Daily Darwin – Little Princesses Shouldn’t Play With Fire

Darwin hypothesizes that the eyelash genome was not made to mingle with fire of any sort.  The proof of his hypothesis follows.  Enjoy.

Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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Eeewww!! Chinese Puppy Chow

Gag on this morsel from Channel NewsAsia, “China’s dog meat festival opens despite ban rumours“.

A notorious Chinese dog meat festival opened on Wednesday (Jun 21) with sellers torching the hair off carcasses, butchers chopping slabs of canines and cooks frying up dishes, dispelling rumours that authorities would ban sales this year.

After earlier reports of a sales ban at the summer solstice event in the southern city of Yulin, animal rights groups said vendors and officials reached a compromise and set a limit of two dogs on display per stall.

But multiple carcasses rested on several stalls at two markets, with stiff pointy tails, leathery yellow skin, eyes shut and bared teeth as if in a final growl.

Here’s the real deal puppy chow, not that gross and disgusting chow made from, well, chow chows.

Every Picture Tells a Story

The Wall Street Journal headline explains the sad, sad faces on the CNN Election crew, “GOP’s Karen Handel Beats Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia“.  Every picture does tell a story, don’t it?

Rod Stewart – “Every Picture Tells a Story”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqRWA35INOc

Newest Marauding Toyota ‘Technical’

From Quartz we have some of the aswers as to “How did the Toyota pickup become terrorists’ favorite truck?”.

The Islamic State’s plentiful propaganda videos, known mainly for their shocking and gory content, have recently featured something particularly strange and anachronistic: loads of Toyota trucks and SUVs.

The US government has asked the Japanese auto maker—the second-largest in the world—why the terrorist group has so many of its vehicles. Toyota says it does not know.

The company, which insists it doesn’t sell vehicles to purchasers who might modify them for terrorist activities, is now supporting a US Treasury Department investigation into how these vehicles are ending up in ISIL’s hands. Lukman Failey, the Iraqi ambassador to the US, told ABC News that Iraq believes ISIS has acquired “hundreds” of brand-new Toyota vehicles in recent years—from no clear source. “Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand,” Mark Wallace, a former United Nations ambassador and the current head of an anti-terrorism non-profit, said.

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Kardashian Family Business Closes

After Bruce had his ‘chopadicktomy’ operation and became Caitlyn, and the rest of the Kardashian crew became, well, gross, demand for the family business’s product ‘petered’ out.  The factory doors had to be closed and equipment scrapped and sent to the bone yard (drumroll, please).  It was a sight much too ghastly to contemplate – a vision truly worthy of an Eye Bleach Alert.

You’ve been warned. Click ‘read more’ at your own peril.

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