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Big point: the trial court dismissed the suit for “failure to state a claim.” This is the first stage at which a suit can be reviewed. Dismissal is only proper if it is based on the pleading, bare written allegations. The CT Supremes said only that it couldn’t be, at this stage. Plaintiff still have to prove their allegations (after discovery, they can be challenged by a motion for summary judgement, and if that’s denied, fought at trial). The CT Supremes even allowed that plaintiff may have to surmount “herculean” barriers to win.

Supreme Court denies review in Remington v. Soto

Let’s pat down the hair on fire panic and read this article. The only truly danger I see is the owners of Remington not wanting to spend money defending themselves because it is cheaper that way.

Warning: this is about the grossest thing I have read in a long time.

A Bucket of Hot Diarrhea Was Randomly Poured on a Woman by a Homeless Man
“It was liquid. Hot liquid,” she said. “I was soaked. And it was coming off my eyelashes, into my eyes.”

Ewwww…. dear God no.  That is… I’m going to vomit.

A night near the Hollywood Walk of Fame would change a woman’s life, as she was getting into her car and a homeless man sprinted across Hollywood Boulevard toward her.

Heidi Van Tassel was parked in Hollywood after having a pleasant evening out with friends at an authentic Thai restaurant. Suddenly a man randomly pulled her out of the car, dragged her out to the middle of the street, and dumped a bucket of feces on her head, Van Tassel said and public records confirm.

If she was having Bangladeshi food, that would be part of the authentic experience.

“It was diarrhea. Hot liquid. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes,” Van Tassel said. “Paramedics who came to treat me said there was so much of it on me, that it looked like the man was saving it up for a month.”

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop… He had saved up a bucket of diarrhea for a month and it was still hot?  Not that I’ve ever thought I’d contemplate this, but the thermodynamics of that doesn’t make sense unless he decided to reheat it.  Why am I thinking about that?

Van Tassel was rushed to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after the grotesque attack, where she was tested for infectious diseases caused by contact with feces. She’ll need to be retested every three months.

I’m assuming she has all the Hepatitis.  This goes past Hep A, B, and C, this goes into D, E, and F.

Also, did the paramedics hose her off first?  I’m not an EMT but I’d assume that if they responded to someone covered in feces that they’d try to clean most of it off ASAP.

I figure that the response to a person covered in liquid shit is like a response to a chemical exposure.  Get their clothes off and get them washed down with as much clean water as you have as fast as you can.  The less time the substance stays on the body, the less harm it can do.

“It was all inside my car because it was so much. He just kept pouring it and splattering it all over me,” she said.

That car is totaled.

She said the Los Angeles Police Department told her they’d investigate the crime, but her phone calls to the department went unanswered.

San Francisco just legalized shitting on the street, so I doubt Los Angles is going to care about dumping shit on other people.  If Ms. Van Tassel wants the police and DA to care, she needs to cut a big fat check (would you call that a shit-load of money?) to the local DA and Mayor’s reelection campaigns.

Van Tassel said the police also promised to have their victims’ advocate reach out to her to offer services. She said she never got a call.

She’s a white woman who can afford to eat at a restaurant on the Walk of Fame.  She’s not a victim.  The homeless guy was just engaged in fecal redistribution to protests this woman’s sewer access privilege.  Really, she owes him reparations.

“It’s so traumatic. The PTSD that I’m dealing with is beyond anything that I’ve ever felt,” Van Tassel said. “There needs to be some kind of help for the victims of these crimes.”

If there are enough people who get assaulted by vagrants with buckets of liquid shit that there needs to be a support group for that, it’s time to nuke LA off the face of the earth and start over.

The man who attacked her, identified in court records as Jere Blessings, was charged with battery and taken to jail. Blessings was described as a transient with “schizophrenia and psychotic disorders,” records show.

Jere Blessings got help, but only for two months. He was sent by a judge to a residential facility for people with mental health issues, and released in August.

There is going to be a support group for people who get assaulted by vagrants with buckets of liquid shit by this time next year.

“He doesn’t need jail time. He needs mental health care,” Van Tassel said. “I have empathy for him. Because he needs help.”

Nope.  Dumping a bucket of liquid shit on a person should be a capital offense.  He doesn’t need help, he needs to be locking in a small room with some hydrochloric acid mixed with sodium cyanide.  Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.

Security footage from businesses nearby captured the attack, and bodycam captured the aftermath as officers responded, but the LAPD and businesses would not release the footage, even when Van Tassel asked to see it.

Thank God they won’t release the footage.

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office said Blessings is now back in the community, which worries Van Tassel.

And me.  And everybody else in LA.

“I will never, ever, forget his face,” Van Tassel said. “What’s the next thing he’s going to do somebody? If he would’ve had a knife, for sure he would’ve stabbed me.”

Between being stabbed and having a bucket of liquid shit dumped on me, I’m taking the stabbing.

Stitches come out, Hepatitis/AIDS lasts forever.

I have read dystopian fiction that didn’t involve assaults with buckets of diarrhea.

How does a homeless person save up a bucket of diarrhea for a month without anybody noticing in a First World nation?

How does a homeless person heat up a bucket of diarrhea and carry it down a popular tourist location in one of America’s largest cities?

This is so far beyond the pale it is hard to contemplate.

All I can say is stay out of the California coast.  And when you are in your car, keep your doors locked.

From the Valdosta Daily Times:

GOP lawmaker looks to ban trans related health care

Oh God, what horrible, transphobic bigots.

This is the start of the article:

Sam Schexnyder may be just 15 years old but he wants a serious sit down with state Rep. Ginny Ehrhart about his health care.

The Republican Marietta lawmaker is proposing legislation that would ban trans related health care for minors in Georgia — leaving transgender youths and their families reeling.

Ummm…

Sam is one of an estimated 4,950 youths in Georgia who identify as transgender, according to a 2017 study.

So we’re not talking about adults here, we’re talking about transitioning children.  The writers of the Valdosta Daily Times need to take a step back from the extreme Left for a second and see just how Americans feel about this.

“The reality is, not giving kids the therapy and hormone treatment and puberty blockers to kind of give them a pause to see if they want more time to make up their mind about what their gender identity is — all those are life saving,” Clare said. “And not giving children access to that and parents access to that option for their children, it can kill kids and it can cause them to be suicidal.”

This is “self hostage-taking.”  Threatening suicide, if you don’t get what you want, shouldn’t be the standard for gender transition, it should be the standard for being institutionalized.

The legislation, she said, is blatantly “unconstitutional.”

Chanel Haley, gender policy manager of Georgia Equality, said it should be the responsibility of parents and medical professionals to decide medical treatment a child should receive.

“Parents in conjunction with health care professionals,” she said, “over time making decisions for a child is absolutely normal and what every parent does.”

Except that this trans-child thing seems to be a case of Progressive Munchausen by Proxy.  The parents who support and “gender affirm” their children get all sorts of publicity and accolades from the “right” people.  They can even get Elizabeth Warren to applaud them at a debate.

Maybe this is necessary to curb parental driven child abuse.

Ehrhart is among GOP lawmakers in three states targeting trans related health care for minors including treatments like puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery.

Conservative lawmakers in Texas and Kentucky announced on social media their intent to introduce legislation blocking medical treatment like puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy.

The legislation has followed a custody battle in Texas between two parents who disagree regarding whether their 7-year-old is transgender and should receive treatment — the debate extended into the state’s politics.

Some transgender advocates speculate that the sudden appearance of similar legislative agendas in three states is a tactic to rally a conservative base of voters ahead of the 2020 election.

Damn those Conservatives, wanting to protect children from making life-altering decisions too early and without sufficient maturity to understand the gravity of the act.

Ehrhart’s bill, titled the “Vunerable Child Protection Act” for the upcoming 2020 session, would make it “ a felony to perform radical surgery on, or administer drugs to, a minor child for the purpose of attempting to change a minor’s gender.”

Pass the bill.

Moehlig wants to believe the bias of conservative GOP members proposing this legislation comes from a place of good intentions, she said. But she added legislators are not experts on medical conditions.

“It’s a very disturbed world if legislators get to be doctors,” Moehlig said.

Sam Schexnyder told his mom that Ehrhart needs to meet a young transgender person. She’s going to have to hear from him, Clare said.

Forgive me if I don’t trust a special interest advocate to be totally objective about their pet special interest.

It’s understood that the primary rule of medicine is “first, do no harm.”

Giving endocrine system poison to a physically healthy child seems like a lot of harm.

Rarely do I say “the government needs to do something” as a response to some social trend.  The history of government reacting to moral panics in oppressive and reactionary ways is horrendously destructive.

This, to me, seems different and is worthy of intervention.

In the UK, where people are actually keeping watch of this, it has been noticed that kids immersed in Tumblr, YouTube, and other social media about gender transition have started to identify as trans leading to a 4,400% increase in the number of trans-identifying children in only a few years.

Putting a hold on a child making a life-altering decision to separate those that have been exposed to the emotional health-destroying effects of social media from those who really do have a rare and specific psychological condition seems like a good thing to me.

Not to the Valdosta Daily Times, though.

This is embarrassing :

The NFL is setting up a private workout with scouting combine personnel for Colin Kaepernick and has invited all teams to attend, according to a report.

The workout, which will also be run by former NFL coaches, held on Saturday in Atlanta will include on-field work and an interview, NFL Network reports.

NFL Sets Up Kaepernick Workout, Invites All Teams

And the next paragraph you know is complete BS:

The NFL had received several inquiries from teams about Kaepernick’s readiness to play. The league also spoke with Kaepernick’s representatives, who said the quarterback was prepared to workout and interview.

If there was a team interested in his 70s Afroness, he would not need the NFL to do a whole show to attract teams., scouts would be calling him or his agent. This is the equivalent of a mom hiring an amusement park to lure kids to come to her very unpopular kid’s birthday. Free booze for the parents.

Evo Morales knowing there are after him for all the shit he pulled as president, got on a plane and should be know in Mexico under protection of the government.

Me, being the suspicious bastard that I am have to wonder why Mexico and not the ideological Mecca of Venezuela? It was Hugo’s Venezuela who supported his candidacy and possibly funded his presidential campaign. Maduro was one of the first coming out to defend his regime when shit starter to go south, so why did Evo choose Mexico?

The answer is obvious if you know what Evo Morales did before becoming President: Coca farmer. Yes, he grew the plants basic to all cocaine production that ends up in the US and Europe. So what better place than accept the invitation to the Cartel-Friendly President of the Narco State of Mexico to go hide?

Bernie Sanders decided to whip out his Jewish card and wrote an OpEd for the Jewish Current, a Lefty Jewish magazine.

In doing so, he proved exactly why I keep saying that Leftist Jews stop being Jews and become a danger to the Jewish community.

How to Fight Antisemitism

Tell me Mr. “Hangs out with Linda Sarsour,” how do you fight antisemitism?

ON OCTOBER 27TH, we marked one year since the worst antisemitic attack in our country’s history, when a white nationalist walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 people and injured six others. The murderer acted on a twisted belief that Jews were part of a nefarious plot to undermine white America—a plot to assist in the “invasion” of the United States by a caravan of migrants from Latin America. This vicious lie about an “invasion” had been repeated endlessly in right-wing media, on Fox News, across the internet, and, most disgracefully, by the president of the United States.

Yes, President Donald Trump’s own words helped inspire the worst act of antisemitic violence in American history.

No, they didn’t, but go on…

The threat of antisemitism is not some abstract idea to me. It is very personal. It destroyed a large part of my family. I am not someone who spends a lot of time talking about my personal background because I believe political leaders should focus their attention on a vision and agenda for others, rather than themselves. But I also appreciate that it’s important to talk about how our backgrounds have informed our ideas, our principles, and our values.

You are a fucking Communist, you have no values.

I am a proud Jewish American. My father emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1921 at the age of 17 to escape the poverty and widespread antisemitism of his home country. Those in his family who remained in Poland after Hitler came to power were murdered by the Nazis. I know very well where white supremacist politics leads, and what can happen when people do not speak up against it.

Antisemitism is rising in this country. According to the FBI, hate crimes against Jews rose by more than a third in 2017 and accounted for 58% of all religion-based hate crimes in America. A total of 938 hate crimes were committed against Jews in 2017, up from 684 in 2016. The New York Police Department reported in September that antisemitic hate crimes in New York City have risen by more than 63% in 2019 and make up more than half of all reported hate crimes. Just last week, on November 4th, we learned that federal authorities had arrested a man in Colorado they believe was involved in a plot to bomb one of the state’s oldest synagogues.

And this is where this all goes to shit.  Funny how all those White Supremacists who are attacking Jews in New York City are Black and Muslim immigrants.

This wave of violence is the result of a dangerous political ideology that targets Jews and anyone who does not fit a narrow vision of a whites-only America. We have to be clear that while antisemitism is a threat to Jews everywhere, it is also a threat to democratic governance itself. The antisemites who marched in Charlottesville don’t just hate Jews. They hate the idea of multiracial democracy. They hate the idea of political equality. They hate immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, women, and anyone else who stands in the way of a whites-only America. They accuse Jews of coordinating a massive attack on white people worldwide, using people of color and other marginalized groups to do their dirty work.

Funny that considering how much antisemitism I see coming out of the Progressive LGBTQ community.

This is the conspiracy theory that drove the Pittsburgh murderer—that Jews are conspiring to bring immigrants into the country to “replace” Americans. And it is important to understand that that is what antisemitism is: a conspiracy theory that a secretly powerful minority exercises control over society. Like other forms of bigotry—racism, sexism, homophobia—antisemitism is used by the right to divide people from one another and prevent us from fighting together for a shared future of equality, peace, prosperity, and environmental justice. So I want to say as clearly as I possibly can: We will confront this hatred, do exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing and embrace our differences to bring people together.

Woke Progressive identity politics is the most divisive rhetoric out there.  The Left and White Supremacists are color negatives of each other.  They both focus on race all the time, and make broad negative judgments about people because of their race.

And we Jews get caught in the middle.  We’re not white enough for the White Supremacists and too white for the Progressive POCs.

Opposing antisemitism is a core value of progressivism. So it’s very troubling to me that we are also seeing accusations of antisemitism used as a cynical political weapon against progressives. One of the most dangerous things Trump has done is to divide Americans by using false allegations of antisemitism, mostly regarding the US–Israel relationship. We should be very clear that it is not antisemitic to criticize the policies of the Israeli government.

That should say “antisemitism is a core value of progressivism.”  It was that way for every Progressive government from Hitler to Stalin to Woodrow Wilson to the Sandinistas to Castro to Chavez.  Scratch a progressive and find a Jew Hater underneath.

I have a connection to Israel going back many years. In 1963, I lived on a kibbutz near Haifa. It was there that I saw and experienced for myself many of the progressive values upon which Israel was founded. I think it is very important for everyone, but particularly for progressives, to acknowledge the enormous achievement of establishing a democratic homeland for the Jewish people after centuries of displacement and persecution.

We must also be honest about this: The founding of Israel is understood by another people in the land of Palestine as the cause of their painful displacement. And just as Palestinians should recognize the just claims of Israeli Jews, supporters of Israel must understand why Palestinians view Israel’s creation as they do. Acknowledging these realities does not “delegitimize” Israel any more than acknowledging the sober facts of America’s own founding delegitimizes the United States. It is a necessary step of truth and reconciliation in order to address the inequalities that continue to exist in our respective societies.

It is true that some criticism of Israel can cross the line into antisemitism, especially when it denies the right of self-determination to Jews, or when it plays into conspiracy theories about outsized Jewish power. I will always call out antisemitism when I see it. My ancestors would expect no less of me. As president, I will strengthen both domestic and international efforts to combat this hatred. I will direct the Justice Department to prioritize the fight against white nationalist violence. I will not wait two years to appoint a Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, as Trump did; I will appoint one immediately. I will also rejoin the United Nations Human Rights Council, which Trump withdrew from. The United States should not be sitting on the sidelines on these important issues at the UN; we should be at the table helping to shape an international human rights agenda that combats all forms of bigotry and discrimination.

You mean with the UN that criticizes Israel but puts Iran, Syria, and Venezuela on the Human Rights Council and refuses to condemn or even acknowledge the genocide of the Yazidi or Copts?  I don’t give a single fuck about the UN’s opinion on antisemitism, which is “the UN fully supports antisemitism in practice.”

When I look at the Middle East, I see Israel as having the capacity to contribute to peace and prosperity for the entire region, yet unable to achieve this in part because of its unresolved conflict with the Palestinians. And I see a Palestinian people yearning to make their contribution—and with so much to offer—yet crushed underneath a military occupation now over a half-century old, creating a daily reality of pain, humiliation, and resentment.

Ending that occupation and enabling the Palestinians to have self-determination in an independent, democratic, economically viable state of their own is in the best interests of the United States, Israel, the Palestinians, and the region. My pride and admiration for Israel lives alongside my support for Palestinian freedom and independence. I reject the notion that there is any contradiction there. The forces fomenting antisemitism are the forces arrayed against oppressed people around the world, including Palestinians; the struggle against antisemitism is also the struggle for Palestinian freedom. I stand in solidarity with my friends in Israel, in Palestine, and around the world who are trying to resolve conflict, diminish hatred, and promote dialogue, cooperation, and understanding.

Anything that doesn’t address Palestinian terrorism, in which Palestinians murder Jewish children and then have celebrations in the streets with fireworks while Israel has funerals is horseshit.  The Palestinian Authority still has a Martyr’s Fund to subsidize terrorism.  Their kid’s TV shows are all pro-martyrdom and antisemitism.  They have a knockoff Mickey Mouse that teaches their children to want to grow up and murder Jews.  I’m not willing to listen to anything about the “poor oppressed Palestinians” until they spend a little money on educating their children on any subject other than Jew-hatred.

We need this solidarity desperately now. All over the world—in Russia, in India, in Brazil, in Hungary, in Israel, and elsewhere—we see the rise of a divisive and destructive form of politics. We see intolerant, authoritarian political leaders attacking the very foundations of democratic societies. These leaders exploit people’s fears by amplifying resentments, stoking intolerance and inciting hatred against ethnic and religious minorities, fanning hostility toward democratic norms and a free press, and promoting constant paranoia about foreign plots. We see this very clearly in our own country. It is coming from the highest level of our government. It is coming from Donald Trump’s tweets, and from his own mouth.

As a people who have experienced oppression and persecution for hundreds of years, we understand the danger. But we also have a tradition that points the way forward. I am a proud member of the tradition of Jewish social justice. And I am so inspired when I see so many Jewish people picking up this banner, especially the younger generation of Jews, who are helping to lead a revival of progressive values in our country. They see the fight against antisemitism and for Jewish liberation as connected to the fight for the liberation of oppressed people around the world. They are part of a broad coalition of activists from many different backgrounds who believe very deeply, as I always have, that we are all in this together.

This is a load of crap.  Bernie defended Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib when they said every despicable thing about Jews.  Jew-hater Linda Sarsour is a Sanders proxy.

Bernie is a Progressive Socialist, who has supported Socialist governments and movements that have engaged in or attempted Jewish genocide, expulsion, and oppression (the USSR, Sandinistas, Hugo Chavez).

Everything about this is dishonest and calculated to make antisemitism a Republican thing and exonerate the ugliest acts of Progressivism.

Any Progressive candidate is bad for the Jews, but Sanders would be the worst because he would use his “Jewishness” as a defense against the Jew-hatred of his Progressive underlings.

Yesterday Miguel said And you know violent crime is about to go sky high in Frisco.

Boy howdy, he is right.

From the San Francisco Chronicle (published before the election):

What’s the answer to quality-of-life crimes in SF. DA candidates give answers

Keep in mind, this is a direct quote from the new DA.

Chesa Boudin: “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted. Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted, we have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness.”

So just about every single thing that vagrants and lowlifes can do to make a city an unlivable hell-hole is going to be legalized in San Francisco.

Because the city will not prosecute, the police will have no incentive or authority to stop the torment of citizens.

Add to this California’s Prop 47 and in San Francisco a person can put up a tent on a city street, take a shit on a sidewalk, get high, walk into a store, steal $949 worth of stuff, sell it on an open-air black market, take their money and buy a hooker, and the police and the DA will DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP ANY OF IT.

But god forbid some tax-paying restaurateur serves a drink with a fucking plastic straw, San Francisco is going to no-knock raid his ass with a SWAT team.

The biggest problem that I have with this is that people will move out of San Francisco.  If voters vote for this kind of shit, they should be forced to stay and face the music.