250 Yrs. Of Disposable Crap

50 yrs. later, everything is at least 50 times worse.

These are among the items that have shaped the nation.
Here are their stories.

On the United States' 250th birthday, "American Objects" chronicles items that have impacted the culture.
Keep tuning in for tales of new objects as the year unfolds.

One could do worse things on a late-August Sunday than look at some of these objects. Here are three: Comic books. The baseball. Whites-Only signs.

Your "President", As A Waterfowl

Is this an invasion threat?

Trump just posted this video featuring armed geese — all sporting what appears to be Trump-style hair.pic.twitter.com/JNjQuaesAw

— Orla Joelsen (@OJoelsen) August 29, 2026

Those are some hideous mutations. Not even mental illness explains this, unless Natalie Harp's mental problems are the explanation.Digby has the origin of The Worst Pres. ever's "Greatest Presidents" list. Just sad.

Big fat sissy "Pres." is afraid he'll be seen as "weak", like Jimmy Carter. Don't forget pathetic & repugnant, either.

This reporter, old & wretched as he is, fully believes he could knock Fat Don off his fucking lifts w/ just one punch or kick, & would love to have an opportunity to demonstrate it for the entire planet. Fat sissy couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag.

Ka$h Patel's New Improved F.B.I.

Speaks well of the F.B.I.'s attitude toward women & theft, dunnit?

Eric Tucker / Associated Press:

FBI no longer treating an applicant's experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring  —  The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates …

Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:   At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired

Nathan Brooks / Political.org:   FBI Quietly Drops Automatic Hiring Ban for Applicants With Prostitution History, Citing ‘Whole Person’ Review

"Whole person" my sweet ass!

Strengthening America

Eff The Farmers!

Stupid, ignernt, Common Clay of The New West morons got precisely what they voted for.

Martha McHardy / The Daily Beast:
Key Voter Group Rages at Trump for Sparking Historic Crisis  —  FIELDS OF ANGER  —  Farmers who overwhelmingly backed Trump are now warning they are in the worst financial crisis since the 1980s.  —  Donald Trump's farm-country stronghold is struggling due to an economic crisis that farmers say he is making worse.

Good. Hope they're all bankrupted & die homeless on the streets of a big city, especially since I don't need their fucking food anymore now that I have hormones!

And The Military!

In other national security areas, what do all the phony patriots & closet cases squealing like little girls about their testosterone & masculine manliness have to say about the reality away from their silly fairy stories?

New York Times:
Hegseth's Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless … A series of firings and feuds initiated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has left the Army essentially rudderless as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap, deadly drones and missiles that have pounded U.S. bases in the Middle East.

NBC News:
Iran inflicted billions in damage to U.S. intelligence sites, sources say  —  The attacks on buildings and surveillance equipment in the Middle East caused unprecedented damage for the CIA and other U.S. spy agencies.  —  WASHINGTON — Iranian missile and drone attacks have inflicted damage …

How much did Russia & China have to pay to get these billions in damage done for them? Or was all they had to do help Fat Don get elected?

Note well that two of these three items may be behind a paywall. So much for the First Amendment, & yet another excellent reason to start the killing now, wouldn't you say?

Nurisng Home Crisis Arrives

I mentioned Norm Ornstein, who described the coming Trump-caused health care crisis two items below. Wait no more!

‘There is nothing else’: Californians face eviction as insurer cancels assisted living benefit

Four weeks ago, Matt Johnstone received a call from the board-and-care facility in North Hollywood where his 89-year-old father lives. Health Net, the insurance company that pays for his care, was eliminating its assisted living benefit, meaning he would have to move out soon.

Johnstone panicked. His father has dementia and needs around-the-clock care. Neither Johnstone nor his brother can afford the roughly $6,000 per month the facility costs, and with health problems of their own, they can’t safely meet his needs at home either. Without insurance coverage, their father could end up on the streets, he said.

“He’s declining, and I just don’t know what’s going to happen if the program ends,” Johnstone said. CalMatters is not publishing the father’s name because Johnstone fears the plan will target him for speaking with media.

America-hating rich to the rest of America: "Suffer & then die in the streets, you old bastards!!" 

This country is going to need many more Luigi Mangiones. C'mon older people, defend yourselves against this subhuman scum while you can still pick up a gun & use it! Sic semper tyrannis!!!

Another Saturday In The Murder Capital Of The World

Well, that was certainly full of information. Thank you so much, AP.

Friday:

Teen boy among 6 dead including suspect in Michigan shootings; girl survived

Just 'phoning it in now. Easiest stories in the world. Angry asshole(s) w/ a gun or five has had it. Then, the body count. This fucking country is beyond absurd.

Danger UXB

Hey, where's all das wasser?

Was Waiting For This

It's happened before, here, in Florida, or both.

Someone could try the old exploding golf ball trick, but w/ nitroglycerin or the like. Mustard gas?

Authorities arrested a man with ammo and apparently monitoring security at Trump golf course near LA

Just wish someone who actually could carry it off would. Further poop, if not all of it, from the LASD release. One could even look at memeorandum if one really gave a crap.

Monday's Misery

Two words: Dry heaves.

Will be geting a mail order for the rent as the moron property managers can not or will not fix their online payment system, so I will be hand-delivering the money order directly to their office, in a package filled w/ TNT & hate! Death to the parasites that prey upon the people ME!! As they are parasites, I've also contemplated spraying a can of Instant Insect Death® down every last one of their throats & watching them spasm & die. Bastards. No jury could convict me.

"Goofy-Ass Uniforms"

It acknowledges the day Parisians stormed the Bastille fortress and prison in 1789, helping spark the French Revolution that overthrew the monarchy. Ukrainian fighter pilots and troops took pride of place the celebrations Tuesday showcasing support for Ukraine and symbolically flexing European military muscle.

Take that, puto Putin! As noted in the item directly below.

Déjà Le Quatorze Juillet?

I have never seen so many goofy-ass uniforms. Check the leaders & spouses too. Everyone nasty, I'm sure, save Zelenskyy, who's also the only one I recognize other than Macron.

Thursday Troll Or Threat: You Decide

You think I need a fucking gun (which I didn't & don't have) to kill those who make me suffer? Think again, idiots!! Any sharp or pointed object can poke out your eyes or slit your damn throat.

Much more visceral & satisfying. Like strangulation.

A wk. in psychiatric jail sure helped me, didn't it? How 'bout you call the police again, Ratty, & see if two wks. in hell improve my outlook in any fucking way. Or three or four wks. of being warehoused. Now ask me why I despise each & every one of you horrid pukes. Why have you done this to me?

Nobody Knows ...

... And Obviously No One Cares

Well, one of you does care enough about the slumlord to call the police because I was justifiably angry, but not to help me. You people are the best! No one has ever had such wonderful friends. Now you won't even squeal when I make threats every day. Chickenshit hypocrites. 

Humanity's Crowning Achievement

Poison gas & death camps. Proud of yourselves?

I bet a lot of you are. Scum.

"Where's The Outrage? Will No One Think Of The Children?"

Some people are "Thinking About The Children".

Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

Olivia Le Poidevin / Reuters:   Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

Stephen Prager / Truthout:   UN Commission Finds 30 Percent of People Killed in Gaza Genocide Were Children

Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective:   Republicans Issue Major Rebukes of Trump in House and Senate, Patel's Girlfriend to Perform at State Fair, Trump Lied About Vandals

RTÉ:   Israel's targeting of Gaza children resulting in genocide - UN inquiry

Joe Fisher / UPI:   U.N. says Israel is intentionally targeting Palestinian children

Al Jazeera:   Palestinian children targeted in genocide, war crimes in Gaza: UN inquiry

Middle East Monitor:   Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting Palestinian children, UN says

The fake fascist news isn't trying to claim "antisemitism". I suppose they haven't gotten the messaging message yet. They're between a rock & a hard place here; they hate the Jesus-killers, but have to keep 144,000 of them alive for the eschaton to happen, & they're scared shitless of the Mohammadans/Muhammedans, so they've invoked Judeo-Xian values & decided to finance Israel's genocide. The blood is on your hands too, Americans. Why aren't you sheep outraged about these children? Oh. Silly question to ask you two-faced shitheels."Them kill the Cat, them kill the Duckie"

Send The Marines!

"We started the war with a good approach"

Wait a minute. We started it? A rather damning admission. Makes us an "aggressor nation", which once was a bad thing, but no longer under the "Peace Pres." More specifically, were competent military planners involved in what little planning was done? Is this the same Iran whose military has been destroyed several times over attacking us defending themselves, Second Amendment-style?

Now, here’s the land combat portion. Why haven’t we put a brigade ashore to sweep, say, a 5-10 mile deep swath along the length of the strait? As best I can tell, that would eliminate every remaining speedboat and most of the relevant combat facilities (weapons warehoused, radars, command and control facilities, troop housing/hideouts, etc.

Oh, but what if Iranian troops confront us? Oh no! What will we do? Well, how about we thank them for revealing themselves and gathering together in one place so that we can more easily and efficiently kill them?

A sweep would remove most of the remaining ability of Iran to harass shipping in the strait.

Are we so afraid of casualties that we won’t risk soldiers? If so, then this war isn’t very important. If it is important, then ground troops are justified. This would be a training exercise for a WWII battalion.

We started the war with a good approach but it’s devolved into a decidedly half-assed affair the last couple of weeks.

Obviously lusting for blood, but hasn't the admiral here heard the one about land wars in Asia? Or listened to any of the inane & contradictory crap Big Dopey Don spews every day? Or the actual Sec'y. of "War", who needs mental help too? How does he expect anything rational from these clowns?

[Navy Matters]

They Seem Nice

Einsatzgruppen?

The Israeli combat soldier saw his teammates yelling in celebration, congratulating one another. They had just struck a vehicle of Palestinians driving near the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip, killing everyone inside. The reservist said scenes like this had become common after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October.

And the text.

Israeli soldiers share rare accounts from Gaza, describing ongoing killings despite the ceasefire

He and the other soldiers who spoke to AP said troops generally understood, based on leaders and fellow soldiers’ actions, that Israel was in Gaza for the long run, not an eventual withdrawal.

"Ceasefire" has lost whatever meaning it had, but at least some people still follow the Old Testament ways.

"Fighting Communism" W/ Imperialism

Have some context. Or is it propganda?

Gun News

I hope Cuba is doing this too.Others defending themselves:

According to LADWP, the employees were attempting to perform a scheduled water shutoff when the incident occurred. The workers, who were unharmed, moved to a safe location and contacted LADWP Security and the Los Angeles Police Department.

Dunno what a "scheduled" water shutoff is, but if the DWP employees were trying to cut off the water, what the hell's he or she supposed to do? And what did the heat do to the irate property owner/renter? Inquiring minds want to know, mynewsLA.com!

Local Naval Railroading History

I remember going past Seal Beach NWS on the Five & seeing many large spherical mines in the open, probably this Mark 6. Did the Navy have nukes there? Ask & the Navy says they "neither confirm or deny". Is that a "Yes"?