Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 6:24:35 AM

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Good morning and greetings from the New York greater metro region. It looks like those white supremacist infiltrators have been awfully busy back home and my absence:

https://wtop.com/dc/2020/08/late-night-shootings-wound-4-in-southeast-dc/

Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 6:32:04 AM

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“ This news can't be overstated: a black female police chief in a profession dominated by white men is essentially being driven out by "woke" Seattle politicians.”

https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/08/11/breaking-seattles-first-black-female-police-chief-resigns-after-council-caves-to-blm-reporters-note-irony/

I’ve never been to Seattle. And for a long time I was at least mildly interested in visiting. But not now.

vxbush 8/11/2020 6:37:19 AM

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In #2 Occasional Reader said: I’ve never been to Seattle. And for a long time I was at least mildly interested in visiting. But not now.

I visited once back in 1999, but I would have no reason to go now except a family member lives in Washington State on that side of the mountains. I would under no conditions go downtown, that's for sure. 

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 6:52:53 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

In answer to your question of last night (well, not really question) I got my mom's old Jeep and drove it down from Illinois.  To get it titled in my current state I had to have the local police come to my house and run a check to confirm that the vehicle had not been stolen since it had never been titled in the state. I asked one of the officers if this happens -- he said it happens all the time.  People see a car for sale on someone's lawn, go buy it, and then find out it was stolen. 

Anyway, after three days and piles of paper work, I'm finally legal.

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 6:55:43 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

We went out there every summer for about five years running.  On the way, we'd usually stop in Yellowstone; afterwards we'd go to Victoria and then take the ferry back to BC and go to Banff and Jasper on the way home.  One year we took the ferry up to Prince Rupert at the far northern point in British Columbia.  Spectacular country.

I was back in Seattle for a meeting about 20 years ago -- it was still beautiful.

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 7:02:12 AM

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Here's a local report on Chicago's recent loot-fest. 

Note that most of the people holding the "Loot Back" sign are white.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 7:02:44 AM

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In #4 lucius septimius said: To get it titled

You white people are always acting so titled...

Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 7:03:44 AM

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In #5 lucius septimius said: it was still beautiful.

Leftism destroys everything it touches.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 7:06:50 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 6:

“Here’s a local report...”; well, yes, a completely left-skewed one.

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 7:14:28 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9:

The Sun-Times was always Left-leaning---as is also, now, alas, the Tribune---but at least the article isn't behind a paywall as the Trib's tend to be.

I assume that someone like yourself, adept in the decoding of the even-farther-Left NPR, can glean at least some fact from it, not to mention learning the current Leftist Narrative from the article itself.

vxbush 8/11/2020 7:20:31 AM

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In #6 buzzsawmonkey said: Note that most of the people holding the "Loot Back" sign are white.

Care to guess how many of them have trust funds? 

JCM 8/11/2020 8:02:24 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

I have some sympathy for Best.

She wasn't in the final 3 for the spot. The SPD union and local media made a stink about how an career Seattle cop who also was a black woman wasn't on the list. The other 3 candidates saw what a shit show dealing with Mayor Durka Durka and the Clowncil would be and withdrew.

Best had a good reputation and the support of the rank and file going in, and the Mayor did not want her.

She was screwed from day one. She walked into the position with her eyes open.

She tried to thread the needle between her job and the City Leadership, and impossible task, but she did give it a go.

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 8:17:35 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10:

The only advantage of the Sun-Times was that it was easier to read on the train.

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 8:22:34 AM

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In #13 lucius septimius said: The only advantage of the Sun-Times was that it was easier to read on the train.

I have an abiding affection for the Sun-Times, merely because they employed Bill Mauldin as their staff editorial cartoonist, and I got to interview him when I was in 8th grade.

I lugged in a stack of his books---I was a big fan of his---including his rare in-service book "Mud, Mules, and Mountains," which was about the Italian campaign, and he autographed all of them to me, each with a personal dedication and line drawing, then drew me a picture of his GI "Joe" character on Sun-Times stationery, which I still have framed.  He then looked at my 8th-grade drawings and was...let's say, extremely kind.  

Anyway, I interviewed him for the "career" assignment that I'd come for, but I don't remember that.  I remember the stuff I've just mentioned.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 8:38:01 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14:

wow! I am quite envious. I devoured “up front“ when I was about 10 years old.

and I note in passing that voice transcription used to be smarter about figuring out when to do an initial capital letter.

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 8:40:36 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14:

They also had Royko.

We were a strictly Tribune family.  Colonel McCormick was revered in our household.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 8:50:48 AM

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In #12 JCM said: I have some sympathy for Best.

For all her own faults, for example urging people to call 911 to report racist speech, she was probably the best, no pun intended, that Seattle could do it for the position. And now, we will see a city run by Bane from “the dark Knight rises“.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 9:20:27 AM

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“ Progressive plan to cure Seattle of violent riots: 1. Defund Police. 2. Tell African American Chief of Police that she is worth $100k less than her white male predecessor. 3. Sit back and watch the violence fade away!”

From: https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/08/11/warmongering-egg-matt-yglesias-dragged-by-blue-check-libs-for-100-accurate-take-on-the-seattle-police-chief/

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 10:55:50 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 10:57:23 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15:

One of my enduring regrets is that I did not re-contact Mauldin before he died to tell him how much I valued that interview.

That regret spurred my contacting my high-school first-year English teacher, now in his 80s, to let him know what his class, and his recommendations for extra-curricular reading, had meant to me.

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 10:58:51 AM

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In #19 lucius septimius said: Watching the looters in Chicago and seeing them piling up clothes and defending their little piles reminds me of nothing so much as the films we watched in anthropology showing what happened when chimpanzees were provided with more bananas than they could possibly eat.  Same behavior and yet another instance of what remains when the protective clothing of civilization is stripped away from the human animal.

Consider also the scene in "Zorba the Greek," when "the foreigner"---the town courtesan---dies, and the women watching like vultures strip her house clean in minutes after her death-rattle.

Occasional Reader 8/11/2020 10:59:49 AM

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In #20 buzzsawmonkey said: One of my enduring regrets is that I did not re-contact Mauldin before he died to tell him how much I valued that interview.

You’re getting all maudlin about Mauldin...

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 11:00:17 AM

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In #16 lucius septimius said: We were a strictly Tribune family. 

We read 'em both---but never bought the "Chicago American."  The "Daily News," which supplanted it, sometimes.

Sundays were great, because there were both the Sun-Times and the Tribune comics to go through.

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 11:01:51 AM

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In #22 Occasional Reader said: You’re getting all maudlin about Mauldin...

Well, rightly so.  I remember I had a pro-Vietnam War "support the troops" in the portfolio I showed him, and he was very nice about it as well as the other stuff.

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 11:03:50 AM

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lucius septimius 8/11/2020 11:07:07 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 24:

I have two autographed volumes of cartoons by Vaughn Shoemaker from the Daily News from 1940-1942.  My grandfather got them God-knows when.

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 11:09:12 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 23:

We always got the Sunday Tribune and the Waukegan paper.  My strict sabbatarian relatives would not take a Sunday paper.

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 11:11:33 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 27:

Which makes me think -- we got the Tribune in the morning and the News-Sun in the afternoon.  One was breakfast reading, the other was waiting for dinner.  I wonder if anyone nowadays takes a morning and evening paper any more?

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 11:46:24 AM

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In #26 lucius septimius said: I have two autographed volumes of cartoons by Vaughn Shoemaker from the Daily News from 1940-1942.  My grandfather got them God-knows when.

Wow.

He was really big in his day.  Mauldin studied under him, as recorded in his excellent book "The Brass Ring."

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 11:54:04 AM

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In #25 lucius septimius said: Speaking of animals...

Saying, "That's just horrible" seems so inadequate.

lucius septimius 8/11/2020 11:58:34 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 29: 

They were limited editions of 500 each.

doppelganglander 8/11/2020 1:16:04 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 28:

Few cities even have two papers these days. Their websites are updated continuously,  so there's no need for a second print edition. 

When I was a kid, my dad subscribed to two local dailies, a local weekly, and also brought home the NY Daily News and the NY Post. He subscribed to the Sunday Times for me from the time I was about 11, mainly for the book review. We got all the major magazines, too. Dad was a frustrated journalist. 

doppelganglander 8/11/2020 1:39:27 PM

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lucius septimius 8/11/2020 1:44:49 PM

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lucius septimius 8/11/2020 1:57:57 PM

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In #33 doppelganglander said: And Biden's handlers pick Kamala. 

"On her knees for America!"

doppelganglander 8/11/2020 2:01:48 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 34:

Can't wait to see how she tries to square the circle between BLM and her law and order reputation. Remember Slow Joe's crime bill? Trump is actually the criminal justice reformer here.

doppelganglander 8/11/2020 2:11:37 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 35:

Much like Hillary, she made it to the top the old-fashioned way - by attaching herself to a powerful man.

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 2:32:26 PM

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doppelganglander 8/11/2020 2:33:51 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 3:

I've already seen Joe and the Ho 2020 on Twitter. 

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 2:37:07 PM

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In #39 doppelganglander said: I've already seen Joe and the Ho 2020 on Twitter. 

If it's a HoJoe ticket, will they put an orange roof on the White House?

doppelganglander 8/11/2020 2:43:54 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 40:

+++++

Kosh's Shadow 8/11/2020 4:41:28 PM

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I have to say I am disappointed with the "Ho" comments, but I'm not going to stop them or ban anyone.

Comparing people to chimpanzees based on their behavior is just fine.

buzzsawmonkey 8/11/2020 5:00:16 PM

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In #42 Kosh's Shadow said: Comparing people to chimpanzees based on their behavior is just fine.

Chimpanzee to the rescue!