UD stopped watching MSNBC when she realized she’d been an idiot for believing their smug insistence that Trump would never win. So she wasn’t watching when Matthew Dowd, one of their commentators, said Charlie Kirk was responsible for his own demise:
[H]ateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions… You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place…
Dowd has been fired, which is fine, but there’s more where that came from at MSNBC.
We’ve already encountered Spain’s Rafael Luque, who makes an excellent living charging random people all over the world to have their names added to his (bogus) chemistry papers. The currency here is number of references on scientific studies — the more journals your name appears in, the higher your salary, and the higher your university’s institutional ranking. Luque is an important part of “an international network of scientists dedicated to inflating their own prestige through cheating, thus falsifying the rankings of the world’s top universities.”
Yes, yes, he’s been dismissed by his university, had endless papers retracted, and been exposed in the press as a stupendous fraud; but he’s still chugging along. They love him in Saudi Arabia.
Trashy Galveston has enough problems without a yearly plague of plastered Trumpers in Wagoneers. All gunned up and ready to rev, they get in fights, puke and piss on the sand, and crash their Gladiators into other Gladiators.
After the killings, etc., last year, locals have fled, leaving their houses to the hundreds and hundreds of police gathered from all over the region (they’re also looking at the National Guard option). America doesn’t have many (any?) truly ‘police state’ locations, but Galveston during Jeep Weekend really does fit the bill — the very population of the place is wall to wall police. The town has imposed new insanely restrictive rules, is confiscating guns, and has basically promised the revelers that they’re going to try every ruse they can think of to arrest them.
B-but it’s an unsanctioned event, UD!
Yes, Dear Reader, but even if, next year, Galveston officials greet each arriving Jeep owner with a prophylactic spray of tear gas, nothing will deter these patriots. They don’t give a shit about sanctions.
“While you were purchasing a gun for your son and leaving it unlocked, I was helping her finish her college essays. When you knew the gun was missing, you called the police, knowing it was your son that took it. I was having family call every hospital describing what she looked like. While you were hiding [from the police], I was planning her funeral.“
The negligent parents of a high school mass shooter get 10 – 15 year sentences.
… appears, UD likes to post this great James Merrill poem:
ISLAND IN THE WORKS
From air seen fathom-deep But rising to a head – Abscess of the abyss Any old night letting rip Its fires, yearlong, As roundabout waves hiss –
Jaded by untold blue Subversions, watered-down Moray and Spaniard… Now to construe In the original Those at first arid, hard,
Soon rootfast, ramifying, Always more fruitful Dialogues with light. Various dimwit under- graduate types will wonder At my calm height
Vapors by then surmounted (Merely another phase?) And how in time I trick Out my new “shores” and “bays” With small craft, shrimpers Bars and rhetoric.
Darkly the Old Ones grumble I’ll hate all that. Hate words, Their schooling flame? The spice grove chatted up By small gray knowing birds? Myself given a name?
Waves, as your besetting Depth-wish recedes, I’m surfacing, I’m home! Open the atlas. Here: This dot, securely netted Under the starry dome.
(Unlike this page – no sooner Brought to the pool than wafted Out of reach, laid flat Face-up on cool glares, ever So lightly swayed, or swaying… Now who did that?)
Three women have been arrested for allegedly physically assaulting a hijab enforcer in an incident in the Tehran Metro.
According to Abbas Karami-Rad, the head of the Tehran Metro Police, the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when one woman approached three others to admonish them regarding their hijabs.
He stated that the situation escalated, leading to the three women “attacking her and physically assaulting her.” Subsequently, the three women were taken into custody.
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Expect more of this. Passive resistance is of course all over the country; huge numbers of women won’t wear the hijab. Active resistance is a thing too.
