Chesterton’s bicycle. || It’s a chair, it’s an earthquake helmet. || A shovel is used. || Tiling issues. || Three sizes, five colours. || Incoming. || I’m not entirely clear on the rules. || Another fun way to pass the time. || It’s an alternative approach. || Giving it to the man. || Big mirror. || “Best new artist.” || I want all of the loveliness in one big injection. || More joys of public transport. || Pulse detected. || Provider and role model. || Critter of the sea. || Car relocation. || Close enough for showbiz work. || Conservatism in an idealised nutshell. || Noise reduction. (h/t, pst314) || Street scenes, godly edition. || Attention, all heterosexual menfolk. If you think she’s hot, you’re gay, apparently. || It’s her way of life. || And finally, because you look like you need this, a “freeing and detoxifying” project for the weekend.
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Oh yes. The buttons:
The energy of the guards is astounding.
Another upstanding citizen.
This is a sick society:
Grandpa gets in fender-bender. Gets out to apologize. Is shot dead.
IIRC, he went through rather a lot of piccalilli to cover up the taste of the fat. I can’t be certain but I think the bacon was boiled. (Never saw the show, but loved the books.)
Given the massive numbers, I don’t know how that happens. They came here on foot, drawn by incentives, but they’d have to leave in much the same way, and unless you make it illegal to rent to or give a mortgage to or sell a car to or provide gubmint funds to or any of those auxiliary supports, it’s difficult to see how they’re literally driven out.
We’d be better off trying to flip the script: the Dems think they’re getting grateful voters, but after awhile the migrants will notice that the Dems are absolutely out of their minds on the social issues. Some conservative Spanish-language talk radio (and Chinese and whatever else) can go a long way to changing minds. People often prize their social values over handouts.
Another upstanding citizen.
Another face that needs the smug slapped out of it..
Except we aren’t seeing families. The waves of huge illegal numbers post 2020 are made up of single, military age males from all over the world. e.g. 30K Chinese at least. I don’t think they care one bit about “social values”.
Ahem.
[ Orders larger Rolodex. ]
Of course, as we are driven to being a less civilized society, it becomes simpler to have some large men “remove” such problems for you.
Hopefully a permanent removal from society.
That’s right. But still rather sick to his stomach when he left. And, of course, they gave him a more bacon and jar of piccalilli to take home because he liked them so much.
That’s what Victor Davis Hanson hopes will happen.
Good grief, can no one differentiate between ‘defuse’ and ‘diffuse’ any more?
“We commend our Crew and Customers for their professionalism in diffusing this situation.[…]”
Timely.
Don’t loose you’re cool, Man!
You’d better tow the line on proper grammar!