When faced with this:
Gary Puckett: “You’re much too young, girl.”
Jimmy Page: “Over there on the couch, darlin’.”
Lest anyone gets all hot and bothered by this:
That’s her, in the middle.
By the way, her Mom is a total hottie:
Just so we all know where my proclivities lie.
Some people just haven’t got the memo. Like senior hillbilly Asa Hutchinson [who? nemmind, just stay with me here]:
GOP presidential candidate former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump is in “serious jeopardy” of being found not to be qualified to be president.
…and the rest of his statement is all politico-legal jargon about “courts” and whatever.
You clueless idiot. Can’t you see that the more people line up against Trump — especially the DoJ, the White House and morons like yourself — the more likely that conservative voters who are just pissed off at the whole circus will just say, “Fuck all y’all!” and vote for Trump in still-greater numbers, just out of spite?
Regardless, Asa old bean, if Trump is found “not qualified” to be president (by whom? on what grounds?), then what does that make you?
Over at Wristwatch_Revival, Marshall gets an old (1960s-era) Omega Constellation working again. And by the time he’s done…
I have no words. That tapered dial, the simple numerals… it whispers “elegance” like their newer bling-studded geegaws can’t (no pics: I don’t even want to put them on the same page as this beauty).
I would wear this watch every night of the week, and most especially if I were eating at a fine restaurant each night with, say, Nigella Lawson.
Am I alone in loving these things so much?
By the way, this is one of Marshall’s earlier shows, where he was still finding his way around the craft. There are a couple of mishaps, one hilarious.
Well, well, well. Turns out that the massive fire in Hawaii which caused all those deaths has absolutely nothing to do with Global Cooling Climate Warming Change©, but instead has the grimy fingerprints of incompetent officialdom all over the place:
The Maui fire is proving to be the worst wildfire in American history, having taken over 100 lives and likely many more by the time the count is complete. The fire itself was started by downed power lines, which was poorly fought (it was declared contained before it raged out of control), was made deadly by an incompetent Emergency Management official (Karen wrote about this in her VIP column earlier today), and to cap it all off was made difficult to fight by a government official who refused to approve the use of water to fight the fire.
That’s a trifecta of terrible, right there. But it gets worse:
It turns out that nine years ago, a report by Hawaiian fire researchers sounded the alarm that the area was at extremely high risk of burning. Many key recommendations were ignored.
Where have we heard this before? Oh yeah, in California.
And needless to say, one of the gummint lackeys is not only incompetent, but a woketard:
During the inferno that devastated part of the island of Maui, wiping entire towns off the map and possibly killing more than a thousand people (once a full assessment can be made), people on Maui begged state officials to allow West Maui stream water to be diverted to fill up reservoirs for firefighting. That request went to M. Kaleo Manuel, Deputy Director of Hawaii’s Commission on Water Resource Management, and he delayed approval of that water for five hours – five hours in which the once-contained fire exploded. By the time the approval was received, workers were unable to reach the siphon release so that the water could be diverted. Now we’re learning that Manuel, an Obama Foundation Leader for the Asia Pacific Region, is a climate change activist and DEI devotee who’s said, “Like, we can share [water], but it requires true conversations about equity.”
Yeah, having more than a hundred people die unnecessarily sounds pretty equitable to me. And the highlighted part of the above goes without saying because of course this stupid tit is an Obama lickspittle.
I saw this yesterday (link in pic):
…and it struck me that politicians shouldn’t ever take this at face value. Why?
Because we gun owners seldom show up to demonstrate. We do, however, show up at the polls, and in greater numbers than the ninnies carrying silly placards.
Wussy TennGov Bill Lee should take note.
By the way, the anti-gunners aren’t having much success, as this weepy article reveals.
You know you’ve pissed off the locals when you arrive at your holiday destination to see signs like this scattered all over the place:
And as the signs are printed, not handmade, enough of that sentiment exists that someone’s making money off it. Whatever could have driven the locals to feel this way? Well, here’s one possible reason:
A man shared his frustrations after being rejected three-times by restaurants with plenty of free tables in Barcelona. Resident (!) Eudald said: “On the first terrace that I got a table, a waiter quickly arrived and told me that it was reserved. It was not. As soon as I got up, a group of foreigners who were behind me sat down,” he explained.
“In the next one, they warned me that I would only have 20 minutes. I specified that I wanted to have dinner, but they insisted that I should do it within that time frame.”
Giving a Spaniard only 20 minutes to eat his meal… isn’t that against the law, Over There? And don’t these guys know who keeps their doors open when the touristas aren’t there?
Then you have this situation:
Ximo Lorenzo, the manager of the Clandesti bar in Valencia, said he’s tried other methods to stop customers from hanging around and not paying for drinks – but they failed. He told Levante-EMV: “This is a cheap place where we had board games for people to play, but I’ve seen people arrive at 6pm, stay until 12pm and only order a coke. That’s not profitable.”
At first, Lorenzo said board game players were required to order a drink every 40 minutes, but customers didn’t listen. He then limited glasses for shared drinks and took away the board games, which he said was a “shame”. He said: “In general, people do have common sense and order several drinks if they are there for a long time. But on the days when we brought live music, some people came in to see the concert and didn’t drink anything, so I had to put up a compulsory consumption sign.”
Nothing worse than a cheapskate tourist, I agree. Even I, a devoted flaneur, will order either a meal, some pastries and/or several cups of coffee or aperitifs if I stay awhile. However, ol’ Ximo could have the other kind of problem:
Boozy Brits vomit & brawl on streets of new party capital as
girls flash for free drinks & down 10 shots in 10 seconds
You have to read the whole story to get the full extent of the awfulness, but here are a couple of choice snippets:
British visitors Stacey, from Manchester, and Londoner Katy, had been left feeling a little disgusted after trying out the Anus Burner shot made up of tequila, orange juice and Tabasco.
And:
One person has a plastic phallus strapped to their head and if other punters can land three neon hoops over it, the whole bar gets a shot for free. If they fail, the reveler wearing the penis has to pay for everyone to get a shot.
Nothing says “class” like walking into a pub to find someone wearing a penis on their head — although I suspect the term “dickhead” slips easily off the tongue.
Oh well… scratch Split from the “Travel Bucket List” — or maybe I’d just go during late fall or winter, to avoid the wild animals (see above).