Jamestown Island, Virginia
Getting On ‘Simmon-Time
Headline
“Hair-Raising Case: White Baltimore Arts Executive Fired For Wearing Cornrows“
It was not deemed a fun hairstyle choice adopted on a vacation but rather a despicable case of cultural appropriation that warranted her termination.
despicable! I’m willing to bet the blonde in the lower right is OK with them.
Then again, theatre people are a bit off-balance anyway (been there, done that: I hold a theatre “degree” – aka “party”)
NOSHA
Boarding houses in Sneffels, Colorado
At a bit over 10,000 ft, the silver-based town was formed in the mid-1870s with a post office established in 1879. The town had a peak population of about 2000 with the Revenue mine and mill (employed 600 men) the primary employer. The mill existed to serve the mines further upgrade; the Virginius mine being the primary producer ($28M to 1919). “Fame” eluded the Revenue as the Camp Bird mine outproduced the Revenue and attention was drawn to it.
The mill burned in 1915, the post office closed in 1935, and the town faded away.
A few structures such as these still existed when I took this photo but many had already collapsed from snow loads. I had first visited the site in 1979 but haven’t been up there for a number of years now; a quick glance at Giggle Maps appears to show the Revenue mine as active again and no signs of the town itself.
Now a popular recreation area … the road is still dangerous but has been improved over the years; not good publicity to lose a few tourists over the edge every year.
That overhang used to have less clearance but was carved out a bit in the 80s
to allow passage of trucks from the Ruby Trust mine – since closed again
It’s a fun drive in the winter ….
Something To Read
Warning: Right-wing stuff …
From “The Burning Platform – “Only One Box Left“
An article from “On the North River”. Screams that England has become a classic “shit hole”.
suggested by Joe
Hell on Earth… in Britain.
Posted on June 17, 2026 by On the North River
Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol
I have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.
It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I’ve ever read in my life.
There is no close second… and it’s worse than you could ever imagine.
Here’s everything you need to know
The inquiry estimates AT LEAST 250,000 girls.
A QUARTER MILLION.
1) The inquiry estimates AT LEAST 250,000 girls.
A QUARTER MILLION.
They are overwhelmingly white girls and they were raped, trafficked & tortured over decades. The 250k number is the MINIMUM, the FLOOR… there are likely even more than this.
2. The same crime was documented in at least 149 local authority districts … nearly 40% of the country. This wasn’t dozens of isolated local incidents, this was ABSOLUTELY a national pattern the state CHOSE to let grow for decades. The first recorded case dates to 1955.
3. The NHS treated 13-year-olds for gonorrhea & chlamydia, logged pregnancies from rape and injuries from assault… …BUT THEN DISCHARGED THE CHILDREN THE SAME NIGHT, back to their abusers!!!! They treated symptoms and ignored the crime ENTIRELY, pure evil.
4. Children’s homes became actual trafficking hubs.
Social services placed already-groomed kids in units they KNEW were targeted, returned girls to the exact addresses where they’d been raped, and stripped protective parents of authority… …often IN FRONT OF THE CHILD!!!
5. Police criminalized the victims and let rapists walk.
Girls were literally arrested for being “drunk & disorderly” after their own assaults. A South Yorkshire officer cut a “no-prosecution deal” with a known abuser. Some officers were INSIDE THE RAPE GANGS!!!
6. Pregnancy was used as a WEAPON.
Girls were deliberately impregnated for control. Some miscarried from trauma, some were forced into abortions… …and the state took the babies while leaving the mothers in the SAME HOUSES WHERE THE ABUSE CONTINUED!!!
7. Survivors described “red rooms” for extreme torture, daily rape, being passed between BROTHERS and friends, and trafficking across county lines. In some cases shipped to the Middle East for forced marriage. All of it was FILMED for blackmail purposes.
8. Schools literally saw older men collecting girls at the gates and heard disclosures of rape on school grounds. Their response? Exclude the VICTIM. In fact, taxi licensing renewed permits for the very drivers who were the logistical backbone of the trafficking networks.
9. The whistleblowers got punished… not the rapists. Social workers were suspended. Parents hit with home raids, asset freezes, gag orders. Records were shredded. In one case, a father was screamed at by police to STOP reporting his own daughter missing!!
10. The overwhelming majority of the rape gang networks consisted entirely of men from Muslim backgrounds. Between 87%-95% of the men involved in the rape gangs were Muslim… …despite them being 6% of the population.
DT:
Perhaps we need to rescue Great Britain more than Iran
Bee On Hose Nozzle
submitted by illinoisbeekeeper
the drain that is my brain…
Originally posted by Jean May 20, 2010
I have accepted the crapfact that depression
will never leave me alone. It is part of me.
*
damn you old black dog
wearing me out and down like
river rubbed canyon
*
There is nothing to be done about it except
endure. Over and over and over again.
*
tomorrow looks less
than worthy after today’s
vain forward struggle
*
Pep-talks from well meaning friends don’t help.
*
come along, you say.
you know precisely my need.
arrogant bastard
*
It makes it very difficult to be nice so I often hide.
*
it’s worse somewhere else
for many someone elses.
today I don’t care.
*
It turns me into someone I don’t like at all and I can’t help it.
*
do you doubt despair
can twist the heart, wring the soul,
blind all hope? You fool.
*
It sneaks up and every time I ask why.
*
you think you know
the reason, the answer, the
why. until this now.
*
I’ve read a gazillion books and been to therapy.
*
regurgitation
of all the pretty words ends
in ugly dry heaves
*
Remember the time I went to a shooting range and
enjoyed shooting and did very well? Did anyone
think it strange that I did not buy a gun?
*
it is not so hard
to understand that there are
some who will resign
*
It feels like living in hell and a glorious relief
when it subsides.
*
to wax poetic
do you mind much when I swear?
tough shit if you do.
DST
“Only a white man could cut a foot off one end of a blanket, add it to the other, and call it a longer blanket“
Patty Murray, D-WA: “Every year, more Americans grow more frustrated setting their clocks back and forth, and every winter folks in Washington state despair at the prospect of losing an hour of precious sunlight when we are forced off Daylight Saving Time“
You despair? What hour of sunlight did you lose? Where did it go?
And you’re not on DST in winter when the days are shorter.
But this isn’t commentary of one party vs another – both parties make ridiculous statements about the subject.
Follow the money – who gains by not stopping the change of time twice a year?
Myself? Geographically, we should be on Pacific Time instead of Mountain Time (which extends well into Oregon). I’m more or less due north of San Diego. I suspect the Mormon influence, especially in the eastern part of the state, wants to keep the same time as Salt Lake City.
I’d actually prefer to stay on standard time but either way, I’d prefer we didn’t change time twice a year.
But I guess congress would rather spend time on this issue than something important …
Tunesday: John Prine – Summer’s End
suggested by HJB
Today’s selection: John Prine – “Summer’s End” – 2018
“The changing of the seasons offers a forward-facing promise of renewal. But often, this promise hinges on the steep cost of painful reflection. Moving ahead means that parts of the past will be left behind, and John Prine’s evocative “Summer’s End” pinpoints poignant moments that stop progress in its tracks.“
Time For Our Favorite Game Show …
“Guess The Race”
“Mob of Youths Savagely Brutalize and Rob Three Female College Students On the Streets of Cincinnati“
“Mob of youths” should be the giveaway.
Damn … once again and forever more.