Man he shot a shitload of people plus a police dog!

Wonder what kind of weapon he had!!?

What in tarnation?

This classic southern oath has been transformed in our time to ‘What in tarnishion,’ as folks down there worry that the daily blood bath is – to quote Dothan Alabama commissioner Dave Stock – beginning to “tarnish the image of our city.”

Ol’ Dave worries in particular about Dothan, but y’all know it’s the whole bloody state. Bama by some measures is America’s gunniest, bloodiest, state. As in why (reads a recent headline) Does Alabama have more Gun Deaths than New York?

It’s fun to follow what folks say about blood bursting everywhere in Bama (A related transformation: Not Stars Fell on Alabama, but Brains Dripped on Alabama), folks down there being real dumb and all. One guy, asked why insane people shouldn’t be kept away from guns, explains that in the olden days ifn you were nuts they might could put you in a mental hospital. Damn sight better now you got ‘em runnin round free with AK47s.

Ol’ Dave notes sagely that more cops would be good cepn problem there is would you wanna police a town where your chance of getting injured or kilt on the job is as high as the thirteen year old gunnies all over the streets? You wouldn’t want to introduce any gun laws, so that means that — citing the Buddhists — Bama must learn to sit with tarnishment.

“It’s so sad they won’t enjoy themselves without them killing each other.”

Hey, it’s America. Killing people is how you enjoy yourself. Specially on the Fourth!

Bleak House: Update.

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.

‘Judge slams Malaysia’s mandatory female circumcision edict as “primitive patriarchal practice”’

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.

‘I sat in an Amish church once where whooping cough was making rounds; the group preferred this over the unknowns of vaccination.’

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.

You might ask why a 19 year old, with 3 misdemeanor convictions, and now in court for eluding an officer and sticking a gun in his face, walks free.

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.

Catholic church excommunicates an anti-Semitic breakaway.

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.

Hijabi Hijabi Yes Take Off this Jobbie

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.

Murder’s Plummeting.

“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.

‘The small principality is widely regarded as one of the safest places in the world, including through its extensive surveillance network composed of thousands of CCTV cameras covering most public spaces.’

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.

Trying to find out where Dr Dewayne Walker got his Doctorate.

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.

“He’s 45 and he’s ultra-specialized in robotic surgery.”

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.

As if anyone is surprised.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2026/06/26/confederate-flag-displayed-at-n-c–exhibit-at-america-s-state-fair

’. A symbol that the state itself never chose, attached to its flag without permission, displayed at an event meant to celebrate American unity…’

‘Thomas Weber is a professor of history at Aberdeen University in Scotland and the author of “Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi.” He said that though he would much prefer it if people would do the ethical thing and donate [Nazi artifacts] to public institutions, he isn’t sure that introducing a total ban “would produce the result we’re all hoping for.”’

“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.

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