Thinks He's Real Smart

Tex. Sen. Ted Cruz at the Values Voter Summit as quoted by Katrina Trinko at Nutty Review Online:

He maintained conservatives were pursuing a smart strategy in the budget battles. ”The greatest trick the Left has ever played is to convince conservatives we cannot win,” Cruz argued.

Sound familiar? Yes, he's getting Fido's attention. You've probably heard "The greatest trick the devil has ever played is to convince people he doesn't exist." Dirty, filthy liberals, deluding conservatives & devil-worshipping instead of Bible-thumping.

Onward we slog:

Speaking about the pro-conservative views of so many Americans, Cruz mused, “Why do so many Democrats pretend to be conservatives when they are running? For that matter why do so many Republicans do the same?”

So many Americans, but not most? What happened to "center-right" nation? Why did more Americans vote for Barack Obama, anyway? Also RINOs, heh indeed.

Cruz also made an offer to President Obama: If Obama agreed to a Q&A with ten conservatives, Cruz himself would do a Q&A on TV with a hundred of Obama’s “most rabid supporters.”

They never tire of the old "B. O'Bummer's no good w/o his TelePrompTer, Newtie Gingrich would clean the Kenyan's clock if they ever debated, affirmative action, blargh," but give Rafael "Ted" Cruz credit for not merely donning the Gingrichian mantle of intellectual gunslingerquick-draw artiste, but having the choots-pah to claim he's ten times smarter.

In horse race coverage, we wonder if the lack of editorializing & the quotes selected are a sign that NRO isn't 100% behind the Cuban-Canadian cuckoo/wacko bird. Then we think, what difference & sort of drift away ...

Pour Me Another Cup Of Coffee

So the truck drivers were a load of shit, 30 or so imbeciles showed,

There were police reports of about 30 tractor trailers with American flags and signs for their protest — “Truckers Ride for the Constitution” — driving at the same speed as the rest of traffic on the Beltway in Friday morning’s rush hour. But by mid-day the truckers appeared to have broken into smaller groups amid already-heavy volumes of traffic and rain showers on a holiday weekend.

all of whose commercial licenses should be revoked immediately. No one that foolish & ignernt should be in control of a lump of steel weighing up to 80,000 lbs. moving at 55 mph/88.5 kph (& faster in uncivilized areas).No current info (Meaning: Haven't/won't be arsed to enter the concept into a search engine.) on the Million Vets March also scheduled for D.C. this wknd., but the idea that a million veterans (or a million dung beetles, or fruitflies*) would show up to protest the House Republicans' government shutdown shutting down memorials is not convincing us that every fucking thing every fucking where isn't just an inane (& entirely unfunny/useless 'cept for schadenfreude value) fucking practical joke.

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*Lifeforms of which one could more easily assemble a million, even in Washington, D.C. Although we could also be comparing veterans to dung beetles & fruitflies. Hard to tell, isn't it?

More Public Service For Criminals

Also at a Ralphs, 'though not the one in the item below. This yr.'s model, in service. So forget Crown Vics; eyes peeled for Chargers now.

Scarecrow

It's a kind of theme here, an out-of-service police car parked in front of a Ralphs supermarket, or a K-Mart, scarecrow-style. Here's another, & look, there's the photog at work, which qualifies this for Carmi Levy's 264th photo theme.

We know it's bogus 'cause there's no devil-box.

Last yr.'s model.

Cultural Production Report: They Call It Music (But It Isn't)

Two more winners in the non-stop attempt to draw the audience's somewhat limited attention span to the negative, awful & just plain horrid; both in the same spot, reducing links & carbon emissions.

Considering how few real choices we have throughout our pathetic existences it's unlikely we'd get a choice, but we'd as soon drown in our own vomit as attend something featuring:

storytelling with tales of pure emotion during life's pivotal moments.

How often must we remind humans that their emotions are indistinguishable from the next loser's (Also the next animal's. Aren't humanoids always saying they're better than animals?); every one of you feels the same exact & useless thing everyone else (rats, for example) feels in the same way & about the same soap opera drivel; why wallow in it?* If you're truly human cognition & whatnot should be of greater interest than pathetic pre-rational emanations from your lizard brain. (A big "if.")

Uh-oh. After typing & then polishing the crap out of (or off) the above paragraph, we returned for further evidence of awfulness & noticed it's NPR. (And,

compelling personal stories, mixing tall tales with killer tunes. It’s storytelling — with a beat.

Fish in a barrel.

Bravely continuing the suckfest despite the setback, individual/small group blame may be assigned here. Mystery Skulls, a generic bandname today ('though, in a Cramps-stylee, it would've been semi-original 35+ yrs. ago) is still far from the worst band name ever to affront our refined & heightened sensibilities, so we pretended we aren't musically stuck maybe thirty yrs. ago & before (around the time we hit 30 & music & virtually everything else became solid crap 24/7) & gave it a listen. Oh, lookie: You may listen too, also. (Not necessarily a recommendation.)Three words: GET A FUCKING GUITAR!! (Oops, four. Three w/o the meaningless fucking intensifier.)

Bonus typical SoCal hippie-dippie idiocy:

PSYCHIC BARBERSTonight (6-10 pm) also as part of ArtNight Pasadena, the artist collective Finishing School presents a new art installation by Jean Robison and Yucef Merhi: Psychic Barber. The “social sculpture” opens at Side Street Projects in Pasadena, and all visitors to the site will receive “psychic readings and haircuts by real hairstylists who also have psychic abilities.” Be prepared to get the “haircut you need.” Free.

Hippie-dippie indeed, but if we weren't going to be watching baseball we could use a (free) trim. By a real hairstylist.

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*Higher spiritual plane & all. Y'all.

The English-Speaking Peoples

Stupid jerks.

England's young people near bottom of global league table for basic skills

OECD finds 16- to 24-year-olds have literacy and numeracy levels no better than those of their grandparents' generation

U.S. adults lag most countries in literacy, math and computer skills

Policymakers and politicians who wring their hands about the mediocre performance of U.S. students on international math and reading tests have another worry: The nation’s grown-ups aren’t doing much better.

Shoe Dep't.

McDonalds Employee Arrested After Confronting Executive: "I Can't Afford Shoes For My Children"

“Do you think this is fair, that I have to be making $8.25 when I've worked for McDonalds for ten years?” she asked. "I've been there 40 years," the president replied.

McDonald's Employee Confronts Executive: I Can't Afford Shoes For My Children

Mother of two arrested after confronting McDonald's President about poverty wages.

Could they make it any easier? Or be any more obvious?38 yrs. later we still can't afford shoes?

Theme Song

Every day.

Religious Edifice Report

Repurposing:

Jesus out, Buddha in!

Mobile 'phone dealies?

Yeah, these thingies.

Sikh Sikh Sikh

Morgan's Ghost

6262 W. Sunset Blvd., L.A. 90028

Mount Hollywood Observatory Exhaust

(Not Much of A) Skyline

Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew!

Yikes! What hideous & lively diseases do Marines have? Is the Public Health Service making sure jarheads aren't bringing this Afghan clap back to America? (Fall in for short arm inspection!)

"Several reports ... of illness caused by bodily fluid discharge in these facilities." What in hell? Are spirochetes (or worse) jumping from the toilet seat directly into USMC urinary tracts?

Not from Beaters magazine (Remember magazines?) but Business Insider.

Please Please Please Please!

Short of a flesh-eating bug that kills & then consumes the corpses it has just made*, devastation of the global economy is what we'd most like to see. If that flesh-eating miracle virus/bacterium does show, here are 13 ancient white male cretins on whom to start.

Despite repeated warnings from experts and Democrats that a breach of the debt ceiling could have potentially catastrophic economic consequences, the right is increasingly coming to believe that debt ceiling alarmism is little more than “scare-mongering” on the part of the White House and its allies, and that the U.S. could blow through the Oct. 17 deadline with only minor inconvenience. They’re wrong on both counts — but if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, and the U.S. does default, Republicans being proven incorrect will be little consolation to a likely devastated global economy.

Bring it the fuck on, so we may console ourselves by having the 13 idiots above shot at dawn for treason!!

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*See, we're always thinking: Can't have 7 billion+ bodies littering the streets & spreading disease & stench. (Wait, that's hardly different from what's happening now, beyond the living dead of contemporary America moving more & smelling worse than the dead dead. Still hard to be certain of the difference, however.)

Swanky Panda Club

Does the Batman shtick lend itself to stupid & dated stuff?At least the butler wasn't called Peter.

Psychiatry Is A Joke

Like religion, head-shrinking is another mostly non-violent tool for social control. Do not for one fucking minute think these United Snakes or any state or county gov't. would hesitate to slap everyone they didn't feel was controlled enough in a psychiatric Gitmo where anyone could be held indefinitely on any trumped-up reason. You think "terrorism" is loosely defined? Five little words: Danger to self or others & no one hears from or of you again.

(Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday ordered a critic of President Vladimir Putin confined to a psychiatric ward indefinitely over clashes with police at a protest, a ruling likened by rights activists to abuses of psychiatry during the Soviet era to jail dissidents.

A Russian judge sentenced Kosenko, who has been in pre-trial detention for 16 months, to indefinite detention and compulsory treatment in a psychiatric institution.

He was accused of assaulting a police officer - although the officer testified that he did not recognize Kosenko and did not want him punished. Kosenko denies the charges.

"The court has come to the conclusion that at the time the action was committed by Kosenko... he was in a state of insanity," Judge Ludmila Moskalenko told the court.

Protesters demonstrating outside the courthouse chanted "Shame!" They at times drowned out her reading of the ruling. Police detained nine protesters, activists said.

"This is a clear case of a return to punitive psychiatry in Russia," said Alexander Podrabinek, a human-rights activist and Soviet-era dissident who authored a book on the political abuse of psychiatry under the Soviet Union. "This is the first such clear and obvious instance in the post-Soviet period."

A matter of time before they come for the iNternet.

Wuzz Yer Sign?

Amorphous Pink Thing II

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