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Another Day, Another Commie Plot

Anarchist thugs, Marxists

Looks like the FBI is on the ball for a change (as opposed to their misdeeds under President Autopen):

The FBI has arrested and charged a 17-year-old from McKinney, Texas, who the agency alleges was plotting to assassinate Republican Rep. Keith Self at an event last Saturday.

According to federal investigators, the juvenile also planned a terrorist attack in North Texas on behalf of ISIS.

This episode comes a little too close to home for me because Keith Self is my Congressman, and his activities in the U.S. House have been, for this old conservative, exemplary.

Which is no doubt the reason this scrote targeted him.

What galls me is that according to the Usual Suspects, the danger to our republic comes from so-called “dangerous conservative (MAGA)” groups — when in fact, all the evidence shows that the actual danger is coming from a concerted-but-not-really group of fucking raving loony leftoids.

Like this asshole.  I can’t wait for him to be identified.  No matter who he turns out to be, he won’t be a hate-filled conservative.

Like me.

Happy Dance Time

Corporate Fuckery, Good News

This event may signal a return to this website of TastyWomenPics™.

Getty Images filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, marking a major reset after its planned ​merger with rival Shutterstock collapsed under the ​weight of heavy debt and growing competition ⁠from AI-generated imagery.

I’ve crossed swords with these motherfuckers for decades.  They act as fearless protectors of copyright, whereas in fact they’re nothing more than a wannabe-monopolistic bunch of thugs who first harvest up “clients” (purported creators of images), then set about threatening anyone who dares to publish a pic, with assorted legal penalties.

Here’s the fact of the matter.  Every time I get one of these threatening letters, my first response is to ask for proof that they are indeed the agents of said copyright holders, and not just claiming to be such.

I have never, not once, been given any proof thereof.

So I ignore all future communications from them and their lawyers.

What makes Getty’s bankruptcy all the more delicious is this:

“…growing competition ⁠from AI-generated imagery.”

You mean images such as these?

All the above came from some crowd named seeart.ai.

And just for the hell of it, here’s a non-A.I. pic of the above subject (and no, I could find no proof of copyright, either on the pic itself or at the location where I found it):

Man, I loved the 1970s…

When The Lights Go Out

Africa

Remember, this is all the White Man’s fault:

City Power’s collapse threatens Johannesburg’s future. 

Today City Power operates with an acting CEO, and 122 of its 278 professionally qualified posts are vacant. The utility has failed to generate enough revenue to cover its costs for several years, while rising Eskom prices, electricity theft, illegal connections and customers moving to alternatives such as rooftop solar are putting further pressure on its finances. By 2025, it was running a deficit of R4.3-billion.

Between July 2025 and March 2026, City Power reported 2.1 million forced interruptions. It took 11 hours on average to restore each one, and customers went without electricity for an average of 20.6 hours over the period. In some cases they went without for weeks. Sixty percent of outages were caused by deteriorating and outdated networks, and City Power puts its infrastructure backlog at R44.25-billion.

For those with short memories, let me remind you that back in 1993, South Africa was a net exporter of electrical power, sending it to all its neighboring countries:  Southwest Africa/Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

The African National Congress under Nelson Mandela came to power and began running the country, including the nationalized industries such as ESCOM (the monopoly electricity provider), in 1994.

So my opening statement was, in fact, incorrect.  I apologize for the error.

Thursday Landscape

Travels

Salzburg (2004)

Quote from the Son&Heir, on seeing the Alps for the first time from his hotel room:

“C’mon Dad, that’s not real — that’s a poster someone’s stuck on the outside of the window!”

Consolidation Pt 2

Business, The Gun Thing

Hmmmm…

Smith & Wesson announced today that it has acquired Savage Arms from JDH Holdings in a $160 million stock-and-cash transaction. 

The move brings the 132-year-old Massachusetts-based Savage Arms, known best for its accurate and innovative rifles and shotguns, squarely under the umbrella of the even more senior 174-year-old S&W. For its part, Smith & Wesson already has a healthy catalog of modern pistols, revolvers, lever guns, suppressors, and modern sporting rifles.

Smith & Wesson stated the acquisition “creates a compelling platform to generate sustainable, long-term growth” in its press release announcing the move.

“The acquisition of Savage is transformative for Smith & Wesson and contributes to our objective of becoming the undisputed market leader in the firearm industry,” said Mark Smith, president and CEO of Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. “With this transaction, we have significantly expanded our presence in the hunting category, particularly in bolt-action rifles, which will enable us to better serve our customers.”

Okay, I guess.  I like the idea of S&W and Savage under the same roof, so to speak, because by and large they don’t have much overlap in general terms.  To simplify the thing:  Smith doesn’t make precision rifles, and Savage doesn’t make revolvers, so that should work out okay.

The problem I have with this (and the Beretta/Ruger merger) is that it simplifies the market, and not necessarily for the better.  Now, instead of four large gun companies, we have two giant ones — and in principle, I don’t like oligarchies;  I like competition to come from all over the place.

I’m reserving judgment on this merger — and feel free to tell me if I’ve completely missed the point — but I have to say, I have a bad feeling in my gut about it.