I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world,
ain’a? So here we go again in that I hope you had a safe and uneventful
St. focking Patty’s Day-long bender. Yeah, St. Patrick’s Day?
It’s more like St. Patrick’s month-and-a-focking-half stinking up the
air of my early springtime. Yeah, that stupid focking holiday
during which every Tom, Dick and O’Knobshine likes to pretend they’re
Irish even if they’re capable of holding a steady job for longer than a
day or two. Go figure.
I’ve got not much truck with all the fake Gaelic gaiety of drinking
verdant beer the day long ’til the pukin’ o’ the green puts the nightcap
on a fun-filled festive holiday celebrated by drinking cheap beer from
the crack of dawn to the crack of your face-down head on the pavement,
what the fock.
I get confused by this whole damn folk-fair ethnic thing all the time
’round our town these days. I mean, Irish, Scottish—one of this bunch
of guys wears skirts, and one doesn’t ’cause I guess they’re too busy
selling their kids for whiskey; does it really matter which? Is not a
cultural heritage a cultural heritage and should we not respect it as
such, in this day of the age?
Fock if I know. But I do know this: We got an America’s Dairyland
election for our state’s Supreme Court coming up like a bad burrito on
April 2. You betcha I thought about tossing my cap into that ring. But
then I wondered why would I choose to serve only Badgerland as a state
Supreme Court justice for about $146-grand a year when maybe I could
serve the nation as a U.S. Supreme Court justice for about $255-grand
each and every year? Hey, you tell me.
And it’s quite possible that Trumpel-thinskin could get a shot at
filling up at least one hole on our country’s high court before he gets
locked up in some kind of institution. (You know, I really miss Barack
Obama. Hope things are going well for him back home in Nairobi.)
When that time comes that any president seeks an appointee, I hope he
or she recalls that I was nominated for Milwaukee County reserve juror
duty the other year. I never did get called, but I’m thinking that my
willingness to serve, so as to dispense some hardline justice at the
drop of a hat will have caught that president’s eye.
(You know, you don’t have to be lawyer to be on the U.S. Supreme
Court. And even if you were, let me ask you this: What do you call a
lawyer who doesn’t know the law? A judge. Ba-ding!)
As a service to our country, number one on my agenda as a justice
would be to seek a way to remove all members of the Republican Party
from political office. My judicial philosophy would be “Constitution,
Schmonstitution!” The same philosophy a bunch of Supreme Court justices
used to put George W. Bush’s bumbling lying ass in the White House a
while back.
And speaking of lawyers, I’m reminded of a little story: The madam opened the brothel door and an elderly man asked to see
Nadine. The madam said, “Sir, Nadine is one of our most expensive
ladies, perhaps someone else...” But the man interrupted and insisted to
see Nadine, who happened to appear and announce to the old man that she
charges $1,000 per visit. The man immediately reached into his pocket
and handed her 10 $100 bills. The two went up to a room for an hour,
after which the man calmly left. The next night, he appeared again, demanding to see Nadine.
Nadine said that no one had ever come back two nights in a row and that
there were no discounts—it was still $1,000 a visit. Again, the elderly
man took out the money, the two went up to the room, and an hour later
he left. Of course, he showed up a third consecutive night. He handed
Nadine the money, and up to the room they went. At the end of the hour,
Nadine was curious: “No one has ever used my services three nights in a
row. May I ask where you are from?” “Kalamazoo,” the man said. Nadine
said, “Really? I have family there.” And the man said, “I know. Your
father died, and I’m your sister’s attorney. She asked me to give $3,000
to you.” Ba-ding!
Anyways, I got to run so I can use up as much company time as
possible so’s to fill out my NCAA basketball tournament goddamn grid.
And I got a hot tip for any of you’s who may find themselves floating in
the same bracket pool as yours truly: Pencil in Farleigh Dickinson to
cut down the final-game nets, I kid you not ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I
told you so.
Sarah Wilson’s parents say police killed her. Police claim Wilson
somehow produced a gun out of nowhere, put it to her mouth and committed
suicide during a traffic stop. Even more unbelievably, they say the
19-year-old did all of this while she was handcuffed with her arms
behind her back.
In July 2018, Sarah Wilson, who is white, and her
boyfriend, 27-year-old Holden Medlin, were stopped by police in
Chesapeake, Va., according to WRIC.
Police say Medlin turned combative and took off running after the
police found drugs in the car. When the officer who handcuffed Wilson
left her sitting in her boyfriend’s passenger seat and went to help his
partner, police claim the teen retrieved a gun that was hidden in the
car that somehow escaped the cops’ notice after they had found drugs in the vehicle. While
the policemen were tasing Medlin, the officers claim Wilson “contorted”
her body, and—still handcuffed—put the gun in her mouth and fired.
What happens when energy prices are at once too high for consumers to
afford, but too low for s
suppliers to earn a return on capital?
That’s the situation now with petroleum, but it’s likely to apply
across the gamut of energy supply as economic trends unfold. On the one
hand, prosperity has turned down, undermining what consumers can afford
to spend on energy. On the other, the real cost of energy – the trend energy cost of energy (ECoE) – continues to rise.
In early February, as a UW System Board of
Regents meeting began, Foxhounds members dropped banners in Union
South. Within minutes, officials told them flyers and banners are not
permitted in Union South except for a few reserved tables.
SONALI GUPTA
MADISON — They call themselves “Foxhounds,” evoking imagery of a small pack of dogs sniffing around to root out their prey.
The
small coalition of mostly UW-Madison graduate students formed in
opposition to Foxconn Technology Group’s partnership with the
university. They say the agreement is too cozy of a relationship between
a for-profit corporation under scrutiny for its labor practices,
environmental record and failure to deliver on promises, and a public
university governed by a principle of public service benefiting the
entire state.
Recent reports about the company’s shifting plans,
including a Foxconn executive acknowledging that the bulk of jobs at the
Mount Pleasant facility will be for research and engineering rather
than blue-collar manufacturing, are seen by some as more potential job
opportunities for college graduates.
Of course - Truth is always discounted first..... as the above
proves.... but the Lye lines still persist.
And.....
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry/gen-chem-review/hybrid-orbitals-jay/v/tetrahedral-bond-angle-proof
And if you are a Christian.... the Holy Trinity always emerges -
Father - Son - Holy Ghost.
3 in one.
The building blocks of the Universe - revealed in simplicity for U to
understand.
Truth is often reacted against violently by those who LIE - and have
no regard for the WORD.
https://pseudoastro.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/the-magical-hyperbolic-tetrahedral-geometry-of-19-5%C2%B0-latitude/
Take a tetrahedron (4-sided solid made of four equilateral triangles)
and put it in a sphere such that each point of the pyramid touches the
inside surface of the sphere. Draw a straight line through the center
of the sphere such that one end of the line intersects a point of the
pyramid; think of this line as the polar axis, and now orient it in
your mind so that the line that goes through the pyramid point is
down. Now draw a line around the circle’s equator. Now, if you take
the angle between the equator, the center of the sphere, and one of
the three non-pole points of the pyramid, you get 19.5°.
Dear City of Racine Alderpersons,
A voice of sanity, logic and rational thinking suddenly bursts upon
City of Racine, Courtesy of Mr. Van Carson:
From the JT:
https://journaltimes.com/news/local/end-of-collecting-child-support-birth-costs-proposed-in-evers/article_31cbb507-f359-57da-82df-3d8f16307329.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
RACINE — "Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget, if adopted in its current
form, could change how much parents have to pay in child support by
potentially eliminating the birth costs that some fathers pay.
Eliminating the cost would leave a budget hole, but could help
decrease the state’s black infant mortality rate by eliminating a
barrier to prenatal care.
Currently, when a woman gets pregnant many times medical expenses will
be covered through the state’s Medicaid program.
If child support is needed from the father, as part of the father’s
payments he will need to repay those birth costs, although there was a
provision recently enacted that stopped the practice of recovering
birth costs if the mother and father live together and are both
supporting the child.
The amount typically charged for birth costs in Racine County is
$1,600, according to Jeff Leggett, Racine County’s director of child
support services.
In 2018, Racine County’s Child Support Office collected a total of
$711,127 in birth costs, with 85 percent going to reimburse the
Medicaid program, $604,458, and 15 percent staying with the county,
$106,669, according to Leggett.
Leggett said if the collection of birth costs was eliminated,
officials would have to figure out how to fill that budget hole in
another way.
Evers’ proposed state budget includes some additional budgeted funds
for child support agencies — $750,000 for fiscal year 2020 and $1.5
million for fiscal year 2021. However, the state budget does not
include an estimate on how much revenue the state would lose not
collecting the Medicaid birth costs.
Van Carson, who works for Racine Focus on Fathers, a fathers program
ran through the George Bray Neighborhood YMCA, said, even though child
support can be expensive and the birth costs add to that, he doesn’t
think the birth cost collection should be eliminated.
“It’s expensive to be a human. It’s expensive. It comes with cost,” Carson said.
He said those people who have children need to understand that “recess
is over,” and need to take responsibility and get a job".
As it should be.
And those jobs shouldn't be taxpayer funded "make work" as in City of
Racine Mayor Cory Mason's expansion of the Mayor's Office from 3 to
five at a cost of $300,000!
See:https://arrestrecordsofracinewipublicofficials.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/great-mothers-of-mayor-cory-masons-ratcine-1-in-a-series/
Sincerely,
Tim & Cindy
Oh boy!
Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik, took to Twitter on Thursday to ask
if Michelle is actually “Michael”.
Is Michelle Michael?
— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) March 14, 2019
“Is Michelle Michael?” Obama asked, referring to a conspiracy theory
that the former First Lady is actually a man.
In 2017, Alex Jones claimed to have proof that Michelle was male.
The Independent reported:
In a 12-minute video, the Infowars host analyses footage and photos
which he believes prove Ms Obama has a penis.
“Since the early days of the Obama administration, citizens across the
board have studied videos and photos of Michelle Obama and said that
she is a man,” the shock jock said.
“And even [Barack] Obama has called her over and over again Michael.
But new shock footage has emerged that is being censored off the
internet as fast as you can upload it.”
It’s not the first time Malik has made things uncomfortable for his
brother on social media.
In 2017, Malik Obama tweeted an image of what appears to be Barack’s
birth certificate.
Except it’s not from Hawaii, but rather Kenya.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/all-in-the-family-barack-obamas-brother-asks-if-michelle-is-michael/
Dear City of Racine Alderpersons,
From the property tax cheating Racine power Couple - The Cory Mason
tribe - to the lowest of the low:
https://arrestrecordsofracinewipublicofficials.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/lifestyles-of-racines-rich-famous-politically-connected/
Racine woman accused of child neglect; squalid conditions reportedly found:
https://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/racine-woman-accused-of-child-neglect-squalid-conditions-reportedly-found/article_25767e42-7edd-5617-a1ff-866a1b4c6597.html#tracking-source=home-trending
RACINE — A Racine woman is facing neglect charges after the children
in her care were found unkempt in a dirty home without running water
or heat.
Kayla A. Olson, of the 2600 block of Coolidge Avenue, is facing four
felony charges of child neglect. Two of the charges stem from
neglecting a child under the age of 6.
According to the criminal complaint:
On Thursday, officers were dispatched to the 2600 block of Coolidge
Avenue for a welfare check. When they arrived, Olson met the officers
in the front yard and told them they could check on the children in
her care.
Inside the house, officers reported seeing garbage, raw food and
clothes on the kitchen floor with the oven open. Olson said the oven
was open to heat the home. Officers said the home smelled like a
landfill and they had to repeatedly step outside to get fresh air.
The kitchen floor was reportedly covered in wood and glass shavings
and the walls were spattered with food. Olson told police there was no
running water.
A 3-year-old child not wearing shoes was covered with dirt up to the
pants line. The child’s face was covered with food and dirt and the
child’s hair was dirty. It had been several days since the child had a
bath, the child said.
As officers walked further into the home, they smelled a stronger odor
of raw sewage. So much garbage was in the home that they had a
difficult time finding a place to walk. In the living room, there were
no lights and a space heater was blowing hot air.
A 7-year-old was located sitting on a bed in an upstairs bedroom
wearing a winter jacket due to the cold. Next to the bed was a bin
filled with feces and urine. In the bathroom, officers said the
bathtub was filled with feces and urine. In the basement, there was
approximately 2 feet of standing water and raw sewage.
https://arrestrecordsofracinewipublicofficials.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/great-mothers-of-mayor-cory-masons-ratcine-1-in-a-series/
Who holds the highest position?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Sincerely,
Tim & Cindy
“People think that if moral standards have eroded, why should they play
by the rules,” he said. “If they’ve lost trust in some entity or
institution, then that organization has lost the right to their
compliance with the rules.”
Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled
the most important company in the most important industry in the
booming American economy. His offer of high wages in exchange for hard
work attracted workers to Detroit, but it began to come apart when
Ford hired a private police force to speed up production and spy on
employees. After the depression hit in 1929, these workers faced a
new, grim reality as unemployment skyrocketed.
Good morning everyone I hope you had a good week and I hope you stayed nice and dry. I think we got lucky with not having to much flooding like some of our northern counties. Here are your questions for today.
1) Have you ever had any of the moldy looking green beer for St. Patrick's Day?
2) Have you made a wish on a four leaf clover?
3) Do you wear green for St. Patrick's Day?
4) Have you been to a St. Patrick's Day parade?
Have a great weekend Happy St. Patrick's Day and if you are going to drink please be safe!
Judeo-Christian values, take 34,752
I'm sure everyone is just astonished at the news that one of the
biggest grifters on the planet has finally been publicly exposed as
being less than entirely morally upstanding:
The SPLC fired Morris Dees yesterday and announced it today.
Multiple sources have told me that the allegations of inappropriate
conduct involve sexual harassment incidents. Multiple incidents that
have come to light after an initial recent allegation.
More of those fine Judeo-Christian values at work again, no doubt. The
thing is, this guy has been known to be a creep for forty years.
Apparently his crossroads deal expired.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/03/judeo-christian-values-take-34752.html
Rapidly melting snow has led to flooding
across areas of Wisconsin, with water over roads and highways and a
sewage overflow in areas served by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage
District, officials said.
Portions of
a growing number of highways and roads across Wisconsin were closed
Thursday because of high water, according to the state Department of
Transportation.
The high water is the result of snow melting so rapidly that the saturated and still frozen ground can't absorb it.
MMSD
said that it started a combined sewer overflow about 5:45 p.m.
Thursday. Melting snow taxed the capacity of its two treatment plants
for much of the day and filled much of the deep tunnel system.
The overflow means that untreated waste and stormwater is being released into Lake Michigan.
This is Milwaukee's first overflow of the year, according to spokesman Bill Graffin.
What good are efforts to keep the lake clean when Milwaukee takes a huge shit in it every time it rains hard? They should be sued and forced to correct the problem. Or serve the mayor water with a turd in it. Maybe he'll get the message then.
A three-bedroom apartment, on the upper level of this Walker's Point
building, is being offered through Airbnb.com for $2,400 a night during
the Democratic National Convention in July 2020. (Photo: Tom Daykin / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
It won't be just hotels that will cash
in when the Democratic National Convention attracts an estimated 50,000
visitors to Milwaukee.
People who list their homes for short-term stays through Airbnb.com can also expect to get bookings at higher rates.
That's according to some new research done by Anthony Pennington-Cross, a Marquette University finance professor.
"Everything is going to fill in the city," said Pennington-Cross, Marquette's Robert Bernard Bell Sr. Chair in Real Estate.
You can have mine for $500 a day. One bedroom, but if you have sleeping bags, it will easily sleep eight. Half upfront. Charlie and I will live out of the truck.
If you have a couple of small, artificial trees that you want to get rid of, contact me at orbscorbs@gmail.com. I have a friend whose neighbors have positioned cameras aimed at his house. He wants to use the trees to block their view. If they move the cameras, he'll move the trees.
Chickens in a school farm in north-western France are believed to have
grouped and killed a juvenile fox.
The unusual incident in Brittany took place after the fox entered the
coop with 3,000 hens through an automatic hatch door which closed
immediately.
"There was a herd instinct and they attacked him with their beaks,"
said Pascal Daniel, head of farming at the agricultural school
Gros-Chêne.
The body of the small fox was found the following day in a corner of the coop.
"It had blows to its neck, blows from beaks," Mr Daniel told AFP news agency.
The farm is home to up to 6,000 free-range chickens who are kept in a
five-acre site.
The coop is kept open during day and most of the hens spend the
daytime outside, AFP adds.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47551786
Hello, my partners in crime! How are you? Isn't this weather delicious? Temps in the 40's. Holy cow! Spring officially starts next week. It would be nice to have a change in the weather. I'm so sick of the s-word that I could puke. Melt, melt away, please, and down the sewer grate you go. I hear it's a regular party down there. All the big shot former s-word is there. Free admission.
Milwaukee has been picked by the DNC to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Yahoo! There will be raping and pillaging in the streets. Normally quiet men and women turn into monsters and scream their candidate's name repeatedly. High class hookers will fly in from all over. The same for thieves. Pickpockets and every sort of con man will visit the area. Watch out! Better put your wallet in your underwear. Tape it to your leg. And then don't use it. That'll teach them!
If you attempt to go to the convention, you're nuts. All you can do is add to the congestion and madness in the area. Perhaps that is your intent? Then go for it. Have a good time getting wacked in the head by the cops or other hired goons. Unless you already have a ticket, no one is getting in. Even if you have a ticket, it'll be hell to pay to get in. The crowds will be huge. You'll have to fight your way through a thick wall of human flesh. Oh my!
Back on the home front, things have quieted down since Junior lost his drivers license. I think he's finally learning that there are consequences to his actions. That's a tough lesson to learn so late in life. His behavior, at least around me, has been perfect. Who is that young man in my Junior's suit?
I think that Señor Zanza really appreciates the break from all the madness. He's normally a quiet man. Junior is the one who always ratchets it up. They deserve a break from each other. Perhaps Señor Zanza is re-assessing his position in regard to Junior. Whatever, the quiet and lack of stress are wonderful.
CBD oil is a direct competitor of mine, but I have to give credit where it's due. CBD oil and its products have helped many. One is a dear friend of mine. Ann has suffered from lower back pain as long as I've known her. Doctors and chiropractors could do nothing. So I kept her doped up with some of my products, but that interfered with her job. Thank God CBD oil came along. Ann takes it daily now and no longer needs help from me or any MDs. It doesn't get her "high;" it just takes away the pain. So, based on her experience, I'm pro-CBD oil and its forms. What a wonderful thing. Completely natural. If you think you might benefit from it, try it. You never know until you try.
We're now heading into downtown Racine's festival season. This Sunday is St. Patrick's Day, but I don't know what day they'll have the parade on. That's just the start. Patronize some of these gigs. Help keep it local.
This warm weather is supposed to drop back into the 30's. That's OK with me. I hate that single digit crap with the winds. Winter should be about over, but who knows? The calendar means nothing to the forces that shape our world. Read each day's forecast and dress appropriately - that's the best you can do. _________________________ Please donate: paypal.me/jgmazelisIf you don't like PayPal, send me a note at madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com and I'll send you my street address so you can send a check or money order. Thank you.
Dear City of Racine Alderpersons,
Taxpayers and Residents of Ratcine – once again – are forced to pay
for the actions of the young and the restless – and indemnify those
who have acted outside the accepted rules of practice.
in·dem·ni·fy
/inˈdemnəˌfī/
verb
verb: indemnify; 3rd person present: indemnifies; past tense:
indemnified; past participle: indemnified; gerund or present
participle: indemnifying
compensate (someone) for harm or loss.
“the amount of insurance that may be carried to indemnify the
owner in the event of a loss”
secure (someone) against legal liability for their actions.
*WHEN IS ENOUGH* *ENOUGH*?
From JT:
Police recruit injury
‘Horseplay’ led to $50,000 Kenosha claim regarding police recruit
RACINE — An “act of horseplay” between two police recruits led to the
City of Kenosha’s $50,000 claim against the City of Racine, according
to a legal brief provided to Racine’s Finance and Personnel Committee.
On Monday, Attorney Marisa Roubik told the committee that on March 13,
2018, a Racine Police Department recruit was sitting on the floor of
the Law Enforcement Academy at Gateway Technical College’s Kenosha
Campus and grabbed the legs of a Kenosha recruit. The Kenosha
recruit’s legs buckled, resulting in injuries to that recruit’s right
leg.
So – once again Mayor Cory “Dopee” Mason and City Attorney Scott
“Nopee” Letteney – just why are taxpayers paying for unauthorized and
illegal “HORSEPLAY”?
....
https://arrestrecordsofracinewipublicofficials.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/city-of-ratcine-taxpayers-are-dumb-cows-to-be-milked-and-bilked-as-proven-by-the-actions-of-mayor-cory-dopee-mason-and-city-attorney-scott-nopee-letteney/
...
Enough is enough - time to either hold the actor liable for the harm
which was caused - or refuse to hold taxpayers and residents liable
for UNAUTHORIZED NONSENSE.
Just because former Mayor John Dickert wasn't criminally held
responsible for his claiming an Embezzler had been fired - while
campaigning for Office - deoesn't mean you can continue to float the
flawed and biased ruling on n incompetent Judge - Gerald Ptacek -
against the taxpaying public - forever.
Sincerely,
Tin & Cindy
I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? Listen, I
heard the job rate is on the upswing of late, but for the young people,
and me, not so much; so I think it best we commence with a little show
business story I recall again from some years back at the old Jazz
Oasis. The timing seems right.
(About that convention shebang coming to Beer Town? That’s for next week’s essay, what the fock.)
Anyways, this instructive anecdote came to me by way of a musician
pal of mine and I’d like to pass it on since I believe it may be
particularly helpful to the younger readers here, especially those who
entertain the deluded grandiose illusions that got yours truly hooked up
with professional show business in the first focking place. It’s the
only gift I’ve got to give to our wayward youth, but it cost a lot, I
kid you not.
“So the guys are on the job, the kind your musician would call your
pick-up gig. And wouldn’t you know, one of the boys on the bandstand
likes to tip a couple, three tall-and-frostys at the drop of a downbeat,
any kind of downbeat you got, 24 hours a day Jack, as any working
musician is wont to do. But unlike any tried and true working musician,
this guy just doesn’t know the right arrangement for when it comes the
time that your constitution is fully ratified, and that you make room
for your next double-Scotch amendment at least somewhere near the bar,
out in the parking lot during a break or better yet, how ’bout the
bathroom toilet bowl for crying out loud.
“But a tried and true working musician does not heave his guts out
right there on stage when getting ready for the next set, which he did.
Puked it up all over the piano bench big-time, and now he’s ready to
jam. But wouldn’t you know, the piano guy on the job happens to be
blind, I shit you not; and moments following the launch of lunch-blow
courtesy of the trombone player, he gets on the stand and sits right
where he ought to, and sits right in it. ‘OK, The Way You Look Tonight,
in C, let’s swing fellas.’”
I bring this up, so to speak, as an example to our young people that
show biz can often be more than just trying to make ends meet by only
having to work a couple, three hours a day, receiving a mention in the
media once in a while and GETTING HOUNDED BY THE IRS TWENTY-FOUR FOCKING
HOURS A DAY. No sir. (Hey, what’s the difference between a prostitute
and the IRS? A hooker stops when you’re dead, you betcha. Ba-ding!)
I also bring this up for the young people since it occurs to me that
many of them are currently torn at a crossroads by having to make a
life-long choice between a career in the food-service industry or
professional show business.
Allow me to recommend show business for several important reasons,
the least not being that you can often sleep the live-long day through,
then show up for a mere couple hours in the nighttime somewhere, do some
schtick, have some cocktails and call it a focking day. Nice work if
you can find it, ain’a?
But be warned. This occupation can lead to the acquiring of what they
would call in a church, “bad habits.” These are habits that scientists
have supposedly proven will kill you dead if persisted upon. In response
to this alleged fact, the crafty show-business person always asks, “So
can I do it ’till I just need glasses?” My answer would be yes.
What the neo-focking-phyte needs to know about these so-called “bad
habits” is this: You will either die from them (O Death, where is thy
sting?) or if you have health insurance, a trained professional will
therapeutically teach you the error of your ways and means. The upshot
is that if you got bad habits, enjoy them while you can. Plus, that joy
can be communicated to an audience willing to be entertained in an age
where joy seems to be in mighty short supply. Everybody wins, what the
fock.
So in conclusion, I feel behooved to hand out the following caveat:
Maybe be careful what you wish for. Example: When I was youthful, lo,
those years ago, and harassed by my local draft board at a time when
that could happen and I had no use for such a happening; as a joke, I
would always list “professional entertainer” as my occupation on all
correspondence I received from the U.S. Death Machine, even though the
only stage I was trodding was post-adolescence. And come to think of it,
the damn thing is that even what you don’t wish for can come true, and
what the fock is that?
Hey, you tell me, ’cause I’m Art Kumbalek and I told you so.
Over
the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were
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We were especially surprised by this action as neither prior to this
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violated or what particular filter or article had triggered the blanket
rejection of all Zero Hedge content.
To be sure, as a for-profit enterprise with its own unique set of
corporate "ethics", Facebook has every right to impose whatever filters
it desires on the media shared on its platform. It is entirely possible
that one or more posts was flagged by Facebook's "triggered" readers who
merely alerted a censorship algo which blocked all content.
Alternatively, it is just as possible that Facebook simply decided to
no longer allow its users to share our content in retaliation for our
extensive coverage of what some have dubbed the platform's "many
problems", including chronic privacy violations, mass abandonment by younger users, its gross and ongoing misrepresentation of fake users, ironically - in retrospect - its systematic censorship and back door government cooperation (those are just links from the past few weeks).
Unfortunately, as noted above, we still don't know what event
precipitated this censorship, and any attempts to get feedback from the
company with the $500 billion market cap, have so far remained
unanswered.
We would welcome this opportunity to engage Facebook in a
constructive dialog over the company's decision to impose a blanket ban
on Zero Hedge content. Alternatively, we will probably not lose much
sleep if that fails to occur: unlike other websites, we are lucky in
that only a tiny fraction of our inbound traffic originates at Facebook,
with most of our readers arriving here directly without the aid of
search engines (Google banned us from its News platform, for reasons
still unknown, shortly after the Trump victory) or referrals.
That said, with Facebook increasingly under political, regulatory and
market scrutiny for its arbitrary internal decisions on what content to
promote and what to snuff, its ever declining user engagement, and its
soaring content surveillance costs, such censorship is hardly evidence
of the platform's "openness" to discourse, its advocacy of free speech,
or its willingness to listen to and encourage non-mainstream opinions,
even if such "discourse" takes place in some fake user "click farm"
somewhere in Calcutta.
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city will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention, edging out two
large and deep-pocketed rivals over a months-long campaign waged behind
the scenes through phone calls, contract negotiations and quiet lobbying
by some of the most powerful political figures in the country.
The announcement will be made in Milwaukee at a 3 p.m. press conference, according to DNC spokesman Brandon Galloway
The announcement comes after weeks of decision making by Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.
Relying on Midwestern grit to overcome glitzier rivals, Milwaukee snagged the event over Houston and Miami.
The convention is scheduled for July 13-16, 2020, with Fiserv Forum serving as the centerpiece of the event.
magine being President Donald J. Trump.
After risking your name, fortune and freedom to be elected President,
you find yourself in Washington DC, surrounded by traitors and enemies
trying to block, slow-walk, or blatantly defy everything you do while
they also contrive to find reasons to impeach you and put your friends
and family in jail.
Every single day the media lies about you, stirring up insane hatred
in the hope that some lunatic will take a shot at you.
The entire Globohomo establishment is still doing everything possible
to defeat you, and large swaths of the judiciary have openly abandoned
the rule of law to #resist you.
Despite that, you're fighting every single day on multiple fronts to
grind out wins, knowing that you're - sadly - not a dictator and as
soon as you do anything even of questionable legality, Republican
turbocucks like Mitt Romney will join the democrats in voting to abort
your administration in permanent disgrace.
And there's a horsey-looking blonde woman who claims to be on your
side, but seems to do nothing but scream hysterically at you on
Twitter every day while relentlessly blackpilling WEREDOOMED.txt
because you aren't actually Superman and can't magically undo several
decades of institutional poz and trillions of dollars worth of vested
interests in five minutes.
Instead of focusing her ire on your many, many, enemies inside and
outside your party, or even informing the normies of the scale of the
treason you're facing like Tucker Carlson does, she's acting like a
post-menopausal CARRIE, using her megaphone to depress and demoralise
the good guys and make the possibility of the establishment
recapturing the White House in 2020 a little bit more likely.
You might get tired of her shit too. Any man who has ever suffered a
nagging backseat driver would.
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