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News Roundup

October 5, 2021 Kim du Toit Bad News

News that can be trusted, because it comes from TV, the newspapers and the Internet.

…and to think that we men used to get into trouble for referring to women as “life support systems for pussy”.

…key word: France. And ladies, if you and the Mister are in financial difficulties, watch out what he gives you to drink, or at least hide the videocam.

…there go the Republicans, under-achieving as always. I can think of at least seven, without even working at it.

…

…from both sides of the blockage.

…but the national origins of said criminal clans? A complete mystery.

…they owed him one after turning down the gun-hater to head up the ATF.

,,,being too busy forming their own.

…fixed it for them, the woke journo bastards.

…vive la France.

…why am I not surprised by this? Best part is all those diet-conscious people who believed in the Diet Coke/Pepsi bullshit and felt virtuous about their choice are probably feeling like proper idiots right now.

…and in Comments, your suggestions for our new country’s name.

Time for INSIGNIFICA:

…I think we all know at least one woman like this.

…in Georgia, this news item would appear in the “Upcoming Weddings” section of the paper.

…tough broads, those Scottish totties.

…and when you see the pic, you’ll see why she had no difficulty at all.

Finally, here’s someone in the news:

Okay, Charlotte Hawkins is actually a newsreader on Brit TV, so technically I’m correct…

Wait A Minute

October 5, 2021 Kim du Toit The Gun Thing

I know, I know… Smith & Wesson has decided to leave Massachusetts because the MassGov hates them, wants to tax them out of business, and wants to make it illegal for them to manufacture products (AR-15s) which account for 60% of S&W’s sales.

So unsurprisingly, S&W said, “Fuck you” and are planning to move to…

…Tennessee?

I mean, I have nothing but love for the Davy Crockett state, but what are we Texans? Chopped liver? S&W didn’t even consider Texas for relocation, and surely we could compete with Tennessee in the “nice places to do business” competition.

All that said, the Maryville area is a pretty area. I’ve been there several times to call on a former client (hi, Pat!) and it’s only a stone’s throw from the Smoky Mountains.

Of course, the announcement could have been wrong, in that S&W are planning to move to Marysville TX, which is a little unincorporated area just south of the Oklahoma/Texas border; but then again:

…probably not.

I still think we should have been given a chance, though.

Quote Of The Day

October 4, 2021 Kim du Toit Gummint, Law and Order

From this Insty post talking about the fascist fucks in Melbourne Oz:

…talking, of course, about the U.S. Also, follow the link to Rebel News and watch the video to see the OzFuzz in action.

I think I’ll head out to the range for a while, just to calm my nerves.

Out Of Touch

October 4, 2021 Kim du Toit Deep Thoughts, Entertainment

One of the besetting problems of getting older is that much of what passes for the modern-day zeitgeist simply passes one by, either unnoticed or else rejected without even attempting to follow.

I must have been getting old when I was still young, because:

I have never watched a single minute of Dr. Who
…or the Kardashian women’s show
…or any of the “competition” shows like Dancing With The Stars
I never watched any of the Rocky shows after Rocky II
I’ve only ever watched the first three Star Wars movies, and even The Return Of The Jedi sucked
I pretty much stopped listening to “new” popular music when grunge appeared (at age 40-ish)
I have never played an online computer game, of any description
and so on.

At some point, therefore, I must have started looking at new trends, and decided, “Best not” (in the words of Lord Salisbury, circa 1894).

Don’t even ask me about politics, cars or clothing. (Longtime Readers will know all about my antipathy towards those modernistic monstrosities anyway.)

I know that everyone gets this way in their later years, but it seems mine started long before I actually reached my seniority, way sooner than when this happened to my friends of like age.

If I’d owned a house at that time, I’d probably have been yelling at the kids to get off my lawn when I was in my late twenties.

None of this means that I reject all things new, of course, just that I am extraordinarily picky about adopting any of them. This is being typed on a laptop that is hundreds or times more powerful than the corporate IBM 360/40 I worked on as an operator in the mid-1970s, and I love the cord-free existence of Bluetooth and wi-fi. But if I had to, I could easily revert to an earlier generation of comm technology.

I’m even getting bored of writing about this topic right now, so I think I’ll quit. There are a couple of books that need reading — paper books, not that Kindle nonsense.