Remembering Milo

Making space on the hard drive & cloud storage, a stab from the past I can now delete.

And piss on the grave of Der Stürmer, which went away just this April, after being on the losing end of defamation suits to the tune of 18.1 million smackers, & "cancelled" by many hosting services after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Getting Worse Every Day

Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds

Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July

How it will first affect you before everything else turns to shit. Have the common sense & simple human decency not to buy from Amazon or the Walton family. They are predatory scum who will be hanged from a lamppost.

[The Guardian]

Not To Worry (Much)

Music starts around (3:15). I'm old & deef & couldn't really hear the introduction.

Sure, consider it a threat. Going to call the police?

Military-Industrial-Congresssional Complex Of Death

Proud of yourselves? Never has my contempt for your species been more justified.Boil in your own waste, self-destructive consuming sheep.

World's oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows

[Ten Bears/The Beeb]

Friday Exhaustion

"Sorry, babe, I just can't get it on anymore ..."

Thursday Triple Play

1967:And 1972. The Paragons aren't mentioned in the YouTube credits. Even the Wiki lies.Bonus Track:

Here It Comes Again!!

Catch It If You Can!!

COVID is ‘growing’ in nearly every state, CDC reports. Here’s where levels are highest

The West & The South, if you care. P.S.:

The CDC also tracks levels of two other respiratory viruses, influenza and RSV. Both are showing up less frequently in wastewater than COVID-19 is.

Can't wait for Brainworm Bobby to ban the newest vaccine & make masking illegal. And can't wait for another million or so American sheep to die. Maybe they can really jack up the numbers this go-round.

Let The Punishment Fit The Crime!

All people of good faith & honesty will agree that false ruler Donald Trump is a huge fucking pig; let's convict it, sentence it, & carry out the sentence by killing it, dressing it & butchering it like the hog it is!

Presidential portrait of Donald John Trump, Senior, after the sentence has been carried out.
Source: Mossycup Farms.

Trump Bacon! Trump Ham! Trump Pork Loin! Trump Hog Jowls & Ham Hocks!! Trump Chitlins! Trump Tripe!
Would not surprise me in the least if his mentally ill supporters literally ate of his flesh.

Oh, Great

This reporter's Representative. I voted for the farthest left candidate, Angela Gonzales-Torres, in the primary; Gomez is not radical enough for me. We'll see what happens in '28.

Kate Santaliz / Axios:

House Ethics investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations  —  The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Congressman Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) over allegations of sexual misconduct. … - The committee provided no further details about the allegations.

Josh Christenson / New York Post:   House Ethics panel probing Dem Rep. Jimmy Gomez after he admitted to cheating on his wife following Post report on staffer makeout

Lauren Green / Washington Examiner:   House Ethics Committee confirms investigation into Democrat Jimmy Gomez

Fox News:   House Democrat investigated over alleged ‘inappropriate sexual contact’ with staffer

Sudiksha Kochi / The Hill:   House Ethics investigating California Democrat Jimmy Gomez over allegations of sexual misconduct

Caitlin Yilek / CBS News:   House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez for alleged sexual misconduct

Nicole Silverio / The Daily Caller:   House Ethics Committee Opens Investigation Into Democrat Rep Jimmy Gomez For Sexual Misconduct

Jeff Charles / Townhall:   Lawmakers Set to Introduce Legislation to Target Sexual Misconduct in Congress

Jim Hᴏft / The Gateway Pundit:   House Ethics Committee Investigating Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez Over Sexual Misconduct Including “Inappropriate Sexual Contact” With a House Staffer

Much ado about necking, per the usual imitation information sources above. Drier facts here.

Hurtful & just stupid, Jimmy, what the hell?

Your World & Welcome To It

John Harwood / Zeteo:
How ‘Psychopath’ Trump's Mayhem Will Backfire in 2028 for Republicans  —  Steepening gas prices, Medicaid cuts, war with Iran... Norm Ornstein joins John Harwood to dissect how Trump's chaotic reign will far outlast him once he goes.  —  John Harwood, Norman Ornstein, and Team Zeteo

James Shotter / Financial Times:
Far-right Israeli minister advocates killing ‘30 to 40’ Gazans each night  —  Itamar Ben-Gvir also calls for re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave  —  Israel should be killing “30 to 40” people each night in Gaza and should build Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave …
Al Jazeera:   Israeli minister calls for killing '30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly

Julia Frankel / Los Angeles Times:   Israel's Ben-Gvir publicly advocates killing ‘30 to 40’ people in Gaza nightly

Financial Times:

Most US voters say they are worse off under Trump — FT poll  —  Democrats lead Republicans on economy just months ahead of midterm elections  —  Most US voters say they have become worse off under Donald Trump, according to an FT poll revealing mounting discontent with the president's handling of the economy and cost of living.

John Bowden / The Independent:   Most voters say they are worse off under Trump, new poll says

Charlie Sykes / To the Contrary:   Another Deplorable Week in Review

Middle East Monitor:   Most US voters say they are worse off under Trump: Poll

After the electoral blodbath the Demonic Socialist Transgenderers will finally be able to cut off everyone's pecker!!

Beat The Reaper!!

I know there's not a humanoid or animal on this planet who gives a flying fuck at a rolling dough-nut about me, but just for the record ...

Considering my usual temp is 98.2 or so, I'm quite suspicious. Don't remember my forehead being read.

Lost 17 lbs. (7.25748 kg.) in the last three months. BMI is under the 25-27 that's good for wretches my age. No longer hypertensive or obese & may be able to stop a heart medication. Indeed, I've made BP measurements (when sitting calmly in the bunker, not in your horrid outside world of non-stop bullshit coming at me from every direction) like 81/53 that indicate low blood pressure.

No sarcasm for once; the croaker deserves a sincere thank you for prescribing me back to a semblance of physical health in less than six yrs. Dunno if he was desperate for patients; he was one of the attending physicians when I was hospitalized in Nov. 2020 (for "colitis", not the plague, but the plague was all over the hospital) & asked if I needed a doctor. Never refuse a volunteer. (Thanks to Medicare as well. We'll see if I outlive it.)

At last, my heart is truly black & my lips are cold.Still hate all the scum & slumlords, calmer or not. They won't get off that easily.

Friday 'Phone-In

"Hello? Hello? Anybody there?"

The Hell's Going On Down South?

Another Huge Quake Kills Hundreds

C'mon planet, wake up some volcanoes while you're at it.

Summer Re-Run

Now dead, disappeared or actively aiding & abetting Fat Don in looting & destroying our nation. Wonderful people.

QOTD: Lest You Ignoramuses Forget

A reminder of one of the eternal states of the nation, from Politicalprof:

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Isaac Asimov

The entire essay.

Friday Freak Out

Released sixty yrs. ago June.Remember the "Great Society"? Far from great, but almost infinitely greater than today's "greatness", certainly when viewed through the dim mists of sixty-yr. old memories.

Probably Not

Sudden thought while looking at the rolling stock on the flex-track: I could make a yard here.

The space might not work, however, & I'd only have to "invest" a couple of hundred dollars (minimum) in turn-outs,
so nagonna happen.

Excitement At The Bunker

Maybe 90 mins. ago ago I heard various noises from just outside the galley window, & then heard people clumping down the stairs. This was followed in a few more mins. by several police officers outside the window, one of whom advised me my upstairs neighbors had just been burglarized. The ossifers were trying to figure out something about where & how to move the ladder. Should've looked to see what the hell the noise was.

Hoping it was someone the neighbors know who wanted something specific. Can't imagine wandering around w/ a ladder, picking a random window & then leaving it there. Stats indicate over 50% of burglaries are committed by people known to the victim. I wonder if any of the cameras in the lobby actually work, & if the bastard slumlord will put bars on my window.

Friday The 31st: End Of A Horrible Month

Brick. From the Int'l. Review of Music.

Local luminary, author of Brick's Picks for the L.A. Weekly & other writing, drummer & one-time friend Phillip "Brick" Wahl up & died, unexpectedly to me at least, leaving his wife of many yrs. Phyllis, his brother Lex & many friends. For many yrs. Brick & Phyll hosted a bash the Saturday night before Xmas, an obligatory gathering. I've no words, but here are a few. Search results.

And Jennifer Finch, bassist of L7 & photog, at 59, of "aggressive" brain cancer. She stopped by bar-be-ques at my party house w/ band-mate Suzi Gardner a couple of times, & rehearsed a rasslin' women event conceived & directed by Tequila Mockingbird on cardboard spread over the living room floor. People on F-book who knew her were quite broken up. Rolling Stone.

In a 2017 Rolling Stone profile of the band, she was described as “an ill-behaved and untrained bassist who added instant verve to their live act.”

Rest of the month: Studio tenor giant Plas Johnson, who made 92, & a few others who created good stuff & lived into their late seventies & eighties.

Arlene Smith, Musical Barrier Breaker, Dead At 84

Arlene Smith, one of the first “girl group” stars who as a teenager and a founder of the Chantels co-wrote and sang lead on the 1950s doo-wop classic “Maybe,” has died at 84.

Quite a life, & some history there too.