Hollywood Easter

Accidental juxtaposition, but what the hell.

Easter Trio

Rite Of Spring

Spring sprang almost two wks. ago. These people are literally retarded, & by a lot more than two wks.

SNACKS

Today In Nihilistic "Metaphors"

Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:

Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid

Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:   GOP Congressman Calls For Treating Gaza ‘Like Nagasaki And Hiroshima’

Todd Spangler / USA Today:   Video shows Michigan congressman appear to call for nuclear bombs to be dropped on Gaza

Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:   ‘Like Nagasaki And Hiroshima!’ Republican Congressman Says To ‘Get It Over Quick’ in Gaza At Town Hall

Rich Johnson / NewsNation:   Gaza resolution ‘should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’: Michigan Rep.

Michigan U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg suggested that nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, which his office said was a metaphor to “support Israel’s swift elimination of Hamas.”

So when I casually mention that the throats of most people on this benighted planet should be slit immediately to support humanity’s swift elimination of excess population that's killing us my office can say it was a metaphor & nothing else will happen? Good to know. Have I mentioned my theory of excess population? No? Well ...

Solitary Palm

Infrastructure Week

Penny-wise & pound-foolish.For those who can still process text.

And Now For Something Almost Completely Different

Auto-focus didn't, so I auto-corrected about 10 times.

Could've been the cover of an '80s novel about L.A.lienation. 'Specially if the image is flipped, leaving space for title & author over the shorter trees. See? Space in the middle for the spine, too.

Friday Freak Out

Maybe "Diddy The Pimp" would be more accurate.

Friday Finger

White Xian Murkin Jesus has a message of love for you.

"I didn't die for your sins, jerkwad!"

Friday Fairy Tale

He's executed, he chills in a quiet, dark cave for three days, he wakes up & ascends to "heaven". Not much of a sacrifice, if you ask me. Three days in a cave is hardly eternal damnation in the pits of hell. (Pretty restful, actually.) Sounds like a privileged little shit whose Dad owns a car dealership. You think Gawd got an earful from Junior about being left dead over the whole wknd.?

How can these people tell whoppers like this after claiming their Gawd told them not to lie through their rotting teeth? It's one of the eternal mysteries.

Angels Lose To Orioles, 11-3; Dodgers Drub Cards, 7-1

Only six months to go!

Opening Day (Domestic)

Any Takers For A "Gawd Damn America!" Bible?

Someone's Desperate, & Hypocrisy Results

Nobody makes me pray, certainly not a fat piece of two-faced (both of them orange) crap.

Joe Lieberman Is A Ghost

"Complications of a fall." Centrist scum. Will not be missed here. Can the rest of "No Labels" fall down too?

Same Sad Shit, Different Damn Day

Every afternoon I wake up & remember where I am & w/ whom & what I'm stuck on this miserable planet & I want to start killing immediately.

This afternoon was no fucking different.

That the vast majority of humanoids are so stupid they don't realize they should get it over w/ & kill themselves now is the greatest condemnation of your species. Stuff up the cracks & turn on the gas already!

Trouble On Wilshire

And you are there!

An armed suspect barricaded himself in Koreatown Tuesday, prompting an [sic] standoff with law enforcement.

Officers responded to the 3900 block of Wilshire Boulevard around 2:40 p.m. on a report of an assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

It was unclear if anyone had been injured.

Police established a containment in the area.

No further immediate details were available.

I thought the action might be at St. James', but it was in the office bldg. converted to apartments to the left, per the snotty oinker to whom I spoke.

Th' hell's this yob smiling about?

These images were captured at 1706, so nothing had transpired in the ensuing two and a half hrs. since the initial response.

Video as numbing as the entire situation.

Text from the illiterates at mynewsLA.com.

Today In Racist Republican Stupidity

Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:

Baltimore bridge collapse caused by DEI efforts, Utah Rep. Phil Lyman says  —  Lyman, who is also running for Utah governor, blamed diversity efforts for the disaster.  —  Phil Lyman, a Utah Republican lawmaker and candidate for governor, quickly used Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse …

 Arianna Coghill / Mother Jones:   A List of Weird Stuff the Right Connected to the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

The Hill:   12:30 Report — Baltimore bridge rescue efforts continue

Sky Palma / Raw Story:   Watch: Fox News host tries to link Baltimore bridge collapse to border crisis

I was expecting howls of "Terrorism!" in reaction to this, but Maryland's Governor is not 100% white, & appointed a D.E.I. consultant to the Baltimore Port Commission, so internal cultural enemies may be blamed.

This is what happens when you have Governors who prioritize diversity over the wellbeing and security of citizens. https://t.co/lSU0RDUIi7

— Phil Lyman for Governor (@phil_lyman) March 26, 2024

As is well known, the Port Commissioners are directly & personally responsible for preventing engine failures in the port.

Did Rep. Lyman blame Giuliani & all the wop-a-dago D.E.I. for the events of 11 Sep't. 2001? Probably not. A Mormon, an accountant, & a convicted trespasser who was pardoned by Trump. I.e., brain-dead.

Re-Zoned For Development!

Over 100,000 HO Scale Square Feet W/ Access To Roads & The Railroad Are Now Available For Lease
Or Purchase

Where's The Outrage?

When Does The Shooting Start?

What are you chumps scared of? Your empty, meaningless lives are nasty, brutish & pathetically short; you have nothing to live for, & nothing to lose. Why delay the inevitable? Grab a gun & start shooting! Anarchy now, nihilism forever!!

Deep Fake

Nothing Is Real. Or Is It?

Via Ten Bears."Slingblade". Haw. I like "waste of oxygen" too.
Actual Intelligence Jimbo agrees.Similar vein:

Out On Parole

Now that I've made the last Round-Up, I can resume ignoring the outside world for the next four wks. And avoiding the kitchen part of the inside world.

What level of depression/disinterest/apathy does this represent?

First Draft

Decided not to use this, but any month now!

Fuck this noise. Sick & tired of going over & over the iNternet to find small liberal web-logs that are worth the effort. Imagine trying to find 28-35 different ones a wk. on a post-literate, barely verbal iNternet that caters to eight billion illiterate cretins & their pathetic feelings.

So far, less than 500 views, on a Sunday. To hell w/ this!!

Sixteen Coaches Long

CNN:
‘The train is coming’: Fani Willis has warning for Trump in wake of hearing to try to oust her

Robert Stewart / Washington Examiner:   Fani Willis brushes off efforts to slow down case against Trump: ‘The train is coming’

Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:   Fani Willis ‘Not Embarrassed’ By Affair That Sidetracked Trump Case

Jack Davis / The Western Journal:   The Music Stops as CNN Panel Guest Explains What Seizing Trump's Property Could Do

Why I Hate All Of You

Flatline

It's been available for eight hrs. now, yet on a planet of eight billion pieces of walking crap there haven't been 600 clicks. Pathetic even if only considering the hundreds of millions of English-readers world-wide who are the actual potential audience. Is it any damn wonder I want every one of you bitches & the sons thereof to kiss my fucking ass until your lips bleed?

Today In "Parental Rights" & Demonic Possession

It Wasn't The Children Who Were Possessed

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah.

The 12-year-old son of Ruby Franke, a mother of six who dispensed advice to millions via a popular YouTube channel, had escaped through a window and approached several nearby homes until someone answered the door, according to documents released Friday by the Washington County Attorney’s office.

Crime scene photos, body camera video and interrogation tapes were released a month after Franke and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, a mental health counselor, were each sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. A police investigation determined religious extremism motivated the women to inflict horrific abuse on Franke’s children, Washington County Attorney Eric Clarke announced Friday.

“The women appeared to fully believe that the abuse they inflicted was necessary to teach the children how to properly repent for imagined ‘sins’ and to cast the evil spirits out of their bodies,” Clarke said.

Franke, 42, and Hildebrandt, 54, pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated child abuse that included convincing Franke’s two youngest children they were evil and subjecting them to manual labor, dayslong fasting and conditions Clarke has described as “concentration camp-like.”

The women, who have said they belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were arrested last August at Hildebrandt’s house in Ivins, a picturesque suburb of St. George, after her neighbor Danny Clarkson opened his door to find the emaciated boy. Their actions have been condemned by other Mormon parenting bloggers who say they misrepresented their community and the religion.

"This isn't us!" Yeah, sure. Who the fuck is it, the Rosicrucians? The gods of Mesopotamia? Buddha? Bet Joseph Smith's very proud of himself.

Further grim details about how much Jesus loves the little Mormon children.

YAY TERROR!!

I'M SO SICK OF YOUR NON-STOP BULLSHIT;
KILL EVERYBODY ON THIS PLANET NOW!!!

Only Three Left

Links To Leftover Liberal Blogs

Anchors Aweigh!

'Fraid we have to put her in the shop.

... One Day The Bucket Bottom Must Drop Out

It's Alive!

Popular Substacks & Stuff for Your Edification & Amusement

The Road To Hell

Note the recently late Larry H. Parker billboard. Jesus Gawd, he got an obit in the effing New York Times.

Links to Some Substacks You Could Read If You Wanted

Look, right here!

Portrait of the artist as a withered corpse.

Oh Say Does That Star-Spangled Banner Yet Wave?

Daylight saving, spring & actual, games-count baseball are all here at last. Virtually everything else remains crap, however. Maybe the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will drop a nuke on the whole mess.

First pitch is a ball. Take from that what you will. And a pitch clock violation, for a walk.

Spring 2024

Right Behind Dan Rather!

That & $4.99 will get me a cup of coffee somewhere.

 Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:

Trump can't find anyone to spot him $464 million.  Would you?  —  Of course no one will lend Donald Trump the half-billion dollars he needs to put up while appealing his fraud case.  Would you?  —  In recent months, the former president has racked up a series of costly legal judgments for his many misdeeds.

Discussion:

Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:   Trump may have transgressed, but his $464 million bond is grossly excessive

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:   What Happens If Trump Can't Cover His $454 Million Bond

Associated Press:   Key questions as Trump hurtles toward deadline to pay $454 million fraud penalty

Jazz Shaw / HotAir:   What Happens if Trump Can't Make Bond in New York?

Brian Beutler / Off Message:   Desperate Trump Turns Once Again To Paul Manafort For Money, Cheating

New York Times:   What We Know About Trump's Failure to Arrange a Half-Billion-Dollar Bond

Jack Queen / Reuters:   Trump says he could have to sell assets to cover $454 million fraud judgment

Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:   What will happen if Trump can't post $454M bond in his civil fraud case by Monday's deadline?

Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Trump's failure to pay $464M fraud debt could open him to perjury charge: Michael Cohen

Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:   Trump Throws Tantrum After Failing to Post Bond in NY Fraud Case

Alison Durkee / Forbes:   Trump Already Owes An Additional $3 Million In Interest In Fraud Case As He Struggles To Raise Cash

James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:   Trump's Financial Troubles

Tom Howell Jr / Washington Times:   Michael Cohen: Trump is ‘really angry’ over N.Y. bond situation, lack of control over process

Igor Derysh / Salon:   Trump admits he can't get fraud bond in filing suggesting “he is much less wealthy than he portrays”

Arjun Singh / The Daily Caller:   Trump Team Says It's Unable To Post Bond In Civil Fraud Case

Fox News:   Legal experts weigh in on Trump's options after failure to secure $464M appeal bond: ‘uncharted territory’

Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:   Donald Trump Can't Pay $464 Million Bond In NY Fraud Case

Timothy Noah / New Republic:   Is Donald Trump About to Go Bankrupt?

CBS News:   Trump's lawyers say he cannot secure $464 million bond in civil fraud case

Dan Rather / Steady:   The (High) Price of Humiliation

M. Bouffant / WEB OF EVIL:   Donor Pool Dried Up?

The Hill:   Trump's money woes

Arjun Singh / The Daily Signal:   Trump Team Says It's Unable to Obtain Bond in Civil Fraud Case

James Meyers / One America News Network:   Lawyers: Trump Unable To Attain Bond To Appeal $454M Civil Fraud Judgment

TMZ.com:   Donald Trump Struggling To Post $464 Million Bond In Civil Fraud Case

Simon Kent / Breitbart:   Impossible for Trump to Post Bond Covering $454M Civil Fraud Judgment: Lawyers

Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:   Trump pleads to court: $454 million bond a ‘practical impossibility’ as deadline nears

Laura Italiano / Business Insider:   Trump, in 5,000-page NY fraud-case filing, says he can't foot $456M appeal bond

Michael R. Sisak / WUSA:   Trump can't pay bond on $454 million civil fraud judgement, his lawyers say

Ted Johnson / Deadline:   Donald Trump's Lawyers Say They Have Been Unable To Secure Bond For $464 Million Fraud Judgment

Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:   No One Will Give Trump a $464 Million Bond, Lawyers Say

Matt Arco / New Jersey Online:   Trump's lawyers tell court: He doesn't have the money

Spring Special

Sort of.

Can't Figure This Out

The English blocks are mere millimeters larger than the metric blocks, yet are almost twice as much. Same manufacturer or distributor; maybe Home Despot is seriously overstocked w/ the metric ones.

At least I got the better deal.

Cloudscape

Donor Pool Dried Up?

The Schaden Freudes Itself

NBC News: 
Trump has been unable to get bond for $464 million judgment, his lawyers say  —  In a filing to an appeals court, Trump's attorneys said getting the bond needed to halt proceedings while they appeal is a “practical impossibility.”  —  Former President Donald Trump has not been able to get a bond …

David Moye / HuffPost:   Social Media Mocks Trump After He Can't Post $464M Bond

Sandra Rhodes / IJR:   Lawyers: Trump Can't Get Bond for $464 Million Judgment

Colby Hall / Mediaite:   BREAKING: Trump Says Paying $465 Million Fraud Bond is a ‘Practical Impossibility’ in New Court Filing

Jeffrey Blehar / National Review:   The Media Keep Helping Trump by Lying about Him

Ben Protess / New York Times:

Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment  —  Donald J. Trump's lawyers said in a court filing that he faces “insurmountable difficulties” as he tries to raise cash for the civil fraud penalty he faces in New York.  —  Donald J. Trump's lawyers disclosed on Monday …

Associated Press:   Trump's lawyers say it is impossible for him to post bond covering $454 million civil fraud judgment

Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:   Trump pleads to court: $454 million bond a ‘practical impossibility’ as deadline nears

Maha / The Mahablog:   Half-Billion-Dollar Bond Out of Trump's Reach

Reuters:   Trump can't get bond to appeal $454M civil fraud judgment: lawyers

Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   Which station of the MAGA cross is this?

Jacob Knutson / Axios:

Trump can't post $464M bond to appeal New York fraud case, lawyers say … - Earlier this month, Trump posted a nearly $92 million bond to appeal the $83.3 million in damages a jury ordered him to pay to writer E. Jean Carroll for defamation by denying her sexual assault allegations.

Arjun Singh / The Daily Caller:   Trump Team Says It's Unable To Post Bond In Civil Fraud Case

Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:   Impossible for Trump to post bond covering $454 million, his lawyers say

Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:   Trump Rejected by Dozens of Bond Underwriters

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Is Donald Trump broke? Lawyers say he can't post $464M bond to appeal New York fraud case

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:   Trump flagged as ‘massive security risk’ after he's unable to post bond in fraud judgment

Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:   Trump's Lawyers Say He Can't Post $464 Million Bond

When does the asset forfeiture start?

Different Wk.

The "I Haven't Been Employed Since 2006 & I Still Hate Mondays" Edition.

Enjoy the image in higher resolution.

Up The Oirish!!

Up your Catholc breeder scum asses, leprechauns. Take your bullshit constitution, your whiny music & your moronic dancing w/ you when you fuck off, inbred islanders.

Impending Bovine Slaughter

Finally (almost) completed something.

Needs more sponge along the "late summer" grass.

Very impressed w/ the Kraut cattle. (Made in Federal Republic of Germany. Hand painted in Mauritius.) The kit box listed the correct six cattle & six pigs, although the instuction sheet said "Plus 12 Hereford cows", which at least implies decoration, but the six included pigs (All six of them identical.) three cows & three bulls are all unpainted.

Made in China, sold to Americans.

Note that the bulls & cows are triplets.

Outside World

Thought He Was Yapping About Mormons, But Tuberville's Literally Demonizing The Demonrats

He did say it in Utah.

Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:

‘We are losing our kids to a satanic cult,’ Sen. Tommy Tuberville warns during Utah campaign stop  —  The Alabama Republican has endorsed Republican U.S. Senate candidate Trent Staggs in the race to replace Utah Sen. Mitt Romney in Congress.

Alabama Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville had a stark warning for the approximately 100 Utah GOP delegates who crowded into a Bluffdale warehouse to hear him speak on Friday afternoon: Malevolent supernatural forces are working to undermine America.

He's been everywhere.

“I’ve traveled all over the country — all 50 states — I’ve been in good places and bad places. The one thing I saw, we are losing our kids to a satanic cult,” Tuberville, who traveled to Utah to campaign for GOP U.S. Senate candidate Trent Staggs, warned.

[...]

Brandishing an upside-down pocket Constitution, Tuberville said the 2024 election wasn’t Republican vs. Democrat but “anti-American vs. American.”

“We’ve lost our moral values across the country. We’ve got to get back to the Constitution, and we have got to get back to the Bible. We’ve got to get God back in our country,” Tuberville said. “There’s not one Democrat that can tell you they stand up for God.”

Republican delegates ate it up as he careened from anti-transgender statements to discussion of immigration and chaos at the border to a prediction left-wing mobs are set to wreak chaos across the country this summer to help Joe Biden win reelection.

Tuberville even went so far as to claim the federal government has been corrupted to go after conservatives instead of criminals, which was seemingly an indirect reference to the hundreds of Trump supporters who were charged after attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“We’ve lost our Department of Justice. In most of the country, we don’t have a criminal justice system anymore. Nobody goes to jail, unless you’re an innocent person that really loves this country, then they’ll put you in jail,” Tuberville said. “We have never overcome a cult like we’re dealing with right now.”

The loudest boos from the GOP delegates on hand came when Tuberville and Staggs took swipes at Sen. Mitt Romney, who was the party’s presidential nominee just a dozen years ago.

“I’ve seen Mitt Romney make promises to Utahns that he didn’t deliver on,” Staggs said. “This is the choice you have before you. Do you want to replace Mitt Romney with Mitt Romney 2.0?”

During a brief interview with The Salt Lake Tribune following his speech, Tuberville doubled down when asked if his references to a satanic cult were bourne [sic] from political zeal.

“They’ve basically taken God out of everything that we’re doing. I don’t know any other way to express it other than it’s some kind of cult that they’re trying to push on our kids and all Americans,” Tubervill [sic] said. “We have got to get back to our moral values. If we can’t get back to that and let the Democrats continue to push this cult on us and take God away from our country, we’re going to have huge problems.”

Huge.This reporter is a bit curious how "left-wing mobs ... set to wreak chaos" would help Biden be reëlected. Maybe burning Portland to the ground again will put him over the top. And who's in a cult again, Coach? No one on the left unquestioningly follows the demands of a great bronzed oaf who sports a combover.

Friday Freak Out

W/ A Sort Of Theme

If It's Friday, Fuck You!

In the mouth, w/ my fist. 

Seriously, how in the name of hell can any of you drooling idiots stand yourselves? Oh, that's right, you're all fucking morons too stupid to know how fucking stupid you fucking are. Go away forever, all of you!

Ah Feel Like Ahcid

Trump be trippin'. Again.

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump goes on a weird riff about acid — again

Jamie Frevele / Mediaite:   Trump Claims Bill Clinton Stored Classified Material ‘In His Socks’ and Hillary Destroyed Emails With Actual Acid

Matt Arco / New Jersey Online:   Trump's bizarre claims about Hillary and Bill Clinton

This is pretty much monotonous crap.But what the hell isn't?

Five Yrs. Ago

Thanks to Microsoft for reminding me.

Thursday Turkeys

2024 Campaign Songs

And of course, "They are all insects & vermin, exterminate them!"