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News Roundup

June 13, 2023 Kim du Toit Bad News

And in Very Important News For Womyns:

...feministas cheer at clear proof that they really don’t need men in their lives. Also, Epsteiner Bill Clinton claims to have an alibi.

...I would have thought that a trip to any Disney theme park would ipso facto ruin a holiday, but maybe that’s just me.

...I liked this Cuban hottie the minute I first read about her.

...I never frequent Taco Bell so I’m immune to this horror, but some people may be interested.

From the Dept. of Global Cooling Climate Warming Change:

...with approximately 53.9999 billion tonnes coming solely from the Third World (e.g. India and China), so send someone to scold them. Oh look, here’s a candidate:

...especially you, Fuckface.

From the Desirable Consequences files:

...I’ve never thought we should emulate anything that Haiti does, but maybe I was too hasty.

In LGBTOSTFU News:

...this is known as “Pedal To The Metal” marketing.

...see above.

From the Great Cultural Assimilation Project:

...I can just see the Somalis lining up for those Gender Studies classes.

...never a random Haitian around when you need one.

And a refreshing dose of link-free INSIGNIFICA:

...you had me at “pussy bows”.

And on that topic:

...any time, any place, RollerGirl.

And that’s all the news that’s fit to drool over.

Down The Toilet

June 13, 2023 Kim du Toit Freaks & Loonies, Legal Stuff, Perverts

That’s what’s going to happen to this poor guy’s business:

A women’s spa, where nudity is compulsory, has been ordered by a judge to admit pre-op trans women with penises after an activist complained when the owner tried to ban them.

Of course, where else but in the Blue Northwest?

The family-owned spa, which has a branch on the outskirts of Seattle and one in Tacoma, is modeled on Jjimjilbang – sex-segregated bath houses in Korea – and offers monthly memberships and day passes.

Needless to say, real women — i.e. those without dangling bits — are probably going to stop frequenting this spa because they don’t want to see hairy penises in a girls-only haven, and the place will soon have to close.

All because some blue-haired trannie freak felt slighted.

In the old days… let me not go there. On the other hand, why the hell not?

Plus Ça Change…

June 12, 2023 Kim du Toit Marxists, QOTD

I’ve just finished re-reading Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower — which, if you haven’t read yet, I urge you to do so — and despite the fact that Tuchman was a tired old Lefty, she still was of an era where historians relied on facts, uncomfortable though they may be. Unlike today’s crop of Newspeak toads, for whom the old adage “If the facts don’t conform with the theory, they must be eliminated” is carved into their stony little hearts.

Here’s one such fact, and it’s a quote of then-Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed (R-Maine), who said of the Progressives of his era:

It was true of Progressives back then, and it’s still more true of their philosophical descendants of today, whether politicians, Greens or the Gender Studies Brigade [some considerable overlap].

Seriously: think of Guam “tipping over”, the “trillion-dollar coin”, “defunding the police”, “anthropomorphic climate change”, “ESG”, “patriarchal hegemony”, “DEI”, “Green New Deal” and all the other modernist, oh-so fashionable tropes and tell me that these “philosophies” (actually more like religions because they rely on belief rather than substance) are not doing today exactly what Reed ascribed to the mountebanks of his era.

Actually, today’s “progressive” tropes are even more antithetical to knowledge than before, because they insist on ignoring or worse, destroying the fundamentals of civilization’s accrued wisdom — because it’s obvious that it’s only without that wisdom that their policies can survive the first question or challenge.

Even worse, when the time comes to write the history of their many failures, the historians, being of the same tribe, will almost certainly lie and ascribe the causes thereof to “fascists”, “counterrevolutionaries” (an old Marxist standby), “revanchists”, “Trumpists” or whatever their fevered little imaginations can devise — anything other than admit to the inherent fallacies of their policies and the crashing, grinding failures and concomitant miseries caused thereby.

Even Tuchman would weep.

[stupidity erased because embarrassing]

Blockade?

June 12, 2023 Kim du Toit Illegal immigrants

I hadn’t heard of this one before:

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has approved a plan to disrupt Rio Grande crossings from Mexico to his state by illegal immigrants. His plan is to use a 1,000-foot “marine floating barrier” to visibly block key sections of the river most immigrants have to cross to enter the United States illegally.

The Center for Immigration Studies said the system is made up of large floating balls that spin to keep people from getting on. And while good swimmers can dive under them, “the whole design is to block the thousands, not the one” who can swim under, a state official told CIS. What’s more, the state is also considering hanging “webbing” under the water barrier to make it hard to dive past.

Okay… I’ll be curious to see if this works.

It’s probably cheaper and simpler to implement than my plan involving a few thousand Nile crocodiles, anyway. Or landmines on the opposite bank.

Targeted Action

June 12, 2023 Kim du Toit Law and Order

…so to speak. Tribe Reader Brad sends me this little example of governmental initiative:

LOS ANGELES — The largest city in California took a step closer to establishing an Office of Unarmed Response to develop alternative responses to some emergency calls, KNBC reports.

Los Angeles City Council approved a motion Tuesday that has the framework of what the Office of Unarmed Response will look like. The framework outlines the scope of funding, staffing, work and determining primary objectives.

The motion required the chief administrative officer to create a program within 120 days for performance management and evaluation of the city’s Unarmed Model of Crisis Response Pilot. The data collected from this study will be utilized to inform the development of the Office of Unarmed Response.

The council also directed the Los Angeles Police Department to provide a report within 90 days, listing the 911 calls that can be appropriately redirected to alternative response models instead of involving armed police officers.

Now before we all start falling about with laughter, let’s consider this one seriously for a moment.

As much as I’m a supporter of the “Kill ’em all, let God figure it out” school of law enforcement, I will allow that some situations absolutely do not require an armed cop on the scene. A good example of this is when the Heavy Boot Of Officialdom is applied to the neck of, say, a child running an unlicensed lemonade stand on the public street, someone littering in a park, or someone playing loud music in their apartment, or “domestic disturbances” — you know, when a man and a woman can no longer deal with each other’s shit and start yelling and screaming.

Likewise, someone breaking the speed limit or driving without current vehicle registration does definitely not require an armed cop to enforce what are, after all, simple misdemeanors.

What all the above situations require is a cool head, a counselor if you will, to speak kindly to the miscreants and persuade them of the folly of their ways.

I see nothing but satisfactory outcomes.

And I think the City of Angels is the perfect laboratory in which to test this laudable initiative.