Here’s a simple explanation for rising grocery costs, from the perspective of a baker:
…and make no mistake, this is happening all over the place.
Can we hold both the mid-term and presidential elections tomorrow?
Category: Elections
Slanted Coverage
As the Italian general elections of earlier this week gave rise to victory of a coalition of “right-wing” and “neo-fascist” parties, the headlines were predictable:
The Irish Times: Just like Mussoliiiini!
BBC: Europe Trembles!
…and so on. (I may have jazzed up the headlines a little, but mine actually reflect the tone of the articles better than their own headlines do.)
Likewise, the pics in said outlets of future DagoPM Giorgia Meloni make her look like Chelsea Clinton’s uglier secret sister, but I am here to tell you that she’s not all bad:
But of course, none of that is important. Her government’s future policies are, though, and I’m predicting that the EU “government” is going to assume the full hair-on-fire position when the Italian Navy starts blockading the north coast of Africa to prevent more boatloads of “refugees” from reaching Italy.
One of Meloni’s biggest fans, incidentally, is HungoPM Viktor Orban, and given how much the Eurocrats hate him, that should be good enough for any of us.
One Less Marxist
Sheesh, when California voters kick you out of office, you must be a total asshole.
One of Chesa Boudin’s first moves after being elected with just over 50% of the vote was to eliminate cash bail for suspects. He also had directed his department to refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, prosecuted fewer shoplifters, and in March of 2021, he dismissed the killing of an 84-year-old Thai immigrant as a “sort of temper tantrum” gone bad.
Homicides and property crimes including burglaries and car thefts have spiked over the past two years, and Boudin’s handling of suspected fentanyl dealers has draw criticism.
No shit. Sayonara, Commie bastard.
By the way, Boudin has no sense of irony.
“People are angry, they’re frustrated, and I want to be very clear about what happened tonight: The right-wing billionaires outspent us three to one, they exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset, and they created an electoral dynamic where we were literally shadowboxing,” Boudin said.
Yeah, no mention of the fact that his original election victory was bankrolled by Marxist billionaire George Soros.
Oh Yeah, Baby
Guess who’s running for Congress?
I had hoped she’d run against Murkowski for the Senate, but the House will do.
Stolen Vote!!!
I arrived at the polling station in a good mood, having established beforehand that yes, I was a registered voter and registered to vote in 3rd District TX withal. Also, I found the address of the nearest polling station and off I went, all ready to cast my primary vote against that little crapweasel Rep. Van Taylor and for the righteous judge, Keith Self.
My good mood evaporated when I got my ballot paper. There, at the top of the list were three names I’d never heard of before. So I went back to the polling folks and said, “I think there’s something wrong — these aren’t the 3rd District Republican House candidates.”
“Oh,” came the reply, “you’ve been redistricted into the 4th District.”
“No I haven’t. I checked on the official TXVote.org website just a couple hours ago, and according to them, I’m registered in the 3rd.”
“Ah,” came the airy reply, “I don’t think the website was updated in time.”
I didn’t do what I wanted to do because I’d left my guns in the car and anyway, I think it may be illegal to destroy those poxy voting machines with gunfire.
So I didn’t vote for any of the strangers, because I don’t know them. I did, however, vote for the Usual Suspects — Jim Abbot, Ken Paxton and the other top Republican worms, and pretty much nobody else except the names I already knew from previous elections. (I nearly voted for ex-LTC Allen West instead of Abbott in protest, but he can run again, and then I will.)
I was going to write to the Governor demanding heads on pikes, or worse, for the incompetent assholes who are supposed to do this stuff — aren’t computer systems wonderful? — but I had to allow my wrath to cool, because apparently it’s against the law to say some of the things I was going to say.
Anyway, all has ended well, because the little crapweasel has canceled his reelection campaign, no doubt because he was only going to lose the runoff to Judge Self as more and more voters realized what a little crapweasel he really is. Strange that in an ultra-conservative district, voters aren’t going to take too kindly to his support of anti-Trumpers and shagging some houri extramaritally.
Which means that a former LTC and -judge and staunch conservative is going to Washington on our behalf. I mean their behalf, because I’ve been shunted out of his district. I have no idea what the 4th District is all about, and now I know how the Wandering Jew felt.
By the way, in learning about the candidates, I discovered that two of the Democrat nominees are an ex-Californian and ex-Bostonian respectively. Fuck me, that didn’t take long.
And thankee muchly to the Loyal Readers who emailed me about Crapweasel’s withdrawal.
New Blood Needed
Longtime Readers may remember that I held our former House Rep, the late Sam Johnson (PBUH) in the highest regard, and while I understood why he retired (age, Vietnam POW, etc), I was sad that he did, sadder still when he passed away last year.
He was replaced by a slightly oily little worm whom I’d actually met prior to his election as Mr. Sam’s replacement — but as he was the best of a rather poor bunch, I voted for him.
How times have changed. Today is primary day, and Van Taylor is being challenged by several Republicans in the Third District.
Just so we’re all clear as to why Taylor’s being challenged, this slimy little RINO voted in favor of the disgusting Jan 6 House Commission (one of two Texas reps, and one of twenty-three Reps nationwide to do so). He’s proven himself to be a Never-Trumper, and I’m not going to vote for him. (He’s also been caught bonking some chick in Washington, but I don’t care as much about that as the other stuff.)
Looking over the candidates, former judge and arch-conservative Keith Self seems to have the right stuff:
Infantry Platoon Leader, Special Forces Detachment Commander, Company Commander, as the Executive Officer to a Major General in Egypt, responsible for managing $2 Billion in security assistance. In addition, Keith served in Joint Staff assignments in US European Command and later in NATO Military Headquarters in Belgium.
During his career, Keith received the Master Parachutist Badge, Ranger Tab, Special Forces Tab, and held some of the highest level of security clearances. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Upon retiring from the U.S. Army after 25 years of service, Keith ran for and was elected County Judge in Collin County. In that position, Keith stood up for us when others wouldn’t—cutting taxes 25%, defending private property rights, and solving the pension crisis.
See you at the polls today, Judge.