Happy Saturday everyone! Got any Fall plans? We’re starting to get falling leaves here, so I guess I’ll sweep my patio. But other than that, nothing on the agenda.
Who buys a 13 year-old a gun?
Georgia school shooting suspect and father appear in court for first time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/06/colt-gray-arraignment-georgia-shooting-suspect
Stonks!
S&P 500 tumbles Friday to post worst week since 2023, Nasdaq drops 2% for worst weekly performance since 2022: Live updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/05/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Sprots!
An Olympic athlete was set ablaze by her partner, police say. It’s the latest killing of an elite female runner in Kenya
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/world/rebecca-cheptegei-killed-female-runners-kenya-cec/index.html
That’s wild. Her makeup line is great though…
Selena Gomez is a billionaire
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/business/selena-gomez-billionaire-net-worth/index.htmlIf it’s not like this I don’t want it
Have a great weekend!
The Cambridge couple is adorable. I remember reading years ago about an old rural farmhouse that straddled the US/Canadian border. Québec and Vermont, I think. If you walked in the front door your were entering from Canada; if you went around back you came in from the US. Or vice versa. And no one on either side gave a toss. Everyone in that little village knew who the family was and it wasn’t like they were allowing millions of foreigners to stream through their living room to find a better place in one country or the other.
It was rumored to be a final stop on the Underground Railroad, which would make total sense, but if you believe the rumors and the hype you’d be led to believe that every structure north of the Mason/Dixon line built before 1865 was part of the Underground Railroad and that all residents worked tirelessly to shelter and succor runaway slaves. That wasn’t true.
…some years back I saw a stand-up set by a northern irish comedian…possibly but not definitely the one that had an interesting series the BBC had him trying to get people to re-examine views like creationism…either way he made several references to growing up near a road that basically was the border…or the median between dual carriageways was…so you were north or south of it depending on which direction you were commuting east to west
…pretty sure I’d read that lady’s thesis if I came across a copy
…don’t think my physics chops are up to following the labwork on the rig she was so impressed by, though…so probably not more than the abstract for the other one?
Sigh. I miss the 80s so much. This article is “unlocked” so you all should be able to read it. This is a weekly column? Is this all she does? This is the paper that can’t/won’t fund a viable metro section, preferring to take a panglossian “all’s right with the world” attitude until most of City Hall is in the FBI crosshairs, but they can pay for this?
The pumpkins I left in the front yard in Winter 2022, which became my fall pumpkin patch decor last year, came back again this year. So I’m looking forward to seeing what sorts of pumpkins I get this year.
A colossal fucking idiot when that kid has known mental issues.
From what I’ve seen, the people who claim to need guns for protection are the very people who shouldn’t have guns. Andy Griffth had it right to give Mr Furley (Don Knotts) a gun with no bullets in the real life belief that an armed coward is a bigger danger to everyone around them than an unarmed coward. My social pariah Mr C. is another one.
over on oppo they are having a big argument about how its insane to charge the dad for what his kid did
im not touching that one
something about guns makes a sizeable percentage of american brains go several kinds of doolally and i dont feel like getting yelled at for the next 10 years or so for thinking charging parents still seems less insane than arming kids….but hey if you arent gonna stop doing that you gotta try something right?
I’m all for charging parents for crimes like this. That kid can’t go buy his own gun.
And farscy, agree with you completely that something about guns make too many Americans lose the brain cells they claim to have.
It’s really stunning to see so many examples in one place of how the political press is bending over backwards to make Trump seem competent:
How the Media Sanitizes Trump’s Insanity
https://newrepublic.com/article/185530/media-criticism-trump-sanewashing-problem
It’s one of those things where you can have an abstract sense of what they’re doing, but until you see it all together it’s hard to grasp just how pervasive it is.
One problem with Malloy’s piece is she concludes that fact checks are a big solution. But as we’ve seen, what happens when fact checkers are part of the problem? There are almost no facts in what Trump says, while there are a million details in a speech by Harris, so fact checkers have clearly decided that Trump’s word salads get a pass while Harris goes through the wringer.
But regardless, this kind of writeup is worth reading. What’s happened is that political reporters are clearly not even reading the speeches or listening to Trump. They’re just laundering what Trump’s aides tell them to write about his speeches. And what makes it worse it they’re not reading the speeches or listening to Harris’s speeches either. They’re just laundering what Trump’s aides tell them.
Churchill once said “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.”
I continue to believe Dick Cheney is Satan, but in this instance I will make a favourable reference to him.
Dick Cheney says he’s voting for Harris in November and Trump ‘can never be trusted with power again’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-president/index.html
It’s awfully embarassing how many Republicans took the Mitt Romney route and tried to split the difference. And while I’m sure the edgelord pseudo liberals will use this as an excuse to scream that nobody should vote for Harris, the edgelords have been backing Trump all along anyway.
Yeah, watching MSNBC go insane to say how great it was that Dick Cheney was voting for Kamala & should do a commercial w/ Bernie to bring it full circle was more than my little brain could handle. I think it does more to confirm what the Trump people push that the Dems are warmongers & all politicians are bad (except for Trump) than to change any opinions on Kamala.
Anyone who suggests a Cheney-Sanders linkup is just showing how badly they understand politics.
The whole value of Cheney endorsing Harris comes from the fact that he hates the Democrats’ guts and vice versa, and with any luck he can go back to his dungeon when this over and keep sniping at imaginary leftists.
It was Nicole Wallace so… kinda of to be expected. I don’t think she has any clue how toxic that time was & her time being the face of those assholes.
At least I won’t get shot surfing?
https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-california-guns-beaches-525f962625bf4a629545f98d320b263a
This state is so dumb…
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/09/texas-wastes-221m-migrant-busing
Fuck the NYT
https://newrepublic.com/article/185683/new-york-times-kevin-roberts-project-2025
And now James Murdoch has broken with Daddy and endorsed Harris.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/business/ceos-support-kamala-harris/index.html
James has always been a slippery person, so it’s not te same as Satan rejecting Trump, but it says something. He’s in a fight in court over the terms of the family trust which includes all of the news units, so I’m sure this is another long on that fire.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see the Bushes endorse Harris before this is over.
Yeah, the best take on Cheney’s endorsement of Harris is that it creates a “permission structure” for other Republicans to follow suit. I mean, it’s the sociopath vote but hell, a vote’s a vote.
Bunch of wannabe tough guys and smarties who are too scared to go in the lake because it might be cold, the ducks on the other side might have pooped in the water, and, um, there might be a bass that bites?