This was my elementary school!
I attended Villa Park Elementary for 4th through 6th grade.
Not good. Not good.
At CBS News 2 Los Angeles, "Rat Infestation Spreads at Orange County Elementary School."
Monday, June 12, 2017
Today's Deals
At Amazon, Gold Box Deals.
See, especially, Father's Day Watches.
And, Amazon Echo - White.
More, Mountain House Just In Case...Classic Assortment Bucket.
Plus, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) - White.
Here, Mad Grit: The Best Double Camping Hammock Includes: 2 Free Bonus Hanging Tree Straps and Carabiners - Ultralight Portable Compact Parachute Nylon Perfect for Outdoor Backpacking, Beach, Backyard, Camping.
BONUS: Catherine Merridale, Lenin on the Train.
See, especially, Father's Day Watches.
And, Amazon Echo - White.
More, Mountain House Just In Case...Classic Assortment Bucket.
Plus, AmazonBasics Apple Certified Lightning to USB Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) - White.
Here, Mad Grit: The Best Double Camping Hammock Includes: 2 Free Bonus Hanging Tree Straps and Carabiners - Ultralight Portable Compact Parachute Nylon Perfect for Outdoor Backpacking, Beach, Backyard, Camping.
BONUS: Catherine Merridale, Lenin on the Train.
Stop Pretending You're Not Rich
Here's Richard V. Reeves, at the New York Times:
And his book's out tomorrow, at Amazon, Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It.
Opinion: "Imagine my horror at discovering that the United States is more calcified by class than Britain" https://t.co/h25WWCkqUy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 11, 2017
And his book's out tomorrow, at Amazon, Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It.
Rule 5 Monday
Well, here's to get things going, at the Other McCain, "Rule 5 Sunday: Summertime Girls."
Also, at Odie's, "Elevators ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style."
And, a Page 3 flashback, "FILM STRIP: Sabine Jemeljanova is more than just a roaring success as a model after starring in spoof horror - The model turned actress enjoyed howls of laughter in Strippers vs. Werewolves - along with a few hairy moments."
(On Twitter as well, "Sexy Sabine Saturday.")
More, at Drunken Stepfather, "SELENA GOMEZ OF THE DAY." Plus, at Taxi Driver, "Selena Gomez Slight Nipple Peek."
BONUS: Amber Rose.
Also, at Odie's, "Elevators ~OR~ Rule 5 Woodsterman Style."
And, a Page 3 flashback, "FILM STRIP: Sabine Jemeljanova is more than just a roaring success as a model after starring in spoof horror - The model turned actress enjoyed howls of laughter in Strippers vs. Werewolves - along with a few hairy moments."
(On Twitter as well, "Sexy Sabine Saturday.")
More, at Drunken Stepfather, "SELENA GOMEZ OF THE DAY." Plus, at Taxi Driver, "Selena Gomez Slight Nipple Peek."
BONUS: Amber Rose.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
W. August Mayer, Islamic Jihad, Cultural Marxism, and the Transformation of the West
*BUMPED.*
My copy cameyesterday last week.
I'm so glad I came across this little tome.
At Amazon, W. August Mayer, Islamic Jihad, Cultural Marxism, and the Transformation of the West.
My copy came
I'm so glad I came across this little tome.
At Amazon, W. August Mayer, Islamic Jihad, Cultural Marxism, and the Transformation of the West.
Jennifer Delacruz's Drizzle and Fog Forecast
It's going to be cloudy and wet on the coasts, but warmer inland. And then the high pressure's coming for the middle of the week, with increasing temperatures.
Time to get out and enjoy some of the beautiful weather we've got on tap!
Here's the beautiful Ms. Jennifer with the forecast, for ABS News 10 San Diego:
Time to get out and enjoy some of the beautiful weather we've got on tap!
Here's the beautiful Ms. Jennifer with the forecast, for ABS News 10 San Diego:
Democrats See Growing Split Between Party and Base
With Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party basically coming out the winner in Britain's general election, we saw all kinds of quick hot takes about how Democrats should have nominated Bernie Sanders (at least on Twitter).
I also saw someone (I've forgotten who) arguing that the populist/nationalist wave has crested (at 538?). I guess that means hardcore socialists are about to come to power, right?
Actually, no. The fact is Corbyn's still the leader of the shadow cabinet. We'll see if we have another election in Britain this year, as some have argued, but in the U.S. it's well over a year until the congressional midterms. A lot can happen in the meanwhile. And for 2020? Won't Bernie be pushing 80 by then? The Democrats need to deepen the bench. Sheesh.
In any case, at the New York Times, "Democrats in Split-Screen: The Base Wants It All. The Party Wants to Win":
It's all baloney.
It's going to take a massive wave election in 2018 to topple the Republican majority in Congress, especially in the House.
And it's about 18 months until the 2018 midterms. Dems should curb their enthusiasm a little, heh.
Still more.
I also saw someone (I've forgotten who) arguing that the populist/nationalist wave has crested (at 538?). I guess that means hardcore socialists are about to come to power, right?
Actually, no. The fact is Corbyn's still the leader of the shadow cabinet. We'll see if we have another election in Britain this year, as some have argued, but in the U.S. it's well over a year until the congressional midterms. A lot can happen in the meanwhile. And for 2020? Won't Bernie be pushing 80 by then? The Democrats need to deepen the bench. Sheesh.
In any case, at the New York Times, "Democrats in Split-Screen: The Base Wants It All. The Party Wants to Win":
Democrats are facing a struggle between the demands of their liberal base and the limits of their power https://t.co/0amCdyaUDY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 11, 2017
DUNWOODY, Ga. — Democrats are facing an open breach between the demands of their political base and the strict limits of their power, as liberal activists dream of transforming the health care system and impeaching President Trump, while candidates in hard-fought elections ask wary independent voters merely for a fresh chance at governing.Pfft.
The growing tension between the party’s ascendant militant wing and Democrats in conservative-leaning terrain, where the party must compete to win power in Congress, was on vivid, split-screen display over the weekend: in Chicago, where Senator Bernie Sanders led a revival-style meeting of his progressive devotees, and in Atlanta, where Democrats are spending colossal sums of money in hopes of seizing a traditionally Republican congressional district.
It may be essential for Democrats to reconcile the party’s two clashing impulses if they are to retake the House of Representatives in 2018. In a promising political environment, a drawn-out struggle over Democratic strategy and ideology could spill into primary elections and disrupt the party’s path to a majority.
On the one hand, progressives are more emboldened than they have been in decades, galvanized by Mr. Sanders’s unexpected successes in 2016 and empowered by the surge of grass-roots energy dedicated to confronting an unpopular president and pushing the party leftward.
Mr. Sanders rallied his youthful, often-raucous coalition Saturday night at a gathering named the “People’s Summit,” where supporters hailed him in worshipful language. One Colorado couple hauled a small banner through the hangar-size McCormick Place, pleading with Mr. Sanders, a still-independent Vermont senator, to create a new “People’s Party.”
Mr. Sanders and many attendees enthused over the surprise showing of the British Labour Party, under the left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn, in last week’s election. Democrats can electrify voters, they warned, only by embracing the Sanders agenda of universal health care, free college tuition and full employment.
Speaking for just under an hour, Mr. Sanders — who was met with chants of “Bernie, Bernie” and pleas of “2020!” — crowed that while he may have lost the 2016 primary, “we have won the battle of ideas and we are continuing to win that battle.”
He assailed President Trump in blistering terms, but earned some of his loudest cheers for attacking the party whose nomination he sought last year. “The current model and the current strategy of the Democratic Party is an absolute failure,” Mr. Sanders said to booming applause, arguing that Democrats need “fundamental change.”
“The Democratic Party must finally understand which side it is on,” he said.
Yet the party’s elected leaders, and many of its candidates, are far more dispassionate, sharing a cold-eyed recognition of the need to scrounge for votes in forbidding precincts...
It's all baloney.
It's going to take a massive wave election in 2018 to topple the Republican majority in Congress, especially in the House.
And it's about 18 months until the 2018 midterms. Dems should curb their enthusiasm a little, heh.
Still more.
Kylie Jenner Wears Camouflage Bikini to Launch New Collection
At London's Daily Mail, "Kylie Jenner reports for bikini duty! Reality star poses camo swimsuit to model new army inspired collection."
Controversy followed, "Fashion brand accuses Kylie Jenner of COPYING its camo clothes with near-identical designs - and shares emails from the star's team who placed an order just a month ago."
Also at NME:
Controversy followed, "Fashion brand accuses Kylie Jenner of COPYING its camo clothes with near-identical designs - and shares emails from the star's team who placed an order just a month ago."
Also at NME:
Kylie Jenner accused of cultural appropriation and copying Destiny’s Child with camouflage bikinihttps://t.co/n41lguGuXq pic.twitter.com/2gCHedyaol
— NME (@NME) June 9, 2017
Jennifer Delacruz Sunshine Sunday Forecast
This video went live after I hit the hay last night.
It's warming up, getting sunny and warm, as we move into this week, and into summer.
Here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
It's warming up, getting sunny and warm, as we move into this week, and into summer.
Here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
California's Descent to Socialism
From Joel Kotkin, at the O.C. Register:
California is widely celebrated as the fount of technical, cultural and political innovation. Now we seem primed to outdo even ourselves, creating a new kind of socialism that, in the end, more resembles feudalism than social democracy.Keep reading.
The new consensus is being pushed by, among others, hedge-fund-billionaire-turned-green-patriarch Tom Steyer. The financier now insists that, to reverse our worsening inequality, we must double down on environmental and land-use regulation, and make up for it by boosting subsidies for the struggling poor and middle class. This new progressive synthesis promises not upward mobility and independence, but rather the prospect of turning most Californians into either tax slaves or dependent serfs...
Los Angeles Pride (LGBT) Parade Metastasizes Into #ResistMarch Against Trump Administration (VIDEO)
At Blazing Cat Fur, "Los Angeles Cancels ‘Gay Pride’ Parade (Held Every Year Since 1970) to Make Way for an Anti-Trump Parade."
The ideology of hate.
More at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
The ideology of hate.
More at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
My Apostasy from the Church of Critical Theory
From Reza Ziai, at Areo:
My Apostasy from the Church of Critical Theory | @Reza_Ziai https://t.co/5BtLu4KuXg— Areo Magazine (@areomagazine) June 2, 2017
In 1997 I earned a Masters degree in psychology from Duquesne University, a Catholic university in Pittsburgh, PA. At the time, Duquesne was one of only a few schools in the country with an emphasis in existential phenomenological psychology that was also accredited by the American Psychological Association. So, off I went.RTWT.
Twice a week, for three semesters I carried to class Being and Time, a bible-shaped book by Martin Heidegger (who, although his private beliefs are still contested, was, in fact, literally a Nazi) across a courtyard under a really creepy fifteen-foot tall statue of Christ’s now very well-known execution.
In virtually every class, I was told that all scientific knowledge, and even science itself was founded on Western cultural constructions and was to be regarded as hegemonic. And since each of the world’s various cultural viewpoints were enmeshed in their own historicity, each respective one (especially the Western one) could only be understood in terms relative to all the others. Accordingly, objective truths did not exist. We were all taught that “reality” was the exact equivalent of how you perceive it...
Isle of Man Tourist Trophy
A great piece, at the New York Times:
Somehow, he survived a crash during the world's most dangerous race [clarifies language; earlier tweet deleted] https://t.co/mahMEXzZAg
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 9, 2017
Somehow, he survived this crash during the Isle of Man TT. Many others were not so lucky. https://t.co/Z45NiVth91 pic.twitter.com/4dAFcEzAcJ
— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) June 8, 2017
New Coal Mine Opens in Pennsylvania
From Fox News Insider, via Paul Joseph Watson, on Twitter:
This is why Trump won Pennsylvania. https://t.co/GlrTNT8uxK
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) June 11, 2017
80 Ducklings Found Dead in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. (VIDEO)
That's sad.
Poor little things. They weren't bothering anyone, and now they're gone.
It's a nasty parasite infection, apparently. Talk about draining the swamp, sheesh.
Watch, at CNN, "80 ducks die in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool."
Also at the Washington Examiner, "Duck-killing parasites infest Lincoln Memorial's iconic pool."
Poor little things. They weren't bothering anyone, and now they're gone.
It's a nasty parasite infection, apparently. Talk about draining the swamp, sheesh.
Watch, at CNN, "80 ducks die in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool."
Also at the Washington Examiner, "Duck-killing parasites infest Lincoln Memorial's iconic pool."
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