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March 7, 2015
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Happy Saturday!
I buried our neighbor's dog a few days ago. They let it run loose and it'd been hit and killed by a car, and they just left the body by the side of the road. Now they have a *dinky* puppy crying day after day outside in a cage by itself, and in 20-some degree weather at night.
Wow, blue skies.. we don't have that here but we have snow.. This pic is from my commute route on Beach drive on Wednesday. I had to stop and take a pic. But since then we have received 8+ inches more. It will all be melting away soon, though.
"Young, Black, and Gifted."
I thought to point out how old someone was, was Ageist.
I thought to notice ethnicity was Racist.
I thought 'gifted' was just another word for 'privilege'.
I'm all confused now.
I am still trying to digest the news that finally was released to us that the Iranian army now is in Iraq fighting with the Iraqi army under the joint command of an al Quds general.
I would guess that this means that Iraq is gone. The Sunnis that joined up in the new Iraqi army must have cast off their uniforms and gone home, so that it is now all Shia.
It looks like we are now flying air cover for Iran; a state we have been in an undeclared, but very real, war with for more than a decade.
This is surreal.
As far as Iran and ISIS is concerned, I think the old saying, "It is a pity they can't both lose," applies. Or perhaps they can, which would be good.
What to do? If declared emperor, I think I would now just pull out of Iraq, try to form a joint defense league with the bedouin states and Egypt, and promise full US retaliation if any kind of a nuclear weapon is employed anywhere, and especially in Israel.
But this is one hell of a mess.
Ann you usually modus operandi is to drop a bomb and observe reactions. It is a bit tiresome so now you have a golden opportunity to do your readers a great service. Please delve into this shooting in Madison and with Meade give us factual details, interviews and pictures of what is the real story.
Use your background to breakdown the legal details for us layman.
Be a shame if Fernandinande were to create a conflagration of fury by animal rights groups, drawing attention to the criminal, inhumane abuse of the puppy. This has the potential to make the bad people feel a little like their cold, suffering puppy.
The Hellway to High.
Look, a law professor has said we can conspire about anything, so let's do this.
I have determined we will pronounce him "Lass" "low."
Not "Laz" never no more.
This makes me feel closer to adequate.
He is just a lowly Lass you see, not Le' Oz, God of Austrailian Osbournes.
From the Althouse Portal:
an Inflatable Sex Doll with No Holes.
Like the World isn't sick enough.
I am Laslo.
As a person of way below average intelligence and generally the most igorant person commenting on this blog, I would like to take this opportunity to thank frequent commenters Garage Mahal and Madisonfeller for reminding me that, dumb as I am, there is always someone more dumber. Chess books exclaim "brilliancy!!!" for unbelievable, un predictable winning moves. I often am reminded of that while reading their comments.
A nice piece on the real problems in Ferguson.
I don't know if this applies to Madison. Probably not.
It is a bit tiresome
Somebody forcing you to read this blog? Poor dear.
From the Althouse Portal:
I mean, this I understand. It's like a Davy Crockett cap but it goes in her ass: I get that. But a Sex Doll with No Holes? Welcome to Emasculated America, I guess.
I am Laslo.
When I lived in dear old Bloomington, Illinois 40-some years ago, the city definitely funded a large part of the police force, if not the general administration, by traffic fines. My best one was for 37.5 mph in a 35 mph zone in the 8 o'clock rush hour. And that was a genuine 37.5 mph; not 42.5 with 5 mph knocked off. They were writing tickets as fast as they could, and just pulling individual cars out of the stream as they finished one ticket and sent that driver on his way.
I got upset at first, since in NM 3 tickets will get you dropped by the insurance company, but my agent in Illinois just laughed and told me not to worry; they knew and understood.
I don't know about Missouri, but being next door to Illinois, I would not be surprised if the custom was likewise.
And even in NM I have less than fond memories of driving young and male, though quite "white." Especially for the 2 years I drove a TR-3 with 3 coats of wax on it and looking very sharp.
Prof:
I told you: The Clintons are coming, the Clintons are coming.
No one can stop them.
Not Benghazi, Foreign donations, Email Server, etc. Nothing.
As Dana Milibank, the cheerleader of Democrats from WashPost, mentioned today:
There is nothing standing between her and the WH.
GOP is finished. Here comes POTUS HRC.
Why is this happening?
1. GOP refuses to accept women as leaders. They will not include women in leadership. Blatant rejection of women by GOP.
2. GOP hates science, especially American science funded by US taxes payers.
3. GOP wants immigrants to leave the US, including those who work at laundry mats, drive buses, clean houses, or work in labs. They want all immigrants OUT of US.
Thus, GOP will lose due to three reasons (see above).
NotquiteunBuckley said...
Be a shame if Fernandinande were ...
Come to think of it, that puppy has it pretty easy.
We've found 7 other puppies in the desert,1,2,3 at a time, and gotten them to doggy rescue groups, and kept one older dog that showed up (new to house,car&leash, like a friendly wild animal). He's sleeping on my feet right now.
Michael K said...
A nice piece on the real problems in Ferguson.
Says: "The report recounts the case of a woman for whom a single 2007 parking infraction — two citations; penalty: $151 plus fees — has led to multiple arrests, jail time, and more than $1,000 in additional fines, half of which she has yet to pay."
The $151 for one parking "infraction" (=two citations?) is comparable to the what Tony Robinson paid for armed robbery (probation, and around $300 or $380 in charges/fines, IIRC). That's messed up.
If Ferguson, MO has gone from 2/3 "white" to 2/3 "black" in just 20 - 30 years that is going to make for problems in adjusting that quick.
Coming from NM, the language quite "nice" people in dear old Bloomington, IL used about Blacks mad me blink. And Bloomington is very much Reagan and Lincoln country, whereas Missouri was slave state with a very bitter history from the Civil War.
Ferguson, MO no doubt needs to get with it and speed up their adjustment to the 21st century, but I do not think that having the DoJ "dismantling" their police department is going to be helpful to that process.
In Pa. the local police are not permitted to use radar, only the state police. And state police are not permitted to use "moving" radar. They must be stationary.
Local cops can only issue a ticket if you are >11mph over the speed limit. They are forced to use vascar type devices. State police can only issue a ticket if you are >6mph over the speed limit.
Local police have been howling to be able to use radar, but our state legislature says nyet. The world knows it will be used for revenue enhancement, just like speed and red light cameras.
Questions NYT/NPR/PBS/CNN will never ask HRC:
1. Did your staff that selected which of the 55,000 pages of email to turn to DOS have clearance?
2. Did you view any document via your personal email address? Was the document classified? If so, did you notify anyone at State?
3. When you asked the Ambassador to resign for using personal email, how do you communicate this to the staff? Did you use your personal email or did you ask your staff to contact the department?
4. During the four years at State at SOS, you received 38 emails per day to account for 55K emails? Is this true? Did you receive only 38 emails per day? What about classified emails? Did you use another account or computer? How can access classified email on the personal machine?
5. In your book, Hard Choices, you wrote that you focused on cybersecurity at State. Please provide some examples of this work.
" I do not think that having the DoJ "dismantling" their police department is going to be helpful to that process."
I just feel sorry for the remaining whites, some of whom might have stayed out of a sense of real "inclusiveness" although the inability to sell their houses once the balance began to tip might also be a factor. "White Flight" from Chicago was aided by black teenagers walking through alleys breaking the branches on cherry trees in our back yard and attempting to mug my father on his front porch.
Some of it was just hell raising but some might have been allied to Coleman Young's rants to white people to "get out of Detroit."
Middle class blacks followed them to quite nice suburbs.
Nobody in Ferguson will sell a house now.
@AP. Dan Milbank is worst political writer I have read in my brief 64 year old life. He writes like Paul Begala talks.
BTW, if Eric Holder "dismantles" the Ferguson, MO police department, with what does he propose to replace it?
For some reason, I'm still thinking about the Common Core article from earlier this week.
And the odd phrase, "moral facts".
It seems obvious to me that most discussion of morality are moral claims.
Moral claims always seem to be one of two things.
A. Intuitive moral claims. These range from "it is wrong to kill another human", to "it is wrong to let another person kill you".
B. Deduced moral claims. Somewhat like using both intuitive moral claims above, and deducing that it is wrong to kill someone who is not threatening harm to innocent people; but that it is not wrong to kill a person who is threatening harm to innocent people.
With respect to the situation involving a dead young man in Madison, and a Policeman...
Did that Policeman kill someone who was no danger to himself or others?
Or did the Officer kill someone who was presenting a present danger to the Officer's life?
"BTW, if Eric Holder "dismantles" the Ferguson, MO police department, with what does he propose to replace it?"
The New Black Panther Party?
Sundance is showing Panic Room, about a home invasion. Isn't that sort of racist?
"Please delve into this shooting in Madison and with Meade give us factual details, interviews and pictures of what is the real story. Use your background to breakdown the legal details for us layman."
I don't know anything about it at this point. I'll read the news reports.
We drove by the scene of the shooting today. Should I be "drive-by media"?
If so, all I can say is that there was police tape in front of a house, and there were police cars along the curb and a few police officers standing around. Across the street there were 3 or 4 sad-looking people sitting on the step of a porch, but no one was standing around or chanting or heckling the police officers. There was one woman walking toward downtown, carrying a "Black Lives Matter" sign.
Things looked very quiet. There was no evidence of anyone attempting to maintain protest energy around the site.
I will in the future claim the name creation of "Marriott Edgar" (without auto-interestingly-correct) as my own: I just read the name Marriott (without auto correct) Edgars at Mark Steyn's blog, Steynonline.com.
But in the future I will claim that I created the name 'Marriott (without autocorrect) Edgars and declaim ownership via loose translations of the Colorado Homestead provisions.
Ooooh... You little jerks just learned provision is a term you can rape into forever subservience.
I like that phrase, "maintain protest energy."
I think one should consider the possibility that the DoJ's actions might leave Ferguson, MO largely ungovernable and uninhabitable for Blacks as well as Whites.
To maintain protest energy, it would have taken direct involvement in the shooting by Scott Walker. Then there would be busloads of protesters swarming the city.
Fernandinade,
Did you--or will you--call the Animal control people about the puppy being left in cage outside in sub-freezing temperatures? I can't understand why people bother keeping animals if they're going to treat them cruelly.
MIDLAND, MI -- A Midland County woman´s gym membership was canceled after she refused to stop telling fellow gym members "a man" was using the woman´s locker room. Yvette Cormier said the incident occurred Saturday, Feb. 28, when she entered the women´s locker room at the Planet Fitness location at 701 Joe Mann Boulevard in Midland. "I was blocked, because a man was standing there," Cormier said. "It freaked me out because, why is a man in here?" Cormier said an employee at the front desk told her that the individual identifies as a woman.
Me too. I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body. Planet Fitness showers, here I come!
Love the way they put "man" in quotes, as if the man were not a man.
Maybe I am wrong, but I don't know very many women who would put up with that crap.
This may not end well for Planet Fitness's bottom line (so to speak).
Pumpuang Duangjan was a famous Thai loogthung singer who had a couple of songs I liked long ago.
Searching for those I found this page with some of her songs and lyrics you can follow.
The music isn't bad, and the lyrics are great.
Here is the worst of it: The 1970's morality-wise.
In America.
There is no doubt the millions of Saudi-fucks via slavery benefitted the Bush's, as did every motion of every butterfly in existence.
Wheat chaff chum. Separate all one.
Only a highly moral people with high prosperity would elect Barack.
This won't end soonwise.
This won't be stoppednear.
This is better, to mention, Truth, than otherwise but neither matter much effectwise.
This might be the toughest thing I will ever write: Unions have points and made great strides and the entitled children of union members (private and public) respects the advances in treatment of such as myself unions wrought.
Being stated, the fucks plotting to bomb my dad can burn now or later. Their money burns rich.
Most have; thanks to the VA my father is kicking strong. He still supports those who plotted to bomb him, but never questioned my rights to question him until I turned vulgar, which I always did..
The only reason I know about this shit is this son of a terrorist cunt made a living selling fucking hot dogs a couple blocks of State street.
Paul Soglin can .....
I always liked Ben Mazell, but I only knew him as a a hapless harmless advocate of peace.
If he was cool with bombings that's not the Ben I was exposed to.
I just got totally like humiliated in my third Settlers of catan game. I now hate a couple cousons and another cousins 12 year old daughter even more than I ever hated Nixon. I have visions of blood and gore and veins in my teeth. Thanks a lot Packers. There should be a rule change where if a 7 gets rolled the
player rolls again and the &*()*&
robber can be moved to either of those number spots, but must be moved from the present spot. If you get my drift.
This predatory government meme is really starting to resonate with me.
We have a state park adjacent to the northeast suburbs of Indianapolis. Last Saturday we received a foot of snow so I took the dog over there for a walk in the woods along Fall Creek. Mind you this dog is a well-trained Aussiedoodle (noted for their intelligence and good behavior ... And poor watchdog skills since they are immensely friendly) who bothers no one. Jack (dog) and I walked 6 miles of trails alone seeing no one on such a snowy and cold day. In fact, there was not a single car at the trailhead or at the park for that matter as the city was essentially shut down due to the snow.
The only other person I saw ... At the end of a two hour walk ... Was a lone conservation officer sitting in his truck next to my SUV after the walk.
The sonofabitch drew his gun, took my ID, and proceeded to give me a $125 ticket for Jack being off a leash.
You should have seen the look on the dog's face. I said he was intelligent.
According to today's news, he was not a Gentle Giant, but rather a Punk With Priors.
I see two contributing factors to his death:
1. The justified grievance climate created by Obama/Holder. In reality, our Black citizens anger has NO justification. Daily thoughts of gratitude would serve them better.
2. Our non-color-blind justice system. The kid got probation only because he was Black. A lesson in 'no consequences'. How'd that work out?
Netflix has a new series titled Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She has a gay friend, who is over-the-top fab, and who is named Titus.
How did you ever miss the Handsome Tax?
As important elements of love, Morinaga raises (1) appearance, (2) wealth, (3) charm, and of these, the most significant is appearance. ‘No matter how much ugly men live it up at go-con group dates, in the end the girls always like the ike-men, that is the men who are the most attractive. But people can’t do anything about the way they look. Therefore, by redistrubuting[sic] the wealth, we will correct the inequality.
He also appealed on behalf of the charm of otaku men, saying ‘They are law-abiding, earnest, and faithful. A lot of them are good men.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku
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