“I’d much rather make a squatter homeless than have a landlord lose property.” — James Jacobs, ASAP Squatter Removal.
I have absolutely no doubt that the state of California is going to try its best to shut him down. Read the whole thing to find out why.
From Kruiser:
“It’s not just that Biden & Co. got so many things wrong — one expects that from Democrats — it’s that they got them so spectacularly wrong.”
And of course, so much effort is required by each and every incoming Republican administration to fix the mess (diplomatic, defense, social policy, economics — oy, the list goes on and on) before starting on any positive work.
Two (or three, or four) steps backwards each Democrat administration, half a step forward with the Republicans, then a single step forward again (if we’re lucky) — and then the ungodly get back into power by the usual means (fill in the blanks) and the whole horrible pattern starts all over again.
Small wonder that the U.S. is so much a failing neo-socialist state despite our economic strength.
And our only hope is that the Trump administration manages to get a few steps forward before the cataclysm so that the ungodly have to spend time trying to undo what he did — putting them on the back foot, for a change.
Hey, I can dream, you know.
From someone on the Internet (SOTI), talking about the increasing complexity of the modern world:
“In the future, a large portion of consumers will want low tech, bullet proof appliances, vehicles, homes, etc. I want my grandma’s fridge, my parent’s home, the 1988 Honda prelude I drove when I was 16, and to retire from my high tech job. All my friends think the same way. It’s too much hassle for the benefit and nobody is happier.“
Me too. Give me simplicity over complexity every day of the week.
From Will Dabbs (via national treasure Joe Huffman):
After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, the Australian government outlawed most guns, confiscating some 650,000 firearms. Gun control enthusiasts often look lustfully at our friends Down Under as role models.
That’s the background. Here’s the QOTD:
Even in a slow year, we gun-crazy Yanks buy that many new firearms every two weeks.
And those are just the guns reported as sold. There may be still more…
From Bradley Iger at MotorTrend:
“Politicians and automakers have discovered that trying to change the buying habits of Americans through legislation and a reduction of choice is a great way to alienate a substantial portion of the motoring public.”
Too bad the penalty for such “alienation” doesn’t include copious quantities of tar and feathers, but I’ll take what I can get.
From The Divine Sarah:
“Communism is a hot house plant because it originates from intellectual abstraction; because it doesn’t work mathematically; because, contrary to image, its biggest fans are always intellectuals of a certain type; because it can’t survive without leeching off functional systems, and because it can’t survive the free dissemination of information.”
If by “intellectual” she means “of the mind”, then I agree. But a socio-economic theory that cannot stand up to the most basic of questions is the province of the unutterably foolish, not of actual rational intellectual thought.
