December 17, 2025
WELL, WELL, THE LEFT WON’T BE HAPPY: The November Jobs Numbers Are Here, and It’s Good News for American Workers.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects. #CommissionEarned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China.
The trend began with the Chinese government. In November 2024 the government announced a significant shift in the design of its super-heavy lift rocket, the Long March 9. Instead of the previous design, a fully expendable rocket with three stages and solid rocket boosters strapped to the sides, the country’s state-owned rocket maker revealed a vehicle that mimicked SpaceX’s fully reusable Starship.
Around the same time, a Chinese launch firm named Cosmoleap announced plans to develop a fully reusable “Leap” rocket within the next few years. An animated video that accompanied the funding announcement indicated that the company seeks to emulate the tower catch-with-chopsticks methodology that SpaceX has successfully employed.
But wait, there’s more. In June a company called Astronstone said it too was developing a stainless steel, methane-fueled rocket that would also use a chopstick-style system for first stage recovery. Astronstone didn’t even pretend to not copy SpaceX, saying it was “fully aligning its technical approach with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.”
And then, on Friday, the state-aligned China.com reported that a company called “Beijing Leading Rocket Technology” took things a step further. It has named its vehicle “Starship-1,” adding that the new rocket will have enhancements from AI and is billed as a “fully reusable AI rocket.”
Presentations and buzzwords are easy. Space is… you know.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Ding-Dong! The Obamacare Subsidies Are Dead!
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: WSJ:. Ford Learns a Brutal EV Lesson: The car maker takes a $19.5 billion write-down on its electric-vehicle business. “Ford has lost $13 billion on its EV business since 2023, with bigger losses expected in years to come. Last year Ford lost about $50,000 for each EV sold. The truth is that the business case for EVs has always rested largely on government subsidies and mandates. Now that this combination of government favoritism and coercion is mostly going away, most car makers have much less reason to make EVs.”
Do tell.
BRITAIN’S ‘CHARLIE KIRK’ MUST BE ELIMINATED, EVEN IF IT MEANS PLYING A 17-YEAR-OLD WITH DRINKS AND SECRETLY RECORDING HIM: Hope Not Hate’s sordid attempt to smear ‘Young Bob’.
TODAY (WELL, YESTERDAY WHEN YOU READ THIS) WAS JANE AUSTEN’S 250TH BIRTHDAY: Just a year older than our beloved Republic! Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen!
And if you read Jane Austen Fanfic, this one is appropriate for Jane Austen’s Birthday: .
You’ll see why!
GOUT IS EXTREMELY PAINFUL BUT IT IS EASILY TREATABLE (WITH LESS SEVERE MEANS THAN MAID): Del Dimmock – the gout patient who died on end-of-life ‘care’ pathway.
MEANWHILE IN WASHINGTON STATE: More information about the flooding in Western Washington. Water, Water, Everywhere!
SERIOUSLY, DO THEY GET THESE ON A DRISTO? The Left Pivots Away From ‘Islamophobia’ With New Euphemism for People Who Notice Islamic Violence.
DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET: A reminder that “the cloud” is someone else’s computer. 20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple.
I BELIEVE THEY’LL FIND THE ANSWER IS YES: HHS probes whether billions in taxpayer money sent to Minnesota fueled ‘illegal and mass migration’.
UNFORTUNATELY, YES: The Fall Of The Commonwealth Continues.
DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN WHEN YOU CAN: Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good: Argue for the Achievable.
ONE SIDE-EFFECT OF THE THAI CAMBODIA TENSIONS: is the destruction of a number of Chinese gang controlled “pig farming” (i.e internet scammer) locations: Thai and Chinese authorities view destroyed scam buildings in Myanmar.
STARLINK BRINGS AFFORDABLE INTERNET TO THE WHOLE WORLD: How Starlink became the world’s internet alternative.
AND ANOTHER BOOK IN THE ROLLING CHRISTMAS SALE: FROM SARAH A. HOYT: Deep Pink.
Like all Private Detectives, Seamus Lebanon [Leb] Magis has often been told to go to Hell. He just never thought he’d actually have to go. But when an old client asks him to investigate why Death Metal bands are dressing in pink – with butterfly mustache clips – and singing about puppies and kittens in a bad imitation of K-pop bands, Leb knows there’s something foul in the realm of music. When the something grows to include the woman he fell in love with in kindergarten and a missing six-year-old girl, Leb climbs into his battered Suburban and like a knight of old goes forth to do battles with the legions of Hell. This is when things become insane…. Or perhaps in the interest of truth we should say more insane.
December 16, 2025
DON’T MESS WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OR GOD’LL GET YOU FOR THAT. First it was “from the river to the sea.” Now Gaza is the river to the sea. Cry harder, Jackon!
GAZA IS FLOODING!
ISRAEL DID THIS!
ZIONISM IS EVIL! pic.twitter.com/gbpmY4s92i
— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) December 16, 2025
Or, possibly, it’s a lie. Well, most things from Gaza — by which I mean pretty much all things from Gaza — are. Meanwhile — to drive the lesson home — Jehovah has subjected Tehran to a literally killing drought.
