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  1. you motherfuckers better be sitting down when you read this, because you will be SHOCKED!
  2. somebody should have yanked on her hair. "how do YOU like it, you cunt?"
  3. the review was spot-on
  4. it's beyond outrageous that masked men in unarmed vehicles can abduct people. WTF is going on?
  5. fuck yeah dodgers!
  6. OK, she didn't really say that, but: Legendary studio musician Carol Kaye has long been known for not suffering fools gladly. We may be able to add the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to the list of people she considers fools, judging from her announcement that she will be boycotting her induction into the Hall this fall, due to her objections to language used to characterize her illustrious history. Specifically, Kaye has never made a secret of how much she hates the “Wrecking Crew” moniker that has long been affectionately applied to the loose confluence of studio musicians that played on scores of the greatest hits of the 1960s. The fact that there was a popular documentary called “The Wrecking Crew” in 2008 that brought many of these musicians (including herself) further into the public eye only served to heighten her antipathy toward the name. “People have been asking: NO I won’t be there,” Kaye, 90, wrote in a Facebook post. “I am declining the RRHOF awards show (and Denny Tedesco process)” — a reference to the director of the 2008 documentary — “turning it down because it wasn’t something that reflects the work that Studio Musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s Recording Hits.” Not everything about her Facebook statement is immediately clear to those without a previous understanding of some of the beefs Kaye has raised before. But her aversion to any language referring to “the Wrecking Crew” is crystal-clear: “I was never a ‘wrecker’ at all,” she writes. “That’s a terrible insulting name.” Of course, Kaye turning down the invitation to attend and be personally honored will not stand in the way of her being inducted anyway, in absentia. In 2022, when Dolly Parton attempted to derail her own induction, the Rock Hall made it clear she’d be honored with or without her personal approval, before she came around. Some other more rebellious rockers have rebuffed the honor, like Johnny Rotten, yet remain official Hall of Famers nonetheless. Kaye’s declaration that she plans to pass on being personally honored in October did not come as a total surprise to anyone keeping track of her social feed. In April, when she was first announced as one of the Rock Hall’s 2025 inductees, she immediately revealed mixed feelings. ““I appreciate so highly all the nice things you have said here, and appreciate the wonderful loyalty!” she wrote in a message to fans. But, she added then, “Please know our only name was Studio Musicians, not the name a drummer made up for his own quest for fame.” (The drummer in question would be the late Hal Blaine, who came up with the Wrecking Crew nickname and occasionally comes up for scorn in her writings.) As far as a trip to Cleveland went, she was “not sure if I can put up with their ‘wrecker’ ID to go to it,” she said in April. She also suggested at the time that health could stand in her way: “Am not feeling up to much.” Kaye also appears to be objecting to being singled out for an honor apart from the greater collective that she prefers to only be called “Studio Musicians.” “You are always part of a TEAM, not a solo artist at all,” she writes. “There were always 350-400 Studio Musicians (AFM Local 47 Hollywood) working in the busy 1960s, and called that ONLY (s)ince 1930s. … I refuse to be part of a process that is something else rather than what I believe in, for others’ benefit and not reflecting on the truth — we all enjoyed working with EACH OTHER.” She adds in the comment thread, “There’s more to it than meets the eye, just so you know.” This is not the first time Kaye has taken something intended as a compliment as ultimately patronizing, if not demeaning. In 2020, she made headlines for slamming the TV series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” for introducing a character loosely based on her. In an interview with the New York Post, Kaye said, “A lot of people are saying, ‘That must be you. I love it!’ But I am not a cartoon — and my life is not a joke. Nobody contacted me. I didn’t know a thing about it. I thought that was pretty bad — kind of like slander. … Don’t get me wrong, I have a sense of humor … but I am a professional. This is like a putdown to me.” If Kaye can be a little rough around the edges in deflecting would-be homages, that will not put any dents in her reputation as one of the great studio musicians of all time — a legacy that came up again in the wake of the death of Brian Wilson, who used her on “Pet Sounds” and many other classic Beach Boys records, including “California Girls,” “Good Vibrations” and “Heroes and Villains.” Kaye is one of the most recognized studio musicians of all time, partly by virtue of having been a pioneering woman in an exclusively boys’ club, but mostly because she played unforgettable parts on an inordinate amount of the greatest records of all time. She was part of the studio teams assembled by Motown, Phil Spector and Quincy Jones. She contributed to classic cuts by Frank Sinatra, Sonny & Cher (“The Beat Goes On”), Simon & Garfunkel, the Monkees, Glen Campbell (“Wichita Lineman”), Barbra Streisand (“The Way We Were”), Elvis Presley, Joe Cocker (“Feelin’ Alright”) and Ray Charles. She appeared on TV themes including “Mission Impossible,” “Hawaii Five-O” and “The Brady Bunch.” Kaye used her message Wednesday to relay a quick summary of how she came to specialize in playing bass, despite having first been a jazz guitarist. “Just so you know, as a working Jazz musician (soloing jazz guitar work) in the 1950s working since 1949, I was accidentally asked to record records by producer Bumps Blackwell in 1957, got into recording good music, w/ Sam Cooke, other artists and then accidentally placed on Fender Precision Bass mid 1963 when someone didn’t show…….I never played bass in my life but being an experienced recording guitarist, it was plain to see that 3 bass players hired to play ‘dum-de-dum’ on record dates, wasn’t getting it…..it was easy for me to invent good bass lines…..as a Jazz musician, you invent every note you play……and they used a lot of Jazz musicians (and former big-band experienced musicians on all those rock and pop dates too).”
  7. take two pencils to stab yourself in each eardrum.
  8. fucking bagpipes. I'm of scotch decent, I suppose, based on my last name. I come for poor West Texas stock, so who the fuck knows. But, bagpipes are a fucking crime against humanity, and any cocksucker that plays them or causes them to be played should be put on trial in The Hague, and sent to Gitmo for life. I'd rather listen to my tree guy's woodchipper, or the noise from the trash trucks that make 3 passes every Monday morning, or my fucking cunt ex-wife running her piehole.
  9. Omar keeps one in the chamber...in case you pondering https://youtu.be/XpcXDHpnIjw?t=83
  10. found some photos
  11. Seven men face federal charges after authorities linked them with breaking into a Brinks semi-truck in Lebec in 2022 and stealing about $100 million in jewelry as it was being transported from near San Francisco to an upcoming jewelry show in Pasadena, authorities said. The jewelry heist is considered the largest in U.S. history, said Ciaran McEvoy, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Some of the jewelry was found while search warrants were served on Monday, June 16. The truck contained 73 bags containing millions of dollars worth of jewelry. Two of the men were expected to make their initial federal court appearances Tuesday following recent arrests, according to federal authorities. Six of the defendants were accused of following the Brinks truck from San Mateo for more than 300 miles to rest stops in Buttonwillow and Lebec, north of Los Angeles, from the evening of July 10, 2022 to the following morning, authorities said. They, along with others not named in the indictment, then allegedly stole 24 bags containing jewelry from the truck. In the days that followed, five of the defendants allegedly deactivated cell phones they used during the heist. The defendants are: Carlos Victor Mestanza Cercado, 31, of Pasadena, Jazael Padilla Resto, 36, of Boyle Heights, Pablo Raul Lugo Larroig, 41, of Rialto, Victor Hugo Valencia Solorzano, 60, of Rampart Village in Los Angeles, Jorge Enrique Alban, 33, of South Los Angeles, Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores, 42, of Upland, and, Eduardo Macias Ibarra, 36, of the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Padilla Resto is currently in custody in Arizona serving a prison sentence for third-degree burglary with unlawful entry, McEvoy said. He was expected to appear in federal court in the coming weeks. The status of the other six men was not immediately known. All but Ibarra were accused of participating on the night of the heist, McEvoy said. Mestanza, Lugo and Alban were accused of scouting the Brinks truck as it left the international jewelry store in San Mateo. Some of the men had participated in heists of electronics in the months leading up to the jewelry heist, authorities said. Mestanza, Padilla Resto, Lugo and Valencia were accused of stealing more than $240,000 in Samsung electronics from an interstate cargo shipment in Ontario on March 2, 2022, McEvoy said. They, along with Alban, then allegedly robbed a box truck driver of more than $57,000 worth of Apple AirTags, with one of the robbers brandishing a knife and threatening the driver. More than three months later, the defendants tried unsuccessfully to steal from one truck at a Fontana rest stop by using a crowbar to break in, McEvoy said. However, a short time later, they stole more than $14,000 worth of Samsung electronics from another shipment in Fontana, he said. All seven men face two federal counts of conspiracy to commit theft from interstate and foreign shipment, and theft from interstate and foreign shipment in relation to the jewelry heist, McEvoy said. Mestanza, Padilla, Lugo, Valencia and Alban face two additional charges of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, one count of interference with commerce by robbery and additional counts of theft from interstate and foreign shipment, he said. If convicted of the additional charges the five men would face statutory maximum sentences of 20 years in federal prison for each robbery charge. All seven defendants would face sentences of 10 years for each theft charge and five years for each theft conspiracy charge if convicted.
  12. my aforementioned wealthy friend just added a home in Key West to his portfolio. He paid 2 million dollars. There is no dedicated parking for the home. Fend for yourself.
  13. I'd like to add that the keys get old fast. We did...hell, I don't know...I think 9 days on Marathon, house/dog sitting for a very wealthy friend. Here are the things to do there, in no particular order. Eat, drink, fuck, ride the jet skis, fuck some more, drink some more, eat some more. And the restaurants and bars really aren't that interesting. And here's a hot take: the fucking east coast SUCKS for a sports fan. If I go to happy hour here, there's a game on the TV. Baseball, NBA, NHL whatever. There isn't DICK on in FL at 4 PM. You're just staring at the alkie across the bar while he's doing the same. You're on some patio, sweating your ass off, listening to some asshole sing Jimmy Buffet covers, and ordering the next round before you're done with this one because there's nothing else to do. "But Gil, did you go to the turtle hospital?" Yeah. That was cool for about 2 hours. Check that off the list. Went out on a half-day boat too. It was shitty fishing. GF breaks her phone? Cool, we get to drive to Key West, because that's the nearest T Mobile store. Key West was fun when we did 3 days there a few years back. But again, you run out of shit to do. I can (and do), get shitfaced at home, I don't need to fly across the continent to do that.
  14. Is that the place with the dollar bills everywhere? Yeah, there were key deer on the fucking patio there. Cool spot. And the barkeep said that they estimate that there is over 250,000 dollar bills there.
  15. yes, you are correct. Some use the term "selling agent" for the person representing the buyer.
  16. me so horny
  17. I laughed my ass off at that movie. Baby Spice: "Is my skirt too short" The other 3 "no, nah, I don't think so". Baby Spice pulls skirt higher
  18. Necro bump John Eastman’s “Legal Defense Fund” remains well shy of its $1.5 million goal, even as he loses another round in the fight to retain his California law license. “Due to the serious nature and extent of Eastman’s misconduct and the weight of aggravating circumstances … we recommend that Eastman be disbarred,” concluded a three-judge panel of the State Bar Court of California Review Department on June 13. “Disbarment is necessary to protect the public, the courts and the legal profession…. Ouch. It’s a bit out-of-body that, even as Jan. 6, 2021 enjoys a major makeover — and people who violently assaulted police officers are pardoned — California pushes forward with this almost quaint attempt at accountability. A litany of withering charges were filed by the California Bar against Eastman, Chapman University’s former law dean, including moral turpitude, dishonesty and/or corruption, willful misconduct and/or gross negligence, for trying to reverse the legitimate results of an election and essentially yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. After a contentious bar trial that stretched for months in 2023, a California State Bar judge ruled that Eastman betrayed the fundamental oaths he swore to uphold as a licensed attorney by knowingly spreading untruths about the 2020 election to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, and thus should lose his law license. File: John Eastman (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) Eastman’s lawyers filed an 85-page “tour de force” appeal in September, demanding that the State Bar Review Department reject that conclusion. “The stupefying result” ravaged Eastman’s First Amendment rights to speech and to petition the government, violated due process and wreaked of bias and partisanship, they argued. “In sum, this prosecution should never have taken place. It is, rather, a manifestation of George Orwell’s dystopic depiction of authoritarianism – statements by the Government, no matter how demonstrably false or suspect, must be accepted as truth.” The Bar Review judges strongly disagreed. Eastman is, indeed, culpable for 10 of the 11 counts he was charged with, they said the opinion issued Friday. In a democracy, nothing can be more fundamental than the orderly transfer of power after a fair and unimpeded electoral process as established by law, they said. When an attorney — sworn to uphold the laws and constitutions of both the state and nation — “attempts to actively undermine the results of an election to the most powerful office in the United States with the goal of delaying or invalidating the lawful installation of his client’s electoral opponent,” disbarment is the only option, the opinion said. “We recommend that John Charles Eastman, State Bar Number 193726, be disbarred from the practice of law in California and that Eastman’s name be stricken from the roll of attorneys,” they said. Eastman was expecting as much, and will ask the state Supreme Court to review the review — and reverse it. “Dr. Eastman is disappointed in the Review Court’s opinion, and believes that its analysis and conclusions are not substantiated by the truth, the record or the law,” said a statement from his attorney, Randall A. Miller. “It has been established, through decades of United States Supreme Court precedent, that lawyers enjoy broad First Amendment protections, especially when engaged on behalf of a client, with duties of utmost and undivided loyalty and zealous advocacy. The Review Court’s decision is at stark odds with those principles. “The decision is an unconstitutional abuse of power against lawyers and the legal system, diminishes the profession’s revered independence, and will chill attorneys from representing clients in unpopular or controversial matters, especially those that are inimical to the government. Dr. Eastman will seek further review of the Review Court’s decision in the California Supreme Court and, if necessary, beyond, and is highly confident of his ultimate vindication.” The State Bar is equally confident it will prevail. “Attorneys have a fundamental obligation to be truthful and uphold the rule of law,” said a statement from Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona. “John Eastman violated this obligation when, at the behest of his client, now-President Donald Trump, he engaged in a calculated campaign to falsely undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election, which then-candidate Donald Trump lost. In so doing, Mr. Eastman lied to courts, Vice President Michael Pence, and the American people. As the Review Department’s Opinion holds, for this conduct disbarment is both appropriate and necessary. This opinion serves as a powerful and timely reminder that whoever they are and whoever they represent, attorneys must remain true to the ethical rules that govern their conduct and respect the rule of law.” Still engaged In the meantime, Eastman can’t practice law in California. But he has been weighing in on some of the most contentious legal issues of our times. Eastman was “very happy” when Trump announced he would end birthright citizenship on his first day back in office, Eastman recently told the New York Times. He penned a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging it to hold that the 14th Amendment “does not confer automatic citizenship on the children of temporary sojourners or those present in the United States illegally.” He also attended the Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s executive order in May, and wrote an article critiquing the justices titled “Supreme Confusion” for “The American Mind.” “One of the evident purposes of those engaging in the lawfare attacks against me has been to attempt to sideline me from my long-standing efforts to advocate in the courts for the principles of the American founding and the original meaning of the Constitution,” Eastman wrote on his GiveSendGo fundraising page. “(T)hey are not succeeding.” FILE – Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump confront police as they storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump said during a debate with President Joe Biden last week that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol involved a “relatively small” group of people who were “in many cases ushered in by the police.” (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) Eastman has also faced state charges related to the 2020 election in Georgia and Arizona, though it’s unclear if, or how, they will proceed. Legal bills would exceed $3 million, he said last year, and has set his latest fundraising goal at $1.5 million (it started out at $200,000 back in 2022). In September, Eastman’s Legal Defense Fund had donations just shy of $900,000. Today, some nine months later, it has just a bit more than $930,000. But if past is prologue, decisions such as Friday’s tend to boost fundraising as soon as word gets out. “God Bless, John,” wrote “Katie,” who donated $50 to Eastman’s cause on Saturday. “Stay strong!”
  19. I talked to a woman of dating age and asked her what it was like. She said guys are expecting anal on the 3rd date these days.
  20. In Delray, if you want a sit-down meal, Deck 84 is pretty solid. It's on the intercoastal.
  21. So, I've posted elsewhere that we occasionally go to the Elk's lodge. On Tuesdays, the main lodge is closed but the patio bar and kitchen are open. The kitchen just serves one item on Tuesdays so it's "Philly cheesesteak night" or "Bacon Burger night" or whatever. They always have a band playing on those nights. So, we go there and the band is playing. Guitar, bass, drums, and keys. They do Creedence songs, a few Beatles, etc. After a while, this older blonde comes and joins them. She's a solid singer, and show no signs of stage fright at all. She's long in the tooth but it's obvious that she's experienced. Anyway, the band takes a break. The woman is near us looking at her phone. She puts her phone down and the GF (she's a chatty one) says hello to the woman and compliments her voice. The woman tells the GF that she's been singing for decades, blah blah blah and then reveals that not only was she an "Ike-ette" but she was married to Ike Turner. Turner lived near here (in San Marcos CA) when he died (of a cocaine overdose and numerous health problems). Then, the woman gets wacky and starts saying crazy shit about Ike being murdered, etc. Fortunately, the band starts back up so the conversation ends. GF says to me "do you believe that she was really married to him?" as I'm googling her. GF is still talking "she must have been his second wife after Tina"...as I learn that she was wife #13 of 14.
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