Memorial Day Weekend!

Memorial Day is nigh! For me its a time to remember gas for the grill, the names of my kids' Significant Others (JK! Its the kids' names I still stumble on!), our nations's war dead and of course this old post from carefree 2008, when Candidate Barack re-imagined the holiday:

Obama: He's Ready To Tell Us His Secret

Obama is ready to tell us his secret - he sees dead people... Obama's intro to his Memorial Day speech in New Mexico:

On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.

They've fallen - but they've gotten back up!  Well, he was in New Mexico...

Only fourteen years? Seems like a lifetime ago.

Comments

[Buford Gooch]

Got kind of boring on here, didn't it?

[MissMarple2]

I spent the morning listening to how China is mobilizing to go after targets in SE Asia (Frank Gaffney, Steve Bannon, and a bunch of China exerts). They think our military should mobilize and Americans should be prepared for a major conflict. Ugh. Thanks, Joe!

[henry]

Is there a Dem that can speak normal English? Seems they all have brain rot.

[Narciso]

it seems like they all toke from the same bag of ganja,

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/28/joe-biden-again-falsely-claims-trump-supporters-killed-police-officers-on-january-6/

except when they purposefully lie,

[Len]

Posted at the bottom of the dead thread...

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/the-week-in-pictures-colliding-narrative-edition-2.php

[Narciso]

the braintrust socalled,

https://victorygirlsblog.com/the-ubearable-derp-of-aoc/

[Narciso]

tulsi gabbard, thats why they didn't let her in on the reindeer games, that she was too cisnormative,

[Narciso]

all the dems on that stage, in 2020, pledged support for amnesty, most for this unicorn of clean energy, of course the latter would need to ruinous inflation along with other elements,

[Narciso]

when speaking an alien language (remember chris matthews* about visiting the 'enemy camp west point) it is likely to be garbled,

* turns out he was the sanest one at msnbc, which much like a three legged horse, has little utility,

[clarice]

I didn't think it was STILL Monday. Happy Memorial Day! TM, I know you can remember their names. If not, initial their steaks or hot dogs before grilling.

[clarice]

Insty:« HONESTLY, THAT NUMBER SEEMS LOW TO ME: A quarter of world’s Internet users vulnerable to infrastruc…
MAY 28, 2022
SHOULDA BEEN MORE THAN ALMOST: “There was almost a mutiny”: Uvalde cop says force is furious that they were held back. “Judge for yourself whether People magazine’s source is telling the truth or whether this is self-serving spin to deflect blame now that the Uvalde PD has become a national laughingstock.”

Plus: “You’ve got a ballistic vest. You know what the kids have? Crayons.”

And: “I don’t know how this town and its police force will ever again coexist happily.”

[Len]

Once again, "Just following orders" is not a good look.

[Rocco]

They should all be Branded, Chuck Connors style.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Those cops might have gotten shot.
The kids definitely were, so "it was them or us". The coppers chose us.

[Len]

They chose poorly.

[Narciso]

it's not a good look, yes it was a small force, and the countless lockdowns had worn them down, but (redacted) you expect more from texans,

abbott has to fire mcgraw, head of the commission that oversees the dps, and soon,

[Narciso]

of the millions of words, and trees sacrificed,

https://www.westernjournal.com/teen-knew-shooter-drops-bomb-dont-see-covered-going-put/

[jimmyk]

Danny Reagan wouldn't have followed orders. And he wouldn't have gotten shot either.

[Narciso]

neither reagan bros actually, it rather distressing that the cult of self protection has migrated to the border,

[MissMarple2]

President Trump’s rally in Wyoming was outstanding!

[Neo]

Got 2 hamburgers and a large Coke at McDonald's today.

$5.80

Same stuff yesterday:

$5.28

9.8% inflation in one day.

[jim nj]

https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/05/281791068_566000184884936_2419669164211885202_n.jpg?resize=426%2C600&ssl=1
I only got a few of these.

[Boricuafudd]

Jim
Here's what I got so far:
Rolling Stones
Guns&Roses
4 Tops
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Alice in Chains
Pet Shop Boys
Smashing Pumpkins
Arctic Monkeys
The Police
One Republic
One Direction
Atomic Kitten
T Rex
Garbage

[jim nj]

Three assessments of the Ukraine war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-28

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-94-summary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDQp03sdNPs
Update from Ukraine | Smart Move from Ukrainian Army

[jim nj]

Jim
Here's what I got so far:
Rolling Stones
Guns&Roses
4 Tops
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Alice in Chains
Pet Shop Boys
Smashing Pumpkins
Arctic Monkeys
The Police
One Republic
One Direction
Atomic Kitten
T Rex
Garbage

Posted by: Boricuafudd | May 29, 2022 at 12:47 AM

Oooh, That's way more than I got.
Here's some more possibles (with help from elsewhere):
Eagles
Radiohead
Oasis
The Beatles
Cream
Salt 'N Peppa
Pearl Jam
Shed Seven
Soundgarden
Thompson Twins
The Zombies
Dune
B*Witched
The Cranberries
White Stripes
The Vines
The Roches

I've seen even more guesses on the web, but they seem rather obscure.

[clarice]

good morning, JOM!https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/something_about_school_shootings.html

[sbwaters]

Thank you, Clarice. Posted on FB and Twitter:

Clarice Feldman’s cool, calm analysis of a tragedy that explains why you should not trust writing by most corporate media or opinions of many politicians, and why you should better understand the job of the police.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Nice summary clarice.
I'm shocked at Althouse's response.

Maybe if the schools, instead of teaching kids how to be deviants and trying to find out which law abiding parents of normal kids own guns, were to spend a little time reporting and intervening in the lives of clearly disturbed and demented kids in crisis like Ramos there would not only be fewer mass school shootings, there would be fewer of the hundreds of thousands of smaller tragedies like rape, abuse and suicide that these kind of kids commit or are subjected to all the time.
Had he been put on a 72 hour hold and adjudged mentally ill or confined even for a few days against his will he at least would have had a more difficult time buying a gun.

[clarice]

Thanks. Are the family members of these kids also mentally ill or trapped in denial? Are their teachers blind? Is there no consistent monitoring? When I was in college I worked a couple of summers for the school system directing playground activities..each school had an assigned social worker who in summer continued to keep an eye out on obviously troubled kids ,and the one for the school where I worked regularly stopped in for updates on the behavior of his charges.

[MissMarple2]

Listening to pre-race coverage. Traffic is a mess. Worse than usual, since they decided to close a bunch of lanes and ramps earlier this month for widening. (I am talking about the interstates.) i always listen to the 500 while doing chores.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Very often you can't count on the family members. Often they're the reason the kid is so messed up in the first place. Or they're often too sentimental or afraid to turn them in because they're the abused ones.
But these kids go to school and the other kids and teachers know who the freaks are as usually do social workers.
Don't know if I said it here or not, but if we decide someone's rights must be abrogated to deal with this problem then should those whose rights are abridged be the small pool of troubled, mentally ill kids from which the killers emerge, or from the scores of millions of law abiding citizens who harm no one and protect their families and themselves millions of times a year with firearms?

[clarice]

Yes, Iggy. I remember the kid who shot up a school in New England--he had blacked out the windows in his room, was obviously significantly mentally ill, he lived with his mother (parents divorced) and his mom got him those rifles. Ramos' mother is apparently a drug addict and his father MIA. Certainly the teachers can see the personality disintegration.

[clarice]

ADAM LANZA WAS THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL SHOOTER I COULDN'T RECALL. NUTTY AS A FRUITCAKE AND SO WAS HIS MOTHER.

[Neo]

Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, 82, arrested for DUI
https://nypost.com/2022/05/29/nancy-pelosis-husband-paul-82-arrested-for-dui-report/

I can understand

[Davod]

Hungry:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/cheeseburger57.jpg

[Narciso]

heh

https://instapundit.com/522795/

[Neo]

So do the observations of 17-year-old Crystal Foutz, who attended school with Ramos and worked with him at the fast-food restaurant Whataburger.

“He always seemed to take his anger out on the most innocent person in the room,” Foutz told KTBC-TV in Austin.

https://www.westernjournal.com/teen-knew-shooter-drops-bomb-dont-see-covered-going-put/

[Narciso]

evergreen

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2022/05/29/adam-kinzinger-drops-the-ball-on-ar-15s-while-asa-hutchinson-nails-the-conservative-answer-n571915

[Narciso]

I didn't know all these angles

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-05-28/servant-corrupt

[Davod]

It is time:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/angry-lioness-3.jpg

[Davod]

For those who think fly fishing is a peaceful danger free sport:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/5%2028%20br0ught.jpg

[matt - deplore me if you must]

We have a program in our county called Know the Signs. It is primarily directed at suicidality, but at the same time also addresses depression and other mental illnesses. It helps create awareness.

We just sent the budget recommendations up to our county supervisors ($360 million for behavioral health) and the two critical emphases are:

Screening and BH services in the schools

Fentanyl awareness and antidote distribution.

We have been beating these drums for several years now, but I think it's going to take the death of someone close to someone at the top to kick their asses into gear.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Abrogating rights essentially involves prior restraint.
What sane person or person acting in good faith proposes prior restraint of the law-abiding citizens' rights rather than the small pool of messed up people from whom the shooters emerge?

To gnaw on the old dope Holmes' hambone, that's like outlawing everyone from saying fire anywhere rather than some nutter falsely saying it in a crowded theater with criminal intent.

[clarice]

It's a dilemma. If you encourage kids to snitch on their classmates, you know what will happen. OTOH it's a good idea to teach teachers signs to look for and schools to have assigned social workers and psychologists to whom they can refer troubled kids for counseling.

[jim nj]

Two assessments of the Ukraine war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cfvo3Lupg
Update from Ukraine 05.29 | ruzzia is Loosing Ground in Ukraine

Well, maybe little pieces.

[Dave (in MA)]

Don't Findalize me, bro!

[Jim Eagle]

Believe me, slo Joe would have never got off Plebe week at Annapolis.

I went to high school at Purcell with Staubach and played with on football team. He was a straight A student but had to go to a prep school after HS in order to meet academy standards.

I don’t think they have a prep school that could have fit Joe’s academic requirements for admission.

Another “whopper” by Joe.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2022/05/30/egypt-unveils-major-find-of-250-sarcophagi-and-150-statues-in-saqqara/

This is near the step pyramid. Very well-preserved and a big deal. Slide show at the bottom.

[MissMarple2]

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/may/30/a-solution-to-americas-student-debt-problem/

You may have to skip 2 annoying subscription offers, but the author makes a case worth reading: make the universities pay.

[Pinandpuller]

This could be why the Uvalde cops weren’t letting parents “paso por aqua’: https://www.dw.com/en/mordida-remains-mexican-way-of-life/a-16902532

[clarice]

https://nypost.com/2022/05/29/new-bid-to-spin-hunters-laptop

[Jim Eagle]

2;hours exactly between comments. Hmmm!

Where is everyone.?

[Pinandpuller]

805: California area code or California gas prices?

Both.

[Pinandpuller]

“I told my husband to take the 805 to San Diego, next thing I know he drove through the Texaco.”

[Dave (in MA)]

2;hours exactly between comments. Hmmm!

Where is everyone.?

The site was impossible to sign into for many of us over an extended period. Maybe people gave up and are over at the new place.

[jim nj]

Three assessments of the Ukraine war:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-30

https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-96-summary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeGot6A4uZs
Update from Ukraine | Bad News for Ukraine from ruzzia and White House

[jim nj]

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2022/05/28/bullets_flyin_soldiers_lyin_834747.html

Bullets Flyin’, Soldiers Lyin’

"On March 4, 2007, Galvin and 29 of his Marines were ambushed by a suicide bomber and other insurgents while conducting a mounted reconnaissance patrol along Highway 1 in Bati Kot District. Rocked by the blast but mostly unharmed, the Marines defended themselves and aggressively counterattacked before aborting the mission and returning to base. By that point in his career, Galvin had deployed to combat numerous times, and so he “wasn’t excited or freaking out about the tactical situation” he’d just survived. The actual combat was fairly routine. Galvin and his Marines performed just as they had been trained.

But within 30 minutes of returning to Jalalabad airfield, international media reports alleged the Marines had killed and wounded dozens of Afghans by firing indiscriminately into a crowd of civilians. The allegations were false and later disproven, but not before the Marines were condemned as criminals by the media, public, and top military brass."

[Davod]

West Virginia: Legally-Armed Woman Saves Lives By Shooting Would-be Mass Shooter

“Instead of running from the threat, she engaged with the threat and saved several lives last night”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/05/west-virginia-legally-armed-woman-saves-lives-by-shooting-would-be-mass-shooter/

[MissMarple2]

Good morning, all!

[clarice]

Thanks for bringing that article to our attention, jim/

[clarice]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/blm-year-52-black-teens-who-died-were-murdered-daniel-greenfield/

[clarice]

Pictorial version of every argument with a leftist:https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/285426332_10228199190464478_4397372224777246240_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=CyOI4n3v2NcAX-ICM7J&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=00_AT8BsrzP4j0CeK9fy-d0Uf9HtnBN8c1WNDSiGEUiLBgzEA&oe=629B6AB1

[Melinda]

Link goes to Turley

zerohedge
@zerohedge
Supreme Court Demands Cellphone Records And Affidavits From Clerks In Leak Investigation: Report
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supreme-court-demands-cellphone-records-and-affidavits-clerks-leak-investigation-report

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1531640482224295937

[Melinda]

Fun thread:

Stephen McIntyre

May 30 • 33 tweets • 10 min read
The exhibits to Sussmann are, in many ways, as interesting or more interesting than transcripts, which often are longwinded acknowledgement of email and text documents. Here are some interesting details that caught my eye.
Exhibits are surprisingly hard to find. Marcy Wheeler is main source - see emptywheel.net/2022/05/24/tec… but not all linked there. I've collected these and a few others here:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1531275041731760128.html

I got interested when Laufman's name popped up as the DoJ "Fixer" for HRC, Inc..

[MissMarple2]

Watching Bannon. School in Texas has had 48 lockdowns since the beginning of the school year. Most related to illegal aliens.

[clarice]

Russia in a nutshell:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bvtXx5pZ0

[Neo]

Chicago High School to Implement Race-Based Grading System
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/31/chicago-high-school-to-implement-race-based-grading-system/

In an interview after the release of "The Bell Curve", author Charles Murray said that "if it was ever shown that one race was inferior to another, that politicians would do everything possible to hide it".

But here, with the implementation "to adjust classroom grading scales to account for skin color or ethnicity of its students," the Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF) administrators have proven Murray wrong.

[MissMarple2]

Hey, remember when that truck load of monkeys wrecked?

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/diseased-monkeys-experiments-health-threat/

[Neo]

DC jury finds Sussmann not guilty

[MissMarple2]

Neo,

No surprise. DC jury. At least some information got out.

[clarice]

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/stench-from-the-sussmann-verdict/

[henry]

Paywall, Clarice

[Neo]

Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-friends-sorry-to-announce-a?s=w

[clarice]

free registration.

[Narciso]

good news everybody

https://www.theepochtimes.com/looming-price-hikes-on-food-set-to-hit-americans-this-fall_4498663.html

[Narciso]

oops

https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/status/1531741990026629131?cxt=HHwWlsCysa7O68EqAAAA

[Narciso]

thats not even wrong,

https://twitter.com/AjitPai/status/1531720927796420608?cxt=HHwWgICzxbCE4sEqAAAA

its a whole other level of derp,

[Narciso]

really now, gene wilder look

https://twitter.com/PandaTribune/status/1531767592507015172?cxt=HHwWiICw3c-g98EqAAAA

[Narciso]

well more like apocalypse

https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/careening-toward-grace-or-what?s=r

[Davod]

Midnight Drop, Dewuceme Editions

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Dew_u_c_me.jpg

[Davod]

Dog gets adopted

https://youtu.be/B7yOO4oKMVc

[Davod]

Strikes a pose

https://twitter.com/i/status/1531349726628413440

[Davod]

Family get-together...🐒🤗

https://twitter.com/i/status/1531289327052783618

[Davod]

Sloth

https://twitter.com/i/status/1476582989320667150

[Davod]

I save you little fren..🐕🐾🌊🦗❤️

https://twitter.com/i/status/1530881642356539392

[Davod]

Teamwork

https://twitter.com/i/status/1531115683999883264

[Davod]

Looks like the kitten understood the plot..🐈🐾📱😍

https://twitter.com/i/status/1530949588823199745

[Davod]

Just taking friends for a walk...🐈🐾🐦🐦😍

https://twitter.com/i/status/1530753295085498368

[Davod]

Albino alligator..🐊😍

https://twitter.com/i/status/1530926948146458626

[Davod]

Squirrel enjoys sliding down a playground slide..🐿️🛝

https://twitter.com/i/status/1529477398772584449

[Davod]

Kid teaching kid how to slide...👶🛝🐐😍

https://twitter.com/i/status/1530179515170926593

[Davod]

Duck waterslide

https://youtu.be/GArl4KGzfeA

[Davod]

Squishy seal

https://twitter.com/i/status/1531649198860517381

[Davod]

Taking charge

https://youtu.be/Eb5WBq32L1Q

[Davod]

Kittens V balloon

https://twitter.com/i/status/1531478071357935621

[Davod]

I have been binge-watching Covert Affairs. One of the great things about the show is the wonderful scenes showing Washington.

[Davod]

Fishing-scape

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/tuesONT.jpg

[clarice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsIX0-mz7q0 the fbi hada secure workspace in Perkins Coie since 2012. Mark wauk has some thoughts on thishttps://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/more-on-the-fbis-perkins-coie-ra
smells to high heaven

[clarice]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/31/breaking-the-fbi-maintains-a-workspace-including-computer-portal-inside-the-law-firm-of-perkins-coie-the-ramifications-are-significant/#more-233701

[jim nj]

I think I may have picked the wrong weekend to start nicotine replacement therapy.

I got a date of May 30th, but no time, to have my stitches from the skin cancer surgery removed.

I'm like that's Memorial Day, so I spent last week trying to confirm the real date and time with the office, mostly by talking to voice mail inboxes or leaving messages at MyChart.

Sunday I got a voicemail from my doctor - come in Tuesday at 9:30 AM. F*ck, my transportation provider won't be taking calls until Tuesday 9AM.

Normally they require 48 hour notice before an appointment. For a post-op they will waive that, but still.

Doctor realizes something is wrong when I don't show up and leaves me a voice-mail saying you must have missed my earlier voice-mail so come in Wednesday at 3:30 PM.

That I can arrange and I do so. Call his office to confirm I will be there.

"He never comes into Newark on Wednesday and, wait a minute, you were supposed to be here at 9:30 AM this morning. Maybe he meant the Livingston office?"

Aargh. "No he said Newark." Lots of back and forth.

"Please just get him a message that I got his message and that I will see him in Newark tomorrow at 3:30PM as he requested. He can call me to correct that if needed."

"I'll send him an e-mail, but I'm telling you he's only here Mondays."

"Wasn't he there this morning waiting for me to show up? On a Tuesday?"

"OK, I sent the e-mail, but I don't know when he will answer it."

[Elvis voice} "Thankyouverymuch."