Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Monday, June 1, 2015
Saber-Rattlin'
SAT 1 JUN 1940 JUNE
Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, commenting on U.S. Minister in Uruguay Wilson's suggestion to send 40 or 50 naval vessels to South American waters, suggests "if some way can be found by which at least three or four heavy cruisers and a reasonable number of destroyers can be kept on the East Coast [of South America] this summer." That same day, Welles informs U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Jefferson Caffery that heavy cruiser Quincy (CA-39) is en route to Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo "to furnish a reminder of the strength and the range of action of the armed forces of the United States.
Battleship Washington (BB-56) is launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. She is the first American battleship to go down the ways since West Virginia (BB-48), 19 November 1921.
Minor Landing and Base Defense Exercise at San Clemente Island, begun on 25 May, concludes; for the first time one of the newly organized USMC Defense Battalions carries out the mission of defending an advanced base against a landing force supported by aircraft and ships.
U.S. freighter Charles R. McCormick, the American flag displayed prominently, departs Bergen, Norway, for the United States.
White Squares
Talking 'bout YOU, audience ... no wait, talkin' bout stuff as what people ain't never heard nothin' 'bout nohow, never:
I will freely admit to not reading The Economist that often, but at least I've effing heard of it.
And this millennial generation about which I hear so much (Not listening 'though!!) know so little & care even less: Are these little shits now actually old enough to have graduated & obtained jobs? Yeah, sure, tomorrow will belong to them, for a few blinks of the cosmic eye, but if the future is full of them I certainly have no interest in it!
"White squares indicate sources that are known by less than 40% of respondents in that generation".
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And this millennial generation about which I hear so much (Not listening 'though!!) know so little & care even less: Are these little shits now actually old enough to have graduated & obtained jobs? Yeah, sure, tomorrow will belong to them, for a few blinks of the cosmic eye, but if the future is full of them I certainly have no interest in it!
3.5 Min. Wait
This conjunction of confusion pisses off even this non-driving reporter.
The traffic signals can take as long as 3.5 minutes to change – an eternity for those stuck in traffic.Or those on foot. You know, ME!!
I Was A Tech-Teaser At
Microsoft Roosterama
So the shitheels at Microsoft (Mrs. Gates' pet name for Bill's weiner, we note.) want us to "reserve" now, 'though it won't be available for two more mos.? Eat me.
Three Theocratic Stoogettes
As much for the opportunity to run this triptych of the idiotic, stupid & ignorant who can only hate what they do not understand, as for any other reason:
In case you were curious, it's the immigrants who are dragging Jebus back to the cross, hammer & nails in hand!!
Further discourse outsourced to TBogg, who apparently is paid to bother w/ this crap. Distilled at RWW.
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Further discourse outsourced to TBogg, who apparently is paid to bother w/ this crap. Distilled at RWW.
Today In Animal Liberation
Four legs (or various fins) good, two legs bad!
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Well?
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| Your genial host (as he looked about 35 yrs. ago) contemplates downloading. |
Anyone out there in the vast wasteland taken Microsoft up on their #GetWindows10 offer yet? I remember how their Windows updates used to go.— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) June 1, 2015Sunday, May 31, 2015
Send In The Fleet!
FRI 31 MAY 1940
U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Norman Armour and U.S. Minister in Uruguay Edwin C. Wilson confer in Montevideo about the deteriorating situation in Uruguay, and jointly suggest (in telegram to Secretary of State Hull) that "if the situation in the Far East permits," sending a "large U.S. naval force, 40 or 50 vessels...to the east coast of South America." A naval visit of that nature, the diplomats believe "would strengthen the position of those who desire to combat Nazism, as well as restore the confidence of those who are now wavering" and that the stationing of a U.S. naval squadron "more or less permanently in these waters would be an added assurance that we are prepared to give effective and immediate assistance if required."
In reply to U.S. Minister in Uruguay Wilson's telegram of the previous day, Secretary of State Hull informs the envoy in Montevideo that President Roosevelt has ordered heavy cruiser Quincy (CA-39) to proceed immediately to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and thence directly to Montevideo for "friendly visits of courtesy" (see 12 June).
Chief of the Division of the American Republics (Laurence Duggan) of the State Department suggests to Undersecretary of State Welles that President Roosevelt's decision "to detach two or three cruisers to go down the east coast [of South America]" be made public "in order to put a little iron in the veins of our friends in those countries."
Germs Great Pat Smear, Fat & Happy
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— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) May 20, 2015Blackie's was a fun dump (& w/in walking & staggering, if not crawling distance, of home); at one gig there (All a blur now; same one?) someone lit the dumpster in the alley on fire. No one ever did that in the alley behind the Troub.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Local WTF Action
Great job @LAFD rescuing woman stuck in chimney at a school in Koreatown. @JaneNews live update after NHL @nbcla pic.twitter.com/XK1hg9oGIr
— Patrick Armijo (@patrickarmijo) May 31, 2015
Fleet To Stay In Pacific;
Uruguay Situation "Deteriorating"
THU 30 MAY 1940
President Roosevelt (through Secretary of State Hull) rejects Ambassador Bullitt's request of 28 May to send the fleet to the Mediterranean. "The presence of the fleet in the Pacific at this time," Hull reminds the ambassador, "is a very practical contribution to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific."
U.S. Minister in Uruguay Edwin C. Wilson reports "deteriorating" situation in Montevideo in telegram to Secretary of State Hull. Wilson describes the Uruguayan government as "well meaning but weak, undecided and confused," with things "drifting" and "people ... climbing on the Nazi bandwagon." Wilson also warns that an "armed movement is a possibility" (see 31 May).
Lest We Forget
If I might point out to these self-censoring sissies, the word you're looking for is "ASSHOLES". Don't be assholes yourselves by censoring things.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Today In Businesspeople
Watch this glibertarian witch/crazy person assault a news crew "investigating" the pile of rusted junk her business won't clean up.
Money!
Hot damn, gonna be a wild wknd.!
Twenty yrs. ago the "fee" was U.S.$5.00. Progress, sort of. Wasn't expecting mileage, which, like everything else in this world of shit & pain is sheer bullshit: Train fare to & from the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center would have been U.S.$3.50 if I'd paid retail. A little short from U.S.$1.36. Up yours, L.A. County!
Gold Fever!
WED 29 MAY 1940
French auxiliary cruiser Ville d'Oran loads 200 tons of gold (French reserve) for shipment to Casablanca (see 9-10 June).
Nice Jewish Lady Pamela Geller's
New Mooslim-Hatin' Friends
Guy w/ a Nazi "SS" shirt @ the "free speech rally" https://t.co/eMx12XWz1C Also says: "Support Your Local White Boy" pic.twitter.com/CPCXBwxDDM
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) May 30, 2015
Justice!
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| Broadbill (Xiphias gladius) Sadly, not the hero of our story. |
Confirmed: Man killed at Honokohau Harbor on Big Island after being impaled by broadbill swordfish that he first speared.— Andrew Pereira (@KITV_Reporter) May 29, 2015
Where The Hell Does One Sign Up
For This Anthrax Mailing List?
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| Be glad I resisted the urge to show anthrax skin lesions. |
Pentagon: 24 laboratories in 11 states and 2 foreign countries received inadvertent shipments of live anthrax; 'no known risk to the general public and an extremely low risk to lab workers' - statementPlenty of envelopes & stamps ready, just need some live bacilli.
And Today In Mental Illness
Or sheer stupidity, or perhaps merely a 12-yr. old's mind. Twelve or so being the approximate mental age of Junior Paul & most of his fanbois.
Whatever the explanation, we can be certain that Randy won't be running against Obama. But you wouldn't expect a 12-yr. old to know that.Comedy relief for the sane & post-pubesecent.
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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Belgium Surrenders; U.S. Ambassador To France Goes Nuts: "a feared 'Communist uprising' as German forces near Paris and other industrial centers"
TUE 28 MAY 1940
National Defense Advisory Committee is established, which includes in its membership former automobile manufacturer William S. Knudsen, corporate executive Edward R. Stettinius, labor leader Sidney Hillman, and economist Leon Henderson. There is, however, no head to this group, that only serves to advise President Roosevelt on defense issues (see 7 January 1941).
Belgium surrenders to Germany.
Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt (through a telegram to Secretary of State Hull) urgently asks President Roosevelt to send a cruiser to Bordeaux, France (1) to bring arms and ammunition urgently required by the French police to quell a feared "Communist uprising" as German forces near Paris and other industrial centers and (2) to take away the French and Belgian gold reserves. "If you cannot send a cruiser of the San Francisco [CA 38] class to Bordeaux," Bullitt implores, "please order the Trenton (CL-11) at Lisbon [Squadron 40-T flagship] to take on fuel and supplies at once for a trip to America and order her today to Bordeaux." Consequently, heavy cruiser Vincennes (CA-44) departs Hampton Roads in company with destroyers Truxtun (DD-229) and Simpson (DD-221), bound for the Azores on the first leg of the voyage undertaken in response to the ambassador's second concern (see 9 June).
Ambassador Bullitt also urges that the Atlantic Fleet be sent to the Mediterranean as "one of the surest ways" to obtain British and French cooperation in keeping German attacks away from the U.S. (see 30 May).
Today In Mental Illness
Believe it or shove it, this son-of-a-preacher-man (See also: Ted Cruz.) believes Gawd talks directly to him.
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Apparently Gawd is one helluva campaign manager:On abortion and “life issues,” there isn’t a more conservative elected statewide official in the country. Walker not only believes abortion should be banned even in cases of rape and incest, but that conventional birth control pills should be banned as well.
After Mark Green outflanked Walker with the religious right in the 2006 gubernatorial race, Walker left his neighborhood Baptist church, where he was a deacon and his retired Baptist preacher father was (and remains) a member, and moved to a church that bills itself as non-denominational but has beliefs that closely mirror those found in conservative Pentecostal congregations.
If Walker prevails in the Republican primaries, he will be the first presidential candidate to come from a church whose members believe the Apocalypse is “imminent,” do not allow women to serve on congregational boards of elders, practice “speaking in tongues,” and do not believe someone is a real Christian unless he has been “born again.”
Walker has also said, “there is no separation of church and state in the Constitution.” In social media, he has suggested that God works through him and literally speaks to him. For example, according to Walker, God spoke to him and instructed him to marry Tonette—after one date.
[Salon]Then after only five months of dating, he proposed to Tonette Schleker, a widow 12 years his senior, and suggested they get married three months later—on Feb. 6, 1993 (Ronald Reagan’s birthday). He would run for office with a wife as a political asset.
In June 1993, Walker won the special election for a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly with 57 percent of the vote and the slenderest of résumés—at 25, he was a college dropout whose longest stint then (as now) in the private sector had been a job at McDonald’s during high school.
Worst State In The Union Today
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And do not forget it's the same shithole from which the Clintons oozed.Months after the rehoming of their adopted daughters was made public, Justin and Marsha Harris have yet to face consequences
Despite public outrage, Justin Harris' status as legislator remains unchanged.
Today In Blackmail
Wow. I wonder what ol' Denny Hastert did to someone that he agreed to pay that someone U.S.$3,500,000.00.
A-ha! A clue, perhaps (Our emphasis: Need we type more?):
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Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, once a teacher and wrestling coach at Yorkville High School, is an Illinoisan through and through—born in Aurora, reared in Oswego, lived and worked in Plano and Yorkville. His wife, Jean, a retired teacher, remains in Plano, and “The Speaker,” as his staff calls him, spends most weeks in Washington, where he is a lobbyist for the law firm Dickstein Shapiro and lives in a luxury hotel. (He won’t say which.)It would be irresponsible not to speculate!
And Today In Fuck The Police
You cannot trust the police to do anything correctly. Or even to do anything humane.
Imagine the care & concern this pig shows for people he's arrested.Thursday, May 28, 2015, 4:54 PM - Florida Police Officer Nelson Enriquez has been suspended with pay after two K-9 dogs were found dead inside his SUV amid hot temperatures, the Hialeah Police Department announced Thursday.
The dogs, a 7-year-old bloodhound named Jimmy and a 4-year-old Belgian malinois named Hector were assigned to Enriquez, who has worked for the police department for 13 years, seven of which have been spent as a K-9 officer.
After completing an overnight shift that ended at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Enriquez assisted in a missing persons case before returning home around 10 a.m. and neglected to remove the dogs from the cargo compartment of his police SUV.
Today In Eat The Rich
Also, Today In America Eats Its Young:
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) —Gigi Jordan, a former pharmaceuticals executive and socialite convicted in the death of her autistic 8-year-old son, was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison.Apparently another mentally ill rich person who managed to avoid treatment because she was a socialite.
Despite that Jude was nonverbal, Jordan testified that the boy learned to communicate with her by typing on a laptop computer and BlackBerry. That was how, she said, he told her about the repeated abuse he endured, which had bizarre satanic elements – from being forced to drink blood and kill animals to being zapped with electricity.America: If you aren't raping your children, you're outright killing them.
A Waste Of Time & Effort
Hey "activists": You'll never accomplish anything w/ bullshit like this:
Spend your time, money & energy acquiring weapons, ammunition & explosives & then kill Big Money & all who have it, you stupid lazy hippie losers. It's too damn late for anything else to work.
Oh, This Should Be Fun!
Pin-dick bikers plan to pose like bad-asses in front of mosque:
Real "men" would stand up for freedom, the Second Amendment & White Power & go in w/ guns blazing, rather than prance around outside w/ their great big guns hanging out, if you know what I mean.
Ms. Geller's rampant paranoia certainly has her in bed w/ some interesting companions:
Ms. Geller's rampant paranoia certainly has her in bed w/ some interesting companions:
Now, however, bikers and white supremacists are commingling with increasing frequency in a number of different ways. All five of the major white supremacist movements in the United States—neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, Ku Klux Klan groups, racist prison gangs, and Christian Identity groups—have developed noteworthy ties to the biker subculture. There is a significant overlap between elements of the biker subculture and elements of white supremacist subcultures, including shared symbology, shared slang and language, and in some cases shared dress. These cultural connections make encounters between the different movements easier.One of these days that snake you're handling will bite you & your Zionist Occupation Government, Pam!
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Rah! Rah! Rah! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Rick Santorum: "Today is the day we're going to begin to fight back" http://t.co/P9ozAwG0eJ pic.twitter.com/ztgsagnOfb— msnbc (@msnbc) May 27, 2015Compare & contrast the above w/ November 2006, a little less than nine yrs. ago.:
Freeway Close
1958 Telecopter PresentationLooking thru the archives and found this video of the original KTLA Telecopter.
Posted by National Helicopter Service on Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Total M. Buffoonery
Wasted mins. (& complained loudly about it) looking for the image in the item below in order to beat Facebook at its idiotic game. Meaning I'd already forgotten I'd planned this image:
Now I'm regretting not getting that sweet U.S.$15.00/day mileage fee for another nine days. And irked the first day is a pass. The director of the jury services division is going to get one nasty letter.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Civic Duty: ✔
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I suspect that despite my suppressed desire to tell the judge that I did indeed hold him & the entire system in contempt, neener neener, my admitting to being a diagnosed (also by an employee of the County of Los Angeles, coincidentally) crazy person was the determining factor in the A.D.A. dropping me as if I were hot (general non-bourgeois [toothless] appearance may have added to the crazy effect); the case involved finding (or not finding) that the respondent is a "Sexually Violent Predator" (as legally defined) & will therefore receive three hots & a cot at a State Hospital until a cure is achieved, hell freezes over or the stars fall from the sky, whichever may happen first, & the A.D.A. might have assumed I'd be opposed to that sort of thing on principle.† (Oddly enough, I have few principles either, beyond the usual "don't get caught". And imagine the reaction had The People of The State of Calif. known I'd been 5150'd myself.)
A.D.A.'s mistake, however: If forced to serve (It was figured to take until 5 June!) I was already prejudiced toward throwing away the key to the hospital after the respondent was locked in. The sickening pervert (probably an abuse victim himself) didn't look as if anything good would happen to him were he to be released from custody, even if he could control his violent urges.
*A young (to me now "young" is anyone under 40-ish; this sovereign citizen was in the audience on the other side of the bulletproof [let's hope] glass & fence arrangement, while I, as a cool person, was in the jury box, so it wasn't easy to be more specific) person (of Asian extraction, speaking American-accented English, for the sociologists out there) mentioned jury nullification, which, the judge noted, was a'gin th' law. Hizzoner also dragged out the old
†All. One. Sentence: Tremble before my logorrhea!
Dunkirk
SUN 26 MAY 1940
U.S. Minister in Uruguay Edwin C. Wilson, in telegram to Secretary of State Hull, reports tension between the Uruguayan and German governments over the former's searching homes and businesses of Germans and charges by the latter that the Uruguayan police were employing "rough methods" in their investigations (see 30 May).
Operation Dynamo: Evacuation of British, French, and Belgian troops from Dunkirk, France, begins, aided by poor flying weather that limits German aerial operations (see 4 June).
Police Beat
It's just exactly & also precisely like Veet-Nam 'round here.
Previous police terror events w/in bicycling distance of the bunker.
Damn Yankees w/ their choppers everywhere. Here is one that was orbiting the area a couple of hrs. ago:Fugitive Holed Up in LA Home
Don't Mess W/ Texas!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't higher atmospheric temperatures lead to more evaporation, & therefore more moisture in the atmosphere, which can't stay there forever, becausedue to gravity? What did the lunatics populating the Lone Star State expect?
#houstonflood #flooding #floods #Lightning pic.twitter.com/WciJmMMLXY
— Victoria Donnell (@VickyGuzman02) May 26, 2015
Monday, May 25, 2015
A Little Exercise
SAT 25 MAY 1940
Minor Landing and Base Defense Exercise begins at San Clemente Island, California (see 1 June).
"Real" Americans Show
Northeastern Elites
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| Real American name: Kintpuash (Strikes the water brashly) |
Speaking of, while you're Bar-B-Q-ing today remember all the real "real" (as in original residents of the continent) Americans who died so bloated oafs could live in fear & gamble at their descendents' casinos.West is finally best:
Denver wins NCAA men's lacrosse title
Oh My
Apparently not hockey news.
Suicide bomber blew himself during Rangers operation at Pareshan chowk Orangi town #Karachi— Karachi_Post (@Karachi_Post) May 25, 2015
Corporate Droning From A Triangulating Turkey
Have this woman & her husband Cletus been the most successful self-enrichers in all of American politics ever? She was a stupid middle-class pig ("I won't let animals like that near me!") he was a lower-class pig & neither of them had anything when they started. Scholarship students, right?9) However, Walmart does care about rich people
In 2013, the Walton family received $8 billion in tax breaks, $6.2 billion of which came from federal taxpayer subsidies handed to them because employee wages are so low. Currently, the company is also hosting $21.4 billion in offshore accounts, which remain untaxed by the U.S. government. And in 2014, as Walmart failed to meet shareholder expectations, the company somehow managed to dig up enough money to give its CEO a $1.5 million bonus for performing poorly at his job.
Walmart isn’t just greedy. The company is the epitome of greed. As its overworked and underpaid employees struggle to make ends meet, Walmart's top brass make billions, even as stock is dropping. Everything about the company is capitalism at its worst.
10) The chain has a deceptive public image
Walmart’s universal reputation as the "bad guys" stings that much more as the company keeps trying to remind us how good it is.
Take their OUR Walmart initiative, which attempts to silence dissenters with positive representations of the company, even as workers flood the Internet with their personal horror stories. Or the Walmart Foundation’s initiative to "fight hunger," while their own employees go hungry, spending $300 million in taxpayer money on food stamps. Or how about its campaign telling you to "buy American," even while the company's new uniforms were made in Jordan.
This is just a friendly reminder that Walmart is terrible. Call it a public service announcement: Don’t shop there. Don’t work there if you can help it. And if you do have to work there, don’t expect to be treated well. Get out while you can, before Walmart takes your spirit, your health, and your dignity.
If Walmart's ugly practices are a cycle of power and abuse, there's only one way to break it. And that starts with you.
[And explosives. — M.B.]
So how'd they get all the money? Not even by deluding America's already-impoverished morons w/ fear-mongering, Sarah Palin-yada yada style. Nope, all Bill & Hill had to do was set up under the corporate trough & wallow.
Do you smell bacon? And toast?
One Min. Round
4 June 2015: Cheating again; forgot to polish & schedule this. We blame Memorial Day.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Allies Bug Out Of Norway
FRI 24 MAY 1940
President of Panama addresses diplomatic notes to the government of the Dominican Republic, supporting its position in the Hannover incident of 8 March, to the British and German governments, calling attention to their violation of the Pan-American Neutrality Zone, and to the Chairman of the Inter-American Neutrality Committee in Rio de Janeiro, directing that body's attention to the case.
Allied Supreme Command decides to evacuate its forces from Norway.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Friday, May 22, 2015
Three Day Morbidity & Memory Wknd.!
D for the dead. All the dead.
More morbid pix from the L.A.P.D. files from the yr. of my birth:
According to an officer on the scene, this suicide was "the weirdest in Hollywood history."
Initially, Martin's scope was anywhere from the 1920s to the 1950s, meaning he went through thousands of photos before 1953, a seemingly ill-fated year, emerged. "It just seemed like that cases from that year were unique and substantial," Martin said.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Krauts Reach Channel
TUE 21 MAY 1940
German troops reach the English Channel west of Abbeville, France, splitting the Allied armies and encircling their northern remnant.
Three Sick Fucks
Via the Bezos Post, the Grossly Obscene Perverts love (L-U-V!) Josh "Touchy-Feely" Duggar.
Minutes later: TBogg has even more sickening Republican perverts. Quite the rogue's gallery.
And another classic:
Great meeting today w @SenTedCruz. He always conveys passion for America & the importance of faith, family & freedom! pic.twitter.com/SvBjBw1GXV— Josh Duggar (@joshduggar) May 6, 2015Great to visit w/ my friend @GovMikeHuckabee this morning in DC. Thankful to have his voice on the #2016 stage! pic.twitter.com/qN2FiyadVf— Josh Duggar (@joshduggar) May 16, 2015Great meeting today w/ @ScottWalker! He has a very passionate vision for America. #OurAmericanRevival #2016 pic.twitter.com/PiB7MfiSzt— Josh Duggar (@joshduggar) May 19, 2015Minutes later: TBogg has even more sickening Republican perverts. Quite the rogue's gallery.
And another classic:
9 Times Josh Duggar Lectured People On Family Values Before He Admitted He Was A Child Molester
Family Values
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Photo from People Magazine:
Apparently they forgot the incest rule.The Duggars Have (At Least!)
5 Rules for Relationships
Next sack of hypocritical shit who invokes "family values" gets a foot in their genitalia.
Who Doesn't?
Why, I never! The whole police dep't.? Someone better send her more ammo & weapons.
"I was able to open up my kitchen door and hear her, and the things she was saying, you know you knew, she wasn't well," McCauley said. "She wanted to kill the police department.Good for her. Fucking filth. Why don't they leave people alone?
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When deputies sent in a crisis negotiation robot, she fired shots at it, hit the robot with a broom, threw a cover over it and pointed an object that appeared to be a drill at it.
Jury Duty
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Put enough stuff in the juror questionnaire that I doubt I'll serve (If the judge says it's the law & I know it's bullshit, I will continue to think that & jure accordingly.) but If I have to point out to the judge that he couldn't get the respondent's last name right & he's an incompetent buffoon I fucking will.
Hell of a fucking country where the justice system cowers in such fear of its citizens it must x-ray everyone's belongings & send everyone through a metal detector before they can get non-justice. Not to mention a justice system where the fucking judge makes a big deal of how important a correct transcript of the proceedings is, yet there are no recording devices, merely a court stenographer. And many cheesy signs screaming about not using cameras in the court room. Fuck them. Is there no more transparency? Since when are the people kept from making records of the shit done & the lies told in their name?
After seeing my fellow jurors, I realize none of them have any interest in anything beyond playing w/ their stupid 'phones, let alone any rights they may have or any interest in justice. They could be marched all over the fucking bkdg. like the sheep they are, told to sit down, wait, stand up, go over there, stand & wait, yada yada, but as long as they have their fucking 'phones they couldn't care less how they are treated or what they're asked to do. Scum, every last one.
Even the judges agree it's anti-justice.
If I only had a bomb ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Nazi Worries
MON 20 MAY 1940
British Prime Minister Churchill, in telegram to President Roosevelt concerning the recent meeting of Lord Lothian (British Ambassador to the U.S.) with the Chief Executive, acknowledges U.S. difficulties but expresses continuing interest in destroyers. "If they were here in 6 weeks," Churchill states, "they would play an invaluable part."
President Roosevelt, in memorandum to Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, expresses concern over the situation in Uruguay as reported by U.S. Minister Edwin C. Wilson, on 15 May. "Is there some way," Roosevelt asks Welles, "in which the Minister of Uruguay in Washington and Mr. Wilson in Montevideo can get word to the Uruguayan Government that the United States is concerned ...?" Undersecretary Welles, in his response to the President that same day reports that the Uruguayan government has taken steps to investigate Nazi activities in Montevideo (see 26 May).
Propaganda
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Oh, also in telebision I hear this David Letterman goober is off the air after (30-some yrs. &) tonight. Whatever. While I once was a dedicated, video-taping viewer of the show, let's face it: Telebision programming, like fish, visitors & musical combos, begins to stink after about 10, 15 yrs. (Which means this web-log is on its last legs, if not already a hideous un-dead abomination.)
America In Marco Rubio's
"New American Century":
Policeman Of The World,
Or Corporate Rent-A-Cop?
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| Go ahead & get one of these sunk saving a shipload of plastic crap, Marco. |
Sending young Americans to die for a corporation's bottom line? That's not national security, it's the theocracy of Mammon. Young Sen. Rubio's "New American Century" sounds much like forward-thinking early 20th century President Coolidge's "the chief business of the American people is business." Although we're pretty sure Silent Cal didn't mean dying for stockholder value. Except United Fruit stockholder value.More to the point: Rubio’s own foreign policy is, like Bush’s, centered around the notion that America must expose itself to more risk and danger around the world. He said as much in last week’s speech laying out the “Rubio Doctrine,” which calls for aggressive interventionism:As president, I will use American power to oppose any violations of international waters, airspace, cyberspace, or outer space. This includes the economic disruption caused when one country invades another, as well as the chaos caused by disruptions in chokepoints such as the South China Sea or the Strait of Hormuz.
Russia, China, Iran, or any other nation that attempts to block global commerce will know to expect a response from my administration. Gone will be the days of debating where a ship is flagged or whether it is our place to criticize territorial expansionism. In this century, businesses must have the freedom to operate around the world with confidence.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Customer Service: IT'S A COOKBOOK!!
Who are these three (apparent) straw-stealing assholes, & why don't they fuck off & die w/ their clichéd "customer is always right" idiocy? The customer is inevitably an entitled asshole about 10 secs. from getting a well-deserved pop in the mouth; don't any of you forget that the next time you walk into a retail establishment. Retail rage is always just below the boiling point.
Nice Work If You Can ...
L.A. City Council approves increase in minimum wage to $15 by 2020U.S.$15.00/an hr.? Maybe I'll ...
Hahahahahaha.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Monday, May 18, 2015
"Help!"
SAT 18 MAY 1940
British Prime Minister Churchill, in telegram to President Roosevelt, tells of British perseverance but suggests that "if American assistance is to play any part it must be available [soon]."
Pot Of Shit Calls Kettle Hot
“I’ll ask Hillary Clinton, what have you done for criminal justice? Your husband passed all the laws that put a generation of black men in prison. Her husband was responsible for that,” he said.Sen. Paul's solution? Three guesses:
“I’ll also ask her what she’s going to do for poor people in Philadelphia. I have a specific plan that would dramatically lower the taxes for people who live in zip codes of poverty and high unemployment. I would leave billions of dollars in Philadelphia over 10 years. What’s Hillary Clinton going to do?” he said.Apparently he's also forgotten that crap never works.
Today In Gullibility
No one believes any laws passed or not by Congress will have any actual effect on what the "intelligence" community does/collects, do they?
— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) May 18, 2015Prez On Twitter!
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| Once owned this disc. (How else could I have know about it?) No idea where I got it; the cover was tattered & literally moldy. Sadly, none of it seems to have made its way to the iNternet. |
We'll see how long it lasts. As we type, the previously-visible replies to B.O.'s one tweet have disappeared somewhere. (Maybe the whole deal is actually the Secret Service trolling for those so crazed they don't care any more & will type or do anything, including rudely replying to a tweet.)
Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account.— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015Should've called himself TheRealBO, too.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Plans Announced
FRI 17 MAY 1940
President Roosevelt announces plans for recommissioning 35 more "flush deck" destroyers to meet the requirements of fleet expansion and the Neutrality Patrol.
LAST CHANCE
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| Wow. Scary. |
Saturday, May 16, 2015
F.D.R. Asks For Appropriations
THU 16 MAY 1940
President Roosevelt asks Congress to appropriate $546 million for the Army, $250 million for the Navy and Marine Corps, and $100 million for the President to provide for emergencies affecting the national security and defense. He also asks for authorizations for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps to make contract obligations in the further sum of $186 million, and to the President an additional authorization to make contract obligations for $100 million. He also suggests that 50,000 planes a year be built.
President Roosevelt responds noncommittally to Prime Minister Churchill's telegram of the previous day. Addressing the possible loan of destroyers, Churchill's first concern, the President informs the "Former Naval Person" that such a step cannot be taken without "specific authorization of the Congress" and that U.S. defense requirements assumed priority. He also informs Churchill that the U.S. Fleet would remain concentrated in Hawaiian waters, "at least for the time being."
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