Time For The Old 1498?

Waddya mean, Kim?

Go ahead and watch this video, and wait for this magic line to appear:

…and ask:  why not?

Look, I’m a capitalist, and I believe in the sanctity of patents.  But when the loaded cost of a product is around $5 — hell, call it $10 even — and the retail price ends up being $1,000, even my capitalist free-market mind starts turning towards government intervention.

We Americans are getting screwed, and it’s time Uncle Sam did something useful for its people, for a change.

And after all, the Danes of all people should understand the concept of government intervention in the market.

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Vigilance

So let’s be charitable and say that of the 450,00-odd dangerous scumbags of foreign origin that are roaming around the country (thanks to FJB and Heels-Up Harris), maybe half are still in Texas.  (As if we don’t have enough domestic dangerous scumbags already in situ.)

Now ask me again why I don’t ever leave the house without at least one gun close to hand… or why I’m seldom more than arm’s reach from another gun in the house.

Or why all my guns are somewhat more than the double-barrel shotgun (capacity: 2 rounds) as once suggested as “sufficient” by said FJB.

Fuck him and his gun-confiscating VP, and woe betide the scumbags foreign and domestic — the latter to include any official who wants to deny me my self-protection.  I’m in no mood to be charitable, if anything the opposite.

Enough, already.

Dislocation

Having reached the end of my tether with AT&T/DirecTv, I’m swapping Internet providers.  So please don’t be alarmed if there’s a shortage of posts over the next couple of days as I grapple with the promised “easy self-installation” promised by the new guys.

The last “easy self-installation” promised by AT&T ended up taking over four hours with a techie, as Loyal Readers may recall.

In the meantime, feast your eyes upon this:

…and go here to see the price.

Back soon, I hope.


Update:  Forget that shit.  Spectrum is worse than AT&T, so I just kept the status quo.

Well, Well, Well

…now lookee here:

In line with the insurgence of far-right parties elsewhere in Europe, the Freedom Party has seen its popularity soar, fed by voter anger over migration, inflation and Covid restrictions. Its leader Herbert Kickl, 55, has vowed to transform the country into ‘Fortress Austria’, slamming the current government’s ‘failed migration policy’ as being to blame for the Islamist terror plot on a Taylor Swift concert. Mr Kickl and his party have promoted ‘remigration’, the controversial* concept which promotes the expulsion of immigrants of non-European ethnic backgrounds who are deemed to have failed to integrate.

Based on current projections, the conservative People’s Party, led by current Chancellor Karl Nehammer, is on course to become the second largest group, with 26.3 per cent of votes.

It’s about time some kind of reality slammed home — not for the people themselves, but for the “ruling class” who have perpetrated this nonsense on their people.

Of course, the Left reacted in the usual way:

…not that anyone cares.  In this case, at least, loudness does not equate to the popular will.


*doesn’t sound that “controversial” to me nor, I suspect, to many of my Readers and more than a few more million others in the United States.