One year ago today: August 14, 2020, tehcno-nerds suck, actually.
Five years ago today: August 14, 2016, and only $5.00.
Nine years ago today: August 14, 2012, a Texas dog day.
Random years ago today: August 14, 2010, at the quit show.
Don't go see "The Green Knight". It is so bad we were up past midnight cracking jokes about what was wrong with it. That was $35 down the drain, the more lamentable because we cancelled dinner due to a late start. A broken valve in the bathroom needed replacing. Yeah, I know, do things wait for me to show up to go wrong? A trip to chiro and the Reb is walking again which extends the time walking the dogs.
It has no plot, or at least nothing you'd recognize. It is more like one of those dreary experimental films shot through a blue filter so the sun never shines. There are no big names and while some of the women are pretty enough, there are no beauties. One or two shots of his old girlfriend in a low-cut. Most of the movie is him riding around a dreary landscape getting robbed by punk gangs or traipsing through foggy forests. There are no sword fights or dragons, no epic battles or causes. Just this guy who cuts off the head of a wooden statue with a curse that the same will happen to him. You have to make this out yourself because the King speaks like some drop-out Quaker priest, "Thou musts sits besides me."
I don't even recommend it on disk, though it is marginally more entertaining that listening to Hunter Biden. Top story for me was real estate companies now floating bond issues to buy and stockpile houses. They've woken up to Blackthorn buying up all the residential property they can in a ploy to turn America back into renters. TMOR, it America was primarily a nation of renters until the World Wars, which made it easy for veterans to buy a family house, which became the American dream, and is about to become a wake-up call. I heard a new term, the "iBuyer", referring to institutionalization of house-flipping, formerly done mainly by smaller contractors. This puts a corporate spin on a market that comes with an added danger--it could crush competition.
However, the media does not appear to have thought this through. They focus on how these buyers are averaging a $30,000 profit flipping each house. They buy it, paint it, and relist it for a higher price, a process that can only continue until they saturate the narrow spectrum of people who can still get mortgages. That's where they will be stuck with inventory that they can only afford if they rent out. And my guess is that rent will be double what's average today. In most places you'd care to live, a one-bedroom house or apartment rents for around $1,000 per month. Yes, this blog pointed out a similar situation in central Florida in 2014-2015, but I presumed big housing companies were at this all along, leaving only the really bad housing deals for the rest of us. I'm guessing again, but if they can't rent out all those places, the next bubble could spell real disaster. Unless you are ready for it.
Biden surrenders to the Taliban. The only thing missing is a signed document. What a total embarassement to America, but the paid for mainstream media will gloss it over somehow. Somehow, the bigshot military planners have never learned that these third-world people are not countries or societies, they are failed cultures who have no intention of being anything else. In each area, the faction with the most primitive and violent appeal will win--it's what makes them third-world. They share a complete lack of human compassion. Compassion which as far as we know has only ever taken root in one small group of people and their grip on it is tenuous in the face of liberalism-slash-communism.
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I took the doggies to the lake only to uncover potential problems. It is now know the big dog has been transported in a van before. He knows how to avoid getting in and out and how to get into the front seat over any obstacle. He knows to retreat to any part of the van that you can't get him out unless you crawl in there after him. Also, he will not obey commands after riding inside the van, often running into the bushes via an opening too small to chase and wrapping the leash around a tree until he is ready to move. I reported this to the Reb after finding the dog powerful enough to put a strain on my bad arm. This dog has a history of disobedience and/or no schooling.
The book I'm reading about Churchill is a goldmine for inside information on the Boer War, my true interest. What documentation is available tends to be tedious pro-British accounts, edited against the Boers. Where they kick British butt, it is attributed to chance and British ill-prepartion. In fact, the British were astonishingly well-prepared and stocked up, thinking the war would be a walkover. Yet thier their irresponsible conduct and fantastic losses were, they cla im, due to special African conditions and surprises which the enemy was dastardly taking advantage of. You still must read between the lines, but we need a book or movie telling the Boer side of things. The Boers were flabbergasted to capture mountains of British supplies including gymnasiums full of luxury goods they had never seen before. Churchill was a pompous ass, I'm reading this book between the lines and in two days have managed just 82 pages.
ADDENDUM
The left-wing press has another dupe on the take. "Phony Fanone" is a disgrace to the American people, trying to pretend he is a redneck cop who, on January 6, saw the error of his ways and joined the ACP, (American Communist Party, formerly the Democrats). The guy is disgusted to even look at, in reality his father is some big Senator or something, so it is repugnant to even see him wearing a checkered work shirt. The leftist MSM is giving him full media coverage, heralding him as a convert who saw the error of his ways and now wants to repent. Phony Fanonie, adding the letter "i" as in "idiot".
Having said that, he's part of the losing side. How can I say that? Easy, the election fraud. No matter the outcome, the mere suspicion of wrong-doing has altered voting for the future. It's plain so many Republicans are really Democrats, but it isn't a revolving door. Unprecedented numbers of Democrats are questioning just what the hell they voted for, while Republicans who misbehave are seen as traitors. The upcoming midterms should prove wild-ass weird over this alone and the Democrats seem bull-headedly simpleton enough to try pulling the same fraud over again. They seem to plan on being able again block observation, but this time there will be cameras everywhere. And bikers. Lots of bikers, we hope.
The upcoming elections will be over issues, not parties. And the Trump people, by far, have the better issues. Biden has screwed up everything most people care about by his minority rule tactics. The world took note that recently more people voted over issues than over candidates. Dr. Steve (Hurley) correctly noted more people in England voted for Brexit than ever voted for any English politician ever. Neat.
I see Grammarly, the language software, is being pushed as a necessity for Millennial America. They got that right. Otherwise, what was a sixth grade fundamental was in peril of going extinct. I'm sticking with what I said when I was interrupted by my first Grammarly intrusion on youTube. Which is that once Millennial bullshit starts finding its way into school books and medical texts, "it couldn't hurt". Hardly an endorsement, and so much for the no idiot left behind program.
