Shit. I haz a disappoint. Asshole survived. Well, guess I'll go rewatch Willy's Wonderland by way of a palate cleanser- Nicholas Cage impassively killing off one monster after another . Plus, all the townspeople who fed strangers to the monsters get got one by one. And you get to watch Cage clean a men's room
First time I've ever seen an alien invasion movie in which I'm rooting for the monsters. That asshole who assaulted Jodie Whitaker would look much better as a pile of alien shit, you ask me. Those things can have every one of those creeps with my blessing.
What a great, great movie....I have it on blu-ray and dust it off every once in a while. If anyone hasn't watch this, give it a go...you won't be disappointed.
I was watching a segment of Joy Reid's show a few days ago mentioning the swift and violent shut down of a riot on NYC following a stunt by Kai Cenat, promising a limited number of free gaming systems. Then comparing it to the sputtering action following a violent coup attempt in DC on 1/6/2021. This reminded me of an even more unequal action by authority during a Mayday Vietnam protest in DC in 1971. Where over 12,000 protesters and some people just going to work or lunch were arrested, packed into fenced outdoor pens in the old RFK stadium without food, water, or sanitation facilities or in the Washington National Guard armory nearby. Nixon had called in not just the Guard but paratroop units and other regular military units, with over 12,000 military troops, Guard troops, and police on duty in riot gear that day. Even arresting 1,000 people in a peaceful protest on the Capitol steps the next day. All actions that Nixon had been planning for weeks aided by government surveillance and monitoring long before social media was a science fiction dream. Eventually almost everyone had charges dropped and many were awarded damages from the government for violating their rights.
Yet the people in charge of security in 2020 and 2021, including the FBI, either failed to see the problem staring them in the face, intentionally obstructed planning, or downplayed any possible danger. With people like Chris Wray still in top level security posts. Along with some holdovers in the DOJ telling Garland to sweep investigations of the insurrection leaders under the rug and allow most of the foot soldiers to plead to misdemeanors and get a week in jail for what amounts to a massive, violent invasion of the symbol and home of our democracy. I guess because we don't want Trump to be sad or angry.
If you are not familiar with the Mayday protests in DC in 1971, there are dozens of articles about it. And almost all of the victims were white! But I guess they were all commie college students and hippies. Like Antifa today.
I don't know what, or if, you have any personal experience with May Day, but as one who does (arrested on Tues. afternoon; released on Thurs. evening), I'd like to offer a few observations.
First, a quibble: at the time, and for decades afterwards, the official number of those detained and/or arrested (I have a close friend who was both) was about 14.500. I don't know where the later, revised 12K figure comes from, but can understand why the total was low-balled.
Second, the reason May Day was consigned to the national memory hole had less to do with the action itself, and more to do with how it created a new, decentralized, more militant (and harder to monitor/control/disrupt) template for civil disobedience on a massive scale. The passive resistance of the 1930's sit down strikes by labor, and the modern civil rights movement, was pro-actively radicalized*, yet fell far short of the SDS/Weatherman's more violent (even terroristic) 'revolutionary romanticism' (as Lenin might have phrased it). Later iterations of May Day would happen in the anti-globalization movement of the late 1990's; OWS in the later '00's; and the BLM movement in the mid-2010's.
That said, I have to question your apparent equation of Antifa with May Day, apart from the superficiality of both being predominately white youth led. May Day, anti-globalization, OWS and BLM were pro-active movements addressing systemic and institutional inequities. Antifa seems more of a reactive movement counter-protesting the more extreme manifestations of the emergent hard-and-far radicalized Right (Proud/Boogaloo Boys; 3%'ers, Oaf Creepers, the Klan, etc.)., without any longer term goals than immediate, situational confrontations with non-institutional entities. Which evokes the street brawls of Falangists and Republicans in pre-civil war Spain, or Nazis and Communists in Weimar Germany more than May Day.
Hey Jake, would you call sending an angry mob to stop an official government proceeding based on lies you told about election fraud in an attempt to overthrow the government a “major lapse in judgement”?
Cat the Ripper is a feline menace. While I was finishing my obsessive morning tidying, pillow fluffing, and magazine straightening that striped little monster decided to spring out from under the coffee table unprovoked and sink his needle-sharp front fangs into my right forearm.
The bleeding has been staunched, the bite cleansed, and antiseptic followed by a bandage applied. Ripper is lounging in the hall, languidly grooming and looking too entirely pleased with himself.
Despite my best efforts I'll never be able to get even with that damned cat.
He has certainly lived up to his namesake, hasn't he?
It's a pity that Evil the Cat isn't still marauding our hallways. He was another all too clever kitten cat who was every bit as diabolical as his name suggested; he was also just a beautiful lurking love bug and cuddle buddy.
I finally got caught up on my sleep this morning, and it's not raining and I don't have an appointment. Looking forward to doing something productive like cutting weeds, or something fun like going to see Barbie.
You know you’ve been married for a certain duration when you relate an anecdote and your partner rolls their eyes and says, yes, you like to tell that story.
We have a friend, a former neighbor who is now in his mid-80's. He's a charming guy, incredibly active for his age, but he seems to have a small library of stories he tells over and over. Some of them we've probably heard more than 100 times. The upside is that they're mostly pretty good stories.
Back in the day, I was a prototypical (older, Vietnam Era) boomer (a more Yippie-than-hippie radical activist), the kind everyone loved to hate and blame for everything...and still do. If I published a memoir of my activist life (1968-73), most people would dismiss it as fabulist bragging, and with good reason: I wouldn't believe it myself had I not actually experienced it.
Since then, I've calmed down a little, grew up a lot, but never got old. Mostly by continuing to add to my repertoire of stories by remaining active (anti-nuke and anti-war, political campaign stuff), writing letters to the editor that were regularly printed, speaking publicly on events, a ratings-boosting regular on a local call-in radio show, being a fixture at almost every protest event within reasonable driving distance, etc. And along the way, ran for Congress (having to sue the gov't on a point of Constitutional law to keep my federal job, in a case appealed to the USSC), and even took up public readings of original poetry, to the point of competing in the monthly poetry slam sponsored by a local coffee shop, often going up against some of the best in the business.
For most people, their 'glory days' are a laurel to rest on for the rest of their lives (which is what makes them so boring). What I've learned is, past accomplishments or experiences do not age well unless they're augmented with new accomplishments or experiences.
Everyone's got a past, present and hopefully future life to enjoy and share if they want.. Storytelling is an art form and not everyone has that skill.
Anti-intellectualism on parade. This has been going on just about forever in this country. The opening scenes of 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 are about book banning. A movie that came out 34 years ago.
Goddaughter's MAGAmerican grandfather has a rather beautiful set of custom bookshelves at his home that could easily hold about 2,000 volumes. Unfortunately, there are only about 75 books on them, and they all seem to be by FOX News hosts.
Shit. I haz a disappoint. Asshole survived. Well, guess I'll go rewatch Willy's Wonderland by way of a palate cleanser- Nicholas Cage impassively killing off one monster after another . Plus, all the townspeople who fed strangers to the monsters get got one by one. And you get to watch Cage clean a men's room
Hurry up,monsters, the fucking mugger is getting away!
So disappointed, the yob with the pistol walked out of the elevator. Hoping for a 100 percent cent causality rate among the gang.
Later; oh good, they got him after all. Still hoping that piece of shit Moses will get eviscerated and dies screaming.
First time I've ever seen an alien invasion movie in which I'm rooting for the monsters. That asshole who assaulted Jodie Whitaker would look much better as a pile of alien shit, you ask me. Those things can have every one of those creeps with my blessing.
What a great, great movie....I have it on blu-ray and dust it off every once in a while. If anyone hasn't watch this, give it a go...you won't be disappointed.
As ever, late to watch the movie. Fantastic!
I was watching a segment of Joy Reid's show a few days ago mentioning the swift and violent shut down of a riot on NYC following a stunt by Kai Cenat, promising a limited number of free gaming systems. Then comparing it to the sputtering action following a violent coup attempt in DC on 1/6/2021. This reminded me of an even more unequal action by authority during a Mayday Vietnam protest in DC in 1971. Where over 12,000 protesters and some people just going to work or lunch were arrested, packed into fenced outdoor pens in the old RFK stadium without food, water, or sanitation facilities or in the Washington National Guard armory nearby. Nixon had called in not just the Guard but paratroop units and other regular military units, with over 12,000 military troops, Guard troops, and police on duty in riot gear that day. Even arresting 1,000 people in a peaceful protest on the Capitol steps the next day. All actions that Nixon had been planning for weeks aided by government surveillance and monitoring long before social media was a science fiction dream. Eventually almost everyone had charges dropped and many were awarded damages from the government for violating their rights.
Yet the people in charge of security in 2020 and 2021, including the FBI, either failed to see the problem staring them in the face, intentionally obstructed planning, or downplayed any possible danger. With people like Chris Wray still in top level security posts. Along with some holdovers in the DOJ telling Garland to sweep investigations of the insurrection leaders under the rug and allow most of the foot soldiers to plead to misdemeanors and get a week in jail for what amounts to a massive, violent invasion of the symbol and home of our democracy. I guess because we don't want Trump to be sad or angry.
If you are not familiar with the Mayday protests in DC in 1971, there are dozens of articles about it. And almost all of the victims were white! But I guess they were all commie college students and hippies. Like Antifa today.
I don't know what, or if, you have any personal experience with May Day, but as one who does (arrested on Tues. afternoon; released on Thurs. evening), I'd like to offer a few observations.
First, a quibble: at the time, and for decades afterwards, the official number of those detained and/or arrested (I have a close friend who was both) was about 14.500. I don't know where the later, revised 12K figure comes from, but can understand why the total was low-balled.
Second, the reason May Day was consigned to the national memory hole had less to do with the action itself, and more to do with how it created a new, decentralized, more militant (and harder to monitor/control/disrupt) template for civil disobedience on a massive scale. The passive resistance of the 1930's sit down strikes by labor, and the modern civil rights movement, was pro-actively radicalized*, yet fell far short of the SDS/Weatherman's more violent (even terroristic) 'revolutionary romanticism' (as Lenin might have phrased it). Later iterations of May Day would happen in the anti-globalization movement of the late 1990's; OWS in the later '00's; and the BLM movement in the mid-2010's.
That said, I have to question your apparent equation of Antifa with May Day, apart from the superficiality of both being predominately white youth led. May Day, anti-globalization, OWS and BLM were pro-active movements addressing systemic and institutional inequities. Antifa seems more of a reactive movement counter-protesting the more extreme manifestations of the emergent hard-and-far radicalized Right (Proud/Boogaloo Boys; 3%'ers, Oaf Creepers, the Klan, etc.)., without any longer term goals than immediate, situational confrontations with non-institutional entities. Which evokes the street brawls of Falangists and Republicans in pre-civil war Spain, or Nazis and Communists in Weimar Germany more than May Day.
*https://jacobin.com/2021/05/may-day-1971-vietnam-war-nixon/
My bride and I are joining friends from Albany, OR to watch the Ms play the Os this afternoon.
𝙂𝙊 𝙈𝙨 !!!
OK!
When Aunt Lydia gets elected.
Mrs. Betty Bowers:
Students in Arkansas will no longer get credit for AP African American Studies or have the exam paid for.
Students in Arkansas can still get credit for AP European History and have the exam paid for.
A touch of pure racism from the state's Aunt Lydia, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Photos of Central High School integration: https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1690723260915138561
So Trump’s lies about his crimes are free speech and his attacks on prosecutors are free speech but Biden must stop defending his son, Jake?
“Jake Tapper Grills House Democrat on Whether Biden Showed a ‘Major Lapse of Judgment’: Does He ‘Need to Stop’ Saying Hunter ‘Did Nothing Wrong?’”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-grills-house-democrat-on-whether-biden-showed-a-major-lapse-of-judgment-does-he-need-to-stop-saying-hunter-did-nothing-wrong/
Hey Jake, would you call sending an angry mob to stop an official government proceeding based on lies you told about election fraud in an attempt to overthrow the government a “major lapse in judgement”?
How dare he not be objective about his son!
I love how Trump has the presumption of innocence but Hunter is guilty before there’s even a trial.
Cat the Ripper is a feline menace. While I was finishing my obsessive morning tidying, pillow fluffing, and magazine straightening that striped little monster decided to spring out from under the coffee table unprovoked and sink his needle-sharp front fangs into my right forearm.
The bleeding has been staunched, the bite cleansed, and antiseptic followed by a bandage applied. Ripper is lounging in the hall, languidly grooming and looking too entirely pleased with himself.
Despite my best efforts I'll never be able to get even with that damned cat.
You could have named him Tranquility, or Sugar Boo, or Snuggle-wubbins. But oh no, you went with Ripper.
He has certainly lived up to his namesake, hasn't he?
It's a pity that Evil the Cat isn't still marauding our hallways. He was another all too clever kitten cat who was every bit as diabolical as his name suggested; he was also just a beautiful lurking love bug and cuddle buddy.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F050d5efe-e235-48cc-8626-803b9cc27e92_601x297.jpeg
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1690712321444786176
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I finally got caught up on my sleep this morning, and it's not raining and I don't have an appointment. Looking forward to doing something productive like cutting weeds, or something fun like going to see Barbie.
Cutting weeds or Barbie? Cutting weeds or Barbie? Decisions, decisions!
John Dean speculates as many as 20 co-nothing wrongers in the Georgia indictment about to drop.
That's a lot of perfect phone calls.
"Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn
Burn, burn, yes, you're gonna burn (Yes, you're gonna)"
Lindsay has been mighty quite, hasn't he?
Wonder if AZ AG Chris Mayes is warming up on deck.
PAB and Lindsay made a couple of perfect calls to Doug Doucey too.
*pops corn*
And Ginni Thomas gets in the mix in Arizona too. Better have a backup bag of popcorn.
That would make my year if AZ got to serve Ginni up on some election stealin
charges....yeah I'm liking this story.
Funny I was just thinking the same...
TICKTOCK
Odd, yet refreshing.
That's okay. Rethuglicans will find a few more felonious "whistle blowers" to accuse Joe Biden of Trump's actual crimes.
I'm not worried. Fox can fix this.
You know you’ve been married for a certain duration when you relate an anecdote and your partner rolls their eyes and says, yes, you like to tell that story.
We have a friend, a former neighbor who is now in his mid-80's. He's a charming guy, incredibly active for his age, but he seems to have a small library of stories he tells over and over. Some of them we've probably heard more than 100 times. The upside is that they're mostly pretty good stories.
At least it's that, and not "For the love of God, get some new fucking stories!"
I'm too old to get new stories so I keep telling the one's I have. Fortunately I'm a good storyteller so I don't get too many complaints.
Back in the day, I was a prototypical (older, Vietnam Era) boomer (a more Yippie-than-hippie radical activist), the kind everyone loved to hate and blame for everything...and still do. If I published a memoir of my activist life (1968-73), most people would dismiss it as fabulist bragging, and with good reason: I wouldn't believe it myself had I not actually experienced it.
Since then, I've calmed down a little, grew up a lot, but never got old. Mostly by continuing to add to my repertoire of stories by remaining active (anti-nuke and anti-war, political campaign stuff), writing letters to the editor that were regularly printed, speaking publicly on events, a ratings-boosting regular on a local call-in radio show, being a fixture at almost every protest event within reasonable driving distance, etc. And along the way, ran for Congress (having to sue the gov't on a point of Constitutional law to keep my federal job, in a case appealed to the USSC), and even took up public readings of original poetry, to the point of competing in the monthly poetry slam sponsored by a local coffee shop, often going up against some of the best in the business.
For most people, their 'glory days' are a laurel to rest on for the rest of their lives (which is what makes them so boring). What I've learned is, past accomplishments or experiences do not age well unless they're augmented with new accomplishments or experiences.
Everyone's got a past, present and hopefully future life to enjoy and share if they want.. Storytelling is an art form and not everyone has that skill.
Or "JFC, would you knock it off with that bullshit already"
Book battles are raging nationwide. A WA library could be nation’s first to close | The Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/book-battles-are-raging-nationwide-a-wa-library-could-be-nations-first-to-close/
In case you can't get into the ST link
https://crosscut.com/news/2023/08/forget-banning-books-rural-wa-county-may-close-its-library
https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2023/aug/12/tom-gauld-on-the-vampire-and-the-angry-mob-cartoon#img-1
I try to make sure I don' t have to stop when driving through Dayton, or really any E Wa small town. They are all super creepy.
Anti-intellectualism on parade. This has been going on just about forever in this country. The opening scenes of 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 are about book banning. A movie that came out 34 years ago.
You could throw a rock and it would land in Idaho
East of the Cascades in OR and WA might as well be Idaho.
"Library opponents"
JFC.
The only books these people are likely to have around the house are "The Amplified Bible" and "Chicken Soup for the Nazi Soul."
"The Amplified Bible" that deliberately cuts out the "woke" Sermon on the Mount. And the rest of Matthew.
I wasn't aware of that thing until last fall. It seems to explain a LOT about the Christofascist wing of American culture.
The Turner Diaries
Mein Kampf
Atlas Shrugged
And the entire collection of works from Fox News hosts. They put out books monthly, judging by my mother's collection.
Goddaughter's MAGAmerican grandfather has a rather beautiful set of custom bookshelves at his home that could easily hold about 2,000 volumes. Unfortunately, there are only about 75 books on them, and they all seem to be by FOX News hosts.
Yet, the media, doing the republican bidding yet again, are fixated on Hunter Biden.
OW! MY BALLS!
boli me kurac !