Tag: Evil Bastards

Different Planet

Bad News, Economics

I see this little snippet:

Prices paid by U.S. households surged higher in September as a wide range of goods and services became more expensive.

Prices rose 8.2 percent compared with a year earlier, the latest Consumer Price Index showed on Tuesday, evidence that the price stability sought by the Federal Reserve remains an elusive and distant destination.

…and I ask myself:  where the hell does that 8.2% come from?

Way I see it, inflation should be measured across categories which hit the average person the hardest:  food, fuel and utilities (FFU).  All the rest are pretty much non-essential, other than in an emergency situation.

In my case, when I scrutinize my budgeted vs. actual expenses spreadsheet, the FFU inflation is running at about 23%, comparing the latest two months of this year’s expenditures to the same two months of last year.  Gasoline costs, of course, are about 28% higher, even with me cutting back on my driving;  food is about 20% higher (once again, “buying down” in terms of quality/quantities), and utilities are about 15% higher (and Aug/Sep was actually warmer in 2021 than this year).

None of the above is even close to the “8.2%” (LOL) that all these shitheads are talking about.

We are being lied to, and I really don’t like it.

Ah Yes, Those “Youths”

Crime

Several people have sent me this little snippet (in which, by the way, we can play our “Guess The Race” game):

Videos posted to social media show a mob of young Black men, teens and children violently attacking a Hooters restaurant in Plano, Texas on Thursday, according to posters of the videos. Customers and staff were attacked at the entrance and windows were smashed. A woman inside the Hooters can be heard off camera exclaiming, “It’s over a f***ing chocolate bar!”

The videos show what appears to be staff retreating to the entrance from a dispute outside in the parking lot that turned violent. The staff is attacked in the vestibule, with one male staff member assuming the BLM kneeling position to no avail. [well duh — Kim]

For those who are going “Huh?” at this happening in Plano of all places, I should point out that like so many otherwise-idyllic places, Plano has its dark side [lol], which is a couple square miles straddling the Central Expressway (U.S. 75) and is home to all sorts of evil scum and wretched villainy.

To we residents of the ummmm tonier side of Plano, the Third World begins east of Alma Drive. Here’s a map, with the Hooters location marked towards the south end:

What’s interesting is that literally a parking lot away from Hooters is a redneck restaurant called Love And War In Texas, which features live country music and exotic meats on its menu.  Had this little “chocolate war” threatened this restaurant, there would have been gunplay, from both customers and staff.

My place is way off the map to the west, by the way, closer to the “corporate executive” part of Plano.

Anyway, there is a bright side to this little tragedy.  As Jim notes:

Fortunately, the Hooters calendar models event was held a few days before.

Given that this event typically features an audience of 90% truckers and rednecks (some overlap), it was fortunate indeed.  For the youths.

Like We Didn’t Know That Already

Eco-Crap, Weather

Satellite Temperature Data Show Almost All Climate Model Forecasts Over the Last 40 Years Were Wrong

Any of my Longtime Readers will be at least familiar with this, as I’ve repeated time and time again that not one of the predictive algorithms used by these charlatans to drive the global warming/cooling/climate change hysteria has ever been close to its predicted outcome in terms of temperature change.

We need to end this ridiculous farce now, as it’s being used to destroy civilization and replace it with… well, universal poverty and misery, as far as I can make out.

That includes measures such as mandated ending of the internal combustion engine, replacement of clean and reliable energy generation with costly and unreliable substitutes, and all the zero net carbon nonsense — among many others.

I’d add flogging and execution of the chief charlatans, but that would probably appear as excessive to some wilting violets.

Zero Tolerance

Law and Order

From Florida, some good news:

“As far as looting — we have law and order in Lee County. We have law and order in our great state of Florida, and we always will,” said Marceno. “Right now, we have four cases of looting, and I’m proud to say they’re behind bars where they belong. Our residents are going to be safe.”

Or, as FuturePOTUS Ron DeSantis puts it:

“I can tell you in the state of Florida, you never know what may be lurking behind somebody’s home. And I would not want to chance that if I were you given that we are a Second Amendment state.”

Let me remind everyone that during the Blitz in 1940, when the Brits still had actual balls, looting of bomb-damaged houses carried the death penalty.

The good old days, in other words.

Arrogance

Law and Order

From our esteemed Quack-In-Chief:

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday responded to Republican vows to investigate him after he steps down from his government roles in December, saying he would consider testifying but not submit to “character assassination.”

Errrr “consider testifying“?

Ask Steve Bannon what happens if you refuse to obey a Congressional subpoena, you arrogant little prick.

Oh, and by the way: if you’re testifying before Congress and someone decides to assassinate your character, that’s called “parliamentary privilege”, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

I’m getting so sick of bureaucrats thinking that they’re somehow above the law.

Beaten To The Punch

Gummint, Politics

I was actually going to write this post, except that someone far more qualified than I wrote it first.  And with far less profanity than I would have, too.  A sample:

Fascism didn’t really come into play as a functioning ideology until Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini, defined it as the state as an organic being, controlling everything. “Everything in the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state” became the definition of a totalitarian state (total control over the economy, society, and culture). Where Marx envisioned the “withering away” of the state (totally skipping over human nature and the drive for power and control, whether over other people or just your own life), Mussolini and Gentile envisioned the state as the sole arbiter of life, the universe, and everything.

Small-government conservatives, by definition, are therefore not fascists.

It’s a lot easier to define “fascism” or “fascist” as an epithet by using George Orwell’s remark, written in 1944:

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’

…to the accuser.