Spring Cleaning, Pre- & Post-

J.W there needs a good washing before he's re-hung. The flag & the Sex Potatoes thing should be in the same load.

Semper Fidelis?

Apparently Semper Fi doesn't mean "Always Open". Tough 'hood (There's a former 7-ELEVEN® just to the left. It lasted two or three yrs.) if the jarheads have to leave. Maybe they aren't such tough guys.

"Yesterday, upon the stair ...

... I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away."

He’s waving to nobody. His campaign staffer filming this is who he points to. That’s it. It’s all a scam, staged, and fake.pic.twitter.com/15LEDhCJVh

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 10, 2024

Beyond pathetic. Yet how many chumps believe it?

PORK CULT

Clean Sweep Down, Fore & Aft!

Spring cleaning is the order of the day. As I won't be amusing you (Truer words were never typed.) why not use the time to check your own nests for soilage, you filthy, filthy animals.

Nature Points Out The Folly Of Men

"O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t!”

Can you say "shithole country"? I know you can.

Isn't Flag Day Next Friday?

Ralphs at Third & Vermont. Why does Kroger hate America?

Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump ally Kari Lake gave speech in front of Confederate flag  —  Video shows Arizona Senate candidate repeating election-fraud claims at event with Confederate flag behind her  —  The Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake addressed supporters with a Confederate flag displayed behind her during a campaign event at a Trump merchandise store in Arizona last week, where she repeated false claims about election fraud.

In footage obtained by the Guardian, Lake is seen speaking into a microphone, surrounded by a group of supporters, at the Trumped Store in Show Low, Arizona. Behind her, a Confederate battle flag and a yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” flag are affixed to the wall. Both flags are available for purchase on the website of Trumped Store, which sells an array of merchandise with the former president’s name and likeness.

Writing on X last week, Lake described the event as a “magical day”.

“So many incredible patriots in Heber-Overgaard, Show Low and the White Mountains,” she said. “America is stepping up. Arizona is stepping forward. It’s time to save this great Republic. I’m honored to be in this fight with all of these amazing patriots.”

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:   Kari Lake's election challenge lawyer suspended from practicing in Arizona: report

Wayne Schutsky / KJZZ:   Kari Lake's attorney suspended for lying to Arizona Supreme Court

Kathy Gill / The Moderate Voice:   The MAGA movement extolls lies, White supremacy. This time, it's Kari Lake.

Interesting definition of "patriots". "Seccessionist losers" might be more accurate. Lying cheats, maybe?

Left is Steve Slaton. He owns a 'Trump Store' in Show Low, Arizona. He is also running for State Legislature. Steve's campaign has leaned heavily on the fact he said he was an attack helicopter pilot in Vietnam. According to the paper Steve is lying, was not a pilot and never… pic.twitter.com/ZZY5vH5uCX

— TheRealThelmaJohnson (@TheRealThelmaJ1) June 1, 2024

Note attempted Trump dummy in front row, two seats to the right of pink hat w/ red JESUS shirt.

Kari Lake's best side.

They Seem Nice

Jewish supremacy formed the bedrock of Zionist colonialism, the New York Times reported in 1947

By Clifton Daniels, New York Times, March 20, 1947

Obviously more legible if enlarged. From, via.

Versailles Cats

In front w/ the cat people.

Friday Frog Frolics

Think this neon still works?

The roooftop garden apartment is locally popular.

Waiting For The Sunshine Of Your Love

Still enduring June's gloom in the Southland; seasonal affective disorder is leading this reporter nearer & nearer to the realization that there's no point to existence other than death, preferably the deaths of many others.Bonus track.

80th Anniversary Of Normandy Landings

There's much much more, but I'm no one's research ass't.

The Urge To Kill

Video of below item.Wonder what triggered the poor son-of-a-bitch? What is it about this pig society that makes people so fucking mad?

It's Self-Defense Against Pollution!

Father of four killed by man shooting at passing cars in Riverside County, authorities say

Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department responded at 7:05 a.m. to the area of West Seventh Street and South San Jacinto Avenue to a report of a man shooting at passing vehicles, according to a sheriff’s department news release.

Two people were found shot and multiple cars had been hit by gunfire; both victims were hospitalized and one died from his injuries, according to authorities.

Just wake up at 0700, go outside & start shooting at all the moving targets? No reason needed beyond I'm mad as hell & I'm not taking it any more?

This reporter's only quibble is that one might want to kill a politician or other scum who is known to be making trouble & causing problems, rather than random losers. We need to get the people who can't/won't take it any more a little more organized & directed.

[L.A. Times]

Light & Dark

Two Words: Falun Gong

Falun Gong logo. Anything look familiar?

US Department of Justice:

Chief Financial Officer Of Multinational Media Company Charged With Participating In Scheme To Launder At Least $67 Million In Fraud Proceeds  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York  —  Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District …

Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:   Epoch Times Executive Charged in Alleged $67 Million Money Laundering Scheme

Sheri Walsh / UPI:   Epoch Times CFO charged in $67M money laundering scheme

Mariane Angela / The Daily Caller:   CFO Of Newspaper Epoch Times Faces Charges In Alleged $67M Money Laundering Scheme

Joe Kukura / SFist:   CFO of Shen Yun-Affiliated Media Outlet Arrested for $67 Million Money-Laundering Scheme

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:   Epoch Times CFO Bill Guan is charged in alleged $67 million global money laundering scheme

The Hill:   Feds charge far-right media executive with money laundering scheme

Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit:   JUST IN: Biden Regime Indicts Epoch Times Chief Financial Officer in Alleged $67 Million ‘Money Laundering’ Scheme

Alex Griffing / Mediaite:

Feds Indict Far-Right Media Exec in Massive Money Laundering Scheme  —  Bill Guan, the chief financial officer of the far-right Epoch Times, was indicted Monday on charges of allegedly participating in a massive money laundering scheme.  —  The Southern District of New York released a statement saying …

Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:

Feds Accuse Far-Right Newspaper of Being a Money Laundering Operation  —  $67 MILLION!  —  The indictment alleges the conspiracy-fueled paper's massive revenue growth in recent years was tied to the chief financial officer's fraudulent “Make Money Online” team.

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:   Pro-Trump newspaper exec accused in $67M scheme indicted on money laundering charges: Feds

Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:

DOJ Says Epoch Times Newspaper Is an Epic Money-Laundering Operation  —  One of the strangest stories in media over the past decade is the Epoch Times, a formerly free newspaper distributed on the streets of New York that focuses on conspiracist, right-wing takes and reports that are extremely critical of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jim Swift / The Bulwark:   Tuned Out Voters Help Trump

more at Mediagazer»

New York Times:
Epoch Times Executive Accused of Laundering $67 Million

Jude Joffe-Block / NPR:   The DOJ has indicted an Epoch Times executive for money laundering

If you didn't know, it's a (fascist) cult:

Led by Li Hongzhi, who is viewed by adherents as a deity-like figure, Falun Gong practitioners operate a variety of organizations in the United States and elsewhere, including the dance troupe Shen Yun. They are known for their opposition to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), espousing anti-evolutionary views, opposition to homosexuality and feminism, and rejection of modern medicine, among other views described as "ultra-conservative".

The Falun Gong also operates the Epoch Media Group, which is known for its subsidiaries, New Tang Dynasty Television and The Epoch Times newspaper. The latter has been broadly noted as a politically far-right media entity, and it has received significant attention in the United States for promoting conspiracy theories, such as QAnon and anti-vaccine misinformation, and producing advertisements for former U.S. President Donald Trump. It has also drawn attention in Europe for promoting far-right politicians, primarily in France and Germany.

Odd that none of those news outlets mentioned Falun Gong in connection w/ all this.

In Passing ...

Sportswriter/columnist T.J. Simers provided amusement for this reporter for yrs. Sorry to see him go. A couple of memories. Columns. Irked someone.

A Succulent Grows In ...

Today In Mental Illness

(Not one of Scratch's best; posted for illustrative purposes. You needn't listen.)

Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:

Epstein Accuser Files Lawsuit Alleging Famed Psychiatrist Henry Jarecki Facilitated Sexual Abuse

Barnini Chakraborty / Washington Examiner:   Epstein accuser claims famed New York psychiatrist raped and abused her

Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:   Epstein Accuser Sues Famed Psychiatrist for ‘Depraved’ Sexual Abuse

Dan Mangan / CNBC:   Jeffrey Epstein victim sues psychiatrist Henry Jarecki for alleged rape, sex trafficking

TMZ.com:   Epstein Accuser Sues Famed Psychiatrist Henry Jarecki, Alleges Sex Trafficking

Need I remind you? No one can be trusted, about anything.

Morbidity Monday

Killing Fields

What the shower spiders do to the fruit flies.

Monday Musicale

Sunday Spider (W/ Fly)

The Naked Lunch

Actual full-sized housefly (Not a fruit fly.) that was on the shower wall. I sprayed it but didn't make a direct hit, & it flew an escape route directly into the spider's web. Interphyla coöperation!

The audio is the teakettle going off. Didn't want to lose the shot.

Going Down

Unless CrooksandLiars started using a new & sadly more accurate counter, views of Mike's Blog Round-Up in April & May are 13% of previous months. 28 April got 639 views, 28 May had 85. Are the masses sick & tired of the whole thing? (In which case why don't they all kill themselves already? How many times do I have to tell you people to get lost?)

Of course, in a nation of an alleged 330 million+ morons, getting less than several million hits a day is pathetic anyway. What in the hell is the matter w/ all of them? Oh, right. Morons. Cretins. Dopes. Droolers. And not one of them is literate.

Pageviews at this dump are a bit lower, maybe, but not by much. The usual gang of about 50 idiots. Howdy, y'all!

The other eight billion of you chumps can fuck off & die. Even people illiterate in a language other than English should be able to appreciate the images & music we post here. If they don't, I can only conclude this planet is populated by eight billion Philistines. It's said most people's taste is in their mouths; considering the horseshit the ninnies eat that's debatable.Lyrical improvement: "No I won't be a good boy/You can all rot in hell!!"

The End Of The Long & Lonely Trail

After seven days in the saddle, you can bet your sweet ass my booty hurts.

Stick It!

Blah blah blah.

Can't Wait Until The Message Is Out

Will he have the guts to suggest: "Big protest in N.Y.C. on July 11th. Be there, will be wild!"? Doubt it, & even less likely enough chumps would show. But he could be desperate enough. And I know I'd enjoy seeing the streets of New York slick w/ the comingled blood of Nazi freaks & NYPD ossifers. And Nazi freak NYPD ossifers.

Was later deleted, but here it is pic.twitter.com/EquJod3h10

— Matthew Budman, book guy (@CollectBooksNow) December 19, 2022

Lawless Republicans

Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:

8 GOP Senators Say They'll Slow Senate Even Further Because Of Trump Verdict  —  The threat could have an impact on the fall spending showdown and White House nominations ahead.  —  LOADING  —  Donald Trump's “guilty” verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money trial …

Ramsey Touchberry / Washington Examiner:   Trump guilty: Senate conservatives draw red line as payback

Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:   ‘Mockery of the rule of law’: GOP senators vow to stonewall Dems after Trump conviction

Joseph MacKinnon / Blaze Media:   Trump's ‘banana republic’ conviction won't be Democrats' last — unless there is ‘retaliation in kind’: UC Berkeley law prof

Jim Hᴏft / The Gateway Pundit:   GOP Senators Revolt: Ten Lawmakers to Boycott Passing Bills with Democrats, Citing White House's ‘Un-American’ Actions and Rule of Law ‘Mockery’

Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:   Marco Rubio, Rick Scott won't support Joe Biden appointments, budget requests after Donald Trump verdict

Andrew Gumbel / The Guardian:

Neighbors say Alitos used security detail car to intimidate them after sign dispute  —  Emily Baden says after a disagreement over political lawn signs with the US supreme court justice's wife, a black car began parking at her mother's home  —  Neighbors of Samuel Alito and his wife described how a disagreement over political lawn signs put up in the wake of the 2020 presidential election quickly devolved into “unhinged behavior towards a complete stranger” by the supreme court justice’s wife.

Emily Baden says she never intended to get into a fight with Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann, her powerful neighbors who live on the same suburban cul-de-sac as her mother outside Washington DC.

Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:   ‘We could do terrible things to you’: Alito neighbor says his security detail stalked her

Owen Lavine / The Daily Beast:

Neighbor Claims Alito's Security Detail Was Used to Threaten Her  —  A MESSAGE  —  Emily Baden, who used to live in the same suburban D.C. cul-de-sac as Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, has claimed in an interview with the Guardian that the justice's security detail was used to intimidate Baden and her family on multiple occasions.

Shirt Of The Anti-Colonialist Future

Temperature's rising; jackets & ties as formalwear will be going the way of the icecaps. Beat the heat w/ a guayabera.

Michael Manley, populist Jamaican prime minister, specifically advocated for the guayabera as an anti-colonialist mode of dress,^[20]. Conversely, the shirt was later banned in Parliament by the conservative Jamaica Labour Party^[21].

Used to sport one myself, possibly a Mexican variation, which I purchased at the Goodwill.

Friday Freak Out

Friday Finger

From Oz to you.

Really, Don't Bother

All day-before-yesterday's news today, so mostly post- (Or pre-?) relevant.

Doubt If This Dope Could Arrest A Fly

Big talk from a little freak.

In 2016, the presidential race was decided based on candidates releasing lists of potential Supreme Court nominees.

In 2024, I want to see lists of which Democrat officials are going to be put in prison.

This is what happens when you cross the Rubicon.

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 30, 2024

Balding four-eyed Nazi pinhead there has at least two faces; fuller hypocrisy report at Mediaite.

“If you are a state AG/prosecutor with original criminal jurisdiction, you had better be drafting up charges, indictments, and warrants for every Democrat official involved in this insane, treasonous attack on our entire constitutional republic,” he mused in another post.

No matter how amusing it is that the right wing all have these junior high mean girl personalities, many of them are paranoid, serious & dangerous.

“Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere.”

"Revenge & Deportation" would probably be more strictly accurate, but this is close enough.

Verdict Reached!

UPDATE: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!Now we wait for half-an-hr. Will the drooling MAGA ninnies do anything? If Lumpy isn't sent to prison, will leftists be rightfully outraged enough to deal some justice?

Another Back-Breaking Straw

Technical difficulties. Only 21 views so far? Something's wrong. As a matter of fact, nothing works any more.

Firepower On The Move

Never suggest that we don't provide both sides of the story, coming & going.A greater variety of vehicles.Street running. Not much firepower, but note the mine-resistant dune buggies between the Strykers from (4:45)-(5:10) & (5:55)-(6:15).Heavy artillery.

We Are Amused

Also interesting that three of the four railfans appear to be of the female persuasion. I'm no expert, but I think that would be fairly uncommon in these United Snakes. Canada, who knows?

Still Standing

We still have our Yamasaki-designed twin towers. Neener neener.

Only Wednesday?

Yes. Doesn't matter if it's a short wk.; time drags on interminably.