It’s Italy Day here on this back porch of mine:
…and here are some fine Italian things.
First up, a matched pair of Rizzini shotguns:
Next up, a 1955 Fiat 8V, styled by Zagato:
…and a 1967 Fiat 2400 Dino Spider:
Speaking of fine Italian models of yore, it’s about time we looked at Sophia again:
…and her younger compatriot, Monica Bellucci:
And speaking of yummy:
Where could one buy such things? Well, in Milan, for instance:
That’s all Italian style, folks, and it’s pretty much unbeatable.
Da Tech Guy has a funny albeit telling post about the recent elections in the Snowy North:
Basically Trudeau’s liberals stayed where they were with the most seats but not the majority that he was hoping for. Meanwhile conservatives who thought a bit ago that they might end up winning stayed right where they were.
The funny part comes at the very end, and features Mitt Romney.
I normally give Canadian election results only a cursory look, but I have to admit to being surprised that His GirlyBoyness got reelected. Have all Canuckis gone horribly Left? I asked myself.
Now I know how it happened.
Looks as though the worm is starting to turn in Oz:
Wild scenes broke out in Richmond as a group of hooligans clashed with police trying to contain the violent ‘freedom rally’ march.
…with predictable results:
Police arrested 235 people and while most were taken away for breaching health directions, some were charged with assault, riotous behaviour and weapons and drug offences. Each will be fined $5,452, with 193 infringements handed out so far.
Naturally, police blamed the Deplorables:
‘Angry aggressive young males (were) there to fight the police, not to protest about freedoms,’ he told the media late on Saturday.
Then again, I myself might have turned into an “aggressive male” (i.e. man) had I witnessed thuggery such as this:
An elderly woman was shoved to the ground and doused with pepper spray by two policemen during the Melbourne anti-lockdown riot. The woman was bowled over by the two cops before they fired the spray directly on her face as she lay defenceless on the road trying to shield her eyes.
Because this is Oz, public opinion was divided into two camps, i.e. “bastards” and “she deserved it for breaking the law”.
Please join me in a couple minutes’ silence to allow the RCOB to subside.
Note to the various OzGovs: “breaking the law” means things like murder, robbery and violence towards the undeserving. Protesting against totalitarian government is NOT breaking the law except in totalitarian countries like Iran and Communist China.
And now, it seems, Australia.
From the land Down Under, more bastardy:
The Andrews Government is making more bad changes to Victoria’s gun laws.
The latest changes will allow police down to the rank of inspector to ban shooters from holding firearm licences for at least 10 years – for getting nothing more than a speeding fine.
People hit with a ban will also be subjected to warrantless searches of their homes or cars at any time, and barred from going to any place where guns may be stored or used.
Fucking hell, why not just add “public whipping” and “summary execution” to the list?
Textbook totalitarianism. And the person introducing this legal travesty looks precisely how you’d expect them to look:
The only nice thing you could say about her is that her head would look good on a pike.
Next: pikes to be banned under the Sharp Objects And Politician Protection Act.
A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.
The attack in the city’s Wilmersdorf district took place Saturday afternoon, and a 66-year-old passerby, who tried to come to the woman’s rescue, was also severely injured.
I am truly curious to see what happens when (not if) the new crop of Afghan “refugees” tries this kind of nonsense here in the U.S.
It may require just a few Righteous Shootings to help them assimilate. Just sayin’.
Following on from yesterday’s post about Festung Australia comes a report from an Oz resident:
[Victoria Premier] Andrews has vastly increased state power under a “state of emergency” that was promised to run for four weeks. It’s now been in place for over a year, with no end in sight. The only sunset clause in Victoria is that the premier has declared it out-of-bounds to sit on the beach to watch the sunset.
Police in Victoria may now detain any person or group for as long as “reasonably necessary,” restrict the movement of any person in the state, close any premises, and “require the destruction or disposal of anything.” Police can enter homes and seize property without a warrant.
Police and army patrol the Murray River—the border between Victoria and New South Wales—like Stasi watching over the Berlin Wall. Drones buzz in the Melbourne skies, and snitches diligently scan social media for WrongThink.
Horrifying.
You know, the reason I’m banging on about this is simple. Were this kind of stuff taking place in some Third World hellhole, former Soviet satellite state or Muslim pisspot, I’d be largely unmoved, because tyrannical oppression is a longstanding albeit ugly tradition.
But this bullying is taking place in the Anglosphere, to one of our longest-standing allied people and in a country I’ve always respected (although it may not seem that way at times).
And the pity of it is that I don’t see it ending soon, and don’t see it being changed nor even challenged at the polls either. It’s pretty fucking bleak, Down Under.