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Mods - I just submitted an article - 'Cow Farts Cause Climate Change' and it disappeared.
It’s queued up in the hopper for tomorrow, Raj. But you forgot to paste in the URL, so if you’d be so kind as to let me know what it is in a comment in the O Club, I’d be grateful. The link is in the yellow box in the right margin. Thanks!
[Sovereign Man] When I was about five years old in the early 1980s, my dad brought home our first computer.
I’ll never forget it— it was an clunky IBM with a tiny, orange, monochromatic monitor, and dual floppy disks. It had 640 kilobytes of RAM, and no hard disk.
I loved it. With that computer I learned how to program, how to navigate a command-line interface, how to design algorithms, and how to solve constant problems... because it was ridiculously buggy and would break down all the time.
It was also painfully slow. The boot-up process could easily take an hour, from the time I flipped on the power switch, to the time I saw the ’DOS prompt’.
Sometimes I think that computer is a great metaphor for the global economy. Turning it off is nothing; you flip the switch and the power goes off. But starting it back up again takes a long time. And the process isn’t so smooth— sometimes it crashes during bootup.
Last March when the Great Plague was upon us, nearly every industry, in nearly every country in the world, practically shut down.
And many businesses went bust, never to return.
Eighteen months later businesses have largely reopened. But like my old computer, the reboot process has been riddled with critical errors and system failures.
For example, right now there are countless businesses in industries from retail to manufacturing that are experiencing severe labor shortages. Supply chains around the world are breaking down, resulting in product shortages and major transportation bottlenecks.
The end result of this dumpster fire is that prices are soaring. And I wanted to spend some time today connecting the dots to help explain some of these important trends.
Let’s go back to last March again when everything shut down. You probably recall that dozens of large companies declared bankruptcy, like Nieman Marcus, GNC, JC Penny, etc.
But there were other companies that went bust which most people have probably never heard of. They were in more mundane, less sexy industries... like corrugated paper and wood pulp.
Yet while their demise was hardly noticed, it turns out they would have a significant impact on the global economy.
Comparing some old notes for my 1991 original Test Bed. I was reminded I once paid $299 for a Seagate ST-251 40MB HD and I can now purchase a 8TB drive for just under $200 today.
My Kmart C-64 put me back over $250, and my Leading Edge Model D PC 512kb (DOS2.11) with monitor at SAM Wholesale was $1195.
Now I can purchase basic LCD HP laptops with 4gb ram starting around $240.
But
I have also noticed double digit percentage increases over the last few months at Wally World.
For every thing from bread, can goods, meats, common size clothing and Shoes. I am seeing a more empty Shelf spaces at the 4 area stores we wonder around in each week.
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Cause socialist don't really understand any economies other than their cherished 'command economy'. It's not like a light switch you can turn off and turn back on, that's their belief that you can. Europe was shut down 1939-45 and it took them decades before they really recovered. It's going to take a long time to get it going again now, but constant governmental interference, regulating and removing more capital out of the system through higher taxes will delay or obstruct any recovery.
I was assured by the smartest that businesses just go into some sort of hibernation to emerge seven years later and reproduce. And if they don't, 'eff them, they didn't deserve to exist anyways.
You want to see fucked, wait until the cattle producers get ran out of town. We're talking trucking, grain producers, all the industries which rely on the harvest of cows and that is much more than cheeseburgers and baseball gloves, the explosion of food prices due to decreased supply, and that includes your pet foods too which may lead to the re-imagining, to use the current parlance, of what a pet is.
It isn't a trade where 6 months in an intense vo-tech re-trains a generation back into cattle raising because that was a mistake. We're talking at least ten years for an 'emergency turnaround'.
Better learn to eat bugs. They will be everywhere and just as soon eat you. Meanwhile, if you are a congressional trillionaire, you'll get your wagyu Swedish meatballs all over your face.
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Very surprising. Not at all what we expected. Shocked, I tell you.
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I just popped in to my local Kroger grocery to get a few things. A three pound chub of 80% lean ground beef, which I recall costing about $6 on sale a year ago, is now $9.99 on sale against a regular price of $13.49.
[FOX] Former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn [Ret.] joined Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today" to discuss the power and autonomy of the Deep State, and how in the time since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the government's attempts to better secure the U.S. essentially led to a spike in resources for such an apparatus.
Moving down to the bottom line, and what we have been saying here at the Burg for many years.
Flynn added that the DIA, NSA, CIA and other agencies fall under the Director of National Intelligence's purview, noting that official is a political appointee – most recently former Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas and Sen. Daniel Coats, R-Ind., under Trump, Avril Haines under President Biden, and current CNN analyst James Clapper under President Obama.
"These are big structures. And they're unwieldy," he said, adding that their behavior can be influenced by the White House's or their own political views:
"When you're talking about the extraordinary, extraordinary amounts of money that flow through Congress and flow into these intelligence agencies and the activities that they do around the world – so the-- big picture, the CIA is supposed to be international, FBI is a big organization, is supposed to be domestic, and taking care of all of those things. And they're supposed to cooperate on different aspects of what's happening, you know, from overseas to domestic issues."
That proverbial line has now been "blurred" and more, Flynn said.
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The concept of "Two Separate Governments" is clearly illustrated by the puppet Biden Administration, which we are being led to believe was 'duly elected' and now.... in charge.
As is now painfully obvious, the REAL government (government in the shadows) is elsewhere and yet to be fully identified.
Unless a domestic or international catastrophe sweeps the US Constitution aside, we will learn next year if the electoral process is revivable or dead and gone forever.
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The Virginia Gubernatorial election will be a harbinger of how willing Democrats areto openly cheat and the media to lie about it. Obama is out of the cannabis haze of his office at the Kalorama Kompound to campaign, so it must be serious.
[PJ] Near the end of this section in last Friday’s Briefing, I said, "I have enough life experience and perspective to know that everything isn’t an existential crisis. Joe Biden’s Reign of Error is starting to make it feel as if the country is in the throes of one, though." That got me pondering things I would generally prefer to not ponder, but circumstances being what they are, I pondered.
Has alleged President Joe Biden pushed the United States of America to the edge of a cliff that might spell its doom?
No doubt we would all prefer that not to be true. However, the havoc that the doddering moron, who supposedly had 81 million slow kids vote for him, is wreaking makes it nigh on impossible to not consider. Sad Uncle Joe is lurching ever leftward and he’s dousing the country with gasoline and lighting fires everywhere.
Lincoln Brown wrote a great column for us last weekend that likened America’s downward slide to that of the Roman Empire’s disintegration. Here is a snippet from that which became an integral part of the above-mentioned pondering:
You can comb the pages of PJ Media for stories about the corruption, economic incompetence, and lousy domestic and foreign policies that the U.S. shares with the Roman Empire. But what about the moral slide? One might say that the culprits are legion (pun intended). The Grammys, OnlyFans, etc. You name it, you can find something out there to assist you in degrading your body, mind, and soul.
I saw a meme a while back stating that older car manuals used to tell owners how to adjust the valves. Newer car manuals tell users not to drink the battery water. It is probably a joke, but it is apropos. We have become a nation so obsessed with our own stomachs and entertainment and so devoid of critical thinking skills that such a warning would not be out of place.
Obviously, Joe Biden isn’t responsible for America’s modern predilection for the moral sewer. The people who vote for people like him are, however. The shadow cabal running Biden’s brain is empowered by the worst of American society. That’s what turns a merely bad presidency into a constitutional wrecking ball.
The old Joe Biden was a bitterly divisive politician who had no self-control. Now that his brain has turned into tomato soup, it is easy for his un-American handlers to point him in all of the dangerous leftist directions. We aren’t even ten months into this presidency and the country is reeling. His brain may be gone, but Biden seems like he is just physically fit enough to continue being the cabal’s puppet. He’s not going anywhere.
The saddest thing about all of this is that, prior to his mental decline, Biden wouldn’t have been on board with a lot of the lunacy his presidency is forcing upon us. I was never a fan of his, but the old Joe Biden wasn’t a rabid commie.
Forget wondering whether the United States will survive until the 2024 presidential election. We need to worry about Joe Biden’s America making it intact to November 2022.
Again, I never use to be inclined to thinking this way.
[Politico] Long, but interesting essay. An influential data guru expounds on why he thinks his party is losing ground: Their reserve army of young, upscale liberals keeps stepping on their message.
But what if, hidden below their laptop stickers and campaign totes, these young people represent a real political risk for Democrats? And what if, contrary to conventional Democratic wisdom, the power that these young people wield within the party is actually hurting its chance at the ballot box rather than helping it? They'll just cheat the ballots in big, swing-state cities, of course. That worked in 1960 and 2020.
At its most basic, Shor’s theory goes something like this: Although young people as a whole turn out to vote at a lower rate than the general population, the aforementioned type of young person is actually overrepresented within the core of the Democratic Party’s infrastructure. According to Shor, the problem with this permanent class of young staffers is that they tend to hold views that are both more liberal and more ideologically motivated than the views of the coveted median voter, and yet they yield a significant amount of influence over the party’s messaging and policy decisions. As a result, Democrats end up spending a lot of time talking about issues that matter to college-educated liberals but not to the multiracial bloc of moderate voters that the party needs to win over to secure governing majorities in Washington. Yes, but will Obama accept this?
People who paid close attention to the 2016 presidential campaign probably remember the most-watched Democratic campaign commercial from the cycle, Hillary Clinton's "Mirrors" ad, which featured images of young women gazing at themselves in mirrors intercut with footage of Donald Trump making disparaging comments about women. It was powerful stuff ‐ at least among the young liberals on Clinton's staff. But they loved Hillary since 2006.
The "Mirrors" ad featured prominently in a series of experiments that Shor did with Civis to evaluate the effect of various Democratic campaign commercials on voters' decisions. The findings of the experiments were not encouraging. For one, they found that a full 20 percent of the ads ‐ including "Mirrors" ‐ made viewers more likely to vote for Republicans than people who hadn't seen the same ads.
*Snicker*
And after his team started polling members of Civis's staff, they made an even more troubling discovery. On average, the more that the Civis staff liked an ad, the worse it did with the general public.
"The reason is that my staff and me, we're super f---ing different than than the median voter," said Shor. "We're a solid 30 years younger." You can view The "Mirrors" ad at the link.
Is it fair to make our Readers more strongly Republican than they were before, including those among us who dislike Donald Trump?
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"The peasants are revolting!" ...line fromMel Brooks movie
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FOX] Former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn [Ret.] joined Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today" to discuss the power and autonomy of the Deep State, and how in the time since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the government's attempts to better secure the U.S. essentially led to a spike in resources for such an apparatus.
But what if, hidden below their laptop stickers and campaign totes, these young people represent a real political risk for Democrats? And what if, contrary to conventional Democratic wisdom, the power that these young people wield within the party is actually hurting its chance at the ballot box rather than helping it? 
