Why is everyone a social justice warrior? Why didn't any of you choose a different class like social justice mage or social justice thief?
— 🌺B• R • I • A •N🌺 (@RexTestarossa) March 10, 2017
This is f%$#ing brilliant!
Tag: 40yrs
And in the Further Adventures of Florida Man………
This Picture Positively Screams “Florida Man”
A man in Florida, Devon Arthurs, shot his Neo-Nazi roommates because they mocked his recent conversion to Islam.
Before converting,he was also a Neo-Nazi, so I really don’t understand how how Mr. Arthurs did not anticipate the reaction of his wannabee Aryan roommates:
A man in Florida who shot two of his roommates dead gave an unusual defense, the authorities say: they were neo-Nazis who had disrespected his recent conversion to Islam.
The arrest of the gunman, who said he had also been a neo-Nazi before becoming Muslim, led to the discovery that a fourth roommate had been stockpiling materials that could be used to create a bomb, according to a federal criminal complaint. That roommate, a member of the Florida National Guard, kept a picture of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, on his dresser, the authorities said.
Both men are now in custody. The accused gunman, Devon Arthurs, 18, has been charged with two counts of murder, and his surviving roommate, Brandon Russell, 21, has been charged with two counts related to the explosive material and devices.
Only in Florida, or maybe Montana.
Only in America………
In the special election for Montana’s only Congressional seat, Republican Greg Gianforte has been formally charged with assault for body-slamming a Guardian reporter.
There is an audio tape, and a Fox News camera crew witnessed it:
The Republican candidate for Montana’s congressional seat has been charged with misdemeanor assault after he is alleged to have slammed a Guardian reporter to the floor on the eve of the state’s special election, breaking his glasses and shouting: “Get the hell out of here.”
Ben Jacobs, a Guardian political reporter, was asking Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire endorsed by Donald Trump, about the Republican healthcare plan when the candidate allegedly “body-slammed” the reporter.“He took me to the ground,” Jacobs said by phone from the back of an ambulance. “I think he whaled on me once or twice … He got on me and I think he hit me … This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me in reporting on politics.”
Fox News reporter Alicia Acuna, field producer Faith Mangan and photographer Keith Railey witnessed the incident at Gianforte’s campaign headquarters in Montana, according to an account published on the Fox News website. After Jacobs asked Gianforte his question, Acuna wrote: “Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him.
“Faith, Keith and I watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the man, as he moved on top the reporter and began yelling something to the effect of ‘I’m sick and tired of this!’ … To be clear, at no point did any of us who witnessed this assault see Jacobs show any form of physical aggression toward Gianforte, who left the area after giving statements to local sheriff’s deputies.”
Jacobs subsequently reported the incident to the police. The Gallatin county sheriff’s office said on Wednesday night it had completed its investigation and that Gianforte had been issued with a charge of misdemeanour assault.
It appears that Gianforte was upset with the Guardian‘s earlier report detailing his financial ties to sanctioned Russian businesses.
With heavy early voting, and with a significant portion of the Republican electorate objectively support assault in general, and assaults on journalists in particular, this nut-job is still likely to win the race, because ……… Montana.
Reality is Weird
Have you heard of the The U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit?
Here is their description of themselves:
The U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit (US-CCU) is an independent, non-profit (501c3) research institute. It provides assessments of the strategic and economic consequences of possible cyber-attacks and cyber-assisted physical attacks. It also investigates the likelihood of such attacks and examines the cost-effectiveness of possible counter-measures.
Although the US-CCU aims to provide credible estimates of the costs of ordinary hacker mischief and white collar crime, its primary concern is the sort of larger scale attacks that could be mounted by criminal organizations, terrorist groups, rogue corporations, and nation states.
The mission of the US-CCU is to provide America and its allies with the concepts and information necessary for making sound security decisions in a world where our physical well-being increasingly depends on cyber-security. The reports and briefings the US-CCU produces are supplied without charge to the government, to entire critical infrastructure industries, and to the public.
Do you know what the name of their director is?
It’s Scott Borg.
But of Course
Dakota Access Pipeline Has First Leak before Pipeline Is Fully Operational
No further comment required.
Headline of the Day
Stephen Fry Blasphemy Probe Dropped after Gardaí Fail to Find ‘Substantial Number of Outraged People’
There is something profoundly amusing about the phrase, “Substantial number of outraged people.”
Headline of the Day
‘Jesus’ Invaded Home, Prayed with Man, Stole Golf Cart, Asked to Fornicate with Police: This May Be Greatest Criminal Narrative of All Time
I have never partied that hard.
I probably never will.
Headline of the Day
iPhones and sex toys may cost more if there’s a US-China trade war
Trust the Beeb to get to the ……… heart ……… of the matter.
Newspaper Screw Up of the Day
It’s not technically a typographical error, since it is the wrong picture, and not an error in typography, but it’s a real doozy:
A newspaper in the Dominican Republic printed a photo of Hollywood star Alec Baldwin playing President Donald Trump in a story about the real-life US president.
The snafu appeared in the Friday editions of El Nacional, The Daily Dot reported.
The photo showing Baldwin as Trump was captioned in Spanish: ‘Donald Trump, president of the United States’.
El Nacional issued an apology on its website Saturday for the photo mistake.
It said in Spanish: ‘On Friday El Nacional published a photo of actor Alec Baldwin, who imitates the President of the United States on a television program.
‘The picture was sent that day by the Associated Press (AP) with the name of the actor and information about the program, but it was placed as if it were the one of Trump, a situation that went unnoticed for all those who reviewed page 19.
‘El Nacional apologizes to the readers and to all those who felt affected by the publication.
They should have known. The hands are WAY too big.
H/t AS the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
I Am Losing My Motherf%$#Ing Mind
I was talking with Sharon* about our schedule for the weekend, and I noted that we needed to get me, “……… Those things with aglets on the end.”
I had forgotten the word for shoe laces, but I had remembered the word for the little tips of the shoelaces.
Clearly, I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
*Love of my life, light of the cosmos, she who must be obeyed, my wife.
Eleven Hours in the Tin Pan. God, There’s Got to Be Another Way!
I Felt a Little Like a Dying Clown, with a Streak of Rin Tin Tin
Even when everyone is on the same page, even when everyone is pleasant to each other, even when they are productive, meetings suck.
What’s more, the agony increases exponentially as the length goes up.
- 15 minutes: Annoying
- 30 minutes: Uncomfortable
- 60 minutes: Agony
- 2 Hours: Where is your God Now!
- 3 Hours: I ache for the sweet succor of oblivion!
- 5½ Hours: Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
All in all though, it was productive day.
Your Awesome Fact of the Day
In a development that should surprise no one, this is a fact about the Gary Larson Cartoon The Far Side:
Stegosaurus is world-famous for its lime-sized brain and the quartet of nasty-looking spikes on its tail. A 1982 “Far Side” strip decided to have a little fun with the latter attribute. In that cartoon, we find an early human anachronistically lecturing his fellow cavemen about dinosaur-related hazards. Pointing at the rear end of a Stegosaurus diagram, he says “Now this end is called the thagomizer … after the late Thag Simmons.” Without meaning to, Larson’s strip plugged a gap in the scientific lexicon. Previously, nobody had ever given a name to the unique arrangement of tail spikes found on Stegosaurus and its relatives. But today, many paleontologists use the word “thagomizer” when describing this apparatus, even in scientific journals.
This is so full of awesome that there is a risk of injury.
Repeat after Me: There Are No Moderate Rebels in Syria
In the latest episode of stupid sh%$ that Obama has done, we discover so called moderate rebels, who had been vetted by the CIA, just kicked US special forces out of the Syrian town of Al Ra’i:
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The deployment of some 40 U.S. special forces to Al Ra’i did not go well. The Turkish “Free Syrian Army” proxies threatened to kill the U.S. forces. They called them “unbelievers” and “crusader pigs” and the U.S. forces had to retreat under Turkish cover (video). Some FSA spokesperson later claimed that the dispute was over U.S. support for the Kurdish dominated SDF, which at times had fought against the FSA. Unconfirmed reports now say that the special forces are back in Al Ra’i after certain FSA groups were ordered out of the area. There are also reports claiming the U.S., after the special forces were chased out of town, “accidentally” bombed some FSA group in Al Ra’i. Ooops.However, the hostile FSA forces will be around and U.S. Special Forces are obviously seen as their enemy. If the U.S. forces proceed together with the other FSA groups they will certainly have to watch their back at any and all times.
The Turkish supported sectarian “moderate” FSA groups are the very same groups the CIA has “vetted” and provided with TOW missiles and other weapons. But nobody should be astonished that such groups, driven by religious zeal, eventually turn on their sponsors. They have done so in each historic parallel one can think of.
The current ceasefire in Syria is already breaking down. U.S. media claim that Russia and Syria are blocking UN aid to the al-Qaeda ruled areas in east-Aleppo but other media say that the “rebels” are the ones threatening the convoys. In east-Aleppo al-Qaeda demonstrators held a rally (vid) against UN aid.
Obama’s liberal interventionism is every bit as much as a clusterf%$# as Dick Cheney’s 1% doctrine.