But the party scene among the elites in Hollywood in the early 70’s sounds like a LOT of fun:

 The wife of Hollywood legend Dick Martin has lifted the lid on the partying and mischief that took place within the couple’s star-studded circle – including the time they got high off marijuana cookies and were cussed at by Frank Sinatra’s foul-mouthed parrot. 

Not the sort of stories one hears every day…..

The United States’s non-Mexican “Mexican” holiday.

‘Twasn’t until it was a “Holiday” in Southern California that it then became a holiday in Mexico. Originally only celebrated in and around the State of Puebla in Mexico for the victory over French forces in 1862, it became a “celebration” in the US in order that merchants could sell liquor and food to mexican worker and migrants in  California….and somehow became a “celebration of Mexican American Heritage”

And even now, more gringos in the US celebrate Cinco de Mayo than Mexicans. Most Mexican immigrants in the US, both legal and not, aren’t sure why anyone celebrates 5 may…but hey, Mexican!

It’s not a national holiday in Mexico, although schoolchildren are given the day off.

And it isn’t Mexico’s national Independance day….That’s 16 September…..

A 2007 UCLA Newsroom article notes that, “the holiday, which has been celebrated in California continuously since 1863, is virtually ignored in Mexico.”[29] TIME magazine reports that “Cinco de Mayo started to come into vogue in 1940s America during the rise of the Chicano Movement.”[20] The holiday crossed over from California into the rest of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s but did not gain popularity until the 1980s when marketers, especially beer companies, capitalized on the celebratory nature of the day and began to promote it.[31][32] It grew in popularity and evolved into a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage, first in areas with large Mexican-American populations, like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and San Jose.[33]

Although where he’s gonna come up with the money for all those rifles that I lost in the terrible canoe accident  that he will have to buy back from me at my market price, I have no idea.

Rep. Eric Swalwell calls for mandatory buyback of all ‘military-style semiautomatic’ weapons

Hey, at lest he’s honest about his intentions, and smart enough to realize that unless the Feds buy ’em back, they won’t get even a tiny portion of them.

This guy may be too smart for our own good…..

are noticing the “issues’ with Mueller’s investigations.

A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort – suggesting they lied about the scope of the investigation, are seeking “unfettered power” and are more interested in bringing down the president.

Mueller’s team says its authorities are laid out in documents including the August 2017 scope memo – and that some powers are actually secret because they involve ongoing investigations and national security matters that cannot be publicly disclosed.
Ellis seemed amused and not persuaded.
He summed up the argument of the Special Counsel’s Office as, “We said this was what [the] investigation was about, but we are not bound by it and we were lying.”
He referenced the common exclamation from NFL announcers, saying: “C’mon man!” 

I’m thinking, at least in my local elections, that I my well choose to vote for those candidates who have the least vile mailings and who say the least vile things about their opponents.

Here, at least, most of them are pretty bad. I have a great deal of mailings that tell me what a sleazbag the other guy is, but very few that tell me why I should vote for that candidate that is denigrating his opponent.

Even worse, they are hiding behind all sorts of “Paid For by Friends of _____” groups, and don’t even have the courage to sign their name to the mud they are slinging.

This may well be an election wherein I have to choose the Lesser of the Two Weasels.

“We only had minutes to evacuate”. 

If you live on the slope of an active and awake volcano and didn’t plan on lava eating your home in the near future, then you haven’t been paying attention.

I knew that someone on the slopes of the Kilauea volcano was going to have their home engulfed in lava at some point soon…..and I live in NW Indiana, fer chrissakes…. earthquakes, the whole crater collapse, etc. And I don’t live anywhere near a volcano…

If you live in the area and still have all your irreplaceable possessions in your home instead of stored away safely in another location, I don’t feel any sympathy. If you live anywhere near the area and weren’t ready to evacuate on a moment’s notice, I feel no sympathy. I hope that your Children and Pets are safe.

Volcano
Lava flow. Rivers of molten rock.
One cannot fight that. Simply get out of the way.

Seems that about 400+ schools have had “walkouts” SUPPORTING the Second Amendment.

Happened yesterday. And you probably didn’t hear about it

And CNN, NBC,CBS,ABC, etc?

{Crickets}

the total number of words in (figurative) print from the Times, Post, etc?

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They aren’t censoring the news as such, just failing to bother to report it.

So a Brinks truck dropped about $600 Large in assorted small bills on I-70. 

Seems “The door fell open” or something like that.

The bundles of bills broke open and scattered over the road.

People being people, many passers-by stopped and picked up some of the cash.

Apparently, keeping it is a felony (according to the State Police)

Why so? No one stole the money, it was blowing across the road.

If I find a $50 bill blowing in the wind in a parking lot, I get to keep that. It isn’t up to me to find the bill’s owner. If I find an envelope with some cash in it, even after turning it in, if no one can prove it is theirs and claims it, it comes back to me, the finder.

Why, since the Brinks folks lost some cash, is keeping any cash I found blowing across the road a felony?

I mean, Finders Keeper sand all that. The Brinks folks did not have control of the money. The lost it.

Salvage rights?

Now, the moral thing to do is to return the money. If, of course, Brinks can prove that that was their money. If they can’t, then it should belong to the finder.

How about if I find it next week a mile away?

Or at least, part of it:

City of Philly agrees to set up $200K fund that “will assist young entrepreneurs in Philadelphia.”…And guess who gets to decide who is/are the recipients? Yep, those same dudes who chose to be arrested.

This is part of the settlement…along with a dollar to each of the men.

No word on how much they are shaking Starbucks down for.

I still think this was a setup from the get-go. 

on another blog, where there was a discussion about black people being shot at a higher rate than whites by police…Even by other black officers. (the rates of black officer shootings of black suspects are equal to white officers shooting black suspects, which pretty much rules out racism by the white cops….)

I suggested that black people behave differently than whites when confronted by police, and this leads to them having a better chance to be shot….Which led to cries of “Racist” when it was pointed out (Blacks tend to run more than whites, which leads to chases, which leads to more shootings…. Same with simply giving up rather than fighting).
Now, I know a lot of cops, and they all, black and white and hispanic,  say that this is true. One has a better chance of being shot if one runs, and black suspects tend, as a group, to run more often.

I postulated that it is genetics, which at least in part, leads to behavioral traits (Like running and fighting more often that other groups separated out by race) .Certain groups of people, when grouped by race, show similar behavioral patterns. Culture may matter as well, but genetics moreso. I pointed out that folks of Irish and Polish descent still drink a lot despite amalagamation into our greater “melting pot”…..that folks of German descent still tend to be more stubborn…that folks of latin descent tend to be quicker to anger….All of which are true, at least in part, at least in my observations.

Further, I pointed out that we expect certain behavioral traits from certain breeds of animals, (Aggressive dog breeds, ferinstance) so why should we expect humans to be any different??, even before we add in culture…

This led, of course, to anger and cries of racism….yet no one seemed to be able or willing to refute the theory….except they didn’t like the idea at all….But they are, mostly, liberals, so there is that.

What say you? Am I wrong? Are humans terribly different than animals, at the base level? Are behavioral traits entirely non genetic in their origin? Is it only culture that drives our behavior? Learned behavior rather than base level programming that makes us act certain ways under stress and shapes our behavioral traits as a group or race? Or are there other factors which I am not considering that make it appear to be genetic groupings?