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.

‘The Russians used to joke about Brezhnev that his daily routine ran as follows: reanimation, makeup, banquet, awards ceremony, clinical death.’

Very broad field lately for old age jokes.

It’s what I was trying to tell you…

here. The fancier the neighborhood, the scummier your neighbors. How many times must I tell you this?

You’re finally able to afford a 60 million dollar mansion in LA’s fanciest neighborhood of them all – Holmby Hills. But you forgot Fran Lebowitz’s famous reminder: “No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.”

Example: Your next door neighbor used his position as Armenia’s minister of finance to take as much money out of the country as he could through bribes; and now you get to watch the feds gather on his driveway and go through all of his possessions.

I mean, if you wanted to watch the police remove your neighbor’s furniture right there in front of his house, you could have saved money and moved to South Carolina.

But maybe you don’t care that more than a few of your neighbors are domestic and international criminals. You’re probably one yourself.

In the matter of fraternities, esp. at gin-soaked gutters like Dartmouth, UD has always been a bit perplexed.

You can read years of frat atrocities on that campus here, if you’ve got the stomach; but if you just want the very latest —

A frat that had recently had its wrist slapped by this infinitely indulgent school seems to have killed a guy. (“Beta was on alcohol probation at the time of [Won] Jang’s death, following a suspension in the fall, winter and spring terms.”) Hazing, mucho booze, and a nearby river seem to have been the classic ingredients in this most recent case, and we can expect all the usual worthless responses – suspending the frat, offering a settlement/being sued by the poor babe’s parents, possible charges against the sadists of Beta Alpha Omega, blah blah. Ecoute: Dartmouth’s the school of choice for the children of wealthy sadistic alcoholics. Booze is its brand, and that ain’t gonna change. A little rape/carnage is the cost of doing business.

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Update: Of course, Dartmouth can’t hold a candle to Oklahoma State.

 If you pick Oklahoma State — and if you’re regarded as someone who can help the [football] team win — you can have six or seven beers and get behind the wheel of a car and you won’t get punished by the coach.

‘Tehran Police Close Turkish Airlines Office after its Employees Defy Iran’s Headscarf Law’

Gotta admire Iran’s “Cap and Pray” economic policy: Shut down all businesses where women don’t wear a scarf. Absofuckinglutely brilliant.

FREE AND ARMED DESPITE FELONY CONVICTION

Chase Garvey faced a felony charge two years ago that could have put him behind bars for years and barred him from carrying a gun.

But early Saturday morning, police say, Garvey was free and armed when he walked into a home in Florence and opened fire on a crowd of people gathered for a birthday party, killing four.

Garvey, 21, was on probation after pleading guilty to the felony charge in 2022 that accused him of having sex with a 13-year-old in the parking lot of a Fort Mitchell apartment complex.

The plea was to a lesser charge than the rape charge Garvey initially faced, but it carried a possible sentence of up to five years in prison. Though he was sentenced to probation instead, he still could not legally possess a gun because he was a felon.

Good ol Kentucky.

Update: Free and armed to slaughter everyone he knows. “We haven’t heard yet how he got a gun but it’s not like it’s hard to do around here.” Rumor has it his father bought him one illegally. If true, this should be another Crumbley trial.

‘Speaking to The New Arab on condition of anonymity, a source who worked for a while close to Abdel-Latif said that the minister has never set foot in a classroom and [does not] have the qualifications to run education in the Arab World’s most populous country.’

Ooch. Ouch. Eech.

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