TUE 4 JAN 1944
Pacific
TG 37.2 (Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman) planes bomb Japanese shipping at Kavieng, damaging destroyers Fumizuki and Satsuki in Stephen Strait.
Motor torpedo boat PT-145, damaged by grounding off Mindiri, 05°34'S, 146°10'E, is scuttled by motor torpedo boat PT-370. The latter suffers damage during the attempt to tow PT-145 out of the area.
Escort carrier Tripoli (CVE-64) is damaged by accidental gasoline fire, Naval Repair Base, San Diego, California.
Submarines Bluefish (SS-222) and Rasher (SS-269) attack Japanese convoy off coast of French Indochina. Bluefish sinks merchant tanker Hakko Maru, 07°10'N, 108°28'E; Rasher damages tanker Kiyo Maru (ex-Norwegian Vigrid), 06°44'N, 108°43'E (see 5 January 1945). Third ship in convoy, Konsan Maru, escapes unharmed. Rasher also carries out mining operation in waters off Cochin China the same day.
Submarine Cabrilla (SS-288) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship No.8 Tamon Maru off Cape Padaran, French Indochina, 11°05'N, 109°10'E.
Submarine Tautog (SS-199), despite presence of two escort vessels, sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Usa Maru off southern Honshu, 34°09'N, 136°50'E.
Aerial minelaying operations in the Marshalls continue: two PV-1s (VB 137) and one PBY-5 (VP 72), flying from Tarawa, mine southeast pass, Jaluit.
USAAF B-25s (5th Air Force), covered by RAAF Beaufighters, attack Japanese shipping in Tenau harbor, Timor, sinking army cargo ship Heimei Maru 10°10'S, 123°35'E.
Atlantic
Light cruiser Omaha (CL-4) and destroyer Jouett (DD-396) intercept German blockade runner Rio Grande about 55 miles northeast of the coast of Brazil, 06°41'S, 25°36'W. Gunfire and scuttling charges sink Rio Grande* (see 8 January).
*During the last half of February 1944, ZP-42 blimps, operating from Brazilian bases, located and aided in the recovery of some 450 tons of baled rubber, part of Rio Grande's cargo.
Friday, January 4, 2019
Accidental Avgas Fire, S.D.
Stop Pretending: Everything Is Shit
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:I've been dying to embed this piece of shit, because it's such a frighteningly complete summation of the current situation.At least a thousand words' worth.
National Parks Are Overflowing With Poop Thanks to the Government Shutdown
Discussion:
Friday Freak-Out
Jefferson Hairpie -
"Tear Down The Walls, Motherfuckers!"
Welcome, 116th U.S. Congress! (Ooops, I typed "congress".)
A Peep At The Future: "The End Of The Milky Way As We Know It"
Not a billion yrs. too soon, either.[A]stronomers have declared that a nearby galaxy will slam into the Milky Way and could knock our solar system far into the cosmic void.
The unfortunate discovery was made after scientists ran computer simulations on the movement of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the many satellite galaxies that orbits the Milky Way. Rather than circling at a safe distance, or breaking free of the Milky Way’s gravitational pull, the researchers found the LMC is destined to clatter into the galaxy we call home.
At the moment, the LMC is estimated to be about 163,000 light years from the Milky Way and speeding away at 250 miles per second. But simulations by astrophysicists at Durham University show that the LMC will eventually slow down and turn back towards us, ultimately smashing into the Milky Way in about 2.5 billion years’ time.
While individual stars and planets are unlikely to collide, the arrival of a galaxy weighing as much as 250 billion suns will still wreak havoc. “The whole of the Milky Way will be shaken and the entire solar system could be ejected into outer space,” said Carlos Frenk, director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham. “If that happens, I don’t see how our descendants, if we have any, will be able to withstand it.”
It is not all doom and gloom though. The odds of the collision casting the solar system into a more rarefied region of space are slim, the researchers report in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Marius Cautun, the first author on the paper, said the chances of cosmic exile were about 1-3%.
In one sense, the collision with the LMC is long overdue. The Milky Way is an oddball among spiral galaxies. The halo of stars that surrounds its galactic disc contains far fewer stars than comparable galaxies. But that is not all. The supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s centre is paltry, only one-tenth as massive as those found at the hearts of similar galaxies.
The galactic merger will change all of this. “Once the LMC gets gobbled up by the Milky Way, our galaxy will become a beautiful, normal spiral,” said Frenk. “Most of the halo will become stars from the LMC and the black hole will gorge on this sudden unexpected abundance of fuel and it will go berserk.”
The LMC holds vast amounts of gas that will be devoured by the supermassive black hole until it reaches up to 10 times its present mass. As it feeds, the black hole will become “active” and send out powerful jets of high-energy radiation. While intense beams of gamma radiation may potentially spark mass extinctions, the radiation driven by the black hole is unlikely to pose a threat to any life that may exist on Earth, the authors write.
In the past, astronomers who concerned themselves with the demise of the Milky Way focused their attention on the upcoming collision with the Andromeda galaxy. At five times the mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Andromeda could completely destroy the Milky Way when the two collide. That cosmic catastrophe is expected in about four billion years’ time.
But the merger with the LMC could postpone the cataclysm, said Frenk. “One of the by-products of the collision with the LMC is it will delay Armageddon,” he said. “It will move the Milky Way a bit and that may buy us a couple of billion years.
“The LMC is big but it won’t completely destroy our galaxy,” he said. “It’ll produce these amazing fireworks, but it doesn’t have the mass to create a huge disturbance. The collision with Andromeda really will be Armageddon. That really will be the end of the Milky Way as we know it.”
Thursday, January 3, 2019
So Much For Scorpion
MON 3 JAN 1944Approx. seven mos. later:
Pacific
Submarine Bluefish (SS-222) lays mines off eastern Malayan coast.
Submarine Kingfish (SS-234) attacks Japanese convoy northwest of Miri, Sarawak, Borneo, and sinks fleet tankers Bokuei Maru, 06°58'N, 112°02'E, and Ryuei Maru, 08°06'N, 112°30'E.
Submarine Raton (SS-270) damages Japanese fleet tanker Akebono Maru east of Mindanao, P.I., 08°18'N, 129°59'E.
Submarine Scorpion (SS-278) departs Midway for her fourth war patrol. She will rendezvous with Herring (SS-233) on 5 January, but will never be seen again.*
Submarine Tautog (SS-199) sinks Japanese transport Saishu Maru south of Honshu, 33°44'N, 136°02'E.
Aerial minelaying operations in the Marshalls continue: seven PB4Y-1s (VB 108 and VB 109), flying from Apemama, mine the waters northwest of Enijun Island, off west side of Taroa, and outside lagoon off Kumaru Island, and strafe shipping anchored off Taroa; four PV-1s (VB 137), flying from Tarawa, mine southeast pass, Jaluit.
Japanese planes again bomb advanced base at Apamama, but inflict neither casualties nor serious damage to installations.
Atlantic
Destroyer Somers (DD-381) sinks German blockade runner Weserland, 14°55'S, 21°39'W, and recovers 130 survivors.
Destroyer Turner (DD-648) is sunk by internal explosion, three miles north of Ambrose Lightship, New York Harbor. During efforts to help the injured, a Coast Guard helicopter transports needed blood plasma in the Navy's first operational use of the helicopter in treating casualties.
*The most probable cause of Scorpion's loss is her striking a mine, in either the Yellow or East China Seas. She is listed as overdue, presumed lost, on 6 March 1944.
Today's Still Lifes:
Whole Foods Al Fresco, $12.99 (+ Vino)
O.K., maybe it was too darn hot for fly-over nation. Still no excuse.
Fascism On The March
Move along now, nothing to see here.
Mustafa Akyol / New York Times:
China's Gulag for Muslims
Li Yuan / New York Times:
Inside Beijing-based Beyondsoft and its “censorship factories”, with 4,000+ staff monitoring online content for media companies eager to please China's censors — Thousands of low-wage workers in “censorship factories” trawl the online world for forbidden content …Sui-Lee Wee / @suilee: So many great details in this @LiYuan6 piece on a censorship farm in China but this is my favorite. “The screen saver on each computer is the same: photos and names of current and past members of the Politburo Standing Committee.” https://nyti.ms/2RtIarXJohn Zhu / @jzheel: “New hires start with weeklong “theory” training, during which senior employees teach them the sensitive information that they didn't know before.” - so they can censor that info from the public https://www.nytimes.com/...Eric Berlin / @puzzlereric: “References to George Orwell's novel ‘1984’ are also forbidden.” Gosh, I wonder why. This story is incredible and frightening. If the United States abandons its position as a global leader for basic human rights, we will not like the results one bit. https://www.nytimes.com/...Brandon Sims / @b_p_sims: It would be fascinating to know whether being exposed to the forbidden content would radicalize any of the workers to support change, or whether being part of the censorship would discourage workers from wanting change (due to cognitive dissonance, etc.) https://nyti.ms/2RtIarXJohn Zhu / @jzheel: Also: “Once circumspect about its controls, China now preaches a vision of a government-supervised internet that has surprising resonance in other countries.” Wonder if this bothers our free press at all as they serve as some of the loudest drum bangers for this.Eric Fish / @ericfish85: “The workers are almost all young college graduates in their 20s.” Amid massive unemployment for Chinese college grads, at least the booming censorship industry is giving them some relief. https://www.nytimes.com/...Kevin Kelly / @kevin2kelly: As we collectively decide what we should be allowed to say, or not say, on social media, read this account of the people who enforce those restrictions in China. https://www.nytimes.com/...Craig Hollenbeck / @ephs_apcp: This is a super interesting article on how low-wage Chinese workers engage in Internet censorship. Many had previously never heard of the Tiananmen Square massacre or Liu Xiaobo. Give it a read. https://nyti.ms/2RtIarXSusan / @susanmaret: “Workers are briefed at the beginning of their shift on the newest censoring instructions sent by clients, which the clients themselves receive from government censors. Workers then must answer about 10 questions designed to test their memory.” #censorship https://www.nytimes.com/...more at Techmeme »
Mauricio Savarese / CTVNews:Brazil's Bolsonaro targets LGBT people, Indigenous groups on 1st day in office — SAO PAULO — Newly installed President Jair Bolsonaro targeted Brazil's indigenous groups, descendants of slaves and the LGBT community with executive orders in the first hours of his administration …Aicha El Hammar Castano / ABC News: Gay community divided over their future under Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Synchronicity
None of these words have any meaning beyond propaganda to make you a sucker for the wealthy.Further evidence that those who enlist are chump-ass losers who can't find real, non-governmental jobs.
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This Time Fer Shure!
Not even projection, simply a 180° inversion from reality & truth.Alex Jones Says Trump Will ‘Strike Back Against the Pedophile Rings’ in 2019
“He’s going to strike back against the deep state. He’s going to strike back against all the criminal activity of [James] Comey and [Robert] Mueller being Russian operatives. So, just get ready.”
... who remain at their posts until the ship literally sinks beneath them ..."
SUN 2 JAN 1944
Atlantic
PB4Y (VB 107) sights and tracks German blockade runner Weserland, en route from Japan to Germany, 595 miles south-southwest of Ascension Island. Destroyer Somers (DD-381) intercepts Weserland and opens fire (see 3 January).
Pacific
TF 76 (Rear Admiral Daniel E. Barbey) lands U.S. Sixth Army troops (126th Regimental Combat Team, 32d Division, Reinforced) at Saidor, New Guinea, in Operation MICHAELMAS. Insertion of American troops at Saidor leap-frogs the Japanese garrison at Sio, 75 miles to the east. U.S. cruisers and destroyers provide cover. [Would you like to know more? Probably not this much.]
Submarine Finback (SS-230) sinks Japanese merchant tanker Isshin Maru in East China Sea about 30 miles northwest of Takara Jima, Nansei Shoto, 29°30'N, 128°50'E.
Aerial minelaying operations in the Marshalls continue: flying from Tarawa, five PV-1s (VB 137) and one PBY-5 (VP 72) mine Jabor Anchorage.
Japanese planes bomb advanced base on Apamama Atoll, demolishing one PB4Y; exploding ammunition in the burning aircraft damages two additional PB4Ys.
Indian Ocean
U.S. freighter Albert Gallatin is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-26 about 60 miles off the Arabian coast, 21°21'N, 59°58'E; there are no casualties among the complement (including the 28-man Armed Guard, who remain at their posts until the ship literally sinks beneath them). Norwegian tanker Britannia rescues the survivors.
2019 Off To Good Start
Whoops! Too big for Bugger! Thus, YouTube. Everything is a fucking imposition.
[mynewsLA.com]
Rooting for excruciating (& fatal) injuries.“We offered a fair price and they insist we pay them materially more than we pay any other of the 1,700 broadcast stations we carry,” according to a message from Charter broadcast to viewers on the blacked out channels. “We don’t think it’s fair that they are demanding huge fee increases, especially since their programming is provided free with a TV antenna, and much of it is available for free on the internet.
“… This is how Tribune Broadcasting operates. Driven by greed, they’ve pulled their channels from other distributors over recent years as a negotiating tactic,” according to the Charter message.
[mynewsLA.com]
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
It'll All Be Over In A Couple Yrs.
New Yr.'s Day Afloat, 75 Yrs. Ago
*If that is its real name.
SAT 1 JAN 1943
Pacific
Naval Air Facility, Honolulu, Oahu, T.H., is established.
TG 37.2 (Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman) attacks Japanese convoy off Kavieng, New Ireland. Planes from carrier Bunker Hill (CV-17) and small carrier Monterey (CVL-26), bomb shipping escorted by cruisers and destroyers, damaging light cruiser Noshiro.
Destroyers Smith* (DD-378) and Hutchins (DD-476) are damaged in collision off eastern New Guinea, 05°00'S, 146°00'E.
Tank landing ship LST-446 is damaged by accidental explosion, Solomon Islands, 06°15'S, 155°02'E.
Submarine Balao (SS-285) damages Japanese transport Kiyosumi Maru south of Truk, Caroline Islands, 04°32'N, 147°23'E.
Submarine Herring (SS-233), pursuing Japanese convoy spotted the previous day, sinks aircraft transport Nagoya Maru 220 miles south-southwest of Tokyo Bay, 32°10'N, 138°37'E. Counterattack by escorting destroyer Ikazuchi is unsuccessful.
Submarine Puffer (SS-268), in attack on Japanese convoy at the western entrance of the Mindanao Sea, sinks army cargo ship Ryuyo Maru about 40 miles south of Negros Island, 08°36'N, 122°52'E.
Submarine Ray (SS-271) sinks Japanese gunboat Okuyo Maru at mouth of Ambon Bay, N.E.I., 03°51'S, 128°04'E.
PBYs sink Japanese cargo ship Kanaiyama Maru near Lorengau, Admiralty islands, 02°03'S, 147°27'E.
Aerial minelaying operations in the Marshalls continue: four PB4Y-1s (VB 108), flying from Apamama, mine Enijun Channel, Maleolap; flying from Tarawa, three PV-1s (VB 137) mine the waters off Jaluit; two PBY-5s (VP 72) mine Jabor Anchorage, Jaluit.
*If that is its real name.
Bleat Of the Day
"JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE"
— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) January 1, 2019
As you try to head us over the cliff?
SHUT UP & GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, WE'RE ALL SICK & TIRED OF YOU!!!
FUCK EVERYTHING 2019!!
Things are going to be one hell of a lot worse in 2019, especially if I have anything to do w/ it.
Monday, December 31, 2018
New Yr.'s Eve Seamanship
FRI 31 DEC 1943Fuckin' Yalies.
Pacific
Four PBY-5As from Attu, Aleutians, bomb Shimushu and Kashiwabara, Kuriles.
Submarine Greenling (SS-213) sinks Japanese transport Shoho Maru in Eastern Carolines, 05°40'N, 160°20'E, and evades counterattacks by submarine chaser Ch 30.
Submarine Herring (SS-233) attacks Japanese convoy, 31°46'N, 138°22'E (see 1 January 1944).
Atlantic
Destroyer Lea (DD-118) is damaged when she is accidentally rammed by U.S. freighter Elihu Yale, 33°29'30"N, 48°12'30"W.
Let's Drop The Big One!!
We don't need no stinkin' 2019!! We're rats in a cage; let's get the whole mess over w/ already. Enough is enough!
This reporter suggests we start w/ the landlords.Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
U.S. Strategic Command deletes New Year's Eve joke about dropping something ‘bigger’ — “If ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger,” the unified command, part of the Defense Department, tweeted. — U.S. Strategic Command made an unexpected joke in a now-deleted Twitter post …CNN: US military tweets, deletes New Year's Eve message about dropping bombs
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: Defense Dept. Agency Deletes Bizarre Tweet: ‘We Are Ready to Drop Something Much, Much Bigger’ Than New Year's Ball
Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose: Air Force Jokingly Mentions Dropping Nukes In Tweet About New Year's Ball Drop
FUCK THE TROOPS 2018!!
[Military.com]Retired Army Maj. Gen James Grazioplene is scheduled to stand trial in late April in civilian court for allegedly raping his daughter in the late 1980s.
Grazioplene's court date has been set for April 29 in Prince William County General District Court, according to the Associated Press.
The 69-year-old two-star general, who retired from the Army in 2005, remains in custody at the Prince William - Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center, jail officials told Military.com on Monday.
A Prince William County judge denied Grazioplene's bail request at a Dec. 20 hearing two weeks after he was arrested on Dec. 7.
A Virginia grand jury indicted Grazioplene on three counts of rape and three counts of incest against his daughter between Aug. 1, 1987 and May 31, 1988, according to the Dec. 3 indictment documents.
Sunday, December 30, 2018
TUES 18 DEC 2018
2019-2021 PST
This bullshit was once illegal. Actual episode.
Both Sides Are Idiots,
Probably Criminally
Stupidity & greed will kill you all, but not nearly soon enough.
Can not wait to see the executives of Pacific Gas & Electric strung up &/or electrocuted on their power grid.Los Angeles Times:
Here's how Paradise ignored warnings and became a deathtrap … The fate of Paradise was cast long before a windstorm last month fueled the deadliest fire in California history. — The ridge settlement was doomed by its proximity to a crack in the mighty wall of the Sierra Nevada, a deep canyon that bellowed gale-force winds.
All Pacific, Sub & Planes Again
THU 30 DEC 1943
Pacific
Submarine Bluefish (SS-222) sinks Japanese oiler Ichiyu Maru, Java Sea, 02°45'S, 109°10'E.
U.S. aircraft sink Japanese guardboat Ukui Maru off Rabaul.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Slversides Shows Off
WED 29 DEC 1943If you missed the item w/ the Silent Service episode about Silversides embedded many moons past ... thar she blows!
Pacific
Off Palau, submarine Silversides (SS-236) sinks Japanese transport Tenposan Maru, 08°09'N, 133°51'E; army cargo ship Shichisei Maru, 08°00'N, 133°51'E; and merchant cargo ship Ryuto Maru, 08°03'N, 134°04'E; and damages army cargo ship Bichu Maru.
USAAF B-24 attacks Truk-bound Japanese cargo ship Katori Maru, 06°12'N, 167°45'E.
USAAF aircraft sink Japanese merchant cargo ship Kakuzan Maru and transport Daitei Maru in the middle Yangtze River.
Friday, December 28, 2018
Unsuccessful Attack
TUE 28 DEC 1943
Pacific
Amphibious Training Base, Kamaole, Maui, T.H., is established.
Submarine Muskallunge (SS-262) unsuccessfully attacks Japanese convoy at 08°50'N, 147°20'E.
Navy PV-1 attacks Japanese net tender Katsura Maru off Kwajalein.
USAAF B-25s and P-40s sink Japanese merchant cargo vessels Heizan Maru, Unyo Maru and Koka Maru in Yangtze River, 30°40'N, 117°30'E.
Indian Ocean
U.S. freighter Robert F. Hoke en route from Abadan, Iran, to Mombasa, Kenya, is torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-26 at 20°05'N, 59°58'E, and abandoned by all but the 27-man Armed Guard, who remain at their guns and fire upon the I-boat's periscope to keep the enemy down. I-26 abandons any further attacks and retires while Robert F. Hoke remains afloat. The crew reboards the ship but is not able to get the ship underway and she is abandoned a second time. An RAF crash boat rescues all hands (41 merchant sailors and the Armed Guard) and the abandoned freighter is later towed to Aden by British rescue tug HMS Masterful. Robert F. Hoke is later towed to Suez but never returns to active service and is written off as a total loss.
Indian Navy minesweeper RINS Rajputana rescues the survivors of U.S. freighter Jose Navarro, torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-178 the day before, and transports them to Cochin.
Atlantic
PB4Y (VB 105) on patrol over Bay of Biscay sights five German destroyers and six torpedo boats returning from attempt to rendezvous with blockade runner Alsterfurer, sunk the day before by an RAF No. 311 (Czech) Squadron Liberator. Of 15 PB4Ys dispatched as a strike force, six (five from VB 105 and one from VB 103) contact the enemy force and attack it. Contact reports by Navy planes, meanwhile, draw British light cruisers HMS Glasgow and HMS Enterprise to the scene, resulting in the sinking of German destroyers Z 27 and torpedo boats T 25 and T 26, the survivors of which are rescued by the British ships, an Irish steamer, and four Spanish destroyers.
Business Stinks All Over
Although opening a restaurant must be the dumbest risk ever.
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¿Qué Pasa, New York?
Fun City Losing Edge?
At least Con Ed can still be counted on to keep it interesting, if prosaic.Paul Berger / Wall Street Journal:
New York City Traffic Deaths Set to Hit 100-Year Low — City officials credit traffic initiatives for reducing road deaths, on pace to fall for fifth consecutive year — The number of annual traffic fatalities in New York City is on course to fall beneath 200 for the first time in a century, transportation officials say.Graham Rayman / New York Daily News:
Silent night: City records no murders for five days and counting Christmas week — All is calm, all is bright. — The city has gone five straight days with no homicides, making for a remarkably peaceful Christmas week. — The most recent reported slaying in our city of 8.5 million people was Friday.
Confirming incident in #Astoria was result of transformer explosion. No injuries, no fire, no evidence of extraterrestrial activity. Please continue to follow @FDNY and @Conedison— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) December 28, 2018
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Bombardment At Bougainville
MON 27 DEC 1943
Pacific
Two cruisers and four destroyers (Rear Admiral Walden L. Ainsworth) bombard Kieta area, Bougainville, Solomons.
Coastal transport APc-15 is damaged by dive bomber, New Britain, 06°12'S, 149°03'E.
Submarine Flying Fish (SS-229) sinks Japanese fleet tanker Kyuei Maru, 21°25'N, 118°05'E.
Submarine Gurnard (SS-254) damages Japanese transport (ex-armed merchant cruiser) Gokoku Maru, 34°23'N, 138°24'E.
Submarine Ray (SS-271) sinks Japanese fleet tanker Kyoko Maru (ex-Dutch Semiramis) west of the Celebes, 05°00'S, 121°22'E.
Submarine Tautog (SS-199) damages Japanese seaplane carrier Kimikawa Maru off Shionomisaki, 33°25'N, 135°33'E.
Indian Ocean
U.S. freighter Jose Navarro, bound for Calcutta, India, is torpedoed by German submarine U-178 at 08°20'N, 73°35'E. A volunteer crew returns to the ship after she is abandoned in hopes of saving her but go over the side before U-178 finishes off the freighter in a second attack. There are no fatalities among the 46-man merchant complement, the 34-man Armed Guard, or the 86 embarked troops (only one man of that aggregate total is injured) (see 28 December 1943).
We Like This Guy
In completely unrelated news, got my pension check today, giving me the entire wknd. in which to buy a gun (& plenty of ammo) to show to my corporate landlord & his incompetent flunkies. Fasting, huh? Good idea too. Couple days w/o eating & I'll be so angry I couldDuring testimony Thursday morning, a U.S. Forest Service investigator described his bizarre interview with Clark, who claimed he hadn’t slept and had been fasting for 40 days around the time the fire erupted Aug. 6 in Holy Jim Canyon, where he has a cabin. As a result, Clark said he couldn’t be sure if his recollections of what happened that day were just a lucid dream or reality, investigator Albert Banh testified.
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Clark told the officer he had recently been released from a hospital on a “5150 hold,” which is police slang for someone involuntarily committed to be evaluated for mental health issues. The defendant also admitted he had stopped taking his medication because he considered it “poison,” Banh testified.
Clark told Banh he had lived in Cabin 14 in Trabuco Canyon for about 18 years, and right away he had issues with his neighbor — Romero — in Cabin 15, where investigators believe the blaze originated.
Clark claimed Milligan set the fire and he knew that because he has a “third eye” and could “see” him doing it, Banh testified. Clark also claimed he could “smell the KKK cigarettes” of Milligan, Banh said.
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On Aug. 6, the day the Holy Fire erupted, Clark allegedly threatened to kill a neighbor about 7:30 a.m., prosecutors said in a previous motion to deny him bail.
As the neighbor walked to his truck, Clark told him that he “(expletive)FUCKED with the wrong person,” according to the motion. “The defendant stated that he was `crazy’ and noted it was `perfect’ because he could do anything he wants and get away with it.”
Later that day, he allegedly set fire to his neighbor’s residence. The Holy Fire ultimately also destroyed 13 other residences in Holy Jim Canyon and adjacent Trabuco Canyon.
Orange County sheriff’s investigator Jennifer Hernandez said in an affidavit supporting the motion to deny bail that Clark “could be heard on video telling (a victim), `Mark my words, you’re gonna die at 12:37… I have 100 percent plausible deniability. You’re gonna die. I’m gonna murder you.”’
Paranoid Nincompoop Of The Day
Are there no mental asylums?
Dangerous lies & "meme warfare": Politics for pinheads who have to move their lips when they read. You know, conservatives & the religious.Dan Zak / Washington Post:
What is Ginni Thomas saying now? The evolution of an unusually outspoken Supreme Court spouse — What is going on with Ginni Thomas? — She still looks and sounds like the Washington wife of yore, with the pearl earrings, the Reagan-red cocktail attire, the sunglasses tiara'd atop her blond bob.
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But her most visible work is on Facebook, which she considers a prime conduit for influencing the conservative base. Her specialty is meme warfare — sharing loving tributes to Trump, derogatory takedowns of progressives and broadsides against congressional Republicans. A week after a neo-Nazi killed a woman by driving a car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Thomas derided House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for not speaking out against violence on the left.
“LiberalFascists have their useful idiots,” she wrote, and we are left to wonder, as always: What is going on with Ginni Thomas?
These memes come off the assembly line of jingoistic conservative Facebook groups with names such as the Citizens Mandate and the Great American Movement, which have 160,000 followers between them. The groups seem as automated and leaderless as many of the murky forces in social media these days, but the latter appears to be linked on Twitter to a fellow Groundswell member, and the former was apparently born of a 2014 pledge to “Stop the Fundamental Transformation of America” — which was signed by anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, evangelical James Dobson and 50 other conservatives, including a few that Thomas has honored with “impact” awards.
“I can’t believe that the wife of a Supreme Court justice would be spreading such dangerous lies,” wrote a Facebook commenter named Elizabeth in October, after Thomas equated Democrats with rioting and mob rule.
A handful of Thomas’s fellow warriors, when asked about her Facebook activity, say they haven’t observed it or haven’t caught anything objectionable, though at least one says she can overreach at times.
“She’s hardcore to a fault,” says an alumnus of the Heritage Foundation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly. “Sometimes it clouds her political judgment.”
Making It Up As He Goes Along
He's a lying sack of shit,
he's a lying sack of shit.Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump claims without evidence that ‘most of the people not getting paid’ in partial government shutdown are Democrats — President Trump on Thursday claimed that “most of the people not getting paid” in the partial government shutdown are Democrats, days after he contended that many federal workers support …
[N.B.C. News]Fact check: Trump brags to troops about 10 percent pay raise he didn't actually give them
The president also got it very wrong when he claimed during his trip to Iraq that service members haven't had a wage hike in 10 years.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Apparently You WILL be Replaced
The Halal Guys move in at one end of the block,
next thing you know the Mickey D's at the other end of the block is replaced by "RETAIL For Lease".
Oh Ugly World, W/ Such Ugly
Things In It
I shot 140 peopleics today & you're going to look at every last one of them if/until it kills you.
Today In Urban Camping
Now that the holidays are over, you can go back to forgetting the least among us until next Thanksgiving, you filthy, filthy hypocrites.
Twice a yr. it's stale but free doughnuts, future leftovers & a "gift bag" w/ toothpaste & a pair of socks for them, & the remaining 363 days of the yr. they can suck wind.
There being no apparent Gawd, I s'pose it's on me to burn your houses & let you suffer that to which you've condemned your fellow humanoids.
Operation BACKHANDLER
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SUN 26 DEC 1943
Pacific
1st Marine Division (Major General William H. Rupertus, USMC) is landed at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, by Seventh Amphibious Force (Rear Admiral Daniel E. Barbey) after heavy preinvasion bombardment and bombing by ship gunfire and aircraft in Operation BACKHANDLER. During retaliatory Japanese air strikes, destroyer Brownson (DD-518) is sunk by dive bomber off Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 05°20'S, 148°25'E; destroyers Lamson (DD-367), Shaw (DD-373), and Mugford (DD-389) are damaged by dive bombers; and tank landing ships LST-66 is damaged by horizontal bomber.
Caribbean
U.S. tanker Chapultepec en route from Aruba, N.W.I., to Cristobal, C.Z., is torpedoed by German submarine U-530 at 10°33'N, 79°10'W. While there are no fatalities among the 53-man merchant complement or the 28-man Armed Guard, two of that aggregate total are injured. The ship reaches her destination under her own power and discharges her cargo of fuel oil. Subsequently, U.S. tanker Esso Buffalo,, en route from Aruba, N.W.I., to the Canal Zone (ultimate destination: Melbourne, Australia), most likely accidentally rams U-530 at 10°25'N, 78°28'W. There are no casualties among the 47-man merchant complement or the 28-man Armed Guard.
Dumb S.O.B. Can't Do Anything Right
Menace To Society. Or At Least The Military.
Of course the SEALS might've resisted the urge to pose w/ the fucking puke.James LaPorta / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Twitter Account Video Reveals Covert U.S. Navy SEAL Deployment During Iraq Visit — President Donald Trump and the White House communications team revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL team was deployed to Iraq after the president secretly traveled to the region to meet …
Fragging Time!!
If he returns from Iraq alive, it will be proof that not a single one of our baby-killers over there is a patriot.
Mental Illness Round-Up
Predictions from the "prophetic". And pathetic.
[Weasel Watch]
If Jesus loves these morons, why does he let them embarrass themselves on a daily basis?2018: The Year in False Prophesies and Failed Predictions
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Tuesday, December 25, 2018
War On Christmas Day
SAT 25 DEC 1943
Pacific
TG 50.2 (Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman) attacks Japanese ships at Kavieng. Planes from aircraft carrier Bunker Hill (CV-17) and small aircraft carrier Monterey (CVL 26) sink transport Tenryu Maru, 02°36'S, 150°49'E; and damage minesweepers W.21 and W.22 and transport (ex-armed merchant cruiser) Kiyozumi Maru.
Submarine Skate (SS-305) torpedoes Japanese battleship Yamato northeast of Truk, Carolines, 10°05'N, 150°32'E.
USAAF B-25s damage Japanese Patrol Boat No.14 50 kilometers east of Hong Kong.
Atlantic
German blockade runner Osorno arrives off the Gironde Estuary, met by six destroyers and six torpedo boats. Although Osorno has run the gantlet and avoided damage from her foes, she fouls the submerged wreckage of sunken German auxiliary vessel Sperrbrecher 21, necessitating the blockade runner's being beached.
Monday, December 24, 2018
Xmas Eve Afloat During War
FRI 24 DEC 1943
Pacific
Task force of three cruisers and four destroyers (Rear Admiral Aaron S. Merrill) bombards Buka-Bonis area, Solomons.
Allied aircraft sinks Japanese auxiliary minelayer Koa Maru, Marcus Bay, New Britain.
Destroyer escort Griswold (DE-7) sinks Japanese submarine I-39 off Koli Point, Guadalcanal, 09°23'S, 160°09'E.
Submarine Gurnard (SS-254) sinks Japanese transport Seizan Maru 27 nautical miles east of Miki cape, 33°57'N, 136°19'E, and auxiliary minesweeper Naruo Maru, 34°17'N, 136°55'E.
Submarine Raton (SS-270) torpedoes Japanese transport Heiwa Maru in Kaoe Bay, Halmahera, 02°57'N, 127°32'E; Heiwa Maru is intentionally run aground in shallow water to prevent her sinking.
USAAF B-24 aircraft damage Japanese cargo ship Kensho Maru, Kwajalein.
Atlantic
Advanced Amphibious Base, Dartmouth, England, is established.
Escort carrier Card (CVE-11)'s screen continues to battle concentration of U-boats. Destroyer Schenck (DD-159) sinks German submarine U-645, North Atlantic, 45°20'N, 21°40'W; but Leary (DD-158) is torpedoed and sunk by U-275 and U-382, 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre, Spain, 45°00'N, 22°00'W.
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