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Death To Landlords, Part The Infinite

Tenants Awarded Millions More in Suit Against Landlords

Residents of a North Long Beach mobile home park were collectively awarded $34.1 million in punitive damages Tuesday, bringing their total recovery to about $40 million in a lawsuit alleging the owners did little after they complained of squalid conditions.

The same Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded the 31 families more than $5.5 million in compensatory damages on Nov. 19. Their allegations against Friendly Village included negligence, elder abuse, nuisance and breach of the warranty of habitability, plaintiff’s attorney Brian Kabateck said.

Friendly Village lawyer Philip Woog could not be immediately reached for comment.

The awards stemmed from the first in a series of trials involving lawsuits brought by residents of the 182-unit RV park, located south of Davenport Park on Paramount Boulevard.

Kabateck said the verdicts should teach Friendly Village’s owners ”a valuable lesson.” He described the landlords as “incredibly wealthy people who should know better,” and said he is unsure if the park can ever be made habitable.

Milldred Bejarano, a 68-year-old retired Long Beach Unified employee who has lived at Friendly Village for 12 years, said the land keeps sinking because the park sits atop a former landfill. She said there are large rats roaming the park.

“I’m going to get sick if I don’t get out of there,” Bejarano told reporters at a news conference outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse.

Another resident, Linda Colvin, said she “almost had a nervous breakdown” dealing with the vermin infestation. She said she plans to leave the park after living there for five years.

“I do feel that justice has been made today,” Colvin said.

Nice: I'm 65 now, so I can sue for elder abuse on top of all of the other crimes against humanity & habitability the landlord here has committed. (No rats yet, but otherwise ...) Can't wait!

[Orig.]

They Made Him A Moron

Her Majesty's Foreign Secretary, B.J.

I watched this with my mouth open the entire time pic.twitter.com/GmvYcLr0yS

— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) November 27, 2018

Spotted at Hullabaloo.

Bonus moron track: Your dog's a cretin too.

David Z. Hambrick / Scientific American:

Your Dog May Not Be a Genius, After All  —  New study finds that canines are not exceptional in the animal world  —  If you are convinced your dog is a genius, you may be disappointed in the conclusions of a study just published in the journal Learning and Behavior. The study finds that dogs …

It's Only Tues.?

One could confirm it here, if one gave a crap.

NB:

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Stairway To The Stars

Elon Musk considers move to Mars despite 'good chance of death'

SpaceX founder says he could fly to red planet in seven years

Mars probe faces daunting challenge to land safely

Don't let any of those earth-bound peasants stop you, dickwad.[Grauniad]

Conference Ends

FRI 26 NOV 1943
First Cairo (SEXTANT) Conference between President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ends.

Pacific
PV-1 (VP 138) attacks what is most likely Japanese submarine I-177, which is engaged in rescuing survivors of the Battle of Cape St. George (see 25 November). I-177 rescues some 200 Japanese sailors in the aftermath of the battle.

USAAF B-25s sink Japanese auxiliary minesweeper Genchi Maru off Canton, China, 21°33'N, 112°00'E.

Submarine Bowfin (SS-287) sinks Japanese army tanker Ogurasan Maru and merchant cargo ship Tainan Maru, 13°00'N, 109°30'E.

Submarine Raton (SS-270) damages Japanese ammunition ship Onoe Maru 00°40'N, 148°20'E; submarine chaser Ch 40 counterattacks but is damaged by the explosion of her own depth charges.

Submarine Ray (SS-271) carries out unsuccessful attacks on Japanese cargo vessel Sumiyoshi Maru, 02°32'N, 148°56'E, but sinks Japanese transport Nikkai Maru southwest of Truk, 04°12'N, 148°20'E.

Submarine Tinosa (SS-283) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Shini Maru, and damages army cargo ship Taiyu Maru, 07°08'N, 134°48'E.

Atlantic
Naval Air Facilities are established at Amapa, Aratu, and Belem, Brazil; Naval Air Facilities (Lighter than Air) are established at Fernando Noronha, Fortaleza, and Ipitanga, Brazil.

Our Daily Load ...

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Local Action: Religious War!

Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:

Video shows driver trying to run over Jews near Los Angeles synagogue  —  Los Angeles police over the weekend arrested a man who was allegedly caught on video repeatedly trying to run over two men near a synagogue.  —  Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, CBS Los Angeles reported.

Howard Portnoy / Liberty Unyielding:   Anti-Semitism rising: Driver repeatedly tried to run down Jews walking near L.A. synagogue

CBS Los Angeles:   Driver Caught On Video Trying To Run Down Pedestrians Outside Synagogue Could Face Hate Crime Charges

CBS Los Angeles:
Hate Crime: Driver Targets Jews In Hancock Park

Jewish Telegraphic Agency:   Man tries to run down Jews leaving Los Angeles synagogue

JTA Today / The Times of Israel:   Man arrested after trying to run down Jews leaving Los Angeles synagogue

NBC Southern California:   Suspect Arrested in Hate Crime Outside Los Angeles Area Synagogue

Mike Brest / The Daily Caller:   Report: Man Arrested For Allegedly Trying To Run Over Jewish People, Backing Up And Trying Again

David Bernstein / Instapundit:   WHOM SHOULD JEWS EXCOMMUNICATE NOW?  Man tries to run …

A) Time to outlaw cars as well as guns.
B) Please, gutter religions (Xians included!) kill each other & yourselves. You're wasting oxygen.

Battle Of Cape St. George; Thanksgiving -- 1943

TURKEY, GIBLET GRAVY, AND … CIGARETTES?
FORMER NHHC STAFFER REVEALS HOLIDAY MENU COLLECTION

THU 25 NOV 1943
Pacific
Battle of Cape St. George is fought during the early hours as the five ships of Destroyer Squadron 23 (Captain Arleigh A. Burke) intercept five Japanese destroyers (Captain Kagawa Kiyoto) off Cape St. George, New Ireland. Charles Ausburne (DD-570), Claxton (DD-571), and Dyson (DD-572) sink Onami with torpedoes and Yugiri with gunfire; the same three U.S. ships, joined by Spence (DD-512) and Converse (DD-509), sink Makinami with torpedoes and gunfire and damage Uzuki. DESRON 23 suffers no damage.

Destroyer Radford (DD-446) sinks Japanese submarine I-19 north of Gilberts, 03°10'N, 171°55'E.

Submarine Albacore (SS-218) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Kenzan Maru, 00°46'N, 144°50'E.

Submarine Searaven (SS-196) sinks Japanese fleet tanker Toa Maru north of Ponape, 08°22'N, 158°00'W.

USAAF B-24s bomb Japanese installations at Taroa, damaging guardboat Takeura Maru.

Japanese submarine RO 100 is sunk by mine two miles west of Omai Island, outside north channel to Buin.

Atlantic
Advanced Amphibious Base, Salcombe, Devonshire, England, is established.

PB4Y (VB 107) sinks the Indian Ocean-bound German submarine U-849, South Atlantic, 06°30'S, 05°40'W.

Destroyer escort Harveson (DE-316) is damaged when she is accidentally rammed by Canadian fishing vessel O.K. Service off Bermuda, British West Indies.

We'll just note that on 25 NOV 1943 Wake Island was taking on supplies at Astoria, Oregon.

The Atomized American In The Age Of Anomie. AGAIN!

Same old shit, different yet repetitive day. Steve M. has seen it before.

Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:

How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart  —  When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.  —  Mr. Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute.  —  America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness.  —  According to a recent large-scale survey … (SURVEY SEZ! — M.B.)

Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:   FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS FOR WHITES  —  This is your semi-regular reminder that the op-ed page of The New York Times employs two insufferable columnists named Brooks who write incessantly about our national anomie and why it's never, ever the result of conservative policies. Arthur C. Brooks, like his namesake David, believes we're just lonely, and it's killing us, as well as making us kill one another ...

Ann Althouse / Althouse:   “Nearly half [of Americans] say they sometimes or always feel alone or ‘left out.’ …

In contrast, something new, at least to the staff here. Hell, wouldn't have bothered w/ any of this if not for the musical selections, & 50+ yrs. later, we found the "SPECIAL DISC JOCKEY RECORD" version, over twice as long as the album track.As if anyone gives a good gawddamn.

On The Outside Chance ...

... that anyone gives a flying whatever about anything or is still, at this late date in the social media devolution, typing web-logs, be advised that this reporter will again be scouring said "liberal blogs" for "great posts" to link at Crooks And Liars next wk. (M-Su.)

As much scouring is required to find something that meets our high peculiar standards, expect even less than the usual garbage in/garbage out output here.

And should anyone have/spot anything worthy of lowest common denominator attention notice, do let us know.

Sinking Of Liscome Bay

WED 24 NOV 1943
Pacific
Escort carrier Liscome Bay (CVE-56) is sunk by Japanese submarine I-175, Gilberts, 02°34'N, 172°30'E. I-175 does not escape unscathed, however, for she undergoes six hours of counterattacks by Liscome Bay's escorts; of the 34 depth charges counted, six explode close enough to damage I-175 so that she cannot "go deep."

In successive separate attacks, USAAF B-24s and Navy PBYs damage Japanese light cruiser Yubari, 04°20'S, 150°00'E, and 03°41'S, 150°15'E, respectively, as she attempts to transport soldiers and supplies to Garove. Damage to the ship prompts cancellation of her mission.

USAAF B-25s damage Japanese lighthouse tender Heicho Maru, Amoy, China.

Atlantic
Survivors of U.S. tanker Elizabeth Kellogg, torpedoed by German submarine U-516 on 22 November 1943, are rescued by submarine chaser SC-1017 and Army tanker Y 10. Eight of the tanker's 36-man merchant complement and two of the 12-man Armed Guard perish with the ship.

Mediterranean
USAAF aircraft bomb Toulon harbor, sinking light cruiser Jeanne de Vienne, destroyer Aigle and sloop SG.21 (ex-second class sloop Chamois) (see 15 August 1944).

Caribbean
U.S. freighter Melville E. Stone is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-516 about 100 miles northwest of Cristobal, Canal Zone, 10°29'N, 80°20'W; 12 of the 42-man merchant complement lose their lives, as do two of the 23-man Armed Guard and one of the 23 embarked passengers. Submarine chasers SC-662 and SC-1023 rescue survivors.

Maybe Missed Over Thanksgiving, & More Than Worth A Tweet

You may have missed this during the Thanksgiving distractions: Rural Youth being radicalized, & not in a good way. https://t.co/pIyLZCBSR6 via @TPM

— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) November 24, 2018

TPM Reader MG shares a Thanksgiving experience …

We just finished a Thanksgiving dinner between my immediate family and some old family friends. The adults are sitting around the table sharing stories, and the three college students (my nephew, who is an undergraduate at a state university in Kentucky and the son of the other family, who’s an undergraduate at a fundamentalist Christian school outside Nashville) are sitting in the living room listening to YouTube videos peddling conspiracy theories about Walmart stores being converted into concentration camps. The videos are well-produced and uses real events as evidence but preys upon the ignorance of my nephew and the other young man about the true context of those events (for instance, the truck-full of migrants who died in a Walmart parking lot). Anyway, they eat this stuff up and are being radicalized. There’s nothing more to say: rural youths are being radicalized.

[TPM EDBLOG]

Boom Or Bust Economy: Bust Coming!

Say, American chump moron, that "business cycle" is getting as short as the "24-hr. news cycle", innit? No sooner do you think you're about to start getting ahead than your corporate masters decide they want a little more, & the hell w/ you. Bend over, here it comes again!

Is that moron Kudlow back on the blow?

 Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:

Is a Recession Coming?  —  In December 2007, Larry Kudlow, then a talking head for the business network CNBC, proclaimed, “There's no recession coming.  It's not going to happen.”  That same month, the economy plunged into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

This week, Larry Kudlow, now the director of the National Economic Council, stood on the White House lawn and struck a familiar note: “I’m reading some of the weirdest stuff [about] how a recession is right around the corner. Nonsense,” he said. “Recession is so far in the distance, I can’t see it.”

Perhaps, as morning follows the rooster’s crow, an imminent recession looms behind Kudlow’s latest optimistic squawk. The outcome certainly seems possible if you’ve recently been torturing yourself by following the stock market. After the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 550 points on Tuesday, the past few weeks qualify as no mere correction, but as one of the worst stock meltdowns of the past few decades. Some analysts say it could get worse.

Stephen Gandel / Bloomberg:   The Stock Market Is Even Worse Than You Think It Is

Sorry, sheep. More "economic anxiety", then a shearing, & then you're mutton. Reduce, reuse & recycle is the new slogan of human resources dep'ts. everywhere.

Capelin On Eternal Patrol

TUE 23 NOV 1943
Pacific
Betio, Tarawa Atoll, and Makin are declared secured.

Cruiser and destroyer force (Rear Admiral Aaron S. Merrill) bombards Buka-Bonis area, Bougainville, Solomons.

Motor torpedo boat PT-322, damaged by grounding, eastern New Guinea, 06°09'S, 147°36'E, is scuttled by U.S. forces.

Submarine Blackfish (SS-221) sinks Japanese transport Yamato Maru between New Guinea and Palau, 02°28'N, 140°06'E.

Submarine Capelin (SS-289) sinks Japanese army cargo ship Kizan Maru, 01°50'N, 127°55'E (see 17 November 1943). [17 November was the last time the Capelin was heard from. Ghost sub? Nov. '43's been a bad month for U. S. subs.]

Submarine Gudgeon (SS-212) attacks Takao-bound Japanese convoy, sinking Japanese escort vessel Wakamiya and army transport Nekka Maru, East China Sea, 28°38'N, 122°00'E, and damaging fleet tankers Ichiyo Maru and Goyo Maru.

The End Is Nigh!

 Washington Post:

Major Trump administration climate report says damages are ‘intensifying across the country’  —  Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is already impacting the United States — and that it is going to be very expensive.   …

Eric Roston / Bloomberg:   Americans Will Pay Billions More For Climate Change, and That's the Best Case

Todd Neikirk / Hill Reporter:   Climate Report Warns Trump Administration Of Serious Economic And Health Effects

Kathryn Krawczyk / The Week:   Massive climate study shows pretty much everything Trump is saying about climate change is wrong

Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:   New Climate Report Warns of Dire Risks to U.S.

Tamar Auber / Mediaite:   Michael Moore: Trump's Helped ‘Blow Up Pieces of Our Democracy’

Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams:   ‘Absolute Disgrace’: When No One Looking, White House Plans to Dump Major Climate Report on Black Friday

Jordan Pearson / Motherboard:   The ‘Window of Opportunity’ to Act on Climate Change Is ‘Almost Closed,’ UN Warns

New York Times:

U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy  —  WASHINGTON — A major scientific report issued by 13 federal agencies on Friday presents the starkest warnings to date of the consequences of climate change for the United States, predicting that if significant steps …

Politico:   U.S. climate report warns of dire changes by 2050

KFOR-TV:   Climate change will have dire consequences for US, federal report concludes

Mark Hand / ThinkProgress:   Officials count the dead from devastating California wildfires as Trump mocks climate science

Jake Johnson / Common Dreams:   Here's the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn't Want You to See

Jen Steer / fox8.com:   Government climate report warns of worsening US disasters

Greg Margason / FOX59:   Government report says climate change will have devastating impacts on health, economy

Evan Rosenfeld / Mediaite:   NEW: Trump Administration Report on Climate Change Warns of Dire Environmental, Economic Consequences

CNN:
Climate change will shrink US economy and kill thousands, government report warns  —  (CNN)A new US government report delivers a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts, saying the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars — or, in the worst-case scenario …

Reuters:   U.S. report says climate change will batter economy, in clash with Trump
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:   Al Gore Calls Out Trump For Trying To Bury US Climate Crisis Report
Josh Billinson / IJR:   Al Gore Scolds Trump for Trying to ‘Hide the Truth’ on Climate Change

Tamar Auber / Mediaite:   CNN Meteorologist Fact Checks Trump's Global Warming Tweet: ‘Climate is Long-Term,’ Not a Day

 Zahra Hirji / BuzzFeed News:Climate Change Is Already Bad For The US Economy, A New Study Says  —  There's no doubt about it, a government report concludes, climate change is already wreaking havoc across every corner of the US.  This means more damaging wildfires in California, more storms dumping intense rain on Texas

Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:   Government climate report warns of worsening US disasters

Matthew Robinson / CNN:
Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming?
Malik Earnest / fox5sandiego.com:   The answer to global warming? Dim the sun

You fucking cretinous morons. G'wan, see if you can turn off the fucking sun, shitheads! The schaden freudes itself, dunnit?

Window Box Of Eden

Not Consuming

... Not Moving

... trying not to breathe.

SEXTANT Conference

MON 22 NOV 1943
President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, for talks (SEXTANT Conference).

Pacific
Destroyer Frazier (DD-607) is damaged when she intentionally rams Japanese submarine I-35; the enemy submersible is sunk by Frazier and destroyer Meade (DD-602) off Tarawa, 01°22'N, 172°47'E.

Submarine Drum (SS-228) is damaged by depth charges north of New Guinea, 02°53'N, 141°36'E, and is forced to terminate her patrol.

Submarine Seahorse (SS-304) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Taish Maru, 33°41'N, 128°35'E.

Submarine Tinosa (SS-283) sinks Japanese army cargo ships Kiso Maru and Yamato Maru off Palau, 07°09'N, 134°32'E; although damaged by depth charges, 07°09'N, 134°34'E, she remains on patrol.

USAAF B-24 sinks Japanese cargo ship Kinyamasan Maru, 01°00'N, 149°20'E, that had escaped damage the previous day; destroyer Asanagi continues on to Truk with survivors of Nichii Maru and Kinyamasan Maru.

Japanese army repair ship Kashima Maru is sunk by mine, laid by USAAF B-24 on 16 November 1943 off Macao.

U.S. tanker Elizabeth Kellogg, bound for Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, is torpedoed by German submarine U-516 at 11°10'N, 80°43'W, and abandoned (see 24 November 1943). [Notice that all the action's been in the Pacific recently? Even the Nazis are there.]

55 Yrs. Ago In Political Murder

Nat'l. Archives

President John F. Kennedy is presented with a turkey by an industry group on Nov. 19, 1963.
Kennedy gives the bird a reprieve, the first recorded presidential Thanksgiving turkey pardon.

Harvey Georges/AP

If you think these United Snakes have been a democracy at any time in the last 55 yrs., you have another think coming.Not much, but one could be thankful the murdering hasn't resumed here. Yet.

Trumpsgiving Turkey

How'd those tax cuts for the upper-class work out for y'all, you stupid, stupid hicks?

And now that Trump has sold these United Snakes to the murdering Saudis for imaginary "defense" contracts, there's no legal or moral reason not to hope for massive Thanksgiving terror attacks on all the silly crap you morons hold dear. What's that parade in New York City w/ the idiotic gasbags? Blow a few of those outta the sky & see what Trump's reaction is!

Locally, this gawd-awful mess has been fucking up traffic in Hollywood for 90 yrs. Enough!

Also Acceptable: A real Black Friday; attacks on the temples of commodity fetishism & forced consumerism.

(Hmmm ... space left we could fill. Let's continue the apocalyptic ranting.)

In other local action, the rain has begun. Let the mud slide; maybe it will clear the hills of the houses that didn't burn to the ground.

"Yankee Go Home!" 2018

Pigs Off Campus, We Used To Say

 Lauren Frayer / NPR:

American Reportedly Killed In Flurry Of Arrows As Tribe Defends Its Island Off India  —  They are hunter-gatherers who live on a remote, forested island in the Indian Ocean.  They do not use money.  They resist contact with the outside world — and have been known to sling arrows at outsiders who approach their shores.

Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed News:   A Remote Tribe In India Fired Arrows At And Killed An American Missionary Who Illegally Tried To Visit Them

India Today:   American killed on Andaman island home to uncontacted people, body yet to be recovered

Iccregionalmanager / Persecution:   American Missionary Reportedly Murdered by Hostile Tribe in India

Sanjib Kumar Roy / Reuters: American missionary killed by tribe on remote Indian island

Fox News:   American killed by bow and arrow-wielding tribe while trying to visit remote Indian island

New York Times:   American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island

BBC:   John Allen Chau: Who was US man killed in remote islands?

Steven Hayward / Power Line:   Loose Ends (54)  —  Some various feel good and absurd stories ahead …

Katherine Rodriguez / Breitbart:   American Tourist Killed by Isolated Tribe on Indian Island

These noble yet unknown people really need to be better armed to defend themselves against your "civilized" world.

Death From Above, Limey-Style

SUN 21 NOV 1943
Pacific
Submarine Nautilus (SS-168) lands Marine reconnaissance company on Abemama, Gilberts.

Submarine Trigger (SS-237) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Eizan Maru, Yellow Sea, 36°40'N, 125°31'E.

USAAF B-24s and B-25s strike Japanese shipping and installations in Aroe Islands and off Manokwari, New Guinea, sinking transport Shinwa Maru off Manokwari, 02°24'S, 134°36'E.

USAAF B-25s and RAAF Beaufighters sink Japanese fishing vessel Shinko Maru off Taberfane, 06°11'S, 134°07'E.

RAAF Bostons sink small Japanese cargo vessel Suisan Maru off south coast of New Britain, 06°03'S, 151°14'E.

Operation GALVANIC

SAT 20 NOV 1943
Pacific Theater
U.S. Naval Base, Cairns, Australia, is established.

Navy, Marine, and Army forces land on Tarawa and Makin, Gilberts, in Operation GALVANIC. The operation is under overall command of Commander Central Pacific Force (Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance). Marines (5th Amphibious Corps) landing on Tarawa encounter bitter resistance. During operations supporting GALVANIC, four ships are damaged: battleship Mississippi (BB-41) by turret explosion, 03°10'N, 172°58'E; small carrier Independence (CVL 22) by aircraft torpedo, 01°30'N, 172°40'E; destroyer Ringgold (DD-500) by Tarawa shore battery, 01°24'N, 172°58'E, and destroyer Dashiell (DD-659) by grounding, 01°00'N, 173°00'E.

Submarine Harder (SS-257) continues stalking convoy attacked the previous day and sinks Japanese transport Nikko Maru northeast of the Marianas, 23°20'N, 147°30'E.

PBYs sink Japanese cargo vessel Naples Maru, 03°22'S, 151°45'E; submarine chasers Ch 17 and Ch 18 rescue survivors.

Today In (Miniature) Horse Fucking In (Where Else?) Florida

Florida Man at it again:

A Marion County man was arrested Monday afternoon after he admitted to having sex with a miniature horse — repeatedly, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.

In addition to ponying up to having sex four times in a week with the horse named Jackie G, 21-year-old Citra resident Nicholas Sardo told a detective that “he used a condom each time because he didn’t want to get a disease from the horse.”

Sardo is charged with four counts of sexual conduct with an animal. His bond is $4,000.

The sheriff’s office says a family member owns the horse. The sheriff’s office said Sardo told the detective that “he knew he was wrong for what he did and that he was a sick man.”

Under a Facebook post titled “Justice for Jackie G,” the Marion County Sheriff’s Office described how Sardo got caught riding the horse.

On Oct. 16, a woman told the Marion County Sheriff’s Office she had seen Sardo having sex with Jackie G in a pasture. Another woman told the detective the same thing and that she’d talked to Sardo about it. She said he took responsibility.

Jackie G remains under the care of his owners.

“Stipulations of Sardo’s future contact with the horse could be determined by a judge in the near future,” the sheriff’s office said.

Where he at, Google/Wiki? "Marion County comprises the Ocala, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area."

String. Her. Up!!

Can someone do something about this horrid reduced-nose, augmented-breasts & removed-brain exemplar of Czechoslovakian-American womanhood? Now, before it's too late!

A Message On Behalf Of Population Control Advocates & The Romaine Lettuce Marketing Board

EAT LETTUCE & DIE, CONSUMER SCUM!!

Could have eaten some last night. Fortunately this reporter removes all green objects from sandwiches before consumption, C.D.C. warning or no. How fucking pathetic/dead are those who don't?

Cap't. Cromwell Earns Posthumous Medal Of Honor

FRI 19 NOV 1943
Pacific
Submarine chaser SC-1067 founders and sinks off Attu, Aleutians.

Motor torpedo boat PT-147, damaged by grounding, eastern New Guinea, 05°55'S, 147°20'E, is scuttled by crew.

Submarine Harder (SS-257) attacks Japanese convoy escorted by escort vessel Fukue and destroyer Yuzuki, sinking transports Hokko Maru and Udo Maru, 22°28'N, 147°22'E (see 20 November 1943).

Submarine Nautilus (SS-168) is damaged by friendly fire from light cruiser Santa Fe (CL-60) and destroyer Ringgold (DD-500) off Tarawa, Gilberts, 01°05'N, 173°03'E. Nautilus remains on patrol until she accomplishes her mission of supporting the landings.

Submarine Sculpin (SS-191), heavily damaged by Japanese destroyer Yamagumo about 154 miles north of Truk, Carolines, 00°00'N, 152°50'E, is scuttled. Captain John P. Cromwell, the embarked submarine squadron commander in Sculpin, familiar with secret details of upcoming operations, decides to go down with the ship rather than risk capture and inevitable interrogation. For his decision to accept certain death, Cromwell is awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously. [Damn.]

Same Shithead, Different Day. Every Day.

Like a rug & through his teeth.

Daniel Dale / Washington Post:

Fact-checking Trump, who tells the same lies, is easy: he invents unnamed people, claims records he hasn't broken, and inflates numbers  —  Daniel Dale is the Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star.  —  I've made it my mission to fact-check every word Donald Trump utters as president. That means trying to watch every speech, read every transcript, decipher every tweet. I’ve accidentally established a reputation for using Twitter to point out that he’s lying within seconds of him telling a lie.

People sometimes ask in response how I can blast out these corrections so quickly. But I have no special talent. My secret is that Trump tells the same lies over and over.

On his fifth day in office, Trump baselessly alleged widespread voter fraud. He did the same thing this past week. In his third month in office, Trump falsely claimed that the United States has a $500 billion trade deficit with China. He has said the same thing more than 80 times since.

Listen to this president long enough, and you can almost sense when a lie is coming. If Trump tells a story in which an unnamed person calls him “sir,” it’s probably invented. If Trump claims he has set a record, he probably hasn’t. If Trump cites any number at all, the real number is usually smaller.

David Boddiger / Splinter:   Trump's Interview with Fox's Chris Wallace Was Batshit Crazy, As Expected

Conflicting Claims

THU 18 NOV 1943
Pacific
Carrier force TG 50.4 (Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman) attacks Nauru in support of the unfolding operations to capture the Gilberts.

Submarine Bluefish (SS-222) sinks Japanese destroyer Sanae and damages oiler Ondo 90 miles south of Basilan Island, 05°00'N, 122°00'E. In return Ondo engages the submarine with gunfire.

Submarine Crevalle (SS-291) attacks Japanese landing ship/aircraft transport Akitsu Maru escorted by torpedo boat Tomodzuru, 15°10'N, 119°40'E; although Crevalle claims destruction of her quarry, Akitsu Maru survives unscathed.

The Sheep Look Down

How fucking stupid are/what is wrong w/ these people?

 Eli Saslow / Washington Post:

Profile of a “satire” site that promotes absurd pro-right posts on Facebook, and one of its readers, who shares its posts without seeing the satire  —  NORTH WATERBORO, Maine — The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type.

Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog:   Partisan satire and the mechanisms of unintentional misinformation

Marty Baron / @postbaron:   “No matter how racist, how bigoted, how offensive, how obviously fake we get, people keep coming back.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Daniel Dale / @ddale8:   .@elisaslow is my favourite American journalist and everything he writes is spectacular. If you read one thing today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Adam Tinworth / @adders:   Here's a horrible insight into how digital tools and age-old psychology can turn satire into conspiracy theories. This is why the “fake news” of misinformation and disinformation is going to be so very hard to combat. https://onemanandhisblog.com/ ...

Brett Levy / @brettdl:   Apparently the slogan, “Nothing on this page is real,” fails to get the point across that site is entirely #fakenews. #news #media http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow:   It's just amazing to me that people would like & share articles with headlines like this: “Iowa Farmer Claims Bill Clinton had Sex with Cow during ‘Cocaine Party.’ "http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Nina Bernstein / @ninabernstein1:   Did you tell the Nevada woman she had been duped by a “liberal's” fake news satire? If so, why don't we learn her reaction? If you didn't try to disabuse her, isn't your story, however powerful & well-written, too close to the blogger's unethical & lucrative gotcha?

Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor:   Is it helpful for the @washingtonpost to do deep profiles of people who deliberately seed the extremist right's lie-filled world view — and in the process give the lies even more attention? http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

Mark Little / @marklittlenews:   Incredible insights into warped psychology that governs the supply and demand for misinformation http://twitter.com/...

Alex Howard / @digiphile:   This is a bracing, fascinating descent into the maelstrom of partisan misinformation online. Worth the read. My only qualm: a Facebook page is NOT a website, & neither the @washingtonpost journalist nor his editor should report it that way. http://twitter.com/...

They made tham morons, now we have to live w/ the results. Or do we?

Jonestown 40!

Here, Have Some Flavor-Aid, You Fucking Sheep!

The victims:

 Though Peoples Temple was a predominantly black church, and the majority of those who died in Jonestown were African American women, the sociopolitical and historical issues that compelled black women to emigrate to Jonestown have not received widespread attention.

Is this how it will end for Trump? Holed up in a shithole country w/ his last few hundred die-hard White Male Loser supporters?

Sermonette For America-Haters: Where Have We Heard This Before?

Oh, yeah ... the Rev. Jeremiah* "God Damn America" Wright.

Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:

‘God will not bless America’: Texas pastor curses nation after ‘Godless’ Democrats win midterms  —  A Texas pastor is reacting with rage to the result of the midterm elections, in which Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives.  —  Following the election, Pastor Ed Young said the Democratic Party is “basically godless,” in a rant about the results …

Bud Kennedy / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:   A Texas pastor calls Democrats ‘godless’: ‘God will not bless America’

Why do these stupid sons-of-bitches hate America so damn much?

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*As in jeremiad. À propos, hein?

(North) American Horror Story

Not that fucking bullshit on telebision; grim reality. 'Though not technically tragic. Ruin your Sunday.

California Snapshot

Missing from picture (if not entirely forgotten): "Jarhead Plugs 11 In Thousand Oaks Bar" & "Calif. G.O.P. Death Spiral"

Last Contact W/ Capelin

WED 17 NOV 1943
Pacific
Destroyers bombard Japanese airfield at Buka, Bougainville, Solomons.

Japanese planes attack convoy carrying Marine reinforcements to Bougainville, Solomons. High speed transport McKean (APD-5) is sunk by aerial torpedo 19 miles southwest of Cape Torokina, 06°31'S, 154°52'E.

Submarine Capelin (SS-289) departs Darwin, Australia for Molucca and Celebes Seas. She is never heard from again (see 23 November 1943).

Submarine Drum (SS-228) sinks Japanese submarine depot ship Hie Maru (which had eluded Drum on 11 November) north-northwest of New Ireland, 01°45'N, 148°20'E.

WITCH HUNT!!

More witches than Presbyterians!

 Michael W. Chapman / CNSNews:

Number of Witches in U.S. on the Rise, May Surpass 1.5 Million  —  A report in the Christian Post contends that the number of witches (and Wiccans) has dramatically increased since the 1990s, to the degree that there may be at least 1.5 million witches in the United States, which is higher than the 1.4 million mainline Presbyterians.

Corvina On First & Eternal Patrol

TUES 16 NOV 1943
Pacific
Submarine Corvina (SS-226) is sunk by Japanese submarine I-176, south of Truk, 05°05'N, 151°10'E.

Mrs. Mary S. Rooney, Mrs. LaRene P. Christie, and Lt. Cmdr. Roderick S. Rooney,
Corvina’s prospective commanding officer, at the launching ceremonies, 9 May 1943.
(U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-70669, National Archives and Records Administration,
Still Pictures Division, College Park, Md.)

Venturing into enemy waters for her first time, Corvina (Commander R.S. Rooney) departed from Pearl Harbor on 4 November 1943. After topping off with fuel at Johnston Island she proceeded to an area south of Truk, there to attack enemy naval forces during our surface operations in the Gilbert Islands. She was to patrol as close to Truk as enemy antisubmarine measures would permit. On 14 December, she was to pass to command of Commander Task Force Seventy-Two and proceed to an eastern Australian port for refit and duty in SubSoWestPac.

When the major surface force operations in the Gilberts were finished, Corvina was directed by dispatch on 30 November to pass to command of Commander Task Force Seventy-Two on 2 December 1943. The message was repeated three times on each of two successive nights, and an acknowledgment was directed, but none was received. Because of the difficulty being experienced as a result of Japanese interference, Corvina was considered to have passed to Commander Task Force Seventy-Two, despite her failure to acknowledge. She was directed to proceed to Tulagi and rendezvous with a surface escort, but she did not appear. Again transmissions directing answer were repeatedly sent, but were not fruitful. Since she had not appeared or been heard from since her departure from Johnston Island on 6 November, Corvina was reported as presumed lost on 23 December 1943.

Enemy records indicate that Corvina met her doom on 16 November 1943, by enemy action. An enemy submarine reported having sighted a surfaced submarine in Latitude 5°-50'N, Longitude 151°-10'E, and torpedoed her. Three torpedoes were fired and two were reported to have hit, causing "a great explosion sound."

The loss of Corvina was not announced until 14 March 1944; she was the only American submarine sunk by a Japanese boat in the entire war.

In popular culture, the loss of Corvina appears in the 1951 John Wayne film Operation Pacific. Wayne plays the skipper of the fictitious Gato-class sub USS Thunderfish. After Corvina experiences problems with her number four main engine, she rendezvous with Thunderfish to exchange engine parts. In return for the parts, Wayne’s character exchanges films with Corvina’s  commanding officer, offering George Washington Slept Here, while Corvina’s skipper offers “a submarine picture,” later revealed to be Destination Tokyo. Later, while the Thunderfish crew watches Destination Tokyo, Wayne’s character is shown trying to discover the origins of torpedo explosions reported by his sonar operator. While running on the surface the following day, Thunderfish comes across strewn wreckage, and Wayne discovers the case containing George Washington Slept Here, revealing Corvina had been sunk. Suddenly, Thunderfish’s radar picks up a single contact, and Wayne orders the sub to dive. While looking through the periscope, he spies “one I-type Jap submarine.” Thunderfish torpedoes and destroys the enemy sub, avenging the loss of their shipmates on board Corvina.

PBYs attack Japanese shipping off New Guinea, sinking cargo vessel Kyoritsu Maru, 03°51'S, 153°20'E.

USAAF B-24 aircraft bomb Japanese shipping at Jaluit and Imidj atolls.

Japanese minelayer Ukishima is lost to unknown cause, 11 miles off Hatsushima, Japan, 34°28'N, 137°20'E.