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Nancy Pelosi has quietly inserted $700,000 fines by OSHA into the $3.5 trillion boondoggle bill for companies who fail to enforce the vaccine mandates. Stunning!

Imagine if instead she required $700,000 fines for any company hiring illegals!

But in an additional irony the Border Patrol is now going to fire any agents who do not get the vaccine while continuing to release illegal aliens into our country who neither have the vaccine nor tests for communicable diseases.

Are you beginning to get the feeling that this is all intentional to destroy the U.S.?

#1 OneGuy on 2021-09-29 10:34 (Reply)

Your Manners And Competence Are Deeply Problematic: I have two (2) middle fingers and I know how to use them! (Stolen from Sarah Hoyt.)

California “experts” hype sea level rise by 2050 50+ times greater than actual data shows: "experts" decodes to "x" the unknown, and "perts" decodes to "spurts" which is "water under pressure".

One guy, I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaay past "beginning"...

#1.1 Sam L. on 2021-09-29 10:57 (Reply)

Nancy Pelosi is Lucufer’s BFF. Change my mind.

#1.2 B. Hammer on 2021-09-29 12:12 (Reply)

From a another blog:
“According to one of my larger import contacts:
There are now 88 container ships hanging off the coast of California. California is insisting on COVID checking and social distancing of the unloading crews, etc.
The current timeline for the 88th ship to get unloaded is 704 days.
That’s on top of the horrendous increase in costs for porting (not constructing) each container. That cost $1,500 a couple of years ago, but now is now $20,000.

Can be found here https://survivalblog.com/2021/09/29/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-28/

#2 OneGuy on 2021-09-29 10:42 (Reply)

At the current pricing levels, you would begin to think someone would engineer a way to unload a container ship at sea.

If SpaceX can land a rocket on a barge in the middle of the ocean, then I would expect there should be a way to move a container from a ship.

And yes, it would be a significant engineering problem, no doubt about it.

#2.1 JD on 2021-09-29 13:41 (Reply)

Or off-load to a smaller vessel that can navigate to shallower ports.

However, the full unloading infrastructure (cranes and semi access) may not exist at these other ports.

In the end, there is no (stated) good reason why the ports haven't ramped up hours to mitigate the backlog. Especially after last year when so much shipping was a problem.

Still the better option is to on-shore manufacturing to N. America.

#2.1.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2021-09-29 15:45 (Reply)

This is of course assuming that the delay in unloading the ships is a bug rather than a feature. If you assume California is trying to punish consumers for wanting to consume, well ......

#2.1.1.1 Jerryskids on 2021-09-29 19:25 (Reply)

Does that mean we might need to find a way to make products here in the USA?

#2.2 grant1863 on 2021-09-29 19:35 (Reply)

The gambit of harnessing corporations to conduct social warfare and install leftist policy is straight out of the Obama / Chicago playbook. - It's how they were shaking down Wall Street banks to fund race-driven agendas during his second term. It's not just Blackrock and Vanguard and Goldman-Sachs. State Street (Fidelity) and other investment houses are also playing ball. These fund managers oversee huge portfolios, many of them for the benefit of pension funds, which in turn have been infiltrated, Gramscian style, by the woke management class. It's ironic that Gramsci, a Marxist/Communist, was imprisoned by Mussolini (the original fascist) under 'emergency' laws, until his death. Now the 'emergency' laws are permeating our own system.

It's the fund managers, with the leverage of huge blocks of shares and insulated from public view, that threaten to vote unfavorably in Annual Meetings unless 'Woke' board members are added. They wield a huge, un-elected power, without real oversight or governance. The workers holding pensions are not made aware of the agendas being pushed. Power without governance inevitably breeds corruption. Which starts with "C" , that rhymes with "D", and that stands for - well, you know.

#3 Aggie on 2021-09-29 11:16 (Reply)

It is racism pure and simple.

#3.1 OneGuy on 2021-09-29 11:34 (Reply)

I suspect we are on the edge of a considerable stock market correction. Who remembers the 2000 correction and can also remember some shootings from those on the loosing end. I rather suspect that most of the sjw financial experts will have a huge change of heart as they are ridiculed and hunted. Without money control and their social position they have no power to demand anything. And only the debt free survive and I would bet most of them are carrying a load of debt even as multimillionaires and billionaires. The build back better/nwo will be order free and like all socialist ideas very painful.

#3.2 indyjonesouthere on 2021-09-29 14:06 (Reply)

>The workers holding pensions are not made aware of the agendas being pushed.

The fund managers might be a bit vulnerable here. They have an actual fiduciary duty to their clients i.e., they need consent to prioritize ESG over total return. And fiduciary duties aren't protected by the business judgment rule.

#4 OldCurmudgeon on 2021-09-29 15:44 (Reply)

That's true and a fair comment, there is a moral / fiduciary responsibility that the pension fund managers are responsible for - but what if they're plowing money into a Fidelity Fund, or a Vanguard Fund? It's not hard to see how the accountability is quickly watered down. I think one would find it very hard to prove fiduciary malfeasance, certainly not in a criminal sense, maybe slightly easier in a civil case - if you can prove harm. In any case, the annual reports are structured such that they can simply point to it as evidence of disclosure. Even as a direct shareholder in multiple companies, I find it highly time-consuming to stay up with the individual issues of each - and I'm retired. I never did it once, when I was working and putting money aside into 401K's for retirement. Who has the time?

#4.1 Aggie on 2021-09-29 17:13 (Reply)

Re: Sea Levels. I've always wanted someone to ask Obama why - considering his belief of the existential threat of rising seas - he bought an oceanfront home on an island known for getting battered by Nor'easters.

Actions tell you what people really believe.

#5 PoBoy on 2021-09-29 17:24 (Reply)

"Your Manners And Competence Are Deeply Problematic"

There are two simple and logical things to do in response to this:
1. If you can put your children in private schools that don't believe in this crap.
2. Assume that anyone graduating from government schools or colleges that practice this bull crap are incompetent and choose to not do business with them. Don't use them as doctors. lawyers, real estate agents, anything requiring actual intelligence and training.

#6 Anon on 2021-09-29 19:14 (Reply)

"Your Manners And Competence Are Deeply Problematic"

When Harrison Bergeron is mistaken for a training manual rather than a warning.

#6.1 Jerryskids on 2021-09-29 19:33 (Reply)

The Astral Codex Ten links are indeed fabulous. Some are fun, also. It bears mentioning that there were a few I took issue with, however.

#7 Assistant Village Idiot on 2021-09-29 22:00 (Reply)

I should give an example of that, shouldn't I? Sorry. The link about media bias was not useless by any means, but what is being measured is not quite what is advertised. The study measures language use by various outlets, whether they use more accusatory, less technically supportable words compared to other sites, with the implication being that those which throw even slightly more inflammatory words about lightly are more biased. "Socialist" is one of the examples given.

Dramatic language use likely overlaps with increased bias - that is certainly plausible - but it is not the same thing as bias in content, bias in evaluating facts, bias in discernment. It's not quite apples-and-oranges, but it is more than apples vs pears (Pears and apples are close relatives, for those who had never run across that fact).

The challengers always sound more, well challenging, while the status quo can afford to sound more measured, more reasonable, quietly condescending. That's not a new insight that should be incorporated, that has been observed for decades by those accusing the elite media of bias. It's part of their shtick to pretend that the issues are not even worthy of discussion, and the Good People Just Know. The assumption in the study is itself evidence against it.

#7.1 Assistant Village Idiot on 2021-09-30 13:27 (Reply)

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Wednesday, September 29. 2021

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