Any serious discussion around defunding the police in the US should involve a few things.

1. De-segregating the police unions.
2. De-militarizing police forces.
3. And this one -> eliminating any and all Asset forfeiture programs, including this one:

https://shadowproof.com/2020/07/14/federal-asset-forfeiture-may-undermine-efforts-to-defund-police/

Kraken would be a stupid name for an NHL team.

Something about seems very clueless and fake. Not to mention that it never actually existed -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken

Which is why I have a bad feeling that will be the name Seattle will choose.

After 20 years of working in IT ...

... Finally got that corner office.

Complete with windows too!

Thank you Trump Administration for your recklessess and utter incompetence in handling the COVID-19 pandemic here in the US!!!!

The true underbelly of the estsblishment is incredibly complex, and ugly.

Mrs. CV reads so many of these spy, crime and thriller books. They are mostly scummy-man books.

I should tell her to read this - why read crappy books when the real thing is far, far more interesting-> https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/maxwell-family-business-espionage/

But wait, there's more! Apparently there's a Part II.

Read through the whole thing, and you'll soon discover not only how the rich and powerful operate, but that it's extremely dangerous, violent, and often fatal to those involved.

And pretty much none of it is to the benefit of anyone else.

A succinct summary on the uselessness of 'cancel culture'.

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/14/chris-hedges-dont-be-fooled-by-the-cancel-culture-wars/

Corporations have seized control of the news industry and turned it into burlesque. They have corrupted academic scholarship. They make war on science and the rule of law. They have used their wealth to destroy our democracy and replace it with a system of legalized bribery. They have created a world of masters and serfs who struggle at subsistence level and endure crippling debt peonage. The commodification of the natural world by corporations has triggered an ecocide that is pushing the human species closer and closer towards extinction. Anyone who attempts to state these truths and fight back was long ago driven from the mainstream and relegated to the margins of the internet by Silicon Valley algorithms. As cancel culture goes, corporate power makes the Israel lobby look like amateurs.

The current obsession with moral purity, devoid of a political vision and incubated by self-referential academics and educated elites, is easily co-opted by the ruling class who will say anything, as long as the mechanisms of corporate control remain untouched. We have enemies. They run Silicon Valley and sit on corporate boards. They make up the two ruling political parties. They manage the war industry. They chatter endlessly on corporate-owned airwaves about trivia and celebrity gossip. Our enemies are now showering us with politically correct messages. But until they are overthrown, until we wrest power back from our corporate masters, the most insidious forms of racism in America will continue to flourish.

Farmer's Market Style!

At Safeways!

While I've never seen a Karen this extreme on a bus ...

I've seen some fairly close.

The power of these particular individuals is their gender and their race used in tandem to entitle them or deflect attention away from their own behavior.

What makes it dangerous is the institutionalized racism and sexism that allows women like her to thrive and flourish.