Refunding the Police

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I’m old enough to remember those thrilling times (last year) when we were told that all crime would end if police stopped policing. For example, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot proposed cutting the police budget in the city by $80 million.

Now in Chicago, murders have hit a 27 year high, nearly back to 1970s levels, and Lightfoot is requesting U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to send additional federal law enforcement officials to her city. “We cannot continue to endure the level of violence that we are now experiencing,” she said in a long speech on crime.

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Woke White Boy on Smash-and-Grab Robberies

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2 suspects tied to organized retail theft crew arrested in Redondo Beach as police see more thefts at the Galleria — ktla.com

Good! Police gotta crack down on these smash-and-grab robberies. Just one more sign of the wave of white supremacist violence sweeping the country.

The suspects’ names are Malik Trevon Oaks and Jamol ClaytonPhillips.

Wait — what?!

Fuckin racist cops . . .

— WWB

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Chess Game of the Day: Rubinstein Opening

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One of my online chess games. A pretty even game all the way until it ended with a colossal mistake, as chess games sometimes do. Some annotations below . . .

5. b3 Rubinstein Opening

37. Qf1 I kind of wonder about this move as it lets Black deliver a queen check on the 2nd rank.

39. Nf6+?? We were both running short of time (in a 2+1 bullet game) and I was about to offer a draw when White did this, missing that he can’t recapture.

40. Qfx6+?? So he recaptures anyway.

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Two Quotes From the Same Book

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For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

— Ecclesiastes 1:18

Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you. Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.

— Proverbs 4:6-7

Now I’m in a quandary . . .

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What You’re Seeing and Hearing Is Not Real?

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The times that we’re living in right now are forcing lots of people on both sides of the aisle to look at a thing, or hear a thing, and be told that what they’re seeing and what they’re hearing is not real. And you can’t do that to people indefinitely and expect them not to push back somehow. You can’t tell people that the border is secure and then show them images of tens of thousands of people flooding over it. You can’t tell people that the evacuation of Afghanistan was a success and then show them people falling off of a plane. … And you can’t ask people who are watching a NASCAR race at home, who clearly hear the crowd yelling ‘F*** Joe Biden’ to pretend that what they’re really hearing is ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’

I think what’s happened is people have just become sick and tired of being told that what they’re seeing and what they’re hearing is not what they’re seeing and hearing.

And this is the perfect trope. I don’t think people who yell it are necessarily enemies of the president. I think they’re enemies of being told that what they’re seeing and what they’re hearing isn’t real, that it’s somehow a figment of their imagination. People are sick of that.

— Mike Rowe

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Chess Game of the Day: Halloween Gambit

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One of my online chess games. Some annotations below . . .

4. Nxe5?! I never saw this before in a Four Knights Game but it actually has a name: the Halloween Gambit. In exchange for a knight, White gets to chase black knights around the board with pawns.

9. …c6? This is not such a good move if White had played 10 h4 because the knight at g6 doesn’t have many options. Instead, 9 …cxd6 10 exd6 Qf6 11. Qe2+ Qe6 12. Nb5 Qxe2+ simplifies with a material advantage.

11. Nxb5? Just backing the bishop up to d6 looks better.

14. …a5? White could have played 15 Bd2 attacking the pawn.

15. O-O?

15. …Nh6? This gives White time to play 16. Be3 (which he doesn’t) and cut off the diagonal to his king so Black can’t play 16. …Qb6+, which I should have played this move.

16. f5?? I’m going to give that two question marks because I think it’s pretty much over now.

16. Qd5? 16. …Bxh6 gives Black one less piece to attack with.

22. f6? I don’t know if it makes sense to hand out question marks in a completely lost game but 22. Rae1 is an obvious move here.

24. fxg7? There aren’t any good moves left. This leads to a forced mate.

25. hxg4 Or 25. Kg3 Qf2+ 26. Kxg4 Be2+ 27. Qxe2 h5+ 28. Kg5 Qf6#.

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Which is More Important — Education or Super Bowl LVI?

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Super Bowl LVI

Schools in Inglewood, CA shut down completely for more than 400 days due to COVID-19, eventually reopening in a “hybrid” model of in-person and distance learning.

Kids can be deprived of an education, but in February 2022, Los Angeles will host Super Bowl LVI, mashing more than 100,000 ticket-holders together (plus I don’t know how many ushers, food vendors and other support staff) in a mostly enclosed Inglewood, CA stadium.

Draw your own conclusions.

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See You in Hell, Kaepernick

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[See You in Hell is a feature by our guest blogger, Satan — PE]

Greetings mortals —

Here is Colin Kaepernick’s opinion on the recent Kyle Rittenhouse verdict:

This only further validates the need to abolish our current system. White supremacy cannot be reformed.

Abolish our current system! What a great idea! What should we replace it with — a system that only renders verdicts that Colin Kaepernick likes?

I’ll say one thing for this kid Rittenhouse, he was a lot more accurate under pressure than Kaepernick was during a 3-16 streak that got him replaced as a starting NFL QB by Blaine Gabbert.

Blaine Gabbert!

Of course, he blames that on white supremacy as well.

Of the three people Rittenhouse shot, one was pointing a gun at him, one was trying to grab the rifle out of his hands and one was clubbing him in the head with a skateboard.

There’s a legal principle in play here as reflected in the jury’s not guilty verdict and that is “Fuck around and find out.”

Both of the deceased are now in Hell. In addition to their bad behavior in Kenosha, they have criminal records including domestic abuse and child rape. No one misses them and they’re better off dead.

See you in Hell . . .

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Chess Game of the Day: Modern Defense

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One of my online chess games. Some annotations below . . .

2. …Bg7 Modern Defense

11. Ng5?! 11. b4 is a safe alternative.

12. Ne6?! 12. Nf6 is positionally better than leaving a pawn hanging at e6, but then what was the point of moving the knight to g5 in the first place? (Spoiler alert: This move will turn out okay.)

14. …Rb8 14 …b6 would have been better.

15. Rd1? In hindsight, I think 15. c5 would have been stronger. The rook move gives Black time to play 15 …c5 (which he doesn’t do) and prevent White’s c-pawn from advancing.

15. …Nf6? Much worse than 15 …c5.

16. …c6?? The game is pretty even here, but Black needs to get the king to h7, out of the White queen’s line of fire. Instead he makes the worst move on the board, allowing a discovered check, losing the queen and the game.

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“Get the Vaccine” — Joe Biden

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OK grandpa, now go take a nap.

That’s the only Biden quote I have. Nothing on the latest jobs report, massive layoffs, high gas and energy prices, high food prices, high crime, empty shelves, open borders or Afghanistan.

If you have any good ones, let me know and I’ll post them here.

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I don’t like to play a game unless I know I can win. It’s a characteristic trait of the sociopath or psychopath, I forget which.

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Getting old: It used to be I went to a lot more weddings than funerals. In recent years, I’ve noticed it’s the other way around..

How Can You Do Good With Someone Else’s Money?

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The essential notion of a capitalist society is voluntary cooperation and voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is fundamentally force. If the government is the master, you ultimately have to order people what to do. Whenever you try to do good with somebody else’s money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else’s money unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is by threat of force. You have a policeman, a tax collector who comes to take it away from them. Whenever you use force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

— Milton Friedman

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Scorching Hot Cuisine

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Chips

This pack of chips caught my eye at the Circle K today so I bought one. The clerk pointed out on the back of the package that the chips were classified as “FREAKIN’ HOT,” accompanied by a temperature gauge with the needle pegged in the far-right, bright red FREAKIN’ HOT sector.

To no one’s surprise, except the Circle K clerk, the chips weren’t any hotter than a bag of Doritos.

Have you ever gone to a fast food place where they sell a product like a jalapeno burger advertised as SCORCHING HOT? Then you take a bite and you’re like, “That’s it?”

No company can produce a mass market food product that can only be tolerated by maybe one percent of the population because they can’t sell it, which is the opposite of what they want to do. They want to sell a lot of them.

If you want to eat something really freakin’ hot, go to a hole-in-the-wall Thai restaurant and tell them you like your food really spicy. If you’re in the Southern California area, I recommend Jitlada in Hollywood for this experiment.

If every cell in your body is not crying out for death, send me the receipt, I’ll pay for it myself.

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