Hey, it’s America. Killing people is how you enjoy yourself.
Last year at this time we wrote about the Przemek Jeziorski horror, in which a young Berkeley professor was gunned down on the streets of Athens in a hit orchestrated by his Greek ex-wife.
Since then, the ex-wife committed suicide in prison. Most of the other conspirators have apparently confessed.
Jeziorski’s brother, now raising Przemek’s two children in Poland, had been counting on rental income from his brother’s Berkeley house to afford child care. But he rented to a couple who turned out to be squatters, and while they destroy the place forever because of local pro-squatter laws, he earns no money, has to anticipate huge repair expenses if he ever gets back in, and of course pays the mortgage.
Time to revisit his donation page.
All praise to Melbourne judge Jonathan Beach, who is not only willing to notice that ALL Muslim girls (babies. toddlers.) in that benighted country MUST get slashed and desexed, but who is even willing to condemn it publicly.
It’s the whole fucking country, folks, and you didn’t even know about it. Islam is the official state religion. 65% of the place practices the religion. Virtually everyone practices FGM. 100% disgusting.
The Amish and the Jewish ultraorthodox – when serious disease runs rampant in the larger population, it will probably be these baleful sects we have to thank.
Even as yet another court – this one in New York State – says you can’t kill our kids, even if you’re willing to kill your own, these ignorant people continue to fight for their right to be exempt from human decency.
Why the judge has him pay a thousand dollars and then go home, released on this teeny tiny bond.
The county attorney and the county sheriff are both shocked by what the judge did, as well they might be. Aren’t you?
But understand it’s Nebraska, where close to half the state carries, and where gun laws are practically nonexistent.
The judge is a perfect reflection of his community – a 19 year old with three prior convictions who presents in his courtroom having menaced everyone by his dangerous motorcycle driving and then, when stopped about it, shoving his gun in an officer’s face, ain’t nuthin. Ain’t no big deal. Give him back his gun and let him at us again.
The nutty SSPX has always reviled UD types (Jews, that is), which upsets the Vatican; but now that they’ve gone and consecrated a bunch of bishops that is the last straw.
For its part, SSPX delivered a fuck you in a sermon anticipating the excommunication. Boys will be boys.
It’s like that Red Rover jingle. The girls and women of Tehran free themselves of the hijab on Tuesday and the government lets them; on Wednesday, they might be jailed/tortured/killed for the same behavior. Hijabi Hijabi Now you’re a dead body…
Daddy’s busy with a war so he can’t focus on spanking his millions of unswaddled, and Iranian women are taking advantage of this. They risk getting hammered again when the war’s over.
“I will say it is better than it was four years ago. …But we’re still fighting that fight. It is not over.”
Even a record-low homicide rate — 4.1 or even 4.0 per 100,000 — would still be double Canada’s rate of 1.9.
“We’re still talking about 13- or 14-thousand murders,” [says a] crime data analyst. …”This is not a solved problem.”
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I mean, it’s still the USA. And gun suicides are soaring.
Creepy panopticon Monaco, financial crime capital, has managed to eke out three murders or almost-murders in the last few decades, all involving high-level corruption and/or un max d’argent. The latest is a bomb attack on a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch right at his doorstep.
It’s nowhere online, but now that he’s all over the news it would be good to find out who educated him. He runs a Baptist school in Kentucky which gathers its little kids in a room and makes them watch as a bunch of men in fatigues rush in and shoot massive guns at a man onstage. The man writhes and wriggles and moans and spasms until he dies.
The shooters drag the corpse offstage and blow it up.
And even though it’s all just pretend, the pastor explains that the kids should shoot and then explode the corpse of the devil, just the way the pretend killers did.
We must all shoot and detonate the devil, he goes on to explain in the video he made to respond to the fallout the skit is generating.
Young, with rare technical skills (“one of the only surgeons in Canada routinely performing both robotic mitral valve and coronary bypass surgeries”), and rapidly on his way out the door. Too much Jew-hatred in Montreal, and he’s had enough – he’s coming here, probably to Emory University.
“Doctors are trained to detect diseases from their earliest signs. That’s exactly what they are doing, and it’s making them choose to leave.” That is, this guy’s not the only one.
’. A symbol that the state itself never chose, attached to its flag without permission, displayed at an event meant to celebrate American unity…’
“The … consequence of a ban [on the sale of Nazi items] is not [necessarily] that suddenly that kind of market will totally dry up […]. You run the risk that this material will actually just disappear for good in[to] the wrong channels.”
It’s an interesting question. What about buying North Korean propaganda posters, which are rather popular in the west? There is no more disgusting fascistic regime in the world; and to make it worse, the regime profits from some of these sales. You can buy glossy posters of Pol Pot for your dorm room if you want, and obviously Stalin – a bigger butcher than Hitler – is available everywhere.
These markets represent what Robert Nozick called capitalist acts between consenting adults, and, as Weber’s comment suggests, it would be impossible to truly police them.
None of which is to defend all market transactions as legally acceptable; but this particular one, I think, gets a pass.
But Tennessee has one outmoded little law barring guns from college campuses. UD has no idea why the legislature has overlooked this embarrassment, which is no doubt keeping Memphis from being the most dangerous city in the world, and she feels confident there’s legislation, as we speak, removing the restriction.
Meanwhile, poor Christopher Stokes, Univ Memphis football player! Speeding through campus in your big SUV, with your big Glock, would seem a common enough activity for a Memphian. Big cars and big guns – don’t get any more USAan than that…

But the police arrested the lad (he’s twenty), and the school threw him off the team and took down his player webpage and all. Texas Tech, here he comes!
Lois Hugentober, a longtime employee, got out of her car, “pulled out a revolver, and leveled the laser-sighted weapon on a group of bicyclists at an intersection.”
When police caught up with her at her office, she “punched a wall in her supervisor’s office so forcibly it caused a clock to fall from the wall.”
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