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Sometimes satisfying
As noted yesterday, justice rarely occurs at all. When it does happen, it’s rarely satisfying. We have to be content that a demon is removed from power, though the style of the removal is wildly annoying. Public drawing and quartering would be enjoyable. Still, sometimes justice is visible. NYC, control center of hell for 400…
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It was really The Street!
TIL, as they say, that Wall Street was an OUTDOOR AUCTION for a hundred years, and didn’t come inside as an organized exchange until 1921. The outdoor auction occupied the full width of Broad Street, not Wall Street, with traders shouting bids at each other. After telephones were common, the traders rented offices in facing…
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A long way from Gaia
High-level criminals like politicians and millionaires always blame and frame innocent people or innocent natural phenomena for their massive crimes. Low-level criminals try the frameup trick but they’re too dumb to make it stick. A local druggie claims that his neighbor poisoned him by putting ketamine in his food. This is slightly better than “Some…
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The ledger does balance
I’m frustrated when evil people get punished for the wrong reason. My narrow little bookkeeper soul wants to see Debits and Credits balancing. Along with all the other national leaders except Tanzania and Belarus, Trump committed the biggest crime in history. He will never be punished for his crime. Instead, he is being punished somewhat…
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HA HA HA HA HA HA 2
Via Quartz: = = = = = START SPLENDID QUOTE: Thousands of people lined up outside Apple Stores on Feb. 2 to see the Vision Pro’s stunning debut, but dissatisfied customers are returning their headsets this week. Why? Apple’s 14-day return period expires on Feb. 16 for day one Vision Pro users. It looks like…
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Good question, better answer
Good question from Kirn: How do gerontocracies take hold? Because it’s hard to get those in power to negotiate their own extinction early. Why should they make any bargains at all? They have nothing to lose, as they are about to lose everything anyway. You have to remove the very ground they stand on. =…
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Meta-trust
I noticed somebody citing a poll on trusted institutions by the Edelman outfit. Looked and quickly realized the “poll” was a pusher. It was telling businesses that they need to be strictly DNC if they want to be trusted. More “climate”, more “diversity”, more “virus”, more “science”. This obviously won’t work. Taking a side is…
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Not very smart blackmail
Some rich asshole is threatening to destroy his modern “art” collection, including Warhol and Picasso “paintings”, if anything happens to Assange. Don’t tempt me. Reminds me of…..
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. EAT IT.
Beverly Hills is facing an invasion by bums. = = = = = START BEAUTIFUL QUOTE: For inhabitants of the country’s most sought-after ZIP code, the unwelcome news came in December: In a move to pressure the city to zone for more affordable housing, a restrictive ruling by a Superior Court judge put a moratorium…
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WOW!
Via MSN: = = = = = START QUOTE: JPMorgan Chase and institutional investors BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors announced Thursday that they are quitting or, in the case of BlackRock, substantially scaling back involvement in a massive United Nations climate alliance formed to combat global warming through corporate sustainability agreements. In a statement,…
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Today is Maine Streete Daye
Why does Maine Street in Enid have an E? It was named after the 1898 fake “attack” on the battleship Maine, which gave us an excuse to grab Cuba and the Philippines from Spaine. Remember the Maine was a national campaign to stir up war fever, the first of a hundred evil successors from Lusitania…
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Emerson is smiling
Via MSN: The infamous Dolezal, who posed as black for a long time and got credentials and money and prestige for her fraud, was kicked out of her prestigious positions in 2015. Since then she has continued trying various fraudulent games, gradually losing even more prestige and money in a downward spiral. Lately she was…
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Somebody is having fun
Now that I’ve finally got a working landline again, I’ve been making a few calls to unsubscribe from various services. Back around 1998 when I first switched to Comcast internet and gave up the old musical modem, I decided to add a second web service for backup. I chose PeoplePC for some reason, and might…
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More passionate truth
More passionate truth from Jeffrey Tucker: = = = = = START QUOTE: The signers of the original Yale letter were hardly the only ones. Academics, think tankers, authors, and major public pundits all over the world changed suddenly. Those who should have opposed lockdowns switched to favor them once every major nation in the…
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