"This plan purchased by ICE of robot dogs comes a few weeks after the agency decided to purchase as much as $20 million worth of electric shock gloves for officers to wear during immigration operations.

There's a saying that many of us will be familiar with.

It goes, "The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."

BB King at Sing Sing

- I have been telling Corky

Your tell is that you post such obvious nonsense.

#66

Cool non-argument.

"How ya been? How was Joliet?"

Jailhouse Rock

- Boomer corporate practices

lol... first I've heard that the Gilded Age Barons were Boomers; Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan... all Boomers!

It's also ironic to think of Old 1Nut's grandchildren in China berating him for running away from home rather than staying and opposing what's happening in his country... you know, like Tank Guy in Tiananmen Square.

A lot on now Boomers here protested against the War and Nixon, and stopped said war and ran Tricky Dick out of Office.

Wonder what 1Nut's Gen in China has done for their country? Other than run away and hide, I mean.

#31

Did I mention,, 'abominably stupid'? Why, yes, I did.

Here, let's make him whine a bit about AI:

"The Rise of Corporate Influence: Many of the economic shifts that younger generations struggle with " like the rise of short-term shareholder value, deregulation, and soaring housing markets"were driven by specific corporate policies and systemic political changes, not the consensus of ordinary citizens.

Historical Context: Everyday Baby Boomers simply navigated the economic landscape of their time. Benefiting from a post-WWII economic boom or purchasing affordable housing was a standard life path, not a malicious plot against future generations.

The Class Divide Outweighs the Generational Divide

The Wealth Gap: Critics of generational warfare point out that the real division in modern society is between the hyper-wealthy elite and the working class, rather than older individuals versus younger individuals."

Lawless Avenues

Papa hit him, Mama kissed him
Made him go to Catechism
With the sisters in their black and white
And all the time those city streets
Were teaching him another kind of wisdom
When to run and when to fight

Up at the playground after school
Listening to tales of the prison system
And those lawless avenues

(chorus)
Down on a half darkened street
A child's footsteps repeat
And something there turns them
Down those lawless avenues

Silent Joe went down so bad
He was the strongest fighter the avenues had
Stabbed in the chest--he went down swinging
Someone from some other part of town
No one even seen it coming down

And you don't hear no church bells ringing
And in the violent night the police light
Sweeps across the lots and the yards
Following those lawless avenues

Down on a half darkened street
Armies advance and retreat
And struggle to take control
From those lawless avenues

Manuelito's sister Rosa
Ran away with a surfer from Hermosa
Manuelito, cuida a Rosa,
Hay mira como estan las cosas!
(Manuelito take care of Rosa
--Look at how things are)

But who could blame her after she saw
Every boy die who could have gotten close to her

Rosa es joven u solo quiere
ver la belleza del mundo
(Rosa is young and only wants
To see the beauty of the world)

Manuel said--
"You gotta fight for what you want in this life"
Just before they shipped him overseas to 'Nam

Otra guerra sin razon
Otra guerra sin fin, sin honor
(Another war without reason,
Another war without end, without honor)

And she was fighting to understand
When they shipped Manuelito's body home
All she heard was one more shot
Echoing down lawless avenues

Hoy amigo, tal igual como ayer,
La lucha en el barrio no cambia
Nuestros hijos son los que han de crecer
Por ley de la calle, viviendo entre abrazos
Y chingazos

(Today my friend, just like yesterday,
The struggle in the barrio doesn't change.
Our children are the ones to grow up
By the law of the street
Living between hugs and blows)

Down on a half darkened street
Fathers' and sons' lives repeat
And something there turns them
Down those lawless avenues

En el calor de la calle
(In the heat of the street)

Buscan valor en la calle
(Looking for valor in the street)

Hasta final de la calle
(Till the end of the street)

Songwriters: Jackson Browne / Jorge Calderon

Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law (1966) live

1Nutjob still scapegoating his way through life, eh?

He can't even take responsibility for all the abominably stupid things he says around here; he's the site's biggest 'Runaway After Being Spanked' poster we have.

#6

They're a family band out of Bransom, Missouri; 3 sisters, brother on guitar, and the dobro player and fiddle player are married. Mom on bass, lol.

They do a fun version of Bohemian Rhapsody:

One More Last Chance

2 hours ago... recorded live at Sturgis

And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live like an outlaw
And I'm always on the run...

And I'm always getting busted
And I got to take a stand...
I believe the revolution
Must be mighty close at hand...

#69!!!

No wonder they were so pissed!

- What was the objective?

Making Da Nang beaches safe for even low-income US expat retirees!

"Vietnam Retirement Boom Gains Momentum as US, European, and Australian Arrivals Surge"

Lame Duck Don... that's got a nice ring to it!

Being loyal to DJT is slowly going out of style, even in in Texas. He's underwater even with MAGA now; he has less support nationally than the 35 percent that make up the Base.

"National Underwater Status: A Reuters/Ipsos survey recorded his approval at 33%, with 64% of Americans disapproving of his performance. Other aggregators like The Economist/YouGov tracker peg his net approval rating at -26 points.

The MAGA Base & Republican Softening: While he has not completely lost his core base, significant cracks have appeared.

A Marquette Law Poll revealed that his approval among registered Republicans slipped below 80% for the first time in his second term, dropping to 78%. NBC and Pew tracking similarly report that "strong approval" among self-identified MAGA Republicans has eroded by roughly 8 percentage."

#3

Yes! G. Max has been granted Temporary Release to run Child Services.

Speaking of a, 'bust' (best Groucho smile), MTG was flabbergasted to find her name on the Speakers List... and thought it was hilarious.

Her response is about a minute into this vid, and it's way too good to miss:

I loved the books, though... I mean, who forgets reading their first love scenes?

(nerding some here)

(click on the link to the paywalled washpo story at the politicalwire thread link}

The intel says Trump is warning Putin not to ramp up against Ukraine... which is more likely Trump asking Putin to do exactly that, and against NATO... so as to make an excuse to interfere in our Elections here.

Also, yet another Epstein Deflection.

My trade school experience started as a kid rebuilding big rig clutches in my dad's diesel mechanic's shop (he had been a driver, then a salesman for Dickies; so he leased a building and hired mechanics).

First thing he taught me was that if I messed up, the spring on the clutch could send the parts through the ceiling, and through me if I was in the way.

I preferred reading, however; my first authors were Jack London, Ian Fleming (ohh la la!), A. Conan Doyle. (ok, and all the various Hardy Boy authors posing as Franklin Dixon)

In college I read nearly every book in the library's psch section, then only had to look for the new books each year. Which left plenty of time for sex, drugs, and rock music.

;;
On topic, if it isn't obvious that Republicans long ago figured out that every well-educated person in the country is a potential threat to them winning Elections, then you aren't paying attention.

- Well, I'm certainly living rent-free in your head.

I bet the velvet Elvis posters are annoying! Not to mention the nude Trump photos.

- "Lake Epstein" is trending...

Well, Epstein Island was already taken.

#3

Finally, another post on the thread... for a minute there, I thought maybe DJTs Epstein Distractions were werking!