Republican Trifecta: Jesus Guns Babies

Also, Cold-Blooded Murder

I'm sure if one of his children had been packing everything would be just fine. Or if the Zombie Jesus had shown up to stop it, but as usual, He chickened out again.

Five dead, including three children, in Sacramento County church shooting

A man killed four people, including three of his children, before turning the gun on himself inside a church in the Sacramento suburbs on Monday evening, authorities said.

The explosion of gunfire took place at the Church in Sacramento, on Wyda Way east of Sacramento, shortly after 5 p.m., said Sgt. Rodney Grassmann, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooter took his own life, Grassmann said. It was not immediately clear who the fifth victim was, and Grassmann did not immediately identify any of the victims.

Police said there was no longer an active threat in the area.

The church had not been holding active gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to its website. Attempts to contact church officials were not immediately successful.

This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

[L.A.Times]

Light & Dark

It's Official: "Your" Lakers Suck!

Bite, chew, eat, blow, etc. N.O. Pelicans 123, L.A. Losers 95. Boos heard at The Crypto-Crypt.

Big zero is absolutely right.

It's only appropriate they play at The Crypt. That whirring sound? People spinning in their proverbial graves, many of whom aren't even buried yet.

++ungood, really.

UNHINGED!!

“I personally think he’s unhinged. I worry about his acuity and balance.”
— Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, quoted by the New York Times, on Vladimir Putin.

No sheet. Quite a few of us have been saying that about Lumpy Trumpy for some time now. And about most people to the right of, say, Mao Zedong or Che Guevara. Idiots, buffoons & lunatics, the whole lot of them.[Political Wire]

Pariah Nation Pro-Putin

Worldwide condemnation? Almost. Way to go, Israeli gummint.

Barak Ravid / Axios:

U.S. protests Israel's refusal to back UN resolution condemning Russia  —  U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield protested to her Israeli counterpart over Israel's refusal to join 87 countries in backing a U.S.-led resolution to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine at the UN Security Council …

May I Fucking Remind You?

Apparently some people skipped this class:Therefore, a suggestion:

They Tweet, I Deride

These people are filth, & nothing but filth.

Eat poop you two-faced, front-running hypocrite. And try to get some connection to reality.

— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) February 27, 2022

Shoot-Out At The HoO.K.ah Corral

"Two Or More Males ..."

Saturday Sage Burning

Another classic perverted by telebision advertising use*. And I learned that The Sonics went to the well of cultural appropriation twice w/ Richard "Louie Louie" Berry. (Perfectly acceptable as long as R.B. rec'd. royalties.)Which is more American, love or a gun?

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*Don't get it; surely most ad agency music directors or whatever are in their 20s or 30s, not aging wretches such as I who remember when such a fast & throbbing number was something to look forward to on the radio. (Possible a rockin' teen combo called The Black Keys or another outfit kept it alive.)

Hook & Ladder Part Deux

Too long for Bugger to embed, had to go to YouTube & go through that rigamarole. Imposition after idiotic imposition; how I suffer for my art! Your turn to suffer now.

Echo Park, baby!

Hook & Ladder

No idea what this was about. False alarm? Wondering if there was a camera on the end of the ladder; certainly wasn't a human. Several pieces of F.D. gear arrived, blocking eastbound traffic on Third, but didn't stick around (possibly because the street was already filled w/ apparatus) as this was going on.

Is It Gawdam Friday Yet? Is It Still Fucking February? When The Hell Is Standard Time Finished?

Questions, questions, questions ...

Fifth Columnists Meet In America's Drooping Pecker

A deeper analysis.

Limey Film Royalty, James Garner & A Beatles Bonus

It was 58 yrs. ago today ...Recorded 60 yrs. ago.2021 mix, for whatever reason.Or you could try the 2009 remaster, "Anthology 1 Version / Complete", as opposed to "Anthology 1 Version / False Starts", performed on a rooftop somewhere, the "Naked Version / Remastered 2013", a rehearsal, the 1969 Glyn Johns Mix, & Take 3. That's just the first page. Knock yourselves out.

Plus which, "Move over, Rover ..."

It's On, Don't Panic!!!

(((Globalist))) Them Down!

Editor’s Note: This story contains direct references to anti-Semitic language.

Two legislators in the state’s Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee have apologized after using anti-Semitic language when commenting on a state lease agreement on Tuesday.

Rep. Walker Thomas, R-Hopkinsville, and committee chairman Sen. Rick Girdler, R-Somerset, both used the phrase “Jew them down” in reference to bargaining for a lower price on a lease.

Read more at: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article258667388.html#storylink=cpy

Hope this is anti-Dachau.

Same Nest, Different Day

If At First You Don't Succeed, Breed Breed Again

11 months ago.Today.Not you damn humans 'though. Put it back in your pants & zip it up!

Two Trees

South side.

North side.

Or maybe it's the same damn tree; can't remember.

Bee Supply Tightening

Nina Simone

America Continues Eating Its Young

The Atlantic published 10X more articles lamenting school Covid protocols than it did on the sunsetting of a Tax Credit that threw 3.7M children back into poverty.

Despite their constant consternation over covid protocols and their effects on "the children", The Atlantic has a limited framework for what harms to children matter.

Hypocritical pigs who couldn't possibly care any less about anyone who isn't a white middle-class suburbanite having a fit because their children couldn't be warehoused for them a while.

[The Column]

Sunday Succulents

Obligatory Daily Item

It's about discipline, not content.

FEAR Friday

This song, sadly, is perpetually relevant to your rotten, rancid species, & apparently will be until you cretins manage to nuke yourselves into oblivion.Soon, please, so I won't miss your well-deserved demises.

Beautiful in its way, innit? And large enough it's probably a meteor impact. I'll take whatever I can get.

Friday Finger

Farfisa!

Driving On Sunset

Cahuenga Blvd. to almost Queens Rd. in less than 11 mins., 1952-stylee. Could it be done today?The stretch between (4:21) & (7:35) was once described in an L.A. Times restaurant review as "the no-man's land between La Brea & Fairfax". This reporter lived half-a-block south (to the viewer's right) on Martel Ave. (5:32), 1974-1985. That Safeway was not there, & most of the car lots & gas stations in the film were history by 1973. Did see quite a few flicks at the Oriental in the next block, but it eventually was absorbed by the Guitar Center. Just past the Oriental is the Sunset Grill.

The colorization is interesting. Much more precise than that smeary crap Ted Turner gave us, but can't seem to keep the cars from shimmering.Audible audio.

Driving On Mars

Listening On Mars

Thursday's Turkeys

The American landscape: Assholes & morons as far as the eye can see.

Washington Post:

Trump endorses Texas congressional candidate accused of abusive behavior toward her estranged husband's daughter  —  Former president Donald Trump on Thursday offered his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of Monica De La Cruz, a Republican congressional candidate in Texas whose campaign …

Jacob Bliss / Breitbart:   Donald Trump Endorses Texas Republican Monica De La Cruz

Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:   Trump Endorses Woman Accused of Abusing Child

Timothy Bella / Washington Post:

Delta passenger tried to open emergency door as attention-grab to share vaccine views, feds say  —  A Delta Air Lines passenger is facing federal charges after he allegedly tried to open an emergency door in-flight in the hope that other passengers would record him sharing his views on coronavirus vaccines, prosecutors announced Monday.

Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:   Delta passenger tried to open exit door in hopes of sharing COVID vaccine views

Paul Best / Fox News:   Flight attendants' union pushes no-fly list for unruly passengers: ‘Our flights are under attack’

And from the State of Georgia, the Kinder, Küche, Kirche candidate in the Republican gubernatorial primary.

[Politicalprof]

Hot Stamping

Using 39 of these to support the Railroad to Nowhere; they're worth sell for US$10.00 to 11.00, un-hot stamped.
Hot stamping is US$295.00, whether you're getting three or 96.

Words

Guerilla advertising? Wacky absurdity? Rich fantasy life? It's a mystery.

Fake News Round-Up

Hippie-Dippie New Age Bullshit Artist Marianne Williamson Sez Whut?

Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:

Marianne Williamson calls out AOC's ‘bullshit’ for dodging question on whether Pelosi should lead Dem caucus  —  The former Dem presidential candidate accused the ‘Squad’ member of ‘doublespeak’  —  AOC's GOP challenger proposes federal death penalty for convicted cop killers

Paul Bois / Breitbart:   AOC Will Not Commit to Voting Against Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker

"Former Dem presidential candidate". Yeah, she came in a close second at the convention & we were all surprised Biden didn't want her to be his vice-president. No, wait ... "Marianne Williamson is a former Democratic candidate for president of the United States in 2020. She ended her campaign on January 10, 2020." Eff you right in the mouth, Joseph Wulfsohn.

The Fright-fart item is grasping at straws. What do they expect her to say?

And what can this reporter or anyone sane say about "federal death penalty for convicted cop killers"? Let's see some numbers. How many ossifers are murdered in the line of duty in comparison w/ people killed by police each yr.? Bet even the number of unarmed people killed by the heat is significantly less. "AOC's GOP challenger", however, knows the real problem.

El Cheapo

Was this planned by the same clowns who redid the uniforms? Are they unaware of, like, light & stuff, man?

Did they change the Hollywood sign to Rams House with toilet paper? Name a worse Hollywood production than this. #Rams @bryanbehar @jimmykimmel @KenTremendous @richeisen pic.twitter.com/RXMvVYa4pL

— LandFlounder32 (@LFlounder32) February 16, 2022

P.S.: Sure bet that if they'd used something solid it would've been easier & faster to erect in the wind. Simpletons.

Clouded Moon

Another Brick In The Wall

Maybe it's a poke in the eye.

LA Metro To Reduce Bus, Rail Service Due To Operator Shortage

So not only am I further inconvenienced, but fewer busses means more crowded busses; crowded w/ filthy disgusting humanoids spreading the damn plague. Smart move Metro. Just means even more of your operators bus drivers will be getting infected/sick.

[Bla bla bla.]

Good Job!

It's supposed to read "Rams House". What a sad, pathetic fucking joke, just like everything else in this world of shit & pain. Why do any of you fucking cretins even bother? Just lie down & die already, you'll be dead soon enough anyway.

Sooner, if this reporter has anything to do w/ it.

Here are the pathetic excuses. "Too many cooks ..."

Neon Queen

Jumping On The Bandwagon

City Of Champions, Losers!

Spotted on the sales floor of Jaguar Land Rover Los Angeles on La Brea.
What'll you bet QB Stafford or a family member owns a Jag or Rover?

Today In Schadenfreude

Haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw. Take your irksome, tedious bullshit back to Alaska, half-term quitter.

Thirsty? You Will Be.

Dehydration Nation

Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:

West megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years  —  Western Megadrought Record  —  The American West's megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and is a worst-case climate change scenario playing out live, a new study finds.

Nathan Rott / NPR:   Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years

Dry up & blow away already, humanoid scum.

Sorry, Cincy

W/ both pro hoops teams fallen below .500 & unlikely to pick themselves up, it's either college hoops or Southern California will be picking up on this Canadian ice-soccer that, we are led to understand, is indeed popular enough they can charge admission to their ponds & sell advertising on the telly. Maybe baseball, having locked itself out & endangered spring training, will manage to get in through a window or something & start the season close to on time. Not holding my breath, however, & the traditional 154 games would be fine w/ me.

Two-Minute Warning

Gee, where's the Freedumb Convoy? Chicken-shit assholes.

"A Killer in The Crowd"

Shoot 'em, burn 'em, whatever. And to hell w/ St. Valentine's Day tomorrow & the NBA All-Star Game next wk.

End Of The Bullshit

Come April I will have been scouring the iNternet for something worthy in a dying medium about once a month for five fucking yrs., for which I have rec'd. not one fucking material thing. Indeed, nothing but e-mailed "Thank Yous", which of course aren't worth the paper on which they'd be printed. Capitalist exploitation of the worst kind.

You're the lying crook, John Amato, living in the Palisades while those who create value for you from a one-room cold-water dump in Koreatown are screwed in the ass every fucking month by everything & everybody.

Can't fucking imagine why I have a jaundiced view of your filthy species & its non-stop hypocrisy. WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS WRONG W/ YOU PEOPLE? How much longer do you all think you can keep fucking me before I take revenge?

It Could Happen!

And it'd be O.K. by this reporter, he's miles from Inglewood. Think the truck-drivers are organized & on their way here?

Not Again

Yes, again, & one more to go. Today's will be here around 0501 PST. Let's get those clicks over 1,000, slackers!!

State Of Emergency

Canookies clamp down!

Adam Carter / CBC News:

Ontario declares state of emergency in response to convoy protests

Julia Conley / Common Dreams:   Ontario Premier Declares State of Emergency Over Anti-Vax ‘Siege’

Bella diGrazia / WHDH-TV:   Ontario declares an emergency over truck blockades in Canada

Rob Gillies / Bangor Daily News:   Ontario declares an emergency over truck blockades in Canada

Twelve Thirty Six:   Convoy vortex action weekend spectacular!

Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:   State of emergency declared in Ontario over trucker blockades: 'It's time to go'

Leyland Cecco / The Guardian:   Ontario declares state of emergency, threatening fines and jail time to end blockade

National Observer:   Doug Ford declares state of emergency. Protesters blocking critical roadways could be fined up to $100,000 or jailed

Dave Urbanski / TheBlaze:   State of emergency declared in Ontario amid Canadian truckers convoy: ‘This is a pivotal, pivotal moment for our nation’

Have the army use some tanks to push a few rigs into the river, I say.

Phony Beatlemania Breaks Out In Washington, D.C.

More Crap No One Will Read

Screw everybody on this planet who doesn't read me. Tasteless, cretinous Philistines, all seven+ billion of you!

++Funky Friday Freak Out

J.B. comes home to Agusta, 1 October 1969.

The Sheep Look Up

Interest is great. You put your money in a bank right now and get 0.5% interest but if you borrow from a bank your credit card has a 20% interest rate and your student loan charges 7%.

Almost like the whole system is designed to just siphon your money upward.

— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) February 10, 2022

Almost.

Yo, Bill 5Gates!

Weren't we all supposed to have Windows 11 by now? Not that this reporter gives a fucking shit (Hah! I know damn well it'll be worse.) one way or another, but why does Microsoft keep sending updates for the current iteration of Windows, which is so 2021? 2020, even.

10 Yrs. Ago

10 February 2012, 1740PST

This Date In Film History

I need blood, can barely breathe
I'll buy your vacuum, but you'll never leave
'Cause I'll put your head in a milk bottle!

Allegedly Roger Corman's classic Not of This Earth made its theatrical debut on 10 February 1957.Two spin-offs & the inspiration for this classic.And you thought you were alienated.

Hump Day

For no particular reason. Taken 18 or 19 January 2012.

Fourth of seven. Finally, we are careening downhill, out of control & at a breakneck pace. Still bored &/or irked by all that I see, however. How can the squares stand it? I guess because they're so square they're completely unaware.

The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling! Again.

I'm bet that come 2024 we'll begging & praying for the Giant Meteor, if not an alien invasion.Unless creepy Elon Musk's Teslas &/or SpaceX have killed us all by then.

🎼It Was 20 55 Yrs. Ago Today ...🎵

Round Three

Expect it here. Get on it people, yesterday's is still short of 1,000 views.

Busted!!

Memo to the Dep't. of Justice: Take a fucking clue from the Mesa County, Colorado D.A. & Grand Junction P.D. &
arrest all the other "Trumpy" types. How to do it:Nice red white & blue w/ phony platinum hair outfit*.

Bente Birkeland / Colorado Public Radio:

Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters arrested after allegedly recording court hearing

Azmi Haroun / Insider:   Pro-Trump Colorado clerk being investigated for alleged election tampering appears to kick at police officer during arrest

Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:   Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters arrested by Grand Junction police for resisting search warrant

Saja Hindi / Denver Post:   Mesa County clerk Tina Peters arrested in Grand Junction, suspected of deceiving judge

Charles Ashby / Daily Sentinel:   Peters to face arrest after resisting search warrant

John Wright / Raw Story:   WATCH: Trump-loving Colorado clerk Tina Peters scuffles with police during arrest

Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:   Trumpy Colorado County Clerk Tina Peters Arrested After Resisting Search Warrant: Reports

Talk about unsafe practices w/ gov't. records. Lock 'em both up!!

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*In other fashion observations, no tie on either newsweasel is a good move. Not so sure about the pocket square w/o a tie look, & damn certain the white t-shirt under the b&w tablecloth shirt is not hap'nin.

Another A-List

Even more eclectic (& less comprehensible) than our previous selections from Clear Channel's post-11 September 2001 "cancel" list. "Travelin' Band"? Something I missed there?Sissy snowflake Yankees, scared of even the merest mention of mortality.

Why Fucking Bother?

745 views in nine hrs.? Fuck alla y'all!

Trolling Loon Of The Day

Arizona lawmaker Wendy Rogers tops advocacy group's extremist politician list

Rogers routinely shares inflammatory messages, and appears on web shows affiliated with alleged White Nationalist and anti-Semitic hosts.

Wendy, Wendy, what went wrong, oh so wrong? Why do you hate America so?Darby was right to call for a total and complete shutdown until we can figure out what the hell's going on.Payback, Mme. Arid Zone State Senator?Per Wikipedia, Sen. Rogers holds an M.S. in national security studies from California State University, San Bernardino.[KPNX/Spotted at MMfA]

The Dickens You Say!

An eclectic selection. Of Americans. Guess I'm turning into a chauvinist in my dotage. Furriners other than Chas. D. were born on this date as well.

• 1804 John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (founded Deere & Company), born in Rutland, Vermont (d. 1886)
• 1814 Gardner Quincy Colton, American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry, born in Georgia, Vermont [Nitrous! That was scientific genius. — M.B.]
• 1885 [Harry] Sinclair Lewis, American writer and social critic (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930), born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota (d. 1951)
• 1908 Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, American swimmer (Olympic gold 1932) and actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Buck Rogers & three Flash Gordon serials), born in Oakland, California (d. 1983)
• 1917 Milton "Milt" Holland, American drummer, percussionist, ethnomusicologist (film Tinkerbell's tinkle*, Bewitched's nose-twitch tinkle†), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2005)
• 1934 "King" Curtis [Ousley], American musician, bandleader and saxophonist (Memphis Soul Stew), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1971)
• 1950 Burt Hooton, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (MLB All-Star, World Series, NLCS MVP 1981; no-hitter 1972; Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers), born in Greenville, Texas
• 1956 Emo Philips, American comedian
• 1956 Mark St. John [Norton], American rock guitarist (KISS, April-November, 1984), born in Hollywood, California (d. 2007)

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Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Friends, Once More ...

Hrs. of wk., hrs., right here.

Editorial From An Alternate Earth, By The Financial Times

Financial Times:

Joe Biden must confront the left's cultural over-reach  —  Many liberal Americans too worry about the excesses of progressive activism  —  Last month, Bill Maher, a pot-smoking bachelor and no one's idea of a traditionalist, used his HBO talk show to attack America's political left.

Could we worry a bit about the fascist right's political over-reach, to wit, sedition, insurrection, fraud, voter & voting suppression, allowing state legislatures to decide whose votes are counted, yada, rather than distracting the rubes w/ culture war clichés?

(Oh, right. It's the F.T. They want the sheep distracted from economic & political truth. Knowing that makes all this an exercise in futility. Why bother, to coin a phrase.)

And perhaps there could be a call for more than two or three elected Republicans to condemn that over-reach & referring to 6 January 2021 at the Capitol as "legitimate political discourse", rather than calling on Biden to do something about whatever in hell "cultural over-reach" is. A damn shame we couldn't read some examples, as if anything beyond the alternate-reality headline were needed to generate yucks.

Nonetheless, the headline's silliness is confirmed in the selection above from memeorandim, via the newsreader. The ancient by iNternet standards "Even the liberal Bill Maher" schtick. Sweet blood of Jesus, a pot-smoking bachelor* attacked the left? Will the F.T. soon breathlessly advise us that a dog has bitten a man?

As far as "cultural activism", I must wonder if the F.T. chanced to mention actual book banning by rightist-dominated gov't. agencies & legislatures & private party religious-based (only one so far) book burning? Or the armed intimidation that's becoming more popular on the right?

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*Th' hell? Would it be worth mentioning if a booze-swilling guy who had two or three marriages & abandoned families under his belt opened his big yap? Hey, y'know who else is a bachelor & has attacked America's political left? Lindsey Graham, for one. Drug-abuser & long-time bachelor who literally declared war on America? Adolf Hitler.

Your Flight Has Been "Cancelled"

Actual & more than deserved cancellation, should the current chicken-booty admin. tell the T.S.A. to wise up & deal w/ the actual, domestic threat to national security rather than worry about shampoo bottles & the soles of our shoes.

Kelly Yamanouchi / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Delta asks Justice Dept. to put unruly passengers on national no-fly list  —  Delta Air Lines is asking the U.S. Justice Department to create a national no-fly list of passengers who have been convicted for on-board disruptions.  —  Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta, wrote a letter …

J F / VINnews:   Delta Asks DOJ To Put Unruly Passengers On No-Fly List

Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:   Delta Air Lines asks Justice Department to help set up national ‘no-fly’ list of unruly passengers

Nothing will happen until a freedumb loving American manages to bring down a 'plane. If then. America is reactionary in every sense of the word.