It’s like – what sort of city lets that happen? Has no control of locations that WILL be mass murder sites? It’s like it’s … a fucking menu for mass murder. UD doesn’t get it.

 A fare evasion arrest on the Metro has riled up some District leaders and community members after a video circulating online shows Metro Transit Police pinning a woman to the ground at the Navy Yard station. 

… stand for the hundreds of millions of women around the Muslim world getting their clits ripped off and their vaginal lips stitched closed at birth.

Franchement, Dear Reader, UD can barely stand to cover the ongoing sickening global atrocity of FGM; but when a newborn bleeds out because her sexual organs were slashed to bits in the name of Allah, it’s kind of hard to keep quiet. At least this event is disgusting enough to get significant world coverage; at least the three lower than dirt women who held down an infant and slit her up the middle and watched her die have been charged.

But it’s Gambia and listen. You don’t know shit about little Gambia, but close to one hundred percent of its babies and girls get their genitals slashed off.

Oh Egypt? Egypt, you say? Pretty much the same statistic there, guys. And Egypt’s all big and we’ve heard of it and all. Same slitting them down the middle.

Oh England? Really?? England tries hard to detect and punish FGM among its Muslim population, but unless a hospital ends up with a bloodied dead baby nothing much will be detected.

… FGM kills 44 000 girls each year according to recent research, which analysed 15 African countries. This means that FGM is a bigger cause of death than malnutrition, measles, meningitis, HIV/Aids, and many other health threats for girls in the 15 countries studied... The global figure for deaths from FGM is likely to be much higher than 44 000, when all populations are included—particularly those from Indonesia, Somalia, Somaliland, and Sudan, which have a high prevalence of FGM... [The practice is still legal in] Mali, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia.

Death Appears to be ‘Reversible’ with Proper Treatment, NYU Professor Says

It’s the little stories, the overlooked minor social interactions, that make gun-gorged America what it is; and ol’ UD definitely sees it as part of her blog-mandate to share some of these with you. Otherwise you’re unlikely to grasp what it actually means to live in a country with five hundred million guns. You’re unlikely to get a feel for the homeland’s daily communal reality. You’re likely to content yourself with being spooked by mass shootings; but there’s so much more to The American Story.

Tiffs over parking spots, for instance, can end in gunplay now.

Perry [Georgia] police say Anna McPherson confronted VanWormer [the article only gives her last name] over a parking spot and pulled a gun during the dispute, aiming it at both the mother and child.

McPherson banged on VanWormer’s window with the firearm and continued the threat… . [At one point, she] looked at VanWormer’s son and said, “You’re about to be motherless.” 

‘Course she was bonded out asap without anyone notifying VanWormer, who gets to continue panicking about this fucker hunting her down. And yes the POS faces some charges, but Georgia’s judges love guns FAR too much to put away a nice lady with a Glock.

… that the very active paper wasp nest just outside the living room is now gone, after chemical warfare was initiated.

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UD‘s sister discovered the thing.

The wise Finns move toward uncovering their poor burqa’ed children. Brava.

There’s a very special ick factor in play when Jesus directly aids and abets sexual abuse, when his holy writ is quoted in direct support of the rape of teenagers. “This is God’s will for you,” instructs Hayle Swinson’s spiritual teacher as he scrounges in her panties.

“I asked myself why was this God’s will for me to be violated?”

Hayle’s either a bit slow on the uptake, or deep in the weeds of theodicy here, as she lets Pastor Brad have his – the Lord’s? – way with her.

One … email [to her] featured a dream in which he and Swinson were laying [the writer means lying] on a beach; as he began making love to her, he began praying and their spirits were united spiritually.

Pastor Brad, who held a high position at some Baptist something, was a notorious sexual nutcase, but the school ignored it all, including a petition fifty students filed about him with the administration.

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UD thanks Andrew.

David sends UD news of a just-built $62 million high school football stadium down Georgia way.

One of the stadium’s boosters justifies the expense by pointing out that, for example, the innovative seating arrangement lets the whole family hear sixteen year olds get CTE concussions in real time.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s editor poses the question – rather undiplomatically – and we all know the answer:

This is America! Hell, yes!

“Eisenhower in the Footsteps of Hitler,” 1951.

He could do anything as an artist, including turn sweet dull old Ike into a blood-dripping demon.

Bored, mute, incontinent, unable to read (she had loved literature), she shared an institution with people so demented they often shrieked. She wanted but was unable to be dead, and the staff dealt with this by stuffing her with antidepressants. Covid finally saved her.

Since, like UD, lots of people visit their dead but not dead aunts in institutions, lots of people support medically assisted dying. My aunt had been all her life a very proud woman – proud, really, to a fault – and UD saw clearly with every visit how humiliating it was for her, how grindingly absurd, to hang around, heart beating.

Beating in the state of Maryland, seventy percent of whose people support medically assisted dying, while its politicians dither.

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An essay like Elaina Plott Calabro’s in The Atlantic is a fine example of first-rate propaganda on this subject. Most propaganda is crude and icky, but her essay is a lesson in the deployment of powerful sophisticated propaganda. Anti-MAD propaganda. Let’s see how she does it.

Her title is brilliant, intellectually and graphically. Big black slasher-film letters, each of which spits further gouts of black, dominate the first page. It’s a fucking ENORMOUS headline.

And here’s the content: CANADA IS KILLING ITSELF.

Now, given that Canada’s population has recently “soared” to 41.5 million, this might seem a strange headline, but it can’t be denied that the combination of style and content, right from the get-go in this essay, has you thinking THE HORROR THE HORROR. Red slashes across the letters, their own letters drawn from what we are to take to be the Kafkaesque administrative paperwork of Canadian MAD, create a loud lurid BUREAUCRACY KILLS effect. Before you even start reading!

The first few paragraphs deepen, with stylistic skill, this sense of the sickening surreality of a state killing its citizens, and the emergence of a class of doctors positively slobbering at the thought of their next victim.

[M]edical professionals who decided early on to reorient their career toward assisted death no longer feel compelled to tiptoe around the full, energetic extent of their devotion to MAID. Some clinicians in Canada have euthanized hundreds of patients.

Dance dance revolution! Come to mama!

And now the writer poses some quite stupid questions, like this one:

If autonomy in death is sacrosanct, is there anyone who shouldn’t be helped to die?

Uh, yes, there are many people… uh… most people… who shouldn’t be helped to die, no matter how keen you are on the autonomy thing.

It all reminds UD of this Onion article:

‘GRAND RAPIDS, MI—Dr. James Munson, known to millions as the infamous “vehicular manslaughter doctor,” participated in his 23rd doctor-assisted vehicular manslaughter Monday, running over an 81-year-old Michigan woman.

Munson, who was arrested and charged with first-degree vehicular manslaughter in the incident, hit Mildred Peters of Portage, MI, with his 1994 Ford Escort in a supermarket parking lot, killing her instantly.

“She was clearly in terrible pain,” said Munson, who did not know the woman. “She was moving very slowly, and it was a struggle for her just to push the shopping cart to her car. I don’t even think she would have been able to lift her groceries into the trunk without help. All this woman wanted was to die in a dignified, painless manner. Thank God I was able to give her that chance.”

According to witnesses, after saying a prayer and lighting a candle, Munson got in his car and accelerated to an estimated 80 mph, hitting Peters head-on with the controversial four-wheeled euthanizing device.

Munson’s lawyer, Donald Ranieri, defended his client in a statement Tuesday. “Dr. Munson’s only interest is in easing the terrible pain of the nation’s elderly,” Ranieri said. “It is his deep conviction that no one should have to suffer through life with Multiple Sclerosis, arthritis, or high blood pressure.”

When informed of the incident, Peters’ daughter expressed relief that the woman’s suffering had finally ended.

“It had been years since my mother was able to live a normal life,” said Jayne Peters-Williams, 48. “She was so weak, she couldn’t climb long flights of stairs. She needed help getting in the tub. And if she just wanted to read, she had to put on a special pair of glasses. What kind of a life is that?”

“My mother’s suffering is over at last,” Peters-Williams said. “As her crumbling, withered body soared through the air after being hit by Munson, for one shining moment she was finally free.”

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on physician-assisted vehicular manslaughter without patient consent. Michigan is one of just five states that permit assisted vehicular manslaughter with consent of a family member.

The nation’s leading ethicists are divided on the issue of automotive euthanasia. While some, such as Hemlock Society president Milton Habisch, call it a “clean, effective” way to end the agony of chronic pain sufferers; others assert it creates more problems than it solves.

“The procedure is far from perfect,” said Elaine Curtis, co-director of the San Francisco-based What About The Children? foundation. “In 1991, his car ran out of gas just before he was about to hit a Goshen, IN, woman suffering from back pain, and he was forced to borrow the bicycle of a nearby child, riding over his victim an agonizing 175 times until she finally died of internal bruising.”

Dr. Munson’s controversial suicide device is controlled by two foot-activated levers, one for acceleration and one for braking. By pressing down hard on the acceleration lever, the machine increases in velocity to the point where anyone it is aimed at can be killed quickly and painlessly. As an added precaution, Munson anaesthetizes himself with a fifth of gin before each procedure.’

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Calabro’s Canada has mucho Munsons milling about, eyes out for the next Mildred Peters.

Here’s one of the Munsons, it seems; all creepy sterile anonymity in a queasy blue filter, and backgrounded by ghostly body linens.

My point ain’t that the author is necessarily wrong to worry about hard euthanasia cases, as well as about a tendency to broaden – call them admissions standards. My point is that she should not have laid on the propaganda so thickly. To the extent that the reader is aware of this manipulation, her argument suffers.

“The policy at Wesleyan is that our [country’s] president shouldn’t say stupid shit.” 

Comments in response to the FB announcement of gunfire at the Cuyahoga County Fair, Ohio.

https://www.facebook.com/cuyfair/posts/1213538350817112?ref=embed_post

Kids are out of control.

Had my one year old with me. Glad we left before this all went down.

Seriously why do people take guns to a fair?

This is so messed up. This is suppose to be a family fun event not for stupid people to be started crap and shooting people up in front of innocent people. Pretty soon there isn’t going to be anything for us to take our kids to because of this. So sad.

Can’t even enjoy fairs anymore. Summit County Fairgrounds had several incidents, with Stark County Fair and several others coming up. Anyway to increase security? “Random pat downs” , metal detector wands?

It was a miserable experience tonight kids out of control

It happened right in front of me. Once in a year thing, ruined.

He wrote The Story of Ferdinand.