Jun 29, 2010
The Tesla, zero to 60 in only $100,000
And for around $15 you can own a piece of the action, one share. As your trusted investment advisor, I urge you to instead spend the $15 on magazines with Tesla advertisements. Then, in a couple of generations, if the American Pickers come around to your grandson's house...
Breakfast
May I invite your attention to bacon? Particularly a very nice apple wood smoked bacon? At $1.389 per pound?
It is not the money savings. It is that the five-pound, $6.99, box of "ends and pieces" has vastly more lean meat than any other bacon I can buy -- including even the excellent slab in the fresh meat case at my Fareway. This judgement comes after using four boxes.
This stuff is excellent, and you can forget the usual rationalization that it's for salads and crumbled pork recipes. Most of it looks fine on a platter.
I don't know how widely it is distributed, but if you are anywhere in the Midwest look for a plain white cardboard box from Webster City Custom Meats, Inc. of Webster City, Iowa.
I am not a paid endorser, and, no, it is not available in a tactical container or in bandoleer battle packs.
It is not the money savings. It is that the five-pound, $6.99, box of "ends and pieces" has vastly more lean meat than any other bacon I can buy -- including even the excellent slab in the fresh meat case at my Fareway. This judgement comes after using four boxes.
This stuff is excellent, and you can forget the usual rationalization that it's for salads and crumbled pork recipes. Most of it looks fine on a platter.
I don't know how widely it is distributed, but if you are anywhere in the Midwest look for a plain white cardboard box from Webster City Custom Meats, Inc. of Webster City, Iowa.
I am not a paid endorser, and, no, it is not available in a tactical container or in bandoleer battle packs.
Jun 28, 2010
Fear and Loathing in Chicago
The Chicago Tribune hasn't yet been able to get Boss Daley's latest opinion on the mercy killing of his cherished gun ban.*
But the Trib is on the streets with a fairly straightforward report of McDonald. Deliciously, it reports Justice Alito's reference to legislative calls for the National Guard to be summoned to fight Chicago criminals since Daley's mob has obviously failed. The paper also notes Alito's reference to the number of Chicago homicides this year which just happen to equal the number of American military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan for the same period. Then:
"If (the) safety of . . . law abiding members of the community would be enhanced by the possession of handguns in the home for self-defense, then the Second Amendment right protects the rights of minorities and other residents of high-crime areas whose needs are not being met by elected public officials, (Alito wrote.) "
This is beginning to sound like a mirror image of Arizona and Fremont, Nebraska.
They took local action against crime because the federal government couldn't or wouldn't do its job. In McDonald, the federal judiciary justified federal action -- however indirect -- against local crime because Chicago politicians had buggered the job. I know the parallel is strained, but the irony makes it worthwhile.
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*As a matter of reality, the ban applied exclusively to Daley's law-abiding subjects.
But the Trib is on the streets with a fairly straightforward report of McDonald. Deliciously, it reports Justice Alito's reference to legislative calls for the National Guard to be summoned to fight Chicago criminals since Daley's mob has obviously failed. The paper also notes Alito's reference to the number of Chicago homicides this year which just happen to equal the number of American military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan for the same period. Then:
"If (the) safety of . . . law abiding members of the community would be enhanced by the possession of handguns in the home for self-defense, then the Second Amendment right protects the rights of minorities and other residents of high-crime areas whose needs are not being met by elected public officials, (Alito wrote.) "
This is beginning to sound like a mirror image of Arizona and Fremont, Nebraska.
They took local action against crime because the federal government couldn't or wouldn't do its job. In McDonald, the federal judiciary justified federal action -- however indirect -- against local crime because Chicago politicians had buggered the job. I know the parallel is strained, but the irony makes it worthwhile.
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*As a matter of reality, the ban applied exclusively to Daley's law-abiding subjects.
McDonald -- got it
No surprises in the decision. Amendment Two applies to you where ever you are on American soil.
Just a passing note while we await the details. Mark Sherman of The Associated Press informs us:
"In doing so, the justices, by a narrow 5-4 margin, signaled that less severe restrictions could survive legal challenges. "
This saves us from the error of believing that it was a wide five-to-four decision, or a massive one, or a landslide.
It also reminds of of how many great minds still believe firearms should be reserved for the military, the cops, and the violent criminal class.
Just a passing note while we await the details. Mark Sherman of The Associated Press informs us:
"In doing so, the justices, by a narrow 5-4 margin, signaled that less severe restrictions could survive legal challenges. "
This saves us from the error of believing that it was a wide five-to-four decision, or a massive one, or a landslide.
It also reminds of of how many great minds still believe firearms should be reserved for the military, the cops, and the violent criminal class.
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