Catching Up

Stop the presses!  Here’s the latest kitchen fad:

Serious home cooks looking to create a restaurant-style kitchen in their own homes are lusting after yet another piece of culinary kit.

Surfaces may already be groaning under the weight of appliances such as air fryers, espresso machines and top-of-the-range mixers – and let’s not forget the pizza oven in the shed, but middle-class foodies are now adding deli-style meat slicers to their polished countertops.

The ‘industry’ style equipment, which ranges in price from around £50 for a budget version on Amazon to the early thousands for an all-singing, all-dancing one, can precision slice through everything from smoked salmon to hams and cheeses – and even sourdough – with ease.

And while they may seem like an indulgent addition to an everyday kitchen, top chefs say they’re worth the investment – because not only will your charcuterie taste superior, but you can also buy it in bulk, which almost always saves money.

There’s less waste too, because you slice what you need, ensuring wafer-thin sheets of Parma ham don’t go unloved in the fridge.

The slicers – both hand-operated and electric – work by cutting food to uniform sheets, as thick or as thin as you’d like, which can affect flavors significantly, say those in the know.

Well, yes.  The above article appeared in the Daily Mail  yesterday (February 12, 2026).

Then there’s this:

…which appeared in this post, dated Nov 25, 2023.

Good grief;  for once, I’m actually ahead of a trend.

No need to thank me;  it’s all part of the service.  (Oh, and don’t let the product description fool you.  I used the above machine to slice meats like salami, ham and beef for years.)

Tranny Tragedy

This time in Canuckistan:

The transgender gunman who murdered his mother and brother before killing six people in the second-deadliest school shooting in Canadian history is seen happily gripping a rifle in a disturbing photo.

Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, opened fire in the library at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia on Tuesday afternoon. 

A female teacher was killed, alongside three girls and two boys aged between 13 and 17.  

The shooter took his own life at the school. He killed his mother, Jennifer, and brother, Emmett, at their home beforehand, CTV News reported.

Photos show the teen looking somber at a birthday celebration and eating a meal with family – but then happily holding up a rifle. 

So much to note here, over and above the fact that the tranny shooter was a disturbed adolescent psycho (as so many of them are).  Psychos are gonna go psycho, and there doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it.

Of interest are some of the factoids surrounding the shooting itself, or rather the reaction to it.  Here’s one:

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police described the suspected shooter as a “gunperson” in a press conference on Tuesday’s attack at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia.

Ah yes, politically correct speech as always.  As the Bee noted, “Policeperson describes shooter as gunperson.”

Next, as any fule kno, all the gun control laws, regulations and the fuzz were useless and couldn’t prevent this attack:

The shooter, who was transitioning to female, used a handgun despite the freeze on handgun sales and transfers.

Police indicated the alleged shooter used a handgun and a long rifle. The type of long gun has yet to be made public by police, but the Associated Press noted, “The Canadian government has banned more than 2,500 makes and models of assault-style firearms in recent years.”

The ban includes “more than 1,500 models” of firearms then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made illegal on May 1, 2020.

Canada has a firearms license requirement, but the alleged shooter lacked a valid license. He had a license that expired in 2024, according to police.

Canada also has a red flag law yet, even though the alleged shooter was known to police, he was able to have two guns in his possession on Tuesday.

Ironically, police had attended the suspect’s family residence on multiple occasions over the past several years, dealing with mental health concerns of the suspect.

None of which laws worked in their intended purpose.  Looks like the dead tranny just used Daddy’s guns to kill Mommy and Sis before heading off to school for the grand finale.

There’s no other way to look at this:  Mentally-disturbed teenager gets hold of gun, perpetrates horrific crime in a school.  And the unpleasant part:  there’s nothing anyone can do about it, either before or after the fact.  There’s a cogent reason for “during”, mind you — an armed guard presence in schools, which may or may not help at least contain the killings — but nobody (except for some school administrators in the southern U.S. states) seems to be willing to entertain that suggestion.

So there are going to be more.

Just Shuddup

Oh FFS, here’s another one piling on:

Wednesday on “CBS Mornings,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said “there’s a loss of public trust” in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) so some reforms are needed.

Paul said, “I think the nation and the country at large or large parts of the country, have lost trust. You know, I think there’s a loss of public trust in ICE and their officials after seeing what’s been going on in Minneapolis. I think there’s fault on both sides.”

And I think you have your head up your ass.

Item 1:  “Public trust”:  I would bet a considerable sum of money that the “public” — i.e. the people who voted for Trump and his agenda in their millions — have not lost trust in ICE. You’ve fallen prey to the Washington D.C. mindset of letting the constant drumbeat of opposition from the mainstream media cloud your thinking.

Item 2:  “Fault in both sides”:  Let’s allow, as you yourself have in the past, that there are tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the country right now, thanks to FuckJoeBiden’s “open borders” policy, people that need to be deported back to  Shitholia  their native countries with some alacrity.  Let’s also allow that Trump has directed ICE to concentrate on getting the worst of these illegals — the hardcore criminals;  the murderers, rapists, violent robbers and drug dealers — as their first priority.  As he has.

Now ask the question:  Did you think that this was going to be easy?  Did you think that these violent assholes were just going to submit meekly to ICE agents and comply with their lawful actions?  Of course they wouldn’t, and haven’t.  They’ve been resisting ICE with all their might — in one case, deserting his own 5-year-old child to make his escape — and at all stages, these criminals have been assisted in their resistance by the efforts of Marxist scum in (surprise, surprise) Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

Oh yeah, maybe ICE has lost the “public trust”, in those Marxist hellholes and strongholds.  In the rest of the country, where local law enforcement has been helping ICE remove the cancer?  Not so much.

Senator Paul, I generally have a great deal of respect for you — generally, not always, because sometimes you let your inner libertarian go a little too far.  As you did here.

So STFU, let law enforcement get on with their Augean task of cleaning our national stables of this scum and trash, and stop feeding our enemies — that would be the likes of CBS — with headlines that undermine our national purpose.

Quote Of The Day

An excellent analysis by this guy:

“Donald Trump is like a shark, in that he must always swim forward or risk suffocation. He, his administration and the media ecosystem that has grown up around Trump’s political persona depends upon action and controversy. In fallow news cycles, Trump steadily loses the initiative and two things happen:  First, the media establishment and the leftist activist machine begin gathering their own critical momentum.  Second, the vast MAGA-adjacent social media sphere must turn to other controversies to keep the clicks and the ad revenue flowing. Both of these work against the forty-seventh president and his purposes.”

Read the whole thing, because I can find no fault with his thesis.