Apparently very good: 87.6% chance you won’t be charged with a homicide. 

The source is the much hated website HeyJackass.com which carries all other kinds of crime stats for the Windy City. They do an amazing job.

Cops have to be overwhelmed after years of being bashed, people refusing to cooperate and politicians shitting on them every time there is a whiff of re-election in the calendar.  So I am not surprised that they apply F.I.D.O. * and go about their business.

Elections have consequences.

(* Fuck It, Drive On)

Hat Tip Rob R.

Apparently I failed to mention an obvious advantage. I got this response from an anonymous source via email:

“My wife is very pregnant, so I have been doing without for many months now and at least another two to go.
Right now a Roomba with a wig on looks like a sexy bitch to me.”

Not adding anything else to it.

Joy Reid tried to sound deep on Twitter on the subject of fascists.  Unfortunately, her “deep” sounds more like a fortune cookie platitude.

Fascism counts on you thinking people who notice fascism are suffering from hysteria.

— Mkay (@JoyAnnReid) November 26, 2017

No, fascism counts on people who stand in the way of fascism getting their heads knocked in by fascist thugs.  The Germans and Italians who weren’t supporters of Hitler and Mussolini lived in fear of being killed, not the fear they they were thought of as being hysterical.

The amazing thing was this Tweet came a couple hours after Tweeting this.

This is the core threat to our democracy. The rural minority — the people @JYSexton just wrote a long thread about — have and will continue to have disproportionate power over the urban majority. https://t.co/fzBHaZ9kzR

— Mkay (@JoyAnnReid) November 26, 2017

That Tweet was a response to MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin’s Tweet.

By 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states. They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them. https://t.co/f1SibnIGHv

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 25, 2017

So in the matter of a couple of hours we have two MSNBC big-wigs calling the biggest threat to democracy our bicameral legislature.

Keep in mind that America is a Republic, with a bicameral legislature, specifically to prevent the tyranny of majority rule.

Both Hitler and Mussolini were elected by the majority of their respective nations  with the deliberate intent that they oppress unflavored minorities in their own country.  Hitler blamed the Jews, Communists, and others for Germany’s failures.  Mussolini was more like Stalin, demanding ideological purity and blaming non-Fascists for Italy’s problems.

It is been plainly evident over the last year just what the Left thinks about Middle America and Red States.

This attempt to make the Senate seem like a threat to America is an attack on the last bit of government representation Middle America will have.

When 70% of American’s live in cities, the urban population of America will control the House of Representatives, and by electoral college numbers, be able to elect the POTUS.  Only the Senate, and its equal representation of the states stands to protect the interest of rural America.

The urban Liberal elite can’t stand the idea of rural, Red America having anyone look out for their interests.  Undermine the Senate and they have the capacity for majority rules oppression of one-third of America.

They are the Fascists.  They scapegoat rural and Middle America for their problems, work to deny them their civil protections, and then when they have control of the government, presumably will exact their retribution.

You both remember Clippy and agree with its statement.

OK, not really, but that is what popped in my still wobbly brain.

If you are interested, you can buy it over at the folks of Ops Gear.
(Gorgeous young lady with the amazing eyes not included) 

You remember after the elections when the WaPo introduced his new slogan.

What we did not know is that it came out of the mind of the chairman of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.

And when even the WaPo employees think it is funny, more like a reference to Batman…

Oh, and they pretty much admit that their coverage of Trump is to increase traffic and income while ignoring other important news items.  All that altruistic stance is just plain rubbish.

This is gonna get good, WaPo is not gonna the it n the chin just because and they were already trying to counter Project Veritas, but a counter ambush was done and you can’t see the journo did not like it.

This is gonna be fun to watch.

PS: The WaPo slogan is indeed available in Amazon printed on t-shirts. Prime members get free shipping

Update: Sorry, I had to do it.

One other thing I saw during my Thanksgiving convalescence was Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

It is the latest Sci-Fi movie by Luc Besson.  Besson is best known for The Fifth Element, which is one of the most perfect Sci-Fi movies every made.  The plot is good, the effects are great, and it has the perfect blend of action, comedy, camp, and enjoyability with none of the technology being a deus ex machina.

He also did Leon: The Professional, which is also a damn good movie.

Valerian was enjoyable.  Not quite as good as The Fifth Element, and is based on a French comic book.  The plot is decent, the acting by the main characters is meh, but Besson reminds you that he has the best, most creative costume, makeup, and effects people in the industry.   The movie is visually stunning.

The opening really well done.

Later in the movie, we are introduced to an alien played by Rihanna.  I can’t say I am a fan of her music, but she is a talented dancer.  Besson does a great job of showcasing a performer’s talent, not unlike the diva scene in The Fifth Element.

I know I have been told that I have terrible tastes in movies (I hated The Godfather trilogy and I don’t get why Casablanca is such a big deal), but if you have 2 hours and $6 to kill, this is a movie worth watching.