What Were The LA Riots Really About?

 

They appear to be about rich Democrat’s fury that they might no longer be able to rely on cheap labour to make their lives better, if this Tweet is any example!

With Los Angeles convulsed by confrontation between pro-migrant protesters and military units dispatched by Donald Trump, no figure apart from the president has loomed larger than Stephen Miller. As the man in the Oval Office, it is Trump who has absorbed the accusations of authoritarianism for usurping the powers of California’s government after deploying 4,000 national guard troops and 700 active marines on to the streets of a city that is home to more undocumented immigrants than any other in the US.

.That being the progressive's favoured term for the Latin American illegal immigrants that keep their houses clean, their cars valeted and their lawns manicured. And to hell with their fellow citizens who see the disruption and crime they bring to their neighbourhoods as something they are entitled to complain about.

As demonstrators took to the streets, Miller promptly raised the stakes by accusing them of an “insurrection”.

Well, they can't complain about that, can they? Didn't they hurl the same accusation over the Capitol demonstration?

Whren You Have Your Enemy On The Ground At Your Feet, Press Your Attack...

For Women Scotland, the group responsible for April’s landmark supreme court ruling on biological sex, is considering further legal action against the Scottish government as they warned the key motivation for bringing the case was being lost amid debates about policy on toilets.

Because if you don't crush him utterly, you're in for a long exhausting fight, and the possibility that victory will slip through your fingers.

At a fringe event at the Scottish Conservative conference in Edinburgh, the gender critical campaign group’s co-director Susan Smith said there had been “extraordinary pushback” since five judges ruled unanimously that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates. Speaking to reporters afterwards, Smith said: “We don’t want to go back to court, we really, really don’t, but if we don’t see some action that may be something we will have to consider.”

She said she was concerned about lack of action by the Scottish government on prisons and schools guidance. “We have spoken to the Scottish government and asked them to withdraw some of this guidance, just to say that it’s under review – they don’t have to re-issue anything at this point – because it’s clearly unlawful, we really do need some action. They’re telling us they have to wait for the EHRC revised guidance and we don’t believe this is true.”

It isn't true - the judgement was crystal clear, the only people claiming it wasn't are the ones who wish it had been different, the radical trans activists and their middle aged white women backers in HR teams in every single large company or organisation, who hope to confuse the matter enough to give the weak room to obfuscate and drag their heels. 

“We really need people to start challenging where they feel that organisations, local councils are not implementing the law. We’re very fortunate to have the fighting fund that JK Rowling set up and that will make a massive difference because when people start to realise that there’s a cost maybe they will start to apply the law.”

Thst cost needs to start biting hard and biting personally above all. It's easy to shrug off fines when the company is paying, and not so easy when you have to put your money where your mouth is.

Call Yourself A Local London Newspaper?

 

*sighs*

Sunday Funnies...

 Imagine how bad the films were, that the audience noticed these..?

Blog Hiatus

 Posting and commenting will be light and infrequent for the nexr week, as your virtual hostess is holidaying in glorious Edinburgh, and when you get to the age of sixty. fiddly and virtual iPad keyboards and iPhone keypads are best left to the youngsters!

Not all Heroes Wear Capes…

Another idiot owner pays the price for choosing a bloodsport breed dog as a family pet:

An eyewitness, who saw the aftermath of the attack, said: "Honestly, it was horrific, the dog was covered in blood - the lady must be in a pretty bad way. 

"Paramedics couldn't get to the injured lady because of the dog - a guy had pinned the dog to the floor for a good 20 minutes before the police turned up."

That 20 minutes must have felt like a lifetime. 

Officers tried to secure the dog safely, but because of the risk it posed to the public, it was destroyed.

This pussyfooting around trying to avoid doing what needs to be done in these cases is going to get someone killed before long. When are our police going to grow some balls and stop listening to the ‘Aww, don’t shoot the poor doggie!’ crowd? 

Why Would Anyone Want It To?

 

Trying to clarify what the UK public understands by the perennially slippery term “woke”, in 2022 the pollsters YouGov asked respondents how well it fitted various contemporary causes.

It's like porn, Gaby. We all know it when we see it.

The highest match – above trans rights, no-platforming people whose opinions you dislike, stronger action on climate change and the Black Lives Matter movement itself – was with removing historical statues associated with slavery, like that of Colston. Something about this combination of direct action against a highly symbolic target, and revisiting history through a modern social justice lens, meant that 61% considered it woke.

The narrative that woke ultimately ate itself, becoming so shrill, sanctimonious and yet simultaneously brittle that a backlash was almost inevitable, has been building ever since it became clear Donald Trump was on course to win a second presidential term.

But then came April’s supreme court ruling that “woman” for the purposes of equality law meant “biological woman”, rolling back trans people’s access to sex-segregated spaces.

I think you meant rolling back men’s encroachment on women’s sex segregated spaces, didn’t you? 

In May’s local elections, Reform party candidates campaigned on promises to sack council diversity officers and block what the party’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, calls “net zero wokery”. Keir Starmer, who five years ago took the knee for Black Lives Matter and posted “trans rights are human rights” on Facebook, now leads a government arguing that unchecked migration did “incalculable damage” and advising trans women to use men’s toilets.

He says those things, Gaby, but does he believe them? I'm not sure. Are you?

After four white protesters successfully defended themselves against criminal charges over the Colston statue’s downfall, arguing that Bristol’s then mayor, Marvin Rees, should have done more to remove it legally, Rees – who is of Jamaican heritage – responded by asking whether four black defendants would have been similarly acquitted. If not, he argued in a statement now hung on the wall at M Shed, “then what we saw was an exercise in middle-class white privilege, alongside a declaration of anti-racism”.

“Stop acting like being willing to work with Nazis is a fucking virtue, you creep,” was one of the more printable insults the mild-mannered Tryl and his co-author, Ed Hodgson, received on the social media platform Bluesky in February, for publishing a report suggesting that progressive zeal is sometimes its own worst enemy.

Thus making their point for them! 

“It’s not, ‘How far can we turn the clock back?’ We do want to acknowledge some good things happened,” as British Future’s Sunder Katwala puts it. “I think there’s still a broad consensus for doing diversity and equality well. But it’s a chance to sort the wheat from the chaff.”

Your chance has run out, its too late! The jig is up, we all see the futility og most - if not all - of the woke crusades now.

The Honours System Can’t Be Brought Into Greater Disrepute

Really? Are we sure about that.

A Swedish billionaire who hid his wife's body in a barricaded room for two months has been knighted for his services to the arts.

What?! 

Hans Kristian Rausing was so distraught by the passing of his first wife in 2012 that he could not 'confront the reality' of her death and 'could not cope' without her. So Eva, who died of suspected heart failure and drug use aged 48, was left in the bedroom they shared upstairs wrapped in bin bags and bed linen.

And he was only caught when he decided to drive like a lunatic (because he was a lunatic,clearly) and actually had the misfortune to cross the path of some traffic cops. 

Mr Rausing was also struggling with addiction at the time and was only caught when he was arrested for driving erratically in Wandsworth eight weeks later.

But,hey, why should any of that be a bar to being granted an honour, in our devalued system? 

More than a decade later, Mr Rausing will now become a Sir thanks to his contributions to the art industry since he turned his life around.

What contibutions?

The philanthropist has donated to art institutions like the National Gallery and supported charities throughout the pandemic by giving them hundreds of millions of pounds.

Ah, he bought his way in. 

Keep Telling Us It’s A Harmless Drug, Hippies...

Marcus Monzo, 37, admitted that he had been using cannabis 'extensively' which had changed his personality and caused a mental health decline.

Which is  quite the understatement:

In the grip of a cannabis-induced 'psychotic disorder', the Brazilian is said to have strangled, skinned and deboned his cat, Wizard, before attempting to eat it.

No, Reader, not in Brazil, in leafy, pleasant Hainault. This one’s a little too close to home. After killing and mutilating his own pet, he then set off on a rampage which saw him attack several people, killing a schoolboy in the preocess, including police who turned up unarmed to try to halt his rampage with tasers. Why a ARV wasn’t sent, god only knows. It might have spared us taxpayers the farce of a trial of this rabid animal.

Minutes later, Monzo is alleged to have set off with the animal's remains on a baking tray, a number of swords and a ball-bearing gun on a mission to kill, shouting 'does anyone believe in God'. Yesterday Monzo claimed he could not remember killing Daniel Anjorin, 14, as he was walking to school.

Yesterday Monzo told the Old Bailey that he had been consumed by 'paranoia and anxiety'.

No, that wa what your victims felt.

Inversion Of Moral Codes

An angry baker called out thieves on social media for swiping up to £90 of cakes from her village honesty box - only for people to blame her for 'dangling a carrot' in front of the vulnerable.

Here we go again with the modern meaning of the word 'vulnerable' - just what is it they are supposed to be 'vulnerable' to, other than temptation?

Many Facebook users supported the mum-of-two's idea and said that 'selfish' people should be 'ashamed' they are ruining the honesty box for others. But others branded it 'daft' and suggested she was 'dangling a carrot' in front of vulnerable people.

One commented: 'Haa. If I was struggling or homeless and there were cakes sitting there, I would also help myself.

'Same with kids who don't have cash or nothing good from home! Not to mention the tearaway and stoners!!

You wonder what sort of life this person has, if the idea that perhaps it's not a good idea to help yourself to things that don't belong to you is treated as a bizarre concept, not worth even considering. And perhaps, if her attitude is so widespread now, a clue to why society appears to be devolving..?

'Try securing, protecting and managing it and not expecting the other eight billion people in the world to think and act like you want them to. You dangled a carrot and now you're sad someone got a bite.'

A second agreed and said: 'We live in a dishonest world. If kids get wind of free cakes, what's going to happen? Daft idea to begin with.'

Do we live in a dishonest world? How did it get that way? Was it because people like these were never taught right from wrong?

However, one commented: 'Whoever you are who are taking and not paying should be truly ashamed of yourselves. 'This lady works so hard to bring joy to many many cake loving people and you are just spoiling it for the majority. Do the right thing please.' Another said: 'Oh that's rubbish, I don't understand what's wrong with people these days. So selfish.'

Me neither. But a world in which no-one ever tried what this lady tried isn't one I think I want to be living in....