MENTAL

Reader's choice: Pick any number of Angry Samoans tunes dealing w/ precarious or deteriorated mental states for musical illustration.

Friday The Thirteenth A Day Early!

Surf's Up!

Photo by Mark Woodward/Native Santa Cruz
More crime photos (& context) at the KRON link below.

Annie Roth / New York Times:

A Sea Otter Is Stealing Surfboards Near Santa Cruz, California  —  California wildlife officials are hoping to apprehend a 5-year-old sea otter, who has a knack for riding the waves after committing longboard larceny.  —  Annie Roth lives in Santa Cruz, Calif., where she knows enough to stay away from sea otters in the ocean.

Caitlin O'Kane / CBS News:   An otter was caught stealing a surfboard in California. It was not the first time she's done it.

Elaine Mallon / Breitbart:   California Sea Otter Hijacking Surfers in Santa Cruz

Amy Larson / KRON4:   Photos: Surfing sea otter steals surfboards, eludes capture

Kady Ruth Ashcraft / Jezebel:   Otters Have Joined the Ocean's Battle Against Man

Susanne Rust / Los Angeles Times:   A renegade sea otter is terrorizing California surfers: 'It's a little scary'

Dustin Dorsey / ABC7:   Authorities issue warning after aggressive sea otter seen going after surfers in Santa Cruz

David Propper / New York Post:   Aggressive sea otter trying to steal surfers' boards sought by California wildlife officials

Ben Hooper / UPI:   Wildlife officials trying to capture surfboard-stealing otter

A) Yuck foo, "wildlife authorities", state or federal. Let the otter be. You filthy humanoids are invading her turf.

B) Hysterical headline writers, knock it off. "Highjacking, terrorizing, renegade, aggressive", yada. It's a sea otter, not Al Qaeda, you clickbaiting cretins.

Remember "Bleeding Kansas"? Now It's Drowning Florida

Late-Stage Capitalism Heads For Higher Ground

 Irina Ivanova / CBS News:

Farmers Insurance pulls out of Florida, affecting 100,000 policies  —  Farmers Insurance said Tuesday that it will no longer offer coverage in Florida, ending home, auto and other policies in the state in a move that will affect tens of thousands of residents.

Discussion:

Adam Nichols / Raw Story:   GOP could lose state of Florida because of Farmers Insurance: ex-Trump official

Caden DeLisa / The Capitolist:   Another major insurer exits Florida market; state CFO vows to “hold them accountable”

RELATED:

 Tampa Bay Times:
Farmers Insurance is leaving Florida in latest blow to homeowners

Discussion:

Zack Budryk / The Hill:   Farmers to end home, auto coverage in Florida, pull back in California over natural disaster costs

Hannah Morse / Palm Beach Post:   Another insurance carrier is pulling its business from Florida: What it means for you

Christine Jordan Sexton / Florida Politics:   Farmers is exiting Florida's property insurance market

Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   Getting home insurance in Florida

Mahsa Saeidi / WFLA-TV:   ‘The Bud Light of insurance’: Farmers Insurance drops tens of thousands of policies in Florida

Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times:   Farmers, California's second-largest insurer, limits new home insurance policies

Kathleen Howley / The Messenger:   Farmers Joins List of Insurers Turning Away Business in California

Jeffrey Schweers / Orlando Sentinel:   Farmers Insurance pulls out of Florida, affecting 100,000 homeowners

The Capitolist:   Florida's reinsurance market shows signs of recovery, but prices are higher

Musical advice:

Today's Festering Gob: International Relations Expert Roseanne Barr

And an expert on who's "good" at religion as well.

Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:

Roseanne Barr Screams at Piers Morgan That Zelensky Isn't a ‘Good’ Jew

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton / BizPac Review:   Roseanne goes OFF on Piers Morgan over Ukraine claim: ‘Snap out of it!’

Joe Jervis / Joe.My.God.:   Rosanne Barr Claims Ukraine Is Full Of Nazis [VIDEO]

Zachary Leeman / The Messenger:   Screaming Roseanne Barr Clashes With Piers Morgan, Claims ‘Large Faction of Nazis’ in Ukraine

Candice Ortiz / Mediaite:   ‘Bullshit!’ Roseanne Barr SCREAMS at Piers Morgan After He Rejects Her Claim Ukraine is Filled With Nazis and Zelensky Isn't a ‘Good’ Jew

Not even going to arse myself w/ a dismissive comment.

The Schaden Freudes Itself

Nation Of Losers Who All Want To Die

Excessive Drinking During the Pandemic Increased Alcoholic Liver Disease Death Rates

Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug, weaklings:

Excessive drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic increased alcoholic liver disease deaths so much that the condition killed more Californians than car accidents or breast cancer, a California Healthline analysis has found.

Lockdowns made people feel isolated, depressed, and anxious, leading some to increase their alcohol intake. Alcohol sales rose during the pandemic, with especially large jumps in consumption of spirits.

Big fucking deal. Every damn day I wake up isolated, depressed, and anxious, knowing I'm surrounded by humanoids, but you don't see me drinking myself to death.

It's The Truth, Now Handle It!

Apparently Facebook & Twitter can't.

Is this enough evidence for you greedy fucking pigs?

Real Estate Owner Convicted of Murder-for-Hire Plot

In a separate incident, Aslanian, through Rivera, paid an individual a few hundred dollars for successfully setting fire to a vacant unit at a rental property in North Hollywood owned by Aslanian so the remaining tenants would be forced to leave the property, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The landlords lie, cheat, steal & try to murder people by proxy, but we are not allowed to notice this & call for self-defense. Fuck Zuck & Musk, they're as parasitical as any damned landlords. Hell, Twitter doesn't even pay its rent.
They have some fucking nerve suspending my acc't.

Oddly enough, this item, "Kill The Landlords, A Continuing Epic" (Further evidence of landlord villainy.) didn't raise any flags when linked on the two shit-sites.

"Much of what I type may seem as if it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!"So irked by everything I think I'm Malcolm X. Yeesh.

Looks Good For 83

Today I learned:

Brother-in-law Joe Walsh joined him for the event, as did their respective wives, sisters Barbara and Marjorie Bach.

Ah yes, Heavenly Bills, the capital of peace & love. And in-laws.O.K., Boomers.

Scoot & Shoot

Even as I bemoaned my sloth (unlike this local inspiration) after a day of pig-biting rage, New York took its toll on someone who then wigged out.

NYC gunman’s shooting spree in two boroughs leaves 1 dead, 3 hurt - A gunman riding a scooter opened fire in multiple New York City neighbors, seemingly at random, killing one man and injuring three others, police said.– NBC New York https://t.co/yxirGR0Jx8

— JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx (@MinkoffMinx) July 9, 2023

We never know just how random these things are at first, but is there an increase in lunatics getting fed up & picking up a gun? 

Then this crossed the wire.Damn, how old is the mayor of Cleveland? 36. Not that big a deal; population is a mere 367,991.

It Should Have Been Me

Rifle, bullets, cash and other evidence recovered from the suspect’s vehiclePhoto courtesy LAPDWe stole it from The Eastsider. Bottom link.

Just kidding. You won't catch me behind the wheel.

Man Suspected of Critically Wounding 3 in Boyle Heights Arrested

A man suspected of driving around the Boyle Heights area firing a rifle at people Saturday was arrested and the condition of one victim improved, authorities said. One man was critically wounded at 6:19 a.m. at Mission road and Donal Avenue, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Drake Madison. His condition stabilized by evening. The suspect fired at several other people at different locations

Suspect arrested in Boyle Heights after morning shooting spree

Lousy Damn Day & I'm Pig-Biting Mad!!

I am absolutely going to kill someone, & at this point it doesn't really matter to me who gets it. As many of you as possible, preferably. Including the son-of-a-bitch who seems to have a bogus version of my debit card. Which now is blocked, & I'll have to wait until Monday to contact my financial institution to order a new fucking card.

All of which just added to yesterday's bullshit: Got a new 'phone, Google decided that the password it shows me in Chrome for my Google acc't. was wrong, & kept offering to reset my password by sending a code to my previous cell number, which doesn't fucking work, you morons! Why the fuck do you think I was setting up a new 'phone?? So now the 'phone barely works ('Though it may well be a cheap piece of shit like everybody & everything else in this horrid fucking world of shit & pain.) & I have to wait three fucking days for Google to reset the acc't. Dunno if that's because of the wknd., or if those cheap fucks are just lazy. Fuck 'em either way!

You'll all be sorry when I get a fucking gun. Won't be sorry for long 'though, unless I leave you to bleed to death.

Scene Of The Crime

Koreatown T-Mobile Robbed at Gunpoint;
4 Men Sought

Didn't have to go out of my way to get these shots. Hell, I could've been just where I took these yesterday at crime time if I hadn't decided not to forage.

[mynewsLA.com]

N.C. G.O.P. Gov. Candidate Not Saying Hitler Was Right, But Not Saying He Was Wrong, Either

North Carolina’s GOP front-runner for governor has a history of racist and antisemitic diatribes

Previously unreported social media posts by Mark Robinson are part of a well-documented pattern of inflammatory pronouncements in which he has invoked antisemitic stereotypes, flirted with Holocaust denialism and targeted Muslims and transgender people, among other minority groups

[Jewish Insider]

Friday Freak Out, Fifty Yrs. Ago Today

Drums – Kenny Clarke

Electric Bass – Bob Cranshaw

Piano – Hampton Hawes

Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon

The track "Blues à la Suisse" is credited to Gordon on the LP, but the composition is actually John Coltrane's "Some Other Blues" from Coltrane's 1960 Atlantic LP Coltrane Jazz.

Recorded during concert performance at the 1973 Montreux (Switzerland) Jazz Festival; Saturday, July 7, 1973.

Temperature's Rising ...

Threads Thursday

Not that I give a flying fuck at a rolling dough-nut, but this Threads thing really is app-only, & I haven't had a working mobile for months. Is this discrimination against PC owners?

Not that I ever did anything on Twitter but link to this very web-log. And link anything that I came across that pointed out what a ninny Musk is. Is that why they finally got around to the Twit for which I was suspended? Or did some landlord get pissy?

And does anyone remember the 2021 version of Threads?

Instagram to discontinue Threads app two years after launch

The photo-sharing app will remove Threads app from PlayStore and App Store starting November 23, redirecting people messaging on the platform to the Instagram main app.

In Short

• Instagram is removing its standalone messaging app Threads two years after its launch.
• From November 23, Threads users on both iOS and Android will begin seeing the notices that the app will shut down by December.
• Last year, Facebook enabled cross-messaging between Instagram and Facebook.

By India Today Tech: Instagram is shutting down its standalone messaging app Threads two years after its launch. The photo-sharing app will remove Threads app from PlayStore and App Store starting November 23, redirecting people messaging on the platform to the Instagram main app. Threads were introduced in 2019 shortly after Instagram shut its other standalone app, Direct. Similar to Snapchat, Threads was designed as a camera-first mobile messenger for posting status updates and staying in touch with close friends.

Peak hair for Zep?In conclusion, fuck everybody & everything back to the hell they came from.

World War III, In Person

Kyiv, Or Korea Town?

Same Shit, Different Day, Yr., Century & Millennium

The Overlooked Origins of the War on Bud Light and Other “Woke” Companies

Starbucks and Anheuser-Busch are the latest corporate targets of tactics honed by segregationists post–Brown v. Board.

Have a history lesson.

Apparently I've Been A Bad Boy

Now ask me if I care.

Your account, MBouffant has been suspended for violating the Twitter Rules.

Specifically, for:

Violating our rules against violent speech.

You may not threaten, incite, glorify, or express a desire for harm or violence.

M. Bouffant @MBouffant Our Continuing Series: Kill Your Landlord Before He Kills You https://[...]

Couple months ago, I think.

Burning For You

World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3

July 4 - Monday, July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction.

The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves sizzled around the world.

The southern U.S. has been suffering under an intense heat dome in recent weeks. In China, an enduring heatwave continued, with temperatures above 35C (95F). North Africa has seen temperatures near 50C (122F).

And even Antarctica, currently in its winter, registered anomalously high temperatures. Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base in the white continent's Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7C (47.6F).

"This is not a milestone we should be celebrating," said climate scientist Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Britain's Imperial College London.

"It's a death sentence for people and ecosystems."

Scientists said climate change, combined with an emerging El Nino pattern, were to blame.

"Unfortunately, it promises to only be the first in a series of new records set this year as increasing emissions of [carbon dioxide] and greenhouse gases coupled with a growing El Nino event push temperatures to new highs," said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, in a statement.

Eight billion little shits burning things to stay alive doesn't seem like a long-term model for success or survival.

[Reuters]