News Roundup

Diving straight into the Global Cooling Climate Warming Change© Doom ‘n Gloom:


…and:


...Clymate Catty-clyzzim:  is there anything it can’t do?

Some better news:


...as they say:  sounds reasonable.


...in Dallas?  I think that’s known as “armed intruder roulette”.  Clearly, the victim wasn’t one of those “post-Biden-replacement” gun buyers.


...the poor wee man, having to make such sacrifices.  And as I’ve said before:  the smart ones had already unloaded their overpriced bolt-holes before Labour came back into power.


...and 15-1 the cause of death was something serious.


[assuming Inspector Renault’s shocked — shocked! expression]


...I’m not quite sure what makes Swansea different from every other smallish Brit city, but there ya go.  Unless keyword:  Wales.

In the Department of Education:


...all together now:  “The eyes of Texas are upon you…”


...well, well, well:  and it wasn’t a member of the Royal Family, Andy not having been born yet.

And in International Jew-Hate News:


...for my Furrin Readers, that would be the MINNESOTA Vikings.
#NotSurprising #LeftistCunts

In related news:


...my Hebrew isn’t what it used to be, but a rough translation might be:  “Slaughter all terrorist assholes”.  we need the Izzies to open up an American branch office, because:


...just part of the Great Cleansing Process to come.

Now onto those things we call 

     

...now that’s our Amanda. ...don’t tease us, Chris.

Finally, in our journey down :


...if you’re into that whole Anorexic Spice thing, that is:

And that’s all the skinny for now.

3 Modern Things I Have Never Done

…which most other people seem to have done:

  • Used a car’s embedded navigation system.  (Okay, I did try — once — to use the Tiguan’s navsys, but gave up after three tries and resorted to the phone instead.  To be fair, the VW system was very clunky — 2013 era — so maybe it has improved since then, but now I just use the awful Waze app to venture to Parts Unknown because I became familiar with it during the Uber Years.  And New Wife’s 2015 Fiat 500 has no such thing on its spartan dashboard.)
  • Bought anything from TEMU.  (A lot of Millennials and Gen Z kids seem to love this Amazon-like thing, but that Chinese factory-direct-to-user model… I trust it not.  Plus long delivery times, especially when compared to Amazon, and from what I gather, returns are almost impossible — “not worth the hassle” seems to be a common statement, and with that renowned Chinese build quality?  Pass.)
  • Bought or used any Apple product.  (My purchase of an Apple IIe computer back in 1982 doesn’t count, because it was the only PC available at the time, and I only used it for 6 months before dumping it for an IBM PC.  But the modern Apple products like MacBook and iPhone?  Not one.)

Feel free to add your list of “never used or bought”, in Comments.

Piling On The Misery

Continuing the saga of electric vehicles (EVs), we learn about the fire risk.  An excerpt from the catalogue of catastrophes:

It is now, or should be, common knowledge that electric vehicles—cars, trucks, buses, bikes, scooters—under conditions of even low humidity or water damage, are prone to catching fire, owing to the unstable nature of the lithium-ion battery. As Chris Morrison writes at The Daily Skeptic, EVs are known to explode “with the force of a bomb blasting super-heated jets of flame, melting and decomposing nearby structural materials including metal and concrete, and sending vast amounts of toxic fumes into any enclosed atmosphere.”

Jammed into underground parking garages or packed in ferries, EVs are harbingers of almost unimaginable disaster—ecological and safety menaces to which the Net Zero fanatics among our political leadership are comatosely indifferent.

  “Willfully indifferent” is the more appropriate term, because as with all faith-based belief systems, danger is set aside as an acceptable risk provided that the goal thereof (in this case, Net Zero) is laudable.

My solution, which is that every time one of these EV things catches fire spontaneously we should toss a Greenie into the flames, would no doubt strike some as excessive.  Nevertheless, even the threat of such an action should shut these assholes up.

Classic Beauty: Lana Turner

After her very first movie role (in a bit part) at the age of 15, Lana Turner’s appearance in a sweater caused a critic to write that she “made a sweater look like something Cleopatra was saving for the next visiting Caesar”, and the nickname of “Sweater Girl” stuck.  And in the following decades, it was hard to find a movie that didn’t include her in the cast.  Here’s the look that started it all:

And the rest:

I think the reason for her popularity is understandable.