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October 1, 2017

YOU are OJ. What are you looking forward to doing?

Im thinking masturbating without a bunk mate or celly hearing would be pretty high on the list.

September 25, 2017

if the NFL owners were sincere (1%ers all) then Colin Kaepernick

would be employed. Until then, it is all theater.

September 21, 2017

Puerto Rico: What's next?

How and what is going to happen to an island devasted by the hurricane. How do they rebuild? Who pays for it? FEMA?

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/us/politics/puerto-rico-money-debt.html

September 21, 2017

StLouis cops terrorize restaurant owner

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i]On Friday, Pi Pizzeria was gassed by St. Louis police officers who were marching through the neighborhood after protests took an ugly turn a bit further west. Owner Chris Sommers was there.

Yesterday, the pro-police group Blue Lives Matters put Sommers on blast for his response — and the union representing St. Louis County police officers shared the link and echoed the call on its Facebook page. "There are reports of people calling the restaurants tying up their phone lines expressing their feelings about the owners anti-police comments. We have been busy protecting everyone's free speech during the demonstrations. Here are the numbers if you feel like your freedom of speech needs a little exercise," the police union posted, sharing numbers for Pi locations.

Sommers posted this in response on his Facebook page. We are publishing it here with his permission.

On Friday night, at approximately 11:15pm, the SLMPD shot at me and gassed me. They did this, ostensibly, because I was screaming at them from across an empty street to stop terrorizing my dinner guests and team who were dining peacefully on a corner devoid of protestors or agitators.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/foodblog/2017/09/20/chris-sommer-responds-after-police-union-puts-him-and-pi-pizzeria-on-blast?media=AMP+HTML
September 19, 2017

CEO of KB Homes calls Kathy Griffin a bald dyke, a C****

The CEO of KB Home, one of the largest homebuilders in the country, recently screamed sexist and homophobic slurs and profanities at his neighbor, comedian Kathy Griffin ― calling her a “bald dyke” and a “cunt” after she and her boyfriend called Los Angeles police to report an hours-long noise disturbance, according to security camera audio obtained by HuffPost.

Jeffrey Mezger has been CEO and chairman of KB Home, a publicly traded company, since 2006, and has worked there since 1993, according to his official biography. Mezger and his wife, Sandra, live in a gated community next to Griffin and her longtime boyfriend, Randy Bick.

September 19, 2017

I hate the tiles at the UN.

There's a jackass standing in front of them!

Seriously. I'm a tile man, stone Mason. Not a fan of green marble anyway (it's alive, you know?), but they should have laid it so the patter is continuos (bookmarking in the parlance). Just a horrible job, pisses me off every time I see it. I can figure out the pattern and see that it could be marked. If it couldn't, they shouldn't have used such a heavily veined marble, used a slab or planned to bookmark it by marking it at the quarry. (Smaller jobs like this on usually don't require this to be able to create a more singular piece).

September 13, 2017

The money raised for hurricane relief?

Where is it going specifically? To serve what purpose?

The 45 million raised last night, while impressive, will only buy 40 miles of roads. Will cover the overtime the electrical workers (20,000) will be paid. For about a month. Will pay for ONE bridge.

What about the uninsured?

September 11, 2017

Activist, Bubbles, shot to death in San Francisco

Activist, Bubbles, shot to death in San Francisco

http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/S-F-activist-shot-to-death-in-the-Tenderloin-12187274.php

Guns. Hate. Damn this guy was the City. A lot of friends knew him well. I didn't.
Even in The City? Damn, my (adopted) town, showing intolerance.

September 11, 2017

Activist, Bubbles, shot to death in San Francisco

http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/S-F-activist-shot-to-death-in-the-Tenderloin-12187274.php

Guns. Hate. Damn this guy was the City. A lot of friends knew him well. I didn't.
Even in The City? Damn, my (adopted) town, showing intolerance.

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