So the city of Montreal is now officially taking down the Welcome to Montreal — women cover themselves here sign, due to loud and broad objection from its secular citizens.

But local hijab enthusiasts are complaining that women who dress in order to be invisible are in danger of being made invisible if the city takes down a sign depicting them as draped up and down in order to be … invisible…? Head neck hair torso arms legs all invisible but God forbid you make hijabis/body drapers invisible? Don’t make no sense.

Become what you are, sillies. If you’re dedicated to hiding the female body, go right ahead. But don’t complain that we’re erasing you.

The higher bond happened (a million bucks), but UD thinks the prosecuting attorney means cannot be overstated, cuz it’s hard to know how much higher you can go than 73 unsecured guns, multiple explosive devices, and plenty of methamphetamine all over a house with two kids, in an attached townhouse community.

Barbara, a reader, sent me this story out of Washington State, and UD is grateful she did, since these facts, in this our current USA, don’t add up to a big enough story to have appeared in UD‘s Google News searches…

His four year old son took Neff’s Glock from under his arm while he was sleeping (sleeping here is a euphemism for in meth oblivion), wandered over to the bathroom where his mother was showering, and shot her in the arm. Not sure who called the police (the father was still noticeably out of it when they arrived), but searching the house must have been quite a hoot.

Notice no neighbors have yet appeared before news cameras to say Well, they kind of kept to themselves but they seemed okay because… because why? WHY? I’ll tell you why! They don’t want to get detonated by their very own private Hitler, as in, THEY ARE SCARED FUCKING SHITLESS.

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And what to do with the children? Hm hm hmmmm. They love Daddy Demento! They love Dishrag Mom who, you know, KNOWS there’s something… uh, WRONG with Daddy and the guns and the meth and the bombs and the sketches he draws of murdering the neighbors but she loves him and he needs her and after all he’s not wrong that life sucks and killing yourself and your family I mean he’d never DO it but she can understand how …

What to do with the children when it’s actually hard to imagine a more disgusting domestic setting? Everyone hates the idea of foster care, so we have to hope there’s at least one non-degenerate family member or very close friend who knows and loves the children… ?

On the up side, Master Meth is out of the picture; someone else is going to have to clean and care for his 73 weapons while he’s in jail for the next ten years. But state officials have sympathy (we all do) for Women Who Love Not Wisely But Too Well, and while she will be facing drug/negligence/whatever charges, she probably won’t get any jail time…

OTOH it’s only a matter of time before she falls in love with someone even worse (let’s assume she’s also addicted to meth) and invites him to help raise the little ones plus he’ll knock her up a few times. No good options for the two innocents.

With the understanding that we can never assert anything with real confidence about any particular suicide, UD will nonetheless speculate that the death of a mad child-massacrist’s mother on August 1 had something to do with this emotion.

Her motive might have been a simpler one – she feared going to jail for whatever she might have contributed to her daughter’s notorious crime – but I don’t think she was likely to have been indicted. Her ex-husband, with whom the killer lived (he gave her the guns she used), is currently on trial.

But this woman – at various points in her life an addict, married to the killer’s father three times in a turbulent union clearly destructive to the killer’s mental health, and the mother of one of America’s most hideous shooters – might well have decided she’d had enough of the mess. She might have decided she didn’t want to testify in her ex-husband’s trial. She might have decided she hated herself too much to go on.

We’re revisiting the Red River massacre of 2023 — after which the town of Red River NM, population 500, decided no longer to host the Red River biker rally, attendees 28,000 — because the Sturgis SD biker/GUN rally is just wrapping up… And UD wouldn’t mind knowing how that went, public safety-wise.

This was Day One. How did the rest of the week go? I’ll try to find out.

… and through seven long years he stole and stole and stole from it. His reported haul was $1.4 million, but I’m thinking that’s all they could trace, cuz for a serious larcenist, capable of watching closeup while patients suffered due to … mysterious underfunding, less than three or four million over that period of time is unthinkable.

This story is about the perils of hospitals (and universities — recall the University of Louisville) which become stinky pigsties. They start attracting only pigs, and things get worse and worse. Nor are these pig pits about to detect the rootin’ going on inside them. By definition the only people left in the sty are thieves or idiots.

‘After Dershowitz Dustup, Islanders Line Up for Pierogi‘

‘Hundreds of people attended the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market this week to show support for the pierogi vendor who refused to sell dumplings to prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz at the market last week…‘

… won’t investigate high-ranking government/party thieves cuz … why? Cuz it’s Skeezy Greece! It has a reputation to uphold.

WAY Story of O.

SOOO not my world. (Although Anaconda’s county voted – just barely – for Kamala Harris!) But give me a Montana minute here; let a blue coastal elite take a gander at our country’s deep red, Number One For Suicide, state, as one of its towns grapples with a mass murder.

Lane “Shorty” Ruegamer, a regular at the Owl [Bar, site of the massacre], said he doubted Brown would attempt a return to Anaconda.

“He knows that every person down at the bottom of that hill has guns, and there’s no doubt in my mind that every person does,” Ruegamer said. 

Yeah but see here Shorty you’re thinking rationally; the paranoid schizophrenic who killed your buddies is a maniac who does not think rationally, ja? He comes bombing back into town, naked, trailing the dead birds he’s been snacking on, and announcing he’s a visitor from the neolithic era; and before you can say Heckler & Koch HK G11 ACR he’s killing you and your kids.

That’s the problem with arming crazy people – don’t make no never mind how many weapons you’ve stored up. They’re going to surprise you. It took a raving lunatic to just park his car in the middle of Park Avenue and just walk up to folks in a Manhattan lobby and just powpowpow … That’s fucking nuts and that’s why it worked so well. Your local killer’s not going Oh everyone’s got guns so I better stay clear. He doesn’t think the way you do, and maybe if your local police/medical establishment had hold of that fact a little earlier…

… is an old Spanish tradition where the truth about their bogus advanced degrees is loosed on politicians, and then they all run like hell from it.

UD thanks Dirk, a reader, for linking her to the Guardian‘s painstaking account of each liar from across the ideological spectrum, including one nervous nellie who kept fakery-fussing:

Juan Manuel Moreno, the president of the PP-led Andalusian regional government, has been asked to explain the apparent vicissitudes of his CV, which stated in 2000 that he had a degree in business management. The qualification was modified in 2004 to “studies in business management”, before being upgraded in 2008 to a master’s in the same subject.

Apparent vicissitudes is excellent.

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Memory lane.

[David Jabarek] isn’t afraid of the prospect of [mass shooter Michael] Brown returning [to town].

“Everybody around here has two dozen firearms in their house, and right now they’re within hands reach,” Jabarek said.

‘Avrum Burg, former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, former interim President of Israel, former chair of the Jewish Agency, former chair of the World Zionist Organization, writes, “Could it be that the current State of Israel, that its body stronger than ever and its spirit deader than ever, no longer deserves to exist? Not because of what happened on October 7, but because of everything that came before, and everything that has erupted since….The destruction of Gaza is a damning indictment of Israel’s moral bankruptcy. And we must face the truth: Israel without an ethical foundation has no justification to exist.”‘

‘Adam Turck, 35, was shot Saturday morning while intervening in a domestic dispute he came across while walking his dog in Shockoe Bottom. When Turck intervened, a 19-year-old male produced a gun from a backpack and shot him.‘

Turck was a high-profile, much-beloved actor in the local theater scene; Shockoe Bottom is the most notorious neighborhood in a bunch of notorious violent Richmond neighborhoods. Note that his killing took place in the morning; you don’t have to wait until dark to get blown away in Richmond.

Read this for the cultural reality behind the killing.

‘Many [young people] aren’t coming for the clubs or bars. They’re just there, hanging out in the streets and often armed. There’s no event, no promoter, no leadership. Just music, cars, and open carry.

From a public safety standpoint, it’s a mess. From a business standpoint, it’s a slow death.

… One of the biggest changes? Guns.

Open carry is legal in Virginia. And the kids know it. The result is a flood of social media videos: AR-15s slung over shoulders, Glocks waved on Snapchat, drill videos filmed just blocks from where someone might be trying to have a date night.

“It’s not even about protection anymore,” [says one observer]. “It’s status.”

… . “People don’t feel safe,” he [says]. “And when that happens, nobody comes downtown.”

The deeper fear, though, the one no one wants to say out loud, is that one of these nights, it won’t just be posturing. It’ll be a shootout.‘

‘Trump’s Rewriting of Reality on Jobs Numbers is Chilling, but it Could Backfire‘

… is still alive?