At Drunken Stepfather, "EMILY AGNES OF THE DAY."
Monday, October 21, 2019
Jennifer Delacruz's Monday Forecast
Very warm late-October weather, with real fire danger from the winds.
Here's the spectacular Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Here's the spectacular Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego:
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Searing Moment in the Middle East
For the record, I'm not pleased with President Trump's handling of Syria and Turkey this past week or so. Not pleased at all. Yeah, I can dig the current public sentiment to wind things down, and end "regime change wars," but previous commitments should be honored and our dealings with allies should be respectful and up and up. It's especially disgraceful to cough up territory and control in places Americans have shed blood, to say nothing of fierce fighters like the Kurds.
Oh well.
At WaPo, "The hasty U.S. pullback from Syria is a searing moment in America’s withdrawal from the Middle East":
Oh well.
At WaPo, "The hasty U.S. pullback from Syria is a searing moment in America’s withdrawal from the Middle East":
The hasty U.S. pullback from Syria is a searing moment in America’s withdrawal from the Middle East https://t.co/Gk8dYbpM2N— Claire Berlinski (@ClaireBerlinski) October 17, 2019
BEIRUT — The blow to America’s standing in the Middle East was sudden and unexpectedly swift. Within the space of a few hours, advances by Turkish troops in Syria this week had compelled the U.S. military’s Syrian Kurdish allies to switch sides, unraveled years of U.S. Syria policy and recalibrated the balance of power in the Middle East.More.
As Russian and Syrian troops roll into vacated towns and U.S. bases, the winners are counting the spoils.
The withdrawal delivered a huge victory to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who won back control of an area roughly amounting to a third of the country almost overnight. It affirmed Moscow as the arbiter of Syria’s fate and the rising power in the Middle East. It sent another signal to Iran that Washington has no appetite for the kind of confrontation that its rhetoric suggests and that Iran’s expanded influence in Syria is now likely to go unchallenged.
It sent a message to the wider world that the United States is in the process of a disengagement that could resonate beyond the Middle East, said Hussein Ibish of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
“There’s a sense that the long goodbye has begun and that the long goodbye from the Middle East could become a long goodbye from Asia and everywhere else,” he said.
Images shared on social media underscored the indignity of the retreat. Departing U.S. troops in sophisticated armored vehicles passed Syrian army soldiers riding in open-top trucks on a desert highway. An embedded Russian journalist took selfies on the abandoned U.S. base in Manbij, where U.S. forces had fought alongside their Kurdish allies to drive out the Islamic State in 2015.
“Only yesterday they were here, and now we are here,” said the journalist, panning the camera around the intact infrastructure, including a radio tower and a button-powered traffic-control gate that he showed was still functioning.
“Let’s see how they lived and what they ate,” he said, before ducking into one of the tents and filming the soldiers’ discarded snacks.
On Arab news channels, coverage switched from footage of jubilant Syrian troops to scenes of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lavish receptions by the monarchs of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Washington’s most vital Arab allies in the Persian Gulf. The visits had been long planned, but the timing gave them the feel of a victory lap.
“This has left a bad taste for all of America’s friends and allies in the region, not only among the Kurds,” said a former regional minister who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to not embarrass his government, an American ally. “Many will now be looking for new friends. The Russians don’t abandon their allies. They fight for them. And so do the Iranians.”
It was the manner of the withdrawal, hastily called amid chaos on the battlefield as Turkish forces pushed deep into Syria, that gave the event such impact in the region, analysts said. Few had anticipated that the most advanced military in the world would make such a scrambled and hasty departure, even after President Trump signaled he would not endorse a war on behalf of the Kurds against a U.S. NATO ally.
Less than 48 hours before the withdrawal announcement, U.S. Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had given assurances that the troops would remain indefinitely, standing by their Kurdish partners to continue to hunt down the Islamic State.
But the Turks’ capture Sunday of a key highway that served as the U.S. troops’ main supply line revealed the fragility of a mission that had narrowly focused on the Islamic State fight while neglecting regional dynamics, including the depth of Turkish animosity to the Kurdish militia with which the United States had teamed up...
Tulsi Gabbard Slams Hillary Clinton, the 'Queen of Warmongers'
Just beautiful.
At Epoch Times, "Gabbard: Clinton Smeared Me Because ‘She Won’t be Able to Control Me’ If I’m Elected President."
And on Tucker's below:
At Epoch Times, "Gabbard: Clinton Smeared Me Because ‘She Won’t be Able to Control Me’ If I’m Elected President."
And on Tucker's below:
Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a ...
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) October 18, 2019
... powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) October 18, 2019
It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.
Lindsey Pelas
She's a cool tweep, responding frequently to her followers.
rawr pic.twitter.com/47Helb4W63
— Lindsey Pelas (@LindseyPelas) September 10, 2019
😚😚 pic.twitter.com/8etINdrtoV
— Lindsey Pelas (@LindseyPelas) September 24, 2019
my twins big like tia tamera 👯♀️ pic.twitter.com/GMRsKqQl8y
— Lindsey Pelas (@LindseyPelas) October 4, 2019
Hillary Clinton Asked to Leave Costco
From Ed Driscoll, at Instapundit, "I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still a satiric Website, before morphing into America’s Paper of Record..."
Hillary Clinton Asked To Leave Costco After Repeatedly Accusing Sample Lady Of Being A Russian Assethttps://t.co/G6UAE7bhSW
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 18, 2019
Kimberley Strassel on the Eric Metaxas Radio Show (VIDEO)
She's on tour to promote her book, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America.
And with Eric Metaxas:
And with Eric Metaxas:
Demi Lovato Leaked Photos
At LAT, "Demi Lovato’s nude photos leak after her Snapchat is hacked."
And Drunken Stepfather, "DEMI LOVATO SKINNY NUDES BEFORE THE OD OF THE DAY," and Celeb Jihad, "DEMI LOVATO LEAKS NEW SET OF NUDE PHOTOS."
And Drunken Stepfather, "DEMI LOVATO SKINNY NUDES BEFORE THE OD OF THE DAY," and Celeb Jihad, "DEMI LOVATO LEAKS NEW SET OF NUDE PHOTOS."
Detroit Couple Hoped to Make It Big in Hollywood, Now They're Homeless
Dashed hopes on the hard streets of L.A.
At the Los Angeles Times, "They came to L.A. to chase a Hollywood dream. Two weeks later, they were homeless":
At the Los Angeles Times, "They came to L.A. to chase a Hollywood dream. Two weeks later, they were homeless":
YES, LA DREAM ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE. They came to L.A. to chase a Hollywood dream. Two weeks later, they were homeless. Powerful @LATimescitybeat column https://t.co/nQp8jIbvYu— Shelby Grad (@shelbygrad) October 19, 2019
So many people come to L.A. carrying little else but big dreams. One misstep, one con, one stroke of bad luck can be all it takes to derail them.More.
I recently met a young couple from Detroit whose journey here started with great hope.
They arrived last spring in possession of a promise, $800, two backpacks and two duffel bags.
The promise was what had prompted them to leave home. But it was broken that first day, before they left LAX.
Their interactions in our city then began to fray so fast that two weeks later they were sleeping on our sidewalks.
I asked them if I could tell their story in part to remind us all how swiftly disaster can strike, but also as a nudge to contemplate how we treat others — our newcomers, our most vulnerable, those we routinely write off.
Why tell a person you’ll help them if really you won’t? Some people like to toy, cats pawing at mice.
In Detroit, Loxk Calhoun (pronounced Lock, born DaShawn), had been scraping by for two years on his own since his mother kicked him out at 18. He was thrilled when someone in the music business encouraged him to come to L.A. He describes himself as an audio engineer who also writes music and raps and performs. He wants to be better known. The guy from L.A. said if Loxk just flew out here, he’d put him up and help make that happen.
But Loxk got here and he didn’t. He offered no help at all. When Loxk called from LAX, he said he’d be out of town for a long time.
Loxk and his girlfriend, Bri Meilbeck, who just turned 24, suddenly had only each other. They were novice travelers. They’d been together just one month. In a giant city, they had no one else whose support they knew they could count on.
In a fix, Loxk called another contact on his phone — a music producer he hadn’t yet met. He was relieved when this virtual stranger said that he and Bri could come stay. But the West Hollywood house they arrived at, which looked like a mansion on the outside, turned out to have bedroom after bedroom crammed with bunk beds. Bri and Loxk didn’t know how many there were or even whose house it was.
They also didn’t know that the producer to whom they had given some money owed rent — until one night after dark they got the word that the landlord wanted them gone at once.
This was the moment when they slipped into homelessness and slipped out of the world as they’d known it. They were the only ones who noticed. They had just $50 left.
As they strained to lug all they owned out the door, they knew that they would have to own less. At a dumpster, they shed a lot of favorite clothes, including Bri’s pink Adidas track suit.
Where to go was a problem. They didn’t know L.A.
But there had been a moment during those early days when they were feeling so overwhelmed by the strangeness of it all that they needed to get away and be alone. So they’d splurged on a cheap room at the Las Palmas Hotel in Hollywood, which in “Pretty Woman” is where Julia Roberts lived in the tough times before Richard Gere.
They’d liked that little brush with fame, though there’d be no fairy-tale rescue for them. Now pushed out of the house, they went back to the Las Palmas and scaled the fence of the park next door. Trying not to be seen, they avoided the playground’s rubber mats and lay down on pavement under Bri’s faux fur coat. All that night, she kept her eyes open.
A couple of years earlier, Bri had gotten very close to finishing college. She’d had her act together. She’d never imagined this.
“I was very scared. You could hear people yelling and screaming. I thought someone was going to rob us,” she told me. On her phone, she searched the discussions on the social news website Reddit, typing in phrases: “I just became homeless,” “Where do homeless people go in L.A.?”
Early the next morning on Venice Beach, the two bummed a smoke from a homeless man with a dog. He offered up tips for their new life.
Wear fresh socks to avoid infections. Go to St. Joseph Center for help. He walked around with them looking for a tarp and pieces of cardboard for their bedding.
That night and for a few nights to come, until they could get their own, he let them sleep in his little tent, squeezed in with him and his German shepherd, in front of the Public Storage at 4th and Rose avenues...
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Saddleridge Fire, Porter Ranch, Los Angeles (VIDEO)
Classic Rock Show, 'All Along the Watchtower' (VIDEO)
I literally listen to this every day. Mindbogglingly good.
The band's website is here. I wish they'd tour the U.S., man.
The band's website is here. I wish they'd tour the U.S., man.
Jennifer Delacruz's Saturday Forecast
I haven't seen Ms. Jennifer in a while --- she's spectacular!
It's hot and fiery weather, though. Take it easy out there if you're in California.
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
It's hot and fiery weather, though. Take it easy out there if you're in California.
At ABC News 10 San Diego:
Friday, October 11, 2019
Shepard Smith Out at Fox News
I don't watch shep, so I missed his live announcement.
At AoSHQ:
At AoSHQ:
how can you not love Ace's HQ?https://t.co/BsRObYRb1O— SynodeAmazonie Aka Heresy Island (@lamblock) October 11, 2019
Alexis Ren Stunt Team (VIDEO)
Seen on Twitter:
Rehearsals for south of the border music video ❤️ only had one day for rehearsals but my stunt team kicked my butt for 6 hours 😂 pic.twitter.com/Biua09Lw5c— Alexis Ren (@AlexisRenG) October 10, 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
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