Philip J. Bond’s portraits of the world’s female astronauts.
Joshua S. Treviño confronts the Internet.
"Very literate," says Michael Barone.
My business website is Treviño Strategies and Media.
Sergey Larenkov brilliantly juxtaposes wartime Europe with modern.
Obviously, the stress of state budget uncertainty is taking its toll on these dedicated state employees, from fair management, to state fair police, to the U.C. Davis veterinary director who had to make the fatal decision to tragically down this pregnant cow and her unborn calf…It’s not fair to force people to make life-and death decisions when they’re also coping with the prospect of fewer vacation days or reduced office supplies.
—Mark Standriff, communications director for the the Calif. Republican Party, explaining how the state budget crisis led to the shooting of a runaway pregnant cow. (Related news story) (via officialssay) NB: I have met Standriff and he’s a decent fellow with sound ideas. The quote is just great.
The destruction of Neo-Tokyo, and other Katsuhiro Otomo art.
Roy’s Texas Posts to Date: A Compendium. (image above is from the Star of the Republic Museum at Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas.)April 10: Luckenback, Texas.
April 13: Gruen Hall, New Braunfels, Texas.
April 28: San Antonio, Texas.
May 21 : Stencil, “The Drag” by UT, Austin, Texas.
May 21: Diorama, Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas, Austin.
May 25: A Fine Day in Houston.
June 7: Drop-cloth in restaurant, downstairs at Sengelmann Hall.
June 7: Kolache Bakery, Caldwell, Texas.
June 8: The front gate of Miramont.
June 11: Lunch at Martin’s. Bryan, Texas.
June 12: Chicken fried bacon in Snook, Texas.
June 13: Seeing Robert Earl Keen at the Texas Hall of Fame is Like Seeing Springsteen at the Stone Pony.
July 6: Fort Worth Stockyards.
July 18: From the Lakeside Icehouse, Lake Bryan, Texas.
this topic was on my mind, and i thought that maybe some feminists could use a refresher course, a reminder, that kids are people. shorter, cuter, more honest people.
—“Maia,” at Feministe. Wait — at Feministe?
A conversation with the “Minuteman.”
This past Saturday, July 24th, Kim Dvorak, a “journalist” with a platform at Examiner.com, posted a story about the feared Mexican drug gang Los Zetas seizing two ranches near Laredo, Texas. She wasn’t the first with this tale: the website Digger’s Realm had it first, and it credited San Diego Minutemen founder Jeff Schwilk as the story’s sole source.
Needless to say, the entire story was false. Laredo was never invaded by Los Zetas, and if it were, there would be some verifiable coverage. Very little coming from Schwilk is trustworthy: you can do your own research on him, though I warn you one cannot un-see the photographs of him in women’s swimwear. The bottom line on the San Diego Minutemen founder is that he’s untrustworthy, violent, libelous, and desperately attention-seeking.
So I pointed this out on Twitter, and was surprised to receive an e-mail from Schwilk. What follows is our full correspondence, which ought to give the measure of the man.
FROM: Jeff Schwilk
The Laredo incursion did happen. We’re getting more details all the time.
FROM: Joshua Trevino
Jeff, you’re a liar and a fool who does more to discredit the cause of a secure border with these attention-grabbing hoaxes than the left does in a year. It is my pleasure to expose and ridicule your audience-seeking lies.
Sincerely,
FROM: Jeff Schwilk
Nice try punk. The truth is already out there.
At this point, a Californian Tea Party leader named George e-mails me on Schwilk’s behalf. He blind-copies Schwilk, who promptly breaks his friend’s trust by hitting Reply All.
FROM: Jeff Schwilk
No time for idiots. Obama is hiding armed incursions into our homeland, but he will not get away with this cover-up no matter how many morons like Josh that he fools.
FROM: Joshua Trevino
No time for idiots would shut down your internal monologue, Schwilk.
George, if you’re going to BCC, make sure the blind recipient has the brains to not blow your cover.
Josh
FROM: Jeff Schwilk
George who is this retard?? Friend of yours? Why does he hate the truth so much?
FROM: Joshua Trevino
Jeff, I’m just a guy with deep family roots in Laredo, Texas, who happens to know you’re a thoroughgoing liar about events in my father’s hometown.
You’re not genuinely interested in the truth here. You’re interested in attention. And you’ll get it — in the public ridicule and dismissal that’s your due.
Sincerely,
FROM: Jeff Schwilk
Why do you lie, Josh? Does it make you feel important? Does it help you cover your mental deficiencies to just call credible people, reporters, and LE sources liars?
Several reporters are all over this CONFIRMED incident right now and getting all the facts and details which are starting to trickle out. Your ignorance of what you have no clue about is quite disturbing. I’m really starting to feel sorry for you.
http://lifenthemomlane.blogspot.com/2010/07/independent-verification-of-incident-at.html
http://www.newpatriotjournal.com/Articles/Confirmation_of_authorities_on_scene
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2010/07/reports-texas-ranches-seized-by-mexican-cartel-violence-spills-over-southern-border/
George, the Tea Party leader, then e-mails to protest that Schwilk has provided unnamed “sources” for the Laredo-invasion story.
FROM: Joshua Trevino
Schwilk’s unverifiable sources don’t actually exist, George. That should be understood.
FROM: Jeff Schwilk
Yo, dipshit! Those are Kim Dvorak’s multiple LE and BP sources on the ground in TX. She’s a White House Press Pass credentialed reporter who I know personally.
Who in the fuck are you to question a highly credible, proven border reporter who has broken dozens of great border stories over the past two years? How dare you, asshole!
She stands by her story 100% and will have an update soon. Piss off, punk! You are a NOBODY!
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d24-Los-Zetas-drug-cartel-takes-control-2-US-ranches-in-Texas
FROM: Joshua Trevino
Neither of you can or will produce or name a single source. The best-case scenario for you is that you’re grossly misidentifying them.
But I repeat: the probability is that they simply don’t exist.
You are a fraud, Schwilk.
Sincerely,
FROM: Jeff Schwilk
You are fucking asshole, Trevino. Thanks for showing us that fact.
FROM: Joshua Trevino
Produce a source.
NB: No source has been provided.
TO: Joshua Trevino
DATE: July 26, 2010 10:56:01 AM PDT
SUBJECT: JOSH, PLEASE DON’T SPREAD GOVERNMENT DISINFORMATION
TO: Jeff Schwilk
DATE: July 26, 2010 11:17:49 AM PDT
SUBJECT: Re: JOSH, PLEASE DON’T SPREAD GOVERNMENT DISINFORMATION
Joshua Treviño
TO: Joshua Trevino
DATE: July 26, 2010 11:17:49 AM PDT
SUBJECT: Re: JOSH, PLEASE DON’T SPREAD GOVERNMENT DISINFORMATION
TO: Joshua Trevino
DATE: Jul 26, 2010, at 11:44
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
TO: Jeff Schwilk
DATE: Monday, July 26, 2010 11:50 AM
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
TO: Joshua Trevino
DATE: July 26, 2010 11:56:09 AM PDT
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
TO: Jeff Schwilk
DATE: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:01 PM
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
Joshua Treviño
TO: Joshua Trevino
DATE: July 26, 2010 12:12:26 PM PDT
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
TO: Jeff Schwilk
DATE: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:10 PM
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
TO: Joshua Trevino
DATE: July 26, 2010 12:18:02 PM PDT
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
TO: Jeff Schwilk
DATE: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:25 PM
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
Joshua Treviño
TO: Joshua Trevino
DATE: July 26, 2010 12:47:29 PM PDT
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
TO: Jeff Schwilk
DATE: July 26, 2010 12:50:17 PM PDT
SUBJECT: Re: Laredo Morning Times comments on Mexican cartel invasion of U.S. ranches.
He doesn’t return my calls. … I did 65 events for my dear brother Barack on the campaign trail but have not seen him since Martin Luther King Day 2008. … I couldn’t even get a ticket to the Inauguration for my mother. … I think he has the kind of disposition where he just moves on.
—Cornel West on Barack Obama.
The May 22nd, 1965, cameo by The Beatles on Doctor Who is a wonderful intersection of two of the enduring products of Britain’s 1960s cultural flowering.
And so, just before I partook of the elements, I read the words, which I had chosen to indicate our trust that as man probes into space we are in fact acting in Christ.
It looks like it’s all reimaginings here, and the Nick Fury series is brilliant.
As I’m presently reading Abraham Rabinovich’s “The Yom Kippur War,” this video, from an unknown source, is of some interest. The 1973 war was a tactical victory for Israel, but less clearly a strategic one: as this Egyptian animation shows, popular memory there is somewhat different. What is remembered, and touted, is not the eventual IDF entrapment of Egypt’s Third Army in the Sinai, nor Israel tanks on the road to Cairo. Rather, the simple fact of a successful surprise attack and breaching of the Israeli lines in the Sinai in the war’s opening hours remains a source of tremendous pride. It’s a bit of the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” and it’s a bit alarming to see it going strong four decades later.
Via Natasha Choufani, this is apparently a posted sign in a dorm at Lebanese American University.
Israel is not Sparta, and this is a good thing. It was not established in order to be a spearhead against global Islam, or in order to serve as an alert squad for the Western world. It was established in order to live in it.
—Doron Rosenblum, 2006, in the aftermath of that summer’s war in Lebanon.
Well, what were Josh Trevino’s contributions to Brussels Journal? Was he fomenting anti-Arab racism or advocating some sort of Blut und Boden nationalism?
—Robert Stacy McCain says I wasn’t, so I guess I wasn’t.
