Tag: Idiots

  • Chicago’s New Mayor starts with a bang

    Actually a whole lot of bangs: Windy City gangs celebrated the relative lack of law enforcement by killing a dozen people and wounding an additional 49. It marked the worst Memorial Day weekend violence in over a decade. Ten people were killed on Saturday alone, marking only the fourth day with 10 or more homicides in Chicago in…

  • Governed by clowns

    No, I’m not talking about our Labour government here in New Zealand, though they fit that description perfectly. My co-bloggers can focus on them, In this case I’m talking about the US Government, and not even the ambulatory root vegetable currently pretending to be President, nor any of the more well known members, but House…

  • The abyss stares back

    US Banks Have Over $620 Billion in Unrealized Losses According to FDIC: I’ve long said that it is not the place of blogs to write about fast-moving news stories because that’s a different world from analysing them, and of course a lot of stories should be allowed to mature before being blogged – like developments…

  • Inverse Cramer Investing

    My favourite viewing of US TV investment advisor, Jim Cramer, was actually not any of his real-life performances but a cameo role that he did in the movie Ironman (2008). In the movie, a company CEO, Tony Stark – having being wounded and captured by Jihadist terrorists in some Middle Eastern nation, and having survived…

  • CLIMATE CRISIS AND…. Never Mind

    The closer we get to even the Warministas realising that the world is not going to cut GHG emissions to the degree they claim we need – especially with the Developing World pumping them up – the closer they get to primal screaming about how it’s all gone from being a big problem in 2100…

  • Radicalised by Civilisation

    I’m a radical now? Holy hell, and here was me comfortably settled into the notion of being one of those aging, reactionary, conservatives I’m always been lectured about. In one respect this is just a followup to the Nineteen Eighty Four type censoring crap I wrote about in Memorizing books to keep them from the firemen,…