Thursday, February 23, 2017

Battling Buddhist Monks, Jesus Kanye, and Don't Get Shot in Baltimore

Any time you have police battling with Buddhist monks, things are unravelling but, when the reason is money laundering, there's cause of anarchic celebration.

RT:  Hundreds of Buddhist monks in violent standoff with Thai police (VIDEO)


Probably no-one would have described Kanye West as tasteful but this boosts him out to other unseemly directions.  Like him or not, the reason for doing it at least makes more sense than starting a fight with Buddhist monks.


- Plastic Jesus on Instagram

RT:  Jesus Kanye! Life-size sculpture depicting rapper as Christ erected in Hollywood

A life-size gold sculpture depicting rapper Kanye West as a crucified Jesus Christ, called “False Idol,” has surfaced in Hollywood.

The Oscar-like statue appeared on Hollywood Boulevard on Wednesday and is a representation of the way in which society idolizes celebrities, until they crucify them.

- RT


Meanwhile, we wonder which city's criminals are the best shots.  (FiveThirtyEight:  Why Are Shootings Deadlier In Some Cities Than Others?)

Consider the cases of Baltimore and Chicago in 2016 to see why murder can be misleading. 

Chicago, despite its reputation for violence, last year had roughly 28 murders per 100,000 residents, which ranked eighth-highest among big cities in a FiveThirtyEight analysis of 2016 murder rates. 

Baltimore, by contrast, had the second-highest murder rate in the country, at 51 per 100,000 people. Because firearms are involved in the vast majority of murders, those statistics might make it sound like gun violence is a far bigger problem in Baltimore than Chicago.

But the opposite is true: Chicago last year had more shootings per capita than Baltimore. It’s just that a smaller share of Chicago’s shooting victims ended up dying.

- 538

There you have it.  You're more likely to get shot in Chicago but you're more likely to get dead from a shooting in Baltimore, presumably because they're better shots.


Ed:  thanks for sucking any hope for humanity out of the Universe!

I don't invent this shit and I only observe it happening but I also observe Socialism can fix all of it.

- Buddhist monks don't care about Socialism since they don't have anything anyway

- Socialism has rich bitches too but doesn't make statues of them

- Socialism will solve the street wars over drugs by taking the profit out of them


Socialists understand best of all, there's only one place for plastic Jesus.




Ed:  that may be the lamest ending ever!

It wasn't my purpose to get Paul Newman into it but I was putting together the bits at the top with each more insane than the last and decided I can't leave it hanging; I need to wrap this.  Therefore, fix it all with Socialism and Paul Newman singing as a bonus.

I didn't remember him singing that in "Cool Hand Luke" and I don't know of him singing in any other.

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