No. 2?

Two outs to go for a no-hitter ... one ...
YES!!
And a mere four games behind the Giants.

Not Responsible For My Or Others' Actions If The Cheneys Aren't Stopped Forever (& Soon!)

Almost as tired of hearing from the usual suspects how effing awful Richard Cheney & his daughter Elektra

"Gee Daddy, being an internationally wanted & despised war criminal takes it outta ya, dunnit?"

Elizabeth the Quitter are as I am of hearing or reading anything that has come from the awful effing mouths & minds of the Cheneys themselves.

Gawd only knows (as usual the old bastard isn't talking) when/if Cheney or his progeny had even the pretense of ordinary human decency (such as that is) but if any actual decency remained in the clan Liz, Dick (& mother/Sister Wife No. 2, Lynne, awful in her own right) would drive their SUVs off a cliff in the Grand Tetons (Except they don't live in Wyoming. So they should drive off a bridge into the Potomac or any other Virginia river.) to stop the political terrorism they've practiced on these United Snakes for some forty yrs.

P.S.: Thought of this all day, the weaselly "Wyomingites" being the first horror to greet me as I plunged into the media swamp hoping as every day there would be news of meteors on the way. By the time I got around to it that Rachel Maddow came on & pointed out just how cheesy the new Cheney organization's website is. And I suppose this newest grift & attempt to build a career or something for Elektra (Maddow points out that Liz's loser hack "Senate campaign" record is no anomaly. Dr. Freud would like to know what Daddy Dick is so guilty about, hmmm?) will keep the bloody-handed demon & his spawn from falling on his own sword. WHICH CHENEY SHOULD HAVE DONE WHEN HE FAILED TO FIND ANYONE BUT HIMSELF TO RUN W/ GEORGE W(ORST). BUSH. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

abc123 this is a test Man I wish they were dead yada yada yada Vile terrorist murder threat Vile terrorist murder threat [O.K., terroristic murder threat has been redacted, on the outside chance the Secret Service actually gives a shit about that evil waste of a good human heart.]

Shut Up, Bee-yotch!

I search so you needn't: Looking for this, this (Not that I'd arse myself to watch any of it before flinging it farther out there, but the title makes it must-post tee vee.):

The Israelites: Fighting Against Soft Black Boys & Loud Black Girls

Sweet Blood of Jesus, whatever crap is in the video, religion is awfully stupid.

Couldn't Something Be Arranged?

But the poll, due to its large sample size of both far left and far right respondents, provides quantitative data demonstrating something striking: an extreme right wing that not only hates those on the opposite side of the political spectrum, but also desires to be isolated ethnically, culturally and geographically from the rest of the country.

I'm more than willing to accommodate their desires. Haven't their little even-nuttier friends wanted Idaho for themselves for a long time? We could cram the 27% into Idaho & leave them to see what living close together is like. They might even learn something. (No they wouldn't. Stuff them in Idaho & rats in a cage wouldn't be a good enough metaphor. Most would be shot dead w/in a wk. as a result of slights to honor & their desire for a "polite society." What are we waiting for?)

Lookit these tiny-minded cretins. Today's Know-Nothings:

Those on the far right – or, as Pew describes them, “consistent conservatives” — are 15 points more likely than their progressive counterparts to want to live in communities where most people share their political point of view. This is only logical. Why would you want to live in an area where you think your neighbors are out to destroy America?

These same conservatives are 40 points more likely than their progressive counterparts to prefer to live in areas with people of the same faith and 56 points less likely to want to live in an area of racial and ethnic diversity.

Odder is the conservative antipathy toward art and culture. While liberals and conservatives all are within a 10-point range when asked about their desire to live near family, good schools and the outdoors, conservatives are 50 points less likely than liberals to want to live in communities with cultural institutions such as art museums and theaters.

And what company do conservatives choose to keep? Other conservatives.

“Consistent conservatives” are 14 points more likely to say most of their friends share their political views.

The picture painted by Pew is one of a conservative movement that wishes to simply avoid any divergence that creates a modicum of discomfort. This isolation has a price.

The price being their quick disappearance from our world, I hope. Guess that makes me just as bad as they are, huh? However:

Observing that right-wing extremists have killed 40 people in this country since Sept. 11, 2001, while the left has not been responsible for a single death, Brian Beutler of the New Republic wrote:

I’m inclined to believe the answer is written into the DNA of conservative extremism—that deeply conservative people are more politically tribal than others, and more inclined to confront cognitive dissonance by entertaining conspiracy theories and cocooning themselves in communities with like-minded true believers.

Note very well what I bolded, & that the right is & wishes to remain nothing but a rapidly dying tribe of violence-crazed buffoons. (Not that there's anything wrong w/ that!)

"... the policeman is there to preserve disorder."

Middle East water shortages may lead to large-scale civil unrest.

Yet another dimbulb who couldn't type his way out* of those plastic-tie handcuffs police authoritarians use to detain righteous protesters wants us to know that

A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies.

Uh, mmm, wait, you're trying to say that the U.S. military will be supervising the "research programme," not the actual civil unrest? Or are you?

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if the U.S. military were supervising civil unrest around the world. They cause a lot of it, why in the hell don't they oversee it?

Ossifers preserve disorder, Chicago 1968, during the Democratic Nat'l. Convention.

Above from F-YEAH HISTORY. [WARNING DANGER BLACK TUMBLR HOLE OF PAST PIX!!] Top, some Mormon illustration.

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*If it weren't for the semi-funny I would've taken "why bother?" to heart.

Closer-Than-Suspected Call

Not one word from me about how these things going off might've spared us this "traditionalist" cretin. Not one.

The new details are that the weapons were armed & might well have atomically detonated. Even if the high explosive had gone off w/o triggering the chain reaction there would have been plutonium all over the highways. And how much would y'all like to bet that none of the current inventory is any safer?

New Details on the 1961 Goldsboro Nuclear Accident

Multi-Megaton Bomb Was Virtually "Armed" When It Crashed to Earth in North Carolina, Sandia Lab Report Concluded

Nuclear Stockpile Safety Review from the Mid-1970s Identified Four Weapons Systems that Needed "Time Urgent" Evaluation Because of "Nuclear Detonation Safety Concerns"

1986 Sandia Lab Study Found that, with Respect to "Fully Assembled" and "Combat-Ready" Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Could Not Claim "in an Absolute Sense, that We Take Every Action to Ensure their Safety"

What an armed atomic weapon that has parachuted from an aircraft looks like if it didn't explode.

The T-249 switch used to arm nuclear bombs on Strategic Air Command bomber aircraft.
Photo courtesy of Glenn's Computer Museum.

This Property Is Condemned

Perhaps "Commercial Property For Lease" would be more accurate. So sue me. (No blood from turnips.)

Wasn't enough.

Local Action Links

Every one stolen from LAist, because that's how we are. (If it isn't nailed down it's ours, & if it is, this crowbar may have something to say about those nails.) Anyway ...

Mayor sez "fucking," Joe Biden style, but knowing the he was on the telly & the mic was on. Link.
Another dump whose door we never darkened in forty+ yrs. (but I knew just where it was if ever needed) closes. Sorry about my lack of support for U.S.$3.00 P.B.R.s, but if this tattoo'd loser barfly didn't provide a profit margin,

I dunno what I could have done.

And from the eat the rich/when do we start killing the aristocrats dep't., the shithead mayor of San Marino, the Dog-Shit City, resigned as a result of his (literal) poop-flinging. Of course the asshole remains on the city council. We might also add that the person on the receiving end of the poop fling is a jerk who is opposed to a dog park. Neener neener, hater.

NIMBY, you wealthy pigs? How about I'd as soon not have a city of San Marino in my backyard, or Los Angeles County, for that matter. Why don't all you moneyed fucks move to Santa Barbara County & bitch about the servants w/ all the nasty & wealthy types there? Hurry up before we burn your mansions down & make the whole shitty city a dog park!

Today In Mentally Disturbed

I suppose technically it was yesterday. Disturbed loons no matter the date.

Triangle

Not Completely Sure What All This Is

Be nice 'fit were funny/amusing, but I obviously don't care what it iswhatever; random, meaningless clicking ended at the WND*SUPERSTORE, & this lunacy was right there, all shiny & embeddable. Who am I to turn down a freebie?I'd wonder if these grifting fearmongers have no shame at all (In the third one, learn how the commies have been trying to destroy Gawd's calendar since the French Revolution, & worse. Among many mystic crystal revelations: We're in the "wrong" calendar now. You may be missing your "divine appointment," wherever that is in the Bible.) but anyone scheduling all this crap as filler probably shouldn't complain about anything.

Fathers Day Reminder

Bandwagon Dep't.

INTERSTATE 10 VANQUISHES CHOKING DOGS OF I-95 CORRIDOR
Applying Friday the 13th to the New York Rangers, the Kings def. the New York Rangers & won the important Cup to start the wknd.; now San Antonio's Spurs have completed the triumph of the West.

P.S.: Good start in the first quarter there, Meeya Meefla.

Orphans Day

Allegedly a favorite tune of dear ol' dead-these-forty-five-yrs. dad (possibly not this version):Slap on some headphones & enjoy Ms. Day's well-bred enunciation. (Inhaling, too.)Tejas-stylee.

On The Receiving End, For Once

Today In Empty Symbology

It's Flag Day, but drought here keeps us from spitting on that rag today.

Fracking assures us there's no gas shortage, however. FLAME ON!

Spirituality, Theofascism, And Hypocritical Parents*

Are the bodies cold yet? How much longer do we let fringe elements & fringe religion run loose? First the sovereign citizen/Tea Partiers attack the police & courts (Mmmm, could go either way on that ...) then (via No More Mr. Nice Blog) we find that Tuesday's school murderer was a Mormon who was "highly regarded for his spirituality." And his gun fetishism, apparently. [NOT MUCH LATER: BUGGERED THE AUTO-PLAYING LOW-INFO VIDEO THAT WAS HERE. IT'S AT THE DAILY NEWS LINK, IF YOU MUST.]

Church elder Earl Milliron told the TV station that the 15-year-old was "highly regarded for his spirituality."

The teen, his brother and his father were all active in their Oregon [Mormon] church, Milliron said.

Milliron also said Padgett's parents' "tragic" divorce — which heavily affected the teen's dad — could have had an influence on the 15-year-old's mental health.

On Friday, the freshman's dad, Michael Padgett, released a statement to Oregon's FOX 12.

"We are finding it very difficult to put into words our state of mind and emotions," he wrote. "We are at a loss as to how and why this tragedy unfolded."

He continued: "Our family does not condone and has never promoted violence or hatred toward anyone. The values that we have taught our children are love in Jesus Christ, compassion, forgiveness, and patience."

On Tuesday, Padgett brought a rifle, a handgun and a knife — all of which had been locked up in his family's home — to school, police said.

He allegedly gunned down 14-year-old Emilio Hoffman in the school's locker room and shot and injured a teacher.

Police found Padgett's body in a school restroom with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officers said.

You scummy son-of-a-bitch, he used your fucking guns. And the desire to "kill sinners" must've come from your filthy gutter religion. Smoking cigarettes & saying "goddamn" are certainly worthy of the death penalty. Wouldn't Heavenly Father want them stoned to death though?

Fuck you all. If the parents of victim Emilio Hoffman don't kill the parents of the Mormon murderer Biblical revenge-style (More of Gawd's justice.) as they should, let's hope there's an att'y. willing to sue the enabling/accessory parents of this Latter Day Jihadi murderer's asses into bankruptcy.

Other poop in MailOnline's inimitable style:

• Mormon school shooter wanted to kill 'sinners' who 'smoked cigarettes and took the Lord's name in vain', diary reveals
  Jared Michael Padgett, 15, is the suspected gunman behind Tuesday shooting at Reynolds High School in Portland, Oregon
• On Friday, law enforcement officials revealed that they had found Padgett's journal which detailed a plan to kill 'sinners' at the school
• In the diary, Padgett complained about people who smoked cigarettes and took the Lord's name in vain
• The latest revelations come as his parents Michael and Kristina Padgett released a public apology
• Padgett was armed with an AR-15 rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a handgun and a knife
• He arrived to campus on the school bus and carried his deadly arsenal in a guitar case
• Killed Emilio Hoffman, 14, in school gymnasium and wounded PE teacher, Todd Rispler
• Exchanged gun fire with responding police officers before taking his life while sitting on locker room toilet

When the hell do we start protecting ourselves from these people? (Votes are no protection from live rounds, we should probably remind some of you sissies.) After all, if Dick Cheney felt he was justified in destroying Iraq because of a one per cent chance that something bad might happen, who dares keep me from a pre-emptive strike on the Angel Moroni?

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*Speaks well to L.D.S. family valuesoppressive family & church structure, dunnit? How many illegitimate children do you think are buried under the Mormon Tabernacle?

I Take My Life Into My Own Hands

Been in the freezer a while ...

Last Min. Immediate Male Ancestor Shopping

Gift certificates available.

Well, I Wish Somebody'd Make A Big Deal

American Aristocracy

(Photo: Smiley N. Pool, AP)

A both-sides-do-it hack working in the exciting medium of newspaper web-pages starts weak but eventually gets in a few on ever sorrier CNN, the newsertainfoment web that provides curbside service if you know what I mean but you probably don't & also applies a few licks to shitheel George Herbert Walker Bush, current capo di tutti capi of the Bush Crime Family & his pathetic band of toadies & lickspittles. Then, apparently because someone's sex life is just everyone else's business & also precisely like running the C.I.A., negotiating w/ terrorists in Iran-Contra, & taking oil money (Guessing the elder Mr. Bush wasn't flat broke when he left the White House.) Z on TV delves into the sex life of William Jefferson Clinton. Liberal media bias, obvs.

I am not looking to make a big deal out of this, but I thought at least one mainstream media critic ought to point out that CNN plans to air what it's calling a "documentary" about George H.W. Bush Sunday night in prime time, starting at 9.

Except it's not a documentary as the word is used to describe the work of a filmmaker like Ken Burns or Frederick Wiseman. It's not even a documentary as the word might be used to describe an extended report of 30 minutes or so about a historic building airing on your hometown TV news station.

This is two hours of hagiography paid for by the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. One of its two producers, Mary Kate Cary, is a former speechwriter for Bush when he was in the White House.

The film is called "41ON41" and it's filled with family members, friends and colleagues of Bush saying things like, "You can't be around George Bush and not come away a better person." (Bush was the 41st president and there are apparently 41 people saying such things about him. I stopped counting after I was told that a verse about being "true" and "pure" shaped Bush's life.)

Among the 41 are: James A. Baker III, Marlin Fitzwater, Roger Ailes, Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush Jr., George W. Bush, Dan Quayle and John Sununu.

CNN has become so confused and compromised under President Jeff Zucker that it seems to have no problem with presenting this 41-voice tribute as history.

“CNN is extremely pleased to present the first television broadcast of '41ON41,' which offers extraordinary insights to the man behind the powerful office, and his consequential presidency,” Amy Entelis, senior vice president of talent and content development for CNN Worldwide, says in a press release.

“Viewers will learn the backstory to key historic moments in our history -- and will be surprised by insights from family and friends who reveal sides of their husband, grandfather, father, and friend that only people within the inner Bush family circle ever knew," her quote continues.

“The goal of this film is for the world to see President Bush through the stories of his life -- one of the most significant in our modern history,” Fred McClure, chief executive officer for the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, which funded the film, says in the same release. “It is more than a recounting of history -- it is an engaging and uplifting profile of one of our greatest citizens that no American will want to miss.”

In the immortal if not apocryphal words of Sam Goldwyn, miss it if you can.