Trying not to start the public floggings
This article caught my attention:
Britain’s ‘ghost’ island: Tragic reason why last residents of remote archipelago left 95 years ago today
He’s talking about St. Kilda in the Outer Hebrides, and I believe the answer may be found on this map:
…which makes me think of only one thing: future internment camp for illegal aliens.
Yeah, tell me you didn’t think of that too.
There’s a good reason why this is happening:
Mass protests have exploded outside migrant hotels across the country this weekend as furious families gathered in major cities including Birmingham and London.
Hotels across Dudley, Epping, London, Manchester and Norwich have also braced for protests as communities seek to replicate the ruling for The Bell Hotel which, pending an appeal, must be closed within weeks.
It comes after more than 30 protests under the Abolish Asylum system were held in towns and cities across the UK on Saturday.
These included Bristol, Exeter, Tamworth, Cannock, Nuneaton, Liverpool, Wakefield, Newcastle, Horley, Canary Wharf, Aberdeen and Perth in Scotland, and Mold in Wales.
A separate batch of protests were also organised by Stand Up to Racism in Bristol, Cannock, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Wakefield, Horley and Long Eaton in Derbyshire.
Quite frankly, the Brits are rebelling against their government’s accommodationist [sic] policy towards illegal immigrants — I’m sorry, I meant “asylum seekers” — because Britain doesn’t have anything like this*:
And here’s the big difference. We have facilities like the above because:
The Brits, on the other hand, never voted for “asylum hotels”, but had them thrust upon them by their (elected) government. So it’s all very well blaming the Britgov for doing this, but let’s be honest about the whole thing: it’s not like the awful Labour Party ever disguised their intentions — and the Brits voted them into power anyway because the “Conservative” Party had cocked up the whole migrant issue themselves, and I suppose the Brit voters wanted to “teach them a lesson”.
Well, that worked well for them, didn’t it?
Now, the Tories are but a shadow of their former [ahem Thatcherite] glory, and the party most likely to replace them as the proper Opposition is…
That’s assuming, of course, that Farage can survive the typical (and tiresome) British tradition of political treachery and backstabbing.
But if all the above popular demonstrations are anything to be believed, it means that native Brits have finally fond their voice, and a principle to rally around.
And it’s about damn time. Let’s just hope that it’s not too late.
*I know, I know: some idiot judge has rued that AlliAlc must be closed or something, so we’ll just have to find another place that doesn’t upset the local Democrats Indian tribe. (Maybe we should just offer to convert AlliAlc into a fucking casino in ten years’ time, just to shut them up.)
Okay, it’s probably just me, but…
Where the hell does Trump find all these beautiful and intelligent women to work for him? (I know, the Left is all over this, whining that he only appoints these “bimbos” — their word, not mine — as though it’s utterly impossible to be clever and beautiful, the combination of which is conspicuous by its absence on their side of the aisle.)
I mean, probably the ugliest woman working in Trump’s administration is his AG, and Pam Bondi is not at all ugly — especially when compared to leftists like OMG Janet Reno, Rosa de Lauro and that screeching lesbianist on MSNBC/MS NOW(?) with the black glasses.
The latest one to catch my eye was when reading at American Thinker about Trump’s Deputy U.S. Envoy for the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, whose first name made me think it was a guy. But nope, Morgan is absolutely no guy:
Now young Morgan is not just a pretty face. Here’s what the boffins at AmThink have to say about her:
Hezbollah, rattled by her bluntness, staged demonstrations against her remarks in February, when she declared that the group had been defeated militarily and that its role in government was no longer tolerable. Many in Beirut concluded she had been sidelined, replaced by Tom Barrack’s more measured style. By June, her name was shorthand for a missed opportunity—the hawk who had pressed too hard, too fast.
Now, though, President Trump has issued a directive ordering her back, a powerful signal that Washington has not abandoned the line of pressure and accountability she embodied, but is rebalancing it, pairing Tom Barrack’s optimism with her credibility.
In the meetings with President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and Speaker Berri, Ortagus sat quietly through most of the formal sessions, letting Barrack take the lead in public. Lebanon’s political class, however, understands that her silence was because she already knows the playbook. She has studied the system, understands the “political theatre” that governs decision-making in Beirut, and has seen how elites manipulate time and process to stall change.
That knowledge is why her return matters. Lebanese leaders thrive on ambiguity and exhausting new envoys with a maze of committees, statements, and staged “dialogue.” Ortagus, though, has already rattled the system once, and her reappearance signals she will do so again.
And I’ll bet her combination of brains and beauty confuses those Arab assholes beyond words, because they’re likely more accustomed to gargoyles like Obama’s one-time Secretary of State, who combined astounding ugliness and stupidity:
…quite the reverse of Mrs. Ortagus.
As I said, I don’t know where Trump is finding all these smart, attractive women to work for him, but let’s hope he keeps the trend going.
Oh, and by the way? Morgan Ortagus has a twin sister named Megan.
Have mercy.
When it comes to disemboweling a government agency, it’s really hard to beat Matt Taibbi’s take on the CIA:
Before Trump was even a Republican nominee, a CIA Director relayed “concerns” to the FBI that “served as the basis” for years of grueling investigation that would paralyze his presidency; after his election, as we’ve learned all summer, CIA then cooked up a bogus intelligence report saying Trump won with Russian help; CIA leaked its balls off to papers like the New York Times about how Moscow worked to “install” Trump in the White House; CIA helped topple Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn by telling every reporter on earth he was a “clown” who said mean things about the CIA and secretly conspired with Russia; CIA warned foreign countries not to share intelligence with Trump because Russia held “leverages of pressure” on him; CIA stuck fictional campaign research about “compromising personal and financial information” Russia had in a report that was leaked to CNN in less time than it takes for fleas to mate; CIA accused Trump of treason; CIA got Trump impeached; CIA leaked stories that Trump let Russians kill Americans for sport; CIA banded together to call a true Hunter Biden story a Russian influence operation; CIA spent the last half-century overturning foreign governments and in this one is trying do the same at home, in such blatant violation of its charter that 77 million people last year voted to have it shot like a lame horse… But sure, yes, let’s make sure the CIA is at the President’s side when we’re trying to negotiate a peace settlement. What could go wrong?
Yeah, those days of relying on the “experts” in government agencies — any of them — are as gone as last year’s flatulence.
Seen at Twitter* (via Insty):
Ahem. Having been through the (legal) immigration process myself, and most recently with New Wife, I can attest that the question involving prior membership of the Communist Party or similar organizations is still very much part of the interrogatory, and has been since the early 1950s.
So to say it has “no prior precedent in immigration law” is, like so many utterances from the Left, a bald fucking lie.
All that the Trumpist USCIS is doing now is broadening the scope to bring such charming little fads like jihad and terrorsymp into the conversation. And about damn time, too.
*All Elon’s rebranding efforts to the contrary, it will always be Twitter to me. Screw that “X” nonsense.
Talking about the current brouhaha in Britishland over local town councils taking down British or England flags while leaving Palestinian flags flying:
“If raising your own country’s flag is seen as an act of rebellion, then maybe your country is under foreign occupation.” — Alex James
Thank goodness we have laws about this kind of thing Over Here, because let me tell you that any similar reindeer games by local municipalities would result in both lawsuits (if they were lucky) and possibly gunfire.
If I (or any other proud Americans) want to fly our national flag, it will be flown regardless of whom it might “offend” or “trigger”.