More Fearmongering

The proverbial chickens may be coming home to roost atop what remains of The White House.Hah! Good luck getting Congress to address anything.

Had little prior interest, but now I can't wait for the World Cup! Hey, is that blood?

Some Quality Kvetching

From 2016. He's certainly fixed all the problems on his list, hasn't he?

As a general rule, there’s value in trying to understand why those we disagree with think as they do. But there’s no reason to allow such sentiments to obscure or confuse what we are living through. The GOP has been trending this way for a long time. In 2012, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein wrote:

“The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

Mann and Ornstein correctly identified what had been the longtime drift of the GOP by that time, and felt it necessary to say so, especially in the face of a media environment that remained wedded to a “both sides” frame that muddied that reality. Led by Trump, especially in his second term, the GOP has reached the end point of that long arc, leavened by a depth of fraud, ignorance and spite that has made even veterans of that earlier era of GOP politics blanch.

End of a party, end of the Empire ...

When will these shitheels die so I can start pissing on their graves?

[Jonathan’s Quality Kvetching Newsletter, via Hackwhackers. Part of Mann/Ornstein.]

Plague Watch

No Vaccines or Treatments

The doctor's words:

We've seen cases unrelated to each other in Kampala, the most populous city in Uganda. hundreds of kilometers away, all of which makes me realize, well, this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better, and two, we still don't have a full handle on what exactly we're grappling with yet.

Looks as if these United Snakes have the welcome mat on the porch, the door unlocked & the porch lights off. Let the punishment fit the crime. When the "NO FACE DIAPERS!" MAGA/MAHA morons start dropping, call it Trumpbola.

Monday Modeling Monotony

What I "Model" (Give Or Take 70 Yrs.)

Not actually modeling it, used as an inspiration & jumping-off point.

Did entirely too much research; I'd need more reefers & stock cars for authentic operations. Fortunately, it's a switching layout, not an operating layout.

For most of its existence, the line sourced outstanding levels of traffic carrying produce and other agricultural products from the valley. For example, an Interstate Commerce Commission report from 1956 states that the seasonal perishable train (The PVX), bound to Chicago, "averaged 69 cars," longer than the usual length of the GFX trains from California's Central Valley (although the PVX was seasonal and the GFX was year round). One week in the spring of 1954 had seen 191 carloads of lettuce, the majority percentage shipping to Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. The three weeks prior to approx. April 8, 1954 saw 708 carloads of lettuce shipped. In the summer of 1959, cantaloupe shipments reached 2333 cars in the growing season. In 1970, a derailed train primarily hauling lettuce had 77 cars, with at least one of the cars appearing in the picture being a newer and longer SFRC car as opposed to a 40 ft SFRD car. And the railway agent of the Blythe yard once recalled "as many as 135 cars" at one unspecified time. But as of 1977 the train length might be 35 cars "on a good day." Off-season reefer traffic cars were dropped off to Rice or Cadiz to be picked up by other trains, while the PVX trains ran directly to the transcon line between Los Angeles and Chicago. White ice was produced in Blythe and had been shipped to Winslow, Arizona in the summer of 1949 for the reefer trains stopping there.

Grain and livestock traffic was heavy too. The Blythe-Ripley included the Union Feed Yards south of Blythe, which at one time was the largest feed yard in the country. There was a nearly four-mile spur originating from the curve near the valley's northern edge that served Riverview Farms to the east from 1954 to 1982. (Myrick, Pg. 240) Information referring to this spur is extremely scarce. You can see big pictures of those feed yards in the Palo Verde Historical Museum.

Will not be attempting any of the now reduced to slabs of concrete facilities as they were in the 1950s, but the geography fits my unwillingness to make terrain features, & I was insprired by the schadenfreude of the burg of Ripley, named after a former A.T. & S.F. president, & washed away w/ the rail line by a flood in the winter of 1922. (Maybe the schadenfreude isn't justified; money was probably made on insurance.)

You needn't arse yourselves w/ any of this; it's for this reporter's reference, & he's numb already. Hollywood's one-time provider of artificial snow was U.S. Gypsum in Midland, now a ghost town. It was burned to the sand. Dunno who "Jane" is but it's a great museum."Jane" is the guy's GPS, it turns out. What? Not a bad traveling set-up, either, if you like to leave the house.

Also, which led to geoglyphs 15 miles north of Blythe. Pardon the New Age or whatever music.Those would be fun to copy, but I'd need more space than could be spared. The longest glyph would be almost two linear ft. in HO.

Railfanning nothin', planefanning, w/ a good long look at the geography. Be quite a wasteland w/o irrigation.I'll need a shitpile of little green things to scatter about. Inspiration: W/ his name so bandied about, I think I'll call the Army facility Camp Patton instead of Camp Swampy. I s'pect the only swampy areas here would be where irrigation pipes had broken.

Looks just like it though, dunnit?

"Camp Patton" will be beneath the lovely currently cardboard backdrop at the left.

Still a Sisyphean mountain of work. Once I've painted track, sanded, painted & installed roadbed, gotten two or three bridges & lost that chunk of wood, I have to ensure adequate electricity flows though the tracks, sure to be a total effing pain involving redoing the track I'll have just finally laid, then slap together seven structure kits, most of which have been sitting here for several yrs. (Hey, I beat inflation & tariffs.)

& blow more moolah on oil loading platforms, high tension transmission poles & another electrical substation. Then scenery, signage & details. And at some point exchange couplers, purchase & add coupler boxes & buy & replace trucks on several cars. Estimated completion date is approx. the 12th of Never. Gah.

Local Naval Railroading History

I remember going past Seal Beach NWS on the Five & seeing many large spherical mines in the open, probably this Mark 6. Did the Navy have nukes there? Ask & the Navy says they "neither confirm or deny". Is that a "Yes"?

Untitled

Can't be bothered.

DAMN!

All four got out, I hope relatively unscathed."Gunfighter Skies Air Show" Grow up already!

KTFT:

4 crew members safely ejected following Idaho jet crash, AP reports  —  The Associated Press has reported that all four crew members involved in the jet collision ejected safely.  —  MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, Idaho — Four crew members were able to safely eject from their aircraft …
Anthony Blair / New York Post:   Idaho air show horror after 2 jets crash in front of frightened spectators

Carter Schroppe / Washington Examiner:   Two F-18s collide at Idaho air show; all four crewmembers safe after ejecting

New York Times:   Two Military Jets Collide in Midair at Idaho Air Show

Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:   Breaking: Navy Fighter Jets Collide During Air Show at Mountain Home AFB

WWL-TV:   Jets collide during Idaho air show, prompt Air Force base lockdown and investigation

Fox News:   Two Navy jets crash midair as crew successfully ejects during Idaho military base air show

Justmindy / twitchy.com:   Miracle Ejection: Two Navy Fighter Jets Collide and Explode Over Idaho Airshow

Joseph Chalfant / Townhall:   Two Navy Aircraft Suffer Mid-Air Collision at Idaho Air Show

CBS News:   Fighter jets crash in midair during air show at Idaho Air Force base

Cassandra MacDonald / The Gateway Pundit:   SHOCKING VIDEO: Two Navy Jets Crash into Each Other Mid-Air at the Gunfighter Skies Air Show in Idaho, Four Parachutes Seen Floating to the Ground

Nicholas Slayton / Task & Purpose:   Air crews safely eject after two Navy jets collide during air show

Heather Mongilio / USNI News:   Naval Aviators Safe After EA-18G Growlers Crash at Idaho Air Show

Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial:   BREAKING: Two US Navy fighter jets collide during air show in Idaho

Addy Bink / KTLA:   Crews eject after ‘midair collision’ at Idaho Air Force base air show

Note how the fake news liars refer to them as "fighter jets", like the metal eight-yr. olds they are. Childish, & redundant (Pretty sure there are no more prop-driven fighter aircraft.) if true, however, "Growlers" aren't actual fighters, but electronic warfare platforms.

Use of the passive voice: "Two Navy Aircraft Suffer Mid-Air Collision at Idaho Air Show". Suffering, it can't be explained. It just happens, man. Wasn't a "miracle" either. It's called applied science. Ninnies.

No Rest For The Weary

The Cross, The Flag & The Star

Sunday is not a day of rest for me, as I continue to hate all earthling scum 24 hrs. a day, seven days a wk., 52 wks. a yr.

Farm Report: They Asked For It, They Got It! Good & Hard, Too!

Sorry, you can't afford any.

Nathan Bomey / Axios:
Farmers growing desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices  —  Farmers across the Midwest are entering planting season under mounting financial pressure, as the Iran conflict drives up diesel and fertilizer prices — deepening an agricultural downturn that some say is the worst since the crisis of the 1980s.
Alexander Willis / Raw Story:   Trump policies spark warnings of impending disaster: ‘Going to be fewer farmers’

Jesus Mesa / Newsweek:   Donald Trump Deals New Blow to US Farmers on China Trip

Sophie Hurwitz / Mother Jones:   Farmers Are Collateral Damage in Trump's Iran War

Do you like to eat? Ha ha ha! Too bad. Start saving now so you can afford Soylent Green!

Piling on, later. How dense are these sucker-ass chumps?

Brad Brooks / Reuters:

Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain.  These rural voters agree.  —  Perched behind the cash register at Stubs liquor store, Amy Van Duyn gazed out the window at a red-and-green gasoline price sign, which she said seemed to tick up daily.  —  The price was $4.34 per gallon …

Alexander Willis / Raw Story:   Three-time Trump voter rips president as ‘naive’ as Iran war decimates GOP stronghold

Drought won't help either. Two words: Dust Bowl.

Psychedelic Saturday

And a (B-)side dish of those white person blues.

CONSUME! CONFORM!

Via Red State Blues's weekly round-up (Helluva wk., & every item's worth clicking.) from The Propaganda Professor,
an image I like

Must admit, probably generated by a robot (Note dials on telebision set.) unless the Professor is a talented
(& fast-working artist) & it's not bad beside the dials & that black thing atop the moneybag.
Wonder what they told the robot to do, & if they showed it pictures. Oops! Missed a few at first glance.
Always count the fingers: The busty blonde is short one. Also too, the sugar cubes aren't all cubes (or white)
the salt shaker needs holes in the lid, the box should read "STAYS CRISP!",
the flag's not well rendered & the brain support looks hinky.

& an opening paragraph w/ which I couldn't agree more, to wit:

Confession time: I like my breakfast cereal soggy. There, I’ve said it. Yep, I like it to soak up the milk like the most absorbent of sponges, becoming so saturated that you can’t tell where the cereal ends and the milk begins. Apparently eating cereal without sound effects is a sacrilege, because the cereal makers have long been advocates for cereal apartheid, actively striving to develop and market a product that “stays crunchy longer” by adjusting moisture content, adding sugar or glaze coatings (yum), and altering density and shape. So those little neon-colored, sugar-bombed nuggets are more likely to get lodged between your teeth. Aren’t you thrilled? Do most cereal aficionados really prefer their morning bowl this way? I don’t know. But if they do, I strongly suspect that it’s only because someone on Madison or whatever Avenue decided they should, and began hyping that particular attribute.

Before I became a breatharian I enjoyed Cap'n Crunch® Original (Because there weren't 10 freaking varieties then.) fully soaked. The Professor goes deeper, & it's further evidence you're all sheep. I agree w/ that too.

Pearls Clutched & Panties In A Twist

Not that this web-log is in any way opposed to grilling.

Fake news thinks it's "owned the libs" again. "Foreign Communist", "Transnational Invaders" (That's a new one to me.) & "socialist". You tell 'em!

Jamie Paige / New York Post:
LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell / RedState:   LA Mayoral Hopeful Blames Your Carne Asada—Not Homeless Fires—for Wildfire Risk

Grateful Calvin / twitchy.com:   From Our Singed, Smoked Hands! Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs in Los Angeles

Natalie Sandoval / The Daily Caller:   Spencer Pratt's Opponents Propose Dentists For Meth Heads, Ban On Backyard BBQs

John Nolte / Breitbart:   Left-Wing Tech Organization Pays Full Salaries of 80 MSM Journalists

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:   LA Mayoral Race Focuses On the Big Problem Facing Angelenos: Grilling!

Dmitri Bolt / Townhall:   Nithya Raman Wants to Ban What? See Her Latest Proposed Fire Prevention Policy

Ace of Spades HQ:   Foreign Communist Candidate for LA Mayor Nithya Raman Wants to Ban Backyard BBQs Because the Transnational Invaders Instinctively Make Endless War on American Normies

Britta Miller / Washington Examiner:   Spencer Pratt roasts Nithya Raman in barbecue video

Brodigan / Louder With Crowder:   Spencer Pratt drops the PERFECT response to his socialist opponent's attempt to ban you from BBQing in your backyard

All very funny. It certainly wasn't "homeless fires" that started the Eaton fire, it was SoCalEd's high-tension power lines. The Palisades fire was set by a deliberate arsonist, & smoldered for a wk. because the L.A. City Fire Dep't. didn't fully extinguish it. Homeless people are forced to use fire, but their fires are usually in concrete-lined river bottoms & burn little but brush.

Note to Brodigan / Louder With Crowder: BBQ-ing doesn't stay in "your backyard".

And a note to Nolte of Breitbart: Who finances your little operation? Billionaire Nazis?

Dunno who this Spencer Pratt is (A prat w/ a surname for a first name?) but he would seem to be the darling of the droolers. Vote accordingly.

More Morbidity

It's Back!!

Huh. Fifty yrs. since the first reporting.

The first symptoms are usually fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches. These are usually followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, hepatic and renal dysfunction, at which point some people begin to bleed both internally and externally. The disease causes a mortality rate of anywhere between 25 and 90%, averaging out at approximately 50%. The viral species involved and timing of treatment play a critical role in its prognosis. Death is often due to shock from fluid loss, and typically occurs between 6 and 16 days after the first symptoms appear.

The viruses have caused intermittent outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1976 when the disease was first reported.

I hope you-know-who's cutbacks in American aid are responsible for this & help it make its way to these shores.

Another Entry For The "He Seems Nice" Sweepstakes

Almost exclusive to these United Snakes. One sick shithole nation you've made for yourselves. Proud to be an American? Eff you all, chumps!

Exercise In Composition

Dirt On The Loose

Don't believe the hype: It's Big Sky Country, not The Land Of 10,000 Lakes. Is the top soil loose from drought?Either way, it's dirt.

Friday Freak Out

From about 60 yrs. ago. TTG was on Highland just south of Sunset. Let's boogie ..."All-frantic, non-stoppadelic!"

'Tain't Even Facism, It's Feudalism!

Are you a peasant or a serf?
Source.

The Lord Doesn’t Think About Anybody

Trump’s instinct is feudalism. The rest of us need to start thinking about each other.

I suppose, but you don't want to know how little I care about the rest of you. And why should I? I didn't vote for this.

What he described in that gaggle, a hierarchy in which the financial suffering of ordinary Americans doesn’t even register as a variable worth considering, is not an aberration. It is the operating system. And it is older than Trump by several centuries. The medieval term for it was feudalism. The people at the bottom were called serfs. The countries that existed to serve the lord’s interests were called vassal states. Trump, who once openly threatened to reduce Canada to exactly that status, appears to have built his entire worldview around a system he would have felt entirely at home in, provided, of course, that he was the one holding the title.

Alleged gift link. Meaning good luck getting around the paywall w/o giving them your e-mail two or three times or "getting the app". More irksomeness & enshittificaton. Why should I care when everything is absolute crap?

An Angry American's Thursday Threat Matrix

Raw Footage, Direct From The Stovetop Of Doom!!

In which a righteously angry American threatens your pathetic asses w/ death at his hands. I've wasted 72.5 x 365 days in your horrible world & every day has been a slap in the face & an insult to my intelligence by & from you slack-jawed, brain-dead fuckwads. My disgust overwhelms me.

Just stop existing so I can stop hating you all! Why is that so much to ask?

Thirsty Thursday

From Ten Bears. All sources point to "Does not look good at all".Looks to be A.I.-generated, except with some embellished actual footage. Nonetheless, start saving now; even higher prices for protein and carbohydrates ar on the way.

Other watery nature studies. This established plate tectonics, & was drawn by hand by humanoids.

Izzat Main St. running down the middle? Fifth Ave.? Wilshire?

Equal time: Same city-block looking topography in the Eastern Pacific & south of Oz as the smaller ocean.

Zealandia's fairly obvious here, from the October 1969 issue of National Geographic.

Also raises the question of whether the New Zealand plate should be a continent.Why hadn't I heard about this before? Must've missed the paper.

And what about this Antarctic deception? Not real at all.

Antarctica w/o ice. It's better described as an archipelago, but accepted as a continent.

And where it's about to lose the ice sheet. Oops!

80 Yrs. Of Meat!

Hope I haven't forgotten this by Friday.The original Original Tommy's is less than two miles from the bunker. Bet three chili burgers will feed me for the wknd.

When I first moved here in '73 the weasels w/ whom I hung were quite excited about taking me to Tommy's. As well as telling me to avoid local brew Brew 102, mostly because there was a large billboard advertising the stuff on the brewery, which was on the 101 downtown.

They weren't kidding, either. $1.25 a six-pack for the 16 ounce. 99 cents for the 12 ounce. Never had any, as I was never much of a beer-drinker, even when I was an elbow-bender.

They Seem Nice

Republicans Glibertarians & Their Ilk:

Reese Gorman / NOTUS:

Rand Paul's Son William Hurled Antisemitic Insults at Rep. Mike Lawler  —  The younger Paul interrupted Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar to say “Jews” would be to blame if Rep. Thomas Massie loses his primary.  —  William Paul, the son of Sen. Rand Paul, drunkenly hurled antisemitic insults …

Robert Mackey / The Guardian:   Rand Paul's son apologizes for antisemitic and anti-gay rant after accosting lawmaker

The Bulwark:   Rand Paul's Son Berates GOP Congressman in Drunken Anti-Semitic Outburst

Josh Christenson / New York Post:   Sen. Rand Paul's son erupts in drunken tirade against ‘gays and the Jews’

The Hill:   Rand Paul's son apologizes for allegedly hurling antisemitic attacks at Lawler at Capitol Hill bar

Jackie Hajdenberg / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:   Rand Paul's son apologizes after reportedly making antisemitic attack on Rep. Mike Lawler

Forbes:   Mike Lawler Says Rand Paul's Son Hurled ‘Disgusting’ Antisemitic Insults In Reported Drunk Tirade

TMZ.com:   Sen. Rand Paul's Son Apologizes for Drunken D.C. Tirade About ‘Gays, Jews’

Caitlin Yilek / CBS News:   Sen. Rand Paul's son confronted Rep. Mike Lawler in drunken, antisemitic rant

Reese Gorman / Ace of Spades HQ:   Murkowski, Collins, and Paul Defect to the Democrats, As Usual, to Demand Trump Surrender to Iran

Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:   Rand Paul's son rants about ‘gays and Jews’ to Mike Lawler at DC bar

Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:   Report: Rand Paul's Son Hurled Antisemitic Insults at GOP Congressman

Zach Kessel / The Washington Free Beacon:   ‘Sorry For Calling You a Jew’: Rand Paul's Son Lashes Out at GOP Lawmaker, Tells Him ‘Jews’ To Blame if Thomas Massie Loses Primary

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:   ‘Nice try!’ Apology from GOP senator's son for antisemitic rant torn apart by onlookers

John Bowden / The Independent:   Sen. Rand Paul's son ‘seeking help’ after drunken bar rant about ‘Jews’ to NY congressman

Jewish Insider:   Sen. Rand Paul's son goes on antisemitic tirade against Rep. Mike Lawler

Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:   Rand Paul's Son Apologizes After Berating GOP Congressman in Drunken Anti-Semitic Rant

Virginia Kruta / The Daily Wire:   Rand Paul's Son Rants Against ‘Gays’ And ‘Jews’ During Alcohol-Fueled Rant

Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   Get it All Out  —  Get your money's worth, Mr. Paul. … Speaking of Mr. Massie, this is ugly:

Grabien:   ‘F*cking Disgusting’: Mike Lawler Details Rand Paul's Son's Anti-Semitic Tirade

NH Libertarian Leader Charged After Alleged Racist Incident

Police were called to the Elm Street Market Basket parking lot around 2 p.m. on April 4 to deal with reports that a man hit another car in the parking lot with his car, fought with several people, and then went inside the store and continued yelling. One witness told police the suspect, later identified as Kauffman, immediately started making racist statements after the fender bender, and tried to fight people. When a bystander, who is Black and from Jamaica, walked by the incident, Kauffman reportedly directed his ire toward that man.

“[He] told him to ‘go back to Africa’ and began spouting racist slang and terms at him,” police report.

Kauffman reportedly continued to scream racist insults at people in the parking lot, according to police. Witnesses told police that Kauffman’s two young sons finally pulled their father away and dragged him inside the store.

Police soon encountered Kauffman inside the store, where he refused to give his name, and tried to pull away from officers when they attempted to detain him, according to the report.

Contacted this week, Kauffman doubled down on the incident.

“Free Staters want to end qualified immunity so that police who perform illegitimare [sic] kidnappings suffer criminal consequences,” Kauffman said via text message.

When asked what led up to the incident, Kauffman used racist logic to blame minorities.

“Low IQ schizophrenic Africans who scream at kids in parking lots should be deported from New Hampshire. We shouldn’t punish decent men who stand up to them,” Kauffman wrote.

Police reports state that the children’s mother was called to the grocery store parking lot to take the boys home. She was also informed that the Division for Children, Youth & Families would be sent a report about the incident.

Kauffman is no stranger to racism and other forms of bigotry. The 2022 Libertarian candidate for Senate was kicked off the Free State Project Board in 2023 after he refused to stop posting racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBTQ content on the FSP social media accounts.

Just Effing Angry:

I love this panel. It speaks to me. Loudly.

Fullerton Man Accused of Attacking Neighbors with Axe and Car

A 29-year-old man was behind bars Wednesday on charges of violating a restraining order and attacking a man and woman in Fullerton with a car and an axe.

Jeremy Salvador Castro was accused of attacking the victims about 4 p.m. Saturday at 1672 Shady Brook Drive, near Hillcrest Park and Brea Boulevard, police said.

Castro allegedly hit a woman with a car and crashed into a residence, police said. When he got out of the car the axe-wielding man attacked a man, police alleged.

Castro was ultimately subdued by neighbors and the man and woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

In October, a neighbor on Shady Brook Drive sought a restraining order against Castro alleging he had threatened the man’s 13-year-old son and vandalized an electrical panel, according to court records.

The homewoners association had gotten a restraining order against Castro earlier in 2025, the man said.

The neighbor said he got into a fight with Castro on Oct. 14 when he “came to my door armed with a machete” and threatened and spat on the man.

Castro was charged Tuesday with four counts of attempted murder, a count of inflicting injury on an elder adult, and a count of vandalism, all felonies, as well as misdemeanor counts of disobeying a court order and resisting arrest.

He faces sentencing enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury, personal use of a deadly weapon, and attempted premeditated murder.

Castro did not enter a plea at his arraignment Tuesday in the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana and the hearing was rescheduled for May 26 in the North Justice Center in Fullerton.

Castro is also facing charges stemming from June 2022 in which he was accused of drawing or exhibiting a weapon and carrying a concealed gun, all misdemeanors. A landscaper reported in Oct. 21, 2021, he was working at 1720 Shadow Brook Drive when Castro pointed a gun at him, prosecutors said in court papers.

On June 6, 2022, a physician’s assistant was driving to work when he stopped for a short time in front of the defendant’s home to adjust a dashboard setting when an angry Castro told him he was blocking his driveway, prosecutors said.

The victim pulled away a short distance but noticed Castro was armed so he got out of his car with his hands up and explained he was a neighbor, prosecutors said.

The neighbor heard Castro muttering to himself so he got back in his car and drove away, prosecutors said.

On June 10, 2022, a woman walking her dog got into a conflict with the defendant when her pet urinated on a bush in front of his home, prosecutors said. When he confronted her about it she apologized and assured him it wouldn’t happen again, and he indicated he had a weapon and said it better not happen again, prosecutors said.

Pardon me, but what the hell is a piece of dangerous crap like this doing on the streets, while an innocent like me is kidnapped & rendered to a psychiatric jail for a damn wk.? Fucking Orange County sissies. Th' hell are you paying your judges for?

[InDepthNH.org/mynewsLA.com]

Worn-Out & Wasting Away Wednesday

"Premises Under 24/7 Surveillance" Fuck you, slumlord!

Appointment w/ croaker, ran late (do not trust the MTA) but his 1330 patient cancelled so all was good. The plantar warts on my right foot did not, however, fall off after being frozen. So much for walking anywhere. What happens next? A visit to the world of podiatry?

Have wasted away to 182.4 lbs., & b.p. was 107/57. Better than the technician's, he said. Essentially, I have calmed myself by internalizing that this fucking world is asolutely nothing but shit & pain & there's nothing I can do about it but kill all the idiot mother-fuckers out there (A daunting task!) & therefore not giving a flying fuck at a rolling dough-nut about anything or anyone again, ever. Stick it, scum!!

Pretty pic of sky, tree & clouds to distract you from my entirely serious threats.

MTA Report: The newly-opened section does make for a rapid ride 'twixt Western & La Cienega, but when one just fucking misses two buses getting to the train station & one train at the station, one's best-laid plans go to hell in a handbasket. One of those MTA Operators needs to be made an example by being dragged from his or her bus/train & having the living crap beaten out of them. Train itself not in the least crowded; indeed, there were practically as many MTA Security weasels on the trains & standing around the stations as paying customers.

A thing.

Thing in larger context.