Scene from the last Glibs meetup

I suspect Hell is about as hot, but not quite as humid, as it has been here this weekend. The rabbits and squirrels are moving listlessly, and their predators aren’t even bothering to chase them. Birds are walking. The only things stirring are our cops and our criminals.

Deputies believe Williams possessed less than 1 gram of cocaine and a 9 mm bullet without a firearm owner’s identification card, according to a criminal complaint filed in McHenry County court. Williams originally was stopped for multiple traffic violations, and then deputies searched his car, Sheriff’s Deputy Sandra Rogers said.

Williams, of the zero to 100 block of Ivanhoe Lane, has been charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of ammunition without a FOID card.

Good thing that the fine folks in the criminal justice system don’t believe in overcharging to force a plea deal.

 

Team Blue is too fucking lazy to make giant puppet heads any more. Now, I can get behind getting rid of ICE, but what will their union say? And here’s a better idea: get rid of all of DHS, a remarkably bad idea shoved through during a spasm of hysteria. ICE, sure, but start with TSA.

The “Families Belong Together” demonstrations, like the Women’s March and the March for Our Lives protests before it, attracted crowds of seasoned activists and normally apolitical first-timers to political dissent.

I wonder if they carried on the Women’s March tradition of banning Jews? And of course, the usual abusive use of children as props:

But by far the most powerful images of the protests came from the children, who spoke out for the rights of kids their own age to enjoy happy and normal childhoods.

Y’know, I was part of protests against the Viet Nam war and I didn’t know anyone who said, “Hey, let’s dress up the kids in Viet Cong outfits and bring ’em along!”

 

Here’s a perfect example of why I’d start with dismantling TSA.

[TSA spokesman Mike]England said the concern is not that people may be hiding explosives or other illicit material inside of food. Rather, it’s that the food itself can look similar to the components of an explosive — therefore making it more likely that bags with snacks would be flagged for a time-consuming manual search. Officials thought it might be more efficient, in some cases, to have passengers remove the snacks from their bags ahead of time.

“Some foods and some organic materials can bear a strong resemblance to explosive materials,” he said.

Don’t you feel safer already?

 

And while we’re at it, let’s abolish the IRS. We have several ex-pats among us who will sympathize.

Americans overseas often face a complex filing regimen. Swanson received another shock when he found out he was behind on tax filing requirements he did not know about. “It was in the tens of thousands of dollars to get caught up,” Swanson said.

He did not actually owe much in taxes because he had been living in Germany, a high-tax country, which offset what he owed to the U.S. Most of that money went to the cost of the paperwork and accounting fees.

 

Here’s one more “journalist” who manages to gather the facts, assemble them, and… then miss the obvious conclusion entirely. While we’re getting rid of government agencies, let’s kill government schools. And their lobbyists.

Willie Brown Middle School was the most expensive new public school in San Francisco history. It cost $54 million to build and equip, and opened less than two years earlier. It was located less than a mile from my house, in the city’s Bayview district, where a lot of the city’s public housing sits and 20 percent of residents live below the federal poverty level. This new school was to be focused on science, technology, engineering, and math—STEM, for short. The money for Brown came from a voter-approved bond, as well as local philanthropists.

On opening day in August of 2015, around two dozen staff members greeted the very first class. That’s when the story took an alarming turn. Newspapers reported chaos on campus. Landake was later quoted in the San Francisco Examiner: “The first day of school there were, like, multiple incidents of physical violence.” After just a month, Principal Hobson quit, and an interim took charge. In mid-October, less than two months into the first school year, a third principal came on board. According to a local newspaper, in these first few months, six other faculty members resigned. (The district disputes this figure.) In a school survey, only 16 percent of the Brown staff described the campus as safe. Parents began to pull their kids out.

What’s the culprit? I think you know:

In 1978, California voters passed the state’s most infamous law: Proposition 13 severely restricted raising property taxes, and required a two-thirds majority to pass many tax measures. This gutted California’s education funding so severely that the state’s public schools, which had been ranked best in the nation in the 1950s, fell to among the worst in a few decades.

NEED MOAR SPENDING!!!

 

OMG, the ambassador to ESTONIA quit in protest of Trump’s brain lint! Of course, you have to scroll way, way down before hitting the crucial part.

During more than three decades as a diplomat, Melville had served at U.S. embassies in Moscow, London and Berlin before President Barack Obama appointed him to the ambassadorship in Estonia in 2015.

 

Art or kiddie porn? We report, you decide.

Kaplan disputed the child pornography categorization and told Indiewire that the filming of the scenes was done “under the careful surveillance of the girls’ mothers” and neither of the girls were aware of what they were depicting.

HAWT!!!

 

Need another reason to believe that soccer is stupid? Here ya go.

During the World Cup, Lumidolls Moscow is giving fans the chance to dress their sex doll in whatever football shirt they like. They are offering all the different football t-shirts worn by each team, England, France, Spain, you know,” Sergi, a former telecoms worker, explained.

Punters can pay around £67 for half an hour, or £83 for an hour, to get down and dirty with the dolls.

Expect Dirty Jobs to cover the guys who have to clean this up.

 

The demon weed strikes again. 

E don reach five years wey Ogochukwu dey try stop smoke Igbo. But if im stop am, small time e go start again. But for di past six months now, e dey try to stop am again. Ogochukwu say, “e first start as competition among my friends wen we dey school but before I know, e don take over my life.” Dat na how im take start to abuse cannabis aka Igbo, five years ago.

Any questions?

 

Old Guy Music! There are several iron laws, one of which is, “Anything by Justin Bieber sucks.” Another is, “Never try covering a Tracy Chapman song. It just won’t work.” So of course my universe is shaken by… a Justin Bieber cover of a Tracy Chapman song. And fuck, he pulls it off. This is really good.