Sunday, February 16, 2025

Murder, Inc.

May I Gentrify That For You?

James Mackenzie / Reuters
Israel receives shipment of heavy bombs cleared by Trump  —  Israel has received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from the United States, after U.S. President Donald Trump lifted a block imposed on the export of the munitions by the administration of predecessor Joe Biden, the defence ministry said on Sunday.

Situation Normal: You Know What

Well over half-way through Feb. today.
Only 46 more wks. in 2025.

Saturday, February 15, 2025

This Yr. In Nazis

JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
These people are Nazi scum.
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Nazi camp. The visit, timed to coincide with Vance’s trip to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, comes a year after Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and newly-installed most powerful person in the United States, visited Auschwitz last January.

It’s worth recalling the circumstances that led to Musk’s visit to Auschwitz a year ago. The visit came after months of antisemitic statements, including using his social media platform X to boost conspiracy theories accusing Jews of “flooding their country” with “hordes of minorities”; threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League for being the “biggest generators of anti-Semitism”; and accusing Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor George Soros of attempting to “erode the very fabric of civilization” because he “hates humanity.”

Finally, in the wake of a threatened advertiser boycott with the potential to harm Musk’s bottom line, he did what any wealthy celebrity accused of antisemitism does these days: he made a ritualized visit to a concentration camp or Holocaust museum to have his sins of bigotry washed clean. (In Musk’s case, he also made a similarly ritualized visit to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who, of course, has a long history of giving kosher passes to far-right antisemites in exchange for their support for the most right-wing elements within the Israeli government.) Musk’s brief trip to Auschwitz was enough to win instant forgiveness for his sins of antisemitism.

Except, of course, Musk was not radically, instantaneously transformed by his time at Auschwitz. He was not magically cleansed of his antisemitism. In the year after his trip to the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Musk reinstated the accounts of Holocaust deniers and praised a Holocaust revisionist historian. In just the past month alone, Musk infamously performed a Nazi salute at a Trump inauguration rally; joked about the Holocaust; told supporters of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany that Germany needs to “move beyond” its historical guilt for the Holocaust; and reinstated a briefly-fired 25-year-old government employee who had bragged about being “racist before it was cool” and called for the repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

[Religion Dispatches]

Dead Man Walking

Second Amendment Remedies

Smart man, begging to be killed, murdered or executed, as he so richly deserves. C'mon, Iran!

Clichéd Local Action

How is a hack like J.T. still alive when actual artists of his (my) generation aren't? I call bullshit!

Other bullshit: Rebuilding in fire-ravaged areas. No, gawddammit!! Turn the suburbs to green space again, make the nasty rich people live in apartments in the flat lands & stop killing the planet w/ their piggie lives, & let the banks & mortgage companies eat fucking shit. Problem solved!

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Local Action

The Big Storm

World Radio Day

Daily Suffering & Anger Devotional

There is not enough rain to cleanse the streets of filth & scum, but I will nonetheless see each & every one of you even deader than your current brain-dead numbness.
"I checked your brain but there's nothin' inside." The lights aren't even on.
"Not a Gawddam thing." Emptier than these fluffy clouds.

Friday The Thirteenth, A Day Early

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Wall St. Wk.

I'm going to enjoy watching all the sucker-ass chumps get fucked to hell. Pass the popcorn while you can still afford it.

Self-Censorship

Left out of almost previous item. It is nonetheless true!!
Not man enough to call for executing them all right now? I'll call for sterilizing the entire humanoid population immediately. I mean, have you seen & heard these people? I went outside today. A chilling experience.
What I saw outside. Everything at ground level was putrid or worse.
I am torn between my absolute & utter, 'though generalized, contempt for all of homo stupideous & its horrid stupidity & ignoranace, & my especially absolute & utter contempt for vile drooling idiots like Republlicans & Nazis. Kill them all & let their corpses rot across the surface of the planet, as there is no Gawd to save any of them from themselves. Or from me.

Any Attorneys Available?

I could use a high-powered legal team to sue my Shahs of Sunset landlords & their flunkies, as well as & the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, which allows this bullshit to continue unabated.
This reporter knows where all of these people work; I'm sure I can find where they live. Then I can run them down w/ a car like the rabid dogs they are, rather than shoot them in the streets like healthcare executive parasites.

P.S.: Have just been advised by the Housing Authority of Los Angeles to fuck off & die, in so many words: "With regards to your decision to proceed further, do keep in mind that we do address yours [sic] and every participant in this program the soonest we can. Your dcision [sic] to go further with you [sic] concerns is solely your perspective and your decision. HACLA and it's [sic] employees are not in the position to suggest nor convince you to do whatever you deem necessary to do."

Here is a mushroom that sprouted from the ceiling overnight.
You can help me, or be repsonsible for the (admittedly justified) deaths of many many people. The choice is yours.

Every Day Is Trash Day Now

Previously in this space.
Gustaf Kilander / The Independent: 
Darren Beattie on Dec. 19. 2022, in Phoenix.
John Rudoff/Sipa USA/AP Images
I'd like to see the Savior of Western Civilization there try to sterilize a rooster, let alone a humanoid.
Dig his paws, too. Tinier than Trumpy's, even.
Image from Rolling Stone, which is also on this ugliness.

Monday, February 10, 2025

"They Made You A Moron"

The title may be unfair; I'm sure many of you were born stupid.
If those are the choices, then not to be born at all.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”  —  Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.  —  A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely … 

Good Idea: We'll Start W/ Republicans

Trump State Department Official Has Called for Sterilizing ‘Feral’ Populations

“Population control? If only!” wrote Darren Beattie, who was appointed to a senior role by Marco Rubio.
He doesn't mean feral cats or dogs.

Lined Up Like The Sheep They Are,
But Not For Super Bowl LIX

Some time during the first quarter of yesterday's big game.
Bogus exclusivity; suckers are admitted only after other shoppers chumps leave.

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Fantastic Tree

Added idiocy: Self-portraits.

Slept Past 1300

Sleep all night, sleep all day
Nothing good on tee vee anyway
No way in hell am I getting up to "do things" like a fucking chump. In 100 yrs. no one will remember you & anything you've "accomplished" will be dust, unless it's made of forever plastic & will therefore continue destroying life on this sorry planet. Proud of yourselves? I'm sure you are, which is yet another reason you should all slit your wrists now. You'll be happy you avoided the rush when what passes for life in this world of shit & pain that you all made so shitty & so painful becomes completely intolerable. Self-deport your sorry selves from the planet!!

Friday, February 7, 2025

"Clean Out This Place!"

Don't Lie To Yourselves: Nothing Matters

Int'l. relations by punk song. Not meant to be taken seriously by anyone but an exceptioally alienated teenager.
Let's have a warSo you can go and die!Let's have a war!We could all use the money!Let's have a war!We need the space!Let's have a war!Clean out this place!It already started in the city!Suburbia will be just as easy!
Joshua Keating / Vox:
Why Trump's plan to “clean out” Gaza actually matters  —  It's a safe bet that much of what President Donald Trump described in two press availabilities at the White House alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as well as a follow-up social media post, is not going to happen. 

None Dare Call It Genocide

It's Just A Little Gentrification

At this point one has to assume the alleged atrocities of 7 October were a false flag operation, & that Biden & Trump were both in favor of this eventual resolution. Is Israel proud of itself? Absolutely. They found a final solution to the problem of two million unwanted others in "their" shithole nation. Lovely people, everywhere.

Sometimes? Pretend?

Got an e-mail from one of the landlord's flunkies a wk. ago, promising to hire a plumber to repair on-going leaks. Apparently a lie (There has been no communication since.) so someone must die!

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Bob Marley Would Have Been 80 Today If The C.I.A. Hadn't Killed Him

Or Did Chris Blackwell Give Him Cancer?

Variations On A Theme

It only takes one mutation.
New York Times:
Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu  —  A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows.  —  Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds …
Helen Branswell / STAT:   USDA milk testing shows different strain of H5N1 bird flu in Nevada dairy herds
There are many subtypes of avian influenza (bird flu), including H5, H6, H7, H9, and H10.

The subtypes are named based on the proteins on the surface of the virus.

Subtypes that have infected humans:

H5N1: A(H5N1) is the most common subtype to infect humans.

H7N9: A(H7N9) is another common subtype to infect humans.

H5N6: A(H5N6) has caused human infections in recent years.

H9N2: LPAI A(H9N2) has caused human infections in recent years.

Any day now.

You're Born Alone, You Die Alone. Between, You Are Made To Suffer Alone.

It's an ugly, shit-toned world. You made it, & you'll die in it.
I again realized that there is not now nor has there ever been one piece of the humanoid trash that infects this rancid world of shit & pain who ever gave a crap about me, which is probably why I never gave a shit about any of you or your damnable non-stop lying bullshit about how much you fucking care, & is why I'm getting a hold of a car & making the sidewalks run red w/ blood in a rich person's enclave the very instant I have the energy. Or a gun w/ which to get a car.

Stop & think about it. Examine your empty, meaningless unexamined life. If you're honest w/ yourself, you'll realize no one ever cared or cares about you either. And why should they have? You're heartless scum too. If there weren't laws forcing parents to take some care of their children your parents would have dumped you all in the street. If you think a teacher or someone cared when you were young, they were being paid to pretend they cared. (I could see right through these people, even when young.) All that matters is money, right pigs? Except for those who pretended to care because they were sick fucking perverts trying to have sex w/ children. I guess power over the helpless is more important than money to some sick fucks. Death to Boy Scout & religious leaders, & all the other heartless bastards who ruined the planet & our lives! Death to all, everywhere!

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Hell A Go Broke Lose!

Superman Is Dreaming

In his Fortress of Solitude, Superman™ lies dreaming that he has used his heat vision to melt the icecaps & is holding every humanoid on the planet under water until they drown like sick puppies.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Nothing More To Say

Not really anything to see, either.

First Amendment Wrongs & Rights

Uh, actually, you don't if you try to use it.

Another Institution Fails: "Just Words On A Page ..."

Jameel Jaffer / New York Times:
Each legal settlement with Trump by powerful media organizations weakens the freedoms they rely on, damages their credibility, and pressures other outlets  —  Judge Learned Hand, revered for his eloquent and consequential defense of free speech at the height of World War I, came to fear … 
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:   An eloquent essay, from @JameelJaffer, on the current media moment: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Just what could be expected from an upper class of chickenshit bullies & assholes. Death to the cowardly publishers & their corporate greed! At least send a strongly-worded letter.

Real Estate Report

"Available"

All new, no tenants.
Brick & mortar is over, chump-ass landlords. Suck it!

Fumigation?

Not A Christo and Jeanne-Claude Deal

Earthling brains are already filled w/ plastic. If you aren't demented yet, you could check the news, but chances are good to excellent your brain is already bloody mush. After all, you're reading this.

Monday, February 3, 2025

Remember "Where's The Outrage?"

Told you chumps 40 yrs. ago. Now it's too late.

Musk’s Takeover Of The Government’s Computer Systems Needs To Be Understood As A Cyberattack, Or Worse

from the we've-been-pwned dept

People sometimes think that cybersecurity is just about defending computer systems from remote adversaries. But it’s broader than that; cybersecurity has always been about protecting computer systems more generally from any sort of misuse, no matter how the adversary might access them.

So that Elon Musk and his minions have managed to walk right into government offices to take over computer systems where they had no legitimate authorization or entitlement needs to be understood as a cyberattack by a rogue actor. And every ounce of outrage we ever would have had if any other rogue actor had taken over critical government infrastructure needs to be mustered here, because it is just as outrageous, and as dangerous, if not more so on both fronts, because this time the threat to America’s security came from within.

[Techdirt]

Wake Up! Or Don't. If You Cretins Don't Care, Why Should I?

How Long Have I Been Telling You To
Stop Pretending?

A Coup is In Progress in America

This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. The constitution of the United States is not operating. This is a grim moment in American and world history.

A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: In just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk's DOGE commission has seized control of Treasury payment systems and gained unauthorized access to classified USAID materials, while security officials who followed protocols were removed. Career civil servants across agencies are being systematically purged for having followed legal requirements during previous administrations. The president openly declares he won't enforce laws he dislikes, while Congress watches in complicit silence. This isn't happening through tanks in the streets or soldiers at government buildings—it's occurring through the systematic dismantling of constitutional governance and its replacement with a system of personal loyalty to private interests. Those who resist are being removed, while those who enable this transformation are being rewarded with unprecedented control over government functions. The time for euphemisms and careful hedging has passed. We are watching, in real time, the conversion of constitutional democracy into something darker and more dangerous. To pretend otherwise isn't prudence—it's complicity.

I understand why many Americans are hesitant to accept what's happening—acknowledging the reality of a coup in progress is frightening. But we must confront the facts before us with clear eyes: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically seizing control of the federal government's machinery through plainly illegal means. They are violating civil service protections established by law, shuttering congressionally mandated agencies without authority, and subjecting career public servants to ideological purges.

"What. Ever." sez America.

[Notes From The Circus]

Solar

Other Street Photography

Seldom do I deliberately photograph humanoids, but here's a pair of 'em.

Evening Star & Loon

I will kill you soulless automatons w/ ennui!! Has all desire to continue breathing left your empty husk of a body yet? 

Any day now, we'll all be released from the surly bonds of human existence. Probably at gunpoint.

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Sold American

What does Lumpy think these United Snakes are worth?
Apparently for less than US$300 million you can lease this nation's gov't. & do anything you want therew/. 

You chumps aren't even worth a dollar each to Fairy King Trump. Fuck your asses all to hell, you worthless nobodies.

There's A Fog Upon L.A.

What
Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog.
Where
The coasts and inland coasts of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties.
When
Until 10 AM PST Monday.
Impacts
Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous.
Summary
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.
Issued By
NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA

Friday, January 31, 2025