CATASTROPHE – Fate of the Rail Industry (and the Already Fragile U.S. Economy) in the Hands of Habitually Demagogic Administration and Lame Duck Congress

What could go wrong? The tally is in and four unions have failed to accept the terms on the table. That is, four of the twelve unions that must accept the deal brokered a few months back by "President Ferret Face, three Cabinet secretaries from the most hollow credentialed room of buffoons that can be …

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Conspicuous Diversity – The Pathway Toward Corporate Fragility, Eventual Collapse, and a Broader Societal Dark Age

I do not pretend that there are not many aspects of the modern social condition that can be read into the set of pictures presented above. No doubt there are grains (or entire strains) of truth in many of them. (Agendas differ and mileage may vary.) But I assure you, the most accurate and most …

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American History and November 22: ‘Still got the shovel.’

Some greatness from Levon Helm: https://youtu.be/w8_jpjQXUyA Yeah. The world ain't what it seems, is it, Gunnie? ... You keep that in mind. The moment you think you got it figured, you're wrong. Far too many are cocksure they have got it figured. For two weeks now, most of those demonstrable tools and liars have been …

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You Cannot Hide ‘Stupid’ Forever – The Democratic Party Operatives with Bylines Edition

CBS News tacitly admits that they wouldn't know journalism even if it bit them in the Dan Rather: "Two years after anyone with a functional brain realized the Hunter Biden laptop was 100% real @CBSNews has finally gotten around to reporting the Hunter Biden laptop is 100% real." Efffing clowns. (Classic Reference to the great …

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The Gilded Age of Modern Media Whoredom, Volume II…The Continued Self-Abasement of the Forbes Brand

Humiliations Galore! This story deserves a short review of recent history on the topic. Let us return to those heady days of early January 2021 when over half the nation reflexively became emotionally erect every time they found an opportunity to signal their virtue through the use of that cool, new "insurrection" term. It was …

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Midterm Postmortem – Dead Dogma, Brain-Dead Voters, and Plate Tectonics

“[A] significant and growing portion of the American population [has lost] the virtues required to be functioning members of a free society.” – Charles Murray in Coming Apart (Page 289), 2012 The slightly bastardized (for the selfish purposes of my own agenda) and entirely overused quote above is the most succinct characterization of the state …

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A Few Random Notes Before the Massive Distractions of Mid-Term Election Mania

Just clearing my desk and my mind... ___ ___ ___ A brief follow-up to Sophomoric Demagoguery – So Intellectually Shallow it is Hard Not to Laugh...while I didn't bother to watch or delve into the pathetic twaddle myself, I'm glad to see someone did: “We are at a moment in time rarely seen in politics, …

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Sophomoric Demagoguery – So Intellectually Shallow it is Hard Not to Laugh

It seems President Ferret Face stood at the podium and read something to us this evening as prepared by "his" hidden team of fools. I didn't watch...but you can read all about it here: Biden Ignores Issues People Care About in Primetime Speech, Focuses on January 6 and 'Election Deniers' and here: Biden Gives Tired, …

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