Let The Market Decide

We often hear that mantra from free-traders and staunch capitalists, but sometimes the situation isn’t that simple.  Take this example in the exquisitely-beautiful town of St. Ives, in Cornwall, Britishland:

Landlords and businesses have been buying up properties in the area and converting them into summer homes, meaning there is nowhere left for locals to rent.
Jasmin cannot find a new place to rent and her tenancy is due to end on May 10.  She has exhausted letting agents and spare room sites, and fears in three weeks she will be sleeping rough.

And from the local council:

“The boom in house prices and the demand for holiday accommodation is causing a significant reduction in the availability of homes to rent.  It matched sudden escalation in rental costs.
“Private landlords have been moving away from long-term letting and instead moving towards the short-term holiday market.”

Read the whole thing.

I know that many towns in rural counties Over Here have had the same problems — transplanted Californians, ’nuff said — to where locals with jobs in those towns have to find a place to live in further-off towns, sometimes as much as an hour’s drive (or more) away.

Jackson Hole in Wyoming, when I first drove through there back in 1987, was a one-horse town that had nothing to recommend it other than proximity to Yellowstone and a couple of ski runs;  now, it’s the place to find Hollywood types and other California scum in their vacation homes, with all the foul side-effects:  expensive housing, expensive eateries, empty streets out of season, and so on.

I don’t have any solutions — at least, not free-market solutions — so maybe it’s up to the local governments to step in;  although getting government involved usually if not always seems just to exacerbate the problem.

I welcome discussion on the topic, in Comments.

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And off we go:


I have an alibi.


no, he’d be in his fifth year in prison awaiting trial for “sedition”.


and this is news because..?


and will resettle them in Brighton Beach, NY.  Tickets available at Ticketmaster.


assuming he hasn’t “committed suicide” or ‘died from Covid” before then.  No odds given on either.


that’s like winning the “Tallest Man Competition” in Dwarf Town.  (no link because Kardashian)


small, large, whatever:  kill them all with fire.  Horrible fucking things.
Afterthought:  not these Scorpions — I quite like them:

And talking of showbiz:


big deal;  Murray always behaves inappropriately.


one would have thought that all that kicking and screaming might have tipped them off.

And now, INSIGNIFICA (a.k.a. “who gives a fuck news”, as one Reader put it):

     

…and is useless wifout pichers:

All the news worth leering at.

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Today, we’ll first be giving an in-depth look at the Dept. of Maleducation:


because knowing how to read and write is of no importance whatsoever.


where today’s teenage boys know more about “incel culture” than most teachers.


non-White and female mathematicians having contributed SO much to the field since 300 BC, you see.


I’m just amazed that anyone complained, in a suburb of San Francisco  Madison.


I always said the legal drinking age should be lowered… but maybe not that much.


spoken by someone who’s obviously never taken a hard punch to the face.

From the Heart of Stone Dept.:


Method Acting at its finest.


looks like those fifty Nile crocs I dropped in haven’t reached that part of the Rio Grande yet.

And:



Also, in talking of mental health:


because I think the 25th can only be invoked by Congress, which will be controlled by Democrats until after NovemberThen we’ll see.


why so?  Perhaps her name will reveal the secret…

Speaking of Indians:


I’ve dated women like that.  In every case, they didn’t want to have sex;  they just wanted to stop me having a good time with my buddies.

But let’s move to INSIGNIFICA:

   

And:


see, it’s only “sexist” and “revolting” if there’s no money or PR involved.

And that be da nooz.

Similarity Overload

I’ve said before that I miss newspapers — when I was staying in Britishland a few years back I devoured the Free Markets’ Daily Telegraph  every morning — and most of the reason is that a newspaper covers a wide variety of topics.

This is no longer true since we all started getting our news on the Internet, because naturally we tend to gravitate towards websites which cater to our needs rather than ones that don’t.

The problem is that there is hardly any what I call “general” reading anymore — all the conservative sites cover pretty much the same dozen topics each day — which is why I read Britain’s Daily Mail and Sun newspapers avidly.  I know that they’re both pretty dire, but they’re free, offer more than just politicspoliticspolitics, and even if they sometimes read like the National Enquirer, it’s at least far more entertaining than reading How Biden Is Leading Us To Doom for the seventh time that morning.  (The Telegraph  is behind a paywall, sadly, and all American newspapers are either also thus immured, or else horrible Lefty rags [some overlap] which I will not give the time of day).

My twice-weekly News Roundup features my attempts to address that ghastly sameness, albeit in a lighthearted manner, and the variety of topics I choose to “summarize”  reflects that ideal.  And unlike Instapundit, who I think tries to do more or less the same, my Roundups feature scantily-clad women, because just because.

Anyway, I didn’t start this post meaning for it to become so serious, so to lighten things up a little, herewith some gratuitous pics of things that I like:

(Try finding that joke at Breitbart or The Federalist…)

And finally:

You’ll never find that combination of topics at any single website, but you should at mine… along with

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And the news is even worse:


that’s some funny shit, right there.

As is this (no link):

Even better:


no mention of their modern-day slaves, i.e. everyone living in Britain.


I said this would happen one day.  And the idea going to be floated here at some point in the near future.


“Bozo” Biden was unavailable for comment.

From the Dept. of Assimilation:


ah yes, that well-known tolerance of Islam.

…and:


after they applied for grade school teaching jobs, no doubt.

From the Dept. of Religion:


frankly, old cock, I think most people would agree that you should spend more time talking about the Devil, something you trained for, and much less time about all the other wokist shit you go on about.


those being:  lying, telling falsehoods, mendacity and fibbingWe’re not even going to mention the other sins of making shit up and overtly supporting the dark forces of evil (i.e. Marxism).


and Just Like That, their future career prospects shrank by 90%.


not the same:  worse.

And speaking of Depends:


what are they going to do:  imprison him?  If such a fate ever befalls me, expect a whole lot of shit like that, only much more malevolent than just mooning.  You heard it here first.


only 1.) what did you expect for 36 quid, and 2.) you need a slimmer body to carry it off, and 3.) what kind of fucking wedding dress is that in the first place?

And from the files of INSIGNIFICA:

 


and not a bad body for a 42-year-old Nigora:

     

And that’s all the “news” fit to report, embellish or invent (/New York Times ).

Unworthy

The story of the film so far:  woman puts money into a lottery machine, gets bumped by rude asshole, accidentally pushes the wrong button on the machine and gets a single (and expensive) card, different from the cheap ones she normally plays.  Okay, that kinda sucks.

Then she does the scratchy thing and discovers that her “accidental” card has just given her a $10 million payout.

Hooray, hoorah and all that.

But here’s where the story takes a nasty turn:

Edwards said she is going to use her winnings to buy a house and start a nonprofit organization.

Oh FFS.

Let’s start at the top.

  1. That $10 million turns to $5 million immediately, as the FedGov and the Golden Shower State take their respective pounds of flesh off the top;
  2. Being a Los Angeles County prisoner resident, she’s going to have to drop about $2 million if she wants to get anything more than a two-bed / one-bath bungalow;
  3. If she doesn’t invest the remaining millions properly, she won’t have enough income to afford the property taxes on that big new house, unless she wants to keep working at (rough guess) the DMV for the rest of her life;
  4. And all that’s after the res’ of da fambly — some of whom she never knowed was fambly — comes calling with their hands out (her first name is LaQuedra:  connect the dots);
  5. So much for the non-profit.

She could always start a non-profit and pay herself a decent salary as the president thereof;  but the salaries for the rest of the staff (all fambly) will drain her coffers dry within at most two years — and the IRS takes a dim view of that kind of thing, anyway.

None of this is important to me — it’s not my money and well done to her, I say — but it’s a good example of stupid people pissing away their good fortune.