Shadowing Columbus

FRI 15 DEC 1939
Destroyer Jouett (DD-396) relieves Benham (DD-397) at sea; the latter attempts to locate German freighter Arauca, while Jouett joins Lang (DD-399) in shadowing passenger liner Columbus.

British RFA oiler Olynthus refuels light cruiser HMS Ajax at Samborombon Bay, off the coast of Argentina; heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland covers the evolution lest German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee should attempt to sortie.

U.S. freighter Exmoor, detained at Gibraltar by British authorities since 7 December, is released.

M.D.C.*

Lowell Fulson goes shopping, 1950.1970 maybe version (possibly produced by Beach Boy Brian Wilson):No, "unedited" doesn't mean it's dirty. Sorry.

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*More Depressing Christmas, not Millions of Dead Cops, or Multi-Death Corporations, or even Metropolitan Detention Center. (One reason you might not be home for the holidays.)

Keeping Up W/ The Joneses

Acquisition of a streaming device by my long-time friend & occasional musical associate ("Minutes", immediately below.) reminded me that the WEB OF EVIL bunker now being WiFi-equipped I could latch onto one of those cheapinexpensive Chromecast deals, which I almost did directly through Google; the US$3.99 for the cheapest shipping (ships in two biz days, 3-5 days shipping time, a virtual eternity) gave me pause & I checked w/ Best Buy, which was offering the dongle for US$5.01 less than Google's 35.00 list price; no charge to bus to & from the store either. (Indeed, the unplanned bus trip increased the value of the monthly pass. Win-win.)

Also deals offered for two free mos. of huluplus & 20 bones worth of Google play, so in a justification sense it's about free. Except that I wouldn't ordinarily waste a nickel on any of that crap. There's more of interest on YouTube than there is anywhere that wants to make straight-up profit. So far I've already watched these in the 32" diag. size that 3:4 shows as on a 40" screen. Beats squinting at the 13.25" that 4:3 shows as on the devil-box.

The battle - 1965 United States Marines Educational Documentary - Ella73TV

Convair B-58 Hustler Emergency Landing - 1961 United States Air Force Educational Documentary

1961 Nuclear Reactor Meltdown : The SL-1 Accident - United States Army Documentary - WDTVLIVE42

(O.K., that I didn't watch in its entirety. And it's an Atomic Energy Commission documentary, not the U.S. Army's.)

Take That, Stalin!

THU 14 DEC 1939
League of Nations, in response to the Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November, expels the U.S.S.R. from its membership.

Heavy cruiser Vincennes (CA-44) and destroyers Evans (DD-78) and Twiggs (DD-127) (the latter destroyer having shadowed British destroyer HMS Hereward a short time before) trail Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth which is prowling the Gulf of Yucatan waiting for the emergence of German passenger liner Columbus. The Americans maintain such a close and persistent surveillance of the Australian warship that Perth's commanding officer, Captain Harold B. Farncomb, RAN, is said to have remarked in exasperation, "Queer idea of 'neutrality' these Americans have!"

German freighter Arauca departs Vera Cruz, Mexico, followed subsequently by passenger liner Columbus, the third largest ship in Germany's merchant marine. Destroyer Benham (DD-397), soon joined by destroyer Lang (DD-399), trails Columbus. A succession of U.S. ships will, over ensuing days, send out plain-language position reports (see 15-20 December).

German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee puts in to Montevideo, Uruguay, for repairs. British light cruiser HMS Ajax and New Zealand light cruiser HMNZS Achilles maintain patrol off the 120-mile wide River Plate estuary. British heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland reinforces Ajax and Achilles that night.

Interior Department motorship North Star (U.S. Antarctic Service), with the permission of the British government, visits Pitcairn Island to take on water and discovers the islanders in need of certain foodstuffs and medical supplies, which she provides. The provisions include flour, sugar, potatoes, matches, lard, gasoline and lubricating oil. The supplies will be replaced in New Zealand with funds turned over to Rear Admiral Byrd by the Chief Magistrate.

U.S. freighter Extavia, detained at Gibraltar by British authorities since 29 November, is released.

Minutes

Another successful meeting of the Silver Lake Bachelors Club yesterday, to inaugurate our host's Roku box.

Note lack of BEEF! Also et: Oven-baked 'taters. Mmmm. (Now back to frozen "Swedish Meatball" dinners.)

Santa Spotting

Dunno if this was Echo Parque's Santa returning to the barn,

or just the Delancey Street cult advertising Xmas trees.

Don't care either.

To Be (Or Not To Be) Jolly

Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la ...

Rats In The Street Gnawing At Your Bones

Rodent report from
New York New York
The Big Apple

"A bunch ate through the ceiling of a sports editor's office and crawled all over his desk and left poops on his keyboard," said a different source. "They ate through his rug to fit under his door."

We're told that Conde has sent a memo to their staff in the building telling them that "they cannot eat at their desks" and that a complaint to the city's health department is next on the agenda.

When we bumped into Carter outside the tower, where the publishing house set up shop in November, we asked him if the little beasts are disgusting as we've heard. "They're rats!" laughed the legendary editor, "What do you think?"

Battle Of The River Plate

WED 13 DEC 1939
British heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, light cruiser HMS Ajax, and New Zealand light cruiser HMNZS Achilles (Commodore Henry H. Harwood, RN, flag in Ajax), which had rendezvoused the previous day, engage German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate. The "pocket battleship" knocks Exeter out of action and damages her consorts, but is compelled by the damage inflicted by her lesser-gunned adversaries (which are fought, as First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill writes, "with the utmost resolution and skill") to retire toward Montevideo, Uruguay. Exeter, badly damaged, withdraws to the Falkland Islands (see 14 December.). The U.S. Navy studies the Battle of the River Plate from a perspective of drilling gunners to maintain fire by local (rather than a centralized director) control. To this end, a scenario similar to the River Plate engagement is included in an exercise in 1940. In addition, the Director of Fleet Training considers the "proper use of smoke either as a defense measure or as a means of covering movements of an attacking force" extremely important, and points out the demonstrable effectiveness of a smoke screen "as a means of protection for light forces" employed by Commodore Harwood in the battle with Admiral Graf Spee.

U.S. freighter Exochorda, detained at Gibraltar by British authorities since 5 December, is released.

Details

The Birds, The Wires

Poor Otis, Dead & Gone ...

...& MATCH

Trash Talk From The World's Leader In Slavery & Occupation

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a memorial ceremony in Nanjing
marking the 77th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre on December 13, 2014.
Photo: AFP/Won Hung Lo

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday morning unleashed some of his sharpest rhetoric to date against Japan's wartime atrocities in China more than seven decades ago at a sombre ceremony commemorating the Nanking massacre.

Xi led officials gathered Saturday morning at a memorial hall in the former national capital, now called Nanjing, where 77 years ago invading Japanese soldiers slaughtered more than 300,000 people, mostly unresisting civilians, according to Chinese estimates.

Calling the massacre "a horrific crime against humanity and a very dark page in the history of mankind," the Chinese president vowed in his speech that "history shall not be altered with the passing of time, and facts not erased by crafty denial."

"The responsibility of the war lay with a small number of militarists, not the people. But people should at no time forget the heinous crimes committed by the invaders," Xi said.

"Any dismissive attitudes towards the history of the invasion, and any comments glorifying the war, are harmful to peace and justice of the human race," said Xi, in an apparent jab against Japanese politicians whose annual visits to the Yasukuni shrine and occasional comments downplaying wartime history have incurred China's wrath.

One word (two syllables) you insufferably self-righteous prick: Tibet.

The Schaden, It Freudes Itself

Sony suspends film shoots
after hackers hit payments

The attack by hackers suspected of having links with North Korea
has taken most of Sony Pictures’ computers offline
and left it unable to process payments

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Ah ha ha ha.

Could the last righteous & intrepid hacker busy destroying the world's house-of-cards financial system please turn out the lights? Also hurry up w/ ruining everything; apparently some people think money (especially theirs) is still a real thing.

Burn it all to hell!

In A R.U.T.: Urban Terror Situation Round-Up Followed Up

We type "round-up" 'cause public relations aside (via) we reckon the gyrenes will be washing the streets of scum & "securing" Dodger Stadium to use it much as Santa Anita was used for enemies of the state 70+ yrs. ago.

15th MEU Marines conduct raid at Dodger Stadium

U.S. Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Raid Force approach a
breaching point at Dodger Stadium during realistic urban training in Los Angeles Dec. 8, 2014.
RUT prepares the 15th MEU Marines for their upcoming deployment, enhancing their combat skills
in environments similar to those they may find in future missions.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Miguel Carrasco/Released)

Investigative Reporting

Preliminary investigation reveals that, "real rain" or no, the scum has not been washed off the streets of
Southern California.

Today In Assholes & "Rectal Infusion"

Bend over & spread 'em!

Ex-CIA director defends
rectal rehydration

Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Thursday defended revelations from Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats that the agency used rectal rehydration on detainees.

“These were medical procedures,” Hayden said during a tense interview on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper." He added that the method was used because detainees were dehydrated, and that giving them intravenous fluids with needles would be dangerous.

“I’m not a doctor,” he said. “What I am told is that this is one of the ways that the body is rehydrated.”

The Intelligence Committee report, released Tuesday, detailed a slew of abuses by CIA interrogators on prisoners, including one that involved detainees' food being blended and “rectally infused.” The report says the practice was used on at least five detainees, including two of the most infamous, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.

Up your ass too, Hayden, you pathetic, four-eyed, balding, Karl Rove-looking piece of shit!

You look a little dehydrated, General; c'mon out to Los Angeles, I'll shove a feeding tube so far up your tightly puckered asshole it'll come out your lying fucking mouth.

Question Of The Day: Just How Dense Is Andrew Sullivan?

The second stupidest person on the iNternet, in hysterics over "torture" as if it's never happened or been part of these United Snakes ever before wonders:

What I simply don’t understand is how conservatives – those most skeptical of the power and reach of big government – are not appalled by this state of affairs. It is the biggest threat to our liberty and constitution around. And yet they defend it. And find excuses for it. And even celebrate it.

Guess Andy's given up on the Orwellian struggle by which he used to pretend to live:

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell.

Otherwise he might have absorbed a bit o' history,

key point about U.S. RW--odd combo of "posse comitatus" libertarianism & kneejerk fascism.

& might even stop making a hysterical fool of himself.

Not In My House!

Stormfront

The sky above, the rancid mud of humanity below.

Steel Engineer Released

MON 11 DEC 1939
U.S. freighter Azalea City, detained at London by British authorities since 27 November, is released to proceed to Antwerp, and Rotterdam, Holland, after certain cargo is detained for guaranties. Freighter Steel Engineer, detained at Gibraltar by the British the previous day, is released.

Still Watching/Waiting

Emergency!

STORMWATCH!!

W/ the pluvial apocalypse bearing upon us all I must repress myself & apply socks, pants & shoes to make the long trek to town for supplies before the bridge washes out. Or is it the dam threatening to burst?

Also on the radar:Yes, I'll have a shutdown please.

More Secular Sounds For The Solstice

Justice Report

Untitled (CVS)

Steel Engineer Detained

SUN 10 DEC 1939
U.S. freighter Steel Engineer is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities (see 11 December).

Pretty Vacant

Newly vacant; you are no longer welcome.

Down the avenue, a perfectly good vacant lot is wasted.

Lyrical Genius Or Terroristic Threat?

So cleverly precise I might've writ it (writes itself, really); so appropriate for our world of waste & agony. King Stitt:In the proverbial fire, or just what. Ev. Err.

Crying For Christmas

Today In Repetition

21st Century Moon

Where "2" equals four.

Ship Movements

SAT 9 DEC 1939
U.S. freighter Explorer is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities (see 23 December).

German tanker Nordmeer sails from Curaçao, N.W.I. (see 5 January 1940).

Euphemism Of The Day

"Rectal re-hydration."

Talk about that around your dinner tables, America.

Today's Cheap Talk: Quitter Eric Holder 'Phones It In

Here's news: Apparently Att'y. Gen. Eric Holder has already resigned, & effective immediately (if not ten yrs. ago).

Attorney General Eric Holder on CIA interrogation report: 'I can't honestly say that crimes were committed. But I will say this: What we saw in these enhanced interrogation techniques was not consistent with who we are, who we say we are as Americans. They might have been legal in the strictest sense of the word but they were immoral' - @NBCNews

Well Mr. Holder, y'know, like, uh, what w/ it having happened in the real world of actuality & all, it is America, & it is consistent w/ America. Hell, if you'd get the wax out of your ears you'd hear many people, often those who claim to be more "American" than you (so they must know more about these things) saying very clearly that torture is American. Your unwillingness to charge those culpable & your empty words only reinforce how acceptably American it is.

The editorial staff at WEB OF EVIL hopes the private jet carrying Mr. Holder on his well-reimbursed "I Was The Att'y. General Once, Remember?" speaking tour goes down in flames. We wonder if the Dep't. of Justice will have the guts to charge us.

Long Pig Back On Menu?

Update at 4:50 p.m. ET: A blizzard warning has been issued for the northern Sierra, including Lassen National Park, Donner Pass, Echo Summit, and Carson Pass. Heavy snow and winds gusting to 80 mph will lead to dangerous whiteout conditions. Passes could close for several hours between Wednesday and Friday, with the most dangerous conditions likely falling on Thursday.

Castle In The Sky

Why should the title be any more original than the image?

Second Thoughts On Impeachment

Perhaps we weren't harsh enough in our call for death to the enemies of the people. Further cogitation suggests everyone in a uniform, from UPS drivers & meter-readers through police forces & the military directly (& especially) to flag officers, as well as anyone wearing a suit & tie, or the female equivalent thereof, should be entered in the population reduction sweepstakes.

They've been shearing you sheep for all recorded history; soon enough you'll be lamb chops. When will you stop them?

IMPEACHMENT NOW!!

CIA officers who committed torture bear individual criminal responsibility for acts, UN investigator says - @Reuters

DOJ has already reviewed info in the CIA Senate Intel report & wont initiate criminal charges over interrogation program @CBSNews

— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) December 9, 2014

Failure to prosecute makes the cowards Obama & Holder just as fucking gulity as the Bush Administration. Off w/ their corporate apologist drone-murdering heads!!

Lightnin' Strikes [TWICE!]

UP YOURS!-DATE (11 December 2014): Amazing it would disappear so soon after it appeared here. This is a better upload, however.Intellectual property is theft, especially if the intellectual whose property it is is dead!!

WWIII Up-Date

Apparently there are Ospreys at the stadium, rather than the usual seagulls.

The 4 Ospreys are back in the Dodger p-lot. #echopark Loud but dark (hard to take a picture). Loaded a vehicle.

— Dodger Neighbor (@dodgerneighbor) December 9, 2014

Marines practicing at Dodger stadium. Landed 4 Ospreys and then took off again. Helos circling. #echopark

— Dodger Neighbor (@dodgerneighbor) December 9, 2014

Today In World War III

Thought about it,

Hello,

On Monday, December 8, 2014, from approximately 5pm-9pm, the military will be conducting a major exercise at Dodger Stadium. The exercise will include aircrafts landing on Stadium property and soldiers will be practicing security drills. Please do not be alarmed by any military presences you may see or hear as it is a practice exercise. Please plan accordingly and we apologize for any disturbance or inconvenience this may create.

Oscar Delgado

Manager, Neighborhood & Government Affairs | o: 323-224-1443 | f: 323-224-1452

Los Angeles Dodgers | 1000 Elysian Park Ave | Los Angeles, CA 90012

but I doubt if I could get any good shots at night, & I might be shot as a spy (for exercise realism).

To give you an impression, a picture of a helicopter trying to kill me (last Thursday).

And a shot of a deconstructed 'copter, also from last Thurs.

Something must have been up on the freeway; the close one orbited for some time. And as I ('bout four miles as the crow or helo flies from the stadium) hocked this up a chopper came by every three or four mins. for a good half an hr.

Bureaucracy & Diplomacy

FRI 8 DEC 1939
Duties of the former Technical Division, Office of Naval Operations, concerned with matters of research and invention, is transferred to Office of the Technical Aid to the Secretary of the Navy.

Secretary of State Hull urges U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in the United Kingdom Johnson to urge the Contraband Commission in London to release U.S. freighter Nishmaha (then at Marseilles, France), which has been held 25 days "a most unreasonable detention" (see 19 December).

U.S. Consul General in Hamburg Keblinger reports that German prize control authorities are detaining more than 125 neutral ships in German ports: at least 40 Swedish, 12 Danish, 5 Norwegian, 40 Finnish, 14 Estonian and 14 Latvian, comprising practically all neutral vessels clearing Baltic or Scandinavian ports with cargoes of goods that are on the German contraband list (see 27 December).

Restaurant Wrap-Up

To each their own.

"dies of coronary thrombosis on board his flagship"

THU 7 DEC 1939
Rear Admiral George J. Meyers, Commander Base Force, dies of coronary thrombosis on board his flagship, auxiliary Argonne (AG-31), San Pedro, California (see 28 December).

U.S. freighters Effingham and Winston Salem, detained at Ramsgate, England, by British authorities since 27 and 28 November, respectively, are released; the latter proceeds to Rotterdam where her cargo of 2,782 bales of cotton is seized by British authorities.

U.S. freighter Exmoor is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities (see 15 December).

German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee stops and sinks British freighter Streonshalh at 25°01'S, 27°50'W.

Open Season!

In the centenary yr. of World War I, is it surprising that chlorine gas is back? (Actual debut: April 1915.)

'Furry' convention disrupted as 'intentional' gas incident sends 19 to hospitals

Hazardous materials technicians found the source of the chlorine gas, what appeared to be powdered chlorine, in a stairwell at the ninth floor, according to a statement from police.

[...]

“It was shocking,” said [Morgan] Smejkal while standing outside the hotel dressed in a red panda animal suit.

Now every amateur chemist/professional lunatic will be mixing it up in or under the kitchen sink. Tip o' the M.B. chapeau to the Wiki for clueing us how.

Alternatively a strong acid such as sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hypochlorite solution to release chlorine gas but reacts with sodium chlorate to produce chlorine gas and chlorine dioxide gas as well. In the home, accidents occur when hypochlorite bleach solutions are combined with certain acidic drain-cleaners.

Unsure where the powder in the hotel hallway comes into it, but our research into poison gas is as yet embryonic.

And what kind of world do we live inhave you jerks made where furries are under physical, potentially murderous attack? Think it was the kind of weasel who equates homosexuality w/ bestiality, & is worried about "the kids"? (By which he means immature goats.)

Annals Of Treachery

7 December falls on Sunday this yr.

Ford Island under attack, 1941. (Imperial Japanese Navy photo.)

Special Remedial Education (For Cretins)

Ossifer Derp gets a lesson. Think it'll take?

Annals Of Hypocrisy

Death to the two-faced liar Janet Weiss, BP Alaska President!Compare & contrast advertising w/ reality:

Oil giant BP has said it is accelerating plans to cut jobs within its back-office departments - many of them based in the UK and US.

The company, which has been downsizing since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, had long planned the cuts, but is speeding up the process due to falling oil prices.

Crude prices have fallen by almost 40% this year, reducing oil firms' margins.

BP employs almost 84,000 people worldwide, and some 15,000 in the UK.

"The fall in oil prices has added to the importance of making the organisation more efficient," a BP spokesman told the BBC, "and the right size for the smaller portfolio we now have".

(Just Another) Saturday Night & Sunday A.M.

Nagonna waste any electrons (or the energy) on the fire engine & two police cars dealing w/ whatever at a bldg. across the street. Same as Friday more or less two months ago, except early Sunday.

Bat-Box

Season's Greetings

Canyon Drive, Hollywood, 2014.

Not merely inflated, but kept erect by an air pump; noisy & no doubt wastes more energy than lights. And what's that little girl trying to show us? Creepy.

Refueling

WED 6 DEC 1939
U.S. freighter Yaka, detained at the Downs by British authorities the previous day, is released.

German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee refuels from tanker Altmark in South Atlantic, roughly 1,700 miles from Montevideo, Uruguay.

Local Anti-Gentrification Notes

The dump I used to live in is visible in a shot in one of the packages at the links. I would like to make it very damn clear that I have not lived on Effie between Maltman & Golden Gate since 1992, & would not arse myself to walk up that hill merely to let the air out of tires (IYKWIM&ITYD).

DOZENS OF TIRES SLASHED BY VANDALS IN SILVER LAKE

AT LEAST 100 TIRES SLASHED BY VANDALS IN SILVER LAKE

WALLOWING: Further "research" offers chances to compare & contrast. Looks as if NBC wins the scare-mongering competition:

Residents Terrorized by Serial Tire Stabber
Dubbed the "Silver Lake Slasher"

FOX doesn't even bother transcribing the report.

Silver Lake Resident Finds His Tire Flat In Rash Of Tire Slashings

We win "Too Lazy To Embed This Crap". And the former bunker is in full view here; the beige dump just to the right of the reporter's head, behind the white dump on the corner.

Oh fuck this shitbother. I make the effort to embed this one but it won't embed (or even play) at its KTLA page, & I end up arsing myself to grab the image.

The apparent window at the upper left corner of the "LIVE" box is the balcony on which we used to barbecue. One Sunday afternoon there was so much smoke billowing out (Amateurs!) idiots in the bungalows on the left there called the Fire Dep't.

L.A.P.D. vs. N.Y.P.D.

Dog Bites Man, Cops Shoot Man: Hardly "news", but at least the L.A.P.D. has better aimers. Love the Catch-22 in N.Y.C. last yr.:

Officers shot two bystanders in Times Square while attempting to shoot an unarmed, seemingly unstable man who was weaving through traffic in Manhattan’s high-traffic tourist mecca. They then charged the man with assault for causing the officers to shoot the bystanders.

How about charging the officers for criminal negligence? And their superiors, for putting poorly-trained trigger-happy idiots on the street?

By the way, the L.A.P.D. officer didn't "shoot & kill" the knife-wielding tourist terrorizer. What happened?

“When he saw the officers, he approached them and an officer-involved shooting occurred,” Detective Meghan Aguilar told KTLA.

You know, shootings just "occur" w/o human any agency at all, whatsoever. Detective Aguilar should listen to herself spewing mindlessly. And then she should go fuck herself. Euphemistically, of course.

Today In Photography

Visited the wilderness today; most exciting thing I saw was a wildlife camera on my favorite trail.

Which I can only assume means I may encounter newly healthy P-22 at any moment. Do these pants make me look like a mule deer?

Detained & Released; Detained

TUE 5 DEC 1939
U.S. freighter Exochorda is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities, who maintain that the 45 tons of tin plate among the vessel's cargo is contraband. The latter maintain that the cargo must be taken to Marseilles and unloaded there; the manager of the shipping firm (Export Lines) maintains that the ship cannot proceed to a belligerent port without violating the Neutrality Act. Until the impasse is resolved, the merchantman remains at Gibraltar (see 13 December). Freighter Exmouth, detained at Gibraltar since 22 November, is released.

U.S. freighter Yaka is detained at the Downs by British authorities (see 6 December).

Don't Hide In Your Glass Wheels

Enough! Stop the murder! Not just guns: Get cars off the street too.

Woman just charged at protesters with her car on Hudson and Laight Crowd yells at her, beats car but situation resolved quickly. #ericgarner
— Nicolás Medina Mora (@MedinaMora) December 5, 2014

Motorist hits crowd members, pulls gun
at Central West End protest

Hate crime murder? Man intentionally drove SUV into KC Muslim teen, police say

If you aren't straight-up murdered by a responsible law-abiding car owner your life (empty & w/o meaning as it is) is being shortened by toxic spew from exhaust pipes & smokestacks & your economic & political existence is being ruined by the fossil-fuel industry your gas-guzzler supports. NO ONE IS INNOCENT!!

Y'know, if an entire world of subservient sheep is killing itself (Nay, are going to die soon enough, no matter what. Nyah nyah!) why are there still laws that forbid me from finishing the euthanasia/suicide in a timely manner? Let me help you help yourself.

No! Ho! Mos!

Performance art?Have "homo" or "queers" been used un-ironically by anyone under 70 w/in recent memory? Reminds this reporter of sixth-graders more thrilled by the transgression of the words than any real insulting who didn't really get the words but were as thrilled by their transgression as any actual insulting. You think "darkies" is in his lexicon too? Eh, maybe not. W/ hating the homos & the wimmen-folkhis schedule may keep him too busy to take on anyone else who scares him, other than the obligatory scapegoats, THE JOOOS!! (Many links for those who wallow; I've already arsed myself to embed mins. of amusement.)

Obama-Hating Misogynist ‘Christian’ Pastor:
Jews Are Nothing But Lying Racists (Video)

Also. Tip o' le chapeau to Mock Paper Scissors.

Not A Truck At All (New Police Terror Car)

New Pick-Up Truck (Police Terror)

7-Eleven® parking lot, Sunset & Normandie, Los Angeles. From a LACMTA bus, 4 December 2014.

Not A Food Truck

The high-frequency squeal you hear is the King of Kings & Lord of Lords spinning in his grave.

Examiner Released

MON 4 DEC 1939
U.S. freighter Examiner, detained at Gibraltar since 17 November by British authorities, is released.

Food Trucks? In My Day, They Were Roach Coaches

Gussie them up all you want, they still are.

On A Lighter Note

Lighter until you consider the tax dollars wasted & abused. (Any fraud in there, to complete the trifecta of reactionary whining? And why was the Blue Angel at a former N.A.S.? Seems fishily suspicious.)

Texas Justice

Meanwhile, in the state that leads these United Snakes in state-committed murder:

A jury of seven men and five women took less than two hours to find a disgraced former Justice of the Peace guilty of capital murder in the deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia.

That'll restore faith in the justice system.

Last Night's News This A.M.

WEB OF EVIL supports (by stating loudly that we support it) shutting down bridges & tunnels. And the subway.

No comment on auto arson.

Try Talking Like That To Putin, You Putz

We see that Newt Gingrich-style grifter cum presidential candidate-wannabe Ben Carson has mastered the "Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood" part of Newtie's schtick.

Pressed by Blitzer on whether the comparison was appropriate, Carson argued his focus on the specific words was "part of the problem."

"What you were doing is allowing words to affect you more than listening to what was actually being said. And that's part of the problem," he said.

"You are just focusing on the words 'Nazi Germany' and completely missing the point of what is being said," he added.

He was also asked about comments that Obamacare was the "worst thing" that's happened in the U.S. "since slavery." Carson said whether the health care reform law was worse than other crises that have gripped the nation, like the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 or the Great Depression, is "not the point."

Sweet Blood of Jesus, now Nazi comparisons are too subtle? And the "whatever happened to sticks & stones" bit (1:59): Are we on the playground or discussing public policy? One might even wonder how world leaders would react to a President Carson's "my words don't mean a thing, really, but you're still a damn Nazi" approach to semantics.

Also in the video, as transcribed by Crooks and Liars ((8:37) of Blitzer & Ben there, should you need a powerful distraction from a limb being amputated w/o an anaesthetic, let's say, & w/ a very dull lumber saw.):

"See, what you were doing is allowing words to affect you more than listening to what was actually being said," Carson insisted. "Nazi Germany experienced something horrible. The people in Nazi Germany largely did not believe in what Hitler was doing, but did they say anything? Of course not. They kept their mouths shut."

Any citation, basis in fact, whatever for the Krauts "largely" yada, Doc? As if most people don't just keep their mouths shut like good little girls & boys anyway, Nazi Germany or New Jersey. And is there even one actual example of "opponents" of the gov't. being "punished" by the I.R.S.S.? Oh, I'm sorry. Pay no attention to your words, just to "what was actually being said", right? So, telepathy?

Every single sentence: [Lazy & over-worked publisher/editor/typist refers you to (0:49) on the video.] If this is America (Carson says it is, but does he mean it?) & clowns walking down the street can say they don't feel free to say, "Y'know, like, uh, stuff that I feel ... dude", aren't they really free? At least enough to bitch & moan about their feelings? And is the Daddy Party now the Mommy Party? Didn't a concern for feelings used to be a sign of weakness? Also too, the gummint's telling people where to live? Is a Constitutional Amendment forbidding zoning laws going to be a plank of the 2016 G.O.P. platform?

Surgical hand-eye coördination aside/stipulated, does Dr. Carson seem a bit slow, off, &/or/also a doofus? I sincerely hope he doesn't "go into a tizzy" if certain words & phrases are used about him ("Sticks & stones," words have no meaning, don't forget what you said Doc. when it hits the fan!) should he decide to further his grift-through-candidacy. But it must be alright to call him an asshole, because what I mean is "Physician, heal thy sorry self."

And now, the big pictures: Are we destined to a successful-enough-in-previous-undertakings-but-goofy (probably due to that old time religion) African-American candidate through at least the first Republican primaries for the foreseeable future? (As if there is one.)

What is most despicable about Dr. Carson is that his inane babble "inspired" this reporter to type & polish this from maybe 1900 (off & on, w/ other iNternettery, preparing an eaten-while-typing meal, telebision eyeing, & every other distraction possible ...) until whenever the hell it's published.

Irony

SUN 3 DEC 1939
German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee stops British freighter Tairoa; the warship then sinks the merchantman at 21°30'S, 03°00'E. Ironically, the same day Commodore Commanding South Atlantic Station, Commodore Henry H. Harwood, orders his three cruisers to concentrate off the River Plate estuary on 12 December (see 13 December).

More Quoting

How come all the people who were hysterical about Government Death Panels seem to like the idea of cops killing whoever they want? — Mark Evanier (@evanier) December 4, 2014

They Just Get Fat & Dye Their Hair

To verify our rude statement two items below ("Apparently video & audio do lie if you're a suburban scumbag.") 538 DataLab:

[P]olls show Staten Islanders think police treat both races equally. Almost 60 percent of Staten Islanders, on average, said police treat both races the same, according to Quinnipiac’s surveys. Only 31 percent of all New Yorkers felt the same way. (Staten Island’s adult citizen population — the group from which the grand jury was drawn — is almost 70 percent non-Hispanic white; New York overall is majority non-white).

More than 75 percent of Staten Islanders approve of the job the police do, compared to just 52 percent of all New Yorkers.

Assuming anyone who cares gets the references we only planned a link, but we came across a 1978 single & why not beat the corpse of the horse to a pulp?Added bonus: Spoor of the smart-ass spotted:

Quote Of The Day

Crowds chant "I can't breathe" in protest of grand jury decision in Eric Garner case http://t.co/mcsbhtu54w pic.twitter.com/Eqmq0hKtJ4
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) December 4, 2014

Quote Two: "Hands up, don't shoot!"

Quote Three (from me): OFF THE PIGS!!!

Misdemeanor Leads To Murder By The NYPD

You have the right not to be killed: Murder is a crime!

Unless it was done by a policeman or aristocrat:

Cop cleared in chokehold death of Eric Garner

Apparently video & audio do lie if you're a suburban scumbag.

No Surprise, More Lies

I blame MSNBC & Google for the embed button on the MSNBC site not working (It works for Wonkette, WHY NOT HERE?) but Lawrence O'Donnell destroyed a cop-worshipping WaPo hack for his fucking lies about the lying testimony of an anonymous asshole in the grand jury proceedings. Sickening. Have you no shame, hack?

Bobby Keys

Just like to know why all the sidemen die before the band members (other than early casualty Jones).

Turns out Keys was a roots man:

In Lubbock, Keys befriended Buddy Holly, playing with him briefly as a teenager. "I kind of weaseled my way into the perimeter of the garage," recalled Keys. "He was the first guy I heard play electric guitar and it impressed the hell out of me."

Overkill

SAT 2 DEC 1939
German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee stops British freighter Doric Star; the warship then torpedoes, shells, and sinks the merchantman at 19°15'S, 05°05'E.

Beginning Of The End?

One hears this stuff a lot recently.

Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind

Personally, I question our ability to create something that is self-aware, motivated to do something/anything & either hell-bent on world domination/human extinction or didn't give a damn that whatever it was doing would have bad results for humanoids.

Not that it would be a great loss.

Joke Dep't.: Who is this "Al" guy everyone's so worried about if he "develops"?

He Just Has No Idea, Does He?

Big John McCain, upward-failing asshole:

"We're about to vote on a totally unqualified individual to be ambassador to a nation which is very important to our national security interestVice-President of these United Snakes," McCain said on the Senate floor. "Her qualifications to be V-P are as a producer of the television soap opera 'The Bold and The Beautiful,' contributed 800,000 [dollars] to Obama in the last election and bundled more than $2.1 million for President Obama's re-election effort ..."

Again: Death to the two-faced, whether or not they know what idiots they are! (Self-ignorance is no excuse.)

Free Speech Report

These are your rights (Ha ha. Stop deluding yourself.):

SEATTLE - Federal officials have arrested a Washington state man for allegedly posting Internet threats to kill the police officer who shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.

The U.S. Attorney's Office says Jaleel Tariq Abdul-Jabbaar, 46, of Kirkland was arrested early Tuesday at his home.

According to court documents, he began posting threats to kill the officer and members of his family on a Facebook page soon after the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown. The criminal complaint only refers to former officer Darren Wilson as D.W. He has since resigned from the police department.

The complaint says Abdul-Jabbaar posted inflammatory messages for months that called on others to join him on a trip to Ferguson to "give back the bullets" that the officer fired at Brown.

One post said: “We need to kill (the officer) and anything that has a badge on,” according to court documents. Abdul-Jabbaar also used Facebook to attempt to acquire a firearm, the documents said.

Abdul-Jabbaar is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday afternoon.

C'mon, who has a car, guns & ammo? Let's roll!!

White People: A Cancer On The World

Would have linked to Alternet but it seems to be having difficulties.

In discussing riots that occurred in the aftermath of both events, the media and conservative pundits have displayed far too great a willingness to chalk up the destruction to black pathology without looking at longstanding policies that support and maintain white supremacy in the U.S. What’s more, they also completely overlook the fact that white people riot, too—just for really stupid reasons.

Inspired by a list compiled by political blogger @red3blog in a series of tweets, here’s a more in-depth look at the 11 most ridiculous reasons white people have rioted.

There is no greater crime than hypocrisy, the punishment for which should be having one's lying tongue removed. Second conviction: Death!

Ironic Attack

Hope the SecDef nominee is confirmed in time to order a drone attack on these drones.

House and Senate Republicans will hold a joint legislative retreat in January in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Yes, I am calling (indeed, begging) for the deaths of all Republican memebers of Congress (in the interests of national security & sanity). And self-defense, before they have the police kill the rest of us.

I don't give a flying fuck at a rolling dough-nut what the aging elitist mostly Catholic cretins of the Supreme Court decide about iNternet death threats. I may have the desire, but neither the will, money or equipment even to get to Hershey, PA, let alone to off the actual pigs. You bastards are killing me every fucking day anyway, so sue me too.

Sharing Is Caring

Hating is caring too. Look at your ugly brutal & vicious world through the ugly brutal & vicious prism of slaveryindentured servitude, professional sports & "professional" thugs/enforcers/security guards/rent-a-coppers acting under color of authority.Really, one of the worst humanoids in any category.

Modern Reinforcements

DECEMBER

FRI 1 DEC 1939
Submarine Division 14 arrives on the Asiatic Station, the first modern reinforcements received by the Asiatic Fleet in many years. Submarines comprising the division are Pickerel (SS-177) (flag), Porpoise (SS-172), Perch (SS-176), Pike (SS-173), Tarpon (SS-175) and Permit (SS-178).

Today In Southern Cal.

Following one of our famous auto pursuits:

#CHASE: suspect skateboarding away after crash until he gets arrested! #VanNuys @LAPDDevonshire @lapdVanNuysDiv pic.twitter.com/EBNi6H5As6

— Julie Sone (@ABC7JulieSone) December 1, 2014

Shoot Me Now, Please!

The very concept (let alone the actuality) of arena pseudo-rocker Bruce Springsteen fronting U2 on the Disney Sports Channel's pre-Monday Night Football festivities is too culturally fraught to get anywhere near.

For those somehow oblivious to the evident horror, let me repeat myself: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, backed by arena pseudo-rockers U-FUCKING-2, is performing on the Disney Sports Channel's two-hr. pre-Monday Night Football shitpile of tiresome sports clichés. How much longer can this culture circle the drain?

Don't Arse Yourselves ...

... this is a bookmark.

The Long Goodbye is in/on the DVR; if I ever get to it, this should be an exciting interesting diverting accompaniment, alright.

Photos: Hollywood Hills Apartment Where 'The Long Goodbye' Was Filmed Is Up For Rent

The view will cost you: The 2,800 clams (U.S.)/mo. certainly isn't for a human-sized kitchen (or bath).

Not the original commode.

Rewriting The NewsLies

They call it karma:

Security bulletin warns US military, law enforcement and intelligence personnel that they could be targets of Islamic State plots - @CBSNews

Re-writ to reflect the truth of the real world:

U.S. population warned that that they could be targets of plots by U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence personnel & armed reactionary assholes in general - WEB OF EVIL

60 Yrs. Ago Today In Mingus

Charles Mingus - Intrusions            Recorded 1 December 1954, New York City