Author: Kim du Toit

Top 3 For The Chop

Bureaucracy, Gummint

Here’s the background to the question below:

Argentina just elected a new president, Javier Milei, and his first act upon being sworn in? He signed an executive order reducing their government departments from 21 down to NINE.

As Twitchy points out, we have only(!) fifteen FedGov departments (but innumerable sub-departments).

My question to my Readers:

You can eliminate three Cabinet-level federal government departments (to start off with) and all their sub-departments.  Which three would you eliminate first?

Mine:  Environment (an agency, not a department in the strictest sense of the word), Education (in toto) and Homeland Security (all their sub-departments to be reallocated to their original departments, e.g. Secret Service to Justice, Coast Guard to Defense, etc.).

I don’t know how it works in Argentina, but here in Murka, federal government departments exist at Cabinet level at the President’s pleasure — Richard Nixon, for instance, elevated the EPA’s chairman to Cabinet level by executive order — but departments can only truly be eliminated by Congress defunding them.  Nevertheless, play the game.

News Roundup

Bad News

…and on we go with Pre-Christmas News:


...we’re never going to get rid of this asshole organization unless we go all Timmy McVeigh on them.  Thank you, Harry Truman.


...yeah, I remember back in the day that when (White) people said that about your lot, it was a Bad Thing.


...I don’t know who to shoot first:  the council, or the neighbor who bought a house next door to a chicken farm.


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In Media News:


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Great Moments In Marketing:


...kills cancer, makes you horny;  sounds perfect.  Now about that name… someone call Adrian Wappkaplett.

From the Great Cultural Assimilation Project:


...let’s hear it for liberal immigration policies.


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And speaking of undocumented immigrants:


...hell, maybe they just looked like aliens:

And in Presidential Idiocy News:


...considering that the shooter was 67 years old, I’m surprised he’s not pushing a “No One Under 70” gun ban.  And:


...I know it may be a stupid question at this point, but can anyone point me to the part in the Constitution where it says the president can do this?

And now, some serious INSIGNIFICA:


...I always thought she was the prettiest of the 60s crowd:

 

And from my private “Roll In The Hay” collection:

And on that agricultural note, it’s time to sign off.  Wait, there’s one more thing:

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Too Lenient

Crime, Seen On Campus

Nothing like a little pupil-teacher interaction, is there?

Jonathan Martinez-Garcia, 17, was sentenced to up to 40 years in prison in June after he ambushed the teacher – identified only as Sade – by asking if he could speak about his grades at El Dorado High School in April 2022.

During his June 2023 sentencing, it was revealed that the deranged student knocked the teacher unconscious. She later woke up with her pants and underwear down before the student threatened to burn her alive, prosecutors said. At one point in the attack, Martinez-Garcia told her: ‘Can’t you die already?’

The teacher was strangled from behind with cord during the attack and had her wrists cut, she now suffers from chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder, needing a walker to move around.

The teenager sickeningly smirked in court while his victim was recounting her terrifying experience. He later made the same expression when the was sentenced.

I’m thinking that the little shit needs at least 50 years, minimum, before parole is offered — with weekly whippings of, say, 50 strokes. See how much he smirks then.

But no doubt someone will have a problem with this quite reasonable suggestion.

Numbers Matter

Anti-Gun Nannies

From the NSSF, relating to the latest gun ban foolishness:

There were nearly 25 million AR/AK-style rifles in circulation on June 21, 2022, at which time the National Shooting Sports Foundation observed there were more AR/AK-style firearms in circulation “than Ford F-Series trucks on the road.”

And that was over a year ago.  I personally know of four people who’ve bought themselves lovely new AR-15s since then.  One guy bought a matched pair for himself and his wife:

If that doesn’t give you the Warm ‘N Fuzzies, go stand in the corner.

About That “Easy Bail” Thing

Bad News, Tragedy

Well, it is Austin, after all:

A man has been charged with capital murder following a Tuesday series of attacks that left six people dead in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, garnering criticism for the bail reform group that freed him when he was previously jailed for domestic violence.

Shane James Jr., 34, was bonded out of Bexar County Jail in March 2022 by Laquita Garcia, the statewide policy coordinator for the Texas Organizing Project (TOP), jail records obtained by KSAT show.

Under the reign of World-Emperor Kim, Laquita Garcia would be occupying the cell next to this asshole’s on Death Row, for materially assisting the deaths of six people.

But no doubt someone’s going to have a problem with this.

About Damn Time, Too

Elections

My boy Calvin Coolidge gets recognized.  By word:

“New arrivals should be limited to our capacity to absorb them into the ranks of good citizenship. America must be kept American. For this purpose, it is necessary to continue a policy of restricted immigration.
“Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years of the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of to-day is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.”

And by deed:

Under Coolidge, the top income tax rate of 65% under Wilson was eventually cut to 20%. The stock market began its unprecedented ‘roaring 20s’ climb as it became clear through 1924 that Coolidge’s tax reduction bill would pass. In both his first and last year in office, federal receipts were $3.8 billion and expenditures were $3.1 billion, and in between, he cut the national debt from $22.3 billion to $16.9 billion.

Do we ever need him today.  Kudos to Ron DeSantis for bringing him back into the limelight.