Funny, one’s moments of communion with the dead.

Took a Picture This shot of a tall something growing out of one of my pots on the deck, and the name came back HAIRY ASTER.

UD said it aloud and started giggling. And giggling.

She said it aloud, slowly, to Mr UD, who laughed about it for exactly one second and then said to UD, who was still giggling, “It’s not that funny.”

“Herb Rapp lives,” said UD. “If my father were alive, he’d be laughing twice as long as I’m laughing.”

She meant to say, you know, that she got her sense of humor from her father.

Aw shucks, manufacturing, you flatter us.

‘Manufacturing could become a strong element of Wyoming’s economy, complimenting energy, agriculture and other sectors.

Cloud Nine


Economic inequality has reached a staggering milestone in Silicon Valley: just nine households hold 15% of the region’s wealth, according to new research from San Jose State University. A mere 0.1% of residents hold 71% of the tech hub’s wealth.

No one wants Dan Snyder’s cancerous house.

He got so desperate that he gave it to the … American Cancer Society. The idea is that they sell it and pocket the money – tens of millions, if there’s any justice in the world – for their good works.

But no one wants what is now the ACS’s house, a vast metastasized monument to greed and contempt.

No one has lived there for years.

And as the years go by, the ACS has attempted to solve its problem (taxes, upkeep, security?) through surgery. It has cut and cut and cut and cut the asking price for this diseased thing.

Today they did more cutting. It’s all the way down to $25 million.

“We never question God but this is one we just don’t understand.”

Buddy, you spend your life telling everyone God Loves Guns.

What’s not to understand?

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The Bible says in Romans 8:18, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”

I hope that the Adams take comfort in that verse. I hope they can one day look forward to their reunion with their son.

‘Sunday, just before 6:00 a.m., officers went to a shots-fired call at 218 Locust Drive.’

East Carolina U football players aren’t afraid to get up real early in the morning and get stuff done! Neighbors complained though and the players were arrested.

Two went quietly, while one hid in the house, hoping cops wouldn’t notice.

Their mug shots reveal a complex melange of emotions.

#1: KILL YOU FUCKERS

#2: Shitting my pants

#3: Mom and Dad are on their way to bond me out

‘Shocked and Praying Again, Kentucky Lawmakers have a Long Record of Doing Nothing About Gun Violence’

Great headline in Kentucky Lantern, which goes on to detail that state’s fierce commitment to its flag.

Whoops. I mean

UD’s quest to understand the Resurrection of Epstein continues.

JONATHAN ALTER:

Why is this so important to the MAGA base?

MICHAEL WOLFF:

I’m not sure. It seems contradictory, as Trump is most imperiled. But a mythology grew around Epstein as the epicenter of elites like Bill Clinton, and that’s what some believe Epstein might expose.

Oklahoma Drills, American-Style

“There was about 50 kids on [Panama City] beach when this happened, and they’re doing Oklahoma drills, and that’s where they run at each other and tackle one another. That ended up in an argument and fight which resulted in somebody firing a gun off.”

English as a Second Language, Declension Lesson:

FOOTBALL DRILLS

ARGUMENT

FIGHT

GUNFIRE

And? Compared to FIFA execs…

… he’s clean as a whistle!

It’s right out of a movie!

Gun battle outside of an LA nightclub in front of which many people await admission, or mill around at closing time, or something. A driver involved in the fight is shot, loses consciousness, and drives straight into the crowd! Zillions hurt, some critically. Wow! Can’t wait to see the footage.

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Update: Still a confused story; police are looking for a bald Hispanic gunman… ?

The crowd dragged the guy who rammed them out of his car and beat the shit out of him and the guy already had a gunshot in him which we can’t say much with certainty about this event but it’s clear this person had a very bad Friday night.

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https://www.facebook.com/boogiethaboogiemonstah/videos/1077821250657534

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So now it sounds as though after they dragged the (drunk?) driver out of his car, some passerby shot him.

This sounds very plausible. Very American.

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The increasingly reliable narrative of the event is one so familiar to UD.

The driver, drunk and disorderly, had been thrown out of the club; enraged, he got in his car and rammed it into people in front of the building.

I’ve seen this a lot of times; angry men who’ve been refused admission to venues, or thrown out, return with deadly weapons.

Open Quarry

‘Police reported that a man, acting erratically, used a victim’s firearm to fatally shoot him.

The victim had been exercising his legal right to openly carry the weapon when the suspect, identified as 36-year-old Kyle Capucci, managed to seize it.

Jeff Margetta, an educated gun owner, expressed concerns about open carry practices. “I see people open carry, and they do not watch their surroundings at all,” he said. “And that’s kind of a scary thought, because someone could come up behind them, take their gun, and then they’re liable for what happens.”

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Yeah but this guy’s way past liability concerns.

Deadbeat.

[H]e paid late nearly every month since moving in, missing several months entirely.

‘[Jeffrey Epstein was interested in] cryonics, an unproven science in which people’s bodies are frozen to be brought back to life in the future. Mr. Epstein told [one] person that he wanted his head and penis to be frozen.’

His friend Trump has venous insufficiency. Epstein himself had … call it penous insufficiency. He was unable – or the good Lord didn’t grant him enough time – to eternalize his erection, to unbound his boner, to superannuate his stiffy.

Age/death caught up with both men; yet Epstein now enjoys the immortality he so passionately sought!

UD thought his 2019 suicide was the end of his Kafkan run, but she was very very wrong. He’s the talk of the town, the thing the Dems think will bring the prez down, the thing that will turn Trump’s smile to a frown.

Color UD amazed. Everyone knew Trump was a sexual degenerate when they voted for him. UD doesn’t understand why he needs to care about late-entry evidence. I’m watching the whole thing with bafflement.

Georgetown University sure does know how to pick ’em.

Jonathan Brown, slavery-apologist extraordinaire, is just Part One.

You can still find Georgetown boasting about hoppin’ Shon Hopwood – sentenced just today for his latest, er, outburst – here. Veteran bad guy Shon was enacting one of those personal redemption stories of which we are so fond until his temper did him in again. Tsk.

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