SO SINCE YOU WON’T LISTEN TO ME, HERE IS MEDICAL ADVICE FROM EXPERTS. YOU SHOULD READ THIS AND NOT IGNORE IT.
Since at least April 2020, the Center for Disease Control has recommended that everyone wear cloth masks in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Studies that found even people without coronavirus symptoms, but who may still have the disease, could transmit the virus through close interactions with others, especially through speaking, coughing, and sneezing.
Surgical masks (the easiest to get your hands on) are designed to protect others from an infected person. Their structure allows them to capture bodily fluids excreted by the oral and nasal cavities (i.e., from coughing and sneezing). However, they are not designed to protect the wearer from infected people.
A systematic review of published data (MacIntyre and Chughtai, 2015) reveals that masks do not prevent or reduce the infection in community settings when they are the only measure to prevent infection. The reason is that the effectiveness of facemasks is most likely impacted by compliance issues.
There is consistent advice emphasising that if you are going to wear a mask, you must wear it appropriately. This means:
You must wash your hands before and after wearing or removing it.
Do not touch the front of it – the part potentially exposed to the infection.
Avoid reaching underneath to scratch your nose or mouth.
Wear it most of the time and discard as soon as it gets damp or moist.
Otherwise, wearing masks could give a false sense of security. Research shows that compliance with these guidelines decreases in the household settings with each day of mask use, which makes long term use a challenge.
Essentially, that means people become more and more lax about the correct usage as time goes on. This is particularly relevant in the current situation because measures to suppress the spread of COVID-19 are necessary for long periods of time – not just a few days, but weeks and possibly even months.
Many risks associated with cloth masks
Cloth masks are commonly used in developing countries and many non-standard practices about their cleaning and reuse have evolved. Most studies about cloth masks were conducted before the development of disposable masks. The penetration through cloth is reported to be high. In one study, it was found that 40-90% of particles are able to penetrate cloth masks.
Cloth masks let through more particles
A large prospective RCT study (MacIntyre et al., 2015) showed that moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks, and poor filtration may even result in increased risk of infection. They showed that cloth masks resulted in significantly higher rates of infection than medical masks, and performed worse than the controls.
Cloth masks resulted in higher infection rates
The virus may survive on the surface of the cloth masks. Consequently, self-contamination through repeated use and improper doffing is possible (e.g. contaminated cloth mask may transfer pathogen from the mask to the bare hands of the wearer).
Cloth masks facilitate self-contamination
Although any material may provide a physical barrier to an infection, if it does not fit well around the nose and mouth, or the material allows infectious particles to freely pass through it, then it will be of no benefit and also unsafe.
In conclusion, although wearing a mask could be beneficial when the wearer is properly trained on how to use it and adheres to all other mask etiquettes, there are other measures available to protect against spreading the virus. Wash your hands, do not touch your face, and practice physical distancing.
DO THE FIVE – HELP STOP CORONAVIRUS! 1 – HANDS – WASH YOUR HANDS! Wash them often!
2 – ELBOW (OR SLEEVE) – Cough into it, not your hand.
3 – FACE – Don’t touch it! Don’t touch your eyes, nose or mouth!
4 – SPACE – SOCIAL DISTANCE! Keep your distance (6 feet or more)
5 – HOME – STAY HOME if you can! (or if it’s mandatory)
REMEMBER to DISINFECT and SANITIZE frequently-touched surfaces like: cell phones, computers (keyboard & mouse), door handles, faucets, keys. credit cards, wallets, purses, tables, desks, countertops, light switches, knobs, dials, etc.
STAY HOME! – STAY HEALTHY!
DON’T PANIC! – REMAIN CALM! AND GO WASH YOUR HANDS! KEEP SOCIAL DISTANCING! Stay at least 6 feet away from other people! Wash your hands often! Use hand sanitizer! Don’t touch your face, eyes, nose or mouth! Cover coughs and sneezes with your elbow!
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Why did the United States refuse the World Heath Organization test kits?
Why did the Trump Administration wait to act? Why did the Trump Administration tell the Washington state doctors not to test?
Why did the GOP Republicans call it a “Democratic Hoax?”
Why didn’t the CDC test kits work?
Why did they wait to get new test kits from Roche? (~400000 available soon)
Why did he put Mike Pence in charge?
There is a RUSH TO RE-OPEN cities, states and the country. ARE WE READY TO RE-OPEN?
IS THERE ENOUGH TESTING? HAVE WE STOPPED THE SPREAD?
HAVE WE FLATTENED THE CURVE?
THIS IS WHY THEY WANT YOU TO THINK IT IS SAFE:
Trump and his administration want you to think that 1000 deaths a day is normal. They want you to accept that 116000+ American Deaths as “just the cost of doing business.”
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS NOT UNDER CONTROL!
GROCERY & FOOD PRICES ARE SPIKING! BIGGEST PRICE JUMP IN HISTORY! THE COUNTRY IS NOT READY TO RE-OPEN!
There’s no testing. There’s no vaccine. People are dying everyday from this disease!
The CoronaVirus is still spreading! People are infected without knowing they are!
“Social Distancing” and Masks/Gloves are not a guarantee of immunity!
The Monday after!
Well, that was a helluva weekend in POLITICS!
We are exhausted from trying to follow the developments. BLACK LIVES MATTER! – We are going to try to avoid politics today.
Read our previous Blog Posts for more stuff!
We woke up, took care of the dogs, and they got fed and we went back to bed.
Our housekeeper came today for the first time since the isolation began in March.
We have been paying her salary while she has been isolating at her home too, and cleaning the house on our own, so now the house needs a real good cleaning.
And while she is here, we are isolating in the Home Office with the dogs.
We ate the last piece of cold pizza
and we drank some orange juice and a cup of espresso.
And we took a shower.
On The Menu: 2 beef soft tacos
Two Beef Soft Tacos
Times Square in New York City on Monday 6-8-2020
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS NOT UNDER CONTROL!
THE COUNTRY IS NOT READY TO RE-OPEN! There’s no testing. There’s no vaccine. People are dying everyday from this disease!
The CoronaVirus is still spreading! People are infected without knowing they are!
“Social Distancing” and Masks/Gloves are not a guarantee of immunity!
43000+ Reported Cases and 2040+ Reported Deaths in Los Angeles County! 131000+ Reported Cases and 4650+ Reported Deaths in California! 2000000+ Reported Cases and 113000+ Reported Deaths in the United States!
6930000+ Reported Cases and 401000 Reported Deaths Worldwide!
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 – Happy Bill & Ted Day!
7:00am: Good Morning! It’s Tuesday!
We woke up and took the dogs out and fed the dogs and took the dogs out.
And we got the newspapers and drank a cup of espresso.
And New York is open again!
WE LOVE NEW YORK!
George Floyd’s Funeral is today in Houston, Texas. RIP. “May the Four Winds blow him safely home.”
George Floyd RIP
And it is a media circus. Everyone wants a piece of George now.
News media that never gave a sh*t, running wild with BlackLivesMatter.
AND THAT’S A GOOD THING!
(Every network channel is carrying the funeral LIVE today!) Because the white news media doesn’t ever cover it like this.
His death at the hands of law enforcement is going to change the world.
There are protests around the world! England, France, Germany, Hong Kong!
In Bristol, England, a crowd of protesters tore down the statue of a British Slave Trader and dumped it in the water. In Hong Kong, thousands broke curfew and came out to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre aka the “June Fourth Incident”.
There are already big changes happening at the Federal, State, County and City levels!
Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, because if they don’t they’re going to get run over. It’s time to pick a side. Corporations and politicians and celebrities better get woke.
And Trump started the day of George Floyd’s funeral by tweeting of course…..
HE IS TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE! HE IS SPOUTING CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT HE HEARS ON RIGHT-WING “NEWS” CHANNELS (OANN). THIS IS JUST MADNESS!
FUCK YOU FILTHY RACIST TUCKER CARLSON!
7:45pm: We took an afternoon nap. When we woke up we made a pot of chili.
We took the dogs outside. We fed the dogs. We took the dog outside. We ate the chili. On The Menu: Big pot of spicy chili with cheese and crushed tortilla chips.
REPORTS OF VOTER SUPPRESSION IN THE GEORGIA PRIMARY TODAY! This also happened in the last California Primary! We need Mail in voting for everyone!
Another high speed pursuit too! Late night, and one suspect in custody! He drove like a madman for a little bit and then pulled over and just surrendered.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
8:00am: We are tired. We didn’t sleep much, or at all….
We have taken care of the dogs already. They were outside, and they got fed, and they were outside. And we got the newspapers. We were planning on going to the market, but we are just too tired to suit up and go shopping this morning. And the construction continues across the street, so hammering and nail guns and heavy equipment all day, everyday now…. listening to them bang right now.
And we don’t know if the gardeners are coming today, probably, but we won’t know until they show up, or not. And the gardeners did come and they worked all day.
NOTE: We were feeling “burned out” on Blog writing.
SO we didn’t update this Blog Post again until Thursday evening.
We are now at “THREE MONTHS” of forced lockdown.
CoronaVirus infections are still rising. Have you been tested? Which test?
When did you get tested? Do you have anti-bodies? Are you contagious? IT IS CRAZY THAT THE CITY AND THE STATE AND THE COUNTRY ARE RE-OPENING! WHAT HAPPENED TO “STOP THE SPREAD” in 15 DAYS, 30 DAYS, TWO MONTHS?
On The Menu: 3 chili and cheese soft tacos for dinner
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Help for Senior Citizens during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Friday, June 5, 2020 – National Gun Violence Awareness Day!
AG Barr Needs To Be Impeached Now!
2 miles of fence around The White House
now FORT TRUMP in Washington DC
The First Amendment of the Constitution prohibits any law abridging freedom of speech, infringing on freedom of the press, interfering with right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting petitioning for a redress of grievances. (and there’s also something about religion too)
“Article I – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” (The First Amendment)
“Trump has to show how much he loves Jesus”
Trump has turned The White House into a Fort, erecting 2 miles of fencing and calling in the National Guard, mercenaries from Blackwater, unmarked uniformed officers who say they are from the Department of Justice and are actually Texas prison guards and anyone they could get to come to Washington DC to start a civil war. Trump still wants to call in active military troops to invade United States cities and kill protesters.
A bully hiding in a bunker using the military to bully the people who oppose him.
The police beat civilians, they beat the press, they beat the foreign press.
The police arrested and beat people exercising their First Amendment rights.
“Law and Order” Trump wants to “dominate” the public protests. He is a joke. He is a criminal. He attacked peaceful protesters for a photo op! He needs to RESIGN now.
EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
We watched the protests on the interweb. There was a noticeable drop-off in actual coverage of the protest, shifting to stories of poor citizens victimized by criminals recovering from looting and interviews with clergy and psychologist about BLM.
Such bullshit. The news media didn’t give a shit about BLM until everyone else did.
And some media is still shilling for law enforcement, Trump and the GOP. FUCK YOU FOX NEWS! FUCK YOU OAN! FUCK YOU DONNY!
We also spent the day on Twitter, retweeting scenes of Police Brutality and Police Violence on peaceful protesters across the country. The images and videos of abuse and harassment are terrifying! There sure are a lot of “BAD APPLES” and there sure are a lot of cops who support them. Beatings with metal clubs and batons, shooting civilians with deadly “non-lethal” bullets and pepper balls, unconstitutional arrests, and more disgusting behavior! Even video of cops spitting on zipped protesters and other cops laughing about it, while other cops stand and watch and do nothing… TOO MANY DO NOTHING!
And everyone has seen the video of the 75 year old white man shoved to the ground by police, knocked out and bleeding from his head, as other officers look on, walk by, fail to even check on him, and arrest other protesters and threaten the people filming.
AND THE LAPD SHOT A HOMELESS MAN IN A WHEELCHAIR TRYING TO GET TO SAFETY IN THE FACE WITH A RUBBER BULLET!
THE LAPD SHOT A HOMELESS MAN IN A WHEELCHAIR IN THE FACE WITH A RUBBER BULLET!
EVERYONE HAS A CAMERA NOW!
So many criminal acts by law enforcement caught on video.
And we need GPS locaters and working body cams for every cop on duty.
Because the stuff they catch on camera is only a drop in the bucket of police abuse.
A badge and gun is not a license to violate the rights of citizens.
Too many police officers are not properly educated and trained for the job.
And WAY TOO MANY are not mentally or emotionally fit to be an officer of the law.
THIS WAS CLEAR TO EVERYONE BEFORE THE PROTESTS BEGAN
BUT THE EVIDENCE OF BRUTALITY ON PROTESTERS MADE IT IMMEDIATE! STOP POLICE BRUTALITY AND POLICE VIOLENCE NOW!
DEFUND THE POLICE! REMOVE THE MILITARY EQUIPMENT!
STOP POLICE BRUTALITY! STOP SYSTEMIC RACISM! STOP KILLING UNARMED BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE!
We had a lot of Indian food delivered for dinner and it was delicious! On The Menu: Chicken coconut curry, chicken tikka (boneless tandoori), bangin bharta (eggplant), aloo gobi (potato and cauliflower), lamb samosa appetizer, basmati rice, garlic naan & onion kulcha (breads), raita (yogurt), mango chutney, and a mango lassi Sorry, no pictures tonight. Read our previous Blog Post “Taj Mahal, Cuisine of India”
Saturday, June 6, 2020 – D-Day!
D-Day! Allied Invasion of Europe – Normandy, France
What did we do today? We woke up too early. And we were up for hours.
And then we went to bed and slept a little. We woke up and it was Saturday.
We tuned in to the protests across the country and it was amazing to watch.
Thousands protested peacefully in Los Angeles on Saturday!
EAT SH*T DONNY! Thousands protest peacefully in Los Angeles on Saturday!
“What a field-day for the heat – A thousand people in the street Singing songs and carrying signs – Mostly say, hooray for our side” – The Buffalo Springfield
Thousands of People in the Streets of Los Angeles on Saturday
Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach.
Protesters on the beach side and Trumpers on the city side
with HBPD and Sheriffs between them.
Huntington Beach, California – Protesters vs. Trumpers (with police in the middle)
A BIG F*CK YOU TO THE CONFEDERACY!
First the Marines BAN the ‘Stars and Bars’ Confederate Flag completely this week.
And now Richmond, Virginia has finally decided to remove the monuments to Confederate Generals and institutional racism that decorate the city.
Goodbye Robert E. Lee statue! About damn time! The racist south is done now.
F*CK THE CONFEDERACY!
NOTE: We edited the swastikas out of this cartoon.
There was a small brush fire near the 110 freeway, but it was handled fast.
Brush fire near the 110 freeway on Saturday
The gardeners were here working all morning
and most of the afternoon on the front landscape.
So the dogs were inside most of the day.
We were inside most of the day too.
We watched the news and surfed the inter web.
And then we took a nap.
Sunset in Los Angeles as seen from the news helicopter
We ordered a pizza and salad delivery for dinner. On the Menu: Pizza (pepperoni and sausage) and a salad with Italian dressing.
Pizza and Salad Delivered
Saturday night high speed pursuit! Dude was driving 130mph! Ended in Lancaster when the CHP tried to PIT him and then he hit a post next to a fire hydrant and rolled the car. Suspect in custody! (but may have stopped and dropped a passenger off along the way)
As of June 6, 2020 62300+ Reported Cases and 2600+ Deaths in Los Angeles County
1260+ Reported Cases and 35 Reported Deaths in Ventura County
7320+ Reported Cases and 175+ Deaths in Orange County
6040+ Reported Cases and 220+ Deaths in San Bernandino County
8770+ Reported Cases and 350+ Deaths in Riverside County
120000+ Reported Cases and 4420+ Deaths in California
1960000+ Reported Cases and 110000+ Deaths in the United States
Good morning and FUCK.
We are awake at 6:00am on Sunday. FUCK.
FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
The powers that be have decided that people must die. GET BACK TO WORK! You might die. Your family might die.
And people are going back to church today! Good luck with that.
Las Vegas is open again. “For people who don’t understand the odds.”
Social Distancing? No.
STAYTHEFUCKHOME! No.
WEARAFUCKINGMASK! No.
Why is the CoronaVirus still spreading? DOH! 110000+ REPORTED DEATHS in the United States (ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND DEAD US CITIZENS)
Two cups of espresso and a piece of cold pizza later.
10:15am HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF. Today just got a lot better.
The pictures from “re-opened” Las Vegasare terrifying!
Maybe 20% are wearing masks andcasinosprotective measures are a big fail.
Attempts at “social distancing” don’t work in Las Vegas. And these people obviously don’t understand the odds or the risk.
So in three weeks, and there will be new outbreaks all over the USA.
THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE painted with “Black Lives Matter”
There were THOUSANDS of people in the streets of Hollywood!
There were protests all over Los Angeles on Sunday (just like Saturday), except they were larger than ever! The Hollywood protest (tweeted by rapper YZ) grew to 20000+ people!
The protest marchers stretched from Highland to Vine, up Vine to Yucca,
and there were more people joining from all directions! They built a small memorial in the intersection at Hollywood and Highland, marched past the Dolby Theatre, and all over Hollywood before heading for the West Hollywood Sheriff Station.
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Dancing in the Streets of Hollywood, California!
And we had a Sunday afternoon high speed pursuit!
Dude drove all over, then they spike-stripped him and he kept going until the tires and brake calipers fell off. Ran the wheels down to the drums! And then he had to surrender.
Another high speed pursuit! Another suspect in custody!
Heated up two more pieces of pizza and enjoyed them for lunch.
Heated up two more pieces of pizza and enjoyed them for dinner.
Two words: JOHN OLIVER!
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for the WIN!
He did the whole show on the Police: “John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.”
A citizen’s message for LAPD Chief Michel Moore: “You are a disgrace! Suck my dick and choke on it!”
This is what we’re up against. This is who they are: POLICE BRUTALITY AND POLICE VIOLENCE IS AN EVERYDAY REALITY! Everyone has a camera! Everyone is watching now!
The very definition of irony:
Police brutality directed at people peacefully protesting Police brutality.
Twitter looks like the POLICE BRUTALITY CHANNEL today.
So many incidents in so many cities of Police Violence on peaceful protester!
We need PEACE OFFICERS not police.
STOP POLICE BRUTALITY! STOP SYSTEMIC RACISM! STOP KILLING UNARMED BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE!
There was such a backlash to the use of National Guard, military, and Barr’s “DOJ Police” shadow force (secret service, park police, prison guards, border agents, FBI, DEA, ATF, and the mercenary “contractors”) that even the Generals are calling him dangerous.
All active duty military and most National Guard troops are being withdrawn.
And the police are being heavily scrutinized after the brutality witnessed by everyone.
Questions about the constitutionality of using active duty military against citizens, the “Curfews” and restricting people to their homes to prevent protests.
The Constitution of the United States
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don’t have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487
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You cannot change them.
They are racists, homophobes, and misogynists.
It is pointless to argue with them.
Their weak minds are programmed.
It is a cult. They are not your friends.
Donny was hiding in a bunker in the basement, five floors underground, the first night protesters were outside The White House, and #BunkerDon, #BunkerBoy, #BunkerBaby, and #BunkerBiatch were all trending! Then he put up the fence and #babygate was on!
👉🏾Within 10 days of sustained protests:
Minneapolis bans use of choke holds.
👉🏾Charges are upgraded against Officer Chauvin, and his accomplices are arrested and charged.
👉🏾Dallas adopts a “duty to intervene” rule that requires officers to stop other cops who are engaging in inappropriate use of force.
👉🏾New Jersey’s attorney general said the state will update its use-of-force guidelines for the first time in two decades.
👉🏾In Maryland, a bipartisan work group of state lawmakers announced a police reform work group.
👉🏾Los Angeles City Council introduces motion to reduce LAPD’s $1.8 billion operating budget.
👉🏾MBTA in Boston agrees to stop using public buses to transport police officers to protests.
👉🏾Police brutality captured on cameras leads to near-immediate suspensions and firings of officers in several cities (i.e., Buffalo, Ft. Lauderdale).
👉🏾Monuments celebrating confederates are removed in cities in Virginia, Alabama, and other states.
👉🏾Street in front of the White House is renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”
Military forces begin to withdraw from D.C.
Then, there’s all the other stuff that’s hard to measure:
💓The really difficult public and private conversations that are happening about race and privilege.
💓The realizations some white people are coming to about racism and the role of policing in this country.
💓The self-reflection.
💓The internal battles exploding within organizations over issues that have been simmering or ignored for a long time. Some organizations will end as a result, others will be forever changed or replaced with something stronger and fairer.
Globally:
🌎 Protests against racial inequality sparked by the police killing of George Floyd are taking place all over the world.
🌎 Rallies and memorials have been held in cities across Europe, as well as in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand.
🌎 As the US contends with its second week of protests, issues of racism, police brutality, and oppression have been brought to light across the globe.
🌎 People all over the world understand that their own fights for human rights, for equality and fairness, will become so much more difficult to win if we are going to lose America as the place where ‘I have a dream’ is a real and universal political program,” Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the US, told the New Yorker.
🌎 In France, protesters marched holding signs that said “I can’t breathe” to signify both the words of Floyd, and the last words of Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who was subdued by police officers and gasped the sentence before he died outside Paris in 2016.
🌎 Cities across Europe have come together after the death of George Floyd:
✊🏽 In Amsterdam, an estimated 10,000 people filled the Dam square on Monday, holding signs and shouting popular chants like “Black lives matter,” and “No justice, no peace.”
✊🏽 In Germany, people gathered in multiple locations throughout Berlin to demand justice for Floyd and fight against police brutality.
✊🏾 A mural dedicated to Floyd was also spray-painted on a stretch of wall in Berlin that once divided the German capital during the Cold War.
✊🏿 In Ireland, protesters held a peaceful demonstration outside of Belfast City Hall, and others gathered outside of the US embassy in Dublin.
✊🏿In Italy, protesters gathered and marched with signs that said “Stop killing black people,” “Say his name,” and “We will not be silent.”
✊🏾 In Spain, people gathered to march and hold up signs throughout Barcelona and Madrid.
✊🏾 In Athens, Greece, protesters took to the streets to collectively hold up a sign that read “I can’t breathe.”
✊🏾 In Brussels, protesters were seen sitting in a peaceful demonstration in front of an opera house in the center of the city.
✊🏾In Denmark, protesters were heard chanting “No justice, no peace!” throughout the streets of Copenhagen, while others gathered outside the US embassy.
✊🏾 In Canada, protesters were also grieving for Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old black woman who died on Wednesday after falling from her balcony during a police investigation at her building.
✊🏾 And in New Zealand, roughly 2,000 people marched to the US embassy in Auckland, chanting and carrying signs demanding justice.
💐 Memorials have been built for Floyd around the world, too. In Mexico City, portraits of him were hung outside the US embassy with roses, candles, and signs.
💐 In Poland, candles and flowers were laid out next to photos of Floyd outside the US consulate.
💐 And in Syria, two artists created a mural depicting Floyd in the northwestern town of Binnish, “on a wall destroyed by military planes.”
Before the assassination of George Floyd some of you were able to say whatever the hell you wanted and the world didn’t say anything to you…
THERE HAS BEEN A SHIFT, AN AWAKENING…MANY OF YOU ARE BEING EXPOSED FOR WHO YOU REALLY ARE. #readthatagain
Don’t wake up tomorrow on the wrong side of this issue. Its not to late to SAY,
“Maybe I need to look at this from a different perspective.”
“Maybe I don’t know what its like to be black in America…”
“Maybe, just maybe, I have been taught wrong.”
There is still so much work to be done. It’s been a really dark, raw week. This could still end badly. But all we can do is keep doing the work.
Keep protesting.
WE ARE NOT TRYING TO START A RACE WAR; WE ARE PROTESTING TO END IT,
PEACEFULLY.
How beautiful is that?
ALL LIVES CANNOT MATTER UNTIL YOU INCLUDE BLACK LIVES.
YOU CANNOT SAY ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ WHEN YOU DO NOTHING TO STOP SYSTEMIC RACISM & POLICE BRUTALITY.
YOU CANNOT SAY ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ WHEN BLACK PEOPLE ARE DYING AND ALL YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT IS THE LOOTING.
YOU CANNOT SAY ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ WHEN YOU ALLOW CHILDREN TO BE CAGED, VETERANS TO GO HOMELESS, AND POOR FAMILIES TO GO HUNGRY & LOSE THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE.
DO ALL LIVES MATTER? YES. BUT RIGHT NOW, ONLY BLACK LIVES ARE BEING TARGETED, JAILED, AND KILLED EN MASSE- SO THAT’S WHO WE’RE FOCUSING ON.
🖤🖤🖤BLACK LIVES MATTER🖤🖤🖤
IF YOU CAN’T SEE THIS, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
NOTE: *I do not know the original author* (ripped from the interweb)
A Message from Marvel Comics: (copied from Kenny Boyle)
X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.
Black Panther is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.
Captain America literally fought Nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.
The Empire in Star Wars is facist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Facist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.
The Punisher isn’t meant to be a role model for police or armed forces. So much so that the writers of The Punisher made him actively speak out against it in a comic. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get The Punisher.
Deadpool is queer. He’s pansexual. Fact. If you didn’t get that you didn’t get Deadpool.
Star Trek is about equality for all genders, races and sexualities. As early as the mid-60s it was taking a pro-choice stance and defending women’s right to choose. One of its clearest themes is accepting different cultures and appearances and working together for peace. (It’s also anti-capitalist and pro-vegan). If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Trek.
Superman and Supergirl (and a whole host of other superheroes) are immigrants. The stance of those comics is pro-immigration and pro-equality and acceptance. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Superman or Supergirl.
Stan Lee said “Racism and bigotry are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today.” If you’re bigoted or racist, you didn’t get any of the characters Stan Lee created.
The stories we grew up with all taught us to value other people and cultures and to treasure the differences between us. Only villains were xenophobic, or sexist, or racist, or totalitarian. I can’t understand how anyone can have missed that.
If you’re upset that there’s a black Spider-Man, or a black Captain America, or a female Thor, or that Ms Marvel is Muslim, or that Captain Marvel was pro-feminism, or any of the other things right wing “fans” say is “stealing their childhood” – you never got it in the first place. The things you claim are now “pandering to the lefties” were never on your side to begin with.
If you consider yourself a fan of these things, but you still think the LGBTQ+ community is too “in your face”, or have a problem with Black Lives Matter, or want to “take the country back from immigrants”, then you’re not really a fan at all.
Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing… it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love.
THIS JUST IN: (and who said “Hurricane in June?”)
Tropical Storm Cristobal has formed in the Gulf of Mexico.
It becomes the earliest third named Atlantic storm on record. CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL!
Trump was rebuked by the Episcopalian Church yesterday and the Catholic Church today. He used the Episcopalian Church and “a bible” and the Pope John Paul II Statue for partisan politics and a Photo Op today.
EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
THANK YOU JIMMY KIMMEL!
And ICE-T rebuked him too.
ICE-T says FUCK YOU TRUMP!
EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
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EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
We did have to venture out and leave the house today to go to the doctor.
We worked out the telephone appointment problem and talked to a doctor on the phone yesterday. We scheduled an in-person appointment after we spoke. We drove over to the office at 1:00pm today and saw the doctor and had blood drawn at the lab.
SO MUCH BETTER THAN OUR LAST VISIT TO THE DOCTOR (at the beginning of March).
We parked, and we were screened by a ten of nurses as we entered the lobby of the building. They checked our temperature and asked us questions, and then we got a sticker! We rode up the elevator alone. We were in the huge waiting room with only one other person and the administrative person (and there was a plexiglass wall between us). We were greeted by the nurse, blood pressure, temp, weight, Everything Was Great!
We spent 30 minutes with the doctor, and had a visual and then a physical exam. We talked and it was so much better than the last visit with our regular doctor. He was out of the office all week, so they cancelled our phone appointment with him, and it turned out to be a great thing! So we went to the lab and there was only one other person there with us and the nurse/lab tech. She checked us in and then drew 6 vials of blood. We didn’t eat all day, no food, no drink, our fast starting at midnight, and we only drank water until after our lab appointment.
The Doctor’s Office
NOTE: We really weren’t prepared for how many people were out and driving around at 1:00pm in the afternoon today! We drove on the 405 and the 101 freeways for the first time in a long time. There was actual traffic and businesses were OPEN. Many had nice big new banners to advertise the fact that they were OPEN. And we drove into Van Nuys and saw some of the damage after our appointment. A lot of graffiti, merchants cleaning up and boarding up, and today most merchants with plate glass windows who hadn’t been boarded up, were boarding up their storefronts, and not taking any chances. The Police can’t protect you or your property when they are busy somewhere else.
Peaceful Protest at the Mayor’s Home (and Garcetti’s not home)
NO SOCIAL DISTANCING GOING ON HERE! And just think what it’s like inside the Sheriff’s buses taking everyone to jail…. they keep them sitting together for hours.
High Speed Pursuit!
California Highway Patrol chasing down alleged LOOTERS.
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It must suck to know you’re going to jail tonight.
This is in Hollywood, California, right now.
It must suck to know you’re going to jail tonight…
They blocked off Van Ness (and a lot of other streets after 7pm and trapped the curfew breakers. Some ran onto the roof. Anyone still on the street is being arrested now and the vehicles will be impounded. LAPD is not playing tonight.
Waiting on the roof to be arrested….
LAPD SWAT on the rooftop and everyone goes to lockup.
They cut away for the actual rooftop raid…
MEDIA is working with LAPD so you don’t see the actual police work, just a big show of force. And the media helicopters either keep losing their signal or they are blackingout their picture. One air reporter called it the “TV Wall” – so there is censorship happening.
LAPD SWAT on the rooftop
Pit Maneuver! End of Another High Speed Pursuit!
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
6:10pm: We have not slept.
We made some food. You’ve heard of “pigs in a blanket”?
Well we made “Hogs in a Comforter” with hot dogs and tube biscuits.
We took a bath. A REAL BATH. A nice long bath.
We drank some water, gatorade, and cran-raspberry-orange juice.
7:30am: FUCK THE NETWORK MORNING NEWS!
And then there were happy smiley full of shit jerkoffs.
Everything is not okay. Happy moments from the protest marches.
Nevermind the Police Brutality or lack of Police response to the looting.
ARREST THE LOOTERS NOT THE PROTESTERS!
AND THEN WE WON’T NEED A CURFEW TO CONTROL THE POPULATION!
BUT THAT IS THE ONLY “SOCIAL DISTANCING” ANYONE IS TALKING ABOUT!
HOLY SHIT! THERE IS A CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC,
IT IS SPREADING, IT KILLS PEOPLE, AND THERE IS NO CURE!
So we turned to CNN’s talking heads and “on the scene” reporters,
and they are debating whether the military should be involved.
The dogs were fed breakfast and supper. We got the newspapers and the mail.
We scooped the dog poop and groomed the Little Boy and the Little Girl.
We did laundry.
There was a 5.5 magnitude earthquake near Ridgecrest, California. We laid down to nap and fell asleep, and we didn’t wake up until after it happened. And then we checked Facebook and everyone had posted about it.
Accident! Just before 10pm,
LAPD cruiser T-Boned a Tow Truck at full speed and 8 people were injured, 2 critically. They needed the “jaws of life” to get the officer in the passenger seat out of the car.
Thursday, June 4, 2020 LAS VEGAS RE-OPENS TODAY!
The D Hotel and Casino Las and Golden Gate Casino in Las Vegas opened at midnight! Other hotel and casinos will also open for business this week. “Some casinos will have curbside pickup, where you can just drop off your money without going inside.”
Sometimes you need three spicy beef tacos at one in the morning. On The Menu: 4 spicy beef soft tacos
And we eventually finally fell asleep. We have not been sleeping, and when we do, we are not sleeping well with good reasons.
10:30am: We fed the dogs and went outside. We got the newspapers and brought in the trashcans. We are doing another load of laundry. And we are drinking an iced espresso.
Brunch at 1:00pm!
On The Menu: Scrambled eggs, bacon, a quesadilla, with orange juice and an iced espresso to drink.
We took a short nap.
Dinner at 10pm. On The Menu: NY Steak, broccoli, mini-croissants, and a mango nectar drink
And we ate, surfed the interweb, and fell asleep for a little while, and woke up again after midnight and then we were up all night on the interweb retweeting and blogging….
so it’s actually Friday at 5:45am now.
– NOTE: A jet just flew over the house! 5:45am arrival, after almost no air traffic for two months. We also saw a couple private jets departing for parts unknown yesterday. Probably “high-rollers” going to Las Vegas since the hotel owners launched a huge public relations campaign about the re-opening of the casinos.
Las Vegas is Open!
58000+ Reported Cases and 2500+ Reported Deaths in Los Angeles County! 118000+ Reported Cases and 4360+ Reported Deaths in California! 1900000+ Reported Cases and 109000+ Reported Deaths in the United States!
THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF 109000+ UNITED STATES CITIZENS!
LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP!
If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, get help right away! Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255) to reach a trained counselor and press 1 to reach the Veterans Crisis Line. You can also chat with them online at suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/.
NOTE: if you TEXT 741741 when you are feeling depressed, suicidal or anxious, a crisis worker will text you back and continue to text with you? Many people, especially younger folks, do not like talking on the phone and would be more comfortable texting. It’s a free service to ANYONE – teens, adults, etc. – who lives in the U.S. It’s run by The Crisis Text Line and is legit.
Los Angeles County Dept. of Mental Health has a collection of FREE guided meditations to reduce stress, and also FREE sleep and movement exercises at headspace.com/lacounty or contact them at DMH.LACounty.gov
Phone number: 800-854-7771
***GIVE BLOOD!***
THE RED CROSS NEEDS BLOOD AND PLASMA DONORS!
redcrossblood.org 1-800-RED-CROSS Blood Donor App
City of Los Angeles “Safer-At-Home”> coronavirus.lacity.org
California Senior Citizen Help Hotline: 1-833-544-2374
Help for Senior Citizens during the coronavirus pandemic.
Be thankful. Be grateful. Be kind to each other – love one another – support everyone*. ❤️
WARNING: I’m going to talk politics, civil rights, racism, police brutality, abuse of power, abuse of power under color of authority, murder, First Amendment, and personal freedom in this post. If you don’t like it. Don’t read it.
Police brutality and/or Police Violence is a civil rights violation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a civilian. Including, but not limited to, physical and/or verbal harassment, physical and/or mental injury, property damage, and DEATH.
All men (and women) are created equal.
The Constitution, the First Amendment and Personal Freedom are under attack!
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” – the Preamble of the Constitution
Trayvon Martin RIP
February 26, 2012: Trayvon Martin was an unarmed 17-year-old African-American man from Miami Gardens, Florida. He was fatally shot and murdered by George Zimmerman.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
The First Amendment of the Constitution prohibits any law abridging freedom of speech, infringing on freedom of the press, interfering with right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting petitioning for a redress of grievances. (and there’s also something about religion too)
“Article I – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” (The First Amendment)
“I Can’t Breathe” – George Floyd / “I Can’t Breathe” – Eric Garner
George Floyd RIP
Eric Garner RIP
GEORGE FLOYD AND ERIC GARNER WERE MURDERED BY POLICE OFFICERS!
George Floyd’s Last Words
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FTP! FUDT! FINGERS UP FOR TRUMP! FU TRUMP! FUCK TRUMP!
THE LIAR AND THIEF IS A RACIST AND WHITE SUPREMACIST!
Secret Service rushed #BunkerBoy Trump to the White House basement on Friday night as protesters gathered outside!
STOP POLICE BRUTALITY! STOP SYSTEMIC RACISM! STOP KILLING UNARMED BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE! STOP RIOTING AND LOOTING! STOP BURNING THINGS!
“I just want to say – you know – can we all get along?
Can we, can we get along?” – Rodney King RIP on May 1, 1992
August 9, 2014: Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old unarmed African American man, was fatally shot six times (Wilson fired a total of twelve bullets) and murdered in broad daylight by 28-year-old white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson.
Michael Brown RIP
WARNING! GRAPHIC IMAGE!
African-American Teenager Michael Brown Killed by Caucasian Police Officer in Ferguson, Missouri. (Do you think this image should be censored on CNN?)
Michael Brown RIP August 9, 2014 – Ferguson, Missouri
I have privilege as a white person because I can do most of these things without thinking twice:
I can go birding (ChristianCooper)
I can go jogging (AmaudArbery)
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (BothemSean and AtatianaJefferson)
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (JonathanFerrell and RenishaMcBride)
I can have a cellphone (StephonClark)
I can leave a party to get to safety (JordanEdwards)
I can play loud music (JordanDavis)
I can sell CDs (AltonSterling)
I can sleep (AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (MikeBrown)
I can play cops and robbers (TamirRice)
I can go to church (Charleston9)
I can walk home with Skittles (TrayvonMartin)
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (SeanBell)
I can party on New Years (OscarGrant)
I can get a normal traffic ticket (SandraBland)
I can lawfully carry a weapon (PhilandoCastile)
I can break down on a public road with car problems (CoreyJones)
I can shop at Walmart (JohnCrawford)
I can have a disabled vehicle (TerrenceCrutcher)
I can read a book in my own car (KeithScott)
I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (CliffordGlover)
I can decorate for a party (ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (AmadouDiallo)
I can run (WalterScott)
I can breathe (EricGarner)
I can live (FreddieGray) I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED* (GeorgeFloyd)
White privilege is real.
Take a minute to consider a Black person’s experience today.
Barack Obama’s Second Inauguration
UPDATED: Did you hear what happened in Boston?
In Boston, during a verbal dispute, an unarmed teenage boy was forcefully hit in the head with the butt of a weapon by local law enforcement.
Word of the incident spread quickly, and a large number of locals gathered in the street where the incident had happened to protest almost immediately.
As the crowd grew, angry protesters shouted slogans; some business owners, fearing property damage, shut their doors. The local authorities called for uniformed backup; backup came, well-armed.
The assembly was deemed “unlawful,” and the crowd was ordered to disperse. The protesters began to throw dirt clods in response.
In response, multiple uniformed law enforcers fired on the crowd. The first protester to die was a black man and the authorities justified the shooting by claiming that they “feared for their lives.”
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THE BOSTON MASSACRE 1770
The above events happened in the year 1770, the authorities were British soldiers, the protest would later be called the Boston Massacre, and the first protester killed in that conflict was Crispus Attucks, a black man considered by many to be a heroic American patriot and the first casualty of the American Revolution.
If, while reading this story, you found yourself siding with the authorities and thinking that the protesters should have dispersed when ordered, and/or that the protesters armed with dirt and sticks deserved to be met with deadly force by armed law enforcement, be aware that you chose the side of the tyrant King George III, not the American patriots.
Ponder that.
WTF? June 1. 2020 at the Lincoln Memorial WTF?
This is what we’re up against. This is who they are: POLICE BRUTALITY AND POLICE VIOLENCE IS AN EVERYDAY REALITY! Everyone has a camera! Everyone is watching now!
Austin police have killed a young man by shooting him in the head with bird shot rounds wrapped in cloth, and continued to shoot the medics carrying his body. They shot a known pregnant woman in the stomach, then stormed and abducted her from a medic tent. They maced young children during a peaceful daytime protest.
Detroit police have brutally beaten, tear gassed and arrested my friends peacefully protesting. A curfew is set from 8pm to 5am city wide.
Rockford police dragged people from their cars and beat them last night.
Minneapolis police shot at people filming them on their own balconies.
Los Angeles Sheriffs also shot at people filming them from their homes.
An NYPD officer called a woman a “fucking bitch” and threw her on the ground. She went into a seizure and had to go to the emergency room. Then more New York cops rammed into crowds of protesters with their cars.
An Atlanta couple last night had their tires slashed, windows broken, and were dragged out of their car and tazed.
Chicago police announced a curfew and then raised the bridges out of downtown. Demonstrators were trapped and at the utter mercy of CPD roundups. A police supervisor ordered on the radio, “Gas ’em all.” Over 1,000 people have been arrested.
Everywhere, journalists are being indiscriminately targeted and arrested. A Minneapolis photojournalist is blinded permanently in one eye after being hit by a less lethal round.
They’ve maced children. They’ve torn off a woman’s hijab. They’re turning off their body cameras and hiding their badge numbers.
This is just what’s been documented. Imagine what hasn’t been.
The true nature of American policing has been revealed for the world to see. I have never seen brutality on such a massive scale. They don’t care if you’re peaceful. They don’t care if they’re on camera.
Black and brown youth are the leaders on the ground. They are the leaders of our future. Black and brown youth are the people who are bleeding, getting beaten, and being thrown into jail. This is trauma that will last their whole lives.
To the bail funds. To the phone lines to demand release. We have to protect our people.
If you’re going out there again please, and I beg you, be safe.
Long Beach, California
NOTE: The camera angle makes it look like he’s pointing at the little girl, he’s actually threatening innocent protesters. We wouldn’t want you to think the Long Beach Police would shoot a small child.
Your black friend is trying to be ok.
Your Black friend in the past 30 days has watched a Black man get shot dead while jogging (Ahmaud Arbery), a Black woman get shot dead while sleeping (Breona Taylor), and the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Your Black friend has also listened to the President of the United States use segregationist words as a veiled threat.
Your Black friend is trying to be ok.
Please don’t ask us about the looting.
Please don’t chastise us about the rioting.
Please don’t tell us that all lives matter.
Please don’t minimize our fear.
Please don’t bring up Black on Black crime.
Please don’t ask “What about Chicago?”
Please don’t say “if you’d just act like (A Wildly Successful Black Person… Usually Oprah, Obama, Colin Powell, Denzel or Will Smith)”. Please don’t judge us
Your Black friend is trying to be ok.
Listen to your Black friend.
Empathize with your Black friend.
Support your Black friend.
Pray for your Black friend.
Just let your Black friend know you really care.
Your Black friend will remember who truly had their back during this difficult time. They will remember who was more concerned about a looted Target. They will remember you posting a thinly veiled and racially offensive meme. They will remember you calling looters “Savages”. They will remember your silence about their Black life and the Black Lives of others.
It’s real easy.
Do whatever you can to help your Black friend out because your Black friend is trying to be ok…..
DO YOU HAVE A BLACK FRIEND? DO YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE BLACK FRIEND?
#BlackoutTuesday
Updated June 4, 2020:
One of the men accused of murdering unarmed black man Ahmaud Arbery in the US state of Georgia used a racial slur after shooting him, a court has heard. A Georgia state investigator said Travis McMichael used the slur and an expletive as Mr Arbery lay on the ground. Mr Arbery was jogging when he was chased down by Mr McMichael and his father in Brunswick in February. The case caused widespread outrage after footage was leaked online. Travis and Gregory McMichael are facing murder charges. Another man, William Bryan, faces charges of murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.
VOTE BLUE! VOTE BIDEN 2020! VOTE! And VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET TOO!
BOYCOTT! DO NOT BUY! BOYCOTT!
And here’s a new warning, and it’s not just for protesters:
#BAITBRICKS
UPDATED Friday, June 19, 2020
It’s no accident that:
You learned about Helen Keller instead of W.E.B. DuBois
You learned about the Watts and L.A. Riots, but not Tulsa or Wilmington.
You learned that George Washington’s dentures were made from wood, rather than the teeth from slaves.
You learned about black ghettos, but not about Black Wall Street.
You learned about the New Deal, but not “red lining.”
You learned about Tommie Smith’s fist in the air at the 1968 Olympics, but not that he was sent home the next day and stripped of his medals.
You learned about “black crime,” but white criminals were never lumped together and discussed in terms of their race.
You learned about “states rights” as the cause of the Civil War, but not that slavery was mentioned 80 times in the articles of secession.
Privilege is having history rewritten so that you don’t have to acknowledge uncomfortable facts.
Racism is perpetuated by people who refuse to learn or acknowledge this reality.
HAPPY MONDAY! Good Morning! Are the fires out yet?
You’d hardly know this country was burning all weekend.
Los Angeles County remain under CURFEW from 6:00pm – 6:00am
Other areas have curfews at 1:00pm and 4:00pm today (like Santa Monica)
“Don’t have to be ashamed of the car I drive I’m just glad to be herehappy to be alive” – The Traveling Wilburys
BlackLivesMatters cancelled a planned protest in the Hollywood area, but there are protests happening in other locations around town and in Southern California.
We woke up and fed the dogs. And we went outside a few times.
And we got the newspapers, the mail, and the morning deliveries.
And we took a shower. And we cleaned the bathtub…. for a bath later.
We ate a couple English muffins with peanut butter and raspberry jam
and drank two cups of espresso with MochaMix. It’s around 2:00pm already.
FUCKERY OF THE DAY:
We tried to get a rescheduled phone appointment with our Doctor who cancelled on us yesterday… actually they called us again, and they gave us a phone appointment with a different Doctor, who we have never seen or even met, and he tried to call us from a blocked private number, so it went to voicemail, and we didn’t get a call.
So now we are waiting for the appointment people to call us back so we can reschedule the call we missed because they didn’t tell us the Doctor would be calling from his home.
And we changed the setting on our phone, pretty much guaranteeing we’ll get called from idiots who can’t figure out an area code or keypad.
And the construction continues…. hammering, nail guns, heavy equipment, backup alarms (BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP) and a lot of yelling in Spanish.
AND THEN THIS HAPPENED
and FUCKERY OF THE DAY WENT TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL!
Protesters at the White House were tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets, and beaten by Park Police and Uniformed Secret Service with help from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police without warning so Trump could make an insane fascist speech and “dominate the streets” for a ridiculous Photo Op holding a bible upside-down at the church across the street.
TRUMP WILL VIOLATE YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS FOR A PHOTO OP! (ps. You’re holding the Bible upside down Donny)
Hitler and Twitler, the Twitter Troll
Why did the chicken cross the road? To trespass on church property, for a publicity stunt.
TRUMP CREATED AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT WHEN PARK POLICE ATTACKED THE AUSTRALIAN PRESS! A news crew from Australia was attacked without cause like other members of the media and the peaceful protesters they were reporting on so Trump could have a Photo Op! This is a clear violation of United States civil rights and the First Amendment. He also used the Church and the Bible for partisan politics.
Some Police Departments DID NOT get the message.
We have seen horrible pictures of severe injuries to peaceful protesters caused by rubber bullets, pepper balls, and tear gas canisters, which we don’t want to share here. And WHY DO ALL THESE POLICE DEPARTMENTS HAVE MILITARY ASSAULT UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT AND ENDLESS ROUNDS OF TEARGAS TO USE ON PEOPLE WHEN SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS DON’T HAVE ENOUGH SUPPLIES OR PPE?
And there was a protest in Hollywood and one in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley, even though they were supposed to be cancelled…. and so there was LOOTING in Hollywood and Van Nuys too. The Los Angeles Police Department adjusted their tactics and arrested a lot of the looters, along with any protester out after curfew. There was a lot of damage, and a couple fires, but after five days they finally figured out how to close the streets to trap them. But they still caused a lot of damage and loss today.
They’re looting the Gower Gulch Rite Aid in Hollywood on TV!
Cops arrived fast, just the organized gang folks got stuff.
Really funny when the cops show up and there are people coming out the door.
Looters at the Rite-Aid at Gower Gulch in Hollywood
Don’t be inside when the cops arrive. Looters got arrested at last! The police were able to catch people inside businesses and they were ready to go after them Monday, instead of letting them run wild and destroy with impunity.
Suspects in Custody after TWO High Speed Pursuits Tonight!
LAPD is tracking and chasing down looters – second pursuit tonight!
They are trapping the looters, stopping them in their cars, searching them for stolen property, making arrests and impounding their vehicles.
They are also arresting anyone on the streets.
Looters and Their Vehicles in LAPD Custody in Hollywood!
How long can they hold this country under Curfew?
The protests will continue and will increase in size and frequency!
The anger only escalates as Trump incites violence and chaos in our streets. ATTACKING PROTESTERS WILL NOT DE-ESCALATE THE ANGER!
White Supremacists and Outside Instigators have been identified within the protests, and bad elements are using the events as cover for their criminal behavior. There are also people questioning whether piles of bricks are being placed to provide ammo so the authorities can move in on protesters and label them as violent.
‘Matthew Lee Rupert, 28, of Galesburg, Illinois, was taken into custody on Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. He’s been charged with civil disorder, possession of unregistered explosives, and participating in and organizing riots….The federal complaint against Rupert cites videos that he live-streamed on Facebook in which he brags about renting hotel rooms in Minneapolis and rioting. In one video cited in the complaint, Rupert is allegedly seen handing out explosives and encouraging protesters to throw them at police.” – VICE.COM
AND PEOPLE ARE STILL SICK! AND THEY ARE NOT SOCIAL DISTANCING AT ALL!
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC!
Will there be a SPIKE after the protests? OF COURSE!
No Social Distancing! So many people without masks in close contact!
Police and protesters exposing each other, confined prisoners held for arrest, police lined up next to each other…. THEY ARE ALL GOING TO BE SICK IN 2-14 DAYS! Cases were already increasing with the premature “re-opening”, and now this.
As of Tuesday June 2, 2020:
54900+ Reported Cases and 2350+ Reported Deaths in Los Angeles County
4250+ Reported Deaths in California 107000+ Reported Deaths in the United States
371000+ Reported Death Worldwide
377000+ Reported DEATHS as of Tuesday, June 2, 202
PUBLIC STATEMENT FROM “ANTIFA” IN RESPONSE TO THE THREATS ISSUED BY
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Dear Mr. Trump:
Let us be perfectly clear:
“Antifa” isn’t an organization.
There’s no membership, no meetings, no dues, no rules, no leaders, no structure. It is, literally, an idea and nothing more.
Even the claim of this author to represent “Antifa” is one made unilaterally for the purposes of this communication and nothing more;
there is no governing body nor trademark owner to dispute the author’s right to represent “AntiFa.”
“Antifa” is a neologism constructed from a contraction of the phrase “anti-fascist.”
The truth is, there’s no such thing as being “anti-Fascist.”
Either you are a decent human being with a conscience, or you are a fascist.
The ostensible president of the United States has, today, openly declared that he is a fascist, and that he intends to turn the military power of the United States into a fascist tool.
Now there is no question,
and we can stop pretending that this man represents anything but the worst in humanity, which his supporters embody. And that is the only effect his words will have.
It will likely be no problem for LEO to identify the author of this document, who also has maintained the “AntiFa” page on Facebook since founding it in 2017.
The author of this document is unconcerned with that inevitability because neither that author, nor this document, has been involved in a crime of any sort in any way.
But, since both the “president” and the media insist on acting as though “AntiFa” is this big, scary organization, the author supposes it’s time for “AntiFa” to make a statement.
Thus:
“AntiFa supports and defends the right of all people to live free from oppressive abuse of power, whether that power is unjustly derived from wealth, status as an employer, or political popularity. Particularly, AntiFa defends and supports the right of oppressed and marginalized people to protest, march, and engage in civil disobedience in pursuit of justice. While it is never our intent to engage in violent or destructive behavior, we cannot and will not take responsibility for telling people how they are allowed to be righteously outraged. We prefer and encourage non-violent action. We also understand that some people just aren’t feeling that nice anymore. Their feelings are entirely justified, and it is neither our role nor our privilege to tell them otherwise.
Mass civil disobedience is what happens when people say they’re hurting and whoever’s hurting them refuses to stop. Stop hurting them. Fix your broken systems.
Get real and meaningful psychological evaluations and background checks – police in some nations have to pass a more stringent test to carry pepper spray than any police department in the US, or the US military, have in place. As a direct and possibly deliberate consequence, our military and paramilitary personnel simply cannot be assumed to be fighting in the interests of the people of this country.
We’ve all seen the photos. This destruction and burning and looting is largely the behavior of outsiders; white people taking advantage of the situation both to enrich themselves by looting under cover of the protests, and to provide excuses for uncontrolled fascist elements within our military and police forces as plausible cover for killing more black, brown, and poor people without fear of sanction.
The so-called “accellerationists” who have committed to ensuring that, any time a marginalized community stands up and demands justice, construct a narrative of criminality and destruction that white bigots and affluent oligarchs who benefit from our broken system to validate their bigotry and injustice retroactively.
They are successful in this for two reasons: because people like you are easily manipulated in your banal, self-serving ignorance, and because people like you are more than happy to passive-aggressively reap the benefits of pretending to believe this destruction is the act of the oppressed.
This game has gone on for decades on an endless loop since the very dawn of the civil rights era, and we the people are saying ‘no more.’”
And that, “President” Trump, is your solution. No more.
Get the dirt out of your law enforcement and your military.
Get the dirt out of your government and administration.
Ideally, resign now and take your VP and cabinet with you; Nancy Pelosi isn’t a great deal of improvement, but she’ll only be president for a few months.
You can’t arrest 100 million of us, sir, and you would be well-advised not to try.
If you think that targeting and “making an example of” the author of this document will get you anywhere, you may rest assured that this author is more than prepared to allow his real name to be used as a rallying cry for justice and civil disobedience from coast to coast.
It is time for you and everyone who thinks like you to understand that whether black, red, brown, white, or any other color, Americans are done living in a nation of empty platitudes and broken promises.
Traditionally, this type of document is accompanied by a list of “demands.”
Here are our demands:
-Universal single payer health care, without regard for citizenship status.
-Universal basic income WITH a federal job guarantee, under which the federal government becomes the “employer of last resort.” Involuntary unemployment is a function of profiteering by fascist capitalist oligarchs who are willing to sacrifice the lives of others for their own enrichment. It must end.
-The abolition of “right to work laws” which do exactly the opposite of ensuring anyone’s right to work.
-Publicly funded higher education.
-Robust and effective social welfare programs to include child care, education, employment training and counseling, parenting skills training, and life skills training including fiscal education.
-A requirement that functional proficiency in media, political, and economic literacy be demonstrated to graduate high school.
-The creation of a publicly funded non-partisan media source to serve as the primary source of government information, to be overseen and managed day to day by a coalition of well-known communicators, political scientists, and other experts in propaganda to strip ALL bias from official information before it is broadcast.
-Federal charges of treason filed against anyone willfully and knowingly attempting to minimize public perception of the impact and risks of the coronavirus.
-Reform of whistleblower laws to ensure they have teeth, and particularly to ensure that a whistleblower, acting in good faith, is not identified to the public, ever.
In the end, Mr. “President,” the simple reality is that “AntiFa” isn’t a thing.
You can’t end it, you can’t arrest it, and you can’t silence it.
Nor, in any decent nation, would the attempt even be made.
“Antifa” means “Anti-Fascism.” The only position that opposes that is fascism. In the end, there is no “organization” that you can “declare terrorists.” You, sir, and yours, are the terrorists, and your victims are done putting up with it. America is not, in spite of having an openly admitted fascist as “president,” a fascist nation.
We’ve had wars about this.
The fascists are 0-2.
Please, Mr. “President” – let’s not try to make it 0-3? Because it will never, ever be 1-2, and none of us wants to see the death toll from your attempt to make it so.
Best Regards, “AntiFa.”
Los Angeles County officials Saturday reported the largest one day total of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, confirming another 2,112 cases of COVID-19 and 48 additional deaths, bringing the county’s totals to 53,651 cases and 2,338 fatalities.
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS NOT UNDER CONTROL!
WEARAFUCKINGMASK! WEARAFUCKINGMASK! WEARAFUCKINGMASK!
STAYTHEFUCKHOME! STAYTHEFUCKHOME! STAYTHEFUCKHOME!
THE COUNTRY IS NOT READY TO RE-OPEN! There’s no testing. There’s no vaccine. People are dying everyday from this disease!
The CoronaVirus is still spreading! People are infected without knowing they are!
“Social Distancing” and Masks/Gloves are not a guarantee of immunity!
Friday night in DTLA! Los Angeles really knows how to riot!
Did you even know there was an LAPD tactical circus in town last night?
SpaceX and NASA – BLAST OFF!
Launch Time!
One Minute Into Launch
RIOTING IN THE STREETS on Saturday Afternoon
POLITICIANS PLEASE TAKE NOTE:
Not good for your image when you are telling people all is well….
and rioting in the streets is happening in real time while you talk.
MAYOR GARCETTI TOTAL FAIL!
Mayor Garcetti is part of the problem. We voted for him, but we don’t know if we would vote for him again. The handling of LA inftrastructure, traffic, the Homeless Problem, the CoronaVirus Pandemic, and now this incredible clusterfuck of racial protesting, looting, rioting, and “community policing” has made this city really hard to love. Garcetti Fail.
Beverly Hills got hit by looters too. These are organized gangs of looters targeting high-end retail businesses and using the protests to commit crimes, steal, and destroy property. The BHPD moved fast, drove the looters out and blocked off the city, but there was still a lot of damage and property loss.
There was very little coverage of DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles), and it is suspected there was a “NO-FLY ZONE” order quietly given to the news media. But there was still looting going on Downtown last night. And so, at one point they blocked off traffic at Grand and 8th and 9th, and trapped 125 looters and 55 cars, and they were arrested and impounded respectively. And the LAPD finally started stopping vehicles, searching cars, and arrested some of the “Mobile Looter Gangs” that were driving around breaking into businesses and starting fires. And the news media recorded license plates and video evidence of a lot of really dumb people who will get a visit from the police very soon.
But, right now we are pretty sure you can get a good deal on eBay today…..
Major Damage and Looting on Melrose, LaCienega, 3rd Street, Beverly Center, LaBrea&Wilshire, Santa Monica, and other places in West Hollywood and West LA!
THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, GAVIN NEWSOM, DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY LAST NIGHT!
THE NATIONAL GUARD WILL BE DEPLOYED AT MIDNIGHT!
NOTE: The rioting will set “re-opening” Los Angeles, which was beginning to re-open this weekend, back a little bit…. most restaurants think they were trying to re-open too soon!
Many L.A. area restaurants are not re-opening yet. The reason: Too soon. It is expensive to get their restaurants up and running, and they know that it may be only a matter of weeks before we are slammed with mounting cases and they would have both the moral responsibility of contributing to that, and the expense of re-opening only to have to shut down again. Some people are smarter than they are greedy.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Last night was HORRIBLE. TERRIBLE. UNBELIEVABLE. and NOT SURPRISING.
11:15am: Well, we have been pre-occupied with the rioting and looting and the media coverage and lack of media coverage since Thursday/Friday…. and it’s Sunday now.
We are going to spend today cleaning and recovering from the weekend. And we didn’t even leave the house. We’ve been “self-isolating” for over 70 days and the situation hasn’t changed… no cure, no vaccine, not enough testing, not enough CORRECT testing,
and YOU COULD DIE IF YOU GET SICK.
And watching the protests, and rioting-looting FREE-FOR-ALL we saw a lot of masks, but didn’t see any “Social Distancing” except when they were running from the police. And what about the police officers who were exposed to infected people during the event?
And do you think there will another spike in reported cases in two weeks?
Will it be blamed on “re-opening” or on the protests? One guess.
12:00Noon: The Doc Marten store in West Hollywood is still on fire. The owner was just on TV and the back of the store is still smoking after burning all night long. People are coming out to help clean up the neighborhood and to see the damage in person. And it’s not just here in Los Angeles, communities all over the country are outraged at the vandalism and looting – opportunists STEALING AND DESTROYING for their own gain. THAT IS NOT WHAT THE PROTESTS AND BLACKLIVESMATTER IS ABOUT!
Put down the spray paint and stop breaking into businesses if you want change.
Stop throwing things at the police and stop burning things if you want justice. STRIKE! A GENERAL STRIKE BY WORKING PEOPLE WOULD SHUT THIS COUNTRY DOWN. RICH WHITE PEOPLE MIGHT THINK TWICE.
2:20pm: Huntington Beach Police don’t PLAY!
They called in the riot police as soon as there was crowd. They learned from many beach riots how fast it goes from protest to mayhem. And to shut it down before it can start….
And so the looting has begun in Santa Monica, there’s a peaceful march, but roving gangs of opportunists have started gang banging stores and stealing. Maybe they should close the street to traffic and search everyone leaving? They don’t have enough cops to control it. Santa Monica will look like WEHO if you don’t stop it now. They looted the Vans store and a bunch of other businesses. Organized gangs of looters with cars to load up their stolen goods. Wandering the streets with boxes of shoes and other merch.
1:00pm Curfew in Beverly Hills
4:00pm Curfew ordered in City of Los Angeles and Santa Monica
6:00pm Curfew until 6:00am across Los Angeles County tonight!
Sheriffs Cars Vandalized – One On Fire in Santa Monica
And it’s 4:10pm and the CURFEW has gone into effect.
There are National Guard troops on the steps of City Hall
and they are staging at the Federal Building at Wilshire and Sepulveda
Protesters are confronting Santa Monica Police (reinforced by LAPD and LASD)
on Ocean Blvd. Tear gas deployed earlier to move the crowd away from the pier.
“Weak Ass” Water Cannon Deployed in Santa Monica on Sunday
2:30am on Monday: Well that was incredible. We watched as protests turn into looting in Santa Monica, and was posting to fb and messaging a member of the Santa Monica government. He was watching his city get destroyed LIVE and in realtime.
We can’t believe how it went down. Just a TOTAL AND COMPLETE FAIL by the Santa Monica Police Department all day long! Arresting peaceful protesters while looters pillage your businesses with impunity and then letting them get away, when it could have been prevented by the placement of officers beyond 3rd Street Promenade and a rapid response force (motorcycle officers) and by blocking the streets and stopping the looters in caught in traffic like they did in DTLA last night. Recover the stolen merch, seize their cars, lock them up, and stop the organized gangs and opportunists that are using the protests to steal and destroy. We watched it LIVE on TV, multi-streamed it on the interweb, and monitored other stuff on Periscope and Youtube today. It was CRAZY!
We finally made something to eat around midnight, having been absolutely transfixed by the media coverage of the protest/looting/riots and then two high speed pursuits! On The Menu: Breakfast for dinner. Scrambled eggs with cheese and salsa verde; bacon, celery & carrots, an orange, butter and jam on toasted challah bread, orange juice and an iced espresso to drink.
CHECK OUT THE DATE! NOVEMBER 2014
THE LIGHTS ARE OFF
AND SOMEBODY IS HIDING IN THE BUNKER!
Trump’s Hiding in the Basement
“Should the president address the country during a time of crisis?”
This is an actual question being asked on news networks.
STOP POLICE BRUTALITY! STOP SYSTEMIC RACISM! STOP KILLING UNARMED BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE! STOP RIOTING AND LOOTING! STOP BURNING THINGS!
“I just want to say – you know – can we all get along?
Can we, can we get along?” – Rodney King RIP on May 1, 1992
If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, get help right away! Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255) to reach a trained counselor and press 1 to reach the Veterans Crisis Line. You can also chat with them online at suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/.
NOTE: if you TEXT 741741 when you are feeling depressed, suicidal or anxious, a crisis worker will text you back and continue to text with you? Many people, especially younger folks, do not like talking on the phone and would be more comfortable texting. It’s a free service to ANYONE – teens, adults, etc. – who lives in the U.S. It’s run by The Crisis Text Line and is legit.
City of Los Angeles “Safer-At-Home”> coronavirus.lacity.org
California Senior Citizen Help Hotline: 1-833-544-2374
Help for Senior Citizens during the coronavirus pandemic.
**GIVE BLOOD!***
THE RED CROSS NEEDS BLOOD AND PLASMA DONORS!
redcrossblood.org 1-800-RED-CROSS Blood Donor App
DON’T DRINK BLEACH!
DO NOT EAT, DRINK, OR INJECT ANY CLEANING PRODUCTS!
I have privilege as a white person because I can do most of these things without thinking twice:
I can go birding (ChristianCooper)
I can go jogging (AmaudArbery)
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (BothemSean and AtatianaJefferson)
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (JonathanFerrell and RenishaMcBride)
I can have a cellphone (StephonClark)
I can leave a party to get to safety (JordanEdwards)
I can play loud music (JordanDavis)
I can sell CDs (AltonSterling)
I can sleep (AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (MikeBrown)
I can play cops and robbers (TamirRice)
I can go to church (Charleston9)
I can walk home with Skittles (TrayvonMartin)
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (SeanBell)
I can party on New Years (OscarGrant)
I can get a normal traffic ticket (SandraBland)
I can lawfully carry a weapon (PhilandoCastile)
I can break down on a public road with car problems (CoreyJones)
I can shop at Walmart (JohnCrawford)
I can have a disabled vehicle (TerrenceCrutcher)
I can read a book in my own car (KeithScott)
I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (CliffordGlover)
I can decorate for a party (ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (AmadouDiallo)
I can run (WalterScott)
I can breathe (EricGarner)
I can live (FreddieGray) I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED* (GeorgeFloyd) White privilege is real.
Take a minute to consider a Black person’s experience today.
*We are white, and we are also afraid of being arrested and/or murdered by the police. Police Brutality is real.
CORONAVIRUS! Part 38
Special Emergency Blog Post!
“I Can’t Breathe!”
“Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!” continued….
WARNING: I’m going to talk politics, civil rights, racism, police brutality, abuse of power, abuse of power under color of authority, murder, First Amendment, and personal freedom in this post. If you don’t like it. Don’t read it. Just Keep Scrolling.
“I take no responsibility.” ~ Donald Trump on March 13, 2020
Friday, May 29, 2020
RODNEY KING! RODNEY KING!
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!
HANDS UP! DON’T SHOOT! (read our previous Blog Post)
BLACKLIVESMATTER! “I CAN’T BREATHE!” – George Floyd
George Floyd is dead. He was murdered on video.
Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed him.
Chauvin was aided in this killing by three other Police Officers.
All four were fired as soon as the footage aired. After three days of protests and three nights of rioting in Minneapolis, Chauvin was finally arrested and charged with 3rd degree Murder and Manslaughter. The other officers have not been arrested yet.
A black CNN reporter and his crew were arrested by Minneapolis Police today. This was a TARGETED ARREST In a clear violation of the FIRST AMENDMENT!
There are reports that an “Agent Provocateur” may have been involved in smashing windows at the AutoZone and starting the vandalism. And he may have been a Minneapolis Police Office! There are pictures and posts and tweets, so go find the truth.
And Trump Tweeted. Rage tweeting on drugs. He has nothing positive to contribute, just more lies, slander, and self-serving propaganda (while 101000+ US Citizens have died).
Only today, he quoted another WHITE SUPREMACIST RACIST and threatened violence.
Today’s Disgraceful Trump Tweet:
“These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” tweeted Trump early Friday morning. “Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”
And Taylor Swift tweeted! And so did a lot of other angry people.
NOTE: Well, we started watching the protest at about 4:00pm PST and didn’t eat dinner until after midnight because there was so much anger exploding all over the USA to see.
“The Pinch” in Downtown Los Angeles 5-29-2020
There was a protest in DTLA last night that turned into a six hour riot and looting party. You might not know it, because most of the network TV stations didn’t cover it live on TV, instead to get the real news you had to go online and search. And there were “protests” in many cities besides Minneapolis last night.
Escaping the LAPD containment through a Construction Site 5-29-2020
Okay kids, the event started before the sunset and went on until long after midnight…. yes there was some reporting and live coverage on network but really? There were 500 LAPD officers in DTLA and it was a tactical clusterf*ck. Six hours after the looting began, there were still cars and Metro buses driving through the chaos. People were running into buildings and through buildings to avoid the police. By the time the cops reponded to a location being looted, the crowd had already moved on. And they left their cop cars unguarded on the streets, so there was massive vandalism to numerous police units! The longer it went on the more people showed up to join in the anarchy, and there was no sense of urgency or coordinated response when the protesters moved onto the freeway early on… after two nights of rioting, why weren’t they prepared for this? (THIS IS EXACTLY HOW THE 1992 L.A. RIOT STARTED!)
And then SATURDAY HAPPENED. (See our next Blog Post)
TRUMP’S RACIST AND DIVISIVE TWEET from April 17, 2020
A message from Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey: “What started as largely peaceful protests for George Floyd have turned to outright looting and domestic terrorism in our region. We need you to stay home tonight….Governor Walz, at our request and in partnership with our city and Mayor Carter, has just fully mobilized the Minnesota National Guard. MPD and our fire department will be assisting tonight as part of this operation.”
Trump was briefed about the Coronavirus Threat in January! He called it a hoax, a conspiracy theory, and then ignored and lied about it! TOTAL FAILURE! Trump fired the NSC Pandemic Team in 2018!
EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days
is going to be down to close to zero…. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” ~ Donald Trump on February 26, 2020
CLICK ON ANY SMALL PIC TO SEE A LARGER PIC AND VIEW THE GALLERY AND THEN CLICK AGAIN TO VIEW THE PIC AT FULL SIZE!
Why did the United States refuse the World Heath Organization test kits?
Why did the Trump Administration wait to act? Why did the Trump Administration tell the Washington state doctors not to test?
Why did the GOP Republicans call it a “Democratic Hoax?”
Why didn’t the CDC test kits work?
Why did they wait to get new test kits from Roche? (~400000 available soon)
Why did he put Mike Pence in charge?
Trump and the Republicans in Congress are a Clear and Present Danger
to Public Health and Safety! TRUMP’S LIES ARE KILLING U.S. CITIZENS!
THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF SEVENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES CITIZENS!
LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP!
KILL HIS TWITTER!
EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
Police Brutality Protest in San Francisco in 1968! (photo by Jim Marshall)
“Let the photograph be one you remember-not for it’s technique but for it’s soul. Let it become part of your life-a part of your past to help you shape your future.” – Jim Marshall
IT IS THE YEAR 2020! IT IS TIME FOR POLICE AND PRISON REFORM! IT IS TIME FOR POLICE TO STOP KILLING UNARMED BLACK CITIZENS!
Every Police Officer who has been accused of brutality, racism, or a civil rights violation should be FEDERALLY INVESTIGATED WITH PUBLIC OVERSIGHT and when found guilty, terminated immediately and prosecuted as necessary. THE ENTIRE JUDICIAL SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE REFORMED TOO!
One system of justice for all.
There can’t be one for rich white people
and another for people of color and the poor.
STOP POLICE BRUTALITY! STOP SYSTEMIC RACISM! STOP KILLING UNARMED BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE! STOP RIOTING AND LOOTING! STOP BURNING THINGS!
“I just want to say – you know – can we all get along?
Can we, can we get along?” – Rodney King RIP on May 1, 1992
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 – TravelTuesday! TikiTuesday! NO BLOG TODAY! WE ARE TAKING THE DAY OFF!
The New York Stock Exchange RE-OPENED today.
The Greek Theatre in (City of) Los Angeles cancelled their 2020 season today.
Runyon Canyon Park in the Hollywood Hills opens tomorrow (Wednesday) –
and will probably be closed later due to overcrowding…..
Los Angeles County is “re-opening” even though the case numbers are still rising!
Beaches, parks, retail, service businesses, and restaurants are open for more deaths.
NOTE:100000+ DEATHS in the United States!
People are not able to self-regulate or self-isolate! Some won’t even wear a mask.
There will have to be a real nationwide quarantine, to really stop the spread….
Not 15 days, not 30 days, not a partial 60 day forced locked, because only a real “don’t leave your house for any reason” quarantine like they had in New Zealand will make a difference here in Los Angeles, or any big city in the country.
47875+ Reported Cases and 2145+ Reported Deaths in Los Angeles County! 90600+ Reported Cases and 3708+ Reported Deaths in California! 1710000+ Reported Cases and 100000+ Reported Deaths in the United States!
98400+ Reported Deaths in the U.S. as of Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 9:30am PST
Trump was briefed about the Coronavirus Threat in January! He called it a hoax, a conspiracy theory, and then ignored and lied about it! TOTAL FAILURE! Trump fired the NSC Pandemic Team in 2018!
“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days
is going to be down to close to zero…. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” ~ Donald Trump on February 26, 2020
The CoronaVirus has killed 100000 (ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND) people
in the United States in only three months!
“This blindsided the world.” ~ Donald Trump on March 9, 2020
“I take no responsibility.” ~ Donald Trump on March 13, 2020
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
DO NOT FOLLOW MEDICAL ADVICE FROM TRUMP! HE IS NOT A DOCTOR! DON’T DRINK THE BLEACH! DON’T EAT, DRINK, OR INJECT ANY CLEANING PRODUCT OR DISINFECTANT! (Trumpers, please drink all the bleach you like.)
EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF SEVENTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES CITIZENS!
LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP!
Soft TacoTuesday! On The Menu: Chili & cheese soft taco with fresh guacamole on flour tortillas
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
We were up at 4:00am with the dogs, and tried to sleep, but it wasn’t happening.
And we tried to sleep again, and finally did fall asleep after 6:00am for an hour.
8:30am: And the dogs are fed and we’ve been outside,
and we got the newspapers, and the water guy came.
We made and ate a peanut butter and raspberry jam sandwich
on toasted challah bread and drank a cup of espresso.
WARNING! CoronaVirus “Antibody Tests” that people have been using to determine whether they’ve been infected and may have immunity, are only 50% correct! That’s right, Half of the antibody test may be wrong! So antibody testing is ineffective. THERE ARE STILL NOT ENOUGH TESTS AVAILABLE! And the tests have to be effective.
10:45am. Should I put on pants today?
We got the mail. And the dogs got fed.
We were outside with the dogs.
We did a load of laundry.
It was HOT today. We took a nap in the afternoon.
11:50pm:
We ordered a pizza delivery for dinner around 9:30pm. On The Menu: Large pepperoni and sausage pizza,
and we had a coupon for a FREE small cheese pizza (for tomorrow)
Pepperoni and Sausage Pizza Delivery from D’Amore’s for Wednesday’s Dinner
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Watched part of the 3-part “Grant” documentary on The History Channel.
They could have done it in just two parts if they cut the commercials….
we recorded it so we could fast-forward though the advertisements.
10:30am: Good morning! We have done the dogs. They are fed, we’ve been outside a few times already. Everyone is happy and healthy today! We ate a piece of cold pizza and drank some juice and espresso for breakfast. We did some household chores and got the newspapers.
5:00pm: F*CK.
We got the mail and the deliveries. We played with the dogs. We ate more pizza for lunch. It was a nice day and we could use a nap right now. We were suppose to have a dentist appointment today, but first they cancelled all the appointments, and now they’re open, and we rescheduled for a later date. It’s time for our regularly scheduled cleaning, but we can wait a little longer.
NOTE: It may be safe, it may not be safe. Don’t trust anyone outside your isolation!
STAYTHEFUCKHOME. Don’t expose yourself if you don’t have too. ZERO CONTACT!
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts cancelled the Theatre’s 2020-21 season.
Talking Heads’ David Byrne’s “Theater of the Mind,” will reschedule its world premiere.
Actor’s Equity Union released four core principles “needed to support life and healthy theater production” on Tuesday: “The epidemic must be under control; Individuals who may be infectious can be readily identified and isolated; the way we audition, rehearse, perform and stage manage may need to change; and efforts to control COVID-19 exposure must be collaborative.”
They cancelled the Boston Marathon today for the first time in history.
But Las Vegas is going to re-open next week….
Los Angeles is re-opening and it’s going to be really ugly in two weeks.
49700+ Reported Cases and 2240+ Reported Deaths in Los Angeles County
3990+ Reported Deaths in California
101600+ Reported Deaths in the United States
EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE! – EVERYTHING TRUMP SAYS IS A LIE!
If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, get help right away! Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (800-273-8255) to reach a trained counselor and press 1 to reach the Veterans Crisis Line. You can also chat with them online at suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/.
NOTE: if you TEXT 741741 when you are feeling depressed, suicidal or anxious, a crisis worker will text you back and continue to text with you? Many people, especially younger folks, do not like talking on the phone and would be more comfortable texting. It’s a free service to ANYONE – teens, adults, etc. – who lives in the U.S. It’s run by The Crisis Text Line and is legit.
Los Angeles County Dept. of Mental Health has a collection of FREE guided meditations to reduce stress, and also FREE sleep and movement exercises at headspace.com/lacounty or contact them at DMH.LACounty.gov
Phone number: 800-854-7771
***GIVE BLOOD!***
THE RED CROSS NEEDS BLOOD AND PLASMA DONORS!
redcrossblood.org 1-800-RED-CROSS Blood Donor App
City of Los Angeles “Safer-At-Home”> coronavirus.lacity.org
California Senior Citizen Help Hotline: 1-833-544-2374
Help for Senior Citizens during the coronavirus pandemic.
Be thankful. Be grateful. Be kind to each other – love one another – support everyone*. ❤️
SOCIAL DISTANCING = SIX FEET IS THE MINIMUM SAFE DISTANCE!
MASKS/FACE COVERINGS/GLOVES DO NOT GUARANTEE YOU WON’T GET INFECTED!
NO ONE CAN OR SHOULD CONSIDER THEMSELVES IMMUNE!
CORONAVIRUS! Part 36 – Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE DAY ONE. THIS VIRUS WILL KILL YOU!
Friday, May 22, 2020
8:30am: Good Morning! It’s Friday! It’s Memorial Day Weekend!
STAYTHEFUCKHOME! Don’t go anywhere. Don’t BBQ with friends!
Don’t Travel! Don’t visit the Beach! Just STAYTHEFUCKHOME!
12:00Noon: High speed pursuit in Los Angeles! CRAZY NUTS!
Two hours of wild driving! 95 mph on surface streets!
2 suspects in custody. Great chase! That had everything: speed, accidents, wrong way on the freeway, disabled slow speed chase, and a foot bail with cops swarming them.
Now it’s time for lunch.
On The Menu: 2 hotdogs with mustard and cheese, dill pickle, avocado, celery, carrots, raspberries, red grapes, and an iced espresso to drink,
Lunch on Friday
10:00pm: We finally ate a piece of fried chicken and some challah bread for dinner. Good Shabbos Everyone!
“If you fall seven times, may you get up eight.” – Japanese proverb
Had a bad day today. But here’s a tip: click on one ad for a “copper key” no-touch device on Facebook, and all your ads will be for “copper key” no-touch devices:
“With social distancing now in place at restaurants & bars don’t forget you’ll need to talk louder when you have your phone on speaker mode.” – Tom Clark
SOCIAL DISTANCING = SIX FEET IS THE MINIMUM SAFE DISTANCE!
MASKS/FACE COVERINGS/GLOVES DO NOT GUARANTEE YOU WON’T GET INFECTED! NO ONE CAN OR SHOULD CONSIDER THEMSELVES IMMUNE OR 100% PROTECTED!
REMEMBER to DISINFECT and SANITIZE frequently-touched surfaces like: cell phones, computers (keyboard & mouse), door handles, faucets, keys. credit cards, wallets, purses, tables, desks, countertops, light switches, knobs, dials, etc.
Casinos in the Southland are ready to re-open and welcome back gamblers:
(Native American owned casinos are exempt from the California state guidelines)
Morongo Casino in Cabazon re-opened today (May 22) for slots and table games, but with “limited seating” and temperature checks at the door for all guests. And there was a large crowd waiting to get in, and no one was “social distancing”.
Pechanga Resort Casino plans to reopen as early as June 1 (modified operations)
Spotlight 29 Casino in Coachella reopens May 22 with mandatory face coverings
Tortoise Rock Casino in Twentynine Palms will also re-open on May 22
And in Las Vegas, The Wynn and Encore properties plan to re-open on May 26.
Other Vegas casinos are planning to re-open on June 4 (some will re-open before others).
23:23pm:
A message from the State of Hawaii
Saturday, May 23, 2020
Good Morning! It’s Saturday! It’s Memorial Day Weekend!
STAYTHEFUCKHOME! Don’t go anywhere. Don’t BBQ with friends!
Don’t Travel! Don’t visit the Beach! Just STAYTHEFUCKHOME!
We fell asleep around midnight, woke up around 3:00am
And we binge watched the rest of the first season of “Lilyhammer” on Netflix,
and then didn’t go back to bed until about 9:00am.
And then we didn’t sleep well, and the dogs were barking,
and the gardener did come today to do more work in the front.
12:45pm: It’s a beautiful day today. Happy Saturday.
We ate 2 hotdogs and a dill pickle for lunch and drank an iced espresso.
Pier 45 in San Francisco burned today.
Pier 45 at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco On Fire!
5:15pm: WE ARE SO FUCKING DONE! ZERO CONTACT! STAYTHEFUCKHOME!
WE ARE ENRAGED. WE ARE SO ANGRY. WE CANNOT BELIEVE THE STUPID!
NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE DAY ONE. THIS VIRUS WILL KILL YOU!
Still “Safer-At-Home” And one more Saturday night Feelin’ so alone
96500+ Reported Deaths in the U.S. as of Saturday, May 23, 2020, at Noon PST
96500+ Reported DEATHS in the United States as of today.
And so Trump went golfing…..
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY MAY BE NEXT!
100000 U.S. DEAD! “But Her E-Mails…..”
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Good Morning! It’s Sunday! It’s Memorial Day Weekend!
STAYTHEFUCKHOME! Don’t go anywhere. Don’t BBQ with friends!
Don’t Travel! Don’t visit the Beach! Just STAYTHEFUCKHOME! DON’T GO TO CHURCH! DON’T GATHER IN GROUPS OF ANY SIZE! The Federal Government’s mismanagement and response has been a total failure.
Their NUMBERS ARE A VERY LOW ESTIMATE – A LOT MORE PEOPLE WILL DIE!
“The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.”
Proverbs 27:12
Happy Sunday! He’ll be here all week.
2:30am: We fell asleep from exhaustion and woke up at 12:30am. We didn’t eat dinner. We were only up briefly, and then went back to sleep.
4:00am: We are awake again. We woke up, we were up for a bit and then we went back to bed.
8:30am: And we are awake again. The dogs barking woke us up, and the dogs barking again kept us up. And now the dogs are barking again….. and now we have a headache.
And it’s going to be HOT (and beautiful) today
and even hotter all this week here in the SFV:
Weather for the week of May 24 – 29, 2020
11:00am: RELIEF. Time to regain our sanity and calm.
12:45pm: We cleaned and sanitized the kitchen. We drank some water.
We are doing a load of laundry.
7:15pm: The dogs are fed. The dogs were outside. The dogs are chillin’.
On The Menu: Big bowl of chili with cheese and chopped onion on toasted challah bread and an iced espresso to drink.
Sunday night. Tv, interweb, and the dogs. Are we entertained?
Sunday! Sunday! The Last Zoom Supper!
NOTE: We were all over the place emotionally this weekend, and this Blog Post probably reflects that condition. We don’t go back and edit, re-edit, after we post usually, so please enjoy my misery and anger mixed with weekend entertainment….
Human impact on the environment, due to overpopulation, overconsumption, pollution, and proliferation of technology, has pushed the planet into a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. There are just too many people for the environment to sustain! The depletion of non-renewable natural resources is a major problem.
Culling the herd: (cull means to select or gather)
1. Literally, to separate or remove (and usually kill) inferior animals out of a herd so as to reduce numbers or remove undesirable traits from the group as a whole.
(When population densities get too high, they can become diseased) “Removing some animals from a population creates more space and food for those that are left, and can disrupt social controls on breeding. Survival, reproduction and immigration all increase as a result, and the population quickly rebounds.”
43000+ Reported Cases and 2040+ Reported Deaths in Los Angeles County
90600+ Reported Cases and 3700+ Reported Deaths in California
97000+ REPORTED DEATHS of UNITED STATES CITIZENS as of Sunday, May 24, 2020 343000+ REPORTED DEATHS WORLDWIDE (and the actual number is higher)
So what church did Trump go to today?
VOTE BLUE! BIDEN 2020! THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE!
Monday, May 25, 2020 – MEMORIAL DAY!
Good morning. Well, not really. The Little Boy had a problem this morning sometime between 3:00am and 7:00am, and we woke up and had to take care of him. He may need to go to the vet, but because of the holiday, it would be the Emergency Animal Clinic today…. so we are watching him, he is active and happy, he had a bath, and ate chicken and rice for breakfast, and he wants to play, and we want him to rest. We don’t take chances, and if he gets any worse we’ll take him to the Doctor.
USA! USA! USA!
The United States flag is in mourning until noon on Memorial Day (4 U.S. Code §7m). When in mourning it should be half-staffed or, in the case of angled flagpoles or other cases where half-staffing is not practical, adorned with a mourning drape, as below, where the tail ends are as long as the flag. All other flags should be half-staffed (or not flown) until noon.
Displaying the Flag for Memorial Day!
STAYTHEFUCKHOME!
Baking Banana Bread! So, a little time in the kitchen, we had bananas on the brink, so we whipped up a loaf, baked in hour and it’s really good.
And Cornbread too! We meant to make it last week to go with the chili, but the milk was bad and we didn’t want to go to the market. So since we were baking, we decided to try a thin cornbread, rather than muffins or the cake-style we usually make. And it turned out okay, needs a little work, but it will be good with the last of the chili or a little butter and jam later this week.
4:30pm: Good afternoon. Well we fell asleep and got woken up by our cell phone.
Call it an incomplete nap. We checked on the dogs and everything seems to be cool.
It’s HOT outside. They weren’t kidding when they said there was going to be a heat wave.
7:00pm: And the dogs are fed. And we were outside. And we took care of fixing most of the morning stuff. And the Little Boy is doing fine. We are still checking him out for any problems, but he has been fine all day and we are changing his food until he’s better.
“Star Wars” opened 43 years ago in 1977!
Cue the music! Celebrate Star Wars!
Bum bum Bum bumpa-bum. Bumpa-bum.
retroactively titled “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” It was written and directed by George Lucas,
produced by Lucasfilm, and distributed by 20th Century-Fox
(the original budget was $11,000,000!)
Vintage Star Wars Sheet Music for Piano!
“Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire’s world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.” – from the IMDB
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Let’s say you woke up with a terrible cough, a fever, and severe body aches. Immediately, you rush to the doctor and unfortunately, you’re diagnosed with COVID-19. For the last two weeks, you’ve been unaware that you were infected and you’ve ignored “the rules.” You’ve gotten together with some close friends for pizza, had a few people over, even visited a park and a beach. You figured, “I don’t feel sick. I have the right to keep living my normal life. No one can tell me what to do.”
With your diagnosis, you spend the next few days at home on the couch, feeling pretty crappy; but then you’re well again because you’re young, healthy and strong. Lucky you. But your best friend caught it from you during a visit to your house, and because she didn’t know she was contagious, she visited her 82-year-old grandfather, who uses oxygen tanks daily to help him breathe because he has COPD and heart failure. Now, he’s dead.
Your co-worker, who has asthma, caught it too, during your little pizza get-together. Now, he’s in the ICU, and he’s spread it to a few others in his family, too–but they won’t know that for another couple of weeks yet.
The cashier at the restaurant where you picked up the pizza carried the infection home to his wife, who has MS, which makes her immunosuppressed. She’s not as lucky as you, so she’s admitted to the hospital because she’s having trouble breathing. She may need to be placed in a medically-induced coma and intubated; she may not get to say goodbye to her loved ones. She may die surrounded by machines, with no family at her bedside.
All because you couldn’t stand the inconvenience of a mask; of staying home; of changing your familiar routines for just a little while. Because you have the right, above all others rights, to continue living your normal life and no one, I mean no one, has the right to tell you what to do.
#SocialDistancing = It’s not about YOU! #WearAMask = It’s not about YOU! #StayHome = It’s not about YOU! #GetTested = It’s not about YOU! #WakeTheFUp =It’s not about YOU!
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