A group of peaceful protesters is attacked by having a car driven through it. Where is all of the national indignation?
Anti American left
No Different Than China
To prove that the US is no different than China, Spotify begins removing Joe Rogan podcasts from their channel.
Then the left steps up and proves to me that we are indeed just like China when an ESPN journalist says it’s OK to massacre people because Republicans want to make sure that no one cheats in an election.
Presidency
Giving Nukes to Iran
President Potato claimed in December that he wanted to prevent Iran from getting nukes. He decided that the best way to do that was to release all of the sanctions and restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran has never really hidden the fact that they want nuclear weapons, and will not hesitate to use them on Israel as soon as they acquire them. The Ayatollah is the same guy who regularly says “Death to America.”
Keep in mind that Biden and the Democrats have repeatedly said that they cannot envision a scenario where the US would use nuclear weapons.
Military
Troops Begin Arriving
Four days ago, the decision was made to move troops to the Ukraine theater. They began arriving today. A brigade of the 82nd Airborne is headed to Poland. A troop from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (Stryker) will be arriving in Romania.
Uncategorized
Fisking
Personal attacks are not going to be allowed here. In my post yesterday about landlords, user Hedge posted this comment:
Idk. I kind of like that idea. What do you have to hide as a landlord? Seems fair. Asshole wont fix a damn thing. Wants to raise the rent cause college is in? Last tenant had a fucking pig in the back yard. Fuck that. People ought to know and it’s coming so sell or get ready.
And yes I do work for a large property management company in a college town for 10 years .Fuck landlord scum. It’s all about the money so shut up and spend it or get out of the game fags.
First, let me explain to you how renting a house works. The lease lays out exactly what the landlord will do, and lays out what the tenant will do. That lease is a legally binding contract. If it says the property owner has to fix something, he does. If it doesn’t say so, then he won’t. Once that contract is concluded, that property owner is free (in most states) to charge whatever he thinks the market will bring.
As a landlord, I will tell you that the house I am renting is a large investment. That quarter of a million dollar purchase price isn’t the end of it. My insurance went up by 15 percent this year. Taxes went up by 10 percent. Landscaping costs are up another 8 percent. On top of that, I have to price increased risk into my prices.
As an example, one property company in Milwaukee filed 850 evictions in two weeks. Why? Because the eviction moratorium prohibited them for over two years, meaning that as many as a third of their tenants owed as much as $17,000 in unpaid rent, with the total being $5 million in lost revenue. That money has to be made up somewhere, and that means higher rent.
As to Hedge the commenter, I want to point out to you that back in June, you were bragging about how you are making a 6 figure income selling weed while calling bloggers a bunch of beggars who keep talking out of our asses. Maybe you should use some of those huge profits to buy a house, instead of bitching about how the man is ripping you off. As a business owner, I am sure you understand about pricing, costs, and profit.
Then you decided to come after me for getting the vaccine, even though I plainly said:
I felt it was best for me, so I got it. That may not be the same with everyone. Each of us has the same right to decide what medical care is best for us. Not everyone has the same medical situation, and there are no one size fits all solutions to ANY medical situation. You do you, and I will do me.
This blog, like my rental property, is owned by me. I pay for it, and I decide who gets to use it. Since you have decided to call me scum, you are cordially invited to fuck right off. Three times of personal attacks is two times too many. Hedge, you just earned yourself and your entire IP in Norman, Oklahoma a ban.
Failure of Education
Not Surprising
Reports are that a Baltimore high school has 77 percent of the student body reading at an elementary school level. That doesn’t surprise me. When I was a teacher, nearly half of my students were reading at a third grade level.
Uncategorized
Evil Property Owners
Let’s say that you want to borrow a quarter of a million dollars. The bank has you fill out an application and checks your credit. Do you ever ask the bank to prove that they are nice guys?
As a property owner, when a person wants to borrow my $250,000 house, I have them fill out an application. If an applicant ever demanded that I do likewise, I would assume that he was going to be a major pain in the ass and toss his application in the trash. That, according to the article, means
As if you needed any more proof that landlordism is the scum of the earth (sorry not sorry), a TikToker has revealed the wild response he got when he asked a real estate agent for a landlord reference…
Good and normal system we have! Where you basically have to beg someone to live in their spare house! While knowing that as someone under the age of 50 you will never be able to buy one (1) house of your own!
So because she can’t manage to buy a house and I am willing to invest my savings and loan her one, that makes me ‘scum of the earth.’ She goes on to say:
Honestly, this is a fucking baller move and ten out of ten way to figure out if a future landlord is a raging anal blister instead of a human being.
No wonder she can’t manage to be responsible enough to buy a house, or even get the references needed to rent one.
I also Google my applicants. Kathleen Farmilo is never renting a house from this anal blister.
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No Difference
Some Americans are upset that the Chinese government is pulling journalists from the air if they report on things that the government doesn’t want reported on.
Isn’t this what the American people want? After all, it’s what they are trying to do to Joe Rogan, it’s what happened to Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and others. It’s what YouTube, Facebook, and the NBA are doing.
So what’s the difference?
Me
Tis the season
I received all of my tax forms this week, save my broker’s statement from ETrade. Those don’t go out until February 15. They are gonna suck, because I had some significant capital gains this year.
Thus begins the worst time of the year: tax season. I need to close the 2021 books on my businesses, then begin the process of figuring out how much money I owe the IRS.
My wife and I both have jobs. I collect a pension. Between us, we own 4 businesses. We have interest and investment income. In years past, I have paid a CPA. My wife wants me to try to do our taxes myself and save the $600 a year we were paying her. I’m going to give it a try.
economics
Who To Believe?
Two days ago, ADP released their monthly payroll report, saying that the economy lost 301,000 jobs during the month of January. Conservative Treehouse wrote a long article about this.
Reuters reported that U.S. private payrolls fell for the first time in a year in January as soaring COVID-19 infections disrupted business operations, raising the risk of a sharp decline in employment that would deal a temporary setback to the labor market.
Now keep in mind that the ADP report counts all active workers as employed regardless of whether they are paid or not during the survey week. In the government report, people who are out sick or in quarantine and do not get paid during the survey period are counted as unemployed in the survey, even if they still have a job with their companies. This means that if there were a pandemic causing large numbers of otherwise employed workers to be out sick, you would expect that the government job numbers would be significantly lower than the ADP number, but that isn’t what happened.
Two days later, just this morning, the US government claimed that there were 467,000 jobs added to the economy in January, even though the unemployment rate increased from 3.9 to 4.0 percent. The government is claiming that the economy is growing at a rate of 6.9% per year.
So which report is to be believed?