Get out of California: Newsom’s budget will defund fighting crime

Posted on June 7, 2024 by | 7 comments

We all know about the crime in California. Get ready for things to get worse as it’s no doubt going to happen. From the Daily Mail:

California’s Dem. Gov Gavin Newsom unveils new plans to defund the police in crime-ridden state after massive budget deficit

In 2022 Newsom bragged of having a $97.5 billion surplus. Fast forward two years later and the state now faces a $45 billion deficit. Great job, democrats.

From the article:

“California governor Gavin Newsom‘s proposed new budget would slash funding for the police as the state struggles with a massive deficit of at least $45 billion.

Last month the Democrat unveiled his budget for the next fiscal year, admitting that ‘difficult decisions’ are needed to address the state’s deficit – including a 1.6 percent reduction in the state’s Department of Justice’s overall funding.

The proposed budget includes a $97 million cut to trial court operations, $10 million to the Department of Justice’s Division of Law Enforcement and over $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as reported by Fox News. 

Newsom’s plan comes as major national stores and local businesses in California say they continue to face rampant theft. Videos of large-scale thefts, in which groups of individuals brazenly rush into stores and take goods in plain sight, have often gone viral.

Crime data shows the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles saw a steady increase in shoplifting between 2021 and 2022. Across the state, shoplifting rates rose during the same time period but were still lower than the pre-pandemic levels in 2019, while commercial burglaries and robberies have become more prevalent in urban counties.

Meanwhile homelessness jumped 6 percent to more than 180,000 people in California last year, federal data show. And since 2013, the numbers have exploded by 53 percent with the state accounting for a third of America’s entire homeless population.

The state’s criminal justice record which saw the number of violent crimes jump by 27 percent between 2013 and 2022, and pickpocketing more than double. “

Read the whole story here.

Voters in California about to learn the hard way:

DCG

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Obese activist now making more demands on businesses

Posted on June 5, 2024 by | 6 comments

Progressives today have abandoned all sense of personal responsibility in favor of victimhood. Case in point: Plus-size activist Jae Bae.

Bossy fat activist Jae Bae

Not content to demand that airlines provide extra free seats for obese fliers, she’s now demanding that Uber and Lyft ride-share service companies provide seat belt extenders for plus-size passengers. From the Daily Mail:

“Every time I use a ride share, I’m forced to go without a seatbelt because no belt extenders are available. This is a common issue for many plus-size individuals,’ she wrote in the caption of the video.

Chaney wrote that she always brings a universal seatbelt extender with her on rides, but they often don’t work despite being advertised as ‘universal.’

She added that companies such as Uber and Lyft should reimburse drivers for the cost of seatbelt extenders, which go for as low as $12 on Amazon.

‘If each driver carried at least one seatbelt extender specifically fitted for their vehicle, this problem could be eliminated. Safety for all sizes SHOULD NOT be optional,’ she concluded.”

Here’s my favorite part of the story: “She continued: ‘This isn’t just inconvenient—it’s unsafe. It should be mandatory for ride shares to provide at least one seatbelt extender per vehicle.”

Read the whole story here.

You know what’s unsafe, Jae Bae? Your obesity.

Maybe it should be mandatory that Jae Bae take a little personal responsibility for her own actions.

DCG

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The Royal Groper Caption Contest

Posted on June 4, 2024 by | 9 comments

This is our world-famous 280th Caption Contest!

Here’s the video:

Ahout the video: On September 20, 2022, Prince Andrew, along with his two daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, were among members of the royal family who viewed floral tributes to the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle. At one point Andrew was recorded by news cameras as he comforted Eugenie who broke down while reading messages left to her grandmother. With an arm placed around his daughter, Andrew bent down to read further messages, his hand slipping down Eugenie’s back and her butt. (Newsweek)

You know the drill:

  • Enter the contest by submitting your caption as a comment on this thread (scroll down until you see the “LEAVE A REPLY” box).
  • Body and Soul‘s writers will vote for the winner.
  • Any captions proffered by our writers, no matter how brilliant (ha ha), will not be considered. :(

This contest will be closed at the end of Tuesday, June 18, 2024.

‘To get the contest going, here’s my caption:

Persistent rumors on social media that Andrew pimped out his daughers to the late convicted-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein may well be true.

For the winners of our last Caption Contest, go here.

~E

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Tuesday animals

Posted on June 4, 2024 by | 7 comments

Cutest kitten in the world!

https://www.tumblr.com/everythingfox/700949982944051200/tiny-shrek-via

~E

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People’s last words are often these 4 phrases

Posted on June 1, 2024 by | 1 comment

Food for thought….

Most people utter one of four common phrases on their deathbeds, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning author and oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee during a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania last week. Each of the phrases offers an important lesson for leading a fulfilling and successful life, Mukherjee said.

The phrases are:

I want to tell you that I love you.
I want to tell you that I forgive you.
Would you tell me that you love me?
Would you give me your forgiveness?

People who know they’re dying often express some variation of one of those four themes — indicating that they waited until it was late to show their appreciation for others or right their interpersonal wrongs, said Mukherjee, author of the award-winning 2011 nonfiction book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.”

Instead, they harbored grudges, lived with unresolved guilt or spent years being too afraid to be vulnerable, Mukherjee explained. The ensuing remorse, stress, poor mental health and even hormonal and immune imbalances can stunt your personal and professional growth, neurobehavioral scientist J. Kim Penberthy wrote in a 2022 University of Virginia blog post.

“Love and forgiveness, death and transition. Waiting [to express yourself] merely delays the inevitable,” said Mukherjee, adding that young people should “take this seriously. You’re living in a world where love and forgiveness have become meaningless, outdated platitudes. … They’re words people have learned to laugh at.”

Source: NBC San Diego

See also “Forgiving others is good for our mental health“.

~E

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Saturday Funnies!

Posted on June 1, 2024 by | 4 comments

~E

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We have a winner!

Posted on June 1, 2024 by | 3 comments

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR OUR 279TH CAPTION CONTEST!

Our writers dutifully voted for their #1 and #2 captions. Each #1 vote is worth 4 points; each #2 vote us worth 2 points.

And the winners, each with two #1 and one #2 votes, totaling 10 points, are:

Captain America and Merlin!

Here are their captions:

Captain America: “Miss Hamas!!! Looking good Chica.”
Merlin: “Boys don’t make passes at trans who wear glasses.”

Brian Heinz (with two #2 votes) and True Dan (with one #1 vote) are in 2nd place, each with 4 points:

Brian Heinz: “Is there something wrong with my makeup? Everyone keeps staring at me?”

True Dan: “Would you like to braid my chest hair?”

GregB is in 3rd place, with one #2 vote:

How can they expect us to accept them for what they pretend to be when they could not even accept themselves for who they actually were?

WELL DonE, EVERYONE!

Congratulations, Merlin and Captain America!

For all the other caption submissions, go here.

Be here next Tuesday for our next most exciting Caption Contest!

~E

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Hey criminals: Head to Boston for fun!

Posted on May 30, 2024 by | 8 comments

Mayor Michelle Wu, welcoming to criminals.

Do your hobbies include shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended license, and breaking and entering? Then head to Boston, my friend, as Mayor Michelle Wu has declared that those activities should not be prosecuted!

From NY Post:

“Boston Mayor Michelle Wu advocated a soft-on-crime agenda by pushing to abolish the gang registry and arguing that criminal behavior – such as theft – should not be prosecuted. 

Prior to being elected mayor, Wu filled out the “2021 Boston Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire” from Progressive Massachusetts, a 501c4 nonprofit organization that tracks and ranks how progressive elected officials are.

According to its website, the group “intends to transform Massachusetts into a bold laboratory for progressive state initiatives.”

In the document, Wu outlined her most progressive commitments, including her support for noncitizens voting in Boston’s local elections. 

The mayor was asked, “Do you support shuttering the Boston Police gang database?”

She answered, “Yes.”

Then, Wu was asked whether she supported a do-not-prosecute list enacted by the former Suffolk County district attorney, Rachael Rollins.  DA Rollins enacted the policy memo identifying more than a dozen charges she said should be declined for prosecution.

Those crimes included shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended license, breaking and entering with property damage, wanton and malicious destruction of property, threats, minor in possession of alcohol, marijuana possession, possession with intent to distribute, non-marijuana drug possession. 

The DA was later brought into the Biden administration, before resigning after an ethics probe found that Rollins committed “egregious” ethical violations and “abuse of power.”  

“Do you support the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office’s do-not-prosecute list and expanded approach to dealing with such low-level offenses? YES/ NO?” Progressive Mass asked.  “Yes,” Wu responded. 

Wu also promised to advocate for reallocating some of the police’s budget towards other city priorities as mayor. The mayor said she believes law enforcement should be “demilitariz[ed].” 

Wu said police should not have the ability to use tear gas, rubber bullets, and attack dogs.“

Read the whole story here.

Boston, y’all about to find out the hard way:

DCG

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Clueless Hollyweird still not getting my money

Posted on May 22, 2024 by | 7 comments

Hollywood has been tanking at the box office for the last couple years. Between the “wokeness” of their films and the out-of-touch stars, it’s not a surprise that many Americans have turned their back on their products.

I recently saw the trailer for the new movie, Twisters – a sequel to the 1996 film Twister. It looked good and thought we might go see it even though we haven’t been to a movie theater in years. Take a look:

Then I did a little digging into the movie because I didn’t want to waste my money on any wokeness. And, of course, I found some. From an interview with the screenplay writer:

“Another notable change to the movie from its predecessor is the way it will incorporate the theme of climate change into the narrative. Weintraub asked about the impact that thirty years of global warming would have on the size and scale of the storms that would be seen on-screen, and Smith admitted that it would be a key factor in the plot of the film. “That’s one of the things that we kind of tapped, and it’s true,” he confirmed. “I talked to so many storm experts, tornado experts, storm chasers, and rode around with some. Even the tornado season itself, because of climate change, what used to be tornado alley going through a certain stretch. It now extends so further east, and it’s moving across, and the dates are wider, and the numbers are higher, and the storms themselves are more violent. So we did use elements of that just to shine a light on it, as well, the causes and effects of climate change.”

Can’t I just see a movie without having some political hoax shoved down my throat? Apparently not. Another Hollyweird movie I will not be seeing.

Then there are the Hollyweird stars who are so out of touch with reality…

Actress Cate Blanchett was at Cannes Film Festival promoting a new movie, Rumours, which sounds like a complete dud. The premise: “World leaders meet at the G7 but get lost in the woods whilst trying to compose a joint statement on an unspecified global crisis. Beset by thick fog and menaced by undead bog bodies and a giant brain, they navigate the tortured passions between them.”

Hard pass on that movie, too, especially after hearing this:

While speaking of her experience with refugee filmmakers, Cate Blanchett said the following: “I’m white, I’m privileged, I’m middle class and I think one can be accused of having a bit of a white savior complex.”

“Middle class” actress Cate Blanchett

Speak for yourself, honey. FYI: Cate Blanchett is worth $95 million.

Hollyweird ruins everything they touch.

DCG

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“You didn’t do anything wrong. You’re just too big for the kitchen.”

Posted on May 20, 2024 by | 3 comments

Well, this isn’t something you see very often!

Looks like Albert is fitting in quite well with the goats!

See more posts of Albert on Rancho Grande’s Instagram here.

DCG

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