Merry Swissmas!
Looks like work won’t stop until tomorrow evening when I sign off. Even then, I will still be looking in at email, etc. However, the end of this week is reserved for joyous celebration – or at least some day drinking and less grumbling.
But the links march on, holiday time or not.
- Link to a dubious conclusion.
- Link to a bad result for Spanish Socialists.
- Link to the Cheese War between China and the EU.
- Link to something that inexplicably makes Swiss people smile.
No Music, instead History.
Comments are open and belong to you.
Beijing unveiled tariffs as high as 42.7% on imports of European Union dairy products on Monday, saying the subsidies Brussels provided to producers in the 27-country bloc were the cause of “substantial damage” to China’s dairy industry.
I’m sure that European farmers will milk this for all it’s worth, since it’s biting them in the dairy air.
I knew it…
*NARROWS GAZE*
First comment, Shpip takes the bull by the horns.
What do you have against Shpip’s muensterous puns?
Follow-up: militant cheese makers are reaching out to the tribal areas of Turkiyeee and Iraq for advice from curdish separatists.
Meanwhile, German dairymen are considering merging their operations with the sausage people in a wurst käse scenario.
No whey.
the EU will have to whey the pros and cons of their economic strategy.
Maybe Kraft a new process.
Some kind of chink in the holey Swiss armoire
Kraft knows how to avoid tariffs on cheese.
I didn’t know China was fondue cheese. That’s grate!
China’s tariffs on milk might lead to raclette and ruin.
That doesn’t sound gouda
That is a Muenster of a tariff battle. It’ll make me Blue if they camembert it out.
Vote for me, and I promise a 50,000% tariff on cheese.
Mad Scientist’s cheese shop.
I should have bought more gold 5 years ago.
I sold a bunch of my stock when it hit $1500 per oz.
day drinking and less grumbling.
Hail, Krampus!
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s scandal-hit Socialists endured a crushing defeat in a regional election in Extremadura on Sunday, which saw far-right Vox make big gains.
Whycome do I think that “far-right” in Spain is akin to “RINO squish” in the U.S.?
The Socialists have also come under fire in recent weeks for allegedly failing to address sexual harassment by senior male officials.
Why would any male politician be a socialist if not to act like JFK hopped up on cocaine and Viagra?
I don’t think I exactly call Franco a squish…
I’m sure the German establishment parties would love to call the AfD “nazi” but they’d be violating their own laws doing so. Perhaps Spain has something similar with regard to Falangist?
Yeah, a large enough part of the population that liked Franco.
“Link to a dubious conclusion.”
That could have easily been about “the current trend of eating low carb”.
Oh, no. Not the hard right again.
Whycome do I think that “far-right” in Spain is akin to “RINO squish” in the U.S.?
They’ll be crushed by the bootheel of the merciless Romneyites.
Gold is good but silver is at 68$.
100% profit in 2 years.
/hold
I have a few pounds of silver. Unless it goes to $1,000 an ounce it is still not that valuable.
I quit buying when it went over $30.
In other news, Florida Man stays consistent.
Has it been 30 minutes? The Blade and Bow bourbon says yes! Thanks for the comments on the astrophotography. I was out yesterday, wife passed on fever, sore throat, and splitting headache.
It will be cloudy for the next week, so I will be submitting an article with pics outlining equipment, the mini pc that runs the setup, all of the stuff. I’m just learning the software for both capture and processing, and I get a new UV/IR filter tomorrow for the camera.
Cool! I was traveling and unable to open your link. I did see it.
That was really cool.
+1
The pictures were pretty neat. I look forward to seeing that article.
Oooohhhh, looking forward to that. The BF lives in a dark sky area and I’ve been wanting to get into astrophotography.
Aside from Chipotle, Smoothie King has been one of the only other restaurant companies to directly recognize the GLP-1 movement, offering a new menu with GLP-1 smoothies focusing on high protein, fiber and zero added sugars.
Atkins redux?
That doesn’t scream “GLP-1” to me. It would fit right into my diet.
Metoo
The New Atkins diet was Atkins Redux.
He got it right the first time with high animal fats but caved to the low fat garbage we’ve all been suffering under for almost 50 years.
Gallbladder problems?
Diet low in animal fat will give you those problems.
“Far right” Spanish win.
So further left than American democrats but not as far left as Franco.
But how rich will the gold buffet really be in 2026? Henrik Marx, head of sales at Heraeus Precious Metals, assumes a price range of between $3,500 and $5,000 per ounce. Other experts also predict further price increases, perhaps after a pause, given the rather high levels. Estimates range from $4500 at Oddo BHF to $4950 at Deutsche Bank.
“Gold isn’t more expensive, the dollar is just worth less”
+1 reeeally nice man’s suit
Google nooz puked this up
Like a kid in a toy store with a nearly unlimited supply of someone else’s money, President Donald Trump is on a shopping spree the likes of which America has never seen.
With the announcements earlier this month that the federal government will take equity stakes in a company that makes advanced lasers and another that mines critical minerals, the Trump administration has now bought pieces of more than a dozen private companies. What began as an apparent effort to prop up stumbling giants like U.S. Steel and Intel has quickly morphed into a recurring, even routine, behavior. And it is all happening without even an attempt at getting congressional authorization.
As I detailed in a recent cover story for Reason, this pivot towards a more aggressive form of state capitalism is a risky experiment that involves more central planning, invites more corruption, and risks both taxpayer dollars and vital sectors of the economy. Even amid the Trump administration’s many other intrusions into the private economic sphere—tariffs, attacks on independent media outlets, and so on—the rapid acquisition of shares in so many private companies has been astonishing.
It has been a long time, but I don’t recall any strenuous objections to industrial policy from those guys. Or nudges, neither.
This time he’s going to get it right, the previous attempts didn’t have smart guys like Navarro and Lighthizer for advisors.
Lunar power is the future. Or is it looney power?
Hey buddy, about time we’re in charge, eh?
Another instance in which The Drinker’s review is far more entertaining than the actual movie. Having seen “Avatar: Tired and Ass” I would agree on all points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQghy9ZtY4&t=4s
Speaking of crappy movies, I saw One Battle after Another over the weekend. It was horrible, though I guess Antifa types will like it.
It is trash, no doubt, but then so was the first one which sucked to High Heaven. At least The Drinker and the other professional Hollywood shitter onners are getting new material.
My fil loves it.
I have been informed that eventually I’ll have to watch cowboys and dances with aliens with him on his 3D TV.
So far it’s not happened.
Relevant
Also relevant
“400 million dollar screen saver”
Drinker is brilliant.
Do the Chinese even eat much cheese? I thought they were lactose intolerant.
Thinking that racial groups are different?
That makes you a RaCiSt!!!
Guilty as charged.
Speaking of cheese, I found some genuine Cotswald cheese 50% off. It was a little “off color”, said the cheese monger.
Ha. There is going to be a yummy cheese sauce for Christmas.
There’s such a glut of cheese in France right now that they’re tossing discs of the stuff through the air to entertain themselves.
I’m going to send Yusef over soon to build the country’s first frisbrie golf course.
All right, Glibbies. I need a name for a 30-something restoration/archivist librarian. ALL the cliches, but not for the same cliched reasons.
Note: She’s pretty and knows it, and dresses up when she must. She also has style. However, she is LAZY about her personal habitus. She does not have pets because she’s too lazy for the responsibility.
She is not a Mary Sue nor is she a manic pixie dream girl.
Her name WAS Alexandr(i)a, but I started this story almost 30 years ago and now it’s just too saturated. Current working is COLLEEN. Under consideration: Greer, Flora, Lark, Laurel, Wren.
Obviously Brandy WithanI
Agrippina or Livilla
Audrey McConnell.
But Coleen McConnell works, too. Maybe a Maxine ?
Maxine Nightingale
Prudence Tightbottom.
The twin sister I never knew I had.
Heather, Jane.
The librarian in my Jr High was Margot Mackey.
Never married, thick glasses, wooden bead necklaces, did some far east travel during the summers and wore the occasional sarong over whatever typical late 80s early 90s old lady fashion she wore at the time. Likely in her mid to late 30s then. Always had big earrings. Chains on her glasses.
Moira? Emiline?
I’m partial to Colleen, as that was the name of my incredibly competent and uncompromising Advanced Composition teacher my senior year of high school, who taught her class as if it were college Freshman English. Also the only Jewish Colleen I’ve ever met.
It was probably her signature characteristic.
Her Colleen card, as it were.
Stop that, Shpip! We’re trying to be serious here!
Laurel something! (too on the nose?)
Oops, reading comprehension. Might a parent have named her something pretentious with many A’s?
Could I hang out with this lass sometime?
Anastasia?
Yaaaaass, or Arabella. She wears the vowels like a yoke.
Like a yoke. Or a crown?
Present day or period?
Gamboling Freely
Hel Helheim
Helen Dumont
Latiffa Kwanzasong (mom an early white chick black studies major)
Patience Sirly
Livonia Pratt