TRAVEL WARNINGS

So far Britain, France, and Germany have issued alerts to their people that if they visit the United States they may be haphazardly detained by our brutal border fascists, and held in inhumane conditions for several days. Canada and Mexico already knew this, all of Latin America even more so, and China and India probably too.

See, our federal department of border fascists is staffed primarily by high school and college football schmucks from the interior states who have finally been let loose. Well nigh illiterate, brutal, and morally flawed. Like the entire Republican Party, particularly Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Or Minnesota politician Justin Eichorn.

Yeah, this is just an opinion. But an educated one. For your own sanity, don't come. Spend your Dinars, Euros, Francs, Yen, and Yuan elsewhere. Canada for instance, it's a lovely place, and what the United States could be if we were civilized.

You don't want to be held in our deportation facilities, primarily because in addition to the troglodytic guards, the conditions are the same as in our frightful metros.
Rats, filth, and insane people everywhere.

If, against all better judgement and well-meaning advice you do come, and get past the immigration thugs, do not visit Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The food is almost universally awful there, the Christian natives are largely closed-minded blithering illiterates and ignorant of everything outside the United States, far too many of them worship Trump as the be all and end all and think that what his henchsubhumans are doing is just fine and dandy.


You really don't need to see the largest ball of twine or the giant two-headed crawdaddy they found in the Buckaroo River. Go to Albania instead. They've got something similar, and the local people are friendlier and less violent.


And on the plus side, they also have one or two Chinese restaurants there, and probably know how to make a proper cup of tea.

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MOST POPULAR HUE

One of the colour shades which is incredibly popular, especially in ultra-macho places like Texas and the Appalachias, because it goes so well with worn military fatigues, camouflage patterns, and interior design, is what is known as 'gunmetal'. A dark grey with a blueish tinge suggestive of the alloy used in Civil War weaponry. And please remember that the Civil War represents the greatest age in America. Life was better then. Which everyone in certain important areas of the country knows. Everyone.

It's invisible to ducks, by the way.

Gunmetal is a reassuring decorative element in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Here in California we actually tend towards 'shrinking violet' and 'crocodile green', which were the dominant colours of the hippie era. We never experienced the Civil War, you see, and vastly prefer the gentle tints of tofu. As well as puce. Puce is nice.

But never mind.

Anything can be 'gun metal'. Watches. Cyber trucks. Cigar lighters.
Bathroom tiles. Eyeshadow. Canned food.
Religion.

AIRLINE MILES, NO ANNUAL FEE

Government agencies. Caskets. Voting booths.
Housing. The Department of Re-education.
Your inbred cousins from Tennessee.
Repurposed building equipment.


Over the next few months your familiarity with this hue will greatly increase.


Along with Ballistol Break-Free CLP, Hoppe's No. 9, or Remington Rem Oil, which are all known for their cleaning, lubricating, and corrosion-preventing properties.
Essential parts of a hip and with-it fashion sense.




Please note: Very many things remain unsaid, and several risky words have been avoided, because I don't want the godddamned authorities to arrest me on some ridiculous pretext and "disappear me". Yes, I'm an American citizen, but that has not helped me in any way in the past. And I do not want this peace-loving Christian blog to become 'Exhibit A' in a trial of un-maga dissent. Which is another reason I won't ever live in the goddamned shithole states like Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. All places, by the way, where literacy is often non-existent.
And the food is garbage. How is the price of eggs?
Covfefe!




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THE FOX DEMOGRAPHIC

The wildfires have shown up the United States for what Americans truly are: a bunch of narrow-minded rightwing Christian pricks. Well, that was already known. Three particular scumbags stand out. Tupperville, Johnson, and Hannity. The problem is that all this draws the eye away from Trump's bootlicking nominees for important positions and intent to gut much of the Federal governement of people with any shred of honesty and competence.

It's mighty rich getting lectures from people representing states with such high levels of ignorance, illiteracy, incest, and sexually transmitted diseases.


The four worst states in the Union, crowded at very rock bottom, are Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Nothing but trailer parks, revivial meetings, and rusty pick-up trucks on cinder blocks as far as the eye can see. No, I haven't been there. Don't want to. Ain't gonna catch syph and food poisoning from dirty hands, dirty dishes, and dirty rice.
Their standards are very low down there. Disgusting!

Over the years I've given money to relief efforts in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Virginia, and West Virginia. With the exception of Texas, which gallantly sent firefighters to California, that will not ever happen again. They can starve, burn up, die in landslides and floods, and be hit by tornadoes and cyclones till they're screaming for all I care.
We are not all in this together, they aren't. Screw them.

Please note that the states contributing the most money by far to the Federal Goverment are California, New York, and Texas. Among the states most heavily dependent on the others are Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, which I note are all Fox News states. Poor, diseased, ignorant, and jes' bubbling over with Christianity, bless their hearts.

Note also that California is qua America's food production a powerhouse.
Y'all might starve without us. Which would be quite okay.
Good luck with the groceries, eh.

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THINKING ABOUT LOUISIANA

House speaker Mike Johnson wishes to attach conditions to any fire disaster aid given to California. He represents a state which is heavily dependent on Federal funds far greater than their contribution, so perhaps the beggar needs to reconsider what comes out of his mouth. The same can be said for a large number of other red hosebag states.

Please explain to me again why staying with that bunch of mostly Southern dirt bag impoverished religious nut territories is a benefit to California.

I'll even give you a freebie: Ted Cruz bailing out to Cancun when that big freeze hit back in 2021 was very good for all of us, and everyone wishes he would do it again. That sort of counts in favour of those places. Can you make Marjorie Taylor Greene do the same?
Say, isn't Louisiana staggeringly high in EPA superfund sites?
As well as horrible cancer clusters.

Another fact about the state that sent that dirt bag Johnson to Washington is their extremely poor literacy, with some of the worst figures for reading, writing, 'rithmetic, and graduating grammar school in the country. Probably accounts for their high incarceration rate.

SOMEWHERE VERY MUCH NOT LOUISIANA

It strikes me that a congressman from a state that shares extraordinarily high syphilis and incest rates with its neighbors might want to be quieter, seeing as the question isn't why California should stay in the union but rather why don't we kick those trogs out?

Yeah, okay, they gave us Cajun dirty rice.
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WHERE SYPHILIS AND ADDERAL REIGN

There are large parts of the United States of America where people are traitorous narrow minded xenophobic cretins and ignoramuses. Places where you do not want to go.
Where the food is mediocre and leads to obesity, sloth, and brain rot.

As you might be aware, I have borrowed a term from Trump to name these places.

The Shithole States.

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Junkfood, shitty beer, and lead poisoning.

Amoral, and ethically crippled.

Spitefilled and deranged.



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A MOST AMERICAN MADNESS

According to my ancestors' version of Christianity, most people are damned heretics and practice witchcraft, and should be expunged with fire and sword. Which, while I do not adhere to it, I am perfectly willing to bring back for members of the Republican party.

I have prepared a list. Just in case.

This, more or less, is why you don't want to claim that the United States was founded as a christian country, or why those batshit fundy ideas about the primacy of religion, over the constitution and common sense, should be taken seriously.

By the way: Among heretics and witchcraft practitioners I will include ALL baptists of any type especially southern, methodists, literalists, fundamentalists, and adherents of snake cults, faith healing, seventh dayers, scientologists, and football fans. Just so you know.

Plus diverse speakers of Spanish, French, and German.

Altogether, I am eclectic in my 'dislikes'.



By the way, just in case you missed it the first several times, these are the shithole states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. They are unredeemable, and must be despoiled utterly.

And their heathen football teams erased.

Are there any questions?



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FARMING KALE IN THE HINTERLANDS

It's been an hour and a half since that dumbass started using a powerhose on the building across the block. There ought to be a law. I can't even hear my turkey vulture! And no, I don't care that the grime of centuries is finally being cleaned off. Probably in preparation for a a new ugly paint job and eventual sale of the property to investors, and conversion.
Outsider landlord companies in SF should be lined up and shot.

Especially if they inconvenience me.


By the way, the stupidest comment on Facebook today was "Autism is a Jewish invention of this reign of the antichrist. You are completely normal." Which tells you that the writer is a Christian, Republican, and believes in family values like pogroms, segregation, and lynching. So probably from one of the shithole states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

PERFECT PLACE FOR A STRIP MINE!

It's not that I despair over my fellow Americans, but I do despise a lot of them.

But I don't know. Maybe the author of "autism is a Jewish invention of this reign of the antichrist" is a timid young virgin in Mill Valley who believes in ancient aliens, or an ultra liberal potsmoking hippie of no specific gender living in a commune in Sonoma.
An anti-vaxxer with off-kilter dietary preferences, either way.

Could be the idiot across the block with the power hose.
There's just no telling.


"Autism is a Jewish invention of this reign of the antichrist. You are completely normal."


In any case I'm blaming the vegans. A brain needs protein or it starts feeding on itself. All those morons rioting at the Capitol building were because of the vegans, the pro-terrorist thugs in Union Square and Yale too, and gluten-phobic mobs pouring ketchup on fur also.
If you deny this, you are probably part of the conspiracy.
They've gotten to you man. You've changed!


Good lord, now there's a chainsaw!
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SAN FRANCISCO IS AN ISLAND

Judging by the headlines, Republicans are staggeringly, incandescently, transcendentally, stupid. Statements by Trump about presidental records, Marjorie Taylor Greene about the Ukraine, Kari Lake and Ron De Santis about anything, plus most actions by members of the extremist far right in congress, underline both the ignorance and idiocy among right wing politicians, as well as the morons that voted for those people in the sewage states.

Which specifically are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

[By the way: Utah is particularly overloaded with braindead dunderheads. Just so you know.]

Of course the Europeans aren't much better. Britain went for Brexit, the far right rules in Hungary, the French are so damned regressive that even the pampered North African youth in their inner cities are feeling it, the Dutch empowered a party for semi-illiterate Christian nutball farmers that recently brought down a government, and the less said about Spanish rightwingers, Italian neo-fascists, ethnic nationalists in the Slavic states, and the ultranationalist stone-throwing religious bigots in Greece, the better.

I've had all my shots. Do I need to pack sulfa and quinine? A friend whose opinions I value suggested that for a trek into the interior (twhich is everywhere between the East Bay Hills and Connecticut) I should also have body armor plus canisters of oxygen and a respirator. Same probably goes for all of Europe. Do I also need to hire bearers and guards?

Is there anything worth eating there?

Deet spray! I also need Deet, it might work against the natives!


Y'all are quite unimpressive as an "intelligent" species. Either up your game, fast, or extinguish yourselves and make room for the robots.


And switch off Fox News, you dingbats.

You are why aliens avoid us.




UPDATE AS OF 4:10 THIS AFTERNOON:

A friend who lives in Georgia advises that I should also carry penicillin if heading his way. Stockings and aspirin are unnecessary for trade, however, but chewing tobacco would definitely not be a bad idea.




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MONDAY MORNING SCHADENFREUDE

A few years ago a fellow pipe smoker unfriended and blocked me when he found out that not only was I not going to vote for his saviour, but I despised and loathed the man and everyone in his gang. Oh, plus my dislike of most Christians and their religion was growing by leaps and bounds, and as far as I'm concerned the entire centre of the country has become a mental toxic waste dump. Good riddance to him.

It's sad, because there is a lot of beautiful nature there, it's apparently very scenic, beautiful even, but I shall never visit because even fully armed with America's chosen assault rifle it remains barbaric and heathen.


As a reminder, these are the jungle states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Savage areas with inbred people.
And horrible food.

Sex and violence obsessed idolaters and heretics.

Naturally I am pleased as punch that America's favourite rabid dingo is continuing to have a bad day. It will only get worse, Donny, and eventually your depraved orange behind will be permanently barred from office. Despite the Christian ultra-rightwing declaring you a saint and wearing those stupid hats.

Keep on having stupid tantrums on Truth Social. Like your university and your steaks, it's aimed at losers and people with pyschological problems. Like Lindsey Graham.

Folks whose natural tendency is to either sexually brutalize their kin, or kill them and eat them. Magites. Marjorie Taylor Green, Kari Lake, and the shitty pillow guy.

Et mult autres.



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ALL YOU DRUGGIES FROM ELSEWHERE

Whenever I feel revulsion at the Red States, something comes along to remind me that here in San Francisco we are not perfect either. There is a video on the web of a Chinatown boba tea place being burglarized twice in one night recently. Love Tea on Broadway and Grant (less than three blocks away from the police station, in a part of town that has people about 24 hours a day) had their door smashed and their cash register emptied in the middle of the night. The burglars represented two other major ethnicities in this city (one of them being white and female), so the claim that it's just "those people" holds no water.

At some point, Chinatown merchants will have to start living in their shops again, armed with guns so that they can shoot your bitch ass when you come casually strolling in at three in the morning, mark my words.

Nevertheless, here is a helpful map showing the worst parts of the country.

SOURCE: https://www.losangelesblade.com -- Erin Reed article

The brown and orange parts remarkably coincide with the racist gerrymandering, bigoted, most Christian, least liberal, most gut-bucket all-time nastiest states in the union. Places which you should not visit, where laws and society reflect the dark-ages most perfectly.

Low rent, too. Which is why right wingers from California are moving there.
In a few of them you can still marry juveniles.
Coincidence?


In the past I have not developed an affection for boba tea.
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AND THE STUPID HATS

Now let's see... they've banned books, excoriated and threatened medical personell, stocked up on assault weapons (as well as fictional manga hero knives and swords), legalized prayer in school as well as banned recognition of slavery, genocide, and the discriminatory practices wide-spread in their communities, persistently tried to overthrow democracy, and encouraged Christian repression of everyone else, as well as given support to dangerous conspiracy loons and people who openly admire both Hitler and brutal third world dictators.

Quote from a 70's teevee series: "Yankee liberties are destroying us!"

Plus there is police brutality and corruption there.


Tell me again why anyone should visit.


Personally, I see no reason to ever go anywhere outside of a few areas in the country, despite colourful festivals, interesting regional foods, and lutefisk. My friend Jonathan, deeply settled in the West Bank but originally from East Dingo, Arkansas or Tennesee (somewhere gawdawful, primitive, and filled with illiterates) keeps suggesting that "the real America" is filled with sweetness and light, but I'm convinced that he subconsciously admires murderous societies one step away from burning witches, books, and rainbows. He IS in the West Bank.
That's 'Dumbforkistan' with both 'Murricans, and Russian gangsters.
Basically it's Texas without the stupid hats.

Maybe they do have stupid hats there. Ten gallons and baseball.

From my vantage point in a civilized part of the world it sure looks like everything between Treasure Island and the Atlantic is trailer parks, meth labs, lynch mobs, and junkfood.
All fundamentalist Christians and Florida parents.


Republican bigots, crooks, rapists, and child abusers: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.


The "real" America is a horrible place filled with savages.
Upland New Guinea but with asfalt.



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METH LABS, TRAILER PARKS, AND CHRISTIANS

My regular work exposure to treasonous Republicans usually leaves me bloody minded and in favour of firing squads. The very next time the bastards insurrect, there may be many more dead among their ranks than just Ashli Babbitt, who deservedly got a bullet. Just for the hell of it, we ought to dig her up and shoot her again.

It's obvious that rather than purge the traitors from their ranks, the Republicans have in the years since the failed rebellion boosted their stature and let them helm their party.
They are all treason-supporters now.

The Democratic Party has been far too concerned with being perceived as fair and equitable, appealing to the best instincts of their opponenents, who clearly have no best instincts worth catering to. Next time please call out the tanks.



Here's a quote from an article by Glenn C. Altschuler, opinion contributor to The Hill:
"After the 2020 presidential election, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners, “I actually think we’re trending toward secession. What in the world do we have in common with the people, in, say, New York?” In 2021, 66 percent of Republicans in the South told pollsters they supported leaving the Union. Last year, thousands of Texas Republicans approved a party platform calling on the state legislature to authorize a referendum on secession. Several Republican lawmakers in Maryland have proposed that three counties in the state break away and become part of West Virginia. Late last month, Sean Hannity seemed open to splitting the United States into politically autonomous zones, ostensibly to avoid a bloody civil war. And Hannity endorsed Greene’s idea of “banning people who move to red states from blue ones from voting for five years so they don’t bring their bad politics with them.” "
End cite.

Leaving aside entirely the fact that we'd end up nuking each other, probably within months of the split, talk in favour of such a division is, ab initio, treasonous. Even now, while we are all still together, blue states already find it hard to live with a bunch of poor always on the dole third world hinterland hickvilles and religious freak zones. We would have no reason to continue funding fudge-all in those areas after the divorce other than malaria eradication efforts and fences to keep them out.

Inbred Jed and Deliverance: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.



By the way: I've got nothing against Christians. Some of my best friends are Christian.

Well, I wouldn't want them in my living room, because of course they're filthy disease carrying vermin, and once you've got them you need penicillin and roach spray to get rid of them.
But still. Mighty fine people. The poxy bastards.
They're so spiritual.



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A NATION OF TRUE BELIEVERS

After reading the news this morning I have come to the conclusion that the reason why the rest of the country is insane, unlike San Francisco, is too much Christianity, highly refined sugar, and cocaine. Plus Tucker Carlson. You're all gullible consumers of junkfood, drugs, and bullshit.

So the sooner you self-destruct, the better.
The world will benefit from it.

My friend Jonathan in the West Bank, who lives in a bubble, seems to still have faith in y'all, but he clearly doesn't bother paying attention, instead devoting himself to fingering his guitar like Jerry Garcia and smoking so much weed his socail media posts are pink. Rose coloured spectacles.

Because I abstain entirely from marijuana I am not fooled.

All of you dress funny, smell bad, and eat too much.
Especially Texas.

Filled with batshit lardblobs. Overweight, and voting for Ted Cruz and Louie Gomert. Quite irredeemable. President Kim should nuke the place.


For the record, these are shithole states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Marin and Oakland are pretty bad too.
And the South Bay is a pit.
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THOSE RED STATES ...

At least one of the states, probably some dumb-ass Trump state, false-reports their covid death figures over the weekend. It's been a recognizable pattern for several months now. They probably believe that no one will notice, and people will be lulled into assuming that nothing at all is happening.

Tuesday October 18, 11:42 PM
1,065,841 deaths.

Wednesday October 19, after midnight.
1,066,584 deaths.
[Increase: 743]

Thursday October 20, 11:18 PM
1,067,190 deaths.
[Increase: 606]

Friday October 21, 11:11 PM
1,067,673 deaths.
[Increase: 483]

Saturday October 22, 10:12 PM
1,067,685 deaths.
[Increase: 12]

Sunday October 23, 8:48 PM
1,067,686 deaths.
[Increase: 1]


What, Americans don't die unless bureaucrats are on duty?

Saturday October 22 to Sunday the 23rd: 1 death.
Saturday October 15 to Sunday the 16th: 1 death.
Saturday October 8 to Sunday the 9th: 4 deaths.
Saturday October 1 to Sunday the 2nd: 0 deaths.
Saturday September 24 to Sunday the 25th: 7 deaths.
Saturday September 17 to Sunday the 18th: 7 deaths.

There have been approximately three thousand Covid deaths every week for the last month.
Saturday September 24: 1,056,409 deaths. Today, October 24: 1,067,833 deaths by mid-day.


Nebraska and Missouri, where no one ever dies, stopped regularly updating their covid numbers this past Spring. Accurate numbers for Florida are probably non-existant.
Texas shows every indication of unreliability.

Draw your own conclusions, and perhaps avoid travelling to the shithole states (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming).

Oh, and congratulations to Missouri's Kansas City Chiefs for their victory yesterday.
You are all winners! Missouri achieved something! Kudos.



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MY DIGESTION IS FINE. WHY DO YOU ASK?

Much of the stuff I read is either scientific or related to history and languages. Wikipedia is an endless source of fascination -- the embedded clickable links within any article are often new rabbit holes -- and sometimes the bloggosphere reveals people with obscure specialties and incredible depths of knowledge.

[Yes, I know that Wikipedia has been criticised. But there are checks and balances there, it's self-correcting over time, and as long as one reads about controversial subjects with a modicum of scepticism, it's extremely reliable. Most of the nuts have gravitated to the dark webb (Truth Social, 4-Chan, Instagram, Snapchat, Percenters, and Wyoming Armed Rabble Patriots Inc.). Collectively, the violent and mostly Republican bat shit crazy fringe.]

And, sometimes, I enjoy true crime.

Or read about sleaze.


Having acquired a new book recently, I am fully occupied at present.

Need to tear myself away from this one, so that I can go have lung lei yü (龍脷魚) over rice, with sambal, and milk tea on the side.

The book pictured above is about former president Donald Trump. Whom I believe is a true Christian. I effing hate Christians.


This iteration of Cornell & Diehl's Carolina Red Flake is pretty damn' good.

I've made sure I've got several tins of it.



IRRELEVANT SPITEFUL AFTERTHOUGHTS

Many Trump-voting Christians probably smoke shitty aromatics, a very popular category of pipe tobacco that far outsells the decent stuff. Or they purchase scented candles and wear pants with stretchy waist bands. Wyoming, I hear, is filled with them.

Rightwing Christian shitholes: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

They can all go suck on a potato.



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DRUNKEN REVELRY INVITES DISEASE

As a sour old grumpus well past my thirties, my assigned societal role is to disapprove of you lot and your epic stupidity. Which I relish. Yesterday evening, and probably happening this evening as well, you did not disappoint me. Kudos. You got drunk. Celebrating the one sixteenth Irish ancestry and fifty percent self-indulgent fratboy within you.
You are all ... winners.

The pandemic isn't over. Indeed, transmission rates are low in California and a few other places, but they are still strong in the shithole states, and skyrocketing in the rest of the world.

[Important refresher: the shithole states are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Plus Los Angeles, Orange County, Philadelphia, and San Diego.]


Going out to get blotto with a throng of people who have been godknowswhere plus godknowswithwhom in crowded bars is probably one of the stupidest things ever.
Same level as an orgy with a bunch of careless drug addicts.

And some things are just sinful. Disgusting beyond belief.

Green food colouring in a pint of beer?

Effing irredeemable.


This is why there are no snakes in Ireland.
You don't ruddy deserve them.



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THE UPDATED BASKET OF REPREHENSIBLES

Honestly, I thought that the current list was up to date. Because 'M' alerted me to the contrary underneath a recent post, I had added to it. But Charles pointed out grievous ommissions.

So I've updated it again. Second time in less than twenty four hours.
This is worthy of TWO illustrations!

The current list of shithole states and places, barring further candidates joining, is as follows: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Plus Los Angeles, Orange County, Philadelphia, and San Diego.

The Big Mac Daddy of shitholes is, of course, Texas.

They are the gold standard of shitholery.
Any more shitholish it cannot get.
They go up to eleven.



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THIS POST DEDICATED TO THE FOX DEMOGRAPHIC

Sometimes you wake up with a foul taste in your mouth, that tells you that you really shouldn't have given a blowjob to a zombie or a fundamentalist Christian the night before while doing mescaline and highly caffeinated smart beverages. Well, okay, that's not my experience, but you know what I mean. I suspect that very many people in the red states have that feeling now. It's a gradual experience. They're starting to slowly have existential angst, and a sinking suspicion that they were quite stupid five years ago.

They can't quite put their finger on it.

What was it again?

Oh yeah, they had an election. Lost their funding for schools and medical facilities, had to start eating canned petfood, then a pandemic washed over them, and their environmental pollution and degradation increased leading to higher rates of cancer and breathing difficulties.
More lead in the water. Toxic landfills. The local Wammart closed.
Rotating job openings at convenience stores.
No more taco bowls.

Also: the preacher had an affair and syphoned the church bank account, someone shot up the local mall, and several of the neighbors got arrested for domestic violence and making threats to local officials. Remember the lice outbreak at the highschool? Must'a bin the libs!

In trailer parks and retirement homes all across the country, people want the damned kids off their lawns, black people to stay in their ghettoes, and all them furriners to go back to Mesko. Their candidate promised them! It's only because of pesky reality that it didn't happen.

And the Ukranians, the Ukranians sabotaged everything!


But Boebert, MTG, and Qanon will save the day.

No more vaxxing, no more voting.

We gotsa convoy!



Yeah okay, I'm thinking Idaho, Mississipi, and Montana here. But it might be any of the shithole states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Plus Los Angeles, Orange County, Philadelphia, San Diego, and Eastern Oregon.



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TUCKER CARLSON PANTING OVER PUTIN'S RAW SEXUALITY

Demonstrating that rightwing morons cream in their panties at every breath a brutal despot makes, Fox News bloatfart Tucker Carlson in a number of opinions he voiced recently showed that Putin is the Jock Du Jour for the American fascist resurgence. Several times he practically melted on air. Or, to put it differently, the more I hear of Republican reactions to the Ukraine war, the more I pray that the Republican Party and its rank and file rot in hell.

This past weekend I had to ask one of the rightwing yutzes inanely blathering in the backroom if he could actually spell 'Putin'. He was unable to answer. He's a Trump voter, of course.

On a slightly different subject, nearly three thousand people die every day from Covid 19 in the United States, mostly unvaccinated Republicans and rightwing vaccine sceptics. Which is well over sixty one thousand every month. That's a price I'm willing to pay. It's acceptable.

The vaccine refusers are walking targets for infection: that also is acceptable.
Many of them will die despite administering essential oils: acceptable.


What is NOT acceptable is the risks to the under-five demographic caused by so many people including parents walking around without masks in public.
Or the immunocompromised.



Rightwing lubriciousness over Putin's staggering Christian machismo, plus the continued pandemic which American society is more and more ready to ignore are only slightly related. But there is a connection. It is not coincidental that pervasive scientific stupidity, fascist ideas, and Christianity thrive in the following places: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Collectively 'The Shithole States'.
Fox News Country.




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EAT YOUR GRITS -- WITH SOME FOO YUNG!

The only good thing that can come out of this is that a few people in the red states will perhaps finally realize that Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson, are Russian assets. And they might actually figure out that the Ukraine is NOT in Africa, as they thought -- a continent most of the ignorant savages in Mississippi couldn't locate on a map if it came up and bit them on their fat rear ends -- but is somewhere closer to Austria. A place they know about because they saw a documentary (actually, 'The Sound Of Music') in a history class once.

But it's all so very far away. Might as well be Ottowa or New Hampshire.


[I'm using Mississippi as a metaphor and stand-in for all the shitholes states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.]


Other than wanting to see Russia, Putin, Fox News, Trump, Pompeo, Owens, Carlson, and Mississippi, destroyed, I have no actual horse in this race. Opinions, yes, of course, but that's much like everyone else, including the cigar-huffing rightwing morons I have to deal with regularely who are probably worried that their stock portfolios will tank.

Or that this might make Trump look less golden.


With Putin's diarrhea on his face.


Ass kisser.




To get your mind off this subject, and to interject the sweetness and light that you have come to expect from this blog, here's a classic recipe from the Chinese American Culinary repertoire which is easy and doable, even in darkest Mississippi. Where it would be considered impossibly exotic and refined. Modern living at it's best, oh my!

Food, always, is a such happy subject.

This goes well with grits.

芙蓉蟹
[Fu Yung Hai - Velvety omelette with crab meat]

1兩 (one ounce) 蟹肉 (crab meat).
2支 (two stalks) 青蔥 (scallion).
4個 (four) 蛋 (eggs).
少許 (a pinch) 鹽 Salt).
2大匙 (two tablespoons) 油 (oil).

½杯 (half a cup) 高湯 (superior stock).
1大匙 (one tablespoon) 醬油 (soy sauce).
½小匙 (half a teaspoon) 大白粉 (tapioca flour).
少許 (a small pinch) 糖 (sugar).


Remove all shell fragments from the crab meat, rinse and chop the scallion. Gently beat the eggs till smooth, add the pinch of salt, the oil, the crab meat, and the chopped scallion.

Mix the tapioca flour with a little cold water.

Heat some oil in the wok, pour in the egg mixture, cook till barely set, and slide onto a plate. Wipe any fragments of the omelette out of the wok, add a drizzle oil, and when hot pour in the superior stock and soy sauce, adding the pinch of sugar. After two minutes or so of cooking, stir in the dissolved tapioca flour and when the sauce becomes glossy pour it over the omelette. Add a drizzle of fragrant sesame oil and some minced cilantro.


Please note: Amazon delivers. Even in Mississippi.
You can mail-order all of the ingredients.
Even the damned grits.



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