High surf advisory means 'barrels' of fun in Seal Beach
or ho-dads, "expert surfers" only, sez LAist.
High surf advisory means 'barrels' of fun in Seal Beach
Louisiana often holds inmates past their release date, DOJ lawsuit claims
Nothing to see here, just that awful Biden administration daring to pursue justice for people w/o money or power. Not to worry, won't be any more of that under corporate rule. Not even after this starts happening to honkies & crackers too. Also coming soon: Debtors' prison. ++schadenfreude!In a joint statement provided to The Associated Press, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and state Attorney General Liz Murrill blamed the problem on the “failed criminal justice reforms” advanced by “the past administration.”“This past year, we have taken significant action to keep Louisianans safe and ensure those who commit the crime, also do the time,” the statement reads. “The State of Louisiana is committed to preserving the constitutional rights of Louisiana citizens.”
The Republican state officials also characterized the effort as a last-ditch lawsuit by outgoing President Joe Biden, reasoning that the incoming administration of Donald Trump would not have allowed the case to be filed.
Advocates have repeatedly challenged the conditions in Louisiana’s prison system, which includes the country’s largest maximum-security prison, known as Angola, where incarcerated individuals toil under the blazing sun picking vegetables by hand at what was once a slave plantation".
Time to starve the middle & upper classes!Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
Note that nasty witch Althouse goes straight to the victim blaming. Solidarity, right Ann?Tina Moore / New York Post:
NYPD's top cop Jeffrey Maddrey abruptly resigns after allegedly demanding underling perform sexual favors — including ‘kiss his penis’ — in exchange for overtime — The NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer abruptly resigned late Friday night after The Post uncovered explosive allegations …Gabrielle M. Etzel / Washington Examiner: Highest ranking NYPD officer resigns in face of sexual misconduct allegationsPhilip Marcelo / Los Angeles Times: Top-ranking NYPD officer abruptly resigns amid sexual misconduct allegationsJoe Jervis / Joe.My.God.: Top NYPD Cop Resigns Amid Sex Abuse AllegationsElizabeth Kim / Gothamist: NYPD's top uniformed cop out after more claims of sex abuse, commissioner shuffles leadershipNew York Daily News: NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey resigns amid bombshell sex abuse, harassment claims
Did you think this had to do w/ the L.A. Times? This does:Maddy Crowell / Columbia Journalism Review:A look at the erosion of editorial independence at Los Angeles magazine, which was bought in late 2022 by Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas' Engine Vision Media — The editor of Los Angeles magazine recruited new owners, who promised to invest in ambitious journalism. The trouble was, he believed them.Maer Roshan / @maerroshan: When @markgeragos and @meiselasb bought @LAmag, they vowed to restore the nation's first city magazine to its former glory. Instead they're using it as a vanity pub to promote themselves and their ventures.@CJR has the story. https://www.cjr.org/...@cjr: The editor of Los Angeles magazine recruited new owners, who promised to invest in ambitious journalism. The trouble was, he believed them. New by Maddy Crowell https://www.cjr.org/...Andrew Nusca / @editorialiste: “What's happened at Los Angeles [magazine] seems increasingly common, as owners appear to believe they know something that those who have built careers in publishing do not.” https://www.cjr.org/...Maer Roshan / @maerroshan.bsky.social: When lawyers Mark Geragos and Ben Meiseles bought Los Angeles magazine in 2022, they vowed to restore the nation's first city magazine to its former glory. Instead they remade it into a vanity publication that promotes themselves and their ventures. The Columbia Journalism Review has the story.
A damn shame that stupid South African jerk wasn't there.More Than 70 People Reported Feeling Ill After Eating Oysters At L.A. Times ‘101 Restaurants’ Food Event
Ragusano is disappointed that the L.A. Times didn’t publicly disclose that there was an outbreak at their event. “Obviously they’re not going to print it in their paper,” Ragusano said. “But they‘re a newspaper and newspapers are supposed to share the news. This is how people usually find out about something like this,” she added. “It's ironic because it happened to them.”
Shut your festering gobs, nasty poor people!! |
Man, I wish the Times were still sold in newsboxes; bet they'd burn nicely.LA Times owner asks editorial board to ‘take a break’ from writing about Trump – report
Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who said paper is ‘echo chamber’, also blocked paper’s board from endorsing Harris
The food & the service here suck! |
O brave new world, where two perfect strangers separated by thousands of miles but w/ the same desire to kill can meet electronically & plot the deaths of as many lumps of undifferentitaed tissue as they can possibly slaughter. Inspiring, innit?KFMB:
20-year-old Carlsbad man accused of coordinating attack with Madison school shooterAnnabella Rosciglione / Washington Examiner: Twenty-year-old California man detained in connection with Wisconsin school shootingJim Hᴏft / The Gateway Pundit: California Man Detained for Allegedly Conspiring with Teen Behind Wisconsin Christian School Shooting in Chilling Plot to Blow Up Government BuildingHannah Nightingale / The Post Millennial: REVEALED: Madison school shooter coordinated attack with California man: FBIIsabel Keane / New York Post: Wisconsin school shooter Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow had 2 guns, possible accompliceRich McKay / Reuters: Wisconsin shooter contacted California man planning separate attack, reports sayMuri Assunção / New York Daily News: Calif. man accused of being in contact with Madison school shooter, plotting own attack: reportSierra Marlee / BizPac Review: Accomplice? Man arrested after allegedly plotting shooting with Natalie Rupnow
Gawdamighty, stop the fucking hand-wringing you cretin. Homo sapiens is a vicious killer species, & this particular nation is psychotic enough to allow any killer ape to have & use battlefield weapons, while allowing capitalism & its handmaiden, greed (Or is that the other way around?) to murder anyone who hasn't the money to pay for medical care & drugs. This society has never been "civilized". Anyone who believes it ever was is either an ignorant moron or yet another two-bit, two-faced hypocrite. How'd you get a job typing for a once-prestigious rag like The Atlantic?Decivilization May Already Be Under Way
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed.
By Adrienne LaFrance
School's out forever!! |
Your fucking Gawd has had many many yrs. to "do something mighty", but It's been sitting on Its hands for some fucking time now. Keep waiting, you dumb cult member.Barbara Wiers, Abundant Life's elementary and school relations director, said during an evening press conference that the school does not have guns on the premises — students aren't even allowed to shoot fake finger guns on the playground, she said. "At school, we have no need for guns."Earlier that evening, she told reporters that the school did not have metal detectors but "there are a number of security protocols in place" such as cameras. She said every student is "visually scanned" as they enter the building each morning.
"We see ourselves as a family, not just a community," Wiers said. "This wasn't a surprise to God, and He's going to do something mighty with it."
In a post on its public Facebook page, the school requested prayers.
City Church of Madison, which shares a campus with the school, said because of the shooting, there would be no activities or events held Monday evening, but Tuesday night prayers would resume as normal.
I'm sure that South African publisher clown thinks all the appointments are the very best. Send him back!Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson:Internal message: one of the last two members of the LAT editorial board says he's stepping down as editorial writer due to recent moves by the outlet's owner — NEW: One of the last 2 Los Angeles Times editorial board members, Tony Barboza, says in an internal Slack that he's stepping down and moving to the newsroom because of “recent decisions and statements from the owner that have damaged our credibility and our journalism”
Dig the Karmann Ghia, Harley Servi-car & Fügsvütten at the light. |
Once again stupid fucking jerks place us all in jeopardy. Eventually one of these sci-fi scenarios is coming true, I hope while I'm still stuck on this dungpile planet & can wring every last milligram of schadenfreude from it.[The Grauniad]‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research
Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections
Everything about this story & this horrible world makes me sick. |
The Earl of Sandwich hopes this ninny dies protecting her shithole country from carbohydrates too. What's w/ these people & food? Enough, inane diet dronesMatt Honeycombe-Foster / Politico:UK Tory leader: Sandwiches aren't real — Kemi Badenoch “will not touch bread if it's moist.” — Britain's Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch kicked off a heated political debate about a lunchtime favorite Thursday after declaring that sandwiches are not “a real food.”Spectator: ‘I will die protecting this country’: Kemi Badenoch on where she plans to take the Tories
Hey, when is lunch?A bacon sandwich (also known in parts of the United Kingdom and New Zealand as a bacon butty, bacon bap, bacon cob or bacon sarnie) is a sandwich of cooked bacon.
And of course protestors are jailed. Again I remind America: A lack of First Amendment rights leads to the use of pesky Second Amendment rights.Protestors disrupted a chamber proceeding after North Carolina House Republicans enacted legislation that erodes some powers of several statewide offices newly-elected Democrats are slated to hold next month. (AP video shot by Makiya Seminera and Gary Robertson). Read more: https://bit.ly/49xfpjG
They're Killing Us
I was all set to publish a normal daily report today when I came across two bits of news: Idaho Republicans are back in federal court fighting for the right to deny women life-saving abortions, and South Carolina lawmakers have reintroduced legislation to make abortion punishable by the death penalty. Considering this comes at the same time that politicians are disbanding or tampering with maternal mortality committees in order to cover up the fact that their bans kill women, it seemed like the right moment to take a step back and acknowledge how absolutely fucking crazy this is.
They’re killing us, and we’re meant to behave as if it’s business as usual.
Anti-abortion politicians and activists have demonstrated again and again that they believe women’s lives are expendable—worthless, really, if not for our reproductive ability. Yet we’re expected to sit here and react to that violence as if it’s simply politics. As if it’s perfectly fine that our suffering and deaths are being debated in statehouses and courtrooms as if we’re not human beings, but thought exercises and legal arguments.
This tree is ugly & it wants to die. |
Stupid woman seems to have started the whole thing as well as been an accessory, why does she get off so easily? Give her 20 yrs. She won't cause more trouble when she's out.A 44-year-old woman pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to 200 hours of community service for helping her friend get away from the scene of a fatal stabbing in a Laguna Niguel bar.Elizabeth Anne Thornburg pleaded guilty to a felony count of being an accessory after the fact. She accepted a plea deal from Orange County Superior Court Judge Andre Manssourian, according to court records.
Thornburg was placed on two years of formal probation and ordered to perform the community service at a location “focused on racial sensitivity,” according to court records.
Co-defendant Craig Matthew Tanber was sentenced in February 2020 to 56 years to life in prison for killing 22-year-old Shayan Mazroei at Patsy’s Irish Pub Sept. 6, 2015.
The deadly conflict with Mazroei started when Thornburg got into a dispute with the victim. Mazroei had been playing billiards with friends when he stepped outside to smoke a cigarette and got into an argument with her, Senior Deputy District Attorney Mark Birney said in Tanber’s trial.
Thornburg shared “her views of Persians and of people from the Middle East” with Mazroei and spit at him, Birney said.
Mazroei, in turn, “spit on her three or four times” as he walked back into the bar, prompting Thornburg to chase him, the prosecutor said.
Mazroei appealed to bar security guard Mark Fillingham for help as an “upset and enraged” Thornburg chased him around the pool table, Birney said.
Fillingham told Thornburg to leave the bar as Tanber exited the bathroom, Birney said. Just after midnight, Fillingham told the couple “they’re not coming back into the bar,” according to the prosecutor, who said two bar patrons saw Tanber “ranting” about “having a knife and wanting to stab someone.”
A bartender summoned Fillingham for help with another issue, leaving Tanber unattended at the door, according to Birney, who said the defendant opened the door and yelled “`You!’ as he motions to Shayan.”
Mazroei “casually” walked over to the door and Tanber struck him “with a very strong left-hand punch” to the face, then plunged a knife into his heart and left shoulder blade, Birney said.
Mazroei “stumbled” back into the bar and collapsed, and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, he said.
Tanber ran away and deputies later found his windbreaker and the knife, he said.
In the moments before the stabbing, Tanber was heard by witnesses saying, “No one disrespects my girl,” he said.
Tanber was also heard referring to the victim with a slur against people of Middle Eastern descent and threatening to “teach him my way of correction from the penitentiary,” Birney said.
Thornburg was charged with being an accessory after the fact for picking up Tanber in the area and giving him a ride to her Mission Viejo home.
Tanber was free on parole at the time he killed Mazroei. He had been charged with murder in the April 4, 2004, beating death of 26-year-old Cory Lamons in Huntington Beach, but struck a plea deal with prosecutors after a mistrial was declared when an alternate juror Googled a co-defendant and shared the information with other panelists.
Tanber pleaded guilty Feb. 2, 2007, to voluntary manslaughter and admitted a sentencing enhancement for committing the crime to benefit a street gang, according to court records. He also pleaded guilty to dissuading a witness by force, street terrorism and assault with a deadly weapon or force likely to produce great bodily injury, and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Can't bring myself to post leech images. |
Well then, most "modern" translations are a motherfucking lie if they don't allow for justified, righteous killing in self-defense, or for your tribe, or because you're a police ossifer. I dare all of you to stop your filthy hypocrisy for just five fucking minutes. Can't do it, can you?According to the Ten Commandments, the correct phrase is "Thou shalt not murder", not "Thou shalt not kill" - meaning the commandment refers to unlawful killing, not all forms of taking a life; most modern translations use "murder" rather than "kill" to clarify this distinction.
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Tell me, imbecile whose name ends in a vowel*, what was being done about the anger before justice was rendered?Oliver Barnes / Financial Times:UnitedHealth shooting stokes mourning and glee on social media — Jubilation among some users highlights scale of Americans' frustration over their health system — The killing on Wednesday of a top UnitedHealth Group executive unleashed a wave of commiseration, but also revelryTom Howell Jr / Washington Times: Shocking response to UnitedHealth killing spotlights Americans' outrage at insurance systemSamantha Cole / 404 Media: Behind the Blog: Healthcare and its StakeholdersNicholas Florko / The Atlantic: Murder is an Awful Answer for Health Care Anger