.

Rising Discontent

Tens of thousands of people have marched in Madrid to protest against Spain’s housing crisis and ask for protective measures for tenants, anti-fraud measures, and a ban on evictions without alternative housing. The dramatic eviction Wednesday of an 87-year-old woman from the Madrid apartment she had lived in for decades became the latest flashpoint in the country’s housing crisis. (AP Video: Alicia León)

When will chicken-butt Americans stop bending over & start standing up & protesting, or even pretend to give a shit about an older woman in a wheelchair?

Senator "I Know Nutting! Nutting!"

In sad contrast w/ an American giant like John Coltrane, more of Alabama's Senior Senator & his tiny, simple mind:

To follow on from the furry kerfuffle (furkuffle?), the following caught my attention. Via RawStory: EXCLUSIVE: Close Trump ally admits he doesn’t read — as only his opinion matters.

“No, I read very little,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Raw Story. “I want my own opinion, not somebody else’s.”

Cheeses, this dumb-ass mo-fo is exactly 364 days younger than this reporter. Let's hear it for the State of Alabama & Southern Arkansas Univ. Good job, cracker morons!

There's more. (He may already be under robot control. Seriously.) I s'pect Sen. Potatobrain is functionally illiterate. People who say they don't read or don't like to read usually have trouble reading anything. That's why STOP signs are red & octagonal (For the illiterate, that means "eight-sided".) Because many of the sub-humans out there couldn't read their way out of a paper bag. And illiterate fucking dimbulbs are everything wrong w/ this shithole nation. When do we start dealing w/ this clear & present danger, & by any means necessary?

Brainstorming: How 'bout having the illiterate crackers replace the migrant farmworkers they want deported, & have the goobers work in the fields for board & room? The South seemed to like the idea 150+ yrs. ago.

His Masterpiece

Won't embed, but worth the listen, w/ live performances & alternative takes.

Coltrane's Centennial

Induction photograph, 1945.

Born on this date, 1926.J.C. died 17 July 1967, at the age of 40, killed by the pig society that drove him to drink, 50 yrs. too early.

Burning Tree?

Or "corrected" sunset?

How About Telling The Truth Instead Of "Talking"?

J.B. Shurk / American Thinker:
We Need To Talk About Democrats  —  People who celebrate political violence cannot be trusted. —  Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...  Fifteen years ago, a dark movie called We Need to Talk about Kevin told the story of a mother struggling to understand why her sociopathic teenaged son had gone on a murder spree at home and at school. In the same vein, we need to talk about Democrats.

O.K., let's "talk".

NH Libertarian Party endorses ‘assassination’ of elected Democrats

Do take a peep at The American Thinker. (Whose logo, disappointingly, is no longer Uncle Sam dropping a load on a tree stump.)

Many interesting items. Example:

Woke 1.0: A history of the world’s most Satanic movement in pictures
By Jeremy Egerer | Woke people are going to have to prove they’re not woke anymore if they want to return to polite society.

Th' hell? What peculiar planet or dimension do these crazed weirdoes live on or in? Certainly not this one.

The Wiki notes:

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. presidential election American Thinker published a variety of articles that had claims of election fraud. Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, [co-founder] Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".American Thinker likewise admitted that its election claims were "completely false and have no basis in fact" and that "it was wrong for us to publish these false statements."

Absolutely trustworthy.

[New Hampshire Public Radio item from Political Wire.]

Somewhat Later

Even Cap't. America Is Fed Up

From Daredevil #283, August 1990.

Just Who Exactly is "Mentally Ill"?

Chris Nesi / New York Post:
Sen. Tommy Tuberville claims ‘many’ airline pilots, air traffic controllers are ‘part of the furry community’  —  Fly the furry skies.  —  Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed the airline industry is full of members of the “furry” subculture in a bizarre speech from the Senate floor connecting transgenderism to mental illness.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:   One of Our Senators Actually Thinks Airline Pilots Are Secretly Furries
Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos:   GOP senator freaks out over ‘furries’ flying the friendly skies

Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:   GOP Senator Ahead of Midterms: Furry Airline Pilots Are ‘Terrifying’

Steve Benen / MS NOW:   Alabama's Tuberville worries aloud about airline personnel joining ‘the furry community’

Where'd he get the bizarre delusion that airline personnel are furries, & what is the connection between furries & these imaginary "terrifying furries"? The only "mental illnesses" here are football & being a Republican spud. Total fucking incoherent weirdoes, all of them.

And Why Would I?

Taking A Break

Resting for the next lap of the proverbial rat race.

Fall cleaning 'phoning it in: There are items scheduled through the end of the month, mostly crap from the hard drive. See y'all in October, maybe ...— 30 —

Back To The Fifties!

The Comic Book Commie Fifties, That Is

Via Ten Bears; I thought this was an amusing addition.

Does anyone really believe this Red-baiting? This reporter is a child of the '50s, but by the mid-'60s this stuff was laughable propaganda. Joe McCarthy, anyone? Maybe you have to be 80 & stupid to swallow this now. Yet who's sucking up to Comm-u-niss China at this moment?

The Canucks Wanted to Kill Trump!!

In 1960!

T'row da bum out!! Off w/ his head!!

Still Early

Very Early Autumn

Summer Just Left

As The Planet Revolves

Damn, there are some cats in this one.I've no interest in petty stuff like days, wks., or months, but I do like to keep up w/ the seasons, not that any exist here.

Tired Of It All Tues.

73 wasted yrs. in this world of shit & pain surrounded by brain-dead doody-heads. And summer will be gone w/in an hr.Just purchased a stupid, indulgent belated birthday gift for myself. Don't feel any better, maybe when it arrives.

This not-eating thing has worked out well: Eight days to the end of the month & even after indulging myself I've over US$600.00 in the credit union & 18 bones in folding money. Not to mention many dollars in quarters saved for laundry but now made superfluous by WASHConnect, which infects one's 'phone.

Can't possibly spend more than 100 bucks on "necessities" between now & the end of the month, so I s'pose I can indulge myself in the 100+ simoleons of turnouts & other railroading junk I need/want. And of course, the more one buys at one time, the more one makes up for shipping costs. Wheeee!

Currently attempting to consolidate, organize & discard some things that have been piled up all over, many of which have ended up on the only flat surface available.

And elsewhere.

Not So Funny Now, Is It?

I'm not just a demon; I'm a Commie Red Demon!

Theo-Fascism On The March!

The New Republic is on it, & it's trouble. Read it.

Holy Wars

We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse

End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democracy survive the assault?

“When it comes to something like the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, I think they’ve been incredibly influential,” Taylor told me. “American bombs are accomplishing in the physical realm what they are also trying to accomplish in the spiritual realm.”

These bitches & the sons-thereof might bamboozle Lumpy into nuking us into The Appocalypse. Interestingly, the author doesn't mention that Rafael Cruz (TX Sen. Rafael "Ted" Cruz's parental unit) is a Dominionist.

Not Disappointed

Had no expectations that anyone would even acknowledge my existence for my birthday, & indeed I was not disappointed.