Post #6735 M: Stossel on Why Trump Failed to Drain the Swamp; Small businesses can’t pay the rent; Every John Oliver Segment

 Quote of the Day

If I have made any valuable discoveries, 

it has been owing more to patient attention 

than to any other talent.

Sir Isaac Newton 

Stossel on Why Trump Failed to Drain the Swamp

Small businesses can’t pay the rent

Every John Oliver Segment

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Musical Interlude: Duos

Simon & Garfunkel, "The Dangling Conversation"

Post #6734 M: DiLorenzo: Who Really Benefits from Inflation? ; Hornberger: Donald Trump at the LP Convention Is an Abomination

Quote of the Day

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; 

it is merely a compact between men.

Epicurus 

DiLorenzo: Who Really Benefits from Inflation?

Hornberger: Donald Trump at the LP Convention Is an Abomination

Woke Jesus

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Margolis & Cox via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos

Simon & Garfunkel, "I Am A Rock". A personal favorite...

Post #6733 M: The Constitution vs the National Bank; Weekend Update; McClanahan on All of Mexico!..not really

 Quote of the Day

None but a fool worries 

about things he cannot influence.

Samuel Johnson  

The Constitution vs the National Bank

Weekend Update

McClanahan on  All of Mexico!..not really

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos

Simon & Garfunkel, "Homeward Bound"

Post #6732 Social Media Digest

 Twitter

My latest post criticizes Gene Epstein's anti-vaxxer tilt in an earlier SOHO debate this month.https://t.co/oF0Bw2KQ6b

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2024

The crowd was hot but the storytelling mostly sucked. AJ Styles on paper was a brilliant, credible challenger but his character isn't an obvious heel with a Rhodes rivalry. I also wasn't vested in the Priest/Uso program. I didn't see an obvious Wrestlemania link.

#WWEBacklash

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2024

No. you Trumpkins need to show Trump that he didn't steal the documents in question. It's totally irrelevant where the garnish appears on the plate. "Jack Smith" https://t.co/bNUh9wi9zW

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2024

Of course, the Angry Orange RINO Criminal tampered with evidence, you Trumpkin idiot!

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2024

And the Democrats have gone from Thomas Jefferson to failed Biden. What's your point?Actually, a yellow dog would be better than an unconstitutional warmonger responsible for over a million dead Americans.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2024

Well, they are both using a misleading statistic which doesn't include the structurally long-term "discouraged" unemployed, who are not counted as part of the labor force. Also, the employed include the involuntarily under full-time workers.

"Tim Scott" https://t.co/mOAR3niZXC

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2024

Trump is a self-pitying narcissistic gaslighter who got caught with his fingers in the cookie jar and isn't man enough to admit his owm wrongdoing. He's like a petulant 2-year-old throwing a temper tantrum who tries to scapegoat the rest of the world for failures.

"Gestapo"

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2024

Post #6731 M: Is America Headed for Stagflation? ; Southern Conservatism; Dumb BLEEP of the Week

 Quote of the Day

Another flaw in the human character is 

that everybody wants to build 

and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut  

Is America Headed for Stagflation?

Southern Conservatism

Dumb BLEEP of the Week

Note I missed this clip a couple of weeks back. I'll carry their current video when it's published 

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Tom Stiglich via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos

Simon & Garfunkel - Sound Of Silence 

Post #6730 J

Pandemic Report

The latest weekly stats from CDC:

Well, numbers continue to drop  to some of the lowest levels in 2 years. Among other things, this month hospitals are not required to report relevant COVID-19 hospitalization numbers. CDC hopes that hospitals will continue to report numbers voluntarily but the change of measurement may obscure ongoing trends We continue to see things revert to normalcy like Vermont opem meetings.

Salient news items include but are not restricted to:

• In the first half of 2023 nearly 43K Americans  died of COVID than the flu (2 to 1), but nearly half of Amrticans got a flu shot and only half as many got a COVID  booster.
• mRNA vaccine maker Moderna's revenue dropped nearly 90% last year
• DC politicos have scapegoated NIH funding of coronavirus research at Wuhan Institute. Scientists rightly note that the US benefits from virus knowledge in countries with natural sources of zoonological diseases like China, since diseases spread across borders. 
• More COVID public spending fraud is being prosecuted including
• whistleblower complaints on a COVID contact tracing contract with Pennsylvania state  led to a multi-million dollar settlement 
• a Florisa school district employee fraudulently applied for and received another party's unemployment benefits 
• a former ATF Michigan employee has neen charged with multiple counts of pamdemic loan fraud
• A Minnesota university study found diabetes oral medication metformin is associated with lower COVID-19 virus loads
• SCOTUS refused to hear military chaplain complaints regarding vaccine mandates
• The Chinese scientist who, without approval. released rhe early COVID genome, found himself locked out of his lab and recently got reinstated, at least temporarily
• The Gray Lady did a comprehensive overview of COVID vaccinr side effects. Keep in mind even thousands of alleged injuies  are statistically insignicant in the context of hundreds of millions of doses administered.
• "Results of this study, published in the journal Nature Communications, categorically show a reduction in indicators of disease severity in those who had received the vaccine, demonstrating that the harmful inflammatory reaction to COVID-19 is less severe in those who have been vaccinated, when compared with those who haven't"
• An Ohio doctor, an anti-vaxxer who spread misinformation and had her license suspended, has been reinstated.
• More information on the highly contagious  FLiRT omicron subvariants increasing market share. There is speculation on whether they could ignite a summer surge.

Other Notes 

The latest blog readership statistcs continue to be bloated with some signs it may be tapering down this weekend.. Twitter/X statistics continue to slump at near all-time lows, largely because of low posting (I often commute to work up to hours daily).

Well, this weekend was the WWE PLE Backlash France. To be honest, I was less than favorably impressed. Although the matches were decent (only one title change: for the women's tag titles), there was no obvious link to Wrestlemania, nor any good storylines building to the men's championships. 

Post #6729 M: McClanahan on "Counterrevolution" or Self-Government? ; American Dream is Dying for the Young; Exposing Chicago's Secret War on Poor People

 Quote of the Day

but for the act to be virtuous, 

the donor must give 

to the right person, 

for the right purpose, 

in the right amount,

 in the right manner, 

and at the right time.

Aristotle  

McClanahan on "Counterrevolution" or Self-Government?

American Dream is Dying for the Young

Exposing Chicago's Secret War on Poor People

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Xteve Kelley via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos

Daryl Hall & John Oates, "So Close". This is the end of my coverage of this act.