- Just in case anybody imagined problems in the housing market got solved after 2008.
- And in the Department of Uncommon Common Sense Department, Jim Bovard says, farmers ought to farm (but of course politicians have a lot to say about that).
- In Chicago, a tool cops said was supposed to help people is just ending up hassling the hapless. (H/T LA)
- Anybody want to enter a new Threepers t-shirt design contest?
- Why are these thousand-year-old dogs buried under the Lima, Peru zoo? Apparently to lead souls into the afterlife (and can you think of a guide to take you there?). But there’s mystery to it, too.
- I hope this dog leads to a rather uncomfortable afterlife. To say the least.
- Hey! She says, frantically waving her hand in the air, I know the answer to this one!
- Yegads. Is this legal? Debt collector gets out being sued by forcibly buying the lawsuit out from under the plaintiff.
- But sometimes the little guy gets some justice, however rough. The Supremes have decreed that keeping poor people in jail just because they can’t pay the bail for minor crimes is unconstitutional.
- The Robocall Strikeforce: It’s on the job. Or will be eventually, anyhow. Big Tech is doing something helpful for its customers. (For the second time this year, actually.)
- You may have heard that Elio — which has been promising for years to make a revolutionary three-wheeled
car autocycle, has finally reached the point of locking in the price for advance purchases. All along they’ve been saying $6,800 base price, which some of us thought they’d miss by thousands. But they’ve come pretty close. Still no word on when they’ll start delivering production vehicles. The lock-in has something to do with getting (sigh) government financing.
- The day the dollar died: Part I and Part II. Something for Silver to add to his topic fodder list. (H/T JB)
Oh, nice. It’s Minority Report combined with “round up the usual suspects”, and in Chicago. Yeah, that’ll be great.
Saw that debt collection deal. :blink: No, I don’t get it.
SDR, to me, stands for “software defined radio”. Never heard of that other thing. Can’t wait for all this crap to come to a head. Another housing crash is just what we need! Turns out, it isn’t anything new, though. Jim Grant, appearing in Mauldin’s column:
Well, I don’t know who Jim Grant is, but I guess Jim Mauldin likes him.
The shades of dogs lead you to the afterlife, but it’s the shade of a squirrel who decides which afterlife.
The Elio may be less attractive if the rules on three-wheeled vehicles change. Then the Elio will be a passenger car for legal purposes with all the regulatory top-hamper that entails.
I grew up in the NW corner of Iowa. I know of a couple farming families in the area that continue to swallow up all the other smaller operations. No longer does one see a large number of farms throughout the area with a couple of silos and a barn. It is now just a sprinkling of major operations with gigantic grain bins and uber-sized hog confinements. Very sad to see so many of the smaller operations go out of business and sell their land to the larger guys.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-21/fed-launches-facebook-page-and-result-not-what-it-had-expected
Hopefully we won’t follow this path http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/21/venezuela-faces-collapse-because-of-socialist-gove/
Thank you for that link, Shel. Happens I’ll be putting it to good use in the next day or two over at TZP.
From the comic relief department:
KFC chicken-smell sunscreen stunt turns out less than chickeny
How does the shade of a squirrel decide which afterlife?
Here’s another one with photos: Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public, plans registry of bullets.
I guess that was obscure.
Dogs chase squirrels.
OT: Garden pests in the house. http://observer.com/2016/08/the-real-russian-mole-inside-nsa/