He was on a season of Project Runway and I vaguely remember his designs being “sarong based.” I’m a little confused about his origin because a news article said he had just voted for the first time, which I took to mean he was naturalized, although I had assumed he was from American Samoa. I suppose I could look it up but I’m not that motivated. It’s tragic for his family. He seemed like a nice person. I just don’t think this particular cause is worth dying for. There’s too much outside money being used to stir people up when the people spending the money are just using them for their own ulterior motives.
Good news: May 2025 had exactly zero releases from Border Patrol custody. May 2024 had 64,000 releases of ineligible border crossers. The border is sealing itself!
The fast food story is hilarious! Terrible about the “protesters” shorting each other. I told my silly liberal friends not to go to these events because they are not safe.
Barely ! They are so condescending and act like I’m a puppet of conservatives or Israel - pick any antisemitic image you want. Most of my progressive former friends don’t talk to me now. Which is fine. Then some agree to not discuss politics. Also fine.
I’ve got a July 4th party coming up with my chief liberal nemesis, he shared in a text chain that he attended the No Kings protest locally. I’m still strategizing on my retorts. I have some time.
I would start with the fact that a king would never allow protests, then move on the the covid dictatorship. Possibly followed by, "who was running the country" for the past 4 years? Good luck!
I had more than a few cringeworthy moments after seeing pictures on the socials of friends and family who attended various No Kings protests around the country. They were in small groups smiling broadly and holding their homemade signs, looking like they were welcoming home a popular member of the community who was just released from the hospital after a successful brain surgery.
Confusing optics IMO for protests that were supposed to be fueled by anger and desperate fear of “losing our democracy!” (whatever the hell that means...still haven’t heard a rational explanation)and in stark contrast to the scenes of hateful mobs protesting in big blue coastal cities full of arsonists, agitators, rock throwers, vandals and other miscreants with whom I guess they feel a connection to.
Posting the pictures was certainly to boost their social cred with the 20% of Americans who agree with them. it just looked so silly.
Leftists AND crazies? Leftists ARE crazy. They worship a socio-economic system that has failed whenever and wherever tried and which has produced only mayhem, malaise and murder. They mutilate children to change their gender and call it "compassionate care." They pretend to be Americans yet open our borders to savages who burn our flag while parading with the flags of others, all in the service of our enemies. They pretend to stand for women's rights, while bowing to the tenets of the Satanic Verses. They would all be sent to lunatic asylums in a country that even maintained a semblance of sanity.
Or in a country that ACTUALLY HAD lunatic asylums. We all know and love the unscientific science of lockdowns for disease control but mass eviction of persons, some hazardous but all marginally capable at best of self-help, is arguably a much bigger deal -- and is ongoing.
With the rigged voting system in NYC (ranked choice), it wouldn't surprise me that Mandami wins. Any city that elected the absolute buffoon DiBlasio can't be rational...just like the entire state of CA.
He a socialist's wet dream. I can't even believe he's in the running. Do the people that support him realize they'll be the ones whose property tax increase will be paying for the free stuff?
Hey, you guys in Macon, nothing yet with bacon? I love the burger war; it harkens back to “where’s the beef.” It’ll be fun to see how this “escalates.”
Speaking of escalating. I opened the NYPost to see Iran bombed a hospital to retaliate for Israel’s strike on nuke sites. Kind of sums up what each side deems worth defending.
Re the hospital in Israel, my comment earlier this AM in The Free Press:
As of this morning's news, Iran bombed a 1,000-bed hospital in southern Israel.
Contrast that to Israel's precision bombing only of military facilities in Iran.
The Iranian mullahs are barbarians. If only Americans were interested in Iranian voices like journalist Masih Alinejad, who, having escaped several assassination attempts, one not too far from me in Flatbush, could put the matter in blunt terms.
Happy Juneteenth, people. Will anyone listen to the likes of Coleman Hughes, Condolezza Rice, or any of the other intellectuals who buck “the narrative” know-nothing teachers shove down our kids throats? Lincoln a Republican? Slavery an American invention? Please tell me this isn’t so.
Yesterday I published a story that our superintendent will pull down $291k in a town where the average person earns under a hundred thousand. This is a guy who called me a racist when I sat on the BOE for pushing against the teaching of anti-racist ideology, who pushed through late last year a district DEI policy (even as everyone under the sun was abandoning theirs), who dared to ask kindergarteners if they were boy, girl, non-binary, or gender fluid. When asked why he should get this pay raise, he said in too many words, I deserve it.
I live in Connecticut, a state too worthless that it doesn’t deserve a mention in today’s news round up. The fact is, Obama had his passive aggressive hissy fit on the stage of the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford before a throng of swooning Boomer teeny-boppers masking as a conclave of intellectuals. Here’s an example of our intrepid media’s truth-to-power coverage. I do love how the author references the “crisp” slacks, though. Unconscious racism, anyone?
Of course no mention of Obama’s caustic divisiveness, his contempt for the Republic, his pallets of cash to the Satan who targets hospitals, as his enemy targets nuke sites. He describes the complacency of the liberal left with its houses in Aspen. Hey, how about the island cottages on MV and Maui, Barack?
Dog whistles were sounding at every decibel level. Of course, he came to the kennel known as Connecticut to sound them.
A few years back when the holiday was federalized, an participant on a call got snarky asking if Texans were upset about the day being a holiday. Told them it had been a state holiday in Texas for over 40 years, and it was about time them racist states up north got their hearts right.
And the silence is deafening. The “unbiased“ media have not issued a single condemnation of Iran’s bombing of a hospital with no bunker underneath (or their targeting of Israeli civilians); yet Bill Clinton just issued a statement, saying that the targeting of civilians has to stop — implying that Gazans are the “victims”, and that Netanyahu’s sole motivation is to “stay in power forever”. Wow.
This dude John Reid on Substack replied that the Israelis indiscriminately bombed hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings all over Gaza.
It was tiresome to have to point out to him that Hamas terrorists hid their bombs and assassins beneath, etc., etc. with entrances in school lunchrooms and hospital ORs and so on.
You can talk logically 'til the cows come home, to no avail.
Bill Clinton, who attempted a peace deal of his own 25 years ago saw the situation for what it is: “Depends on whether you care what happens to the Palestinians as opposed to the Hamas government..." “And Hamas is really smart. When they decide to rocket Israel, they insinuate themselves in the hospitals, in the schools, in the highly populous areas, and they are smart.” “They said they try to put the Israelis in a position of either not defending themselves or killing innocents. They’re good at it. They’re smart. They’ve been doing this a long time.” “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza." https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bill-clinton-palestinians-israel-223176
and then there's "Juneteenth" - perhaps the dumbest American holiday, emblematic of nothing, enacted to pander to the noisiest tenth of our population with not one, but two federal holidays. Sorry, not sorry. There, I said it.
I live in the Midwest. There are celebrations in the neighborhoods, lots of families have family reunions, etc. It looks like fun, until someone brings a gun and spoils the party. But most businesses, esp. small businesses, are open as usual.
Small businesses and large companies can't and don't respectively play the game except on an individual level. There are only 6 Real Holidays (Christmas, New years', Memorial, Independence, and Labor Days plus Thanksgiving and the day after; my company being particularly woke, added MLK courtesy of the late Mr Floyd. So now we have two instead of three "floaters" to cover individual and.or local affinity.
". . . enacted to pander to the noisiest tenth of our population with not one, but two federal holidays."
Haha! You can say that again. I'm a fan of Washington's and Lincoln's separate birthday holidays and little else -- although a cousin who has to adhere to alternate-side parking rules is grateful for any Jewish, Catholic, Muslim, or Hindu -- or black -- holiday she can get, no matter how insignificant or stupid.
Haha! Alternate-side parking rules. I remember that from our early years of life in NYC. Also remember how much more livable the city was back then. Giuliani was mayor, then Bloomberg. No Kings? I remember some New Yorkers would have accepted Bloomberg as king. King of NYC, anyway.
This morning I received an email from an older relative who retired from university teaching in 2015, just as the racial hysteria was reaching its fever pitch. In response to my assertion that 'systemic racism' is mythical, he lobbed a link to "prove" it's not, re: legal matters.
The law is "racist."
Never mind that in order to get entangled with the law, one usually commits a crime.
Let us travel back to the documentary, The Thirteenth, in which it is argued that black men minding their own business are rounded up and thrown in prison for NO REASON other than that they are black.
It takes a special kind of stupid to believe that. And, believing that, if one is black, is how one never gets anywhere, thus perpetuating the 'racism' myth.
As for my relative, he's hopeless. I tried conveying to him how the 'oppressor oppressed' narrative deployed in universities would harm Jews (like himself.)
How true, Bruce. It's laughable how democrats don't speak of their history of murder, anarchy, and abject racism in the south for centuries. They created a civil war and are trying to create another one.
"Juneteenth" was obviously political pandering for virute points and the name is just dumb sounding. The name should be changed to something that sounds like our other holidays like "Emancipation Day".
The term “Emancipation Day”was focus grouped at Berkeley. Researchers discovered the term to be a trigger for white undergrads, especially women which led to instances of profuse sobbing, apologizing and groveling in front of amused random black students confused at what they were witnessing. The less triggering term Juneteenth was chosen instead.
Berkeley’s president hailed the decision as another step forward in honoring African American toughness and resilience. The affected student volunteers refused to comment fearing mockery and hate posting on social media.
Well now that one thinks about it, another federal holiday harms all of us because there's an economic cost, not to mention the societal cost of pandering to one group above others.
It looks like Salt Lake City will find itself in quite a conundrum in relation to the protest shooting. On one hand, Mormons are typically conservative and rule following folks. On the other hand, most large cities lean left in their politics Very curious to see how the shooting turns out as far as who is charged and who is excused.
The most Mormon part of the state now is Utah Valley (the next valley south of Salt Lake). The effort by outsiders to de-Mormon-ize SLC has been going on since the 1800s.
During the early '70s I worked at the Navy Reactors prototype site outside of Idaho Falls, ID, a city with a remarkably large LDS temple. It Was Said that there was a plan to shift The Temple to Idaho Falls because of the, uh, dilution of SLC -- until a large contingent of Very Secular sailors contaminated it.
When we came across the country on our way to southwestern Idaho in the late 70s we stopped in Idaho falls after touring Yellowstone that Sunday. The town was closed up tighter than a drum and we were darn lucky the restaurant wasn’t closed …… at 5:30!
Took the kids there for tennis tournaments. Idaho falls is a very strange town. Always was.
The general rule, which I believe obtains everywhere in the U.S. and isn’t unique to Utah, is that deadly force is justified (the term of art is “justifiable homicide”) when someone uses a deadly weapon, in this case a gun, in defense of oneself or another person. The threat defended against must be imminent, and proportionate to the force employed. The perception must be that of a reasonable person in the same circumstances. A reasonable person wouldn’t be justified in shooting a man some distance away who is merely yelling a threat and has no visible weapon. The danger would have to be more “imminent.”
Who employed deadly force here? The shooter, that’s who. That’s who might be charged specifically with homicide, not Gamboa, who didn’t fire his gun.
Applying this reasoning to the known facts, the shooter presumably thought he was defending the crowd against Gamboa, who was running toward the crowd with gun raised threateningly. The victim was an innocent bystander. The most likely potential charge against the shooter would be manslaughter. The shooter’s defense would be that he had to fire his gun in order to stop Gamboa from shooting his own gun into the crowd.
The prosecutor has to weigh the facts before deciding what, and whom, to charge. Gamboa might theoretically be charged with reckless endangerment for running toward the crowd with gun raised, but not with any degree of homicide. The shooter might be charged with manslaughter, because the victim died accidentally from his shot without being the intended victim. Therefore, was his firing at Gamboa justifiable in the circumstances, i.e., reasonably believed to prevent the imminent use of deadly force against others by Gamboa? Here again, a lesser charge might be reckless endangerment against the shooter. As usual, the factual details will determine what will be charged.
To me, the situation is complicated, but not impossibly so. You go methodically through the elements of each potential charge and see if the known, provable facts apply.
That and FAFO (using it just to avoid having to look it up again when next I see it) describe far too much of what's going on. Or maybe I've just aged enough to be the curmudgeonesque that I've claimed for so long.
I think they want to charge Gamboa with murder under the same principle that everyone involved in committing a robbery can be charged with murder if someone (even one of the robbers) dies in the process. But at this point, they haven't established that Gamboa committed ANY crime at all that 'caused' the death.
In today's video-heavy environment, I have to wonder if a jury would convict without clear video evidence that Gamboa was, in fact, behaving as alleged. If video were to show that he was simply fleeing the "peacekeepers" who were attempting to disarm him (when he was, in fact, carrying legally)--and maintaining good trigger discipline while doing so--the blame would fall much, much more heavily on the shooter. It will be interesting to see what video evidence DOES show.
The principle you mentioned is felony murder, meaning that if someone dies as a result of someone else’s commission of a violent felony, the felon can also be charged with murder. In this case, however, Gamboa would have to be in the process of committing a violent felony. I don’t see it, though I don’t know Utah law. Where I live in Washington, the crime of reckless endangerment is a gross misdemeanor, not a felony.
It would be a stretch to charge Gamboa with assault, merely for running toward a crowd with a rifle.
But the authorities seem to be tired of Gamboa’s antics, so who knows?
I just saw on TwiX that they are continuing to hold him, despite not yet charging him.
I suspect that the authorities feel they are between a rock and a hard place. Someone died, so someone has to be punished. But punishing the actual shooter is going to be very unpopular with Leftists, because he was, in essence, a representative of the event's organizers and potentially the event as a whole (it's worth noting that the initial media reports falsely blamed THE POLICE for firing the shot that killed the other protester). And since most Leftists hate guns (at least in the hands of ordinary citizens) with a passion, a Leftist who open-carries is something of a heretic...and therefore a legitimate target for their ire.
In other words, Gamboa is the one the Left wants to be guilty in this case. And the Left is not known for allowing facts to get in the way of what they want. So the authorities are under pressure to find a way charge him.
Whatever the criminal charges turn out to be, one thing is certain: the relatives of the deceased will file a lawsuit against SLC and get a lot of money. Paging Ben Crump…
The big news is the Supreme Court decided to uphold the HARRY BENJAMIN SOCIETY PROTOCOLS that have been in place for decades!!!
But the media doesn't want you to know that there were always medical protocols AGAINST transitioning kids. Now the protocols can be legally enforced--you know, for those dozen rogue doctors who have been brain-washed into thinking transing kids saves lives. 🙄. Please rest assured, most doctors will remain sane and still won't come near these cases with YOUR surgical kit and malpractice insurance package. The other good news is that doctors will not be forced or bribed into performing these surgeries by the party of Demonic Possession. (Yay, my hubby is marked safe!!)
When I was in pharmacy school, one of my clinical rotations was at the local inpatient psychiatric facility. I spent time with both short term and long term patients doing medication education classes. I also got to spend time with the staff doing intake interviews, and then later in the day, I would hang out with residents in the common room playing ping pong, board games, etc.
I clearly remember one man who was absolutely wild in his intake interview, but a few days later apologized to me for his behavior in the common room.
I’ve also been in a situation of having lunch with a friend that I’d known for a couple of years who was started on a stimulant, and had he attacked me claiming I was a werewolf and then “robbed” me, it wouldn’t have surprised me at all.
Mania is a strange phenomenon to experience first hand.
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Rodney Scott, of Oklahoma, to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security )
This guy was fired by the treasonous Myorkas for criticizing the open borders and now is confirmed to be the head of CPB.
Every democrat voted against him. Is this just a reflexive thing of the party of no? I mean otherwise why vote no. You can’t hate democrats enough.
Worse he was nominated in January and it took five freaking months to slooowwwwwwly wend its way through the senate miasma. You can’t hate politicians enough.
Remember the video at a protest in Asheville, NC, recently where a man and woman engaged with a black woman who couldn't get to work due to the protest traffic congestion? Here's some info on who that man is--it's enlightening.
I grew up in Utah (Provo, in Utah Valley), but when my husband and I left the area in 1989, the Californication was already beginning. Our former landlord was soon able to double the rent on our tiny apartment (which we nicknamed 'our hovel'). Went back periodically for visits, although the last time was in 2016 or so. We've never had any desire to move back there. It's gotten worse every time.
We spent the whole summer there clearing out my parents' house after my mom died in 2002, and it was shocking to watch the news. Murders in SLC several times a week, when any murders at all were a very rare thing when I was a kid. Insane traffic and horrible drivers.
The row between Roger Daltry and Ringo Starr is heating up after Daltry sacked RIngo's son as the drummer for his band. Who came in late? Each blames the other. https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/ringo-starr-defends-fired-son-08bmztlpm or https://archive.ph/nfA7O
Meanwhile Tommy calls out the entirety of Labour for complicity in the rape gang atrocity. Truth hurts.
Seems bizarre a 59 year old man needs his dad to weigh in.
Roger is still channeling Kieth Moon, who can never be replaced.
My husband and eldest went to the concert in Newcastle. They were both impressed. I think the drummer was there.
I know when I saw the Who a little over 10 years ago, they did several tributes to Moon who indeed cannot be replaced.
I saw the Who in the US in the 1980’s.
Amazing, but no Kieth Moon.
One of a kind.
On the album cover of "Who Are You" Keith Moon is sitting in a chair backwards.
The signage on the chair says "Not to Be Taken Away"
Moon died soon afterwards.....little album cover trivia for today.
I am wondering if the shooting victim is here legally (Samoan designer)....?
American Samoa, most likely, so yes, a citizen.
I just wonder what fashion a Samoan fashion designer designs. Sarongs in size 50?
He was on a season of Project Runway and I vaguely remember his designs being “sarong based.” I’m a little confused about his origin because a news article said he had just voted for the first time, which I took to mean he was naturalized, although I had assumed he was from American Samoa. I suppose I could look it up but I’m not that motivated. It’s tragic for his family. He seemed like a nice person. I just don’t think this particular cause is worth dying for. There’s too much outside money being used to stir people up when the people spending the money are just using them for their own ulterior motives.
Good news: May 2025 had exactly zero releases from Border Patrol custody. May 2024 had 64,000 releases of ineligible border crossers. The border is sealing itself!
Believe me when I say you can tell a difference, if nothing else just in much shorter lines at the local Greyhound pickup
The fast food story is hilarious! Terrible about the “protesters” shorting each other. I told my silly liberal friends not to go to these events because they are not safe.
I'm impressed you're still able to tolerate liberal friends, April. Good for you.
I find myself increasingly less able to do so.
Barely ! They are so condescending and act like I’m a puppet of conservatives or Israel - pick any antisemitic image you want. Most of my progressive former friends don’t talk to me now. Which is fine. Then some agree to not discuss politics. Also fine.
I’ve got a July 4th party coming up with my chief liberal nemesis, he shared in a text chain that he attended the No Kings protest locally. I’m still strategizing on my retorts. I have some time.
Get a handful of crowns from Burger King and have everyone wear one as a party favor?
😂😂😂😂
That’s great !
That’s genius !
I would start with the fact that a king would never allow protests, then move on the the covid dictatorship. Possibly followed by, "who was running the country" for the past 4 years? Good luck!
Thank you.
My first response is that - today, July4th - is No Kings day.
Then from there it’s easy.
LOL. Love it!
The question is, will the analogy go right over their little lemming heads?
Yes !!!
I had more than a few cringeworthy moments after seeing pictures on the socials of friends and family who attended various No Kings protests around the country. They were in small groups smiling broadly and holding their homemade signs, looking like they were welcoming home a popular member of the community who was just released from the hospital after a successful brain surgery.
Confusing optics IMO for protests that were supposed to be fueled by anger and desperate fear of “losing our democracy!” (whatever the hell that means...still haven’t heard a rational explanation)and in stark contrast to the scenes of hateful mobs protesting in big blue coastal cities full of arsonists, agitators, rock throwers, vandals and other miscreants with whom I guess they feel a connection to.
Posting the pictures was certainly to boost their social cred with the 20% of Americans who agree with them. it just looked so silly.
I have lost all respect for liberals. I can no longer be friends with them.
Agreed. So cringe. My Facebook is full of it but my twitter is all center right. It’s a contrast.
Leftists AND crazies? Leftists ARE crazy. They worship a socio-economic system that has failed whenever and wherever tried and which has produced only mayhem, malaise and murder. They mutilate children to change their gender and call it "compassionate care." They pretend to be Americans yet open our borders to savages who burn our flag while parading with the flags of others, all in the service of our enemies. They pretend to stand for women's rights, while bowing to the tenets of the Satanic Verses. They would all be sent to lunatic asylums in a country that even maintained a semblance of sanity.
Yes, but that socio-economic system is just SO GOOD for the animals who are "more equal than others"! (aka the Demonic Possessed Elite)
"Animal Farm"
Or in a country that ACTUALLY HAD lunatic asylums. We all know and love the unscientific science of lockdowns for disease control but mass eviction of persons, some hazardous but all marginally capable at best of self-help, is arguably a much bigger deal -- and is ongoing.
And they yell FACTS! and FOX NEWS! at anyone who tries to point out the facts to them.
Love how you don't mince words, Bruce. What's your take on Mamdani?
I'm wondering what Mandami's promise of city owned grocery stores will do for neighborhood bodegas.
With the rigged voting system in NYC (ranked choice), it wouldn't surprise me that Mandami wins. Any city that elected the absolute buffoon DiBlasio can't be rational...just like the entire state of CA.
In a city of self-immolation, Mandami's election would not surprise me either.
I see the connection! Assisted suicide = Mamdami
He a socialist's wet dream. I can't even believe he's in the running. Do the people that support him realize they'll be the ones whose property tax increase will be paying for the free stuff?
I think we know, Jen. Free food for all, as long as you're a person of color. It's kinda that way right now.
It's magical thinking. Sweet talking points and zero plan.
Hey, you guys in Macon, nothing yet with bacon? I love the burger war; it harkens back to “where’s the beef.” It’ll be fun to see how this “escalates.”
Speaking of escalating. I opened the NYPost to see Iran bombed a hospital to retaliate for Israel’s strike on nuke sites. Kind of sums up what each side deems worth defending.
Re the hospital in Israel, my comment earlier this AM in The Free Press:
As of this morning's news, Iran bombed a 1,000-bed hospital in southern Israel.
Contrast that to Israel's precision bombing only of military facilities in Iran.
The Iranian mullahs are barbarians. If only Americans were interested in Iranian voices like journalist Masih Alinejad, who, having escaped several assassination attempts, one not too far from me in Flatbush, could put the matter in blunt terms.
Excellent. Here’s my FP tirade.
Happy Juneteenth, people. Will anyone listen to the likes of Coleman Hughes, Condolezza Rice, or any of the other intellectuals who buck “the narrative” know-nothing teachers shove down our kids throats? Lincoln a Republican? Slavery an American invention? Please tell me this isn’t so.
Yesterday I published a story that our superintendent will pull down $291k in a town where the average person earns under a hundred thousand. This is a guy who called me a racist when I sat on the BOE for pushing against the teaching of anti-racist ideology, who pushed through late last year a district DEI policy (even as everyone under the sun was abandoning theirs), who dared to ask kindergarteners if they were boy, girl, non-binary, or gender fluid. When asked why he should get this pay raise, he said in too many words, I deserve it.
I live in Connecticut, a state too worthless that it doesn’t deserve a mention in today’s news round up. The fact is, Obama had his passive aggressive hissy fit on the stage of the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford before a throng of swooning Boomer teeny-boppers masking as a conclave of intellectuals. Here’s an example of our intrepid media’s truth-to-power coverage. I do love how the author references the “crisp” slacks, though. Unconscious racism, anyone?
https://ctmirror.org/2025/06/18/obama-hartford-connecticut-forum/
Of course no mention of Obama’s caustic divisiveness, his contempt for the Republic, his pallets of cash to the Satan who targets hospitals, as his enemy targets nuke sites. He describes the complacency of the liberal left with its houses in Aspen. Hey, how about the island cottages on MV and Maui, Barack?
Dog whistles were sounding at every decibel level. Of course, he came to the kennel known as Connecticut to sound them.
Happy Juneteenth.
A few years back when the holiday was federalized, an participant on a call got snarky asking if Texans were upset about the day being a holiday. Told them it had been a state holiday in Texas for over 40 years, and it was about time them racist states up north got their hearts right.
Excellent comment Faith!
And the silence is deafening. The “unbiased“ media have not issued a single condemnation of Iran’s bombing of a hospital with no bunker underneath (or their targeting of Israeli civilians); yet Bill Clinton just issued a statement, saying that the targeting of civilians has to stop — implying that Gazans are the “victims”, and that Netanyahu’s sole motivation is to “stay in power forever”. Wow.
This dude John Reid on Substack replied that the Israelis indiscriminately bombed hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings all over Gaza.
It was tiresome to have to point out to him that Hamas terrorists hid their bombs and assassins beneath, etc., etc. with entrances in school lunchrooms and hospital ORs and so on.
You can talk logically 'til the cows come home, to no avail.
Bill Clinton, who attempted a peace deal of his own 25 years ago saw the situation for what it is: “Depends on whether you care what happens to the Palestinians as opposed to the Hamas government..." “And Hamas is really smart. When they decide to rocket Israel, they insinuate themselves in the hospitals, in the schools, in the highly populous areas, and they are smart.” “They said they try to put the Israelis in a position of either not defending themselves or killing innocents. They’re good at it. They’re smart. They’ve been doing this a long time.” “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza." https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bill-clinton-palestinians-israel-223176
More proof that radical islamists are nothing but rabid animals and lunatics.
and then there's "Juneteenth" - perhaps the dumbest American holiday, emblematic of nothing, enacted to pander to the noisiest tenth of our population with not one, but two federal holidays. Sorry, not sorry. There, I said it.
Juneteenth is my birthday! A Federal, state, and bank holiday. Does anyone out there - who doesn't work for the government - get this day off?
MG, oh yeah. My employer plus almost every employer I know of, has this holiday as a company holiday.
Mind you, we can’t get Presidents’ Day off, but we can do Juneteenth. 🙄
No day off here!
Celia, enjoy spending time with your best friend!
LOL, in Commiecago we get "Pulaski Day." Who???
There are still enough Poles to pull that off? Amazing.
South and north of the city, it's referred to as "Crawford Day."
(Chicagoans will get that joke.)
As a recovering Chicagoite (Mundelein actually), I grok the amazing name change of the avenue at 4000W at both borders.
In Atlanta - plenty of companies are closed. They risk plenty by going against the black political machine in the City.
I live in the Midwest. There are celebrations in the neighborhoods, lots of families have family reunions, etc. It looks like fun, until someone brings a gun and spoils the party. But most businesses, esp. small businesses, are open as usual.
Small businesses and large companies can't and don't respectively play the game except on an individual level. There are only 6 Real Holidays (Christmas, New years', Memorial, Independence, and Labor Days plus Thanksgiving and the day after; my company being particularly woke, added MLK courtesy of the late Mr Floyd. So now we have two instead of three "floaters" to cover individual and.or local affinity.
Years ago our employee-owned company voted 90-10 against losing a comp day and gaining MLK Day. We got MLK Day anyway....
Ours never asked. "It goes without saying." Right-ho. Corporate speak for don't dare rock the boat.
Dems love overruling and ignoring voters. 2024 is a textbook example. It’s what they call “saving democracy”
Hey, it's not a party in Commiecago until someone goes to the ER!
😂😂😂😂
Happy birthday !
Happy Birthday MG!
I work in Mexico, not a holiday.
I do take September 16th off though, and a few others.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
My daughter who is MS student (structural engineering) at Georgia Tech. She's happy because she needs to drive to Ohio for a friend's wedding!
It’s my brother and nephew‘s BDay also.
All the cool people were born in June ha ha
Geminis rule!
Happy Birthday MG! It’s my brother and nephew’s birthday today too. I’ll be celebrating them.
White folks celebrating Juneteenth seems cultural appropriation-y
to me. But white ninnies never fail to do this crap. This is a day for the families of the emancipated.
I retired from the PO 2 years before it became a federal holiday.
My son-in-law works for the post office and is ecstatic. I don't even know how many holidays they have now.
It’s up to 11.
wow
💯
Dumber than Kwanzaa?
https://youtu.be/f1ImXytSF9Y?si=TTMTGufDsGClT3P3
https://youtu.be/xlf2P1Umcc8?si=_K0yasp2pcV2s26K
Explanations from Coolio himself. 🤣
Good question. At some point it all collapses to a Singularity of Stupid and comparison becomes irrelevant. "Reparations" certainly lives there too.
Oh that was clever. John Wheeler would be impressed!
Litr8r, my first real laugh of the day. I'm stealing that one. Thanks!
". . . enacted to pander to the noisiest tenth of our population with not one, but two federal holidays."
Haha! You can say that again. I'm a fan of Washington's and Lincoln's separate birthday holidays and little else -- although a cousin who has to adhere to alternate-side parking rules is grateful for any Jewish, Catholic, Muslim, or Hindu -- or black -- holiday she can get, no matter how insignificant or stupid.
You put your finger on the pulse of almost all holidays any more. And not so sure about that "almost."
Haha! Alternate-side parking rules. I remember that from our early years of life in NYC. Also remember how much more livable the city was back then. Giuliani was mayor, then Bloomberg. No Kings? I remember some New Yorkers would have accepted Bloomberg as king. King of NYC, anyway.
So if each ethnic group gets their own holiday, let's try to guess who gets one for the
- Latinos (guessing Cesar Chavez)
- Asians (???)
- Indians (from India, not Native Americans - no clue who they get)
This morning I received an email from an older relative who retired from university teaching in 2015, just as the racial hysteria was reaching its fever pitch. In response to my assertion that 'systemic racism' is mythical, he lobbed a link to "prove" it's not, re: legal matters.
The law is "racist."
Never mind that in order to get entangled with the law, one usually commits a crime.
Let us travel back to the documentary, The Thirteenth, in which it is argued that black men minding their own business are rounded up and thrown in prison for NO REASON other than that they are black.
It takes a special kind of stupid to believe that. And, believing that, if one is black, is how one never gets anywhere, thus perpetuating the 'racism' myth.
As for my relative, he's hopeless. I tried conveying to him how the 'oppressor oppressed' narrative deployed in universities would harm Jews (like himself.)
Fell on deaf ears.
Although that very thing happened in the Democrat South!
How true, Bruce. It's laughable how democrats don't speak of their history of murder, anarchy, and abject racism in the south for centuries. They created a civil war and are trying to create another one.
The dems are busily erasing as much actual history from books, town squares, and minds as quickly as possible.
"Juneteenth" was obviously political pandering for virute points and the name is just dumb sounding. The name should be changed to something that sounds like our other holidays like "Emancipation Day".
The term “Emancipation Day”was focus grouped at Berkeley. Researchers discovered the term to be a trigger for white undergrads, especially women which led to instances of profuse sobbing, apologizing and groveling in front of amused random black students confused at what they were witnessing. The less triggering term Juneteenth was chosen instead.
Berkeley’s president hailed the decision as another step forward in honoring African American toughness and resilience. The affected student volunteers refused to comment fearing mockery and hate posting on social media.
bruce, its not harming you that black americans are celebrating the end of SLAVERY. Good lord man, this isnt the hill to go to war on.
Well now that one thinks about it, another federal holiday harms all of us because there's an economic cost, not to mention the societal cost of pandering to one group above others.
It looks like Salt Lake City will find itself in quite a conundrum in relation to the protest shooting. On one hand, Mormons are typically conservative and rule following folks. On the other hand, most large cities lean left in their politics Very curious to see how the shooting turns out as far as who is charged and who is excused.
SLC is like 50% or less Mormon. Has been for decades.
The most Mormon part of the state now is Utah Valley (the next valley south of Salt Lake). The effort by outsiders to de-Mormon-ize SLC has been going on since the 1800s.
During the early '70s I worked at the Navy Reactors prototype site outside of Idaho Falls, ID, a city with a remarkably large LDS temple. It Was Said that there was a plan to shift The Temple to Idaho Falls because of the, uh, dilution of SLC -- until a large contingent of Very Secular sailors contaminated it.
When we came across the country on our way to southwestern Idaho in the late 70s we stopped in Idaho falls after touring Yellowstone that Sunday. The town was closed up tighter than a drum and we were darn lucky the restaurant wasn’t closed …… at 5:30!
Took the kids there for tennis tournaments. Idaho falls is a very strange town. Always was.
There are temples all over. They're actually currently in the process of retro-fitting the SLC for earthquakes.
I live in Del Rio, Tx on the border with Mexico.
The largest, fanciest church in town is the LDS church
This is true in some surprising places; personal favorite being "Spaceship Mormon" off the DC Beltway.
It's surprising to me here cuz the town is about 85% Hispanic....and Catholicism is usually the go to religion
The Romneys had roots in Mexico. George Romney was born in Chihuahua.
About that shooting in Salt Lake:
The general rule, which I believe obtains everywhere in the U.S. and isn’t unique to Utah, is that deadly force is justified (the term of art is “justifiable homicide”) when someone uses a deadly weapon, in this case a gun, in defense of oneself or another person. The threat defended against must be imminent, and proportionate to the force employed. The perception must be that of a reasonable person in the same circumstances. A reasonable person wouldn’t be justified in shooting a man some distance away who is merely yelling a threat and has no visible weapon. The danger would have to be more “imminent.”
Who employed deadly force here? The shooter, that’s who. That’s who might be charged specifically with homicide, not Gamboa, who didn’t fire his gun.
Applying this reasoning to the known facts, the shooter presumably thought he was defending the crowd against Gamboa, who was running toward the crowd with gun raised threateningly. The victim was an innocent bystander. The most likely potential charge against the shooter would be manslaughter. The shooter’s defense would be that he had to fire his gun in order to stop Gamboa from shooting his own gun into the crowd.
The prosecutor has to weigh the facts before deciding what, and whom, to charge. Gamboa might theoretically be charged with reckless endangerment for running toward the crowd with gun raised, but not with any degree of homicide. The shooter might be charged with manslaughter, because the victim died accidentally from his shot without being the intended victim. Therefore, was his firing at Gamboa justifiable in the circumstances, i.e., reasonably believed to prevent the imminent use of deadly force against others by Gamboa? Here again, a lesser charge might be reckless endangerment against the shooter. As usual, the factual details will determine what will be charged.
To me, the situation is complicated, but not impossibly so. You go methodically through the elements of each potential charge and see if the known, provable facts apply.
To me, a non-lawyer, the situation is, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
That and FAFO (using it just to avoid having to look it up again when next I see it) describe far too much of what's going on. Or maybe I've just aged enough to be the curmudgeonesque that I've claimed for so long.
I think they want to charge Gamboa with murder under the same principle that everyone involved in committing a robbery can be charged with murder if someone (even one of the robbers) dies in the process. But at this point, they haven't established that Gamboa committed ANY crime at all that 'caused' the death.
In today's video-heavy environment, I have to wonder if a jury would convict without clear video evidence that Gamboa was, in fact, behaving as alleged. If video were to show that he was simply fleeing the "peacekeepers" who were attempting to disarm him (when he was, in fact, carrying legally)--and maintaining good trigger discipline while doing so--the blame would fall much, much more heavily on the shooter. It will be interesting to see what video evidence DOES show.
https://x.com/mrandyngo/status/1934655934913032200?s=46
Wow, that video does not look good for their "peacekeepers."
The principle you mentioned is felony murder, meaning that if someone dies as a result of someone else’s commission of a violent felony, the felon can also be charged with murder. In this case, however, Gamboa would have to be in the process of committing a violent felony. I don’t see it, though I don’t know Utah law. Where I live in Washington, the crime of reckless endangerment is a gross misdemeanor, not a felony.
It would be a stretch to charge Gamboa with assault, merely for running toward a crowd with a rifle.
But the authorities seem to be tired of Gamboa’s antics, so who knows?
I just saw on TwiX that they are continuing to hold him, despite not yet charging him.
I suspect that the authorities feel they are between a rock and a hard place. Someone died, so someone has to be punished. But punishing the actual shooter is going to be very unpopular with Leftists, because he was, in essence, a representative of the event's organizers and potentially the event as a whole (it's worth noting that the initial media reports falsely blamed THE POLICE for firing the shot that killed the other protester). And since most Leftists hate guns (at least in the hands of ordinary citizens) with a passion, a Leftist who open-carries is something of a heretic...and therefore a legitimate target for their ire.
In other words, Gamboa is the one the Left wants to be guilty in this case. And the Left is not known for allowing facts to get in the way of what they want. So the authorities are under pressure to find a way charge him.
Whatever the criminal charges turn out to be, one thing is certain: the relatives of the deceased will file a lawsuit against SLC and get a lot of money. Paging Ben Crump…
The big news is the Supreme Court decided to uphold the HARRY BENJAMIN SOCIETY PROTOCOLS that have been in place for decades!!!
But the media doesn't want you to know that there were always medical protocols AGAINST transitioning kids. Now the protocols can be legally enforced--you know, for those dozen rogue doctors who have been brain-washed into thinking transing kids saves lives. 🙄. Please rest assured, most doctors will remain sane and still won't come near these cases with YOUR surgical kit and malpractice insurance package. The other good news is that doctors will not be forced or bribed into performing these surgeries by the party of Demonic Possession. (Yay, my hubby is marked safe!!)
I'm glad your husband is now safe from the Woke demons who would have liked to force him to participate in their mutilations.
When I was in pharmacy school, one of my clinical rotations was at the local inpatient psychiatric facility. I spent time with both short term and long term patients doing medication education classes. I also got to spend time with the staff doing intake interviews, and then later in the day, I would hang out with residents in the common room playing ping pong, board games, etc.
I clearly remember one man who was absolutely wild in his intake interview, but a few days later apologized to me for his behavior in the common room.
I’ve also been in a situation of having lunch with a friend that I’d known for a couple of years who was started on a stimulant, and had he attacked me claiming I was a werewolf and then “robbed” me, it wouldn’t have surprised me at all.
Mania is a strange phenomenon to experience first hand.
Well, that was a fun read Celia--except for the bystander who got killed. Crazy prevails these days in so many ways.
Senate vote 51-46.
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Rodney Scott, of Oklahoma, to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security )
This guy was fired by the treasonous Myorkas for criticizing the open borders and now is confirmed to be the head of CPB.
Every democrat voted against him. Is this just a reflexive thing of the party of no? I mean otherwise why vote no. You can’t hate democrats enough.
Worse he was nominated in January and it took five freaking months to slooowwwwwwly wend its way through the senate miasma. You can’t hate politicians enough.
Here's a really fun video for this morning: A father and daughter street dancing in perfect synch.
https://x.com/IndiaTales7/status/1934257161707954525
Elon Musk had a drug test and it showed no drugs--after a NYTimes hit piece saying he was on drugs.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1934995958615466398
Remember the video at a protest in Asheville, NC, recently where a man and woman engaged with a black woman who couldn't get to work due to the protest traffic congestion? Here's some info on who that man is--it's enlightening.
https://x.com/VickieforNYC/status/1933577226441630077
It's interesting that so many 'Progressives' are the shiftless offspring of wealthy people.
It Was Said that too much ease produces weakness. Idiocy another byproduct.
The Lotus Eaters...
Wealth does seem to often destroy families down the road.
I agree that people seem to need meaning in their lives beyond the vapid.
Glad my daughter moved away from Salt Lake City this past May.
Loony Tunes.
I grew up in Utah (Provo, in Utah Valley), but when my husband and I left the area in 1989, the Californication was already beginning. Our former landlord was soon able to double the rent on our tiny apartment (which we nicknamed 'our hovel'). Went back periodically for visits, although the last time was in 2016 or so. We've never had any desire to move back there. It's gotten worse every time.
We spent the whole summer there clearing out my parents' house after my mom died in 2002, and it was shocking to watch the news. Murders in SLC several times a week, when any murders at all were a very rare thing when I was a kid. Insane traffic and horrible drivers.
Wow
Thanks for the perspective.