ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. BEING IN BETWEEN GRAIN SHIPMENTS, ZARDOZ HAS DROPPED IN TO LIFT YOU FROM BRUTALITY. HE GIVES YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK, TO USE IN YOUR SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS. THE FILTH OF BRUTALS MUST BE CLEANSED FROM THE INTERNET. SNARK AT THEM, DRIVE THEM OFF!
IT APPEARS THE BRUTALS OF MEXICO ARE GOING TOIMITATE OTHER FAILED NATIONS. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN MUCH BRUTAL MISERY. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
ZARDOZ IS NOT PLEASED WITH THE PAUSE IN CLEANSINGHERE. GET BACK TO IT, UAE BRUTALS!
NOW THIS IS SOME PROPER CLEANSING. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED.
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!”
[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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Uh oh… you don’t get a direct call from SP when things are going well. It was a bit hard to hear her, with the Cartoon Network on at a high volume in the background, but she told me to come to the command center right away. In person.
We all filed in the conference room and took our seats.
Last Glibs Meet Up?
It was announced that we had a STEVE SMITH problem. Funny…I thought mexican sharpshooter had his tiny ass dog back, and STEVE SMITH was on the way to rape reindeer or roger Santa or somesuch. It was much worse than that…
We had credible intelligence that STEVE SMITH was really headed to the Netherlands…to the ICC. He was going to turn himself in for RAPECRIMES against Humanity. Worst of all, he was going to roll over on us. We had put him up to it, for site content! None of us wanted to go sit in Slobodan Milošević’s old cell and die waiting for trial in the Hague. So what were we to do?
mex begged off, having just had a scrap with the RAPESQUATCH. Understandable. SugarFree was willing, but he was a bit tied up with an odd situation at work. Something about a valuable member of the team had gone missing, and he was on the trail to find him. I looked over at Warty, but he demurred. He was too busy building a Brazilian Ju-Jitsu robot, to act as a sparing partner. The last guy he sparred screamed like a damned soul when Warty dislocated both his shoulders…and a kneecap…and an ankle. Oddly enough, nobody in the gym wanted to practice with him after that.
OMWC told us no way in Hell he was going to risk CPS kicking the door in while he was gone and end up with a warrant for a “Home Alone” case. SP couldn’t leave, as the site would crumble. Plus she was usually engaged in some sort of mortal combat with WordPress or Comcast or someone like that. BrettL and sloopy had links duty, and small kids. Riven was stuck in an endless meeting loop at work…kind of a beginning of Superman type prison thing. Sounded awful.
“Let us out of this meeting!”
HM volunteered, rather Heroically, I thought. But he had to stay and do some linguistics work for us. We have hopes for a rather profitable return on a Anime-Twerk-Thicc-English interpretation app. So he was told to stay and work on it. Anyway, if that CUMMIEBOT ever returns, we need HM to deal with it. Guess who that left… Me. Obviously ZARDOZ could not go undercover. Besides, he was too sympathetic to STEVE SMITH after the RAPESQUATCH helped him dry out last year. SEA SMITH…yeah, family loyalty.
Fine. OK. Guess I am it. This should take a week or more to do some recon, and lay in wait for THE STEVE SMITH SANCTION.
Did someone say “Sanction”?
I will do my best to send reports. I have to go pack now.
P.S. I want to be back in time for the wailing and gnashing of teeth this will bring.
It’s tough being on the weekend beat- all the good news stuff happens on weekdays, and what I’m left with is the sad remnants. What’s worse, I’m trapped inside all weekend (heat indexes here at 115, with no letup), and we had an unfortunate discovery yesterday. No, not SP’s first period (though sadly, that day is inevitable and I’ll have to trade her in), but something more pungent. Our dog was at the back door going crazy- generally, this means that one of her nemeses is within sight, either rabbits (“THESE NEED CHASING BECAUSE THEY’RE HOPPY!”) or robins (“FUCK SWISS, THESE ARE TRULY THE HATE BIRDS”). Indeed, when I looked, I saw both. But I also saw… a skunk. Which has made an appearance now and then, but this time, it had an entourage. At least three skunks in a gang, maybe more, big ones for the species, and of course, any red-blooded American dog wants to chase them. Unfortunately, our dog is large enough and furry enough that there is not enough tomato juice on this planet to fix the inevitable problem. Suggestions on humane ways of discouraging this cluster of mercaptans from congregating here will be received gratefully.
Anyway, today is the 88th birthday of notorious race-traitor Thomas Sowell, whose book Knowledge and Decisions may be the catalyst that tipped me over from being a ’60s liberal to being a libertarian. Happy Birthday, Dr. Sowell!
DeVita even pulled an iguana out of her toilet after it latched on to a plunger a few years ago. “In one of my bathrooms, my roommate kept hearing something in his toilet and saw something poking its head out,” she says. “It was very aggressive.”
My suggestion: import a bunch of Chinese, equip them with nets and woks, and the problem will take care of itself.
I wonder if iguanas had something to do with this, which locked a bunch of us out of Glibertarians.com for several hours yesterday.
Some customers took to social media to discuss the outages, saying they were having trouble getting through the company’s phones and online chats. Comcast, on Twitter, directed customers to an internal website that was at one point down as well, eliciting a second round of customer complaints.
See, the worst thing here is that it’s not even a sports-related death. That would require, you know, an actual sport, not “Third World Knee Clutching and Rolling on the Ground.”
Ms Maiochi, who was single, posted a photo on her Facebook page on May 31 of herself holding a glass of wine. And in her last written post she had shared a video warning about the risks of using a mobile phone while driving, writing: “We never imagine that something like this can happen to us. But accidents do happen.”
A twisted dad made his 11-year-old son have sex with his step mother because he was worried he might be gay, a court heard today. The judge at Reading Crown Court sentenced the father to six years behind bars for child cruelty and indecent acts with a child.
He was allowed to walk away despite a 2015 Wisconsin law banning people from knowingly installing devices to record under other people’s clothing without their consent.
“120, 130, 125, 130 million Americans have pre-existing conditions.”
Old Guy Music. Fuck it, that was the best incarnation of this band and if you’re going to live in the past, do it right. I can’t tell you how many times I whipped out my flute and ran through this one with my old band. A neighbor and buddy who is a terrific session guy and does bar gigs on the side has asked me to sit in on a song or two, and if I can convince him to do this one and I have some drinks in me, well, I might. Bonus: there’s a short bit at the end from a TV show. Guess who the guitarist is.
STEVE SMITH THINK HIM HAVE GOOD IDEA HELP WITH CASCADIA INDEPENDENCE! HOW COUNTRIES GET GOOD THOUGHTS? HELP STOP WAR. STEVE SMITH REMEMBER WHEN MUSTACHE PRESIDENT WHO SHOOT THINGS, HIM MEDIATE, END WAR. SEE, STEVE SMITH PRACTICE IMPORTANT WORD…”MEDIATE”. SINCE PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER, HIM FIND CHANCE MEDIATE TOO! SO STEVE SMITH GO EUROPE. MAYBE TAKE TIME VISIT OLD FRIEND STORSJÖODJURET. COUSIN SEA SMITH INTRODUCE. HIM VERY NICE, BUY ROUNDS OF BRÄNNVIN UNTIL ALL FALL OVER. SINCE NORTH, COULD ALSO GO VISIT SANTA?! STEVE SMITH HAPPY! BEFORE GO, GIVE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE LINKS.
STEVE SMITH MAYBE PEACE BREAK OUT ALL OVER? MAYBE NOT. BUT STEVE SMITH STILL TRY HELP. BY HELP, MEAN RAPE BELLIGERENTS. SEE, STEVE SMITH TRY FANCY WORD … “BELLIGERENTS” STEVE SMITH GOOD AT THIS!
IS CLEVELAND ON FIRE? STEVE SMITH THINK SAD TIMES FOR TOWN. HIM NOW REMEMBER OLD SONG ABOUT CLEVELAND.
STEVE SMITH LEAVE YOU WITH VERY FUNNY VIDEO. SILLY CANADA HOOMAN FEMALE! ANY FUNNY CANADANIAN GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE KNOW HER?
Sorry to all our Arkansas baseball fans. That was a tough way to go down last night. Especially after the foul ball from the night before. Chin up though. You had a hell of a run. And speaking of college sports, methinks Devontae Hobbs needs to learn a lesson in how recruiting actually works. Enjoy MSU, but know this: people being nice to you and people telling you you’ll play as a freshman aren’t being fake or lying. They’re being courteous and offering you an opportunity (especially since they’ve started a freshman OL and had others play extensively in recent years). Oh, and if you don’t like being told those things, you should probably never go buy a car. You might have a fucking heart attack.
Colombia and Japan are through to the knockout stages. They’ll play England and Belgium respectively. No games today but the knockout stages start tomorrow. I’m feeling good about Belgium, Uruguay and France. Don’t ask me why, I just am. On the diamonds, your winners were: Arizona, Oakland, the MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIIIIINS, Seattle (who are doing a hell of a job mostly keeping pace with the red-hot Astros), the Cubs pounded the Dodgers, Colorado, Boston, Philly, Milwaukee and your defending world champ Houston Astros.
Listen, dummy. These are the links.
On this date we cwelebrate the birth of America’s first female governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, actor Slim Pickens, “Godfather” and “Chinatown” director Robert Evans, the late, great Harmon Killebrew, actor and nut job Gary Busey, jewish comic Richard Lewis, rocker Don Dokken, Canadian legend Theo Fleury, and that’s pretty much it. What a short list.
Its also the date on which Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London burned down, Apartheid began in South Africa, the first US bombs fell on Hanoi, Patrick Henry was made governor of Virginia as the state adopted her constitution, George Custer was made a general at the ripe old age of 23, the Federal Interstate Highway System Act was signed into law, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed after the Democrat Party filibustered it for 83 days, and the world’s first pregnant man (Thomas Beatie) gives birth to a daughter.
OK, on to…the links!
Some crazy asshole shot up a newspaper in Maryland, killing five. And yes, people were politicizing it about two minutes after it happened, blaming President Trump, Maxine Waters, Milo Yiannapolis, and a host of other people…until it came out that the dude was a whack-job with a vendetta against the newspaper, some of its writers, the publisher, a judge, several local officials and just about everybody who crossed him. And by the way, a Maryland Senator had this to say (emphasis mine):
“Clearly we need universal background checks and need to get rid of the military style assault weapons and private ownership,”
Hear that? He wants to end private ownership of shotguns, which is what the shooter used. Well, I hope he’s the one planning to go door-to-door and taker them away, because I can assure you the cops won’t do it (outside of a few progressive strongholds) and I can assure you his dumbass followers won’t do it after the first reports of resistance come in.
Democrats have been asking where their “everyman” president of the working class has been. Well, he finally came up for air…at a DNC fundraiser where guests paid $100,000 a piece to get a photo with him. See, people? Democrat leadership understands your pain and are just like you, with the exception of paying $100k for a photo and eating off of gold plates.
Who’d have ever expected this guy to get caught up in #metoo?
If you think you have a right to do what you want with your own property, then you definitely want to read this. Way to go, government. You bunch of fucking assholes.
You know how sometimes your dayweekmonthyear life just isn’t going the way you’d planned? You try multiple times to make things happen, and they do…just not with the results you may have wanted.
What to do?
Day drink!
So here are some (perhaps) tasty cocktails to get me you through. You’re welcome.
1 part melon liqueur
1 part vodka
Juice from 1/2 lemon
Bottle chocolate syrup
Dash grenadine (optional)
Garnish: chocolate dipped orange slice
Using the chocolate syrup, create a spider’s web inside a martini glass.
Place the glass into the freezer and chill. This part is important.
Place the rest of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake well.
Strain the cocktail into the glass that you’ve now taken out of the freezer.
If you’d like to add a little blood to your artwork, drizzle a bit of grenadine down the side of the glass.
Garnish with a chocolate dipped orange slice.
Garnishing Tips
OK, I admit it’s tough to get the web to look nice on the first twentieth try. But you can do it! The key is to chill the chocolate syrup.
It’s certainly not mandatory that it be perfectly formed, because, after all, animals don’t use machines. A little bit sloppy and it just looks organic!
Besides, the web quickly starts to melt into the drink, so people will only be able to hassle you for your food decoration skills for a brief time. Unless someone posts a photo of it anywhere online. Then it allows people to mock you pretty much forever (Hi, Sloopy!).
1 1/2 oz Russian vodka
1/2 oz creme de bananes
1/2 oz lemon juice
1 egg white
Place all ingredients into a cocktail shaker.
Shake vigorously for 30 seconds.
Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass.
#notvegan
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1 1/2 oz whisky
1/2 oz ginger wine
1 tsp cherry brandy
1/2 oz lemon juice
Garnish: maraschino cherry
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker.
Shake for about 30 seconds.
Strain and pour over ice placed in a rocks glass.
Garnish with maraschino cherry and serve.
2 oz anejo tequila
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
Dash of bitters
Garnish: maraschino cherry
Chill a martini glass.
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
But don’t shake.
Stir, instead, until well chilled.
Strain into glass.
Garnish.
Shit, I typed Wednesday Morning Links by accident. Maybe its because if I had a chance to, I’d live that day over and over and over and over again. Not only did I shoot a handsome 77 in the afternoon, I got some high-quality work done in the morning and found out only after I walked off the golf course that the pants-shitting had been going on for a few hours so I’d be able to reap the benefits of everyone else already picking out the tenderest of morsels from Twitter and the internet for me to digest. Let’s just say I wasn’t disappointed in the least.
That pretty much sums it up.
More on that later, let’s do our morning routine first. Which means…sports!
Apparently Germany traveled too far into Russia again, bouncing out of the World Cup after group play with a 2-0 stunning loss to the South Koreans. Sweden throttled Mexico but both teams will be going to the knockout stage. Elsewhere, the Swiss and Brazilians made it through, where they will face Sweden and Mexico respectively. On tap today are Senegal-Colombia and Japan-Poland in the early set and Panama-Tunisia and the match everyone has been waiting for in England-Belgium. Enjoy.
On this side of the world, there was much baseball played. The College World Series final was knotted up as Oregon State topped those Happy Hogs. Its winner-take-all tonight, so tune in. I just hope our resident Razorbacks can keep it together until then. Meanwhile, on the big-boy circuit, the big red machine dumped the Braves, the Royals be- hey the Royals actually won a game! The Mariners dumped Baltimore, the Phillies blanked the Yanks, the BoSox beat the Angels, the A’s over Tigers, the D-backs over Miami, the Pirates stopped the Mets, the Rangers over Padres, the White Sox drilled the Twins, Cleveland stopped St Louis, the Dodgers were better than the Cubs, The Giants blanked the Rockies and the Astros came back from giving up 5 runs to Toronto in the top if the 1st to win with a 2-run Bregman dinger in the bottom of the 9th.
Born on this date were Henry VIII, Methodist Church co-founder John Wesley, philosophizer Jean Jaques Rousseau, cheese-eating-surrender-monkey Pierre Laval, composer Richard Rodgers, blues guitarist David “Honeyboy” Edwards, the funniest man ever to write a script Mel Brooks, actor Pat Morita, prozac inventor Klaus Schmiegel, funny woman Gilda Radner, acclaimed actress Kathy Bates, quarterback John Elway, actor and assclown John Cusack and inventor/con man Elon Musk.
S’alright. g’head.
Its also the day Catherine II assumed power and became Catherine The Great, the final draft of the Declaration of Independence was submitted to the Continental Congress for approval, Queen Victoria was coronated, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua formed the Central American Union (great job with that, guys!), the US bought the rights to build the Panama Canal from France, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, setting off a horrible chain of events, the Night Of Long Knives occurred in Germany, Amos ‘n’ Andy premiered, LBJ (no, not Nixon in case we have some leftist dumbasses here) authorizes first ground combat troops in Viet Nam, “Band On The Run” was released by Wings, Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at a PGA event, and the amazing Jonah Lomu made his national debut. Rest in peace, big guy. Here is a video of all his international tries. And no, you will not see one against the Springboks as hard as you might squint. Because that’s one thing he was never able to do.
OK, now its time for…the links!
Scroungy fuck, EJ Dionne
The big news yesterday was the Kennedy retirement announcement. I caught some CNN coverage later, and Jeffrey Toobin looked like he was about to have kittens. But I’m not sure we will find as scorching hot a take as this one from a nam who probably couldn’t beat his way out of a wet paper bag. I’ve got just two words for you, EJ: bring it on you punk.
Wait a minute… so the whole any last requests thing is bullshit? Well, adios asshole.
“Civilian” helps end crime spree in San Francisco. Way to go, dude. Come over here for your award. Mind your step, there’s a pile of human feces right in front of you and a hobo shooting up some smack just after.
Es esperable que la salida de Kennedy, de 81 años, abra una fuerte partidario entre liberales y conservadores sobre el futuro del máximo tribunal.
Kennedy ha sido durante mucho tiempo y en muchas ocasiones el voto decisivo en casos estrechamente divididos. El récord de votos de Kennedy es de moderado a conservador
It is expected that the departure of Kennedy, 81, open a strong supporter between liberals and conservatives on the future of the highest court.
Kennedy has been for a long time and on many occasions the decisive vote in narrowly divided cases. Kennedy’s record of votes is moderate to conservative
Sorry, wrong Kennedy.
By now you probably heard about the executive order. This is pretty much what is all over the Spanish media, so I will start you out with this editorial:
En un psicodrama desplegado a escala gigante en la frontera de Estados Unidos con México, el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump está separando a los niños inmigrantes de sus padres y los mantiene bajo custodia. Los funcionarios lo explican como una política de “cero tolerancia” contra quienes llegan al país ilegalmente. Para mí, como biógrafo de Trump, se trata de una recreación del propio trauma infantil del mandatario y una prueba anecdótica de que una actitud abusiva hacia los niños puede pasar de una generación a otra. […]
En lugar de recibir el cuidado que merecen los extraños necesitados, las familias de inmigrantes están soportando el tipo de trato que reduce la capacidad de Estados Unidos por abogar a favor de los derechos humanos en todo el mundo. ¿Cómo un país que maltrata así a niños va a oponerse con credibilidad a los abusos de derechos humanos perpetrados por otros regímenes en el exterior? Evidentemente, debilita la credibilidad de EE.UU. en cualquier protesta contra las acciones autoritarias en Corea del Norte o Filipinas o Venezuela, por nombrar solo tres lugares donde Estados Unidos debe alzar la voz en defensa de los derechos humanos.
Dentro del país, la medida de Trump ignora tontamente el hecho de que la crueldad puede enfurecer y radicalizar a las víctimas y los espectadores e inspirarlos a defenderse (Los terroristas y criminales nacen de este tipo de trato). También genera un trauma moral a los ciudadanos estadounidenses que quieren creer que su nación representa algo mejor. ¿Cómo se supone que debemos mantener en nuestros corazones tanto la Estatua de la Libertad como las fotos de los niños encarcelados?
In a psychodrama deployed on a giant scale on the US-Mexico border, the government of President Donald Trump is separating immigrant children from their parents and keeping them in custody. The officials explain it as a policy of “zero tolerance” against those who arrive in the country illegally. For me, as Trump’s biographer, it is a recreation of the president’s own childhood trauma and anecdotal evidence that an abusive attitude towards children can pass from one generation to another. […]
Instead of receiving the care that needy strangers deserve, immigrant families are enduring the kind of treatment that reduces the ability of the United States to advocate for human rights around the world. How can a country that mistreats children like this go to oppose with credibility the human rights abuses perpetrated by other regimes abroad? Evidently, it weakens the credibility of the United States. in any protest against authoritarian actions in North Korea or the Philippines or Venezuela, to name just three places where the United States should raise its voice in defense of human rights.
Within the country, Trump’s move ignores foolishly the fact that cruelty can infuriate and radicalize victims and viewers and inspire them to defend themselves (Terrorists and criminals are born of this type of treatment). It also generates a moral trauma to American citizens who want to believe that their nation represents something better. How are we supposed to keep in our hearts both the Statue of Liberty and the photos of imprisoned children?
This pretty much goes on for a while….
17 States mount a legal challenge to Bush’sObama’sTrump’s The policy of separating children from the parents and taking their parents out back to shoot them.
El fiscal general de Washington, Bob Ferguson, dijo que liderará una coalición de estados en la demanda.
La medida, que según reportes se espera que sea presentada el jueves en el estado de Washington, alega que la administración de Trump violó los derechos del debido proceso de los padres y niños que fueron separados.
Ferguson calificó la política de “arbitraria y caprichosa” e “irracionalmente discriminatoria” porque se dirige a individuos cercanos a la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.
“Esta es una política deshonesta, cruel e inconstitucional”, dijo Ferguson en un comunicado. “Vamos a detenerlo”.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said he will lead a coalition of states in the lawsuit.
The measure, which according to reports is expected to be presented Thursday in Washington State, alleges that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of parents and children who were separated.
Ferguson called the policy “arbitrary and capricious” and “irrationally discriminatory” because it targets individuals close to the southern border of the United States.
“This is a dishonest, cruel and unconstitutional policy,” Ferguson said in a statement. “We are going to stop him.
Whatever, dude. Maybe you’ll have better luck than the last time a bunch of states filed a lawsuit over immigration policy.
Polls close for the Mexican election on 1 July. Fun fact: Mexico bans the sale of alcohol on election day.
A menos de una semana de las elecciones más grandes en la historia de México, donde alrededor de 89 millones de personas están convocados a elegir al nuevo presidente del país y a los representantes de 3,400 cargos públicos, las autoridades electorales detallaron cómo será el proceso de conteo de votos una vez que las urnas cierren el próximo domingo 1 de julio.
Less than a week away from the largest elections in the history of Mexico, where around 89 million people are called to elect the new president of the country and representatives of 3,400 public officials, the electoral authorities detailed how It will be the process of counting votes once the polls close next Sunday, July 1.
El caso de Meade es, de algún modo, el revés del candidato puntero, el izquierdista Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Morena-PT-PES), a quien sus críticos más duros lo desprecian por no hablar inglés y haberse tardado más de 10 años en acabar la universidad pública.
A pesar de esas ‘desventajas’, López Obrador hoy lidera las encuestas en casi 50% de intención de voto, llena plazas, sus discursos emocionan y la gente lo aclama.
A lo largo de los casi tres meses de campaña, Pepe Meade —como coloquialmente se le llama— se ha estancado en el tercer lugar de las preferencias electorales, con un 20% de intención de voto en promedio.
¿Sabes quién más hizo este gesto?
The case of Meade is, in some way, the setback of the leading candidate, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Morena-PT-PES), whom his harshest critics despise him for not speaking English and having taken more than 10 years in finish the public university.
Despite these ‘disadvantages’, López Obrador today leads the polls in almost 50% of voting intentions, he fills seats, his speeches move and people cheer him.
Throughout the almost three months of the campaign, Pepe Meade – as he is colloquially called – has stagnated in the third place of the electoral preferences, with a 20% intention to vote on average.
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Damn you, Argentina! You had to pull it out of your ass, didn’t you? I just hope Diego Maradonna is ok. He had to be treated after the match. Not sure if he pulled a muscle in his middle finger or sprained his nose, IYKWIMAITTYD. Croatia topped the group and now Argentina will have to take on France, who look pretty dangerous. Croatia will play Denmark, who also went through from Group C. Today we have there crazy groups E and F, where a lot of permutations for advancement exist.
Soccer’s a hell of a drug So is cocaine.
Back in America, there was a full slate of MLB games, with the following results: Tampa blanked Washington, Seattle beat Baltimore, The Yankees blanked the Phillies, the Red Sox drilled the Angels, Oakland beat Detroit, the D-backs topped Miami, The Mets beat the Pirates, the BIG RED MACHINE took care of Atlanta, Can Diego beat Texas, Milwaukee beat the hapless KC, the White Sox doubled up the Twins, St Louis scalped the Indians, the Cubs mauled the Dodgers, the Giants beat Colorado and your defending world champion Astros shut out Toronto.
And last but not least in sports, the College World Series final got underway in what can only be described as a circus of a game. the Hogs took the game 4-1, but if you didn’t watch the fourth through the sixth inning, you missed some wacky shit. Game 2 tonight, with Arkansas having a chance to become NCAA champs (and a couple of Glibs have the chance to go berserk on us). Good luck, everyone involved.
On this day in history, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires, mutiny on the “Potemkin”, German President Hindenburg refuses to pay war debt, Truman ordered the US Navy and Air Force into the Korean War, the CIA officials overthrew the Guatemalan government, Ross Perot founded Electronic Data Systems, the world’s first ATM machine went into service in England, a police raid led to the Stonewall riots in New York City, Roger Moore makes his debut as James Bond in “Live And Let Die”, Nixon visited Russia, the Supreme Court ruled that employers can discriminate based on race with quotas, the US government reinstated the draft (1980), Timothy Dalton also made his (side note: the worst ever) Bond debut in “The Living Daylights”, and Bill Gates stepped down as head of Microsoft.
Born on this date were: German weapon designer Paul Mauser, poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar (Dayton, whats up!), possible pinball enthusiast Helen Keller, Pan Am founder Juan Trippe, billiards master Willie Mosconi, the aforementioned Ross Perot, fashion icon Vera Wang, story-killer J.J. Abrams, “actor” Tobey Maguire and idiot Khloe Kardashian.
Now that was a shit list of names, in my opinion. Oh well, on to…the links!
Meh, looks like the took the best part.
I’m afraid I have to announce that John McCain’s brain cancer is apparently contagious. I can only hope Schmidt gets the meds he needs to control his disease/insanity and that the white coats are at least gentle with him. Christ, what an asshole.
“When we talk about the word socialism, I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity, and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day. To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It’s asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It’s one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. It’s to say that no individual’s civil rights are to be violated. And it’s also to say that we need to really examine the historical inequities that have created much of the inequalities—both in terms of economics and social and racial justice—because they are intertwined. This idea of, like, race or class is a false choice. Even if you wanted to separate those two things, you can’t separate the two, they are intrinsically and inextricably tied. There is no other force, there is no other party, there is no other real ideology out there right now that is asserting the minimum elements necessary to lead a dignified American life.”
I guess she hadn’t heard about Venezuela, North Korea, the former USSR and every other shithole where socialism was tried and resulted in abject poverty, absolute misery and what is essentially a prison state. Way to go, New Yorkers!
A federal judge has said that separated families must be reunited by the federal government within 30 days. I wonder if this is a hard order or if it can be ignored like the DoJ ignore records requests from congressional committees tasked with oversight. I also wonder what legal basis the judge had for the decision, since theres no absolute timeline for due process in these cases.
Chicago head of $2.54 billion foundation bitches about inequality being the biggest problem in the city. Yeah, I think you might want to spend a little more time on the job, sweetie. Because if there’s inequality, its not a racial or sex issue. Its the fact that the kings men, including cops and teachers and any pubsec union worker are treated like gods at the expense of the taxpayers.
In a psychodrama deployed on a giant scale on the US-Mexico border, the government of President Donald Trump is separating immigrant children from their parents and keeping them in custody. The officials explain it as a policy of “zero tolerance” against those who arrive in the country illegally. For me, as Trump’s biographer, it is a recreation of the president’s own childhood trauma and anecdotal evidence that an abusive attitude towards children can pass from one generation to another. […]
