Saturday, July 31, 2021
Of Course They Are
You bet your sweet ass they are. In this fucking country, once you're w/o a permanent address, you essentially no longer exist. (Among other things, one isn't a voter anymore.)THIS IS BULLSHIT: ARE YOU SERIOUSLY EVICTING VOTERS, DEMOCRATS?
Even your so-called friends will forget you ever existed. Trust me on this. It was the last time I'll ever trust humans. Fuck every one of you worthless shits to the hell of other people.
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Eviction moratorium expires as renters face rising covid cases and lack of aid — Moody's data shows there are still well over 6 million renters behind on payments — The federal ban on evictions expires Saturday, marking a new, worrisome phase in the race to keep people in their homes amid …Eugene Daniels / Politico: POLITICO Playbook: The coming eviction crisisInsider: Progressive Cori Bush says ‘some Democrats went on vacation instead’ of preventing the eviction moratorium from expiringAJ Vicens / Mother Jones: Evictions Are Coming. Democrats “Failed to Meet This Moment,” Say Democrats.Hackwhackers: Millions Face Eviction As Moratorium EndsBangor Daily News: Evictions loom after Joe Biden and Congress fail to extend banNBC News:Congress fails to extend eviction moratorium expiring SaturdayKaty O'Donnell / Politico: ‘Down the drain’: Millions face eviction after Biden lets protections expireErin B. Logan / Los Angeles Times: The national eviction moratorium is set to expire. What happens next?Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams: Progressives Issue Dire Warning as House Bill to Extend Eviction Moratorium DiesTara Golshan / HuffPost: House Skips Town After Failing To Extend Eviction Moratorium
Friday, July 30, 2021
Chorus To Lyrics I Wrote In The 1980s
Black plague on your motherTook its sweet time to happen.Black plague on your brotherBlack plague on all otherAll other scum like you!
Thursday, July 29, 2021
It's As If Someone Manufactured A Disease That Only Kills Cretins
The fantasy of every thinking person for some time; nature has at last taken matters in hand.
Warms the cockles of my heart. See you all in hell.Ravages of COVID surge evident inside Missouri hospital — OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) — Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life.Brad Reed / Raw Story: WATCH: Man who was ‘strongly against getting the vaccine’ now fighting for his life in Missouri ICUAya Elamroussi / KMOV-TV: Some people in Missouri are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in secret, doctor says. They fear backlash from loved ones who oppose the vaccinesGabriela Miranda / USA Today: People are dressing in disguise for COVID-19 vaccines, Missouri doctor says
Welcome To The Streets, Losers!
Urban Camping
Once again, the proverbial least among us can just go fuck themselves.Junior Birdman Update
I don't get the hysteria. Isn't this a free country? Are there now laws forbidding us from flyng freely like the birds?Catherina Gioino / The US Sun:
LAX ‘Jet Pack guy’ spotted AGAIN flying 15 miles from Los Angeles airport at 5,000 feet as FAA and FBI investigates — A MAN on a possible jet pack was spotted flying 15 miles from Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday - nearly a year since a spate of previous sightings sparked panic.Matthew Miller / Washington Examiner: Pilot spots possible jetpack man 5,000 feet in the airStephen Stephen / CBS News: Another possible jetpack sighting reported near LAX: “The jet man is back”Kenneth Garger / New York Post: LAX pilot spots another jet pack in the skyHaley Yamada / ABC News:
And why isn't this an Olympic event? Can't get any faster or higher.
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
A Couple Of Nazis Sit Around Talking
Do read it all (Would've at least linked even w/o the title & tune match.) it's paranoia leading to an amusingly pathetic sci-fi fantasy. Or is it?The intellectual right contemplates an 'American Caesar'
Jan. 6 was a badly planned rehearsal for the real deal
The indisputable fact is that a leading and long-standing conservative institute in the United States hosts a podcast by someone who served as a senior official in the presidential administration of a man who may run again for the nation's highest office in a few years. And on an episode of that podcast, this former official and his invited guest genially rehearsed arguments about why a future president would be justified in turning himself into a tyrant, and how he could set about accomplishing this task.Which means that on the starboard side of American politics, the Overton window has now shifted far beyond the boundaries of democratic self-government to a place broadly coterminous with fascism.
Mob rule nothing. Slob rule. By app. Can't wait.The trick, for Yarvin [A/K/A/ "Mencius Moldbug" — Editor], is for the would-be American Caesar to exercise emergency powers from day one. How? Caesar should run for president promising to do precisely this, and then announce the national emergency in his inaugural address, encouraging every state government to do the same. Taking advantages of "ambiguities" in the Constitution, he will immediately act to federalize the national guard around the country and welcome backup from sympathetic members of the police (who will wear armbands to signal their support for Caesar).When federal agencies refuse to go along, Yarvin suggests, Caesar (whom he now begins referring to as "Trump") will use a "Trump app" to communicate directly with his 80 million supporters on their smart phones, using notifications to tell them that "this agency isn't following my instructions," which will prompt them to rally at the proper building, with the crowd "steered around by a joystick by Trump himself," forming a "human barricade around every federal building, supporting Trump's lawful authority." Where maybe 20,000 people stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, millions responding to the Trump app would be much more effective — a modern-day version of the paramilitary groups that ensured Lincoln's safety during the hard-fought, dangerous 1860 campaign for president that preceded the Civil War (and the president's subsequent suspension of habeas corpus and shuttering of hundreds of newspapers).
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Korean Armistice, Panel Votes To Impeach The Nix, ATL Bombing
Remember Richard Jewell, the security guard on whom the police fixated & persecuted, when it was Mr. White Domestic Terrorist all along? Jerkwads.
Monday, July 26, 2021
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Meh
Over two hrs. in the outside world of pollution & garbage & all we got was this not very exciting image & some food.
Dimbulb Of The Day
Fuck you, megachurch moron. Why didn't sweet baby Jesus help your sorry loser ass?
Another one bites the dust. Ha fucking ha.BBC:
LA man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines dies of virus — A California man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines on social media has died after a month-long battle with the virus. — Stephen Harmon, a member of the Hillsong megachurch, had been a vocal opponent of vaccines, making a series of jokes about not having the vaccine.
Andrea Doria Starts Sinking, Concorde Crashes, War Crimes Tribunal
UPDATE: Mladić & Karadžić both finally got theirs, & are imprisoned for life. Much too late. People like that who, due to their advanced age, won't do 30-40 yrs. in stir shouldn't just be deprived of their liberty; they should be tortured w/in a centimeter of their filthy murdering lives as well. I'll volunteer the second the U.N. wises up.
Saturday, July 24, 2021
You've Made Your Bed So Now Lie In It
You've Made Your Bed So Now Die In It
[maine public]Maine Lawmaker Who Opposed Coronavirus Restrictions Reportedly Has COVID-19
[Daily Bleat]‘I’m at Breaking Point’: Radio Host Who Regrets Mocking Vaccines Is ‘Fighting for His Life’
Fitting double play from the Flesh Eaters.
Son-Of-A-Bitch, Not Another Elite Eastern Law School Asshole Idiot!
Try to figure this circular illogic. Does Cotton just hate competent people doing their jobs?
As indicated in the item beneath, one can take the hicks & crackers out of the ungovernable tribal areas, but one can't take the mindless stupidity out of the hicks & crackers. Not even at Harvard Law & Yale Law, apparently. Probably the inbreeding.Michael Luciano / Mediaite:Tom Cotton Accuses ‘Public Health Bureaucrats’ of Doing ‘What They Think Is in the Interest of Public Health’ — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has accused public health officials of looking after the interests of public health. — The shocking allegation was made on Friday's edition of America Reports …Digby / Digby's Hullabaloo: QOTD: Tom Cotton
Oh Christ, Not This Asshole Again!
Fuck you in the mouth w/ my fist, breeder scum.
Th' hell does any of this even mean? "You started the 'culture wars' by not getting knocked up in high school?"Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance blames ‘childless left’ for culture wars — Ohio Republican US Senate candidate J.D. Vance is taking aim at New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other leaders of the “childless left” for their lack of “physical commitment to the future of this country” …Caroline Vakil / The Hill: JD Vance takes aim at culture wars, childless politicians
Sounds as if the party of forced birth will be coming for you.
Y'know, if fat boy there wants to make a “physical commitment to the future of this country”, he might try taking off 20-30 lbs. so he's not a burden to our health care system in the immediate future. Fucking pig.
Talk To Me
You'll notice this guy posted his "Don't melt the snowflakes" screed in the WaPo and Clownhall.
Missed the memeorandum cut: The Usual Gang of Idiots.Gary Abernathy / Washington Post:Stop insulting Trump voters and their concerns. Talk to them. — When supporters of former president Donald Trump hear media pundits analyze them with the usual collection of belittling observations, they must be tempted to respond, “Hey, we're right here! We can hear you!”James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: Talk to Trump Voters!Ed Mazza / HuffPost: Sean Hannity's Clueless Question About Biden Gets Turned Right Back At Donald TrumpGreg Sargent / Washington Post:
Have Trump voters come down with a serious case of Snowflake Syndrome?Gary Abernathy / HotAir: Stop insulting Trump voters and their concerns. Talk to them.
Body & Soul
Friday, July 23, 2021
A Lying Sack Of Cruz
One year ago today: Ted Cruz gave his guarantee. pic.twitter.com/g9pRpr2Xlg
— Bad COVID-19 Takes (@BadCOVID19Takes) July 22, 2021
Thursday, July 22, 2021
He's Gonna Grow Fins
Shorter Jesse Watters: "Lie back & enjoy it."
Not such a good recording:JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): If you want to stop climate change, you don't fight climate change. If it's getting warmer, you adapt to it. Let's just say, the sea levels rise a couple inches over the next century, Harold. Okay. It's a great civilization we have here. I think we can adapt to that.
This Year's Model Virus
And for the literate:
Rob Stein / NPR:
The Delta Variant Will Drive A Steep Rise In U.S. COVID Deaths, A New Model Shows — The current COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — fueled by the highly contagious delta variant — will steadily accelerate through the summer and fall, peaking in mid-October, with daily deaths more than triple what they are now.Sarah Betancourt / The Guardian: 'It's too late': US doctor says dying patients begging for Covid vaccine
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
One Nation, Under The Jet Stream
The AP couldn't care any less until it affects them, in which case they run two items, one yesterday,& one today.
Piling On W/ The Hypocrisy
Oh looky. Extra two-faced.
So stop using your stupid 'phones, & STOP BEING TWO-FACED HYPOCRITICAL SONS-OF-BITCHES, you gawdam assholes!! Problem solved.
Anyone could be next!! Anyone!Todd Neikirk / HillReporter.com:Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: A Priest Was Outed by His Phone's Location Data. Anyone Could Be Next.Hannah Frishberg / New York Post: Top Catholic priest resigns after phone data tracked to Grindr
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Spying On Priests? Too Damn Bad, Bead-Rattling Ring-Kissers
Two-faced mackeral-snapper busted.
Perhaps the end of privacy will end hypocrisy as well.Top U.S. Catholic Church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars — The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access to cellphone data that appeared to show …Christine Rousselle / The Daily Register: USCCB General Secretary Resigns Amid Allegations of Improper BehaviorMary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Caller: High-Ranking Priest Resigns Over Grindr Data Linking Him To Las Vegas' ‘Gay Bathhouse’
Live By Bullshit, Die By Bullshit
Dipshit Of The Day
Not one of these cretinous sub-human morons will learn thing one from this. Fuck 'em.Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Unvaccinated Trump supporter who spread coronavirus conspiracy theories dies of COVID-19 — On Tuesday, the Cape Cod Times reported that Linda Zuern, a former member of the Bourne, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and a Trump-supporting figure in the local Republican Party, had died of COVID-19.John Stoehr / The Editorial Board: Vaccinations, like government, are not the opposite of freedom. They are a means toward achieving itBeth Treffeisen / Cape Cod Times:
Linda Zuern, former Bourne selectman, dies of complications of COVID-19Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA: Local GOP Official Who Spread Conspiracies And Pandemic Misinformation Dies Of COVIDMartin Longman / Progress Pond: How About Enlisting Visual Aids in the Inoculation Battle?
Monday, July 19, 2021
Crime Wave 2021
Scab Of A Nation, Driven Insane
For various reasons I intended to share this number todayCheck the original: Wypipo be craaa-zy! Good thing what excess energy & spare money I have goes to innocent hobbies, because the idea of rampage has been stewing w/in me since puberty, when many of my differences w/ the world of humanoids began. (Not that I wasn't wise to you pathetic imitations early in my existence.)Because what is trending in our “deeply traumatized country,” writes Chris Ladd at Political Orphans, are crimes of general mayhem in public settings committed by “white psycho killers, gonzo stories of ‘Florida-man’ crime,” and tales of “white ladies gone mad,” like the naked one who wrecked an Outback Steakhouse.
That was too damn short. Let's play two, to coin a phrase.
Real, Parody, Or Just The Same B.S.?
Seldom do we troll the fetid waters of The American Spectator for tidbits, but on occasion the waters bubble & we look. Here it's a friendless little memeorandum item. Remember Ben Stein? (Two words: Nixon speechwriter.) Amusing title, too.
Ben Stein / The American Spectator:And short & stupid enough to leave in its entirety. We emphasized the "funny" parts.
Goodbye, America — July 2021. A month that will live in infamy.
Franklin, Gladstone & Orwell? A trifecta of laziness? And one must admire Stein's new & very expansive interpretation of the First Amendment (Anyone w/ me on wandering over to whichever pad he's in tonight & exercising some free speech directly in his fucking ear? What about Property Rights?) as he whines "we no longer have a Constitution."July 2021. A month that will live in infamy. If there is such a thing as “history” in the Biden–Orwell–Soros omni-dictatorship, July 2021 will mark the month that the Constitution, the “greatest work ever thrown off by the hand and mind of man,” as Gladstone put it, was thrown into the Ministry of Truth Memory Hole.It was put into the “History Erase” well. A bottomless pit.
In this month, actually starting with the month before, that the superpowers of the tech world, Google, YouTube, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo, admitted to working with the Biden/NKVD administration to suppress free speech.
For months now, we had known that the tech powers were watching us and suppressing any dissident speech against the current administration. I have seen it up close and personal. But what was argued was that the First Amendment to the Constitution protected us only against Congress and the executive branch suppressing free speech. It did not protect us from private enterprises, even very large private enterprises like Amazon or Google or Facebook, keeping tabs on citizens and shutting them out of the internet-sphere if they expressed views contradicting the views and policies of the Biden–Harris–Big Tech Party.
True, there was one big case involving a large steel company suppressing free speech by its workers, and the Supreme Court ruled that such a big company suppressing free speech on its company properties was indeed a violation of the First Amendment. But that was rare indeed.
Now, in the year 2021, the iron curtain has come down hard. With Big Internet Tech and the White House now admittedly colluding to identify and suppress dissidents, even completely nonviolent dissidents, we no longer have a Constitution.
There is just one big corporate–government–IngSoc superstate running everything. Goodbye, America. The GOP, with 50 senators, does nothing. The state legislatures, by far a majority GOP, and the spineless Supreme Court do nothing. And so goodbye to the greatest experiment in the history of the world.
When the Constitutional Congress ended in the late 18th century, as Ben Franklin was walking out, an onlooker said, “What do we have, sir? A republic or a monarchy?”
Franklin answered, “A republic. If you can keep it.”
God help us.
Ben's just 'phoning it in to keep up on his property taxes.
Note turkey.Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
Mothers Monday
Two items from First Draft that apply the classics to current events.
It’s not a Zappa period piece, it’s even more relevant in 2021.Sting?
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Police Terror Situation
Woman was shot at point blank range this afternoon with a rubber bullet by police for no apparent reason. She was a counter-protestor at the anti-trans rally at WiSpa in LA. pic.twitter.com/19ZjDVmrpE
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 17, 2021
Th' hell's wrong w/ these people?
Work Train
Finally worked out a functional track plan, & have successfully forced electricity through it.
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Keep On Moving, Matt & Margie
Har har har. Canceled again. Try to get a room, you two.
[A press release or something recycled by mynewsLA.com. AP photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack.]An “America First” rally planned for Saturday at the Riverside Convention Center will not take place, the city announced Friday evening.Officials with the Raincross Hospitality Corp., which manages and operates the city-owned Riverside Convention Center under contract with the city, told city officials Friday night the event would not take place.
The rally was to feature speeches by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, and Matt Gaetz, R-Florida.
“I recognize this was a divisive issue in our community, and I am glad it has been resolved,” Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson said. “I commend Raincross Hospitality Corp. for this decision.”
The rally will instead be held at the Anaheim Event Center Saturday night, according to the America First Rally Tour website.
The rally was initially planned for the Pacific Hills Banquet & Event Center in Laguna Hills, but canceled there because “we just want to stay clear of that,” general manager Javad Mirtavoosi told The Orange County Register last week.
Friday, July 16, 2021
Friday Freak-Out: Desmond Dekker Would Have Been 80 Today
Mr. Dekker (né Desmond Adolphus Dacres) alas, went out at 64.
First recording by a Jamaican artist for which this reporter paid cash was Israelites.Despite achieving a record deal, it was two years before Dekker saw his first record released. Meanwhile, Dekker spotted the talent of Bob Marley, a fellow welder, and brought the youth to Kong's attention. In 1962 "Judge Not" and "One Cup Of Coffee" became the first recorded efforts of Marley, who retained gratitude, respect and admiration for Dekker for the rest of his life. Eventually in 1963 Kong chose "Honour Your Mother and Father" (written by Dekker and the song that Dekker had sung in his Kong audition two years earlier), which became a Jamaican hit and established Dekker's musical career.
Always In Second Place
This post is currently unpublished and scheduled for publication at Fri, 07/16/2021 - 5:01am.
It currently does not appear on the front page, but is scheduled for position 2 at Fri, 07/16/2021 - 5:01am.
Masks On!
I'll be damned; person-on-the-street interviews were shot in the parking lot of the local (3rd & Vermont) Vons.
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Hollywood Homicide
This piqued my interest, as I lived on Martel Ave., five doors south of Sunset, from 1974-'85.
Then the L.A.P.D. & the Loony Brandishing Arms community apparently doubled down, mere blocks away.A shooting involving Los Angeles police was reported Thursday in Hollywood.The shooting occurred about 11:20 a.m. near Martel Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Officers went to the area on a report of a man with a gun, and two people may have been injured, according to broadcast reports.
Wait a sec., both at 1120? Hmmm. May require further investigation. This is clarifying (NOT!!):Los Angeles police officers fatally shot a man on a busy stretch of Hollywood Boulevard on Thursday after receiving multiple 911 calls about a suspect matching the man’s description brandishing a gun on the block, police said.The shooting occurred in front of a McDonald’s on the south side of Hollywood Boulevard between North McCadden Place and Highland Avenue, next to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum and diagonally across the star-lined street from the Hollywood & Highland shopping and entertainment center.
It immediately caused chaos, bystanders said.
“People started scrambling, and there’s kids crying and moms trying to get out of there and tourists confused, and then of course everyone’s cellphones started popping out,” said Eddie Lopez, a local resident who said he was about 20 feet away, on his way to grab lunch, when the shooting occurred. “It was wild.”
Det. Meghan Aguilar, a LAPD spokeswoman, said Hollywood-area officers were called to the area about 11:20 a.m. after police received multiple calls about a man armed with a handgun.
“Some of the comments from those calls indicated he pointed a gun at somebody,” Aguilar said.
After finding the man, at least one officer opened fire under still unclear circumstances, Aguilar said. He was later transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Aguilar said.
The man, described as being in his 40s or 50s, was not immediately identified. Aguilar said what was later determined to be a replica handgun was recovered at the scene.
“Exactly what the suspect did with that handgun that led the officers to fire at him will be determined through watching body-worn video and interviewing the officers and the multiple witnesses that were here for the shooting,” she said.
Aguilar said it was unclear how many officers opened fire, or how many rounds were fired.
Lopez said the sidewalk was full of people when he heard someone who sounded extremely agitated shout, “Don’t touch me.” Then, the shots rang out, he said.
He thought he heard two shots, but someone next to him said they heard four, Lopez said.
He then saw an officer performing what he believed was CPR on the man on the ground as other officers began swarming into the area to direct people away from the scene.
“It happened so fast,” Lopez said. “We were just in shock, like, ‘Whoa, what just happened here?’”
The ambulance, however, seemed to take a long time to arrive, Lopez said.
Aguilar said one other person, a woman, was also transported to a hospital with what she described as a minor injury below the waist. Aguilar said it was not immediately clear how the woman’s injury was sustained, or whether it was a result of gunfire.
The LAPD’s Force Investigation Division, which looks into all police shootings, was on scene and conducting interviews of witnesses — including people who “encountered the suspect and are potential victims of assaults leading up to” the shooting, Aguilar said.
“It’s 12 o’clock on Hollywood Boulevard in July,” she said. “We have a lot of people that we need to talk with.”
Police expected several blocks of Hollywood Boulevard to be shut down through Thursday evening, including the intersection with Highland Avenue — a major feeder onto the 101 Freeway.
“Traffic, I’m sure, will be heavily impacted,” Aguilar said.
Many businesses along the busy tourist stretch were also forced to close as police blocked vehicle and foot traffic through the area.
Emma Colas, 27, said she was working at one of the museums on the block when the shooting occurred.
“The customers thought it was fireworks, but I was like, no, that sounds like gunshots,” she said. “Everyone was running back and forth.”
Colas said she was interviewed by police about what she’d heard — she thought it was five shots — before being told by her boss to head home for the day.
With yellow police tape in every direction, the heart of Hollywood Boulevard was closed for the day.
Uh, no. Sunset Bl. is two blocks south of Hollywood Bl., & McCadden Place is 11 blocks east of Martel. The photos in the Times are definitely of Hollywood Blvd. What the hell, mynewsLA.com, can't you even do your pathetic stenography/press release reprinting correctly?A man carrying a replica handgun was fatally shot by police in Hollywood Thursday.Los Angeles Police Department officers responded about 11:20 a.m. to the 6700 block of Hollywood Boulevard, near Martel Avenue and Sunset Boulevard, on calls of a man armed with a gun, according to a department statement.
Officers arrived at the scene and located the man, at which point, “there was an officer-involved shooting,” police said.
It was not immediately clear what led to the shooting.
The man was shot by police and taken to a hospital, where he died of his wounds. His name was not immediately released.
A female bystander sustained an unspecified injury in the incident and was taken to a hospital in unknown condition. No officers were injured in the shooting.
Detectives discovered a replica handgun at the scene and were interviewing witnesses and “people who may be the victims of assaults by the suspect,” according to an LAPD statement.
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