Got a lot done today.  Took a break to yell at that goddamn Pioneer Lady that puts butter in absolutely everything.  I’m fine with that, but it’s the other weird shit she occasionally comes up with that I can’t abide, and today was egregious: bish put beets in the brownies.  Beets!  Okay, for starters, nobody likes beets.  But even the few perverts that might actually admit to liking beets would not approve of just putting beets in random foods willy-nilly, with gastronomic impunity.  But then, as I’m cussing her out, she makes that fatal mistake that so many women make when you started raising hell about putting bullshit in the brownies: she said, “You won’t even taste them.”  Then don’t fuckin’ put ’em there!  Beets.  Jesus.
This culinary atrocity caused me to hit the whiskey a tad early, just to cope, which led to a discussion about me doing a cooking show.  You know, on the YouTubes or whatever.  It would just be me getting drunk and cooking and not putting goddamn beets into anything.

N.P.: “Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls” – White Zombie

Police chiefs and police unions continue to show the “leaders” of the municipalities they serve(d) their favorite fingers, and it’s about time.  I would have resigned months ago.  Before Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best.  Remember her?  The first black woman to lead Seattle’s police force.  Quit in disgust after she first wasn’t allowed to do her job in preventing that stupid CHAZ™ zone from being set up, and then was thanked with a $40K pay cut.  BLM™ claims another black victim.
In a discussion today, I asked the person I was talking to name me one black person whose life or situation has been improved because of BLM™.  Just one.  He couldn’t.  Because the list of black lives that have been destroyed by BLM™ is lengthy.  And growing day by day.
In the meantime, the idiot mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, continues to beg the courts to please oh please stop the recall effort against her.  They won’t.  And the betrayed and beleaguered citizens of Seattle will submit signatures far in excess of the 50K needed to kick her moronic and cowardly ass out of office.

N.P.: “Please Don’t Touch (feat. Motorhead)” – Girlschool

The incompetence of Governor of Oregon Kate Brown has reached criminal levels.  Dereliction of duty directly resulting in death or serious injury.  Gross criminal negligence resulting in damages exceeding $1 million.
For the first time in American history, public safety (government’s prime directive) has become a political issue which many politicians  seem not to support.  The reason that it’s the first time is because in the past, elected officials seemed to have the self-preservative intellectual wherewithal to predict that if they allowed their entire constituency to be burned and looted by specifically telling the police to stand down instead of protecting their citizenry, not only will they not be reelected, but they could well end up behind bars.  But many of the mayors’ and governors’ offices in many parts of the United States are occupied by incompetent cowards these days.  But even they, now that their cities have been looted and burned down, are figuring out that an neglected electorate that just lost everything is likely not going to reelect the same incompetent coward that just stood by on TV for the last three months blathering bullshit racist slogans as their cities burned.
Which is what happened in Oregon late last week, when Gov. Brown was looking out at the smoldering ruins of Portland and saw a BLM™ “protester” brazenly execute a man in the middle of one of her streets over his political views.  One imagines this idiot slapping herself on the forehead and said, “Oh fuck…it’s an election year.  This isn’t going to read well.  I’d better come up with a plan.”  So she came up with a perfectly ridiculous plan that was based on local cops from non-Portland jurisdictions, state police, and unnamed federal resources coming to Portland to (presumably) get hit with bricks and set on fire and not be allowed to act, thus freeing up the beleaguered Portland PD to work on all the reports and investigations.  Or something like that.  These resources would give Portland PD “the investigative capacity to arrest and charge those individuals who have engaged in violent or destructive acts and endangered public safety.”
So on Sunday, Gov Brown revealed her dumb ass plan.  In her incompetence, however, she neglected to contact (let alone ask) any of the parties she was asking for help.  And these parties were very quick to tell the Governor where she could stick her 6-point plan.  Sheriff Pat Garrett of Washington County issued a beautiful statement: “At this time, I do not plan to send deputies to work directly in Portland.  [Portland PD] is a terrific partner and I am very sympathetic to what they are enduring.  However, the lack of political support for public safety, the uncertain legal landscape, the current volatility combined with intense scrutiny on use of force presents an unacceptable risk if deputies were deployed directly.”
Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts commented the next day, expressing displeasure at the fact that the Governor hadn’t bothered to actually ask any of the police chiefs for help.  He then made it clear he had no plans to send any of his personnel to the Portland: “Had Governor Brown discussed her plan with my office, I would have told her it’s about changing policy, not adding resources.  Increasing law enforcement resources in Portland will not solve the nightly violence and now, murder.”  He then took issue with Portland;s newly elected idiot district attorney and his failure to do his job, which is to prosecute criminals. “The same offenders are arrested night after night, only to be released by the court and not charged with a crime by the DA’s office.  The next night, they’re back at it, endangering the lives of law enforcement and the community all over again.  The criminal justice system will need to do its part and hold offenders accountable.”
A Greshem police spokesperson said, “We are in agreement with the other agencies.”
Upon learning that there was no cavalry willing to come bail her out of her mess, Governor Brown’s issued a moronic statement saying that the Governor’s dumb ass plan is “meant to allow for this type of flexibility in supporting each other as we all collectively deal with the difficult situation in Portland.”
Only an idiot would find the situation in Portland difficult.  The situation in Portland is incredibly simple and could be rectified before the next sunrise if even slightly competent people were in charge and law enforcement was allowed to do their jobs.
It’s no secret I don’t have a lot of respect for the State of Oregon.  And the people there are the sort of people that seem to happy continually reelecting the sort of constrictive government that won’t even allow people to pump their own gas.  But there must be a tipping point even for you pitiful hippies when you finally plant your Birkenstocken on the ground where your shitty apartment used to stand until it was burned down and declare that there is some shit even you won’t eat.  But maybe not.  Maybe you like it.  You put up with it.  I wouldn’t be surprised at this point.  This entire wretched summer has been composed of me in shocked disbelief at the complete dearth of either spinal cord or testicles in many of my fellow Americans.
I know pretty much everybody in Fecal Creek spent the summer buying guns, stocking up on whiskey and ammunition, and getting unholy criminal defense attorneys on retainer.  And pumping our own gas.  My people.

N.P.: “Just Came Back” – Colin James

Well, today was just a pain in the ass, dear reader.  Nothing dramatic, just a bunch of little stuff that could have just as easily gone smoothly or well, and didn’t.  I’m kinda spent, and it’s only Monday.  Alas.
Tomorrow will be better, I’m sure.  It better be, anyway.

N.P.: “Rainbow in the Dark” – Khemmis

For the first time, I’ve been thinking actively about leaving the United States for the last few months.  Hollywood people have been threatening to leave the country if their presidential candidate didn’t win for decades, which is about as stupid and childish as it gets (which they know…not one of them has ever followed through on their headline-grabbing promise.  I am a proud and loyal American, and I have always loved my country.  I’ve preferred some administrations over others, but I’ve always understood that whomever might be sitting in the White House has exactly zero impact on what I do with my day, or my life.  But I’ve never considered leaving the United States because of any politician…they are surprisingly easy to ignore.  But this summer, I’ve given it serious thought. A basic plan was thought up. Not because of the country or its politicians: it’s my “fellow citizens.”  On a truly depressing scale, I have seen cowardice, weakness, and egregious stupidity.  They tend to share a seemingly intentional ignorance which they flaunt, as if it somehow gives them more credibility.  Though I suppose that if one is trying to control The Stupid, they will put up less resistance if they think one is stupid too.
Ultimately, I know The Mob is an obscenely vocal minority, but they are a sizable minority, which is what’s most disappointing.  There have always been idiots here, but they have been allowed to reproduce, and now it seems like the fuckers are everywhere.

N.P.: “No Leaf Clover (Live)” – Metallica, San Francisco Symphony

Jacob Blake is a criminal who was resisting arrest during the commission of a crime and his shooting was absolutely justified.
Police were called by Blake’s victim when he violated a restraining order when he came to her residence, sexually assaulted her, then stole her keys.  The victim told police she had known Blake for 8 years and that he physically assaults her “around twice a year when he drinks heavily.”  So the police take her report, noting that she “had a very difficult time telling him [about the sexual assault] and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her.”
They find this shitbag, who had just violated a restraining order and sexually assaulted his victim again, driving around with three small children in his backseat.  To the surprise of absolutely no one, he fights the cops. Oddly enough, people who violate restraining orders in order to commit additional crimes tend to seem to have a problem with laws and authority).  He didn’t just resist…he “forcefully fought” numerous police officers, at one point getting one of them in a headlock.  [Side note: Anyone who finds themselves on a street, having been pulled over, with a cop in a headlock who doesn’t expect to be shot immediately is an idiot that should likely be removed from the gene pool for that alone, never mind that he’s a serial sexual abuser.]
And but so anyway, this woman-beating, sexual-assaulting dickhead is whaling on the police, so he gets tased.  That doesn’t work, so they tase him again.  That doesn’t work, because Blake manages to shake off the cops, and starts walking to the driver’s side of his car where he has a knife on the floorboard.  The police command him multiple times to drop the knife, he failed (again) to comply and was shot repeatedly (seven times) until he ceased to be a threat.  Idiots have suggested that seven times was excessive.  It wasn’t.  It was the amount it took to finally stop someone who had just fought multiple police officers (and was winning), for one of them in a headlock, was tased, kept fighting was tased again, and still is going to his car to retrieve a weapon to kill the officers.
There is exactly zero evidence to suggest that any aspect of this was racially motivated.  Yet The Mob was sufficiently outraged to burn down the town.  And in The Mob, there is a remarkable number of guilty woke white women, just pissed off, screaming hateful shit about America.  Hundreds of them.  One in five women in the United States has been sexually assaulted or raped.  One in three the victims of some form of domestic violence.  So it’s statistically very safe to assume that at least 30 women out of every hundred there were or had been the victims of the very crimes this man was being arrested for just having committed.  And these victims are now in the street thinking what…that the officers should have just let this guy get his knife and finish what he’d already started.  Even if he hadn’t been armed, were the cops supposed to let a guy who had just sexually assaulted someone with a restraining order against him climb back in his car with three children in the backseat so he can drive back to where he just come from to shut her up for good?  I doubt these idiots would be taking to the streets to protest the treatment of their attackers during arrest.  And what if it had been their children in the car?  The pathetically  simple-minded gullibility of so many  of my “fellow Americans” has been what has disgusted me most this summer.

N.P.: “Ballroom Blitz” – 3TEETH

Bette Midler is an ignorant twat, and the worst kind of American.
I have had the honor of teaching and tutoring hundreds of immigrant students from grade school to college. For the last 27 years, I have seen some of the hardest working people I’ve ever met in these classrooms.  I, embarrassingly, am a monoglot, despite the fact that I’ve taken multiple years of classes in three different languages, I am not conversant in any of them.  And that was me having not a hell of a lot else going on in my life, just school.  And I still couldn’t do it.  For a while, I thought I knew how to speak Spanish.  But then I went to Mexico and stayed with a local family for 2 weeks…I do not know Spanish.  But these people, these legal immigrants…imagine it: you just managed to get yourself and your family out of an intolerable situation, you’re in a new country where you may have never been previously, you don’t read or write the language, you don’t know the money system, and you’re expected to take care of your family, find a place for you all to live, and find and keep a job, and, oh yeah, you also need to learn one of the most difficult languages on the planet, from the alphabet on up.  I don’t know that I could do it.  But they do.  In my classes they work their asses off learning the language, while many native speakers could be bother to crack the textbook.  But the immigrants don’t have that luxury: they need to learn the language to survive.  

What’s crackin’, dear reader?  I was working on some prime invective for you this evening, but then got a call from an old friend and ended up talking for hours.  Which was wonderful.  But you don’t get your invective tonight.  But tomorrow!  Yes, tomorrow I shall drain this pen of bitter ink.

N.P.: “My Sharona” – The Knack

The only people who believe that the United States is systemically racist or even just a racist country are those who have never even seen much less been forced to live under actually racist systems.  After a conversation today, I’m confident that they don’t actually know what the term means.  If some black people can succeed in The System (e.g., a two-term President or a middle-class state worker) then all black people can succeed in The System.  That they don’t cannot be blamed on The System.  Racism is binary: one either is racist or one isn’t.  So there cannot exist a racist system that is only racist in some of the cases.
Say there is a college class composed entirely of black males.  50 students.  And its a community college, so they are all from very similar upbringings.  Many of them graduated from the same high school.  This class and the instructor are notoriously difficult for everybody (yeah, I know…let’s pretend it’s some weird place where truly academically difficult courses are taught at community college).  Okay, so at the end of a very difficult semester, two students get As in the class.  Four get Bs, and four get Cs.  So 10 people passed the class.  Is the reason the other 40 people failed systemic racism?  If you think so, you’re going to need to account for (in a believable, realistic way) the apparent immunity to systemic racism enjoyed by 20% of black people in this example.  Racism cannot possibly be blamed.
But let’s say that the grades in the class were actually much better.  Let’s say instead of only 20%, a full 50% of the class passed.  Meaning that of the 50 original students in the class, 25 passed and the class and advanced to whatever’s next, while 25 failed and did not advance.  Why did these 25 fail?  We have no way of knowing, but we know for certain what didn’t cause them to fail: say it with me now: systemic racism.
The U.S. Census Bureau would have you believe that the majority of African American families are middle-class.  Which means that more than half of the students have passed the class.  Why didn’t the other half pass?  Again, we have no way of knowing, but we know for certain what it wasn’t.

N.P,: “Masquerade (Live)” – Berlin