Dark yellow / brown.

You?

Mail Online

It's time, once again, and for the 35th time this year, to update The List.

A shooter fatally shot one student at a suburban Portland, Oregon, high school Tuesday morning, authorities said. The gunman is also dead.

Freedom.

USA PATRIOT 802 (c):

`(5) the term `domestic terrorism' means activities that--

    `(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal 
           laws of the United States or of any State;

    `(B) appear to be intended--

        `(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

        `(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or

        `(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, 
          assassination, or kidnapping; and

   `(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.'.

The couple who shot to death two Las Vegas police officers, a third person and then themselves delivered an ominous message as they left their home before the ambush with a shopping cart of weapons, a neighbor said.

"We gotta do what we gotta do," the husband told Kelly Fielder, adding that he and his wife were leaving for an "underground world."

The wife then embraced the neighbor and said, "I am so sorry."

Fielder said she had heard the couple make anti-government statements in the past — including a desire to overthrow the government and President Obama and kill police officers — but did not think they were serious.

But as the duo left their home on Sunday, they were deadly serious.

They barged into CiCi's Pizza, yelled “This is the start of a revolution!” and started firing, witnesses told police. Authorities said they stripped the dead officers of their weapons and ammunition

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the shooters covered the dead officers with the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag, which depicts a coiled snake and the words “Don’t Tread On Me.”

They were also among the dipshits who hung around with professional welfare cheat, Cliven Bundy.

Clark County assistant sheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters at a press conference that the shooters placed a swastika on one of the two Las Vegas police officers they shot and killed Sunday at a local restaurant. The pair went on to shoot and kill another person before killing themselves.

But McMahill cautioned against presuming that the couple were neo-Nazis or white supremacists.

"One of the things that we believe at this point with the swastika is that we don't necessarily believe that they are white supremacists or associated with the Nazi movement," he said.

"We believe they equate government and law enforcement with fascism and those that support with Nazis," he continued. "They believe that law enforcement is the oppressor and they are associated with the Nazi movement."

Someday, maybe, the radical "conservative" mullahs who spread these messages of hate and death will be held responsible for the actions of their followers.

There were books in our hotel room this past weekend. I assume for decoration, but I read some of them anyway. Here's an excerpt from the Reader's Digest Condensed Books version of "The Japanese", Jack Seward, 1972.

A major difference between Japanese and American social attitudes is seen in what could be called the curve of freedom. In Japan this curve would be plotted in a way precisely opposite to ours. There, childhood and old age are the years of greatest freedom, while adult years are those most restricted by the pressures and demands of society. Imperceptibly at first, and very gently, young adults are pushed into the mold which will prepare them for foreordained roles in their country's society. It is inevitable that the college student will rebel. When he does, his tantrums are tolerated, for he is on the very threshold of adulthood, the most trying stage of his life. Although under increasing pressure to repress his individuality, he still enjoys a few freedoms, which will soon be denied him. After graduation he must enter a business world that still functions largely on feudal principles. He must accept such a future, but he resents the necessity.

It is in this frame of mind that Japanese students demonstrate, protest, riot and confront. It is their one last despairing plea for the larger social justice of an ideal world before they are molded firmly into the real one.

Oh those crazy Japanese - so different from Americans! American adulthood is just a playground of irresponsibility and disregard for societal demands.

Mr Snake went a'courtin, up the side of our house.

That's a vertical wall and Mr Snake is at least five feet long.

Turns out Mrs Snake was a'hidin behind the shutter, awaitin' her suitor.

Well, he found her. And love was made!

Sssuccessssss!

Kevin Drum has a complaint about the coverage of the VA 'scandal':

You should always try to compare the performance of the VA to private sector care. Saying that the average wait time for non-urgent appointments is 23 days tells us nothing. Is that longer or shorter than it is elsewhere?

0.39s of Google's time later:

Directly comparable data for the private sector are unavailable. But a 2014 survey of physician wait times found the average private-sector wait time to be 18.5 days – two and a half days less than at the VA. In Boston, which has a high concentration of top-quality private-sector hospitals, the average wait time was 45.4 days.

Also, from the MSNBC story:

It’s worth remembering that 13% of Americans still have no health insurance of any kind, making it extremely difficult for them even to contemplate scheduling a doctor’s appointment.

...spews forth:

your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights

You'll never guess where we have a vacation all planned and all booked for this fall.

Here's a hint.

People, people, people: as a captain of industry and selfish ignorant American, my pleasure time is very important to me. Can't you just agree to put your political differences aside until next year, for my sake?

Why is it colder in the office in the summer than it is in the winter?

I wear shorts to work everyday. In the winter, I wear shorts because it's hot in the office. In the summer I wear shorts because it's hot outside.

Another caller from Michigan said he was more concerned about government manipulation of natural resources.

“I’m so fed up with the tyranny I sold my jet ski,” the caller said. “I’m so fed up with the way the government is manipulating the water with the chemtrails, I’m afraid I can’t even use my jet ski.”