Here’s an easily-answered question:
My guess: to make it feel less like you’re driving a toaster oven? Suggested new name for the thing: Taycan’t. And of course, this “new” feature doesn’t come cheaply, so say hello to “price increase”.
Wouldn’t accept one as a gift.
Now as for the real thing (Cayman), however:
In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby.
I see that the Micks have the temerity to be angry about yet the latest crime committed by an “immigrant” — one of the many thousands dumped in Northern Oirland by the various British governments of recent times.
Of course, being Irish, they are expressing their displeasure in the traditional manner:
Violent scenes were witnessed in Northern Ireland again on Wednesday as tensions remain high in the wake of an apparent attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast, allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese asylum seeker.
Hordes of black balaclava masked men clashed with riot officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on Wednesday in areas such as the Belfast suburb of Newtownabbey, where a lorry truck was set on fire by agitators. The truck is believed to have been a municipal “gully emptier” used to clean street drainage systems.
A car was also set on fire on Antrim Road in the area, while fires were also lit at the Sandyknowes roundabout, the Belfast Telegraph reported.
Nearby, police were forced to deploy a water cannon to push back a large crowd attempting to break into a Newtownabbey hotel, likely over at least rumours of migrants being housed inside.
Next will be the bombs, I’m guessing. I’m pretty sure that the IRA Provos still have a few hidden somewhere since The Troubles subsided.
Needless to say, the BritGov is responding in its traditional way, by labeling the protesters as “extreme Rightwing”, suppressing all online mention of the protests as well as going with the water cannons (in stark contrast to their treatment of the BLM-inspired riots a couple years back).
The response from the British government has seemingly attempted to shift the blame for the violence to those commenting on social media, rather than the horrific stabbing attack, footage of which was widely seen and reports indicating that the UK government had granted the suspect asylum after entering into the country illegally.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed to “crack down on anyone who is fuelling this division,” adding that “there is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.”
Tell that to the Beheaders, old cock, and maybe then we can believe you.
When all the smoke has cleared, I’ll just be curious to see what’s left. Of everything. Over There. In the meantime…
This sad tale is quite thought-provoking:
Internet stars Jesse Ridgway, 33, and Ashley Ridgway, 31, announced that they had made the ‘difficult decision’ to terminate their pregnancy earlier this week, two months after learning their unborn child had Down syndrome.
“As for us, we made a difficult decision that we believe in the long-run will be beneficial for our family,” Jesse wrote in a series of Instagram Story. “Thankfully, we had a choice. “It will take a little time to move on, but we are excited to try again in the future and hopefully have a better outcome,” he added.
Just a week earlier, the pair had shared a YouTube video showing the results of an amniocentesis test, which screens for birth defects and chromosomal conditions. In the clip, the couple sat on the floor and viewed the test results in real time, which revealed markers consistent with Trisomy 21, medically known as Down syndrome.
Ashley broke into tears as Jesse explained that the couple had previously discussed terminating the pregnancy if faced with such a scenario, a decision they later confirmed on Wednesday.
Jesse, posted a series of emotional Instagram stories saying the couple had decided to have an abortion, describing the decision as “not made lightly” and “extremely traumatic.”
I’ll say it is. I can’t actually think of anything more gut-wrenching than this one, but when all is said and done, given what they were going to face, I can’t say I disagree with what they did.
And before I start getting screamed at, I note the many similarities between this decision and the decision to turn off life support for a terminally-ill relative — the latter of which does not seem to engender much of a response from the All Life Is Precious Brigade.
Remember too that I am a bitter foe of abortion-on-demand, except in cases like this.
I once knew a guy — back in South Africa, where abortion was very much illegal — whose wife had had a Downs Syndrome baby. The poor little tyke lived until age 10, and then died from the usual issues associated with this unhappy circumstance. Several years later, I asked him about his feelings on the topic, and his response was blunt and to the point.
“It was hell,” he stated bluntly. “Absolute bloody hell: for my wife, for me, and for little Eric. Ten years of exhausting hell. As much as we tried to put a cheerful face on it, I think my wife cried herself to sleep every night for five years. And when Eric finally went into the hospital for the last time — we knew his condition was terminal — we crucified ourselves with our guilt because we were feeling nothing but relief that his, hers and my hell were finally coming to an end.”
Of course, in the case of our unhappy couple in New Jersey, there have been the usual issues from the lunatics:
The news immediately triggered a wave of online backlash. A day later, the pair revealed that their inboxes were being flooded with ‘hate and vitriol’ over their ‘impossible decision.’
Jesse, known online as McJuggerNuggets, said that since sharing their abortion, they have been exposed to a “deeply disturbing” side of humanity. One comment left under their YouTube video read: “Genuinely the most dystopian and disturbing video I’ve seen on YouTube. Truly evil. Four months.” Another said, “Hitler thought those with disabilities didn’t deserve to live either!!! You should be sterilized.”
All those comments, of course, are coming from people who’ve never had to face anything like the choice — if it can be called that — that these poor kids have had to deal with.
If I can fault the Ridgways with anything, it’s for putting the whole ghastly episode on the Internet. Had they just had the thing done, then put up a brief, sorrowful post that they had lost the unborn baby, nobody would have been any the wiser and everyone could just have carried on.
But this unhealthy urge to share with strangers the most intimate details of one’s life is total poison — as Jesse and Ashley Ridgway have discovered. I only hope that he never has to use the gun he keeps next to his bed, because that would just add to the tragedy; although getting rid of some screeching fanatic would not be that bad an outcome, because they live in Noo Joizee the consequences of ending that asshole’s life would be more punitive than ending the life of their unborn, unhealthy baby.
There are no winners in this horrible story, and the maniacs who insist on piling on are just adding to the tragedy.
…what the WHPC shooter’s motives were, according to that lying sack of shit Obama:
“Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it’s incumbent upon us all to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy.”
Yeah, apart from the scrote’s actual published words, that is. The guy could have been carrying a handwritten, signed note in his pocket saying “I want to kill Trump!” and I bet Obama would still have said the same thing, the mealymouthed little motherfucker.
It’s always about “plausible deniability” with these socialist scumbags, isn’t it?
Here’s how I see it. There are two sets of “motives” with all these so-called “random shooters”. The first set of motives is the obvious ones, e.g. what he himself said his motives were.
The second set of motives is what I referred to in last week’s post about the Anarchists’ Playbook:
All these “Ego” Anarchists had responded to the principle of Anarchy — “The Idea”, as Barbara Tuchman described it in the Proud Tower — and its primary focus was on destruction of a state or institution, perpetrated by a lone individual guided by near-insanity or else a mind infused with hatred for “the System” and its leaders.
We’re seeing it now, all over again: Charlie Kirk of Turning Point, assassinated by Tyler Robinson; Brian Thompson of United Healthcare, assassinated by Luigi Mangione, and various other such attempted assassinations.
…and now we can add this latest little turd to the file of “attempted assassinations”.
Barack Obama and his merry little band of Commies can bleat all they want about unknown motives, but they are flat-out lying. They know all too well what these motives are because they’re encouraging them, they and their little lickspittles in the media and academia.
I need to quit now before I’m accused of suggesting that Obama et al. should be dragged up the gallows stairs for being guilty of fomenting insurrection and assassinations.
From Reader RobinB:
“Moving to a smaller apartment and sadly, can’t take my beloved piano with me. I would love to find it a new home where it will be played and cherished. Let me know if you want it or know someone who might be interested.”
Sadly, I have no room for a piano and I can’t play one anyway, so I’m out of the picture. If anyone else reading this wants a piano, contact me and I’ll forward that onto Robin.
I have to say that I’ve always thought that WWII’s Operation Market Garden was actually a very successful military campaign, and not the horrible failure as it’s been painted. And this guy agrees with me:
In fact, the operation succeeded at six of its seven principal objectives, a rate of achievement that would be considered remarkable in almost any other military context. The American 82nd Airborne Division, under Brigadier General James Gavin, faced the daunting task of seizing the great road bridge at Nijmegen across the Waal River, one of the widest river crossings in Western Europe. They did so after brutal urban combat and a daylight assault river crossing in canvas boats under direct enemy fire, one of the most audacious tactical actions of the entire war.7 The bridge was taken intact even after the Germans tried to blow it up. The 101st Airborne Division, led by Major General Maxwell Taylor, seized the majority of its assigned bridges and canal crossings in the southern portion of the corridor and held the vital road that the operation depended on, quickly dubbed “Hell’s Highway” by the soldiers who fought along it, against repeated and determined German counterattacks. British armored units of XXX Corps advanced deeper into occupied territory in a shorter period than in any previous operation in the Western campaign. The scale of what was accomplished tends to disappear in the shadow of Arnhem, but it was genuinely extraordinary, representing the successful coordination of tens of thousands of men, hundreds of aircraft, and an armored column driving north along a single road through hostile country.
I have read a ton of history on the topic — WWII is very much a period of history near to my heart — and I think that too often Market Garden is used a lot by American historians to have a go at Brit Field Marshal Montgomery. (He’s too often caricatured instead of appreciated. Not that I have a problem with that, in general terms, because he set himself up for it pretty much all the way through the war. But we tend to forget that the reason Monty was so cautious a military commander was that he was faced with the stark fact that British and Commonwealth manpower’s losses were, to use the modern term, quite unsustainable.)
Going back to Market Garden: it may well have been a bridge too far (Arnhem), but its only real failure was that even if it had been a total success, it’s doubtful that it would have been the war-ender that Montgomery believed it would be.
I await Reader Sage Grouch’s informed opinion on this.