This business of the supply chain being “broken” is a joke.  The supply chain is not broken. It is being deliberately crippled by the man-boy governor of California, who has forbidden independent truckers or union truckers driving trucks more than three years old (as I understand data from other Ricochetti) from taking loads away from the piers to local distribution points.  With the number of union truckers driving new rigs being finite, Mr. Xiden’s “24/7” claims are useless.

This is easily remedied.  A real president would jawbone the man-boy governor of California into suspending the regulations for the good of his state and his nation. If this failed, a real president would go on national TV and announce that due to the State of Emergency he had just declared, he was suspending the regs, that he was authorizing the Secretary of Commerce (who would actually be at work, not trying manfully to breastfeed a baby) to seize control of all rigs from Austin to Walla-Walla, that he was diverting the Coast Guard to line the 70 waiting ships up to be offloaded, that he was ordering the Secretary of Defense to divert military resources to the area to assist, etc.

“At present, a person’s fully vaccinated status cannot expire and is unrelated to boosters.”

This last week it was the airlines. Today’s headlines point towards a spread to the aerospace unions:

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller was court-martialed on Thursday, October 14, charged with five counts of violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice including: showing contempt towards officials; showing disrespect towards superior commissioned officers and failure to obey an order or regulation.

He pled guilty on all counts, as he surely must have, given his call for “accountability” in the ranks.

Prior to the hearing, a deal was reached between prosecutors and the defense team, in which Scheller agreed to accept a maximum punishment of a letter of reprimand, forfeiture of two-thirds of a month’s pay for a year, and the processing of his request to resign from the Corps, the disposition and type of discharge to be determined by the Secretary of the Navy.

Waterford city, Ireland is fast becoming popular online for these two pictures attached to each other. Waterford is the largest city in the South East of Ireland, famous for its crystal, its ancient status as the first city founded in Ireland, and for its local food, namely a bread called the blaa (true story). It is also my city as I am within 20 minutes of its centre, albeit in a different county.

But Waterford I snow becoming popular in an unwanted fashion. Over the last week, these two images have circulated as a reply to the covid vaccine mandaters, Covid vaccine pushers, and pro-Covid vaccine extremists (or fascists if we are honest). The reason is simple enough.

Waterford county and Waterford city have one of the highest take-ups of Covid vaccine in Ireland. So high that it’s above 90%. I think the county rate of Covid vaccine take-up is higher than the city’s which is being possibly conflated in the pictures, but it doesn’t really matter, as numbers are nearly the same.

Poor Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  Dead for only slightly more than a year, and the jackals have already started on her legacy.  No, not the Right.  People like the ACLU, who–on the recent anniversary of her death–bowdlerized one of her famous quotes, tweeting it as follows:

The decision to bear a child is central to a [person’s] life, to [their] well-being and dignity…When the government controls that decision for [people], [they are] being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for [their] own choices

…pretending that these were, WRT to RBG, and as a beloved elderly Canadian fisherman of my acquaintance once said of the King James Bible, “the actual words Christ spoke.”

So, is it me? Or are we seeing a full Balkanization underway in the USA? Divisions are amplified by social, cable, and airwave media. Our historical print media is always behind the curve, trapped in a pretense of ‘fact checking’ and are therefore always catching up. All forms of media are selling ‘views’ to generate advertisement revenue. And views come from a loyal audience. And loyalty can be best mined from those who are already addicted (i.e., Facebook).

Grasping the ‘addiction’ angle of media, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity Industrial Complex (DIE) has created many voices, some have gone on to attract thousands of followers and millions of hits (views, not punches). And ‘hits’ can lead to celebrity. And celebrity can be monetized – speaking engagements, writing assignments, training deals, book deals, endorsements, and social media ads! And the DIE celebrities can tell their addicted followers to boycott. This creates another opportunity. The celebrities can negotiate with the newly identified offenders, and extract a little ransom.

Businesses and governmental organizations are about to learn that Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t make idle threats. He backs up Florida law. Leon County, in an effort to protect its lawless and inconsiderate employees, passed a vaccine mandate and will pay the price:

Leon County’s vaccine mandate required more than 700 workers to be vaccinated or be terminated by Oct. 2. Two days later, 14 county workers who refused the vaccine were fired.

At $5,000 for each violation of a state law prohibiting vaccine mandates by government employers, the Florida Department of Health (DOH) Thursday fined the county $3.57 million and gave it 30 days to pay.