Tag: Stupid people

Wine Lakes, Butter Mountains

Bad News, Eco-Crap, Gummint

Thanks (once again) to The Divine Sarah at Insty’s, we have this brilliant analysis of how government can totally fuck up the market — any market — by ignoring the effects of pricing, deficits and surpluses.

Now, I know it’s about Britishland, and I know that just this is going to cause some of my Murkin Readers to roll their eyes, mutter something about “foreign entanglements”, and go off to wank over Megyn Kelly’s latest nutjob rant or whatever..

Don’t.

As I have said countless times before, I always look over The Pond to see what the Euros and Brits are doing, because they provide at worst an object lesson on what not to do, and at best a warning that we should never allow our own Gummint to repeat their mistakes Over Here.

And I also don’t want to hear bullshit like “Oh, this could never happen here” because not only can it happen, it’s already happening at the state level (cf. California, New York, Illinois and most recently, Virginia).  All it takes is one general election which sweeps the Socialists into power, controlling House, Senate and the White House, and everything bad that is happening in Yurp and Britishland will absolutely happen here, just on a national scale.

So follow the above link, read it, learn from it, and let’s make damn sure that such fecklessness and idiocy can never happen here.

Explanation

Gratuitous Chick Pics

Loyal & Longtime Readers may be wondering why I’m not posting a series of Train Smash Women updates at this, the time of the Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool.

That’s because some spoilsport in the event’s admin decided to post, and enforce, a stricter dress code.  The result has been that the female attire is now only dreadful, as opposed to the happily-catastrophic ones of the recent past.

No fun at all, really.

Quote(s) Of The Day

QOTD

Germany edition:

  • “This historic responsibility of Germany is part of my country’s Staatsräson. That means, for me as German Chancellor, the security of Israel is never negotiable. And if that is the case, then these must not remain empty words in the hour of truth.” —  Germany’s then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, March 18, 2008.
  • “What the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip, I no longer understand the goal…” — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, May 2025.
  • “Perhaps if German children had been beheaded or burned alive in their beds on October 7, 2023, he would have a clearer understanding of Israel’s ‘goal’ in the Gaza Strip.” — Unknown

Taking Away The Bennies

Gummint, Illegal immigrants, Subsidies

Stephen Green points me at this:

Republican lawmakers in Texas have spent the past year implementing regulatory changes to limit access to services for the estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrants residing in the state, prompting both support from state officials and criticism from activist groups.

A report by the Texas Tribune detailed the steps taken, which include tightening eligibility requirements for occupational licenses, restricting access to commercial driver’s licenses, and limiting who can qualify for in-state tuition at public universities. According to the report, more than 6,400 refugees and DACA recipients have lost their commercial driver’s licenses. Additional restrictions are expected to affect non-citizens working in licensed industries such as construction and medicine.

State officials are also examining the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, which requires public schools to educate non-citizens.

In a sane world, none of this would even be a topic under discussion.  Of course illegal immigrants should not get any kind of state (or federal, for that matter) benefits whatsoever.  Tax-based (i.e. government) funds should be spent exclusively on the citizens who paid those taxes, and not just on anyone who happens to be standing there.

I know, I know:

“That’s Krool & Hartless, Kim.  Why would you deny education to the CHIIIILDREN?  It’s not their fault their parents brought them here;  why would you punish them so?”

Ask their parents that question:  why would you bring your children with you and involve them in your criminal enterprise?  (Yes, illegal immigration is a crime, ipse facto.)

No.  Nobody deserves to be rewarded for criminal behavior — which is what all this is — and while I agree that it would indeed be cruel and heartless to deny medical care to anyone, it still doesn’t make it right that our hospitals treat illegal immigrants for their ailments and injuries, especially when it is precisely that (free) treatment which gives them an incentive to come over here in the first place.  Ditto child education.

Here’s the thing.  What did people think was going to be the result of our government actually following and enforcing immigrant law to its proper extent and function?  Of course this was going to create hardship on the illegal immigrants and their families — in the same way, incidentally, that sending a criminal to jail for, say, armed robbery creates hardship for their family.  That should be part of the deterrent.

But guess what?  Failure to enforce the law — as the Biden government failed to do — simply creates an incentive to break the law.  If you are not going to prosecute people for the crime of shoplifting, for example, then don’t be surprised when shoplifting becomes endemic.  We’ve seen this happen in cities governed according to this foolishness — why would we think it would be any different for any other kind of crime, such as in this case illegal immigration?

I’m really glad that Texas legislators are doing what they’re doing — what they’re supposed to be doing — which is to take away incentives for people to break the law and suffer no consequences.  And ignore idiots like this squish:

“These all represent a broader and more coordinated shift … to create a pipeline of exclusion that stretches from limiting access to K-12 education, all the way into participation in the workforce and basic mobility through the state,” Corinne Kentor, with the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, told the outlet.

Yup.  Keep going, guys, and get rid of the benefits of criminal behavior;  this is what we voted for.

Compare And Contrast

Eco-Crap

If you’ve already read yesterday’s post (Never Mind The Waves) about switching offshore wind farm funding to oil and natgas, then read on.  If you haven’t, read that first, then this one.

Here’s what happens when you elect a government which supports rabid eco-freaks by giving them control of the rudder.  Here’s the background:

North Sea Giant Ready To Exploit UK’s Biggest Oil Field This Year

Sounds good, dunnit?  And then the sting:

Britain’s largest oil field could be producing thousands of barrels a day by the autumn if Ed Miliband approves the North Sea project.

Well, that didn’t take long did it?  Because Miliband is the all-time believer in the “Wind Is Going To Save Us” school of thought — in fact, he’s the fucking headmaster.

So, to sum up:  Britishland is sitting close to a gigantic oil and gas field — bigger than anything they’ve ever had before, and larger than anything in the North Sea — and all that has to happen is for Rubber Band to wave the starter’s flag.

Which he isn’t going to do, even if pressure is applied to him by a core  Socialist  Labour Party constituency:

The powerful Unite union added its voice to the clarion calls demanding the Energy Secretary change tack in the wake of a price spiral triggered by Donald Trump‘s war on Iran.

General Secretary Sharon Graham, who has cut funding for Labour in a row over party policy, said he should not ‘let go of one rope before having hold of another’.

‘We all know that whatever happens the UK will still need for oil and gas for decades to come and the war in Iran is just the latest reminder that when we rely on overseas production our energy security is at the mercy of global events,’ she said. This comes as the Conservatives are set to force a vote in the Commons demanding an end to the ‘sheer lunacy’ of a ban to reduce prices at the pump.

And here it is:

But facing MPs today, Mr Miliband suggested it was unimportant where the UK got its gas.

‘Gas is bought and sold on the international market so whether it comes from the North Sea or imported it is charged at the same price,’ he said.

He went on to praise the amount of money raised by a renewable energy action earlier this year, saying technology like wind turbines and solar panels were ‘homegrown power that we can rely on’. 

You have to marvel at the idiocy of a man who sticks to this insane policy, even when time and time again all his guff is proven to be demonstrably false — when the winds drop and the sun doesn’t shine, and areas of the country go dark and people shiver because there’s no power to provide them warmth, as happened just this past winter.

Miliband is quite literally going to bring the UK to its knees.

And at some point you have to ask yourself whether he’s doing it out of the ignorance of policy, or just out of spite.  Either way, the result is going to be the same.

He doesn’t just need to be kicked out of government;  he needs to be given a free ticket on Air Pinochet.

…and all the more ironic if he were to be ejected right over the Rosebank field.