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From Airstrip One, home of the telescreen, comes this news:

A.I. speed cameras can detect how fast someone is travelling and send a report on the make, model and number plate of a vehicle to the police – but some Brits are concerned over privacy.

And of course, there’s always a willing number of the Terminally Supine who are only too pleased to lick those chains:

Louise Thomas, from Confused.com car insurance thinks it will help improve safety and protect both road users and pedestrians. “A.I. speed cameras will help catch drivers who break the law when behind the wheel, such as driving without wearing a seatbelt or for using their phone,” she said.

And no doubt, she would support compulsory implanting of microscopic ships into drivers’ brains, to cut the cost of the cameras and make surveillance of same much more “efficient”.

As for that “concern over the loss of privacy” thing:  I hate to break it to you Brits, but for you that ship sailed so long ago, it’s already begun the return voyage.

Enjoy the taste of metal on your tongues.

Travesty? Sinful?

Gratuitous Gun Pics

Seen at C.W.’s place:

Now I can think of few people who are more old-fashioned and curmudgeonly than I when it comes to guns (other than those loons who think that brass cartridges are just “a passing fad” — you know who you are).

And here are my personal favorites in this category, just so we’re all clear where I stand on the issue:

Henry Golden Boy

Cimarron  1894

Hell, the Longtime Reader who sent me the link was even grumping something about the “Ninth Circle of Hell” for the perpetrator of said modification.

Frankly, I think that the above-mentioned circle should be reserved for people like Gaston Glock or the guy who thought that trigger locks on S&W revolvers would be a neat idea.

But for the guy who created that skeletonized monstrosity in the pic?

Nazzo fast, Guido.

Yes, if that thing is chambered for the wonderful .45-70 Govt. cartridge as it seems to be, that thing is going to cause equal amounts of pain at both ends of the gun.  But if I’ve learned one thing, it’s that said .45-70 is the kind of gun that is carried a lot, and fired a little (by comparison to, say, a .22 or similar).  The same is true of any of the big-bore dangerous rifles, of course.

And I have to tell y’all:  I think that gun in the pic is kinda cute.

Would I want to take it out of the case in front of friends?  Nope, it’s like that ugly girl who happens to be a sensational lay:  something enjoyed but not displayed.

But if I did go on a hunting party with that gun and a bunch of buddies, all the mockery and abuse would mean less at the end of the day when they came back to the camp exhausted from carrying their magnumthumpenblitzenboomer cannons over hill and dale, while I arrived with a slightly owie shoulder but otherwise as fresh as a daisy.

Feel free to comment on my opinion, of course.

News Roundup

Bad News

Let’s look at some other politically-incorrect news and views, for a change:


…

Fake News Dept.:


...why fake?  Because handguns are illegal in Britishland, ergo this could not possibly have happened.  Bonus:  Guess The Race.

From the Police Blotter:


...thus ensuring that at least something of the visitor will, indeed, stay in Vegas.

In International News:


...missing those massive contributions from Britishland, are we?

In Medical News:


…

Time for some Glueball Jewhate News:


...and does Egypt have the equivalent of the Second Amendment? Why no, no it doesn’t, and nor does any other Muslim nation.


...my only quibble with Elon is his using the future tense in that statement.

In the Technology Dept.:


...am I the only one who thinks he’s having some weird reality dislocation here?  Or is it just the morons responsible for the “backlash”?
#Can’tCope

Science! News:


...same scientists found murdered.
#DeBeers

In Nutritional History News:


...”made excellent fish & chips too”, sez Keith Richards;  but as a kid, Willie Nelson preferred it chicken-fried like his Momma made.

Some dispatches from Sex News:


...Rule #1:  Never try to compete with a slut.

And in link-free 

...no.


...I prefer the old one:  letting her lick the front of your Amex Black Card.

And ending the news on a positive note:


...don’t care about the reason. Here she is:

Nothing wrong with Canuck totty, really, and here’s the Naked News website.

And that’s the end of the (not naked) news.

En Passant

Grooming

In yesterday’s funnies I featured a meme which contained the following pic:

Am I the only guy who hates this “style” with a passion?  It’s a modern one — it certainly doesn’t appear in any art or photographs before the 20th century — and I can only think that whoever first came up with it must have hated women, a lot.