Violence and chaos at a soccer game? What next??

If you’re going to be daft enough to stage one of these riots, you should at least warn non-combatants to stay away.

Limerick

Professor of Medicine Pinder

Wants Trump to be crushed to a cinder

She sent out a tweet

Said his death would be sweet

Her career is now all blown to flinders

Godcrooks are the BEST crooks.

Crypto pastor gets it said.

The Division of Securities is not fighting against me, they’re fighting against God, and they will lose… I had to give $500,000 to the IRS for some tax debts, then the Lord said to start remodeling our house… People trusted the Lord with their money. As we said, pray about it and then do what you want and they bought in. It’s no different than Moses leading the Israelites out of the wilderness. So, no, I don’t feel bad, because I know what God is going to do. Now, does it look bad from a natural perspective? Of course it does, it looks like death. But that’s how God works.

Belated July 4 post.

Amid the happy revelry, this totally not into it girl, kitted out in the stars and stripes, caught UD‘s eye and became this year’s iconic image of the iconic Garrett Park, MD parade.

UD loves ancient mosaics…

… and didn’t know – until her friend Tammy told her – that some of the Antioch Mosaics were just down the street from ‘thesda at the Baltimore Museum. Tammy and I went there together the other day and it was thrilling to see them, arranged around a sunny atrium.

Art in…

… Albuquerque.

What started as an art show near Juan Tabo and Constitution quickly spiraled into a chaotic scene filled with gunshots and ended with a multi-vehicle car crash.

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This first sentence could be a template for future NM cultural events.

What started as a classroom discussion of Husserl’s influence on Merleau-Ponty quickly spiraled into a chaotic scene filled with gunshots and ended with scattered dismembered bodies.

What started as a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Swans” quickly spiraled into a chaotic scene filled with gunshots and ended with a pile of bloody tutus.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled …

programming.

We’ve really outdone ourselves …

now.

‘Gambia’s Parliament is set to vote on decriminalizing FGM in response to a campaign based on Islam — the majority religion —, rejection of the West, medical fake news and pure misinformation. If the ban is overturned, Gambia will become the first country in the world to roll back protections against the human rights violation that affects 234 million women and is on the rise, according to UNICEF.’

You read dat right. Gambia’s had just about enough of babies crawling around with their clits on.

Like massacres at Mafia funerals…

… double-decker death becomes more frequent in gun-soaked America. Here, a few miles from UD, attendees are killed at a memorial for three people who were killed.

Let’s go for another! Let’s do a massacre at the funeral of the person who was killed at the memorial of the three people.

This is fun! Let’s shoot down witnesses testifying in the trial of the shooter at the memorial service!!

Parents in the United States are buying bulletproof backpacks, children are being traumatized by mass shooting drills, and an increasing number of people stay away from crowded events because they’re worried they’re going to be shot.

As long as enough sitting ducks are still willing to go to parties, parades, memorial services, etc., etc., America will keep its appointment with death.

Post-latest-massacre, a local Kentucky reporter addresses the bloodthirsty hounds.

Gun violence is not “unfathomable evil” and will not be stopped with thoughts or prayers or burying good gun legislation in the basement of the Capitol. 

Gun violence is fathomable and preventable, and it continues to go unchecked here in Kentucky because our GOP supermajority, in their unfathomable cowardice, refuses to grow up and address it.

Just today, he’s called Zelenskyy Putin…

… and VP Harris Trump.

Teehee. Love all the shit about how did he get a gun.

Lots of articles like this in the aftermath of the latest bloodbath. A notorious, dangerous, felon! How in the world….?

 I burst out laughing at you, and call your gun-availability question a silly thing!  (Paraphrasing Monty Python.) Little Chase no doubt lived in a house where everyone ate, slept, shaved, showered, beat off, and shit with guns. ‘Member the gun-glutted Murdaughs? Boy I say boy ain’t no one down in y’all and shut ma mouth land who ain’t stewing in guns every minute of every god damn day and you wanna know how a twenty year old psychotic with a violent record got a gun? How did he not get a gun? How in Florence KY do you avoid having a gun?

‘As the fund’s collapse was beginning in March 2021, Andy Mills, top brass at Archegos and a former president of The King’s College, a Christian college in New York, sent an email to another Archegos leader. “Pray that the markets rise tomorrow,” he wrote, according to documents from the prosecution.’

“The point at which your business plan requires divine intervention is the point at which you have a solvency problem,” said prosecutor Andrew Mark Thomas in closing arguments…

LOL. Scenes from America’s latest edition of Elmer Gantry.

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