Let's start the New Year off right by dumping on Gavin Newsom

This young woman from ReasonTV talks about Newsom's mandatory minimum wage increase in the fast food industry - and it has everything we've come to expect from Governor Pomade's administration: economic stupidity, corruption, cronyism and deception.

Happy New Year!

Best wishes to all paquistas worldwide for a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!

And don't forget your New Year's resolutions!

And in case you forgot the words...

Listen, mates

Get out there: "Soaring prices spark Australia gold rush for new generation of fortune hunters".

No longer a joke?

The idea of "gas station sushi" has always served as a comic concept, the joke being in the sharp contrast between a dusty, smelly filling station and a gourmet food such as sushi (don't eat it myself, but it's supposed to be kinda ooh-la-la).

Here's a fellow who turned the joke into an opportunity: "This North Carolina Gas Station Is Serving Some Of The South's Best Sushi".

Working-with-your-hands Wednesday

 

Bonus!  Hydraulics for Dummies (like me).

One of the main reasons Republicans have trouble getting traction?

Because there are too many Tom Emmers in the country: "Minnesotans Begged GOP Rep To Stop The Somalis Over A Decade Ago — He Told Them It Was Impossible".

As far as I'm concerned, this guy, whether intentionally or not, aided and abetted the Democrat machine in flooding Minnesota with largely unassimilable aliens who developed a fairly substantial and sophisticated criminal class that, as we are finding out in spite of a media blackout, has been responsible for an enormous financial fraud against the U.S. taxpayer.  And he's majority whip in the House? Please.

The GOP is dying a death of a thousand cuts - and most of them are in the back.

The main point

Some conservatives (and purported conservatives) have lamented the on-going fracas between Tucker Carlson and those on the right who vigorously oppose his most recent ideological iteration as an anti-Israel, Nazi-curious friend of Islam, viewing this situation as a distraction from the key issues of retaining control of the House of Representatives in the next election. Essentially, these hand-wringers are complaining about what they take to be an internal feud. 

I disagree. Criticisms of Tucker Carlson (and even more bizarre opinionators such as Candace Owens) are no longer an "internal" matter, if they ever were. Carlson has placed himself well beyond the pale of anything representing historical and practical American conservatism. He is not an internal problem; he is an external foe who, perhaps, could be said to be infiltrating the right; however, he is no longer of the right - or, at least, he is no longer part of any rightist faction that I recognize or am able to see as acceptable.

And I am beginning to wonder to what extent he may simply be...not all that bright: "Tucker Carlson: 'I Don’t Know Anyone Who’s Been Killed by Radical Islam.'”