Over by the La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles has a giant museum (temple) dedicated to the admiration (worship) of the automobile. Detroit may have built them, but they were built to be driven in LA, usually with the top down bathing in the sun, driving down Sunset Blvd. to the Santa Monica Bay. It's not very far, and if Sunset is too full of cruisers cruising American Graffiti style, it's east to jump on the Interstate 10 Freeway all the way down to the Pacific. The boulevard is called Sunset because this is where the sun sets, just as it rises on the Big Apple, a reference to forbidden carnal knowledge in the Garden of Eden. On the eve of Independence Day for Mexico, many Chicanos are having their cars on exhibit with a parade or caravan of vehicles to show off their slick rides near Little Ethiopia (Fairfax).
Cruise? It's time to peel out and get out!
(Petersen Automotive Museum) If you're lucky, you live in a town with a regular lowrider cruise, so you're familiar with the unexpected pleasure of seeing something glittering and striped in the next lane suddenly lift up like a stinkbug and drop low enough to drag sparks across the intersection.
Lowriding is a community activity like no other automotive subculture. The cars aren't built to be lightweight or quick in the canyons. They aren't for early morning drives or secret late-night meetups; they're designed to turn heads on the main street in town during prime time.
The goal is never to cross the line first, but to do it with the most style. At their most basic, lowriders are conversation starters; at their highest level, they are showstoppers.
All of this makes lowrider culture perfect for a museum exhibit, where those familiar with the art form can appreciate the chance to look more closely at cars they've only seen in motion, and those new to the scene can marvel, slack-jawed, at the incredible imagination, artistry, and history that goes into making the perfect lowrider.
The new exhibit, "Best in Low," at the Petersen Automotive Museum (petersen.org) in Los Angeles is not the museum's first look at lowriders, but it is its best.
Walking through the gallery is like visiting the gemstone section of a natural history museum. Everything is sparkling and glowing, and a person could spend a whole day on a single car and not see every magical detail. More: Best in Low exhibit
Who cares about lowrider cars and culture?
Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles (petersen.org); WAR; Cypress Hill; Korn; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(ComedyONE Media Coverage) Finally, there comes along a comedy we can get behind. This new movie looks promising, like it might actually be witty and funny and interesting in an industry that feels as if the whole of Hollywood cinema were not already ruined beyond redemption by cartoon universes, bad sequels, and a lack of funding for creative comics. It's 2024; it's about time somebody wrote some new Pythonesque material. Noel Fielding is a witty, vegan, pacifist, fashion-loving, and completely charming "Dick Turpin" in this new comedic series
(Apple TV+).
Will the MAGAots fall for it again, following unfaithful Trump to the gallows?
Trump testimony gets heated during civil trial
Grrrr, I hate this m$#@&*%#ing judge.
(ABC News) Shortly into his direct examination, ex-Pres. Trump, a defendant who has already been convicted of FRAUD, took the opportunity to further aggravate the judge and criticize the investigations and prosecution. If the judge loses his cool and acts emotionally, it could be grounds for an appeal later, so there may be some method to the Orange One's madness. Live updates: bitly.ws/ZzKy #trump #trial #news
This is a bench trial: the judge is judge, jury, and soon to be executioner
Does the judge watch TV? If so, Trump's lawyer is harming the outcome.
BREAKING NEWS: (Forbes Breaking News) Nov. 6, 2023: Trump's lawyer Alina Habba goes off on Letitia James, judge at NYC civil fraud trial, which they have already lost and are about to be fined, punished, and possibly found in contempt, which could result in jail time for martyr Trump who is painting himself as a victim of the justice system all Americans must face, almost none of us with the battalion of lawyers and legal strategists Trump is able to afford (but being so cheap he is probably not spending what would be wise to spend).
Let's co-dictate, Bibi. I'm sorry for taking your seat. The CIA favors you. Everyone knows it.
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Someway, somehow, this has to be Trump's fault
YES, Israel under Prime Minister (CIA-groomed candidate and reinstalled military-style dictator, controller of the courts) Benyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu actually created and funded Hamas.
Hamas (an acronym for the independent and more moderate and easy-to-control group of sovereigns) is the political party, now Israel's greatest enemy ever. Except for Iran. Iran must be bombed! Any country or group the US does not like MUST be bombed in the name of "Israel." Not since Europeans loathed Jews (the Chosen People favored above all by the one and only true God) for no reason at all have Muslims, their fellow People of the Book, turned against them.
Let's have a rave next to Gaza prison (WSJ)
Collateral damage is a terrible thing for victims.
[After 16 years of staying in the open-air prison (reservation, refugee center, concentration camp) we made for them, we thought they would stay put. After all, every kibbutz had a large Israeli military presence enforcing the occupying and stealing of the land. Our leader Bibi moved many of those Israeli militants to the West Bank, the other reservation holding Palestinians against their will. (They prefer to exercise their "right of return" in conformity with international laws and standards).
Parading Westerner German Jew taken hostage
But as this is a slow genocide and the desire is that Palestinians in particular and Arabs in general abandon their homeland and go elsewhere, anywhere else, preferably the sea or the afterlife, offensive forces of the IDF were needed to promote right-wang plans for the West Bank, as ordered by PM Netanyahu. The God gave a land called "Israel" to "Israelis," so if this land is named that and they want to occupy or steal it, God is happy. Was it actually this land, or some similar land in Jordan (or was it that Oblast in Russia no one talks much about where all Jews were free to go and create a utopia?) Why nitpick?
Shani Louk was taken hostage. If IDF bombs...
This is the land the British decreed, so let us pay obeisance to the monarch and royal family and stay right here, even though one day the miserably treated prisoners of Gaza may break out and do harm, like attempting to take hostages to end the war crime blockade the Israeli military has illegally enforced for so many years. What a pity that cool, Buddha-loving ravers and hipsters had to bear the brunt of an assault wave so close to the Gaza border. Two wrongs don't make a right, and neither will three as the IDF exacts "revenge" in retaliation, supported by U.S. funding.]
How brigades shocked everyone by escaping prison and taking prisoners [How Hamas turned an Israeli music festival into a massacre | WSJ]
(The Wall Street Journal) Oct. 10, 2023: Over 250 people were allegedly shot at the Tribe of Nova Festival in occupied Re’im, Israel, on Saturday – one of the deadliest sites of Hamas’s surprise attack outside of their prison. The festival took place just three miles from the Gaza Strip. A few attendees were taken hostage and taken back to Gaza. WSJ breaks down how the surprise attack unfolded to prosperous young Jews by hardened young Muslims. #Israel #Hamas #WSJ
0:00 Tribe of Nova Festival
0:31 Lead up to the attack
1:20 Beginning of the attack
3:29 Hiding on Festival grounds
4:55 Hostages taken
Jewish and fired for telling the truth about Israel?
And this group while being tortured and squeezed has dared to breach the massively fortified wall equipped with towers to shoot down from (euphemistically termed a "security fence") to strike back, like a baby slapping his own father. Well, that child must be dealt with. Hit him with an American-made missile. That'll learn him. He'll think twice before ever stepping out of line again. It's time to "mow the lawn" but this time down to the nub and salt the earth.
The world is agreed that it's okay. Another Holocaust, why not? What could go wrong? When the US invaded neighbor Iraq, it was "shock and awe" (expending as many old, unused munitions before they expired so we could order new and better munitions, tactical nukes, laser guided missiles, precision strike weapons, super radioactive "depleted" uranium penetrating bombs... USA! USA! USA!
Democrats never support war. This just in...
We are Number 1 in military arms and imperial hegemonic control, and Fearless Leader Netanyahu is our puppet friend and obedient comrade with a mind of his own sometimes (like that whole corruption scandal he's embroiled in by the Israeli court system he's currently trying to dismantle). Oh, the irony.
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Gifts of the Land | A Guided Nature Tour with Robin Wall Kimmerer
(The Commons KU) Robin Wall Kimmerer takes us on a guided nature tour of Clark Reservation State Park in Jamesville, NY, as spring welcomes back migrating creatures and sends a message to wake up those who have taken a winter rest.
This video was commissioned by The Commons at the University of Kansas, in conjunction with Dr. Kimmerer's April 1, 2021, lecture (thecommons.ku.edu/kimmerer).
ABOUT: Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Native American mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. For more info visit: robinwallkimmerer.com.
ABOUT: The Commons at the University of Kansas is a catalyst for unconventional thinking, interdisciplinary inquiry, and unexpected discoveries across the sciences, arts, and humanities. For more info visit: thecommons.ku.edu. Shot and edited by: loganrando.post.pro.
(SciFri) Science Friday conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Conversation with Robin Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass & Indigenuity (NACC 2021)
(Museum of Native American History) Oct. 20, 2021: This conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer and Dan Wildcat, engaged in a conversation on "Indigenuity," how traditional knowledge meets innovation.
October 7, 2021, at 10:00 AM CST kicked off a weekend defining Indigenuity.
Learn more: monah.us/past-events/2021...
This event was prerecorded for the Fifth Annual Native American Cultural Celebration Oct. 7-9, 2021. Learn more about the event: monah.us/nacc-2021
ABOUT:
The Museum of Native American History (MONAH) was first established in a downtown location in 2006 as the Museum of Native American Artifacts. The collection quickly outgrew the space and MONAH opened its current doors in June of 2008. Founded by David Bogle, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, in Bentonville, Arkansas, the museum houses over 10,000 of the finest Native American artifacts. MONAH tells the 14,000-year story of Native American history through to the present with the discovery of artifacts, education, and programming.
Though it had only been a part of the United States for less than two years, California becomes the 31st state in the union (without ever even having been a territory) on September 9th in 1850.
Mexico had reluctantly ceded California and much of its northern territory to the [Northern] United States in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Native Los Angeles could have been capital
When the Mexican diplomats signed the treaty, they pictured California as a region of sleepy mission towns with a tiny population of about 7,300-not a devastating loss to the Mexican empire. Their regret might have been much sharper had they known that gold had been discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, nine days before they signed the peace treaty.
Suddenly, the greatest gold rush in history was on, and “forty-niners” began flooding into California chasing after the fist-sized gold nuggets rumored to be strewn about the ground just waiting to be picked up. California’s population and wealth skyrocketed.
Most newly acquired regions of the U.S. went through long periods as territories before they had the 60,000 inhabitants needed to achieve statehood, and prior to the Gold Rush, emigration to California had been so slow that it would have been decades before the population reached that number.
But with gold fever reaching epidemic proportions around the world, more than 60,000 people from around the globe came to California in 1849 alone. Faced with such rapid growth, as well as a thorny congressional debate over the question of slavery in the new territories, Congress allowed California to jump straight to full statehood without ever passing through the formal territorial stage.
After a rancorous debate between the slave-state and free-soil advocates, Congress finally accepted California as a free-labor state under the Compromise of 1850, beginning the state’s long reign as the most powerful economic and political force in the far West. More
1776: UCA changes name to “USA”
We'll still be a land for white men, right?
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress formally declares the name of the new nation to be the “United States” of America. This replaced the term “United Colonies,” which had been in general use. In the Congressional declaration dated September 9th, 1776, the delegates wrote, “That in all continental commissions...”More
George "Babykiller" Zimmerman's father, Robert, sure looks like a white judge. The acquitted killer's parents talk to Barbara Walters in their first interview after the verdict. More
LAPD arrest a dozen people after peaceful demonstration supporting Trayvon Martin is deemed "unlawful" in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, July 15, 2013 (Reuters/Jason Redmond/RT).
LOS ANGELES - At least six former officers have requested a reopening of their termination cases since the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) started investigating allegations by a former officer [Chris Dorner] who left a trail of violence to avenge his firing.
Police Chief Charlie Beck [who took over after Chief Bratton] reopened the case of Christopher Dorner and ordered a review of the LAPD disciplinary system after Dorner released a "manifesto" accusing the department of unjustly firing him. He also vowed to wage warfare on its officers and their families.
Police Protective League President Tyler Izen said he will ask the chief to review the new requests. He called the decision in Dorner's case unprecedented and said it "has left many of our members in absolute limbo."
"Because, if the department does investigations and they're satisfied with those investigations, then what do they hope to learn from this review?" Izen asked. "And if they are not satisfied with those investigations, why are they doing them without being satisfied in the first place?"
The department has conducted "biopsies" on cases in the past, but the officers involved were usually unaware of the action, he said. More
Seven Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies
from an anti-gang unit have been notified that the department intends to
fire them for being members of a secret law enforcement clique [criminal gang] that
allegedly encouraged unethical [criminal activity under color of law] conduct.
LOS ANGELES - ...Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Wednesday the deputies were
sent the letters this week after an internal investigation of their
activities as members of a group called the Jump Out Boys. The deputies were members of the Sheriff's Gang Enforcement Team. Law enforcement officials say the concern was that the group, with
its matching tattoos and a creed seemingly promoting shootings...More
Journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi hurled two shoes at then-U.S. president George W. Bush during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on 12/14/08 (AP).
CBC -- A Baghdad courtroom turned chaotic Tuesday after the case of an Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at former U.S. president George Bush was adjourned to Thursday.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi drew applause and shouts of support in the courtroom and the hallway outside during his brief court appearance.
He has been incarcerated since Dec. 14, when he hurled two shoes at Bush and called him a "dog" during a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
Televised around the world, the incident propelled al-Zaidi to hero status to many in the Arab world. More>>
Abeer Mohammed and Alissa J. Rubin (BAGHDAD): What does it take to get for an Iraqi woman to fall in love with a man? In parks and dress shops, in university halls and on picnics, Iraqi women are still smitten - three months and one new American...
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