Archive of entries posted on 29th March 2024
What’s Walrus Building?
Nothing. Waiting on my two pre-orders so nothing to report. I’m probably going to put these posts on hold until I’m settled in to the new digs. Given everything it looks like that will be the end of May. If I can make it. Just got hit with a tax bill higher than I expected and now I just had a bridge fall out which is going to have to be addressed just as I am experiencing a cash crunch. Sigh. What joy. Hope everyone else’s life is going better.
The Cobra Effect Inaction. . . I Mean, In Action.
No, Inaction.
This website introduced me to term “The Cobra Effect”:
The cobra effect is a classic example of a perverse incentive. From Wikipedia:
The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on a spectacular policy failure in India during British rule. The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased.
Perverse incentives happen often in politics, economics, and public health (see examples here).
Rewarding illegal immigration is another example of this.
Look at the Crazy List of Things Illegal Immigrants Get for ‘FREE’ in Liberal Massachusetts
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ | 3/25/2024 | Mike LachanceLiberal Massachusetts is overrun with illegal border crossers and there’s really no wonder why when you see the laundry list of things that are provided for ‘free’ courtesy of taxpayers in the Bay State.
All of these perks just act as incentives, driving more illegals into the state.
And remember, there are American citizens in Massachusetts who are poor and don’t get nearly as much from the state.
Longtime Boston talk host Howie Carr posted this list on his website:
FREEBIES FOR ILLEGALS: A Comprehensive List
GENERAL WELFARE COSTS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS:
Free hotel rooms at $150+ a day.
Three meals a day at $64 per person per diem.
Free on-site medical & dental services (including condoms).
Special diet for Ramadan.
Free same-day dry cleaning w/free pick up & delivery.
Free housekeeping twice a week.
Free cell phones, chargers/charging ports.
Free tablets, IPads.
Free clothing, new & used.
Everyone got new free winter coat, gloves and shoes.
Free toiletries (tooth paste, deodorant, special “ethnic” shampoos, skin cream, aspirin, tooth brushes, feminine products).
“FOR THE CHILDREN”:
Free diapers, wipes, diaper pails, cribs, bassinets, playpens, baby bottles, baby formulas, free car seats, free new mother bags, playrooms for young illegals w/free toys & books which must be replaced often because of destruction.
That is only about half of the list, if you can believe it.
Conspiracy Theory!
Wake Up, People!!!11!!
Tuesday: I used my go-to credit card for some $60.
(That’s nowhere near the limit, smartasses.) I received the monthly bill the same day — it showed a grand total of $92 owed. I pay it off every month. And I hadn’t used it in the days prior to this.
Wednesday: I tried to use it to charge $50 worth of groceries. Computer said “Do not honor.” (!) Embarrassing. I had the cash, and an alternate credit card. But the alternate credit card froze their machine. Just when I finally offered to pay cash — after about two minutes — the terminal came back online and the charge was accepted.
Curious now, I drove to another store to test the rejected credit card, to see if it would be rejected again. It was not.
When I arrived home, there was a voice mail from my credit card issuer, saying there had been suspicious activity on my card, and asking me to verify (by pressing “1”) whether all three charges above were indeed instigated by me. I did.
I am looking forward to this month’s statement, so I can see what they considered “suspicious activity.” Its use at one store the day before? My hunch is that it probably involves FBI memes on IMAO. That’s my hunch.
51 Former Intelligence Experts Sign Letter Affirming That Error in McDonald’s Drive-Thru Order “Bears All the Hallmarks of Russian Disinformation”
Straight Line of the Day: Why Get Rid of Illegals During the Olympics? A Better Idea: …
‘Social Cleansing’ of Paris Alleged as Migrants Sent to Regional France Ahead of Olympics
Breitbart | 03/26/2024 | Simon KentAllegations of “social cleansing” have been made against organisers of the Paris Summer Olympic Games as homeless people, sex workers, and illegal migrants are being taken off the city’s streets and sent to regional France ahead of the event.
Serge Grouard, the mayor of Orleans in central France, went public Monday with his complaints over the unannounced arrival of up to 500 homeless migrants in his town of 100,000 people, AFP reports.
“It has been proved that every three weeks, a coach arrives in Orleans from Paris, with between 35-50 people on board,” he told reporters, adding it was to “clean the deck” in the capital ahead of the Olympics in July and August.
