Penguin Booze

Opus loves "herring wallbangers" Which leads to a question: What would be in such a drink?

This is the recipe for a harvey wallbanger:

1.25 oz Vodka
3 oz Orange juice
.5 oz Galliano L'Autentico
Garnish: 1 Orange slice

Add the vodka and the orange juice to a tall glass filled with ice. Stir, and float the Galliano on top. Garnish with an orange slice.

Probably the easiest thing to do would be to use a piece of herring for the garnish. I suppose that one could drop some herring into a juicer and use that in place of the orange juice, but that sounds really dreadful.

Klanmaster Donald

[Donald] Trump refused to condemn his fans in an interview with CNN. “You hated this article in ‘GQ’ about your wife, Melania. Julia Ioffe wrote it. Since then, some of your supporters have viciously attacked this woman, Julia Ioffe, with anti-Semitic attacks, death threats. What’s your message to these people when something like that happens?” Wolf Blitzer asked the presumptive Republican presidential nominee during an interview earlier this month. “I’ll tell you, I haven’t read the article, but I hear it was a very inaccurate article and I heard it was a nasty article… They shouldn’t be doing that with wives. I mean they shouldn’t be doing that,” he responded.

“These death threats that have followed these anti-Semitic,” Blitzer pressed Trump. “Oh, I don’t know about that. I don’t know anything about that,” said Trump. “You’ll have to talk to them about it. I don’t have a message to the fans.”

Trump's refusal to denounce the anti-Semitism of his supporters is getting noticed, and the GOP is worried.

From the Anti-Defamation League to the conservative Emergency Committee for Israel, Jewish community leaders say Trump’s divisive language, inconsistencies on Israel policy and sluggish response to anti-Semitism from within his base of supporters is reversing any progress the GOP had made in attracting Jewish voters. Even inside the Republican Jewish Coalition, some of the GOP’s most generous donors are backing away from their party’s presumptive nominee.

Another note, same tune: The RNC is bleeding Hispanic staff members. African-American staff members have been leaving, as well. Paul Ryan tacitly acknowledged that he's supporting a racist. Meanwhile, Trump's opinion is that anyone who points out Trump's racism is being racist. There should be little doubt that the Donald is on the same page as the "20 Minutes of Action" Dad.

There's only one person who might save the GOP from an epic beatdown on Election Day: Hillary Clinton.

Honesty in Comedy

From Angie Tribeca:

Jane Dough: "Should I be talking to a lawyer?"

Det. Tribeca: "No, ma'am. That would make our job a lot harder."

Rape is "20 Minutes of Action"?

At least, that's how the father of the rapist described it.

The father of a Stanford University student convicted of sexual assault has sparked outrage on social media by saying his son should not have been jailed for "20 minutes of action".

Brock Turner, 20, was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman last year.

I will bet heavily that if it had been Dan Turner's daughter who had been raped while lying there unconscious instead of his son doing the raping, that Mr. Turner would want the rapist to get a quick drop at the end of a short rope.

But no. He's upset that his rapist of a son is going to have to do six months in county. Brock isn't doing the ten or fifteen years in prison that would have been the sentence if Brock had been poor or a minority. (Yep, affluenza strikes again.)

Because going to prison for a violent crime is too hard a punishment, at least, when the defendant is some good-looking white dude. It'd be a whole different story if his first name was Tyrone and there would be nobody feeling sorry for Tyrone not getting out of prison until 2030.

Rape is a violent crime. But to the rapist's dad, because Brockster didn't use a deadly weapon, that doesn't count as violence. His son committed a rape and all he can do is whine about how his son's life is now fucked up because of that?

Jeebus.

To Whom It May Concern in Connecticut: May You Burn in Hell, Forever, Asshole.

NORTH HAVEN >> A tiny kitten only weeks old was thrown from a car into oncoming traffic on I-91 Friday afternoon, prompting several motorists to pull over on the busy highway to try to save his life.

The kitten, named Lieutenant Dan by his rescuers after the character in the movie “Forrest Gump,” was able to make it to the barriers on the left side of the highway without being hit, but was ultimately euthanized because of the extent of his injuries from hitting the pavement.

The incident happened at about 3:45 p.m. Friday between exits 8 and 9 northbound on the New Haven/North Haven line. The car, thought to be a black sedan-type car, slowed down and tossed the kitten into the road, and then took off, according to witnesses.

Anyone who would throw a small animal onto a busy highway is deserving of having their Oxygen Permit revoked. One would hope that they find the perp and at least convict him of animal cruelty, but unless he brags about it to someone who then does the right thing and calls the cops, it isn't bloody likely.

People can be such asswipes. And this clown in a black sedan is one.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

The Blues, back when they flew the Rhino:

As far as a crowd-please, the F-4 was probably the best airplane they've flown.

Nice Turn of Phrase

Setup: A private detective has gone into a titty bar to follow up on a lead:

I'm no prude and no one's ever mistaken me for a saint, but I've never been much of a fan of places like Glitters, even the ones that don't smell like the insides of my sneakers. Maybe it's the pretense of it all. I mean, a lot of the performers were gay and were as enthusiastic about being pawed by the patrons as burn victims were eager to receive skin grafts from a leper colony.

From The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman.

Nice.

Shorter Trump: "Only White Men Can Judge Me!"

Donald Trump's attacks against the judge in one of his 3,500 cases because of the judge's ethnicity is nothing sort of disgraceful.

Trump is a bully and a racist. He is evil on two legs.

Imagine giving him the power to order Federal LEOs and the armed forces to do his bidding. Restraint is not something that Trump is known for. He will have no problem with using them as his personal brown shirts.

A Kind Note to Political Protestors

Look, if you want to peacefully protest, fine. You have a right to do that.

Violent protests, from tossing eggs to physical assaults, persuades nobody of anything other than you're a pack of assholes.

Some guy comes along and start doing the same to you, I can understand where you'd feel the need to respond in kind. But the optics look better if you don't.

If you act like an asshole, people will think you're an asshole. And nobody feels sympathy towards assholes. The anarchists who shut down Seattle in 1999, protesting against the World Trade Organization accomplished nothing.

As will you.

The Great One Goes West

Muhammad Ali, the three-time heavyweight champion who proclaimed himself “the Greatest”, defied the US government over the Vietnam war, and later became one of the most well-known – and loved – sportsmen in history has died. He was 74.

Ali died late on Friday at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, the family’s spokesperson Bob Gunnell said. His funeral will take place in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky.

His boxing career need not be discussed.

What you will read are comments that Ali was a "draft-dodger", like Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, and the rest of the Iraq War Chickenhawks. That is most assuredly a lie. Those men were all cowards, hiding behind multiple draft deferments or familial connections.

Ali was a draft resister. He took a stand. It cost him his title (which he later won back) and it damn near got him sent to prison for five years. Ali had courage in buckets. Those other gents, their only "courage" is in sending other people to fight.

Of course, this: