Here’s actress/singer Martine McCutcheon:
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Sales Pressure
Some Black Friday silliness from PSA:
As I pointed out to Mr. Free Market, that’s $350 for a rifle and cartridge I’d take out into the bush with confidence, any day of the week.
Despite that ugly-ass plastic stock.
Say Wut?
Seems as though a few areas in the U.S. have seen large growth in real estate values since the Covid thing. Mostly, it should be said, this is because property in the area was relatively inexpensive — i.e. the growth is off a low base. Some of the towns, though, are inexplicable.
Top 10 cities and how much the value of their homes has increased since 2019:
- Knoxville, TN – +86% — I’d live there
- Fayetteville, AR – +84.5% — low base
- Charleston, SC – +81.3% — I’d live there
- Scranton, PA – +78.4% — inexplicable; shit hole
- Syracuse, NY – +77.6% — inexplicable; shit hole
- Portland, ME – +75.7% — I’d live there
- Rochester, NY – +75.2% — inexplicable; shit hole
- New Haven, CT – +73.8% — expensive became more expensive
- Charlotte, NC – +73.1% — sorry, nope
- Chattanooga, TN – +72.9% — low base, but I’d live there.
See any on the list where you’d care to live? Your comments are welcome.
Tempting Wheels
Right off the bat, I’m going to say that I was never a fan of the old VW Beetle back in my yoot, even though I did own one briefly #Poverty. Yes they were cute, but the body shape was ugly and the interior did nothing to excite me. Best of all was the Beetle’s famed reliability, but that wasn’t enough to get me to keep it.
But I have to say that this one at Hemmings caught my eye:
It’s a 1964 vintage body, fitted with a ’74 1600cc engine. That engine, for that time and for that company, was quite a beast, most assuredly compared to its predecessors.
And I love that candy-apple red color and those rear wheel covers. The only thing missing are the flip-out indicators on the door column, then and now a lovely feature of the Beetle — I’m not sure whether they’d been taken off by 1964, though.
The listed price is just under $23,000. Ask me whether I’d rather drive that than a secondhand “modern” car for the same price…
News Roundup
Speaking of “letting go”, there’s always a good time, with 
...now all we need to do is get rid of that stupid law that mandates state education for all kiddies, regardless of immigration status.
...as futile gestures go, this makes the Animal House parade disruption seem earth-shattering.
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...let’s not forget Dallas, guys. We’ve got plenty of illegal-immigrant crime to take care of, down here, and it’ll boost your numbers bigly.
And in related news:
...fair trial, followed by execution.
...see above.
...see above.
...a.k.a. irrelevant themes for an irrelevant conference.
...I would say “co-equal”, but who’s counting.
...why are we still listening to this horrible scold, anyway?
In the War On Terror:
...about damn time somebody did. And speaking of terrorist orgs:
...so for all those asshole Greens who want to do that in the civilized world… stop that shit.
...I would have been a better choice, but this might not be too bad.
...somehow, me old darlin’, I just don’t think that’s going to be much of a danger for you. And:
...first time I’ve ever heard the term “salacious activity” applied to wanking.
And now for some true 
And as we scan the view on 
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...my favorite Pussycat Doll. And not bad for a semi-centenarian.
And on that recumbent note, we can end this thing.
Replacement Workers
I have to say that Jamie Wilson has just been clearing the fences recently. Here’s her latest:
“Americans just won’t do these jobs.” That phrase infuriated me from the first time I heard it. I knew it was a lie. I had done the tobacco work myself. My brothers had. Every teenager we knew had. Every adult performed the hard labor that kept the region alive. Americans didn’t suddenly lose their work ethic. The jobs were taken from them — not by immigrants directly, but by American employers who built a business model on illegal labor and by a federal government that looked the other way for forty years.
What Americans “won’t do” are jobs that have been made illegal in everything but name — jobs where wages have collapsed to exploit desperation, where safety standards are ignored, where workers are paid off the books, where insurance and taxes are bypassed, and where living conditions violate every regulation on the books. When the floor is lowered that far, legal workers cannot enter the market at all. That isn’t laziness. That’s math.
And her supporting arguments are terrific. Read the whole article.
I remember when #2 Son was looking for some minimum-wage work back when he was in his late teens. At the time, he was living in Dallas, and when I asked how things were going, work-wise, his response was: “I just can’t compete with all the Mexicans who are willing to work well below the minimum wage.”
Eventually he quit that, and fortunately found his niche in online gaming quality control, but had to move down to Austin, enduring a few years of contract work — chicken and feathers income — before he finally found a full-time job at a company which was later bought out and became a division of Sony.
And I know that I published a stupid article on the topic of illegal alien workers a while back, and I cringe when I think of it. (And yes, I was crucified in the Comments by y’all, and deservedly so. I don’t know what I was thinking.)
Anyway, I see that as ICE is starting to do their job and deporting illegals, American workers are benefiting greatly.
So I guess they were prepared to to “those jobs”, despite the lies uttered by the Democrats over the years.