Due no doubt to climate change being wrought by the Chinese, hundred mile per hour winds powered fire that ripped along the suburbs of Boulder, Colorado:
Aerial footage of the area post-fire looks a lot like footage of regions hit by tornadoes… just stained black.
So how’s the Commie Cough doing these days? Ummm… oh:
More than three hundred and fifty *thousand* new cases per day and still shooting skywards. How thrilling. Granted, it’s likely that the majority of these cases are the “omicron” variant which seems to be a lot less dangerous, as can be kinda sussed out with this graph:
There is of course a lag between infection and death, but since it appears that the new spike in cases really got going two weeks ago while deaths are kinda-sorta *not* spiking (though clearly not in decline, either, at around ~1300 per day), omicron at least so far appears to be something of a nothingburger.
More than half of the 824,301 deaths (so far) have been under the Biden administration. On January 20, 2020, there had been around 400,000 deaths. I wonder if Biden will stick to his word?
[3:12] Biden: 220,000 Americans dead. If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this. Anyone who’s responsible for not taking control — in fact, not saying, I take no responsibility, initially — anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.
The bursting of some “bubbles” you can see coming a mile off. One such is the “medallion” system in use in New York City for their taxis. There were a limited number of “Medallions,” basically city licenses to operate taxis, and as they were sold on their price skyrocketed. A million dollars for the right to operate a taxi seems like an insane prospect… and it is. Especially in a world with Lyft and Uber, greatly expanding the number of taxi-like vehicles while reducing the cost. How anyone thought they could reasonably make a profit with a taxi with an initial funding requirement of a *million* dollars with no guarantee that they would necessarily be able to sell that medallion later on for equal or greater money, is beyond me. It’s like going deep into student load debt to get a degree in gender studies, it’s just a monumentally financially foolish idea. And now the price of these ridiculous “medallions” has collapsed, and *of* *course* the taxi drives are protesting and demanding that the government Do Something.
The article calls it a “crisis.” I call it “an opportunity for the free market system to replace the overly regulated and corrupt system that the city had installed.” The article is actually pretty funny in a dark way… the medallions reached a peak of over a million in 2014, and have now collapsed to around $80,000 (still a ridiculous sum for a license to operate a small business). Many of the taxi drivers, which the author goes to pains to point out are largely immigrants, owe $600,000 or so. The number of medallions, and thus taxis, was capped at 13,500; the number of rideshares is over 120,000. This is A BAD BUSINESS MODEL.
This shady scheme was instituted in 1937 and amplified by Mayor Bloomberg in 2004, and by 2014 had raised $855 *million* for the city coffers. There’s no grift like a government grift.
It’s never good to steal stuff from people. It’s especially bad and stupid to steal from a popular YouTuber who knows how to use modern techmonologicamal equipment… like cameras and tracking devices.
I see no logical reason to not lay a legal smackdown on someone who steals that easily. Such a person has clearly stolen before, will do so again. They are a burden on society.
A suggestion for other tech-savvy types who think their stuff might be stolen: install tracking devices on something you’re reasonably sure will be stolen. That’s easy and obvious. But something else to add: a cell phone with a good loud speaker. A cell phone that you can call when the cops are nearby. A cell phone that will start screaming “help, help, I need the police.” Then all of a sudden you don’t need a search warrant and all the time that that takes.
Hardest I laughed all day.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze.
She talks like someone who votes a certain way. See if you can guess which way.
So, you’re a Finnish guy with a 2013 Tesla Model S with a bad battery. Tesla tells you replacing the battery will cost $22,000. What do? Well, wire that sucker up with dynamite and turn it into confetti, that’s what.
Something ain’t right with the spar…
Footage showing the accident of an Embraer EMB-202A, #Brazil registration PT-UZI (C/N 20001133), that took place earlier today, at a farm near Lagoa da Confusão, in Tocantins. According to witnesses, the pilot survived. pic.twitter.com/9IUuAa2KjV
— The Latin American Aviation Historical Society (@The_LAAHS) December 10, 2021
Neato.
In short, Putin is demanding that NATO stay out of former Soviet vassal states like Ukraine and Lithuania, because he wants a buffer. But what buffer do those states have against the Russian military? Perhaps a good compromise would be if NATO stays out of the Soviet states while the Russian military pulls back behind the Urals.
Russian state propaganda somehow feels that Ukraine or Poland being secure is a threat to Russia. Why that would be is not clear. Does Putin think that Estonia is going to suddenly start baying for Russian blood and then sweep across the border? Will Latvian special forces take Moscow?
So, now Russian propagandists are promising to nuke American and European cities if former slave states cozy up to the West. Doesn’t seem a particularly effective way to calm everyone down to the point that Ukraine and the like no longer have a desire to have military backup, but maybe that’s just me.
I’m just glad we have such competent, on-the-ball leadership in Washington.
… but perhaps too much bullet. A 45-70 in a Derringer seems like maybe a wee bit much.
I can quit for the day, go back to bed, try again tomorrow. Nothing will surpass this.
