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| Thousands attend a rally on the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington on April 17, 1965, to hear Ernest Gruening, a Democratic senator from Alaska, and other speakers discuss U.S. policy in Vietnam. The rally followed picketing of the White House by students demanding an end to Vietnam fighting. Charles Tasnadi/AP |
Friday, April 17, 2015
More History By The (Even) Numbers
Attempted democracy, 50 yrs. ago today.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Iceland Declares Independence
TUE 16 APR 1940
Captain Albert C. Read relieves Captain Aubrey W. Fitch as Commandant Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida.
Great Britain issues mobilization order for men who turn 27 years of age during the months of April and May 1940.
Iceland declares its independence and asks the United States to recognize it as such.
Uh, Would That Be Because Late-Boomers & Gen X-ers Are Ignernt Maroons Who Think Old Old Old?
[Direct (& entire) from PW.]Byron York: “There are five Democrats who have either declared or are thinking about running for president. Three — Joe Biden, Bernard Sanders, and Jim Webb — will be over 70 years old on Inauguration Day 2017. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton will be nine months short of 70. Only Martin O’Malley, who will turn 54 a couple of days before the 2017 swearing-in, has not reached retirement age already.”
“The average age of the Republican field is far below the Democrats, with every candidate younger than Clinton. The most senior is Jeb Bush, who will be 64 on Inauguration Day. Scott Walker will be 49; Marco Rubio will be 45; Ted Cruz, 46; Rand Paul, 54; Chris Christie, 54; Mike Huckabee, 61; Bobby Jindal, 45.”
How We Heard It
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| Star Wars fans lined up for the Xmas premier of the next installment. |
By now no one has been able to escape seeing or hearing the advertisement for Episode Infinite that's been polluting the iNternet all day; I was very disappointed to discover that at the very end the 72-yr. old guy who shouldn't be flying anymore isn't telling his space-dog "Chuy, we're old" (as we first heard it) but something else entirely.
One More
Last of those on which the auto-focus decided to work.
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| Note well: These little bastards care more about your world of shit & pain than the photographer does. |
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Dep't. Of Amplification
Or correction or something. (The editorial we admits nothing.) Contractor incompetence/criminality in both recent cases highlighted in an item somewhere below, not infrastructure collapsing from refusal to pay taxes for anything.
Image from scene. Notice the concrete portion of bridge is missing. Not clear about status of MARC Trains yet pic.twitter.com/DXVwHXSVPR— Mark Brady (@PGFDPIO) April 15, 2015Bureaucracy Expands
MON 15 APR 1940
Naval Reserve affairs pertaining to the administration of naval districts are transferred to the Naval Reserve Policy Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, to prepare for expansion.
50 Yrs. (More Or Less) Ago Today
[Ooops. Missed it by that much. Actually posted 1930PDT 16 April 2015.]
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| Vietnamese soldiers prepare Viet Cong terrorist Le Dau, 24, for execution at Da Nang, on April 15, 1965. He was executed after being convicted of attempting to blow up a hotel occupied by Americans in Da Nang on April 4. Eddie Adams/AP |
Bouffant's Believe It Or SHOVE It!™
Believe It Or SHOVE It!™: There was a time w/in recent human memory (or mine, at least) in these United Snakes when the infrastructure wasn't falling on our heads on an almost daily basis.
📷 #BreakingNews #Metro #GreenLine Pedestrian Bridge COLLAPSE Berwyn Rd btwn #Greenbelt #CollegePark pic.twitter.com/J7d4kovwcv — Brad Freitas (@NewsChopperBrad) April 15, 2015New post: "Bonney Lake, Wash., family killed in overpass accident" http://t.co/tdvvdRYpQR
— Msh Cnn (@mshcnn) April 14, 2015Several Thousand Wordsworth
Mmmm ... lessee, Dr. Paul the Younger will be running against President Obama & that Clinton woman, as the (Soon to be?) late Dr. Paul the Elder looks on from heaven?
Good job w/ the rug depiction.
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| Liberated from Amazon, but no link to those bastards. |
Sorry, Lay-Deez, You Lose
"Women Is Losers" - Janis Joplin
Yes, Yes, 1000x YES!!!
"Bent over, doubled up: I did the vom in a blind-o's cup."
*Also, fucking "foodies" have trouble w/ multisyllabic words, because they are childish idiots. Sickening.
No idea what "preferably with friends" means; otherwise 100% in agreement!In 2012, Steve Albini, musician, engineer and founder of the blog “Mario Batali Voice,” spoke with Bon Appétit about his hatred of food fetishization: “I hate [the word] foodie because it’s cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating*. ‘Veggies,’ ‘sammies,’ ‘parm.’ I eat food and I cook it. It’s for eating, preferably with friends, and I don’t make a fetish out of it.”
In an interview with Flavorwire’s Jillian Mapes published online on Tuesday, he echoed that thought.
“It distinguishes the foodie as special because he eats well, and that’s a shitty metric,” Albini told Mapes. “Rich people eat better than poor people. People of leisure eat better than working people. People with the luxury of choice eat better than people who subsist. People who don’t have health or ethical concerns about food can eat better than people with disease or conscience… The cute aspect being tied by association with that waste and class makes it particularly repellent.”
“Smoothies, what the fuck,” he said. “Just eat. Unless your jaw is wired shut, just eat. Smoothies, fuck.”
*Also, fucking "foodies" have trouble w/ multisyllabic words, because they are childish idiots. Sickening.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Farm Report: Porcine Dep't.
This is popular.
Possibly amusing similar construction:
But here it's an excuse for music.Marco Rubio Is The Lipstick,
The GOP Is The Pig
I'm a Pig
Possibly amusing similar construction:
Dragnet "Alcohol vs. Marijuana & LSD" Great Speech
You're All Screwed Too,
It's Just That California,
As Always, Is Ahead Of The Curve
California's been setting trends since the Spaniards came to kill or convert anyone who moved just a few centuries ago. Meaning we'll be in desert hell before the rest of you laggards dry up & blow away, starve to death or die of scurvy 'cause there are no more citrus fruits during the winter, what w/ Florida being under water.Why California's Drought Is the Nation's Problem
[tl; dr]
Branding Or Something
I need time away from this awful world, but there is always more fucking bullshit that must be noted/condemned. This idiocy was spotted during the attack on ninnies two items below.
"DIPLOMACY IN ACTION"
Really, State Dep't.? You need a slogan/motto/whatever? This was one of Hitlery Clinton's ideas, wasn't it?
Firesign Theatre Reference Of The Day
The Firesign Theatre: American Pageant (EDIT)
State Dep't. Removes Head From Ass, Notes What We Noted Last Wk.
State Department spokesperson says parts of Malaysia's Sedition Act 'threaten to restrict unduly speech and public discourse' - @StateDeptBetter late than never, BUT NEVER BETTER LATE!!!
Weasel words, too. How about, "As Gawd's Righteous Guarantor of Freedom On Earth, repeal this law or America will blow your shitty little peninsula off the map"? No? Isn't it our duty as Gawd's Most-Favored Nation™ to smite the enemies of freedom?The United States notes the April 10 passage of amendments to Malaysia’s Sedition Act, and we reiterate our concern about restrictions on freedom of expression in Malaysia.
We welcome the decision to remove provisions outlawing criticism of the government and the judiciary, and we hope the Government of Malaysia will therefore reconsider recent sedition charges brought under those now-defunct sections of the law.
Other aspects of the Sedition Act amendments, however, threaten to restrict unduly speech and public discourse. Particularly worrying are new provisions that increase penalties—including for first-time offenders—and could make sharing allegedly seditious material on social media a crime.
The public debate of ideas can be among the best protections against intolerance and can play a positive role in strengthening democracy and combating hatred.
Today In Drooling Gullible Morons
Yep, anonymous sources confirm ...
The gullibility in this one is probably among the few who'll read this mess, typed by something that calls itself "Don Feder":ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas, according to Judicial Watch sources that include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector.
The exact location where the terrorist group has established its base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm.
During the course of a joint operation last week, Mexican Army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as “plans” of Fort Bliss – the sprawling military installation that houses the US Army’s 1st Armored Division. Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.
Law enforcement and intelligence sources report the area around Anapra is dominated by the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel (“Juárez Cartel”), La LÃnea (the enforcement arm of the cartel) and the Barrio Azteca (a gang originally formed in the jails of El Paso). Cartel control of the Anapra area make it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for Mexican Army and Federal Police operations.
According to these same sources, “coyotes” engaged in human smuggling – and working for Juárez Cartel – help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico. To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, cartel-backed “coyotes” are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing.
Mexican intelligence sources report that ISIS intends to exploit the railways and airport facilities in the vicinity of Santa Teresa, NM (a US port-of-entry). The sources also say that ISIS has “spotters” located in the East Potrillo Mountains of New Mexico (largely managed by the Bureau of Land Management) to assist with terrorist border crossing operations. ISIS is conducting reconnaissance of regional universities; the White Sands Missile Range; government facilities in Alamogordo, NM; Ft. Bliss; and the electrical power facilities near Anapra and Chaparral, NM.
Think Evita after Botox treatments. Think Madame Defarge on a bad hair day. Think Lady Macbeth with serious issues ("Out, out, damned bimbo!").
To listen to the babbling heads, you'd think the Goldwater girl-turned-Alinsky-disciple could start preparing her acceptance speech (maybe Eleanor Roosevelt will help her write it). "Ooh, she'll raise so much money." "Ooh, women want a woman president." In the immortal words of General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
Win the White House? Hillary couldn't win a popularity contest if she was the only contestant.
Here are the Top Ten Reasons Hillary Rodham Clinton is more likely to become a Victoria's Secret lingerie model than the next president:
1. The Bucking-The-Tide Factor – Since 1948, one party has held the presidency for more than eight years only once – Reagan/Bush '41 (1981-1993). The American people get antsy. Absent unusual circumstances, they want a regular turnover of power. Those circumstances existed in 1988. Voters wanted to give Reagan a third term – plus, the Democrats nominated someone so pathetic that even a weenie like George H.W. Bush could beat him. Governor Dukakis, the Democratic nominee, was so clueless that he thought revealing that he was a "card-carrying member of the ACLU" would help him to connect with Middle America. Unless Obama becomes very popular in the next 18 months, and the Republicans have their own Mike Dukakis waiting in the wings (Jeb Bush?), 2016 will not be a repeat of 1988.
2. The Scandal-Rama Factor – Google "Hillary Clinton" and the first word that pops up is "scandals" (1.84 million results). The hit parade includes – a six-figure profit from short-term commodities trading, Whitewater, head of bimbo-eruptions squad, Travel-gate, Benghazi, deleted e-mails and on and on. The key to electing Democratic presidents is not to have the candidate around long enough for his past to catch up with him – witness Clinton 1992 and Obama 2008.
3. The Way-Past-the-Expiration-Date Factor – Since Watergate, everyone wants to run as the proverbial outsider, who wouldn't be caught dead at a Georgetown cocktail party. Hillary is anti-establishment? One way or another, she's been in power for almost a quarter century – eight years as First Lady/Co-President, 8 years in the Senate, and 4 years as Secretary of State (after president, the most important office in the executive branch). It'll be a gas to see how the spin doctors create the New Hillary. She's tan, rested and ready?
4. The Elitism Factor – According to Gary Aldrich ("Unlimited Access"), the FBI man stationed in the Clinton White House, staff were ordered to avert their gaze when passing her in the halls. A friend met Bill Clinton at a political function after he left the presidency. He said that when the ex-president spoke with him, he made him feel that he was the most important person in the room. The attitude Hillary projects with strangers is "What the hell am I doing in a room with this schmuck?"
5. The Ideology Factor – Hillary has been reliably (as times outrageously) left since the Sixties. She was the radical rudder of the Clinton administration. Granted, she's not as rabid as Elizabeth Warren, but who is? "Don't let anyone tell you that, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs," said she speaking at a political rally in Boston last year. She tried to nationalize health insurance 16 years before Obama. After eight years of ideology run amuck, are we ready for four more?
6. The Meanness/Anger Factor – On the stump, Hillary projects two emotions – anger and euphoria. She alternates between the vacant smile of a Stepford Wife and shouting. She's a frustrated, middle-aged feminist who's perpetually incensed. This persona is why so many young women reject the feminist label, even when agreeing with the movement on some issues. Again, she's famous for outbursts, airborne objects and cold disdain. In the White House, when a Secret Service agent refused to act as a bellboy, she screamed "Stay the (expletive deleted) away from me!" In a candidate for the nation's highest office, righteous indignation is one thing, rage and nastiness something else.
7. The Zipper Factor – Even though Hillary has probably threatened Bill with summary castration if he's a bad boy during the campaign, what are the odds he'll keep it zipped for the next 20 months? If he couldn't when he was president, is it remotely possible he'll go from frat boy to altar boy while she's out campaigning? The latest escapade to come to light: In court filings, a woman claims that in 2001, she was an underage "sex slave" on an island owned by a Clinton-donor that the ex-president visited. The best his defenders can come up with is, "Well, she doesn't say Bill had sex with her." She also doesn't say he had a threesome with a cheerleader and a clown.
8. The Night-of-the-Long-Knives Factor – Some of the most powerful people in her party have it in for Hillary – Obama, Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry. The Obama/Clinton rivalry is legendary. Barack doesn't want his tenure viewed as a way station between Clinton presidencies. Kerry probably would like to run himself. Even if he doesn't, the worse his predecessor looks, the better he looks. And Kerry is in the perfect position to leak details of her screw-ups when she had his job.
9. The Oh-Stop-You're-Killing-Me Factor – She says things that aren't merely stupid, but laughable – like her 2014 interview, when she told ABC's Diane Sawyer that she and Bill were "dead broke" when they left the White House. Bill was only getting an annual pension of $201,000. He received a $15-million advance on his 2004-autobiography "My Life" (with my pants down). Immediately after departing 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., they bought a $2.85-million house in D.C. and a $1.7-million hovel on Long Island. Before she became a candidate, Hillary's speaking fee was $300,000 – and she demanded a private jet to ferry her to gigs. Any day now, she'll be on a street corner holding a sign that says: "Will spout absurdities for food."
10. The Hideousness Factor – Lyndon Baines Johnson was the last profoundly ugly candidate to be elected president, and he was a legacy of the martyred JFK. Voters don't want a leader who looks frazzled or frumpy. We're told that Lincoln was too homely to be elected president in an age of television and paparazzi. But Lincoln's homely face had a dignity, a gravitas. If nothing else, we want a face that reassures us, not one that scares us, a la Night of the Living Alinskyites.
Conservatives might as well get in their licks in now. After Iowa, we won't have Hillary to kick around any more.
P-22 On Move Again
The animal remained under the house, despite the area being cleared overnight in an attempt to let him come out on his own free from distractions under cover of darkness. Game wardens from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife couldn't see any signs of the big cat, including alerts from its electronic monitor, in the crawl space as of 9 a.m.At least he wasn't the victim of police murder (this time).
[NBCLA]
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