Despite the fact that 2024 will be the first of the seven calendar years (!) of Disaffected Musings that will have fewer than 300 published posts and despite the fact that the number of views will decline about 17% from 2023 (no doubt, in part due to fewer posts), 2024 has already had the highest number of unique visitors in any year except for the two “golden” years of 2020 and 2021. Thanks to those of you who have visited this site.
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It seems unimaginable, but some reporters who work for “respected” news organizations have expressed happiness–via “the plague,” social media–at the murder of the CEO of a large company. I will not dignify these pieces of shit by naming them and the companies that employ them. Payback is a bitch? Yes it is and it will be.
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Who said this?
“Islam as a whole is comparable to Nazism. Islam is not a religion of peace. If I have to choose between 1.6 billion Muslims and a cow, I will choose the cow.”
None other than Mosab Hassan Yousef, former Muslim and son of a Hamas founder. Yousef wrote a best-selling book titled, “Son of Hamas.” Here is an explanation of why he feels the way he does:
Yousef said he saw the light after a stint in an Israeli jail during the mid-1990s. At Megiddo Prison, he witnessed Hamas inmates leading a brutal year-long campaign to weed out supposed Israeli collaborators. “During that time, Hamas tortured and killed hundreds of prisoners,” he said, recalling vivid memories of needles being inserted under fingernails and bodies charred with burning plastics. Many, if not all, had nothing to do with Israeli intelligence. “I will never forget their screams,” he continued. “I started asking myself a question. What if Hamas succeeded in destroying Israel and building a state. Will they destroy our people in this way?” Yousef said that his doubts about Islam and Hamas began forming when he realized Hamas‘ brutality, and that he hated how Hamas used the lives of suffering civilians and children to achieve its goals.
It is DISGUSTING how the mainstream media in the so-called developed world distort and cover up the truth about the Middle East, just as it’s DISGUSTING how some of the members of the so-called media celebrate the murder of a CEO. It’s no wonder that trust in that “institution” has sunk to an all-time low.
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I didn’t see this story reported anywhere in US “media” in the last two days; why not? The piece is titled, “US, Britain disrupt global money laundering network used by Russians.” Hey, the West is already at war with Russia, China and their proxies. That the so-called media doesn’t want to say so doesn’t mean vinegar to a rabbit.
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I will not quote incoming Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno from this CNBC article except to write this, “The government should not ‘tell companies what to do and how to have a strategy.’” OK, I can’t resist publishing this as well, “There’s never been a case in time where consumers have been more clear about what they want and don’t want. There’s people who EVs are great for them, and good for you, that car works for you, you should go out and buy it … But for a lot of people, they don’t want it.”
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Do you want to know why Amazon is so big? We are having our master bathroom re-tiled because after having a new shower installed the rest of the room had to be updated as well.
The bathtub, that we almost never use, has/had a large tile skirt, deck and backsplash. All of that, of course, is going to be replaced. At the last minute, the company doing the work told us the tub faucets and spout had to be removed so they could re-tile the tub.
Our plumber had to go to Home Depot to get some things he needed and since we had decided we might as well replace the original, 18-year old faucets/spout he looked at what Home Depot offered. Actually, they had little inventory in the store, but someone there showed him what was available online.
The problems started when I went to Home Depot to order the faucets/spout and discovered I HAD to create a Home Depot account and could NOT checkout as a guest. (You don’t want to know what my Home Depot password is, but it’s most definitely NSFW.) Then, I was informed the earliest the items would arrive would be in EIGHT DAYS! That would mean our bathroom would not be finished for at least NINE DAYS. I didn’t order from Home Depot.
I called my wonderful wife and told her. She said, “Go to Amazon.” Sure enough, Amazon had plenty of options in our preferred color, the item will be here tomorrow and it cost a third less than what Home Depot wanted to charge for an almost identical product.
We have products arriving from Amazon multiple times a week, every week. Oh, almost none of them are books, which–of course–was how Amazon started. My first Amazon order was in 1999!
Amazon’s success has forced other large companies to integrate online ordering and delivery into their operations. That’s a win for consumers. Oh, don’t get me started about Amazon being accused of not delivering “on-time” to some Washington, DC neighborhoods. Much of DC SE is a war zone. Yes, I forgot: Amazon is a big company so it’s OK if its drivers are attacked from time to time.
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On this day in 1909 Hugh Chalmers purchased the Chalmers-Detroit Motor Company interests of Roy D. Chapin, Howard E. Coffin, and Frederick O. Bezner of $788,000 while the three latter men purchased Chalmers’ interest in the Hudson Motor Car Company for $80,040, resulting in the separation of the two firms. Oh, the Hudson company was named for Detroit department store magnate J.L. Hudson who had funded much of it in return for the company being re-named for him.
After lease arrangements and other “joint” ventures Chalmers was purchased by another small automobile company, Maxwell, in 1922. Maxwell-Chalmers did not do so well, but was interesting to a very successful former General Motors/Buick executive named Walter Chrysler.
At the request of bankers, Chrysler had salvaged Willys-Overland–although he failed to take control of the company from founder John Willys. Chrysler then decided to acquire Maxwell and to use it as a key component of his new company, the Chrysler Corporation.
Sadly, only one automobile, the Pacifica minivan, is currently produced with the Chrysler badge. Stellantis, Chrysler’s parent company, is going through turmoil with the recent resignation of CEO Carlos Tavares amidst rapidly declining US sales. As I have written many times, rumors abound that Stellantis is contemplating leaving the North American market and will sell Jeep and RAM and discontinue Chrysler and Dodge. (Chrysler acquired Dodge in 1928.)
Other than the limited production models built in conjunction with Ghia, I think the 1956 Chrysler 300B (pictured above) is my favorite all-time Chrysler model. Of course, only 1,102 of the 300Bs were built and fewer than 17,000 “Letter Series” 300s were manufactured in total from 1955 to 1965. The 300B ranks with the 1956-57 Continental Mark II and the 1957-58 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham at the top of my 1950s American car pantheon.
It would be sad if the Chrysler make were no more, but such is life. (C’est la vie.) It’s far more sad and deleterious to us what has happened to the so-called news media.
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