Jan 3, 2025 – And a Happy New Year to the world's coolest, wokest company!China was so shiny and good to you.New Apple Store in the Jing’an district in #Shanghai, China.It cost over $11 million! pic.twitter.com/qdBmqftYcU— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) March 21, 2024And then, like, it wasn't.GULPWoah! $AAPL saw a 47% plunge in mainland China sales in...

Jan 10, 2025 – Honestly, with everything happening in the United States this fall, election-wise, and watching Keir Starmer stumble headlong into 'most rapidly despised Prime Minister in history' territory, I'd completely spaced this particular October sin of his.And a most unwelcome, sprung-out-of-nowhere sin it was.No Time Like the Present for the UK to Give...

Jan 16, 2025 – I think there's one thing we can all agree on: for a teacher (granted of very short tenure), Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson, is a very, very slow learner.He seems the sort of bear-of-little-brain who stumbles through life and survives only by being a useful tool to others. The fragile and...

Jan 16, 2025 – Years ago (okay, okay - 2005, so it was decades, dammit), when Bingley and I originally got into blogging, one of our more memorable innerwebs contretemps started thanks to my disgusted bemusement at the sense of entitlement displayed by younger people entering the job market.At the time (circa 2011), we...

Jan 16, 2025 – Here we go, yet another post in the long-running saga of 'how Green energy killed the mighty German industrial complex.'I've done tons of posts about them since I've been here and they only get more dire. Now that Germany is headed into an election on February 15th, even more scrutiny...

Jan 16, 2025 – Holy smokes - this falls under the DON'T TEASE ME - I know Trump was serious about hatin' the heck out of these things. He's certainly said so plainly enough.Trump is laying some truth out about Off Shore Wind!We the people, do not want these hulking, wasteful, expensive, not clean/green, tax payer...

Jan 20, 2025 – I'd almost say they're torn between their sad-sack antecedents and a sense of...dare I say it? Irrational exuberance at the thought of what's possible.Their live updates coverage of the inauguration has a headline link is flat-out hilarious when you just read it on its face.I mean, think about it -...

Jan 21, 2025 – God bless America. This president of ours is something. Yeah, he makes a lot of noise and says what seems - to a world used to the polite pablum of diplomatic argle-bargle - to be some pretty outrageous stuff. Even jarring to the ear at times, it can be so bombastic....

Jan 21, 2025 – The Lava Ridge Wind project in Idaho has been a thorn in Idaho's sides locally for quite some time. Last June, I told you all about how the Bureau of Land Management had, once the developer's plans were approved, closed the required 90-day public comment period with a 'thank you...

Jan 21, 2025 – There are a lot of angry people right now on that island - a lot of angry BRITISH people.Their feckless, malevolent Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer - he of the 'Two Tiers' of justice, betraying of violated working-class children, and sender of old pensioners to ice floes - has just...

Jan 21, 2025 – This morning was a good morning, especially for this country. Besides having someone in the White House who's all about this country, his team is rock solid and moving into place.The first one officially onboard is someone I've known for a long time and always thought was meant to do...

Jan 9, 2025 – Ah, the looming disaster of an East and Gulf Coast ports strike had been lurking around the edges of the euphoria over Trump's November triumph.In mid-December, if you remember, there was an interesting twist when President-elect Trump came out with a statement firmly in favor of the longshoremen's position.You could...

Jan 9, 2025 – Darn, if this isn't just all happening at the worst time. Then again, these European governments act as if 'winter' never happens, or if it does, it's just a cold snap.From the United Kingdom to Germany and points beyond, they are finding out that a harsher winter is too late...

Jan 22, 2025 – Gracious! This could really be setting up some 'big talk, little do' sanctuary city types for an epic game of chicken.It was less than a week ago I was marveling in wonder at Chicago's version of a bear-of-very-little-brain, Mayor Brandon Johnson, as he blithely waved a red flag at Trump's...

Jan 8, 2025 – The Biden administration's last-minute push to approve any renewable scheme or shovel money out the door to any half-assed Green Grift proposal has been a frustrating exercise for them, and thank God for that....There are billions still sitting unspent in the oversized, loosely defined coffers reserved for the Inflation Reduction...

Jan 8, 2025 – This guy isn't in a hole. Mayor Brandon Johnson's in a tunnel of his own shoveling and on his way out the backside to China.Holy smokes.The negotiations for the teachers' union contract continue, with fired-but-still-in-his-job Chicago Public School Chief Executive Officer (aka superintendent) Pedro Martinez doing the city's heavy lifting.If...

Jan 9, 2025 – This has to be burning some European Union brahmin butt.As badly as the powers that be, from bureaucrats in Brussels to the heads of countries like Germany and the United Kingdom, would love to knock that cocky Elon Musk on his tuchus once and for all...it won't be this week.Admittedly,...

Jan 8, 2025 – This vile old sack of carbon. I can't even with him.First of all, with everything raging on the coast in Los Angeles, I cannot believe the mushroom-brained idiot - or whichever worthless staffer was playing him today - ordered Marine One to fly his desiccated corpse INTO THOSE CONDITIONS.I mean,...

Jan 9, 2025 – And I made sure to tell you she was a BLACK LESBIAN right up front because she's so damn proud of it. Historic, even. I know she would want me to.Plus, she's got the Ivy League DEI certificate, and I don't.I feel so unworthy.Kristine Larson is a 33+ year veteran of the...

Jan 23, 2025 – There's a lot going on at the moment - lots of balls in the air. It's made all the more pressing by the way Donald Trump came storming into office, going to work with Sharpie in hand almost the second his hand went down from taking the oath.What to do...

Jan 23, 2025 – Davos. My favorite gathering of billionaire 'Eat the Bugs' Bond villains.Last year's theme for the World Economic Forum's (WEF) glittering attendees focused on 'rebuilding trust.' This boiled down to finding new packaging that the peasants would swallow as 'improved' for the same globalist message that the elites were spewing in between...

Jan 23, 2025 – I like this - I like this a LOT.NO MORE MALARKEYPete Hegseth has done everything required of him, done it with aplomb and dignity.Not a soul was fooled nor mollified into caving 'Oh, well, we got one' by the polite 'unanimous vote for Marco' in the tailpipe trick.Some of John...

Jan 23, 2025 – This is a terrifying development but, to be honest, one you could see coming from a mile away.God help the white farmers and property owners of South Africa.The government has awarded a license to steal.It's not just farms. The law applies to any fixed property.— Martin van Staden (@Martin_ASFL) January...

Dec 17, 2024 – Hang on a minute here. Every time I start feeling like we're darn near the good old US of A again, BAM.Some same dystopian, authoritarian, sneaky asterisk Democratic Schlitz pops out from behind a screen to remind me we are living in a simulation. And they are the EE-VILLE wizards...

Dec 17, 2024 – There are all sorts of lies in this world. Little white lies all the way to Bernie Madoff-sized piles of them.Some lies don't hurt at all, some lies only affect one or two people, and some lies cover vast swaths of lives.There are deadly serious lies with equally awful consequences,...