August 2024 – Page 15 – Splendid Isolation

A schoolboy has been charged with a string of knife and sex offences including attempted rape.
The 13-year-old is accused of carrying out a three-week long campaign in the Newfoundpool area of Leicester.
He allegedly attempted oral rape on a woman while in possession of a knife in Ruby Street on July 10.
The boy is also accused of affray with intent to commit a sexual offence on a woman while in possession of a knife in Stephenson Drive on July 29.
He also allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint in Rowan Street on July 31.
Police charged him with a fourth offence of possessing a knife in Fosse Road North on August 1.

Busy lil’ fucker [sic], isn’t he?

I was reminded of a pre-law lecture I once attended back in the early 1970s, during an ill-considered attempt to get a law degree.

The lecturer, a rather pretty blond professor, stated that under South African law, a boy under the age of 14 was considered incapable of rape.

There was a long silence after she said that; then came a heartfelt groan from the back of the class: “Now they tell us.”

Even the professor laughed.

It was one of my shining moments, but I still failed the course.

Today’s Earworm

August 5, 2024 Kim du Toit Music

Rene — from the same album as the LAST earworm, FFS.

For the time, the Small Faces were one of the heaviest-sounding bands in the world.

Ya think? Try Song Of A Baker.

Important Stuff

August 5, 2024 Kim du Toit Food & Drink

From the experts comes this advice on how to make a perfect cup of tea.

Yorkshire Tea reveals how to make the perfect cuppa

I don’t know how to do that many things well — but when it comes to making tea, I do it perfectly.

From an early age, I used to make my mom a night-time cuppa, brewed in a small teapot, which I would take up to her bedroom for her to drink in bed before she said her prayers and went to sleep. I did it every night for years until I went to boarding school, and even then I’d do it for her during school holidays, right up until I moved out of home.

I have, in short, brewed thousands of cups of tea in my lifetime.

New Wife drinks tea, upwards of six cups a day where possible, and she says that indeed, I make the best tea she’s ever had. (She drinks Yorkshire Gold, by the way. I turned her onto it before we got married, and now it’s all she drinks.)

Just for the record, I make her tea precisely the way that Yorkshire Tea says it should be made, with one small addition: I first warm her cup with hot water while the water is boiling before emptying it and putting the teabag in, then pouring the boiling water over the teabag. (The tea brews more quickly that way.)

And before anyone gets on my case about teabags vs. loose tea: with YG, there is no difference in taste between the two — yes, I did a blind taste test with New Wife, who couldn’t tell the difference. (And if she can’t, nobody can.)

Finally: I’m a Tiffy. Always have been, because putting the milk in after the tea has brewed is the only way to bring the tea to the desired color / strength. Some people like it brown, others lighter. My kids — also devoted tea drinkers — prefer it strongly-brewed but paler (D1 in the chart below), with sugar, while New Wife prefers it to be medium strength and a sort of tan color (C3) with no sugar. It’s an art.

Like I said, this is important stuff.

Quote Of The Day

August 5, 2024 Kim du Toit Marxists, QOTD, Resistance

Here’s the background to the quote below.

This is as true in the U.S. as it is in the U.K.

“It is hard to avoid the conclusion that we are ruled by people who fear the anger of the masses following acts of inhumanity more than they do the acts of inhumanity themselves.”

Note the overreaction of the political class to the theater of Jan 6, 2020. If what’s happening in the U.K. now were to happen in the U.S., there’s no telling how they’d react.

Oh wait; something like that did happen, when the Antifa/BLM riots leveled whole areas of various cities and anarchy became the order of the day in places like Portland and NYC.

But those riots were virtuous riots, you see, riots that were actually supported by the ruling- and media elites. If ever there’s a furious backlash by conservatives against — oh I don’t know, say massive and palpable vote fraud by the socialists which prevents Donald Trump from winning the November 2024 election — you can be damn sure that the Marines will be mobilized, posse comitatus be damned.

This is going to be interesting.

Revenge

August 5, 2024 Kim du Toit Righteous Shootings

Okay, this wasn’t exactly a Righteous Shooting, but the principle is the same:

Maria del Carmen Garcia couldn’t bear the sight of her daughter Veronica’s attacker, Antonio Cosme, after he was freed. At the tender age of 13 in 1998, Veronica suffered a brutal rape at knifepoint by Cosme, their neighbour, who was originally given a nine-year sentence.

However, during a day release in June 2005, the unrepentant predator brazenly confronted Maria at a bus stop close to her home near Alicante. Adding insult to injury, he had the cheek to ask Maria “how her daughter was”.

After Cosme swaggered into a bar her family often visited, Maria, fuelled by anger and terror, bought petrol from a nearby station. In a bid to inflict some form of justice, Maria entered the bar with the fuel, drenched Cosme in it and set him ablaze.

And now the good part:

With burns covering 90 per cent of his body, Cosme didn’t survive and succumbed to his injuries days later in a hospital.

Our Hero Mom’s been jailed, of course, but:

Originally sentenced to nine-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for murder, Maria’s conviction was decreased to five-and-a-half years upon appeal. This sentencing sparked a national outcry in support of the anguished mother, with a groundswell of voices rallying to prevent her imprisonment.

I would have suspended her jail sentence had I been the judge.

The old Texas defense of “He needed killing” is entirely appropriate here.

Here’s the rest of the story:

Back in 2011, after serving one year and 10 days behind bars, the courts placed her sentence on hold pending a pardon application, recognizing “special circumstances”, such as her clean criminal record and her insanity plea at the time of the crime.

Yet Maria’s freedom was short-lived; by 2013 she found herself back in custody when the regional high court in Alicante rejected her attorney’s request to delay imprisonment post-government denial of her partial pardon petition. Come 2017, however, she earned the privilege of daytime leave, setting the stage for her full release the following year.

It’s all old news, but good news nevertheless.