Here’s a little Salma Trifecta for you, and they’re all pics taken recently:
That is all.
Author: Kim du Toit
Quote Of The Day
Global warming-obsessed climatologists and media told us back in 2020 that snow and frost would be rare – a thing of the past!
Now with the heavy, record snowfall, global warming astrologists are looking a bit foolish and embarrassed. Their predictions are wrong. Already in November snow arrived and record amounts have already fallen.
You had me at “global warming astrologists”…
Read the whole thing.
Travel Tip
Here’s a little something I picked up on my travels:
Some hotels have some curious ideas about “double beds” — in fact, they’re often just two single beds shoved together, each with a single-sized duvet. This is fine, unless you and your partner are of the “cuddling” kind. Also, the duvets are often “European” single-size (i.e. totally inadequate, especially for us fat-ass Murkins).
What I always do now, after my first such experience, is pack a queen-sized duvet cover and about eight safety pins. Then, if I find the sleeping arrangements as above, I simply pin the two duvets together to make a larger one, and stuff it into the queen duvet cover with the pin mechanism facing up. Problem solved.
Side note: Safety pins are an essential travel item anyway. Europeans do not know the concept of “safety pins” (at least, they didn’t in Vienna), and trying to explain what a safety pin is and how it works is in your fractured attempt at a furrin language will just lead to puzzled looks. Pack your own.
Top 3 For The Chop
Here’s the background to the question below:
Argentina just elected a new president, Javier Milei, and his first act upon being sworn in? He signed an executive order reducing their government departments from 21 down to NINE.
As Twitchy points out, we have only(!) fifteen FedGov departments (but innumerable sub-departments).
My question to my Readers:
You can eliminate three Cabinet-level federal government departments (to start off with) and all their sub-departments. Which three would you eliminate first?
Mine: Environment (an agency, not a department in the strictest sense of the word), Education (in toto) and Homeland Security (all their sub-departments to be reallocated to their original departments, e.g. Secret Service to Justice, Coast Guard to Defense, etc.).
I don’t know how it works in Argentina, but here in Murka, federal government departments exist at Cabinet level at the President’s pleasure — Richard Nixon, for instance, elevated the EPA’s chairman to Cabinet level by executive order — but departments can only truly be eliminated by Congress defunding them. Nevertheless, play the game.
News Roundup
…and on we go with Pre-Christmas News:
...we’re never going to get rid of this asshole organization unless we go all Timmy McVeigh on them. Thank you, Harry Truman.
...yeah, I remember back in the day that when (White) people said that about your lot, it was a Bad Thing.
...I don’t know who to shoot first: the council, or the neighbor who bought a house next door to a chicken farm.
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In Media News:
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Great Moments In Marketing:
...kills cancer, makes you horny; sounds perfect. Now about that name… someone call Adrian Wappkaplett.
From the Great Cultural Assimilation Project:
...let’s hear it for liberal immigration policies.
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And speaking of undocumented immigrants:
...hell, maybe they just looked like aliens:
And in Presidential Idiocy News:
...considering that the shooter was 67 years old, I’m surprised he’s not pushing a “No One Under 70” gun ban. And:
...I know it may be a stupid question at this point, but can anyone point me to the part in the Constitution where it says the president can do this?
And now, some serious INSIGNIFICA:
...I always thought she was the prettiest of the 60s crowd:
And from my private “Roll In The Hay” collection:
And on that agricultural note, it’s time to sign off. Wait, there’s one more thing:
Too Lenient
Nothing like a little pupil-teacher interaction, is there?
Jonathan Martinez-Garcia, 17, was sentenced to up to 40 years in prison in June after he ambushed the teacher – identified only as Sade – by asking if he could speak about his grades at El Dorado High School in April 2022.
During his June 2023 sentencing, it was revealed that the deranged student knocked the teacher unconscious. She later woke up with her pants and underwear down before the student threatened to burn her alive, prosecutors said. At one point in the attack, Martinez-Garcia told her: ‘Can’t you die already?’
The teacher was strangled from behind with cord during the attack and had her wrists cut, she now suffers from chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, needing a walker to move around.
The teenager sickeningly smirked in court while his victim was recounting her terrifying experience. He later made the same expression when the was sentenced.
I’m thinking that the little shit needs at least 50 years, minimum, before parole is offered — with weekly whippings of, say, 50 strokes. See how much he smirks then.
But no doubt someone will have a problem with this quite reasonable suggestion.