#1
I quit buying Carhart years ago when their quality declined sharply.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/24/2022 8:07 Comments ||
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#2
Private companies have the right to set their own policies.
As a small business owner I reserve the right to run my business as I see fit. If people don't like my policy then don't purchase here.
Having said that, I would never impose the covid vax on my employees.
#4
Its a global company, so any anti-vaxers boycott hurting them is overly estimated. Most people have more important things to worry about than this. This is insignificant. Plenty of people will continue to buy the brand and as Vespasian said, its a private company. If you don't like their policies, take your business elsewhere.
Posted by: Yosemite Sam ||
01/24/2022 12:38 Comments ||
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#5
Oh, every little bit hurts. If it becomes a permanent bit, it hurts forever.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/24/2022 12:39 Comments ||
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#6
Sam does not believe in the butterflies' wings > hurricane phenomenon.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/24/2022 12:41 Comments ||
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#7
"I like to wear clothes just like my daddy wears." That is how a rock in a pond turns into ripples.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/24/2022 12:43 Comments ||
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#8
I want to profile a few kinds of Rantburg commenters now. I'm sure to offend everyone, so here goes:
A good comment carries some information that maybe not all other readers are aware of. That involves knowing something or doing some research. Or some awesome snark. We do come here for that too.
But, some commenters fall into these categories. If the article says, "The sky is blue," the commenter will come back with:
"Only a fool would say it was blue."
"What's so good about blue skies?"
"It's never been blue for me."
"You know nothing. There is no blue."
"Why do you cancel my comment about the green sky, you (insult, insult, insult?)"
Grumbling Mumbler 9977 unleashes a line of gibberish that would make William Burroughs and James Joyce swear off words.
If you don't like the people here, or what they say, go over to Pajamas Media and comment there. OK?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/24/2022 12:59 Comments ||
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#9
This 2-year "emergency" has surprised me in many ways, but perhaps none moreso than how willing businesses across the land have rushed to do the government's bidding.
#12
This 2-year "emergency" has surprised me in many ways, but perhaps none moreso than how willing businesses across the land have rushed to do the government's bidding.
I'm thinking Board Karens and Late 40s Dad trying to Look 18 Cool in front of Daughters' friends types.
I somehow missed this Trump revised version of Moccasin Creek's Old America. Despite having searched for it several times on YouTube over the last 2 years???
Or, YouTube buried it in a special place.
Either way, a few of you might also never have heard it
so I posted this version.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] 1. China has denied the fakes thrown in the West that Xi Jinping asked Putin not to attack Ukraine during the Olympics
2. The US Department of State has refuted statements thrown in the Western press that the US is preparing to evacuate diplomats from Ukraine. Yes, what are you going to do.
3. Instead of inviting Shoigu to come to Britain, Britain will send its defense minister to Moscow. "Call to the carpet" failed.
4. The US asks Russia not to publish the content of the written response to the Russian demands, which will be submitted to the Russian Federation next week.
5. Germany refuted statements thrown by the Western press about the evacuation of diplomats from Ukraine. Isn't it time to find the source of these stuffing about evacuation?
6. Britain accused Russia of wanting to install a puppet government in Ukraine with the participation of Muraev, Azarov, Arbuzov, etc. persons. Given the fact that some of these people Moscow was not particularly eager to form a "provisional government" in 2014, especially since it will not do this in 2022, all these are old political corpses.
7. The United States and Britain are preparing new parties of various weapons, ammunition and ammunition, which would be transferred to Ukraine in the next few days. So far, it looks like there is a hasty pumping of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine before the inevitable provocation in the Donbass (or in some other place), while the US State Department is playing for time and chattering Russian proposals before the start of events.
#3
^Distraction from his failures. This will only add to them.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/24/2022 8:09 Comments ||
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#4
Wag the Dog, really? It seems they are that shallow and inept. They have been pissing on the legs of the people in this country that are the actual fighters and think a foolish waste of lives for political cover will work?
#6
Expect Putin to headfake and wrongfoot them again. He only invades when it's not expected.
He's trying to extract a written agreement that NATO will not include Ukraine, and he will get it.
Lavrov and Sec'y Spotify and their wordsmiths are trying to land upon a (Brandon) face-saving formulation now.
My guess: look for a phrase like Ukraine's strategic independence or some such: "independent" of NATO (that's what Putin really wants) and "independent" of outright Russian military domination (that's face-saving for Brandon).
#7
Putin has been building the Russian Air Force and Navy. If he's wanting to make a statement, you will see lots of Bl@ckjack and TU-22 raids, ship launched cruise missiles and ground troops mopping up.
Which is the way to do it anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/24/2022 13:09 Comments ||
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#8
If Putin had really wanted to invade he would have done so long ago, when the US leadership was looking the other way: in Jan. 2021, or maybe while Brandon & his D.I.E. morons were obsessing about "domestic terrorists" at school board meetings.
#10
It'll bounce back quickly. Not the shit-meme clown company stocks or the other overhyped ARKK junk but real companies with solid cash flows. Buy Gazprom and LUKoil at these prices.
#14
The huge capital injections so far have barely offset the loss of real economic activity lost to the lockdowns. No matter how much money they print, it's not the same thing as creating wealth. None of the brightest stars of the ivy league understand that. But you do at the pump or grocery store.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/24/2022 14:35 Comments ||
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#15
Powell's run out of powder. Brandon's out of powder.
If Brandon wants to save Pelosi and our Oligarchs' capital now -- he doesn't give a fook about you or me, but he jumps for his masters -- then he has no choice but to de-escalate and bring Ukraine to a swift conclusion by acceding to Putin's #1 demand: stop expanding NATO.
#16
How does deploying US troops to Estonia or, say, Poland have to do with Ukraine. For that matter even troops in Kiev have nothing to do with the slices of land Putin wants.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
01/24/2022 15:19 Comments ||
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#17
Complete BS. Of course Brandon will capitulate. Agreeing to Putin's demand costs us nothing.
To us, a meaningless concession; to the other side it means everything. An obvious solution to the problem.
#20
Because neocons wanting to make a buck off of aging flag officers' Fight Russia fantasy isn't effective when the pro military population has been turned off by the Afghan debacle and social justice training, the anti-military populace can't be bothered to care, and the observational populace sees impotent approval numbers and hidden shady business deals in Ukraine by current acting members of government.
#22
Russia is keeping her troops a respectable distance from the borders, to prevent any live fire incidents, such as from Ukraine's crazies.
If NATO wants to provoke Russia it will have to invade or launch air strikes, both actions being extremely hard to hide or hang on Russia as a cause for war.
Russia won't be doing the provocations. If a war starts, it will be on NATO to start it.
We keep hearing about complaints about the huge number of troops Russia has deployed at the borders.
They are nothing compared to what Russia can muster in the event of a general mobilization. I long have maintained that much of the Russian Army is mostly lower category troops filled the cadres and officers, units which must be filled with conscripts through mobilization before being committed to war.
[Townhall] There’s no sense in pretending that we don’t take pleasure in the total failure of our Marxist-curious party of the left. Through a combination of outright fraud, procedural irregularities, plus the total support of the garbage establishment and its failed institutions, the Democrats took power by the thinnest of margins and have proceeded to fail on a level comparable to Heaven’s Gate, New Coke, and the Weekly Standard. There’s no shame in enjoying their total rejection by all decent Americans. In fact, you should enjoy it without hesitation or mercy, especially since it means more than just us cons getting our jollies.
The Democrats’ "Biden is FDR and not just a desiccated, pervy old weirdo" dreams have died. Their dreams of five trillion in handouts to bums and donors have died. Their dreams of enshrining their ability to cheat in elections have died. The Democrats can’t even shatter norms, like the filibuster, competently.
So much fail in so little time. The Latinx community — which the Dems put all their faith in as part of an unstoppable future majority, is rejecting them, in large part because Democrats are the kind of people who use the word "Latinx" unironically. Some foreigners, seeing the Democrats’ weakness and stupidity — it’s not just Commander-in-Chief Crusty who is the problem — are chomping at the bit to chomp off pieces of other countries because they know that the Dems put the "feck" in "feckless." The rest are invading our country through what used to be a border. Inflation is up, the market is down, and November 2022 is approaching just over the horizon like a Tongan tsunami.
Noted dead white guy Samuel Johnson, who believed that there are only two genders, once observed, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." It’s an apt analogy here, both because it evokes the fact that the Democrats have gone all-in on the side of the criminals as the crime rate rockets up, and also because it demonstrates just how intractably stupid the Democrats are. They ride in the little cart heading toward their November 8th date with the electoral noose, but their minds are not concentrated on that. Instead they are concentrated on fake insurrections and telling us how CRT is not taught in schools yet must absolutely continue to be taught in schools.
This is unsustainable, and normal people would know it, but normal people are not quasi-Marxist pagan fanatics who drove actual religion out of their lives and let commie nonsense fill the void. They can’t stop it, even if they wanted to stop it, because their collection of bizarre obsessions is not merely an ideology but a substitute for actual faith. Progressivism is their god. Unfortunately for them, it’s a false god. It’s a political golden calf, except they oppose the gold standard because it wouldn’t let them print all the cash they want to spend, and Dems are leery of cattle because their Swalwellian flatulence causes global warming, which is another facet of their fake, foolish faith.
#1
the Dems got thru a $2B or so Covid relief bill in the spring of 2021 which will likely get several $100M to outright partisan leftists, shady 501 'charities' and grifter contractors
they got a big 'infrastructure' bill through also
they haven't given up on the voter fraud bill either
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
01/24/2022 18:08 Comments ||
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[NYSun] The decision of the Biden administration to arrange for the payment of Iran’s dues at the United Nations is being described to us as "a staggering act of appeasement." That is the phrase used by our sometimes legwoman at the United Nations, Claudia Rosett. We had called her to see what she made of the news. Her tirade is probably still echoing down the telephone lines from the fastness of upstate New York.
The gist of the story is that Iran had failed to pay its dues at the United Nations and had in consequence lost its voting rights in the World Body. One would think that this would be a boon for America. It’s the fruit of American sanctions, after all, and would mean that Iran would be able to foment less trouble at Turtle Bay. If that’s what one thinks, though, one would not be a muckety muck in the Biden administration. Much more at the link.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/24/2022 08:15 ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Alright, so what's in it for Biden ? 
