5.6-7-8 Open Threads
I read yesterday that PayPal has reinstated “Consortium News.” It sounded like a reliable report. I don’t do PP, but other Nesters use it. I do my donating the “old fashion” way: snail mail and paper checks. 🙂 We’re in the 90s down here, and breaking temp. records. Surprised? Anywho, everyone enjoy your Cinco de Mayo weekend. The Nest is Open. 🙂
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/04/paypal-backs-down-after-outpouring-of-support-for-cn/
As I mentioned on a thread this past week, I got anxious and actually, miffed, that Paypal tried to tell me my account needed to be updated and I needed to hand over personal information. I didn’t know if it was a phish or scam. I’ve been avoiding Paypal for awhile now, but I wrote to them and said I did not want to be their customer for wanting more personal information from me.
LD and jcb: Nina better keep her word and get out and tour this country. Ask the People about voting for an actual democrat, not one of these phony, wrinkled fakes like Pelousy! 💩💩💩💩💩
Blackburn sounds like the usual RW GOPuke robot. Now, their latest horse manure is low unemployment is bad. Really, Marsha, for real? Doofus.💩
Tough sh1t! Y’know, it’s ironic. Bezos is the worse rich craporate ahole who abuses his workers, and didn’t Byedone just give him another few $$B$$more?
Yeah, especially when you live in a fascist police state. I’ve been railing about it for years!
Theirs a good chance that the USA wont be around in its current form, USSC wont mean shit. The world faces an uncertain future with all its major problems that really need to be solved and seem to be pushed to the back table by the PTB. Thier mindset of profits at any cost will doom us all..
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/amazon-biden-administration-union-pledge-sanders-bezos-subsidies/
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/amazon-lindsey-graham-picks-flawed-fight-bernie-sanders-rcna27658
This guy is a brazen insult to humanity.
Cos they’re a bunch of fascist FRight hypocrites who know they face NO accountability!
Another not surprising from GQP crazy Fla.
Retirees with guns: Kings Point dog walker shot by golf-cart vigilante in condo caper
Years ago, some cars in suburban Delray Beach used to display the bumper sticker, “Pray for me, I drive by Kings Point.”
The barb addressed the perception that many of the senior-citizen drivers who went in and out of that sprawling condo complex south of Atlantic Avenue and west of Jog Road were dangerous drivers.
The old bumper sticker may have to be revised.
“Pray for me. I walk a dog at Kings Point,” would be a suitable new warning message.
The proliferation of guns in Florida, where about 2.5 million people are licensed to carry concealed handguns, put lethal firepower in the hands of an apparent dog-poop vigilante at Kings Point.
Dog walk turns to running from bullets
Kings Pointer Robert Levine, 74, fired five shots at an unfamiliar fellow condo resident, Herbert Merritt, 64, while he was walking his dog near the 15th hole of the golf course at Kings Point early one evening last month, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Levine, driving a golf cart, pulled up to Merritt, and confronted him about walking his dog too close to the golf course, according to the arrest report.
The verbal confrontation took a potentially life-and-death turn when Levine pointed a handgun at Merritt, who then ran, as Levine pursued him around a tree in the cart while shooting at the fleeing dog owner, the arrest report said.
One of the shots hit Merritt in the left ankle, wounding him and dropping him to the ground. Levine wasn’t done, according to the report. An eyewitness told deputies that the golfer kicked Merritt in the head, then went to golf cart, pulled out a club and began hitting the fallen dog owner with a club, while still holding the handgun in his other hand.
A judge who deemed Levine a threat to himself and others issued a risk-protection order this week, prohibiting him from possessing firearms and ammunition for a year.
Shooter’s lawyer says gunfire was lawful
Levine, who has been charged with attempted murder, has hired a lawyer who says that the official version of events is wrong. And that Levine, who has no criminal record, acted in “a lawful manner.”
I smell a stand-your-grass dog-poop case on the horizon.
If nothing else, the shooting of the dog walker ought to serve as a fresh reminder to just how needlessly dangerous Florida has become through the proliferation of guns and the encouragement of Floridians to arm themselves against theoretical troublemakers — who in many cases turn out to be the gun owners themselves.
A 74-year-old member of Kings Point Golf and Country Club allegedly shot a man for walking his dog near the golf course.
Kings Point ought to be a safe place. It has guarded entrances, a roving private police force and a Palm Beach County sheriff’s substation directly across the street on Atlantic Avenue.
If you read a story about “shots” at Kings Point, it’s way more likely to be about vaccinations than gun-wielding intruders from the outside world.
Traveling around Kings Point with a loaded gun strikes me as going way out of your way to look for trouble. Carrying a loaded gun is especially dangerous in retirement communities, where the general level of crankiness among residents is high, and contentious arguments abound — and have been known to blossom over next to nothing.
If a dog-walking gripe rates a handgun, does that mean feeding the Muscovy ducks warrants an AR-15 response?
It wasn’t like this in the past.
I remember covering a potentially violent altercation at a Royal Palm Beach condo clubhouse about 20 years ago. It was a fight over the use of a communal coffee maker.
When a board member made himself a cup of Maxwell House decaffeinated instant coffee in the clubhouse, he was confronted by another board member for not making the coffee in his own unit.
“There has to be a certain order,” the rules enforcer told me. “We don’t want anybody making coffee and leaving the electricity on.”
The verbal dustup over the instant coffee escalated instantly when the coffee drinker brandished his cane and slammed it on the table.
And he was drinking decaf!
Police were called because the rules enforcer said she felt threatened by the man’s aggressive cane choreography. Ah, the good old days. When condo disputes were, at worst, escalated by canes.
And things are bound to be getting worse in the near future.
Open carry in Florida glorifies guns
Gov. Ron DeSantis, a man who rarely fails to embrace a bad idea, recently said he will push Florida to be an open-carry state, meaning that legal gun owners will be able to openly display their firearms, without training, registration or government licensing.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not looking forward to the sight of retirees going around as if they’re characters in some “High Noon” remake when they can barely back their cars out of the Publix parking space in less than five tries.
Just the thought of holster-strapped codgers at a sharp-elbows, all-you-can-eat buffet line ought to make you consider body armor for dining out.
Or to put it another way: This could turn the Golden Corral into the O.K. Corral.
“I know what you’re thinking. Did you take five or six pieces of the brisket? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track of who ate what.
“But being that this is the most powerful handgun at the pickleball luncheon, you’ve got to ask yourself as you look at that full plate in your hands, ‘Am I really that hungry? Well, are you, punk?’”
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/columns/2022/05/06/delray-beach-condo-shooting-dog-walker-golfer-exposes-gun-culture/9657548002/
Now, wi63, am I supposed to be surprised?😂 Delray Beach isn’t the Ritz, but it’s not the ‘hood, either. I hope the poor pup is okay. What do you expect out of a state long known for stupidity and institutional political corruption? Where garbage like Sick Rott, DWS, DickSantis, Matt Gaetz and the rest of the human vomit steal and win elections? How about the 2000 POTUS fiasco? Big reason why I despise Ralph Nader. I hope I live long enough and stay healthy so I can get out of here. I’m dead serious. 😤
I figured you be able to give a background of the area, maybe thier a retirement area where retired progressives hang out that’s affordable
That would be the West Coast around the Tampa-St. Pete-Sarasota area. However, real estate prices are nuts! I’ve got my CB condo up for sale cos of the intensification of the hurricanes. Michael in 2018 and Dorian less than 12 months later was the last straw. Condos always are slower to unload than houses, but someone will eventually bite. 🙂
Caucus99 is playing Marcia Ball this evening, perfect timing for Jazz Fest in NOLA. Thought I’d play a couple of her performances as well. The song above is called “We Fell Hard.”
“Down the Road ” by Marcia Ball
I don’t know if you know this, Ms. Benny, but joe shikspack is a former DJ. I found that out recently. No wonder he knows his sh1t with tunes! 🙂
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Bernie has endorsed Allam.
Progressives are getting more and more aware of this nonsense. That is a very good thing: know thy enemy, then figure out how to defeat them!
That doesn’t matter if the voters don’t get involved, informed and VOTE!