Like most Brit celebrity totties, Liverpool-born totty Kym Marsh has a background as a singer and actress, and more recently as a TV presenter. Here she is as a youngin:
However, as she approaches the half-century mark, she’s a front-runners in the GILF stakes:
Here she is with her daughter (left), who is apparently about to produce Kym’s fourth (!) grandchild:
I know what you’re thinking. Don’t go there.
The problem is that he’s bad at his job. And he doesn’t even seem to like it. Whenever you see Gavin Newsom in his gov mode, you get the impression that he’d rather be anywhere else doing anything else. It’s not like he actually does anything as governor. With guys like Newsom, it’s not the doing. It’s the being. He wants to be governor; he doesn’t want to do the hard things a real governor does. And it would be the same thing if he were to become president. He wants to be the president; the doing stuff part is a huge hassle that gets in the way of him being the center of attention.
Here’s what resonates with me about this. Note the changes I’ve made:
With guys like Obama, it’s not the doing. It’s the being. He wanted to be a Senator; he didn’t want to do the hard things a real Senator does. And it was the same thing when he was the president. He wanted to be the president; the doing stuff part was a huge hassle that got in the way of him being the center of attention.
Same shit, different Democrat asshole.
Sometimes I am left astonished at the stupidity of people:
Families are fighting back against a proposed incinerator they fear will harm schoolchildren, vulnerable people and wildlife with chemicals it produces.
Just over a year after a landfill site left Newton Aycliffe, County Durham smelling like rotten eggs, residents say they face another threat to their picturesque village.
Plans submitted by Fornax Environmental Solutions were approved in 2021 but swiftly thrown out by the council which was concerned about the incinerator’s impact on air quality.
There were also fears about burning up to 9,800 tonnes of clinical and hazardous waste a year at a business park long dedicated to attracting companies offering high-paid jobs, including Hitachi and Fujitsu.
Now, months later, the project is back on track after a planning inspector approved the firm’s appeal.
A 10,000-tonne incinerator, which lies within a mile of a nursery, a primary school and a sixth form college, is being built and will be up and running next year.
But locals are making a last ditch attempt to stop plans, with a social media campaign gathering pace ahead of a consultation with the Environment Agency.
I was going to say “as any fule kno”, but clearly not any fule does: landfills give off methane (that “rotten egg” smell). Over Here in Stupid America (as Britishlanders are so fond of calling us), we’ve not only known about this forever but we also harness that effect to good use.
I can’t remember where exactly, but I recall that at one such huge landfill in California, methane emissions are captured and burned, said burning used as fuel to power giant generators which then supply electricity to not one but two fair-sized nearby towns. I remember seeing a similar operation at a landfill outside Chicago, where a tiny flame burned at a chimney, the sole consequence of generating electricity from that source. (That landfill, by the way, had been constructed so efficiently that not only were there no seagulls flying around — an infallible sign of a trash dump — but there was a very nice 18-hole golf course situated atop it.)
Had the local government of Newton Ayrcliff just installed a similar operation after opening the old landfill, they could have supplied electricity to the village at a massively-reduced cost to the homeowners — as is the case in California. Then none of the resultant fuss would have ensued.
I wonder if the village’s new incinerator will incorporate such a feature, but I doubt it.
But that’s not the point of this post. This is.
In the midst of all the apprehension of the locals about this new incinerator, the attitude of the operators thereof doesn’t seem to inspire much confidence:
‘We do not believe it is appropriate to comment on the environmental permit application at this time other than to say that we have provided all the required documentation to the regulator in advance of their detailed technical review.
‘Public and environmental safety is our number one priority and the new facility in Newton Aycliffe has already undergone extensive scrutiny and was approved by the planning Inspector following an enquiry in 2022.
‘During this process residents concerns were carefully considered and addressed by the governments planning inspector. The facility has been designed and built to meet and indeed exceed all UK and EU strict rules on air emissions, odour control, and habitat protection.
‘The fears concerning the impact that this facility will have on air quality and future employment uses are unfounded as clearly stated in the planning inspectors report.’
When a statement contains an obvious lie — “Public and environmental safety is our number one priority” my aching ass; your number one priority is to burn waste material — my nose starts to twitch.
So they’ve provided sufficient “proof” to a bunch of bureaucrats who may or may not be sufficiently qualified to assess risk in matters of this nature — my guess is that they aren’t — and therefore the thing will go ahead as planned.
What strikes me in all of this is that the people complaining about the new incinerator haven’t a clue about the facts of the matter — their opposition is driven by the history of the old dump, so they may be making a fuss about nothing. The owners of the incinerator have obviously made no attempt to educate them on the facts, hence the public apprehension.
Knowing the nature of companies like this (and forgive me for being cynical), it wouldn’t surprise me at all that Fornax has deliberately worked in secret so that the facts can’t be revealed until the incinerator is up and running and the whole business is a fait accompli.
You see, I don’t know the facts either; all I have is an abiding suspicion of corporate bastardy, which arises whenever a company operates in secrecy. Like these guys are doing.
All they had to do, prior to any action, was to blanket the communities with information about their plans so that any reservations could be met with refutation and negotiation. That they didn’t do this makes my nose twitch even more.
Please forgive my suspicion and cynicism.
From the Monday Funnies, a couple weeks back:
The Senate Finance Committee’s version of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill contains the removal of suppressors and short-barreled rifles from the National Firearms Act (NFA).
On May 22, 2025, Breitbart News reported the GOP-led House passed budget reconciliation, Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, with language to eliminate the tax and registration requirement on suppressors.
Are these guys visiting my website?
Expect to see an explosion in sales of guns with threaded barrels….
I hadn’t considered this, in the wake of the little Izzy / Muzzie disturbances. Fortunately, some Big Brains have:
Israeli air and drone strikes during the early hours of June 13th crippled Iran — and severely set back Tehran’s regional ambitions. The Israel Defense Forces hit nuclear weapons development facilities and ballistic missile sites, and killed senior military officers, including Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the armed forces chief of staff, and Major General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iranian media announced the death of Ali Shamkhani, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s top adviser.
Tehran said that Israel’s action was a “declaration of war.” This war is continuing, and Iran has struck back with ballistic missile and drone attacks.
Narratives will change as the fighting continues, but one conclusion is already evident: China, Iran’s long-time backer, is a victim of the fighting. That is a quick reversal of fortunes. Only last year, the Chinese looked ascendant in the region.
“China is closely following Israel’s attacks on Iran and is deeply concerned about the potential grave consequences of the operations,” the Chinese foreign ministry stated on X a few hours after the initial attacks. “China opposes actions that violate Iran’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, and opposes moves that escalate tensions or enlarge conflicts.”
“China stands ready to play a constructive role in helping ease the situation,” it added.
Beijing may stand ready, but, apart from the Iranian regime itself, the region is not looking for Chinese assistance.
Yeah; what the CCP may have forgotten is that nobody in that area — not just the Izzies — likes the idea of a nuked-up Iran, for the same reason one fears a drugged-up ghetto choirboy with a hand grenade.
“There were some very, very relieved people in the Gulf as the sun rose this morning…. The Saudis know that China had armed their enemy Iran with nukes and lesser weapons and fully backed the Houthis, who have been waging war on the Kingdom for years.” — Jonathan Bass, Chief Executive Officer, Argent LNG, to Gatestone Institute, June 13, 2025.
Put more bluntly: “Oh noes we deplore all this warry bomb-bomb stuff!” while thinking “Thank fuck for the Izzies.”
So much for that, then.
Proving that Brazil doesn’t have a First Amendment:
A Brazilian comedian has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for telling offensive jokes.
Offensive, or really fucking funny? I report, you decide:
“What show could be more inclusive? I even hired a sign language interpreter just to be able to offend the deaf-mute.”
And my absolute favorite:
“I’m totally against pedophilia – I’m more in favor of incest. If you’re going to abuse a child, abuse your own. What’s he going to do? Tell his dad?”
Apparently, the audience roared with laughter all through his set. The authorities? Not so much. He’s facing eight years in the clink.
To which I say: “Libertem Léo Lins!“