Puffy

Whoooo!!! It's Boss-Killin' Time!!!

A blow was struck for revolution/overthrow of the old order/good ol' 'Merkin justice in Chicago today. This is what the Second Amendment is for: Defending the American people from the fascist tyrannny of corporatism & capital! NO MORE DEMOTIONS, FIRINGS OR LAY-OFFS, BOSSES!!

A recently demoted executive entered a Loop office building in Chicago on Thursday morning and shot the company’s CEO before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide, authorities said.

The shooting happened just before 10 a.m. at the ArrowStream company on the 17th floor of the Bank of America building, 231 S. LaSalle St.

“Apparently he was despondent over the fact that he got demoted,” Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said.

The company’s CEO, Steven LaVoie, 54, of LaGrange, was in critical condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, after being shot in the head and stomach, authorities said.

The alleged shooter was identified as Anthony DeFrances, a 59-year-old employee who had been told on Friday that was being demoted as the company downsizes, police said. DeFrances had worked at the company since January 2001, according to his LinkedIn profile.

When the shooter produced the gun, the two men struggled over it before the CEO was shot, McCarthy said.

Added ha ha: Pathetic whipped losers beg non-existent gawd for help that will never come. Shit in one hand & prayer vigil in the other; then see who dies anyway, flock.

UPDATE: A prayer vigil for Steven LaVoie has been scheduled from 1 to 8 p.m. today at First Presbyterian Church of La Grange, 150 S. Ashland Ave., said the Rev. Ken Green, senior pastor. LaVoie and his family have been church members for several years, Green said.

“It’s a tragedy,” Green said of the shooting. “We are praying for Steven and his family.” — Update courtesy of Chuck Fieldman

We see that Mr. Downsizing (& his family) "have been church members for several yrs."; how gawddamn many yrs. does it take for that church to teach its members about Christian charity & do-unto-others? You know, all the entirely bogus in-one-ear-&-out-the-other crap?

And what of the family of the person who was driven to defend himself from corporatism? Where's your concern for them, hypocrite priest? Did you mention to Mr. LaVoie that maybe he shouldn't fire people to insure continued profit? Once, even? Of course you didn't, two-faced pig. You're as guilty as anyone, senior pastor! You failed in your job of inspiring decency, why don't you get a gun & do what you should to yourself? Gawd wants you to be responsible for your actions or inaction, doesn't he? (Or is that another lie? So hard to differentiate.)

This item has everything that's wrong about these United Snakes: Americans, guns, & a gawd so patently phony & hypocritical even his adherents ignore the big fairy's lies & bullshit commandments the minute they're out of the house of lies.

"Made it Ma, top o' the world!"

Fucking show-offs.

More Signage

Advertising no doubt better than whatever junk funny people might have on sale.

Can't even go for a walk w/o this looming over you.

"Private" Property Is Really Theft

Off W/ Their Heads!

Have I not fully & firmly supported putting the stupid to sleep for the past fifty yrs. or so?

(Added around 2310PDT):

Conservative fears of nonexistent or overblown boogeymen — Saddam’s WMD, Shariah law, voter fraud, Obama’s radical anti-colonial mind-set, Benghazi, etc. — make it hard not to see conservatism’s prudent risk avoidance as having morphed into a state of near permanent paranoia, especially fueled by recurrent “moral panics,” a sociological phenomenon in which a group of “social entrepreneurs” whips up hysterical fears over a group of relatively powerless “folk devils” who are supposedly threatening the whole social order. Given that conservatism seems to be part of human nature — just as liberalism is — we’re going to need all the help we can get in figuring out how to live with it, without being dominated, controlled and crippled by it.

And just why do we have to "live w/ it?" We can live w/o it or them just fine, thenk yew.

Most Recent Republican Ninny Candidate Oddly Defended

I s'pose this John Brabender is the MSNBC equivalent of a "FOXNews liberal," but the "Nullification? Why, nothing but a common-sense call for common sense in Washington, that's all. Really." schtick is so who ya gonna believe, me or your lying ears & eyes it may be an art-like performance activity. Host Tweety M. playing the recording repeatedly is quite the performance as well.

Hell, this Brabender (pronounced Bray-bender, if you haven't the nerve to listen) could be one of Matthews' fraternity bros. who lost a golf or whatever (Upper middle-aged upper-middle class males, who fucking knows?) bet & had to come on Hardball & look like an idiot. If so, J.B. is free & clear.

Who Slung Pue?

Big deal on campus at U.C.L.A. as 8-10 million gals. of water (that's a lotta litres) ran free from a 93-yr. old water main & messed w/ campus life. Not w/ a bang but a whimper as your infrastructure collapses around you cheap fucking bastards. It's not as if we can spare the water, either.

And these people. Lamestream media isn't strong enough, & it has nothing to do w/ "liberal bias." Pathetic fucking media drones. Listen, people, listen: "Or someone took a really large dump, you know."

Slap on some headphones (or crank it) & you can hear the guy in the chopper whose mic is down (but not off) trying to tell the in-studio brainiacs it's a "fake call." 

One More

So inured to these things following me everywhere I'd forgotten the third until I was separating the wheat from the chaff in the folder. This one bears the livery of the L.A.S.D.

All agencies & arms of the law & nat'l. security state were spending your tax dollars & polluting your atmosphere today.

Ex-Travelodge®

Wandering the 1974-85 neighborhood (just south of Sunset in the "no-man's land between La Brea & Fairfax") for the first time in a while (Yrs., even?) & noticed what was once a Travelodge® has been resurfaced psuedo-post-modernist style & is now something called the MOMeNThotel.

The Travelodge® office was where the gray lump of bogosity on the left is. The guy who owned it was in his seventies in the '70s (you can imagine how wretched anyone born 1900-ish would be) & kept right-wing literature on display in said office.

Yes, all that orange & gray girder-y stuff on the right has been tacked on to the original bldg.

BO DIDDLEY HOMEMADE GUITAR

Return w/ us & Bo to the days of yesteryr. when a "full album" only wasted (31:43) or so
of your rapidly dwindling existence yet contained 12 entirely separate tunes.More or less the act w/ which Mr. Diddley was touring when this correspondent saw him perform in 1971.

Today In Helicopter Paranoia

One L.A.P.D., no biggie & far from unexpected,

& one G.I. H-60 (Black Hawk Down!!) not so expected (but no rarity either).

Which service do you think just happens to be on top of this reporter every time he leaves his palatial mansion? Looks olive drab (Army) above, "battleship" gray (Navy) below. (Fucking camera. I guessed gray in the real world. Fucking eyes.)

Website Of Evil

They wish.

Why are conservatives so filthy & vulgar?

Tragic "Accident" Waiting To Happen

Describes homo sapiens to a T, but the T here is for Tejas, where armed loons are headed for the border:

Nine ninnies at Camp Doofus, TX.

In an interview with the Express-News last month, Chris Davis, commander of the militia's Operation Secure Our Border: Laredo Sector, who is seen in some of the photos, said members would secure the border in a "legal and lawful manner."

In 21-minute YouTube video that has since been deleted, Davis said: "How? You see an illegal. You point your gun dead at him, right between his eyes, and you say, 'Get back across the border or you will be shot.'"

Davis, a 37-year-old truck driver from Von Ormy, was discharged from the Army in 2001 "under other than honorable conditions in lieu of trial by court-martial," according to a summary of his military service obtained by the Express-News.

The Texas militia's operation names, according to Rogers, are: Bolinas Border Patrol, Central Valley Militia, Independent Citizens Militia, Alpha Team, Bravo Team, FOB Harmony, Operation Secure Our Border: Laredo Sector, O'Shanessy's Team, the 77's and Camp Geronimo.

It would be hilariously pathetic if they only had paint-ball guns.

Enough!!

Warning to the lame-stream (There are drugs to strengthen that flow, y'know.) media: I'm headed for New York City
or Washington, D.C. (Which-ever!) w/ a gun if I see another awful pun on "impeachment" on another awful cable news program. Stop already!

100 Yrs. Ago Today ...

S'pose I should pretend to give a damn & note the centenary of the first Big One to Make The World Safe for Democracy.

Most grotesque we could find while bored numb.

How many more you fucking monkeys, how many more?

Chaos Re-Contained

In a larger container.

Eastern Idiot Bias

ESPN blows it again:

310 my ass, you ignorant Easterners, it's filled w/ monied Pacific-proximate fair-weather Laker fans. Actual Dodger fans are more likely to be found inland, in O.G. Area Code 213 as well as 323, 626 & even 562.

According to the map, the heart of Dodgers fandom isn't near the stadium so much as the Eastside—the true Eastside and Doyers territory. It continues down along the 710 corridor until about the 91 freeway, where Angels fandom starts picking up steam. The crossover line seems to more or less correlate with the Orange Curtain. Some other pockets of Dodger love are in the North Valley, Gardena, Carson, Baldwin Park and the middle swatch of South Los Angeles. The most tepid Dodger fandom in the county is on the Westside, from the Pacific Palisades to Marina Del Rey. Maybe that's where there's a concentration of transplants with their own previous allegiances?

Not to mention the image. How is that fair?

Mad Michele Bachmann's Idea For The Future: SlaveryUPDATE: Sadly Corrected

Yes, the ugliest shot we could find.

Slavery today, slavery tomorrow, slavery forever! sez Michele Bachmann. Some will demur, & claim the poor dear is merely calling for indentured servitude, you know, the way of the world, but I say it's slavery & I say to hell w/ it & repugnant ignoramus Bachmann.

KCTV7 News in Kansas City reported last week that Bachmann proposed the idea of “Americanization Facilities” where the children would be put to work to pay off the costs of their past, present and futures care. In exchange, the children would also be fast-tracked on a path to citizenship. “I’m calling on all of us, Obama and Congress and everyone, to chip in and build special new facilities… ‘Americanization facilities,’ if you will,” Bachmann told Minnesota’s Twin Cities News Talk. “And we’d send these kids to these facilities, in Arizona and Texas and wherever else. And we’d get private sector business leaders to locate to those facilities and give these children low-risk jobs to do. And they’d learn about the American way of life, earn their keep, and everyone wins in the end.”

When pressed by conservative radio host Jason Lewis about what life would be like in the camps, Bachmann elaborated that the purpose would also be to inculcate the children into English-speaking American culture. “Well, we’d of course want these facilities to be ideal, you know, for the children to work and learn,” Bachmann continued. “They’d spend half of their day working, and the other half learning what every child should learn, and that’s English, you know, English and American history. And as soon as they learn English with some degree of fluency, they can attend local schools, maybe with a voucher program, or something like that. And then they could work when they aren’t in school.”

Do not for even a minute think this is limited to "unaccompanied minor children": It is the version of the future for all of you that Bachmann's pre-Enlightenment ilk (feudalists all) have yearned for since their side lost the Civil War, at least.

Can you blame them? You'll go right along w/ whatever corporations have in mind for you. Hell, certainly a majority among you must love suffering; if you didn't, wouldn't you, in this exceptional democracy where anything is possible, have changed things? Yet you all continue to bend over & take it up the ass every fucking day. Which makes you objectively as bad & as deluded as Bachmann herself. No one is innocent.

But let's read more:

Despite the hardships they already face, Bachmann argued her plan would rebound to the benefit of the children by allowing them to take advantage of job opportunities in the states. “I think this is a great way to bring businesses into the Texas and Arizona areas, and maybe other states struggling with low employment opportunities, thanks mostly to Obama’s policies,” Bachmann said. “It’s about opportunity, not just for these kids but for the American people.”

“It helps the businesses, and if we can raise fifty-thousand God-fearing, English-speaking Americans, who understand real American values, then I’d say it’s a job well done.”

According to a recent report in the New York Times, 60,000 immigrants in detention facilities across the country are already used as low cost labor — often making only a dollar a day, or being paid in credits to detention facility stores. Officials insist the programs are voluntary, but immigrant advocates point to cases in which detainees were threatened with solitary confinement and other punishments if they refused to work.

Decline & fall of the Romanany Empire: Bachmann would like the United Snakes (Your tax dollars!!) to enslave the children of the barbarians & "Americanize " them; I.C.E. or whatever is already teaching them the value of work (OR ELSE!!) if not much as much gawd-fearing as the repellent Bachmann would like. Seen before in these United Snakes of course.

Should not-for-much-longer Congress-object Bachmann be sent to a first-time education camp for a bit of history? (Schools to be avoided as well as "Indian" schools:

Anoka High School, Anoka, Minn., 1974; B.A., Winona State University, Winona, Minn., 1978; J.D., Coburn School of Law, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Okla., 1986; L.L.M., College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1988.)

My utter & absolute contempt for all humanity grows exponentially.

Then I turn on the telebision. What's after exponentially?

Oh, fuck you to hell literal-minded moronic humorless leftists:

The news site KCTV7 News is a parody. Rep. Bachmann (R-MN) never made the statement.
We sincerely regret the error.

And to think I almost clicked the alleged source, a fairly obvious fake, & certainly not from an actual television station.

Now I have to hate myself as much as I despise the rest of you.

Solar Flare Report

"Missed it by that much."

We still aren't willing the apocalypse hard enough, it appears. Unlike hand grenades & horseshoes, close doesn't seem to count in solar flares.

Blah blah. Had not intended to mention it (Have read no more than the "Near Miss" headlines; why wallow in failure?) but today we happened to notice this coincidental (Or is it?) thing which made us wonderconvinced us the whole solar flare thing's as phony as tales of climate change caused by humanoids soiling the nest, & is merely a Mtn Dew®/7-Eleven® advertising stunt.

Do they think we're stupid? Do they? DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES, SHEEPLE!!!

Cleaned Out

Now Can We Start Killing The Stupid People?

Why & whom I hate:

Well, it turned out that customers preferred the taste of our fresh beef over traditional fast-food hockey pucks. Hands down, we had a better product. But there was a serious problem. More than half of the participants in the Yankelovich focus groups questioned the price of our burger. "Why," they asked, "should we pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as we do for a quarter-pound of meat at McDonald's? You're overcharging us." Honestly. People thought a third of a pound was less than a quarter of a pound. After all, three is less than four!

My patience is at an end. How long am I to put up w/ these substitutes for humans? There is not enough hydrogen & oxygen left on the planet to allow Americans to keep wasting them like that. Off w/ their heads before they start stealing my oxygen & water!

Unorganized Mess

The Kitchen Help

Lawsuit evasion.

Haboob Hits PHX!!

(Just like typing "haboob.")

As well as:

Phoenix Sets Temperature Records As Arizona
Gets Punished By Extreme Heat Wave

Still not completely clear on the question-begging deal, so I dunno if one is being begged here,
but what did they do & who's punishing them?

Yarnall On Loose

SAT 25 NOV 1939
Destroyer Yarnall (DD-143) drifts aground in Lynnhaven Roads; refloated that same day, she enters the Norfolk Navy Yard for repairs on 26 November. Yarnall had only been in commission since 4 October 1939.

What th'? A barely commissioned destroyer just drifts away? Lucky "we" won the effin' war, huh?

Blogspot Bitching

Wandering the WEB OF EVIL Locals Only bog-roll (just re-spiffied w/ all possible features, having figured that this enterprise loads slowly only on this devil-box; you can't really enjoy the iNternet w/o a minimum of 15 or 20 tabs open at any time, even if they all take a cyber-eternity) & encountered thoughts on what's up w/ the iNternet these days (something's always up, but the twilit zones I plague do seem to be e- or de-volving a lot recently) from Spengler Dampniche, here using his legal name.

Personal blogs, I suspect, are dying out. I know mine are. I've got to migrate [sic] all the old stuff from my art blog into tumblr or similar, because I'm posting over there about once every eight months.

I have some thoughts myself (Naturally I blame Obama, but Facebook/social media & the cretins bumping into people & tripping over everything because they're looking at their devices non-stop may have something to do w/ whatever is up.) but is further thought worth the effort? Of course it isn't. Nothing is worth any effort, & as I know nothing ("Nothin', y'hear, nothin'!!") it all works out perfectly.

Sky, Clouds, Palms

Also electricity/iNternet/telebision wires ruining everything. Thanks, humanoids.

Big Bug In The Tub

Yeah, typing for children now. (Well, for adultsgrown-ups to read to children, because no literate child would tolerate this drivel for long.)

Look.
Look in the tub, bub!
There is a bug in the tub.
Did it crawl up from the drain?
Did it fall out of a plane?
(If I don't stop typing this I'm going to lose my brain.)

Too Good To Be True?

Our mighty warriors can't get their dicks to work because war is not healthy for children, other living things or even the peckers of the peckerwoods who are so bestially stupid they enlist. Although some may have to volunteer because bestial stupidity is, at least occasionally, a hindrance to employment in the civilian world.

Would you "defend" a country that doesn't have work for you, thereby forcing you into a "volunteer" military made up of other unemployable losers?

Screwed Too Hard

Don't know my own strength.

The Face Of Mental Illness

This person, Clark County Nevada Republican Cindy Lake, is disturbed in the head. And not only because she's a "Realtor©®™."

Seriously, can't the mental health community figure out what makes people punk-ass chumps like this & give us a diagnosis so we can put them somewhere safe? (And quiet.)

A Ron Paul-endorsed candidate for county commissioner in Nevada outlined her conspiracy theory-informed vision for local governance in recently posted video.

Cindy Lake, a Republican candidate for Clark County commissioner, said she became active in politics because Paul – the former Texas congressman and failed presidential candidate – mentioned during a debate that he supported the right to drink raw milk.

“I think you have a right to put whatever you would like to put into your body, if you’re a grown adult,” Lake said during a candidates forum in April, which was posted online Thursday. “I don’t think the government should tell any of us what we should eat, drink, or how to raise our children.”

[...]

Then the moderator asked her about fluoride in public drinking water.

“That is another one of my passions,” Lake said. “I’m completely anti-fluoride.”

She said toothpaste tubes warn against swallowing, and she said that was reason enough to remove fluoride from the water supply.

“It costs us just under a million dollars a year to add what is a toxic industrial waste chemical to our water, and we’re paying for that, when if you want it, you can certainly buy your own toothpaste that’s fluoridated,” Lake said. “I don’t want to give that to my family, and I don’t want it in my water.”

[...]

“I respectfully asked my liberty friends to be very careful about this chemtrails thing, because to me, it’s all B.S.,” the man said. “The reason you see chemtrails like you do, is because there are thousands of planes flying overhead.”

Lake told the man they should discuss the issue later, and related an anecdote about inventor Nikolai Tesla’s so-called “death ray” that is widely shared among chemtrail conspiracy theorists.

“I’m not 100 percent sure what’s being sprayed up there, and why, if anybody was spraying us — aren’t they spraying themselves, too?” Lake said. “I do think that there’s some validity to it. I don’t have the science to prove it, but as with drones, I think things can be used for the good and for the bad.”

“Unfortunately, the government, when they are given any kind of tool, tend to use it against the citizens to control us, so my perspective is, I wouldn’t discount it without further investigation because there is some proof to (it), from what I understand in my research,” she added.

"As I understand in my research." That would be the funniest line of the day, if Ms. Clark had said it from the rest home. But, as she is on the loose in our reality & looking to fuck things up, I'm not laughing so much.WHEN DOES THIS PARADE OF MORONIC AMERICAN ASSHOLES STOP? Why is that so much to ask of an un-listening & non-caring universe?

Maybe I shouldn't complain so much (Ha ha, eat it.) after all, the Southern Nevada Watchdogs have already had to hide their video from so-called normal people (most of whom are punk-ass chumps too). If you must, note that she carries her Constitution everywhere, & that she's part of the war on Xmas.

Darth Speaker (Three-Way)

More popular than Congress.

Emotional Inventory & Slaughter

Checking ... Yup, still despise every human being, human institution & nation on the face of this world to the depths of my non-existent soul & rational post-humanoid mind.

Shorter: Fuck you, cretin humans. (GEEE-ZUS, what an unspeakable collection of dullards & nincompoops they are. Homo sapiens Dunning-Krugerensis.)

Mystery Solved?

Listening to this I realized (not a mystery for the ages, but it's puzzled me no end) that I'd probably first/only heard "shitheel" from Jerry Lewis's gutter mouth (right after Dino says "cocksucker").

Oil!!

Yesterday:

White House To Propose New Rules
For Crude Oil Rail Shipments

Today:

Oil train derails in Interbay in Seattle,
no spills

Tomorrow?

The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations

Or, History Shows Again & Again.

Remember when 90% of the sheeple approved of George Herbert Walker Bush's job performance, mostly on the basis of fighting a war for some obnoxious little shit who runs ("Owns?" Who knows?) an oil fiefdom/sand-covered shithole? Yeah.

Now we can say the first Bush's war of choice was as futile & sad as his pathetic son's militarism. Send 'em both to hell to meet their mothers.

Ugly People, Ugly World

If I keep paying attention to the brain-dead & proud thereof I'll drive myself nervous. How fortunate I am to live in a beauty-filled natural environment that allows me to forget the depredations of capitalism on our once-fair planet. See?

Proud of yourselves, you fucking monkeys?

Today In Matthew 7:5*

Straight from the PuffHo.

A newspaper editor who was fired after making homophobic statements is now suing the paper, claiming that he was a victim of religious discrimination.

Former Newton Daily News editor Bob Eschliman dumped from his job after a blog post he wrote which criticized what he called "the LGBTQXYZ crowd and the Gaystapo" for trying "to reword the Bible to make their sinful nature 'right with God.'" Jim Romenesko first reported on the blog in April.

Eschliman was later suspended with pay, and the newspaper's owner eventually terminated his employment, the Des Moines Register reported.

Eschliman's response to all this? A claim that he was the true victim.

On Wednesday, he filed a complaint charging the Newtown Daily News and its owner, Shaw Media, Inc. with "religious discrimination and retaliation."

"No one should be fired for simply expressing his religious beliefs," Eschliman's attorney said. "In America, it is against the law to fire an employee for expressing a religious belief in public. This kind of religious intolerance by an employer has no place in today's welcoming workforce."

How "welcoming" is Editor Eschliman's workplace, we wonder? ("Hey, Gaystapo sinner, stop rewording the Bible, you're going to hell no matter what!")

Hard to tell: Goateed dilrod Bob's personal & deeply held religious views & "mainstream Christian beliefs, quite frankly" (See, it's O.K., because Jesus is Our King!) are so deeply held they've somehow disappeared from the iNternet.You read it here first: Will not be long before hate-filled jerks & their lawyers start agitating for laws to protect plain & simple loudmouthed assholes from "discrimination" & from consequences of their expression.

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*For Biblical illiterates:

New International Version You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. New Living Translation Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye. English Standard Version You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. New American Standard Bible  "You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. King James Bible Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Holman Christian Standard Bible Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. International Standard Version You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye." NET Bible You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Hypocrite! First cast out the plank from your eye, and then you will see to cast out the chip from your brother's eye. GOD'S WORD® Translation You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye. Then you will see clearly to remove the piece of sawdust from another believer's eye. Jubilee Bible 2000 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou be able to see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. King James 2000 Bible You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the speck out of your brother's eye. American King James Version You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye. American Standard Version Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Douay-Rheims Bible Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam in thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Darby Bible Translation Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother. English Revised Version Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Webster's Bible Translation Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thy own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Weymouth New Testament Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother's eye. World English Bible You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye. Young's Literal Translation Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

I'll be a lot more impressed w/ their silly book if they could just get it right.

More Law Abiding In Tenn.

Another "law-abiding" Tennessean won't let her Gawd-given right to drive any fucking way she pleases, thank you, be taken from her by some loudmouth. She's got a carry permit & that means she can do anything the fuck she wants w/ her gun & you just shut up, y'hear?

Scruggs told police she placed her handgun on her lap after a man in the parking lot yelled at her to “Stop Speeding.” The man who allegedly yelled at Scruggs claims that she almost struck his son while driving her Altima. Scruggs says that the man walked over to her with his hands in his pockets, so she pulled the gun out and placed it on her lap. She left the scene and was pulled over by Murfreesboro Police on S. Church Street.

Jason Hill, who called the police, told officers that Scruggs actually pointed the weapon at him when he asked her to “slow down.” He then told Scruggs that he would call the police. He said that Scruggs told him, “I don’t care, I got a carry permit.” A witness told responding officers that Scruggs told Hill that she would shoot him.

The .22 caliber handgun that belongs to Scruggs was entered in as evidence after she was pulled over and charged with “Aggravated Assault.” She will have to appear in court this October to further explain her actions to the judge.

This & the other Tenn. item two down via Toilet Paper Memo.

Tourism Throwback Thusday

South of the border, down May-hee-co way, 1990 maybe. (Courtesy REDACTED in the middle, via Facebook. This reporter on the right.)

Today In Vulgar Names, Slapping & Gun Threats

Waiting for the first murder committed in a supermarket because a cretin w/ a gun thinks someone cut in front of them in line.

Or, you know, is a bitch who deserves slapping:

According to an affidavit obtained by News 2, it all started with a verbal altercation between Amy Jaudon, 43, and the Kroger employee inside the store on Murfreesboro Pike at Nashboro Boulevard.

When the employee brought out the manager, Jaudon started yelling and calling the employee vulgar names.

Jaudon then slapped the employee across the face.

The employee grabbed Jaudon and threw her to the ground.

Once separated, Jaudon threatened to kill the employee and admitted that she had a gun.

She then went outside, got a gun out of her vehicle and waved it around, threatening to kill the employee once again.

Officers were able to confirm all witness accounts by watching the incident unfold on security footage.

Seems like a perfectly reasonable, law-abiding citizen.

We call this one "Bitch-Slappin' Bitch Realizes What She's Done W/ Her Life During Mug Shot."

Jaudon, 43, was charged with aggravated assault
and booked into the Metro jail on $15,000 bond.

Buttermilk Sky

Here's A Funny

Matt Bernius says:

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 12:53

... the comments-on-blogs wing of the party.

Now I Really Blame Obama

Caught despite my best efforts.

Blaming Obama

I
blame
Obama: No milk for coffee no milk buy milk
milk bad spit out bad milk waste cup o' joe take milk back new good milk new coffee jesus
lesser men would have destroyed a village by
now now

must leave must go must must run errand must
have to go before Obama blocks streets ...

The fun begins today with the president's arrival at LAX around 2:30 pm. There has been no official hint of how Obama will get over to the Hancock Park area, site of his evening Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the home of TV producer Shonda Rhimes (though military helicopters did some advance flying work this week.) The LAPD advises that streets may close around La Brea Avenue and West Olympic Boulevard from 2 to 4 pm, and around West 3rd Street and Rossmore Avenue from 4 to 8 pm.

I
will blame
Obama: don't block the streets Obama let the people free Obama
don't fuck w/ me Obama don't

Don't make me blame you.

Forbidden Zone

50 Yrs. Ago Today In Telebision

Evolution of TV viewing: With the start of pay television, John Garrott installs a program selector unit
on a television set in Los Angeles, Calif., July 23, 1964. (Don Brinn/AP)

WEB OF EVIL

Pito Perry Posing

Digby has unearthed Rick Perry in a different pose than the one we like to run from his Corps of Cadets photo session.

"Normal" people laugh at goons like this playing brown shirt dress-up; many Republicans, however, think dirty thoughts of George W. Bush in his flight suit & have to leave the room for a minute when confronted w/ such uniformed manliness standing right next to Old Glory. Be still my beating throbbing ... sorry.

When did lazy Hollywood typecasting became the primary criterion for Republican presidential candidates? Granted it's the 1940s (When Hollywood was Jewish producers selling Catholic values to a predominantly Protestant audience, everyone knew their places & even the darkies were godly & happy.) typecasting that reactionaries consider a societal & cultural model almost as gawd-revealed/infallible/inspired/inerrant/whatever as their Bible. Even so, ironic that those who so bravely excoriate the entertainment industry for all its alleged liberal brain-washing fall hard for any man in a uniform. Not that anyone suggests Republicans are anything but fetishists of the shallowest flag-pin & crying eagle patriotism. (And deep but substanceless rage.)

Pito Ricky's hairstyle is the "You can have it as long as you want on top
as long as it's not over your ears or collar."
Popular (among parents) in my youth.
(Sometimes it's the "Acne on the forehead comb-over.")

Takes a helluva polo player & real military genius to deploy the Texas National Guard in a pointless display on the border w/ Mexico. Perry calling out the Guard on the vague possibility that all recordings of his 2012 debate appearances & earlier recordings flapping his gums about Texas secession & being a theocratic dickwad will be erased, giving him a chance at the tarnished brass ring come 2016 sounds vaguely criminal to this reporter. (Time to impeach, Texans?)

Hope the Guard are cool w/ contributing their summer vacations to Perry's campaign. Because they will definitely not be cool while they're milling around uselessly wondering what the fuck they're doing in the heat & drought.

New Car Smell

'65 Mustang Fastback MALAYSIA

Web Of Empty

Looks nice.StolenFrom our primary source, click to where they stole it & eventually you'll get to the artiste's site.

Back Door Persons

Really, New York City? Really?

Never mind, problem solved:

Take that, you bastards!

Tomorrow On WEB OF EVIL

As an American, & as an American web log* we will continue calling for rabid violence as the solution (And final, baby!) to any & all problems, just as real & patriotic American Stephen Steinlight does. (Note audience reaction.) Should it disappear (& for those like us too slothful to turn it off once the good stuff's over) the prime cut of raw meat:Also planned: Testing the limits of free speech by being dumb enough to actually try it/talking real tough about many a moron, mostly to determine if "the gov't." (or any iNternet provider this tripe passes through) really is reading/reporting any of this & actually gives anything resembling anything about a toothless buffoon shouting vague threats at clouds. (Or lots & lots of images of clouds. Hmmm ...)

And we might unearth a thin-skinned authoritarian hypocrite or two w/ a Google Self-Alert who likes to invoke the power of the state just because it's been suggested that he she or it would make a very interesting tableau w/, oh, I dunno, a splintered broomstick, maybe?

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*Trying to be as American as these Michigan monsters:
Hooky though.

Today On WEB OF EVIL

Were we acting out! Fed up, mad as hell, yet numb beyond belief w/ ennui (Sounds so much more sophisticated than "really bored," dunnit?) at the never-ending barrage of moronic foolishness & butt-stupidity that confronts me very literally every time I take note of what the humanoids are doing.

And almost ready to take action. Lessee, I haven't talked to a mental health professional (not sure "professional" really applied, psychiatrist sheepskin or not) & I've been out of the loony bin eight yrs. next mo., so there's no reason I shouldn't be legally over-armed & ammo'd to protect myself from dullards on the Internet. Of course stealing or black-market purchasing may be a better move. We'll see, won't we?

Protecting the Gun Rights of the Insane – This is not a joke, it’s on page 23. According to the Texas GOP platform, no one should have their “2^nd Amendment rights” infringed due to a “minor mental health diagnosis.”

See? Fuckin'-A right on, Texas reactionary morons! Y'all may be first on the list when I'm armed again, but you'll deserve it. Bang bang!

Clouds Yes, Rain No

Blah blah drought yada yada.

Also, later: Heat, blada yah.

Hey, Kansas!

Here are some Fuck You Facts for the Sunflower State, from a state that knows how things work, California.

State’s job growth defies predictions after tax increases

Meanwhile, in fly-over (or "non-destination") country, things aren't going quite as well. Ha ha ha.

Sam Brownback's economic policies stimulate Kansas economy by negative $338 million
in one year

Shove it Kansas, you got what you wanted, good & hard!

Oh fuck it, yesterday's news; here's a whole compare & contrast deal. Now will you reactionary ninnies shut your festering gobs? (Of course they won't. How long until reëducation camps for the can't/won't-learns? If they demonstrate persistent ignorance in the face of facts, we must isolate them for their own safety. And some peace & quiet for people who use their brains for more than ear separation.)

In conclusion, Gov. Brown over Gov. Brownback!