Splendid Isolation

Month: February 2025

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

This one made my heart swell with pride  (but also with sorrow):

According to Kentucky State Police, troopers were dispatched to the home in Manchester around 4:30 a.m. Saturday for reports of a shooting.  When troopers arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds.

Jeffrey Allen, 51, was pronounced dead at the scene. Roger Smith, 44, was transported to an area hospital but later died.

Police said that the two men had broken into the home with the intention of stealing firearms from a safe.  During the break-in, a juvenile living in the home saw the men holding firearms. Acting in self-defense, police said, the child retrieved a handgun and shot both men before escaping through a bedroom window.

Police did not give the exact age of the child who shot the alleged intruders.

Now, why is my heart filled with sorrow?  Because as much as I applaud the kid’s actions, I hope like hell that this doesn’t cause him mental anguish.

Folks, it’s no fun taking a human life, even when the taking is both morally and legally justified.  And as much as I post these events and make light of them, I truly do not want kids to be involved.  It’s bad enough for an adult to deal with;  it’s horrible for a young ‘un.

That said, at least this kid wasn’t a victim of these two asshole goblins;  now that would have made me really angry.

In passing, the “Emily van der Riet” in the byline is this young lady:

She may even be a Seffrican, with that name — it’s quite a common one back in the Vaderland.  As long as she isn’t a liberal…

Surrender

Legal Stuff, Muzzies, Two-Minute Hate

Surrendering to an enemy is not always a bad thing.  Sometimes, your position is hopeless, and continuing the struggle is not only pointless but perhaps ruinous — loss of life, loss of country, whatever.

But surrendering to an enemy when you have won?  That, my friends, takes a lot of doing.   Try this for an example of the latter:

Are you fucking kidding me?  The murderous bitch was “upset”?   Bloody hell, why not just put sunglasses on her to cover her eyes as well?  Or why bother with a mugshot at all?

When she expressed her anguish at the facial mugshot, they should have re-shot the thing, thus:

Or even better, if she had the proper attributes:

That would have been much better treatment for her… but no, Milord Justice had to roll over like a little possum and accommodate her stupid religious custom, when she’s accused of trying to join ISIS to kill non-Muslim people.

Fuck ’em — not just the terrorists, but the spineless assholes who kowtow to them.

By the way:  before the original and oh-so-objectionable mugshot is scrubbed from the Internet by the judge’s little cousins in wokedom, here it is.

Small Beginnings

Bureaucracy, Trumpism

I submit these two little snippets for your  enjoyment  contemplation:

First:  the I.R.S.:

The Trump administration has executed one of the most significant workforce reductions in U.S. history, targeting over 200,000 probationary employees across multiple government agencies.

It was first reported that Trump’s administration plans to axe around 9,000 jobs at the IRS, primarily targeting employees still in their probationary period.  However, as many as 15,000 IRS workers have been identified for possible termination as early as next week.

The targeted employees, many of whom were added during the Biden administration’s expansion of the IRS, reportedly hold non-essential roles unrelated to processing tax filings.

One can only hope that this will end with the department’s complete abolition.   I’m not kidding, either.

Second, the CDC:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is poised to lose roughly one-tenth of its workforce due to a Trump policy axing probationary employees as part of a larger effort of the Trump administration to cut the size and scope of government.

This reality comes as the Trump administration orders federal agencies to cut off probationary employees. That includes roughly 1,300 staffers at the CDC alone. Those employees, according to the Associated Press, are expected to receive roughly four weeks of paid administrative leave.

Let’s hope that the reduced CDC staffing means that those quacks will be going after actual diseases like smallpox and malaria, instead of inventing “epidemics” like accidental gun deaths and suchlike.  (I’m hopeful, but not optimistic that this will happen;  if it doesn’t, shut them down too and leave it to the states to deal with.)

Like I said, this is a good start, going after the low-hanging fruit (“probationary”, “non-essential”, FFS), but let’s not stop there.

Modern Classic Beauty: Naomi Watts

Classic Beauty

Other than perhaps Rosamund Pike, no modern British woman personifies the term “English rose” better than Naomi Watts.  Over Here in Murka, we haven’t seen much of this fragile beauty (other than perhaps in Mulholland Drive  and the latest King Kong) , but I intend to rectify that now.

 

 

Exquisite.  And, like Rosamund Pike, an excellent actress.