The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Stuffing Out! (on the town)

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 4:15pm |

    It's stuffy in here...

     

    Prior stuff: http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/hr-puffer-stuffer-relocated-32074

    Comments

    Scots tape (Odd Lang Sign)

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-...


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 4:16pm

    Nate Silver just warnin' about Black and Hispanic voters:

     


    by artappraiser on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 11:09pm

    heh I am glad I am not watching tonite:


    by artappraiser on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 11:35pm

    p.s. it was bad, he says he could use more time than CNN gave him:

     


    by artappraiser on Wed, 08/26/2020 - 11:39pm


    by artappraiser on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 2:31am

    Say their names?

    Heckuva job Trumpie?

    It's madness. Why haven't people from Florida removed their governor? Remember when Schwarzenegger became governor by recall vote?


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 2:55am

    Say their names indeed, I'm sure many of them were Afro-American. Remember when we were supposed to care about that? Instead everyone, including wealthy basketball players, Obama and Biden and numerous anarchists who would like to see the federal government fall, are encouraging staying on meme with solidarity with anti-police protests as a top priority right now to offer a lifeline to the Trump campaign. Start to wonder whether somehow the cop in Kenosha was a Putin agent. The lack of perspective, geez. It's just as irrational as white evangelical republicans caring a great deal about fetuses and very little about suffering live children. I'm getting sick of hearing how dumb Fox news viewers are, there's plenty of dumb people on the left who imagine police abuse has continuously going up (rather than slowly going down)  instead of realizing that what really happened, what they are seeing, is the results of everyone having a video camera. Maybe we need to video cam every single Covid death and disability


    by artappraiser on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 3:39am

    globalist Christian conspiracy to quit hating the other for what "they" did

    (Is anniversary of Christchurch massacre in NZ)


    by artappraiser on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 3:12pm

    The more Jared on teevee, the better chance Biden has?

    "Jared Kushner, the son of a billionaire whose only professional achievements have been handed to him by members of his family, has taken a bold swipe at NBA players for their wealth and privilege."

    Per @JamieRoss7: https://t.co/rDrNTnBw4q

    — Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) August 27, 2020

    “You have, like, the dopest job in the world, the secretary of everything,”

    --Van Jones to Jared Kushner, on air, unedited.

    — Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 27, 2020

    Now Kushner says he wants to " reach out to" @KingJames , for what, so he can make Jared cry.

    — Slygrammy5 (@SharonCoryell3) August 27, 2020

     


    by artappraiser on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 4:52pm

    I am coming to the conclusion that most Dem mayors overall seem to think looting as well as vandalism of community property is both wrong and illegal:

    Let's be clear: it is wrong and illegal to use federal property and taxpayer resources for partisan campaigning.

    — Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) August 28, 2020

    And then there's them who think Trump rules rule and what good for the goose is good for the gander and those who feel like their tribe has been victimized and are willing to grab deserve what they can get away with.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 8:24pm

    It's socialism for anyone smart enough to steal from big international banks or Magnificent Mile luxury boutiques and the rest of you schlumpfs are screwed?

    This whole meme gvies me a deja vus allover again from NYC back in the Reagan era, there were corporate raiders and following in their example, there were also dudes if they needed a car they just pulled out a gun and hijacked one, and if the needed those sneakers or a Walkman, they just used a knife to get one. Cause after all, Carl Icahn and Ronnie said it was okay, better than being a welfare queen, showing some gumption hustle and work ethic, not just sitting on the sofa collecting gummint checks...


    by artappraiser on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 8:32pm

    Every one except the looters and some of the activists think the looting and violence is wrong. But the only way to stop violence is with violence. That's the problem but eventually they're going to have to face it. It's not going to burn itself out. The looters and the violent aren't going to just get tired of it and stop.


    by ocean-kat on Thu, 08/27/2020 - 9:26pm

    Melania & the Heathers


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/28/2020 - 12:50pm

    The Onion just dug up and tweeted this March, 2018 piece. I'd love to have listened in on the discussion about doing that:

     


    by artappraiser on Fri, 08/28/2020 - 9:02pm


    by artappraiser on Fri, 08/28/2020 - 10:34pm

    since I see a lot of sturm and drang after the GOP convention small "bounce" in Trump numbers, I thought this was a nice contarian tweet to that zeitgeist:


    by artappraiser on Sat, 08/29/2020 - 11:03pm

    Melania and Jared Kushner and Ivanka are big fans of the Kennedys and their Camelot myth. “It’s no coincidence that all three of their children—Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore—share names with Kennedy family members. Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy and Joseph Kennedy you know; Arabella Kennedy was JFK and Jackie’s stillborn daughter,” Winston Wolkoff writes.

    Creepy.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/30/2020 - 3:11am

    about new astroturf hashtag on Twitter:


    by artappraiser on Sun, 08/30/2020 - 10:41pm


    by artappraiser on Sun, 08/30/2020 - 11:56pm

    Black Chicagoan M.D. (a pediatric cardiovascular specialist) and Cubs fan angrily tweets that Jason Heyward should go fuck himself:

    On 7/31 #JanariRicks 9 y/o was shot in the chest on his porch, his mother held him while he died. Heyward went 2-4. The next day #JasonHeyward went 1-4. 38 children have died from gun violence in Chicago and you commend him for sitting out NOW. You and he can fuck yourselves.

    — Montrose Halsted M.D. (@MontroseYou) August 28, 2020

    (I googled-he's for real.)

     


    by artappraiser on Sun, 08/30/2020 - 11:05pm

    The death of tradition

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/01/frank-fisher-butchers-shop-...


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 10:08am

    Where's the outrage? Ducks should be able to walk wherever they want to!

    Japanese police guiding a family of ducks while talking to them. pic.twitter.com/6EhkPR1HYl

    — Akki (@akkitwts) September 1, 2020

    It's like a forced march for chrissake. Japanese still up to their same old fascist tricks.

     


    by artappraiser on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 10:59am

    They understand arrows?


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 10:59am

    I noticed that too. surprise


    by artappraiser on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 11:00am

    Obviously, but again we see cops who don't understand the community they're policing. I'm sure the ducks saw the red background and thought it meant stop. Next thing you see is the cops misunderstanding the confusion for resistance and they shoot some poor little duckling.


    by ocean-kat on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 11:09am

    Is clear that demanding order necessitates fascism! Chaos is freedom. Ducks should be able to chose where they want to walk, whether they want to wear a face mask or carry a gun. And cars should be able to drive over them if they can't learn to walk fast enough.


    by artappraiser on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 11:43am

    To keep 'em in line, have to break a few eggs. Birds of a feather, y'know. 


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 12:15pm

    Bataan Rouge?


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 11:04am

    what a country! surprise

     


    by artappraiser on Tue, 09/01/2020 - 8:00pm

    apparently rules of what White House press conferences are for have descended to the absolute depths of petty political hell:

    .@PressSec Kayleigh McEnany: "We found Nancy Pelosi going into her hair salon. We will be playing the video on loop for all of you to see during the duration of this introduction...Apparently the rules do not apply to Speaker Nancy Pelosi."

    Full video: https://t.co/6bTwrMa5OG pic.twitter.com/rfDCWOCPpV

    — CSPAN (@cspan) September 3, 2020

    Easy to play if that's your game: I wonder how Kayleigh gets her fancy blond highlighting, blowouts with curling iron work, eyebrow and eyelash extensions, television makeup jobs and fancy manicures

     


    by artappraiser on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 4:23pm

    I admit I am a teeny bit envious > if we only had this charge on the internet:

    WATCH: NY officer tells protester they're being arrested for "being an idiot" https://t.co/BfcshqmEeb pic.twitter.com/ryVrJYddRx

    — The Hill (@thehill) September 4, 2020

    The whole video is interesting beyond the quip in the headline. It's Rochester, not NYC.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 10:43pm

    Wisconsin grad does good kinda

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/03/us/jessica-krug-gwu-black-trnd/index....


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 09/04/2020 - 1:04am

    oy, that story is gonna rile them, it's gonna be all over talk radio. Affirmative action & cheatin' college elites all in one story, both some of the least favorite things in Wisconsin, .my great grandpa came from (pick a European country) to Ellis Island with two cents in his pocket and nobody ever gave him anything....my great grandma scrubbed floors on her hands and knees..worked the farm for food with a full time job in a factory...even the inner city version, it's get off your ass kid, nobody's gonna give you nothing..


    by artappraiser on Fri, 09/04/2020 - 1:23am

    For those of you not keeping up with pop culture manifestations of politics: Cardi B vs. Candace O.


    by artappraiser on Sun, 09/06/2020 - 9:16pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 1:36am

    Shopping Channel 2020

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/06/business/china-livestream-shopping-sp...


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 2:20am

    Neil Kinnock on Biden’s plagiarism 'scandal' and why he deserves to win: ‘Joe’s an honest guy'

    In a 1987 Democratic primary debate, Biden sprinkled Kinnock’s phrases into his own speech and forgot to credit him – a blunder many believe cost him the presidency

    @ TheGuardian.com, Sept. 7


    by artappraiser on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 5:25am


    by artappraiser on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 6:11am

    hoist on his own petard at only 19 (hey kid, imagine you lived several more decades, all the identity groups you might have to apologize to according to your standards):


    by artappraiser on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 1:34pm

    He seems ok, but why not vote in the girlfriend - esp. if she's bi- and of color. We shouldn't let regressive values drag us back to the past.


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 3:01pm

    Bony shark screws genetic line -

    start over, more cohesion this time

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/07/fossil-upends-theory...


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 3:09pm

    Again: what a country!

    $2,225 raised of $200,000 goal (I checked)

     


    by artappraiser on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 12:44am

    Here's apparently an easy peasy way to git over $300K through 15 min. of fame:

    Don't underestimate the hatred of Pelosi and overall hatred of what many people think is the "phoniness" of politicians


    by artappraiser on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 12:28am

    They also claim she has to move. Anyway, 9000 donors in a nation of 330 million is still tiny, and who knows how much of this is sock puppet from some GOP big pockets donor using different names.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 6:46am

    Studying the invisible

    (you think you got problems now - you don't know 85% if your probs)

    https://www.sciencealert.com/simulation-reveals-what-dark-matter-might-l...


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 3:02am

    Covid like BLM protesters?
    https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-in...


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 5:47am

    Have no desire right now to do any news thread on the Woodward book cause too much shit flying all at once in different topic directions. But this is intriguing enough to share:


    by artappraiser on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 9:32pm

    Anti-microbial resistance threat

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/10/superbugs-a-far-greater-ri...


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 1:12am

    This is why all the "let's have more urban density!" fans like Yglesias are big losers for the foreseeable future. Stacking us up in cubicles on small pieces of land as yummy food for viruses = ain't gonna happen now, people who have the money or ability to do so are going to spread out as much as they can. It's the poor who are gonna be stuck in dense environments. Many of which will turn to hellholes even without superbugs feeding on them, as there won't be enough taxes coming in to pay for decent services.

    Now that I am done predicting the foreseeable future laugh, whadabout those 5G towers?


    by artappraiser on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 2:22am

    Turn 5G on viruses.

    And people like Starbucksing together - urban deserts ain't gonna happen as a long-term thing.


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 3:51am

    I didn't mean 1950's suburban developments.

    People can have hipster starbucksing together without bustling metropolises of cranky people all crowded together in 10 and 20 story elevator buildings that require being crowded like sardines into mass transit, they already do on the Main Streets of many cool artsy walkable towns allover the east coast. Hudson, NY for example is way cooler than Manhattan. It started before covid.  Even within NYC, the most hip neighborhoods like Bushwick in Brooklyn have a horizon with no tall buildings, 3 floors at most. Having a horizon is the key, so you don't feel cooped up in a vertical prison. Yeah to duplex kind of density, but no thanks to metropolises where loneliness has actually more often plagued people and then there's the logistics of getting all the stuff those people need to them has always been fraught with "traffic jams". It's actually absurd how getting to and from something like a doctor's visit takes a whole day. Speaking of doctors, the comparison is apt between how a patient is treated in a huge urban hospital and in a nice clinic that they drive up to.

    Yeah sucks to be a place like Japan, as they aren't making any more land on this planet. They've had a super depression problem over it for decades.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 12:21pm

    Yglesias is a hypocrite on this. He grew up on the Upper East Side, which except for some high rises along its border, is exactly like a walkable small town. And then he moved to D.C. which in the good areas is a leisurely laid back city and without any tall buildings.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 12:32pm

    Bachmann Truther Overdrive


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 1:57am

    And what a dummy she is. Not far away on this very thread ( scroll up to tweet at my comment at Tue, 09/08/2020 - 12:44am) proof that they are just seeking $200K, give em $200K and they'll be no overthrow!


    by artappraiser on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 2:51am

    Give Garnet an inch, she'll take a Telathon.


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 4:02am

    Rusky Spook Screwup


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 2:09am

    George Wallace would love it


    by artappraiser on Sat, 09/12/2020 - 6:58pm


    by artappraiser on Mon, 09/14/2020 - 5:44am

    Cohen's daughter, Trump's demeaner

    https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8726813/amp/Michael-Cohens-daughter-calls-Ivanka-phony-gross-says-dad-felt-sorry-Don-Jr.html


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/14/2020 - 6:40am


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/14/2020 - 3:40pm


    by artappraiser on Mon, 09/14/2020 - 5:33pm

    This news threatens to suck every bit of hope out of many a soul.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 09/17/2020 - 1:03am