Close The Border!

The border w/ Canada, that is. Let's face it, anyone wanting to leave our neighbour to the north for these United Snakes is up to no damn good. (Mark Steyn, et al.) This Sideshow Bob-looking asshole in particular.

Perhaps Americans would be less shocked by Malcolm Gladwell’s journalistic corruption if they were aware of his background. Gladwell was trained up in the same corporate-funded network of training and “education” institutes and outfits responsible for churning out the likes of Michelle Malkin, convicted criminal James O’Keefe, Dinesh D’Souza and countless other GOP corporate activists. The difference: Unlike Gladwell, they rarely hid their ideological willingness to take cash in exchange for promoting the corporate right’s agenda.

While a student at the University of Toronto, Gladwell’s admiration for Ronald Reagan led him into conservative activist circles. In 1982, while still an undergrad, he completed a 12-week training course at the National Journalism Center, a corporate-funded program created to counter the media’s alleged “anti-business bias” by molding college kids into corporate-friendly journalist-operatives and helping them infiltrate top-tier news media organizations. To quote Philip Morris, a major supporter of the National Journalism Center, its mission was to "train budding journalists in free market political and economic principles." Over the years the National Journalism Center has produced hundreds of pro-business news media moles, including top-tier conservative talent like Ann Coulter and former Wall Street Journal columnist and editorial board member John Fund.

Much more on the whore here. And click the NJC link above if you haven't. Gaaahh!

I'm Pissed, I'm Raging, & I've Got A Gun*

Seattle gunman had concealed weapons permits, 6 handguns - @seattletimes

Seattle gunman suspect's family: 'We could see this coming' - @seattletimes

Oh, nice. The Manson Family there should probably be charged as accessories before the fact.

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*No, we don't have a gun. Yet. But we are enraged. Can you fucking blame us?

Couldn't Put It Better Ourself

Yourself, your little fucking dog & your ugly mama too. Credit.

Economic Up-Date (Kill Your Landlord Edition)

40 PERCENT OF WORKERS REPORT HAVING THEIR BENEFITS REDUCED IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS | According to a survey conducted by the non-profit National Endowment for Financial Education, 40 percent of workers have seen their benefits reduced in the last five years. 72 percent of those who experienced benefit cuts reported that their health care was the hardest hit. 25 percent of respondents said that their company “cut back on their 401(k) match and 13% said their employer stopped matching altogether.”

Also:

Today's Anti-Semitic Item

It seems to come from a "self-loathing Jew."*

Perhaps you thought that after last week’s race riot in south Tel Aviv—and the international disgust it sparked—Israel’s pogromists would take a break. No such luck. Yesterday, dozens of demonstrators congregated outside south Tel Aviv’s central bus station to denounce African asylum seekers and the leftist “traitors” who support them.

Yet again, the thugs saw a black man passing by and began beating him. Only this time, their victim turned out to be an Ethiopian Jew. Upon realizing their mistake, the assailants apologized.

They apologized! Do we laugh or cry? For centuries, gentiles mistakenly set upon by anti-Semitic mobs saved themselves by screaming that they were not Jews. Now Jews save themselves by screaming that they are not gentiles. And when before, in the long history of human bigotry, has a black man saved himself by proving that he is also a Jew. Oh what Lenny Bruce could have done with this.

The ringleader of this travelling Chillul Hashem is Baruch Marzel, a disciple of Meir Kahane who, according to Yedioth Ahronoth, has distinguished himself with violent attacks on Palestinians, Israeli leftists and the Israeli police. Marzel, like his mentor, hails from the United States, where as Naomi Paiss recently pointed out, Kahanism was born not merely as an anti-Arab and anti-Soviet vigilante movement but as an anti-black one as well. The more things change, it seems, the more they stay the same.

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*We can certainly understand being a "self-loathing" Israeli.

Oh Fuck

Didn't even know about this.
One's quite enough, thenkyew.

Are we now going to be treated (Ha!) to fifty million web pp., hrs. of bloviators, & other yada about the partial decision in ratbag John Edwards's trial?

Yes weyou are. We, however, could not possibly care any fucking less.

P.S.: Public campaign financing, now & forever, so nothing like this will ever again bore us!

Chris "Tweety" Matthews Threatens "Rebellion In The Streets"

We wish, but if people haven't rebelled in the streets yet, probably won't happen. You know, not w/ a bang, but a whimper.

Big Gun 61*

She's here. Anchored off Pedro for hull cleaning.

5/30/12 - The USS IOWA off the coast of San Pedro Wednesday morning.
Photos by Brittany Murray/Staff Photographer

Staff photog for the Daily Breeze.

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*Actually nick-named "The Big Stick." We stole "Big Gun" from the USS Midway, known as "Big Gun 41."

Somewhat Daily Danziger

Words are pretty much useless. Pictures still work, but we can't be sure how much longer.

Got To Scrape That Shit Right Off Your Shoe

(Fake?) Ho Up-Date

Here's my family's answer to the Jersey Shore and the Kardashian BS. The Call of The Giles shows families how to live a powerful and productive adventure laden life without whizzing on God and country. TCOTG features Townhall.com columnist Doug Giles and his wife Mary Margaret, daughter Hannah Giles of the 2009 ACORN undercover sting videos and Regis Giles, NRA columnist and owner of GirlsJustWannaHaveGuns.com. Coming 2012 to a TV set near you. Hold on to your lug nuts. It's time for an overhaul.

How much for Ho Hannah to hold on to someone's lug nuts?

Nelson Muntz Moment

Few w/ more than half-a-brain have been following this right-wing "Brett Kimberlin" thing (W/ the exception of the fully-brained Maha, who still can't figure it out.) because no one knows what the fucking hell any of the deluded paranoids going on about it are actually going on about.

But now that whatever the hell it is has entered the legal system, one of those involved has been taken into custody, & it's not the recipient of the Two-Minute Hateblogswarm, it's one of the swarmers, one Aaron Worthing. (Or is his name Walker? Can't even get a straight story on that.) HA HA!

Added surprise: Not that much at all about current domestic terrorism from the usual self-righteously indignant suspects.

Real Food For Real Heroes

Charley's: Honoring baby-killers w/ killer food for 25 yrs. We can't see any indication that "heroes" are given discounts, free chow or anything beyond lip service. Chuck you, Farley!

A Last Dose Of Truth For Decoration Day

We'll go w/ the conclusion. Tells the exact & honest truth. Many swell pictures of corpses & wounds, too. You know, war.

The only ones that have benefited from American aggression, and the crimes committed against all the peoples around the world, from Vietnam to Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan, and on and on through America’s decades of endless wars, are the power-brokers and profiteers that picked the fights in the first place. To join a military that we all now know is involved in illegal wars and occupations is an act against humanity.

On this Memorial Day, remember the reality of America’s wars, not the romanticized fiction that the propaganda mills spew out. Remember all those that have lost their lives, not just your compatriots who died, or lost limbs, while trying to kill others. The information is out there. The facts are accessible. Soldiers are no longer misinformed, victimized, heroic, patriots… they are accessories. The denial of reality does not make the carnage acceptable. The blood cannot be wiped from your hands with the flag.

DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN

No, wrong headline. Dewey goes out of business, we meant. Ha ha. Fuck you & your white shoes!

Geeze, you can't even trust legal eagles these days.

Many observers say the root causes of Dewey’s fall are not unique. Several of the largest firms have adopted business strategies that Dewey embraced: unfettered growth, often through mergers; the aggressive poaching of lawyers from rivals by offering outsize pay packages; and a widening spread between the salaries of the firm’s top partners and its most junior ones.

These trends, they say, have destroyed the fabric of a law firm partnership, where a shared sense of purpose once created willingness to weather difficult times. Many large firms have discarded the traditional notions of partnership — loyalty, collegiality, a sense of equality — and instead transformed themselves into bottom-line, profit-maximizing businesses.

“Because the partnership lacks any shared cultural values or history, money becomes the core value holding the firm together,” said William Henderson, a law professor at Indiana University who studies law firms. “Money is weak glue.”

Sure is. We could find a story that would justify playing this every day of the unending wk.How's it feel to be in the same economic position as Jamaicans in the 1970s, Yankees? And when the fuck will you do anything about it?

Status Back Baby

Have been wanting to typelink to something or other about the recently late Paul Fussell, none of whose stuff we've read except Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, which we quite enjoyed. Very rude to Yankee pig-dogs.

As Fussell's not getting any less dead, & DJ Leonard Pierce has cranked out a timely tl;wr on Fussell & Memorial Day, here we go. Also.

"Happy" Memorial Day From Mr. Fish

Credit.

Conflicted

Callous & cynical as we are, we shouldn't forget the living & their losses.

Mas Alcaraz y otros.

The Living Dead

Numbers:
67,000 – Homeless veterans on the street on a given night, according to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans.

Dep't. Of Answered Prayers

Be careful for what you wish. We're guessing that until a wk. ago few people had heard of calling 911 (It's a joke.) & claiming something awful for which the heat should be well-armed was going on at someone else's pad. This wk.?

Last week we spent a lot of time writing about Brett Kimberlin and the incident involving blogger Patterico where someone spoofed his phone number and told 911 he had shot his wife.

Tonight, my family was sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner when sheriffs deputies pulled up in the driveway.

Someone called 911 from my address claiming there had been an accidental shooting.

It wasn’t nearly the trauma that Patterico suffered, but I guess the Erickson household is on somebody’s radar.

Luckily it was two sheriffs deputies who knew me and I had already, last week, advised the Sheriff’s Department to be on the look out for something like this.

Really? Isn't that a little obvious? How many more of these web bloviators will this happen to? And which one will be caught spoofing themselves due to technical ineptitude? Or be a victim of the Law & Order State he championed? Irony will be thick.

Erick didn't seem to be as interested in pulling out his wife's shotgun to enforce his property rights when dealing w/ armed professionals as w/ a "twerp" from the census. (Admittedly, only in his fertile imagination did he do any such thing.)

ERICKSON: This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I'm not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They're not going on my property. They can't do that. They don't have the legal right, and yet they're trying.

I've Fallen & I Can't Get Up

Could we have a moratorium on calling people who died in vain on the other side of the world for imaginary freedoms "fallen soldiers?" They are not getting up again. They are as dead as the doorknobs they were as stupid as when they enlisted.

Oh right, covered before, better & elsewhere. Fuck them. America doesn't care.

Hot Rails to Tragedy

Views From Our Windows

Korea Town Adjacent, 1624PDT.

Victims, Suckers, Or "Heroes?"

More hissy-fittin' from the NewsBusters: Someone thought about something! How dare they?

In fairness, Hayes and the other panel members distinguished between their respect for the valor of the individual military members who had given their lives with the worthiness of the various causes in which they fought.  Even so, what does it say about the liberal chattering class, which Hayes epitomizes, that it chokes on calling America's fallen what they rightly and surely are: heroes?  Watch the hesitant Hayes in what almost seems a parody of the conflicted intellectual.

We doubt typist Finkelstein will ever be accused of anything intellectual, let alone conflicted, his thoughts & opinions having been pre-digested & spoon-fed to him.

Here is the horror of human thought (We know you weren't up early enough to see it.):Hah! Moments later, this appeared in the J.A.B.™ reader:

Sunday Spider Shots

Moments ago, in the Just Another Blog™ bunker:

Flash.

No flash.

How Low Can You Go?

Joan Walsh here got the stupid peoples' panties in twists:Has she no "shame or respect for the dead?" Apparently as much as Breitbart had for the living, we'd say.

She does realize that Andrew left behind a wife and four children? And what has that to do w/ anything? Jesus, what kind of jerk would "leave behind" his wife & four children?

"Written On Their Hearts"

It's a "book trailer," yet it isn't trailing anything (other than being about 50 yrs. behind the present).Best laugh line (0:58): "They're ready to fight for what's written on their hearts about what makes America great." Just as we suspected, theocratic bullshit/code/dog-whistling. (Leads to this sort of thing, too:

“Our sentence does not sound severe. The law which a condemned man has violated is inscribed on his body with the Harrow. This Condemned Man, for example,” and the Officer pointed to the man, “will have inscribed on his body, ‘Honour your superiors!’”)

Musical response to free enterprise:Non-musical responses. Credit should be given.

Space Is The Place

Yada.

Friday Night Pogo: Chronic Brain Syndrome W/ The Angry Samoans

Old(er) people may jump up & down for (3:52) & then nap time/lie down/pass out.

No Body Cares

Via a whiny alienated guy, what's going on in America's living rooms.

Further breakdowns of the circus. How long until free bread?

Closet Case Of The Day

Whooo! Young Jesse Conners here is a candidate for a men's room meltdown.Keep fucking that chicken, Jesse, until you, too, are relieved of your urges.

Not that this is just about Jesse's closet. Plenty of grifting too.

Connors' service seems to revolve around producing, for a fee, personalized business cards that pastors can hand out, encouraging people to visit the True Life website where they can learn more about Jesus and the Bible and find local churches.  At least, that was the best we could discern, as it was hard to know just what Connors was talking about ...

Why?

In the name of hell, why does any one ever awake after going to sleep? Don't tell us hunger, either.

Next question:

Restaurant Report

Have et at this particular dump. Twice. Took pix once. Nice inside; the view out, not so hot.

Food's been pretty good. But what's w/ the decidedly non-CFL light bulbs? Seems as if every other dumprestaurant/bar/bordello/shooting gallery we enter has them.

Entirely different establishment.

These two spots being nine blocks from each other, we're wondering if it's merely local. Anyone else noticed, in L.A. zones we don't often visit or in rumored-to-exist other parts of the world?

Dark Side Of The SoCal Dream

The backyard swimming pool is second only to the palm in SoCal iconography, but the palm only breeds rats & carrion birds; this pool & others like it could breed millions of mosquitoes.

Other spots the skeeter truck will be visiting.

Hey, freedom lovers! Is this police state invasion of privacy & violation of property rights morally equivalent to fatal drone strikes?

Blue-Noses To Go Galt?

You lost, the genie is out of the bottle, the clock will not run backwards, the car will not be un-invented, yada, so please, as suggested, fuck off

Paul Weyrich was right about the culture war. Social conservatives are fighting a losing battle — not against a global secular humanist conspiracy, but against the social consequences of the pill, the automobile and the Internet. Short of reversing the industrial revolution, emptying the cities and restoring agrarian society, after the manner  of Pol Pot’s communists in Cambodia in the 1970s, the best hope for social conservatives is to retreat to minority enclaves like those of the Amish. On self-created reservations they can raise their children as they see fit, segregated from mainstream culture and visited, perhaps, by morally liberal tourists nostalgic for an older, simpler way of life. And if their fertility is higher than that of the morally liberal majority, they can hope to take over America by strength of numbers — in 500 or a thousand years.

& leave natty business, Babylonians!

100 Yrs. Of Flying The USMC Dick

Metal: Absolutely approved (if not required) for propaganda.

22 Hrs. Pre-Eclipse

George Tierney, Jr., Of Greenville, SC

George Tierney, Jr., Of Greenville, South Carolina.

Housing, Republican-Style

Life? Pretty Good At This Moment

Viewing the Dodger game on Fox Sports Prime Ticket, which is having technical difficulties preventing them from showing adverts; we're seeing & hearing Vin Scully fill time w/ trivia between innings, rather than hearing whichever movie star asshole* it is who does the voice-over for the Hyundai commercials to which viewers are subjected all season.

On a related note, said former Bums of Brooklyn now possess the best record in the Majors & swept the defending cham-peen (albeit Pujols-less) Cards in a three game series over the wknd. What this means in the last days of May is that the Dodgers are probably about to experience a June swoon of historic proportions.

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*Now we remember: Jeff Bridges. Go fuck yourself Jeffy, & stop stealing money from voice actors who aren't millionaires, you fucking dick.

Studying Nature

Apparently they've invented a gawd & built an idol.

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Christian Sex Magic

"Lesbians, queers & homosexuals" must be plant life or something.'Cause if'n they cain't reperdooce, whar duh they come from?

"Could you imagine kissin' some man?"* Is the congregation all straight males? Perhaps, strict Jew- & Muslim-style, the women are at separate viewing sites? (Or the ladies in his flock are all lesbians.)

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*We can certainly imagine Pastor Worley imagining kissing a man. We imagine he might imagine it several times a day, solely to convince himself how ick-ick-icky it is, of course.

Big Sign Country

Your Bosses Will Work You 'Til You're In Your Graves

Today's Class War report:

4,690 people were killed at work in 2010, up three percent from 2009, the Center for Public Integrity reports. That means that more Americans died in their workplaces in one year than died during the entire war in Iraq.

It has long been the position of this web log that if you don't resist, what you get (an early death) is what you deserve, & what you don't get (living wages, dignity, yada) you didn't deserve.

They're Back

Yes, "smart" conservative writers. Examples:

Conservatives, in case you haven’t noticed, are churning out some pretty serious and scholarly works.  And they’re catching on with a fairly wide audience, too.

Interestingly, Hayward’s AEI colleagues are making major contributions to this cause. For example, AEI president Arthur Brooks is out with a new book called, “The Road to Freedom” — currently number 28 on the New York Times Best-Sellers list. AEI fellow (and syndicated columnist) Jonah Goldberg’s “The Tyranny of Cliches” is hot on his heels at number 30. And this winter and spring, Charles Murray, AEI’s W. H. Brady Scholar, created much buzz with his celebrated book, “Coming Apart.”

Where "created much buzz" translates as "was roundly mocked by all as a piece of ridiculous crap." And Jonah Goldberg, whose entire oeuvre is a cliché? And what did AEI Prexy Brooks do? Rewrote The Road to Serfdom, we figure. Smart nothing, these Brainiacs are off the scale!

And, as might be expected, reactionary:

[T]he best conservative writing tends to be a response to dramatic cultural changes and liberal overreach.

Great American Conservative Women

Who is most frightening?

Paid for by the Junior Anti-Sex League & the Advertising Council.

Spotted at TBogg's.

Too Much Fun

Wknd. in the big citya sophisticated urban cultural oasis:

Fri., a double feature of flicks almost as old as we are.
Sat., dance (Korean version) in a vacant lot.
Sun., dance (Ethiopian version) in a vacant lot and burger, brews & happening jazz later.

Why us, Lord? Make it stop.

Hindenburg Report

Pretty much like the 1930s around here.

Big Gay Frisbee

Rule 34 for sports?

At Last

Were waiting until we could remember which act the already-discussed vocals on this resembledminded us of.Turns out Laurie Anderson is who.

Scientist

If it's Saturday, it must be ...Many dull aggregationist web logs would settle for six, but this dull aggregationist web log gives you seven by Scientist. Top that, jive turkeys!

Beyond Desperate

NRO jumped on the Elizabeth Warren is a plagiarist bandwagon (two items down) while we were out (directly below) but they fell right the fuck off.

UPDATE: Damn, that didn’t take long. Rich Lowry has acknowledged the mistake and says the post will be updated. It was so fun, while it lasted, this fake story.

UPDATE 2: And here’s the correction. They say they took down the initial story.

And it was an entirely different accusation than the recipe-stealing that Breitbart wet its pants over.

Is there nothing about Warren's economic policies, consumer financial advocacy & whatever the hell her other positions may be that her opponents are comfortable addressing? Nothing?

Friday Nothing Blogging II

Slow day yesterday. One crummy item.

(If we gave a crap we wouldn't let humanoid [An amazing simulacrum of existence!] activities interfere w/ the compulsion to spew all over the Internet.)

Here is a picture of bovine skulls, a hair color that does not occur in nature & other crap including the sky.

Vital Issues, Covered In Detail

By Breitbart.com.

The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey.

Added vettening: Cindy McCain's "recipes". Where was the outrage?

Slow Death

Exigent circumstances (Napping.) prevented us from foraging at the supermarket today.

Thus, total consumption over the last 10 or so hrs. (minus two to three hrs. napping): Two quesadillas, 3.5 pancakes, several cups of coffee, one 9.5 oz. Caramel Frappuccino, many cigarettes.

Not counting Internet/broadcasting/narrowcasting consumed today. No wonder we're stuffed.

Celestial Smile

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to reporters
while boarding a charter flight May 17 in Miami, Fla.

Mary Altaffer/AP

When The Summer's Gone ...

We at Just Another Blog (From L.A.)™ are saddened to read of the passing (horrible drawn-out death due to cancer) of Donna Summer (known to literally millions as Donna "Summers"). End of an era & all that, but of course we have no actual interest beyond ourself, & Ms. Summer was one of the first acts w/ whom we worked when we were in show biznis, long long ago in 1976. Right after Rhythm Heritage, if we aren't mistaken.

We kind of like this tune.Again, just us, the frustrated D.J. speaking. But we'll tell you this: Donna will be more missed than Whitney Houston.

Also: "Bad Girls" featuring Twiggy, Debralee Scott & Pat Ast
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"Look! The Internet!"

From B&S.

The Dinesh D'Souza Channel Presents

No, we had no idea that fundamentalist freakshow & Islamist apologist D'Souza had a YouTube channel.Also (& only other item) on D.D.'s channel:Guess his books have done so poorly he's reduced to film-making.

The above, however, are nothin', y'hear, nothin', compared to this compilation:

Cindy McCain's Houses, Romney Family's Money; We Don't Have An Exact Figure

How Much is Romney Really Worth?

Forbes does an extensive analysis of Mitt Romney's wealth and estimates he's worth approximately $230 million.

Asked earlier this year for his own estimate, Romney told Univision that "It's between $150 and about $200-and-some-odd million dollars."

Not to mention the US$100 million set aside for the Five Little Romneys. Or Tagg Romney's equity firm. Hey, borrow $20,000 from your parents!

More Art Pix

Here are some things that reminded us of something aesthetic; we couldn't quite put our finger on it, 'though.

TAITZ-Mania!

Took this photo yesterday, but it took a Wonkette item to arouse us from numbness & post it.

We voted. Have you?

Now let every Californian go forth & do her or his duty!