From Xwitter:
Actually, a more fitting musical accompaniment would be a series of drumrolls as he mounts the stairs to the scaffold. But hey, don’t just go with my (admittedly-severe) option.
Let’s poll the parents of the tens of thousands of young girls who were tortured and raped by Muslim gangs — which Starmer knew all about, and did absolutely fuck all to prosecute.
Recorders, or drumrolls for them? [#NoBets]
Speaking of music — actual music, now — I’ve talked about Georgian hottie and pianiste extraordinaire Khatia Buniatishvili before, and I might even have posted this performance of ol’ Sergei’s 2nd before.
But one thing I have heretofore missed about this particular video (and I’ve watched it many times) is the performance of the conductor, Italian maestro Gianandrea Noseda. Small wonder that he’s so in demand.
If I were ever to aspire to being a classical orchestra conductor, I’d want to be like him.
Extraordinary.
…as defined by this week’s Chewsday Challenge.
The problem with limiting yourself to one brand with a price ceiling is that few watchmakers offer much in style variation. To be frank, all Rolex watches look pretty much the same to me. And just offering the same watch with different face colors or metals (gold, steel whatever) doesn’t really qualify as variation, as such.
Vacheron Constantin, for example, has several lovely watch types and variations, but only if you’re not averse to having your nose suddenly start bleeding.
So here’s my choice of watch brand: Omega — specifically, these variations, all of which are available new, i.e. unworn:
I am somewhat constrained by my unshakable insistence on manual-wind operation, and it seems that for watches costing less than $25,000 (much less, in Omega’s case, bless ’em), there are precious few choices of brand. Sure, most offer many variations, except for that manual-wind thing.
Still, the above three are nice-looking and of decent quality, and I’d be happy to wear any one of them on my wrist.
Incidentally, if I were to go for used (secondhand [sic]), there’s always Patek Philipe:
…each of which is so beautiful they make my mouth water. I don’t even want to think what they would cost new — assuming Patek even still made them with manual-winding operation, that is.
And there you have it. My (post-Lotto) watch collection(s).
As we’re slipping into summer (hurtling, here in north Texas), what about some suntanning-type MILF pics?
And a gaggle, doing some good works or charity or some such excuse:
From various sources:
Georgia Teacher Wore ‘Jesus Loves You’ Sweater in Video
While Having Sex with Student
...wasn’t it Jesus who talked about “suffer the little children to come into unto me”? [/atheist ignorance]
Male Texas Teacher Charged With Grooming 16-year-old with
Talk of ‘Threesomes’ With Other Men
...like all good socialists, he’s sharing the wealth with that kiddie-diddling thang, huh?
New York Teacher Pleads Guilty to Having Child Porn that
Included ‘Infants and Toddlers’
...looking ahead at the “farm” team, no doubt.
Seems like all the states are getting in on the action, so to speak.
Talking about making America’s military great again (MAMGA?), this was said:
“The White House is seeking expanded manufacturing commitments from defense contractors, [and] is pressing automakers to convert spare production capacity to defense.”
Ummm the way I see it, the only “spare production capacity” that U.S. automakers have right now — because they sure as hell ain’t gonna quit making SUVs and pickup trucks — is in EV. And I’m not so sure that the Dept. of War is looking for EV stuff unless it’s drones.
As always with Salamander, it’s a fine article.