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Month: May 2021
Radio Silence
Damn, damn and damn. I was at our apartment and everything looks fine for a move back later today… except that the wifi isn’t working yet, ergo no Internet ergo no posts for a while.
I have a couple up for tomorrow (I’m writing this from the hotel), but that’s it. Unless I can get the thing up and running by tomorrow, there may be nothing posted over the weekend.
Bear with me, folks; this is like resettling in a new city, FFS.
Corporate State Tyranny
…a.k.a. Fascism is upon us. Joel Kotkin explains how and why.
Local banks have disappeared and been replaced by online and large national financial institutions. Between 1983 and 2018, the number of banks fell from 11,000 to barely 4,000. This is not an anomaly, but a trend.
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Today, a handful of giant corporations account for nearly 40 percent of the value of the Standard and Poor Index, a level of concentration unprecedented in modern history.
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Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft now make up 20 percent of the stock market’s total worth.
And Kotkin goes on to explain, in revolting detail, just what that means to us ordinary people.
It’s not enough to obey Big Brother and it’s not enough to love Big Brother; now you have to do business with Big Brother, if you want to have any kind of life.
I knew things were bad… I just didn’t know how bad. Read the whole thing; why should I be the only one depressed?
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the range. I only get to move back into the apartment after lunch, so I might as well do something productive till then.
News Roundup
News, bad news, stupid news, not news, all served up with acerbic commentary.
…amazingly, this did not happen at Oberlin College. And even better:
…because that’s hate speech or sex discrimination or something. Cue: Life Of Brian’s Loretta.
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…shuddup and pay, peasants. And people wonder why government offices are sometimes firebombed.
…which can be blamed on (pick one): 1. Climate change 2. Natural erosion 3. Trump.
…actually, President Braindead gets low marks for everything he’s done / not done, but I don’t mind the gun control failure.
…and I’m not surprised. Her choice for the third would be:
… and his choice:
It’s so sad when couples can’t agree.
And now it’s time for INSIGNIFICA:
…wanna bet?
Finally:
Dept. Of Righteous Shootings
Seems as though this punk kid decides that he wants to do something about overpopulation, i.e. shooting everyone he could in an apartment complex. He manages to kill an old lady (no doubt getting a nod of approval from NYGov “Granny-Killer” Cuomo), but at that point, an Olde Pharte decides that enough is enough, and shoots the little bastard dead with his… hunting rifle.
[pause to let the cheers, applause hooting, hollering and catcalls die down]
This being Arkansas, I doubt whether anything more need be said about this.
My old buddy, the late (and sorely-missed) Airboss used to keep next to his front door not a shotgun, but a bolt-action .308 because, as he explained, “I can take care of myself; it’s my neighbors who might need protection.”
Quod erat demonstratum.
Little Low
Changed one of my medications on the doctor’s recommendation, and it’s got me feeling a little tired and light-headed — as he warned it might. But I should be better tomorrow, so normal service will resume then.
In the meantime, here are a couple of random pics, just to keep the thing going:
And one of my favorite — read “stirring” — pics of all:
Hubba hubba.