Century City From The Central City

This world is ugly & it wants to die.

Tendrils

Please Die in Prison, You Rotten Crook

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt. Menendez said he plans to appeal. (AP video: Joseph Frederick, Production: Vanessa A. Alvarez).

Is this the same "Egypt" that sent Fat Boy Trump US$10,000,000? How long are these United Snakes going to put up w/ this bullshit? Fuck y'all & your mummies, Gyppos!!

A Fire In The Sky

Burning for you.

Time Runs Out

Will Dunham / Reuters:

Atomic scientists adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer than ever to midnight 

Federation of American Scientists:   Doomsday Clock At 89 Seconds To Midnight Signals Growing Nuclear Risk

Brooke Steinberg / New York Post:   Doomsday Clock ticks forward again — closer than ever to midnight: ‘Probability of global disaster’

Anthony Noto / Benzinga:   Doomsday Clock Now At Most Dire Moment: Why 'Humanity's Proximity To Catastrophe' Is As Close As Ever

Agence France-Presse:   Doomsday clock ticks one second, closest ever to midnight

Amy Curtis / Twitchy:   TICK TOCK! Doomsday Clock Set to 89 Seconds to Midnight

Conor Murray / Forbes:   The ‘Doomsday Clock’ Ticks Closer To Global Catastrophe—And AI Is Now A Primary Concern

Associated Press:   ‘Doomsday Clock’ hits 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it's ever been

Corrected Steeple

Steeple

The Little White Cloud That Cried

Crimes Against Nature

Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A state senator in Mississippi has filed a bill entitled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.”

As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

There are also fines involved, the third strike resulting in the loss of $10,000 from the perpetrator.

In a statement to WLBT News, Blackmon wrote, “All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation.

This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”

Nice troll from a Democrat of the African-American persuasion. I'd like to see a boner-tracking app installed on every 'phone in the country: "Whaddya mean you have no idea where it went?"

J.D. Vance, meanwhile, isn't trolling when he wants "more babies" &, I assume, less self-abuse. Breeder scum & a sad papist theo-fascist. As if the forced-birth gov't. he wants would ever provide assistance for "happy children". And how happy will children be when their mother can't get a divorce from a violent husband? Did not know his major at Ohio State was child care. Or is all this crap based on his absentee father experience while his wife & mother-in-law were caring for his children? Does he think his childhood would've been better if his hillbilly parents had stayed together instead of dumping him on his grandmother?

It's certainly sad that most Republicans who aren't so old they've forgotten about it seem to have deep & serious issues w/ S-E-X (& women & simple humanity) but seek therapy rather than taking your personal problems out on the rest of the country, you fucking sickos!

Chickens Coming Home To Roost

This virus may have your name on it.

Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:

‘A Dangerous Virus’: Bird Flu Enters a New Phase  —  A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say.  But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.  —  When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago …

Financial Times:   ‘Grossly irresponsible’: health experts urge US to control bird flu 

Kathy Gill / The Moderate Voice:   Bird flu infects UK human; US cases continue to grow

Reuters:

US reports first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry  —  The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday.  —  U.S. authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain … 

Aubrey Whelan / The Philadelphia Inquirer:   Bird flu has been found in a commercial flock of chickens in Pa. for the first time in nearly a year 

Catherine Stoddard / FOX 13 Tampa Bay:   H5N9 bird flu outbreak: New virus strain detected on California farm

Quartz:   Bird flu outbreak strikes poultry farm in California

Wonderful. Now you morons have two bird flus to choose from.

Fuck You, Israel

Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right,
Murderous Thug Nation

Rebecca Downs / Townhall:
Irish President Manages to Make Holocaust Remembrance Day About Loss of Life in... Gaza?
Michael Starr / Jerusalem Post:   Irish president speaks on Israel at Holocaust event, protester dragged out

Tony Connelly / RTÉ:   President ‘right’ to mention Middle East at Holocaust event - Harris

David Maddox / The Independent:   Israeli minister's fears for safety of Jews in Ireland after Michael Higgins' speech

Philissa Cramer / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:   Jews removed from Irish Holocaust memorial event for protesting president's remarks on Gaza

Margaret Flavin / The Gateway Pundit:   Irish President Hijacks Holocaust Event to Attack Israel - Jewish Woman Dragged from Event for Silently Protesting His Remarks

Joseph Feldman / VINnews:   Irish President Hijacks Event, and Criticizes Israel at Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony, Jewish Protesters Removed

It would be the filthiest of hypocrisies not to mention the atrocities Israel commits in Gaza when discussing ethnic cleansing. And fuck every damn Xian moron & legislator who thinks the Big Book of Xian Lies is a sound basis for 21st-century American foreign policy. Also fuck every fake news liar spewing this hypocrisy. And fuck you for just sitting there & taking it. And fuck your mothers for giving birth to defective scum like you in the first place. Where did it all go wrong?

Mortality & Morbidity Wkly. Report

‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors

Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say

America eats its young, old, & in-between. Proud of yourselves? Bend over & keep taking it, you brain-dead
& soon to be completely dead chumps.[The Guardian]

Palestinians Raus!!

"The Eastern World, It Is Explodin'"

Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory  —  US president says he wants people to move to neighbouring nations, after resuming shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel  —  Donald Trump has suggested large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” …

Andrew Tobin / freebeacon.com:   Trump Shakes Up Mideast Diplomacy With Call To Resettle Gazans in Arab Countries

and miles to go before I sleep:   Trump's proposal to ‘clean out’ Gaza rejected by allies and condemned as ‘ethnic cleansing’ …

Jones Hayden / Politico:   Trump says he wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza Strip

Fox News:   Trump calls for Jordan, Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees: ‘Clean out that whole thing’

Al Jazeera:   Ethnic cleansing feared as Trump asks Jordan, Egypt to take Gaza residents

Rob Crilly / Daily Mail:   Donald Trump unveils radical plan for war-torn Gaza

Stephanie Lai / Bloomberg:   Trump Sends 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel, Weighs in on Refugees

Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Floats Forced Relocation of Gazans: ‘Clean Out That Whole Thing’

Le Monde:   Trump proposes relocating Palestinians of Gaza to Egypt and Jordan

Associated Press:   Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees to ‘just clean out’ Gaza

Al Jazeera:   Palestinians condemn Trump's proposal to ‘clean out’ Gaza

Hugh Fitzgerald / Exposing the role …:   Trump Calls For 1,500,000 Gazans to Be Moved to Egypt and Jordan

Washington Post:   Trump says to ‘clean out’ Gaza, urges Arab countries to take more refugees

The Independent:   Trump says he wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza as he restarts policy to give Israel new bombs

Joseph Feldman / VINnews:   Hamas Rejects U.S. Proposal to Temporarily Resettle Gaza's Population

Lowkell / Blue Virginia:   Sunday News: Trump Wants to “Clean Out” Gaza; “Trump's return to White House brings cascade of lies”; “In the wilderness: Democrats struggle to navigate …

Barak Ravid / Axios:   Trump calls to “clean out” Gaza and move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan

Reuters:   Trump says Jordan, Egypt should take more Palestinians from Gaza

Shane Galvin / New York Post:   Trump floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza, move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan

New York Times:   Trump Says He Wants Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians From Gaza

New York Times:
Trump Pushes Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza

Wall Street Journal:   Trump Says He Wants to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza, Send Refugees to Egypt and Jordan

Will Weissert / Associated Press:   Trump's Palestinian refugee idea falls flat with Jordan and confounds a Senate ally

David Ignatius / Washington Post:   Trump's Gaza remarks put willing Arab partners on guard

Ward Clark / RedState:   Cleaning Out Gaza? Trump Says Arab States Need to Accept More Palestinian Refugees

Ronny Reyes / New York Post:   Jordan rejects Trump's idea to ‘clean out’ Gaza by moving Palestinian refugees to Jordan and Egypt

Eloise Goldsmith / Truthout:   Trump Advocates for Forced Displacement of Gaza's Population to Egypt and Jordan

Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:   Trump Suggests Gaza ‘Clean Out,’ Send Residents to Egypt, Jordan

Nidal Al-Mughrabi / Reuters:   Thousands wait to return to northern Gaza, Trump urges Jordan, Egypt to take Palestinians

Lauren Irwin / The Hill:   Trump suggestion on Gaza strip: ‘Clean out the whole thing’

Philissa Cramer / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:   Trump says he is pressing leaders of Arab nations to take in Gaza Palestinians

Joey Garrison / USA Today:   Trump floats plan to ‘just clean out’ Gaza, move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan

J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:   Trump's call to ‘clean out’ Gaza may be part of ‘much broader move’: Israeli media

Betsy Klein / CNN:   Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’

"Let's have a war! We need the space!
Let's have a war! Clean out this place!"

Nice. The hypocrisy of a nation trying to close its borders suggesting that other nations take in millions of refugees is beyond pathetic.

X, The Unknown

Here Come The Toxic Mudslides!

I just can't imagine why I hold your species in absoute contempt & want to see every one of you hideous lumps suffer for a long long time before the sweet release of death. Being poisoned by the toxic waste of your own nasty houses seems appropriate.

“Due to current rainfall, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health advises beach users to avoid all water contact, especially near discharging storm drains, creeks, and rivers due to potentially higher bacteria levels in these areas,” the report states. “This includes any runoff that may flow onto or pond on the beach sand. Ocean and bay recreational waters, especially near discharging storm drains, creeks and rivers can be contaminated with bacteria, chemicals, debris, trash, and other public health hazards from city streets and mountain areas after a rain fall. Individuals who enter the water in these areas could become ill. Rain advisories remain in effect for 72 hours after the rainfall ends.”

Drown in your own poisonous shit & piss, scat freaks.

Anarchy Now!

Group vandalizes Waymo robotaxi in Los Angeles’ Beverly Grove neighborhood, police say

Destroy everything, I say.

As noted in the Times story, no evidence of a "street takeover", just righteous robot fighters.

pic.twitter.com/pGMUVKsllc https://t.co/9OEYFPXJ2N

— Los Angeles Scanner (@LosAngeles_Scan) January 25, 2025

Those fully electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles are flimsy, aren't they? Are the doors attached w/ baling wire?

30 Secs. Of Schadenfreude

Brrr!More schadenfreude.Happy ending.

Thought Bobby Brainworm Was Going To Stop The Chemical Manipulation Of The American People

Another campaign promise fulfilled.

'Bout an hr. later, today's contribution:

From The Request Line

Freaky Friday

The finished product.Few people are freakier than ol' Scratch was.

King Of The Fairies Comes To Town

There'd Better Be A Sniper Team Lying In Wait

Waiting.

P.S.: No rebuilding in fire-ravaged areas. Are you people crazy & stupid, or ... oh, right. Americans. Suicidal chumps. Perhaps in the next fire a few thousand suburban scumbags & breeder scum will meet well-deserved deaths, & they'll begin to learn. One can only hope.

Friday Freak Out

"Licked a stamp saw a movie ..."

Sage Burning

Not Just Sage; Everything's Burning!

The Yardbirds' version of this heard recently on the telly trying to sell something.Tiny Bradshaw, who wrote it, 1951.Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio, 1956.The one many of you know, because the Limeys had to spoon-feed American music back to you racist pigs.Changed lyrics because they couldn't get performance rights for the film.If you are more familiar w/ the Aerosmiff version you are too young to read this web-log, but probably should stick around, as you might learn something.

PROTIP: Removing your head from your sphincter & taking a good look around would be an excellent start to your education.

Stupid & Crazy

Donald Trump - with top technology CEOs at his side Tuesday afternoon - announced a new $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure project. But when the conversation turned to California's wildfires, Trump went off the rails.

"When you're a rich person you like to take showers," he said.

He claimed Los Angeles limits residents to just 38 gallons of water a day, and referred to some mythical "valve" that could bring limitless water to L.A., but that officials instead diverted to the ocean.

"They have a valve, think of a sink but multiply it by many thousands of times the size of it, it's massive. And you turn it back toward Los Angeles. Why aren't they doing it? They either have a death wish, they're stupid or there's something else going on that we don't understand," Trump said.

Trump, who criticized the response to the wildfires during his inaugural address, has said he will travel to Los Angeles on Friday.

Where'd he get this fucking "valve" bullshit? No one else on the face of this inane planet has ever said or thought anything remotely like this. It's not a metaphor, simile or anything. Comic book readers couldn't suspend disbelief for this. (There must be a DC story from the '50s where the Joker installs a giant faucet on a dam & threatens to inundate Gotham City.)

Or was this the inspiration for idiocy?Yet few bother to mention it, or point out how just how fucking stupid & weird it is. Did the Fairy King make this up himself, w/ "all the water's just running into the ocean"? Was it a half-assed, half-baked idea Trump vaguely heard & turned into something even weirder & stupider? He's certainly chump enough to believe anything. As are the fucking cretins who voted for him.

P.S.: No sympathy here. Live in the suburbs or sticks you'll die in a fire. Which is not an invitation for you suburban scumbags to come to the city. We're out of room.

How Many Divisions Do These "Judges" Have?

If only the sky really looked like that. Blue bores me limp.

Model Railroading News

Cuttng Off One's Fat Ugly Nose
To Spite One's Fat Ugly Face

As there are many already aged & aging wretched dumb-ass honkies involved in model railroading (including one dumb sumbitch seen on YouTube who had a "TRUMP 2024" sign atop a building on his layout) I'm sure many of my fellow miniaturists voted for Fat Boy. The four large American manufacturers marketers & distributors of this plastic crap get their products directly from Chinese factories, & many (Or most, th' hell do I know?) of the smaller companies do as well, so you stupid crackers all poked yourselves in the eyes w/ sharp sticks. Fuck every last one of you to hell.

Alan Rappeport / New York Times:

Trump Says He Will Impose 10% Tariffs on Chinese Imports on Feb. 1  —  The president said the planned duties were a response to China's failure to curb fentanyl exports.  —  President Trump said on Tuesday that he intended to impose a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports into the United States on Feb. 1 …

CNBC:   Trump says he's considering a 10% tariff on China beginning as soon as Feb. 1

Francesca Chambers / USA Today:   Tariffs are coming: Trump says he's looking at 10% tax on Chinese imports

Bloomberg:   Trump Says He's Still Weighing 10% Tariff Threat on China

Sareen Habeshian / Axios:   Trump threatens 10% tariff on China as of Feb. 1

Reuters:   Trump says he is discussing 10% tariff on China on Feb. 1

CNN:   Trump threatens 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1, punting Day 1 pledge

Rob Gillies / Associated Press:   Canada says it is ready to respond if Trump follows through with imposing sweeping tariffs Feb. 1

John Hayward / Breitbart:   Trump Warns 25% Tariffs on Canada and Mexico Could Begin on February 1

Elaine Mallon / Washington Examiner:   Trump pushes back tariffs of Mexico and Canada to Feb. 1

Alison Durkee / Forbes:   Will Trump's Tariffs Raise Prices? What To Know As He Threatens Goods From Canada And Mexico Starting Feb. 1

In other rail news, I thought I had a workable track plan,

but seeing it w/o loose track, scrap & tools all over exposed other, different flaws & it's a mess again.

The Sun Sets On The American Empire

Hasn't been morning around here for quite a while.

State Of The Union, 2025

A metaphor for our sad age. Proud of yourselves?

An entire nation of pathetic, cretinous shitheads w/ oppositional defiant disorder.
And more guns than cretins, not to mention the nuclear arms. Will not end well.

Big Fairy King Dances Night Away

A fat, smelly closet case who married a EuroHoor for cover thinks he's running this shithole nation, you fucking losers. Lookit this prancing queen:

Monday Musicale

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM

This version seen at the burned over district.Down down down down down ...

American Earworm

Or Is That A Bobby Jr. Brain Worm?

Get the full sonic effect of nineteen secs. of pure rage.Play them loud!

Who Will Start The American Carnage?

Lack Of Weaponry Is All That's Stopping Me.
What's Your Excuse?

I'm certainly ready. Enough of this shit. I remind you all, there is not a humanoid in this world of shit & pain who has the slightest reason to live. Indeed, there are a plethora of reasons for all humanoids to die. Examine your empty, meaningless lives. Realize the harm your incessant money-grubbing & pathetic desires for oxygen & hydrogen have done to the planet, & do the right thing: Go away forever!

Marcus Garvey, Free At Last

Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Biden pardons the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as 4 others and commutes 2 sentences

Gregory Korte / Bloomberg:   How US Presidents Wield Their Mighty Power to Pardon

Luke Garrett / NPR:   Biden pardons Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, Black nationalist Marcus Garvey

Joseph Williams / Word In Black:   Biden Grants 11th-Hour Pardon to Marcus Garvey

DNyuz:   Biden pardons Marcus Garvey, Don Scott and 3 others in final full day action

Doina Chiacu / Reuters:   Joe Biden pardons five people, including late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey

Casey Harper / Must Read Alaska:   Day One: What Trump might do first  —  President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to take office Monday …

Fox News:   Biden pardons late Black activist Marcus Garvey, 4 others

Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News:   Biden posthumously pardons Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey

Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:   Biden pardons revolutionary Marcus Garvey on last full day in office

Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News:   Biden posthumously pardons Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey

Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:   Biden Issues Posthumous Pardon to Civil Rights Leader Marcus Garvey

Dead Tree

S'pose it's actually dormant for the long & harsh semi-tropical winter.

Toy Train News

A simpler time.

Not that it concerns me in any way, but I am quite amused that Lionel's 125th Anniversary Catalog has been met w/ wide-spread derision by the kinds of people who'd make 20+ minute YouTube videos about it. I watched one, which led to several more in the same vein being recommended. Tell you one damn thing, the prices are outrageous. And Lionel apparently never gets the colors right: "Nagonna order one of these until I see it in a store" is a common refrain.

Should you care, the catalog is just a click away. If you really care, the gripers & complainers. My kind of people. Eff everything, it's all crap. And shame on Neil Young if he still has 20% of Lionel LLC. Google sez he does:

Wikipedia tells another story. The brand's corporate journey is almost interesting, in a morbid way.

ADDED around 1911PT: The catalog is a masterpiece of illiteracy. Can no one read? Does no one check their work? Apparently conjunctions are just out of fashion. And "due" for "do"? Jeebus.

I Want To See The Sun Blotted Out From The Sky

Officially wretched: Was quite certain the album version of "Paint it Black" ran 11 mins., but it was this'n.It's no Ten Years After.

Speaking/singing of red doors, the door of 1, Rue Christine, where this reporter lived in 1969 & '70.

Actually was black when this reporter was there.

Friday Freak Out