Today I received a friendly email from my friends at Amazon Prime — currently $139/year — telling me the ad free nature of Amazon Prime Video was going to change.
There will now be “limited” ads on its movie and TV offerings, unless I want to pay — drumroll please — an additional $2.99/month = $36/year. Boom! Continue reading
A pleasant, jolly inquisitive person called me and asked, “What does the Big Red Car want Santa to bring him for Christmas?”
I replied, “Normal.” Continue reading
One of the problems as a leader of a business enterprise with being a giver is how to set limits because, my friends, the takers have no limits.
Twiggy Baker, South African, surfing Mavericks on a big day in 2020
The United States Army is the smallest it has been since 1940, the year before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and sunk the majority of the American fleet in an act of perfidy that launched the US and the world into a global war that killed millions and changed the course of civilization.
[Frame of reference: US 1940 population 132,000,000; currently 340,000,000.]
The American fleet was considered the most potent American military arm and the only one that could project force over the horizon into the Pacific, so the Japs plotted to take it out and did.
Weakness attracts aggression.
USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee burning after Jap attack on Battleship Row at 7:48 AM, 7 Dec 1941
Comes now our brother Hunter Biden who upon being summoned by a legal subpoena from the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee has decided to spurn their request.
Inquiring minds — wildly overthinking things in my view — want to know if Hunter discussed this with The Big Guy as this might give rise to a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Brother Hunter was summoned for a private transcribed (under oath) interview by the House Oversight Committee, ably chaired by Congressman James Comer.
Brother Hunter — in a bit of theater — arrived for his transcribed interview and grandstanded on the steps of the Capitol indicating he would gladly sit for a “public” interview, but the old boy will not stand for a private interview.
“I am here, baby. I didn’t comply with the subpoena, but I am here. Let’s try this in the court of public opinion, shall we? Stop picking on me. I’m the victim here.”
Smile Direct Club, founded in 2014 as a D2C company, was an ambitious effort to provide progressive tooth re-alignment to your smile at an attractive price. It had a good product, a healthy market, a good price, and satisfied customers; but, it failed and is now in bankruptcy.
SDC had more than 2,000,000 customers (its main competitor Invisalign (operated through dentists) just passed 15,000,000 customers, but it was founded in 1997 and came to market the next year) and sold progressive aligners (plastic trays that gently moved your teeth) and regular service thereafter with a lifetime guarantee.
It was less expensive than alternatives (Invisalign), was D2C, did not require a dentist visit, and customers loved the product and service; but, alas the numbers did not work.
They have $900,000,000 of bloody debt. Can that be possible?
If you know your Revolutionary War history, you will recognize the phrase turned by the pamphleteer and firebrand Thomas Paine in The American Crisis in which he urged the beleaguered American revolutionaries — the Continental Army now on the far side of the Delaware River driven before the victorious British — to hold steady and to justify the cause of freedom.
No person with a brain believes the open US – Mexico border and the record levels of illegal immigration are not an attraction to those who desire to harm the United States.
A cohort of young Chinese men of military age apprehended at the US – Mexico border whilst seeking “asylum” in the United States
Thank you for subscribing.
Something went wrong.
