Yours for fifteen million.

When junior Alex Acuna walks into John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring [Md.] to start his school day, he feels safe. But in the back of his mind, he says he’s also thinking that walking into the school means it could be his “last day alive.”  

The Guardian.

photo markus schreiber

Inside the closet? Like behind a closed door?

And now a newer version of events has the dog in a crate in the bathroom. In the bathroom? Is that where you crate your dog?

You remember the mysterious deaths of a young California family out hiking. It took some time to figure out how they, their baby, and their dog, died. Theories abounded, but it turned out to be the most likely: Extreme heat.

The Hackman deaths present an even greater puzzle, the first piece of which, for UD, is: Why did almost two weeks elapse before someone (not family; a maintenance man) found them? No housekeeper? No calls from the kids? Hackman was a frail 95 year old.

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Here, FWIW, is one scenario. Hackman’s 64 year old wife decided to kill herself after finding him dead (of a heart attack or whatever).

Authorities reportedly discovered Hackman’s body in the mudroom, in a similar state of decomposition [to his wife]; a deputy on the scene said it appeared he had “suddenly fallen.”

So he collapses and dies, and she, distraught, runs to the bathroom:

A deputy found [Betsy] Arakawa dead and lying on her side on the floor of a bathroom, a space heater near her head and scattered pills and an open prescription bottle on the counter. 

In a sudden, hysterical, decision, she hurls a bottle of pills down her throat and falls to the floor, or lies down on the floor, and stays there until she dies.

It’s remarkable how stupid Americans are. “Before we tackle any of our daunting specific problems here in America, we have to figure out how a country can solve any problem if so many of its people are so intractably, astoundingly, mind-numbingly stupid,” says Bill Maher. “And I’m not saying that as hyperbole or just out of frustration. I mean this country just might be empirically, verifiably too fucking dumb to continue as an ongoing enterprise.”

With our new health czar, we’re indeed well on our lethal way, killing our kids because we’re too fucking dumb to understand how vaccination works. This blog will follow the approaching horrible deaths of American children at the hands of their parents.

UD‘s county still hasn’t transformed its public schools into armed camps, with metal detectors and police everywhere, cuz it thinks it’s too classy for that sort of thing. Everybody else is doing it, but Bethesda? Chevy Chase? These are among America’s most affluent, most educated, blahblahblah…

So change has to come from the parents, not the deluded county council, which seems prepared to see students die on the altar of its self-regard.

A petition, in the wake of gun possession and gun fight incidents in just the last two weeks, is now circulating.

Get used to it.

Where humility is the greatest of the virtues.

A mother of school age kids worries about an already benighted state censoring hundreds of classic literary and historical works — I mean, they’re basically dismantling their school libraries down there…

Choosing to be dumber rather than smarter is, I guess, odd; but some people’s motives seem to ol’ UD pretty clear. If what props you up in life is the inerrancy of the Bible, the errancy of vaccines, and the advantages of authoritarianism over democracy you’re not gonna want to disturb that scaffolding.

At the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics last week, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was nearly apoplectic about the diversity spectacles at the recent Democratic National Committee meeting—where outgoing chair Jaime Harrison delivered a soliloquy about the party’s rules for nonbinary inclusion, and candidates for party roles spent the bulk of their time campaigning to identity-focused caucuses of DNC members.

Buttigieg said the meeting “was a caricature of everything that was wrong with our ability both to cohere as a party and to reach [out] to those who don’t always agree with us.” He went on to criticize diversity initiatives for too often “making people sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia.”

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Too right. But UD ain’t optimistic about things changing.

Yeah, well a kid already died of measles because unfortunately for the kid he/she lived in a state that thinks freedom means ignoring everything primitive cults within the state do (go, Texas!) — wouldn’t want to interfere with the fringe-Mennonite cluster out there that doesn’t educate or vaccinate its children. Too cute! Leave ’em be! It’s Trump DEI.

And just wait til a lot of other anti-vaxxers in Texas and New Mexico get a load of the effects of HUGELY contagious measles on their children.

Yes look out one of this country’s midget Madoffs is about to get sprung! See my 2009 post about psychogreedbeast (go to ‘Assets’) Marc Dreier, who served sixteen of the twenty years he got for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from I guess the same cohort that thought investing in Bernie M. would be a good idea. He’s featured prominently among the clemencied in this roundup:

Several white collar offenders are among those receiving clemency, including notorious BigLaw Ponzi schemer Marc Dreier, formerly of Dreier LLP, who in 2009 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling forged promissory notes and stealing from clients, in a scheme that cost investors and clients $400 million.

As the judge in his case pointed out, he got caught before he was able to steal Madoffian billions, so couldn’t be sentenced to 150 years like Bernie; but I’m not sure freeing him short of his full sentence was a good look, especially because the old guy no doubt has even at this late date much more larceny in him. Lock up your money.

A fifteen year old student packed heat at the school; mere days before, a fight involving a pretty large number of Bethesda Chevy Chase high school students plus gunfire took place in the middle of Bethesda. As administrators/security begin to crack down, they will certainly discover that the gangs at the school and/or isolated mentally disturbed students bring guns to campus on a regular basis.

But will there be a crackdown? Does BCC have, like, a principal? Is this person doing anything?

Authorities said they found 47 weapons, including the gun from Ferguson’s ankle holster, and more than 26,000 rounds of ammunition at the home.