Ever notice when you scrunch a kitty's ears together it looks like a short-eared bunny rabbit?

Until they roar. Totally different set of teeth.

Wutiff Minneapolis was really just a beef between a couple of co-workers?

You'd be tempted to say it's all very personal.

Except maybe not.

It's four in the morning, six at MSP, and their local news is showing fires still being put out in the dawn light. Cops got chased out of a police station last night.

All this information is both obscured and unreliable yet electrically obvious at the same time.

tryingnottojudge tryingnottojudge tryingnottojudge

A few days ago you asked if New York is over. Today I ask if Hong Kong is over. After all the main things propping up the island city were favorable taxes and trade policies, both of which are gone as it becomes just another part of China.

Wutiff Minneapolis was really just a beef between a couple of co-workers?

Well, that's a kick in the pants. Did not see that coming. That bit of info that the dude's bro-in-law was present just another kick.

I think my 72 hour rule just became 144 hours.

Today I ask if Hong Kong is over.

Where have you been? they've been over for a while, unless something unexpected happens.

While HK has the cultural inclination towards freedom they are just a single city and Xi can extinguish that flame without too much difficulty if he's willing to take some bad press.

I don't see any of the Euroweenies providing any real push back. Those who would be inclinded to push back have more immediate problems to deal with. We didn't do jack after the unpleasantness in 1989. Didn't the CCP receive a most favored nation status a mere 6 years later?

What was the thought? the West is a paper tiger. Change my mind.

Recent preprint reporting that 24/24 (100%) people form Singapore infected by SARS-1 in 2003 have pre-existing T-cell immunity against #SARSCoV2, but more surprisingly 9/18 (50%) with no exposure to SARS-1 also possess T-cells targeting #SARSCoV2. (1/4)

https://twitter.com/ballouxfrancois/status/1266265084143087628

Martina Navratilova is a monster.

Should we riot, I mean, protest, at Martina's home?

Oh. I'd heard rumblings that she had some issue that could derail her advancement to a Veep pick. I didn't realize it was this bad.

Before she became a senator and a top contender for former Vice President Joe Biden's vice presidential spot, Klobuchar spent eight years as the Hennepin County attorney, in charge of prosecution for Minneapolis. And while in that position, Klobuchar declined to prosecute multiple police officers cited for excessive force, and did not prosecute the officer who kneeled on Floyd's neck as he protested, The Guardian reports.

https://news.yahoo.com/amy-klobuchar-declined-prosecute-officer-183728902.html

The Ask.

The Answer.

> Should we…

So I'm not the only one to think of it.

There's a lack of awareness of the world around here is off the charts. Naivete of that magnitude isn't mere stupidity, it's pathology. She's been so isolated and selfish in a lifetime of tennis practices that she has no understanding how many other lives are being lived out there.

Missed you yesterday, Darth. So to speak.

Get ready for June!

A gang of monkeys attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped with a batch of coronavirus blood test samples, it has been reported.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-monkeys-escape-with-covid-19-samples-after-attacking-lab-assistant-11996752

• They've heard Gog is coming, and are withdrawing their ears defensively.

• It was silly film, but there was a charming forty-year interval when Electric Bugaloo just meant "weak second effort."

> monkeys attacked a laboratory

You guys see "Twelve Monkeys"? Willis? Pitt? Madeleine Stowe in black hosiery?

Ever notice when you scrunch a kitty's ears together it looks like a short-eared bunny rabbit? ~ Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at May 28, 2020 10:09 PM

Smooth 'em back and the kitty starts looking like a furry snake.

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Martina Navratilova is a monster. ~ Crid at May 29, 2020 8:38 AM

I had to look up Martina to see what she had done to command such enmity. What an idiotic tweet.

Perhaps we should start the Martina Navratilova riot at the namesake house. Loot it and burn it down first.

"We’ve kind of worked out a civilization here. Make a few concessions to it, will you?"

We dodged one here.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/28/mississippi-cop-on-leave-after-video-shows-his-hands-around-mans-neck/

Pillage, then burn:

https://shop.schlockmercenary.com/collections/apparel/products/pillage-then-burn-shirt-sizes-up-to-6x

I would have expected better of someone who lived under Communism. Then I remembered: she was likely a darling of the party and the nomenklatura and lacked for nothing.

Unlike other people in Romania.

So I'm not the only one to think of it.

No. Sadly, she's also not the only rich white person encouraging such behaviour, either.

I would like them to answer a small question: how does burning down housing intended for low income residents a social good?

As for yesterday, I was moving furniture about. My work building is in the process of renovation, and we didn't know if there would be money for new furniture, so we kept everything that wasn't already trash. We're getting new furniture, so now we have to sort it into keep and "send to surplus" rooms.

Pillage, then burn ~ I R A Darth Aggie at May 29, 2020 11:21 AM

If you pillage first, you're not protesting, you're looting.

Lileks finds another example of a white person having the "right beliefs". Apparently, someone in the utility division thought it wise to cut off the flow of natural gas to the abandoned precinct building before it burned. Also, some before pictures.

She is, of course, one of the good people. She believes in the proper things. She is also a white woman in California offering to give matches to a fire that might blow to hell the homes of the people in Minnesota she might otherwise tend to support.

http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/20/0520/052920.html

"Exothermic" is the word you're looking for.

> escaped with a batch of
> coronavirus blood test
> samples

Of course I can't find it now, but this morning there was a tweet suggesting that in many parts of the world, 'The monkeys came in through the window and stole (and/or despoiled) my careful assemblage of blood samples while I was answering a phone call!' is exactly what you might hear from a lab worker with a less-than-sterling performance history.

Fido. Homework. Y'know.

Deer Antifa:

Please try this in Florida, or pretty much any place in the southern states.

https://twitter.com/bellers03/status/1266174838374313992

They are The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries. Pillage is the right word.

One respondent said that evidence for serious crimes are likely housed centrally. But some evidence is likely lost.

Serious question: is evidence kept inside police precincts? Even for a short time? I’m starting to freak out about rape test kits being destroyed by these morons setting fire to things. Not to mention DNA evidence in murder investigations.

https://twitter.com/noahsmom7/status/1266346807715442689

Have we heard about the viral video of Orange County's bratty Shelley Lewis by now, who is too dumb to distinguish between HIPAA and ADA?

She's pretty dumb in other ways, too, as the majority of the commentators pointed out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S64zBllmWzo

Trouble is, at least two commentators are woefully ignorant and arrogant as well. One included the hashtag masksarethenewswastikas.

He didn't died of COVID19, he passed away because of his comorbidities and if he were a healthy man he would still be alive:

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1266462897288425472

This is also about the Lewis video. I think you only need to watch the first 5:10 minutes.

https://roguerocket.com/2020/05/18/why-people-are-freaking-out-on-shelley-lewis-jeffree-star-cremated-backlash-hong-kong-brawl/

I'm including it because the narrator included a few doctors' responses to all those maskless whiners who say "what about MY condition, whaaaaa?!"

Besides, it always feels great to come across a young YouTuber who doesn't use "like" ungrammatically. Granted, the more professional YouTubers are usually good about that.

I realize, of course, that Amy Cooper wasn't fired merely for SAYING something awful off the job; she was practically committing a crime. (Not to mention, of course, that once it went public, her employers had no real choice.)

However, while the situation below was clearly far less serious, it's easy enough to imagine that Cooper just might be saying to herself, right now, what the unnamed man said. (I wonder if Cooper's mentally ill? Whether she is or not, she may never understand why what she did was so wrong.)

The column is by Renée Graham, who's probably in her mid-late 50s by now.

12 Mar 2017

"...I once worked with a woman who was so upset about a sexist remark made by a male co-worker that she reported him to their supervisor. He was briefly suspended, and some men were resentful that this woman dared to complain at all. While discussing the issue, a male colleague said to me, 'God, remember the days when you could just say anything?'

"Without hesitation, I said, 'No.'

"I had never known a time when I could just say anything, not as a black woman in a world I saw as predominately white and male. My opinion was rarely solicited and certainly not valued, so I kept it to myself. After years of both implicit and explicit silencing, when I finally found the confidence to speak my mind, that liberation overwhelmed me. Yet initially I only understood that I had a voice; how to use it effectively came later through writing, debates, and peaceful protests..."

The tiniest violin:

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1266523296872501253

Crid, about Floyd and Chauvin being "co-workers":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/05/29/george-floyd-and-derek-chauvin-worked-at-the-same-nightclub-but-may-not-have-known-each-other-owner-says/#b28361074d82

For the record, they said pretty much the same thing at NPR.

For a building filled with journalists who hate da police they sure do love to use them as meat shields:

https://twitter.com/dailydigger19/status/1266544231046406149

Is this a joke or a prophecy?

https://twitter.com/_Vs_The_World/status/1266553576517763078

> For the record

While convincing charges have been filed, I'd say the record remains very much open in all respects.

It's been five days, three of them shattered by violence across the neighborhoods, now across the continent, and poisoned by the deepest personal-identity vituperation in electronic media… Who knows what mutual acquaintances could know but might now keep forever to themselves, perhaps forevermore. Yesterday came a rumor that two of the arresting officers were brothers-in-law; today we learned there's another camera angle showing as many as eight officers involved in the atrocity.

Ramble repeated one last lesson for the month of May: We'll see.

Welllll, 'pparently LA's going to have some horror tonight, as have NYC, DC and ATL three time zones away.

I've concluded that the guy on the street is not that bright. They're part of a mob, but they don't even know it.

Welllll, 'pparently LA's going to have some horror tonight, as have NYC, DC and ATL three time zones away.

I've concluded that the guy on the street is not that bright. They're part of a mob, but they don't even know it.

The people living in San Francisco can rest assured that their streets littered with human feces and used needles work as a natural defense against rioters.

Sorry for the double forever and the double post... The first was mine and I blame connectivity issues for the second.

Hopscotching around our virtual nation at 8pm pst:

Dallas & Houston, moderate protests

St. Louis, Chicago, quiet-ish

Cleveland and Miami are quiet

Denver, lots of protests, rubber bullets, small fires.

Dallas and Houston are moderately armed. You protest politely or you get shot.

As I understand things Plano, Tx (a suburb of Dallas) is the most heavily armed city in the US.