Post #6685 Social Media Digest

 Twitter

There's little doubt Ronna McDaniel, former RNC chief & Mitt Romney's niece, had to defer to the Angry Orange RINO Criminal, no longer the party of Reaganite conservatives or the Tea Party rebellion to Obama Statism. Of course, Trumpkins are deep orange, reject her

"Mitt Romney"

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2024

I think Murkowski's threat to leave the GOP caucus is more about the fight to succeed Mitch McConnell who was a bridge between GOP conservatives and the Deep Orange loyalist populists. McConnell pushed back against Ttumpkin minions in favor of an independent Senate. https://t.co/4nRkaOgHsa

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2024

Well, one down of 2 alma maters in March Madness. Texas (MA) lost to Tennessee last night while UH (MBA, PhD) fights the Aggies tonight for their second straight Sweet 16 appearance.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2024

Let us point out former RNC chair Michael Steele has been an MSNBC contributor. Chuck Todd has always been a hypocritical partisan hack. so, this sniping of Ms. McDaniel is particularly offensive and predictable. As if NBC was fair and balanced as part of the mainstream media! https://t.co/eIFRbZVjF8

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2024

Pathological Trumpkin liars: they repeat the Angry Orange RINO Criminal's self-serving excuses. Of course, Trump victimized his creditors by understating assets in obtaining loans. He was getting below-market interest, effectively transferring risk.https://t.co/q3xTvcPZsB https://t.co/tk5evPvcAP

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2024

Thank God my Houston Cougars pulled it out over the A&M Aggies in overtime after a double-digit lead evaporated in just over a minute in regulation. I had memories of Houston blowing the national championship to NC State years back. And then Max went dark near the end of overtime

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2024

California's Train to Nowhere has nothing on the Trump Train. I know what you're thinking: didn't it derail near East Palestine?

"Trump Train"

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2024

Geraldo is correct. Immigrants have much lower crime rates {including violent) than US citizens. "Lower" doesn't mean "never"/zero. But using one bad apple to smear all immigrants is xenophobia at its core. There is no excuse for murder, of course. Or Trumpkin bigotry. https://t.co/tzANa1RZBb

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2024

I was puzzled by the Rock's cameo appearance at the start of RAW: no overly lengthy promo. But Rock's bloody beatdown (did Cody blade?) at the end of RAW showed Rock's heel turn went beyond words

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2024

Wow, the Baltimore bridge collapse hits close to home. I usually avoid driving on I-695, driving through the tunnel on alternate highways. It was actually late last week that Google Maps had me drive on said bridge for the first time on my way home from Annapolis.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2024

I remember one of my first purchased albums was a Diana Ross hits compilation. Mom saw it and complimented my taste in music. Mom knew Diana Ross? Wow, Mom is cool.

"Diana Ross"

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2024

If there has ever been a stock that deserves to be shorted, it's DJT.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 27, 2024

Leftist political hacks ignore the fact there is no constitutional basis for infrastructure funding. https://t.co/iTSJV9iNXI

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 27, 2024

Who are the "Three Stooges"? Matt Gaetz, MTG, Boebert?

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 29, 2024

No, The Three Stooges are Junior. Ivanka and Eric Trump. https://t.co/jqYF0AlhjN

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 29, 2024

How stupid are Trumpkin cultists? When they think a $175M judgment is vindication of the Angry Orange RINO Criminal. https://t.co/wiYEvUM0sJ

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 29, 2024

This anti-Catholic troll is factually mistaken. Pope Francis has called Biden's pro-abort views incoherent, doesn't think forbidding him communion is pragmatic, and leaves the matter to Biden and his consciencehttps://t.co/PzUpJlAr29 https://t.co/ost9ahIFNY

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 31, 2024

Michelle is only relevant because she married the right up-and-coming politician. She lacks her own record in Congress like Hillary Clinton had. Some would elect her POTUS over her "tasty" wchool lunches. #sarcasm

"Michelle Obama"

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 31, 2024

Post #6684 M: The World is in for another China Shock; Women's Stalker Room; What's the ideal immigration policy?

 Quote of the Day

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

Lord Samuel  

The World is in for another China Shock

Women's Stalker Room

What's the ideal immigration policy?

I am an open borders person and side with the professor here

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Musical Interlude: Duos

England Dan & John Ford Coley, "Love is the Answer". Final selection of this duo is a favorite.

Post #6683 J

 Pandemic Report

The latest weekly stats from CDC:

The latest daily stats from Worldometer:

The winter surge continues to taper down with long-term dominant variant JN.1 losing market share to one of its own subvariants. One of the signs that most people think the pandemic is over: while I was walking into Walmart today, I came across a discarded black disposable facemask. I personally haven't worn a facemask in weeks; other than hospital nurses during my recent weekly visits (patients weren't required to wear them and none I saw did but we would get asked every time we checked in if we experienced symptoms or had traveled outside the country), I would come across the rare fellow customer who was masked--but it was more the exception than the rule.

Interestingly, Biden seems to be running for reelection on his pandemic public policy record. I think the political momentum is with the critics, e;g., targeting vaccine makers and mandates, student perfornance issuess during remote learning. Perhaps it's a tactic aimed at rallying his base.

Other news of interest include but are not restricted to:

• There's been an increase of long COVID cases from about 15% to 18% of those infected since 2022
• Prosecution of COVID relief fraud continues including
• a Connecticut man engaging in PPP loan fraud
• The FDA has emergency-use authorized Pemgarda, a monoclonal antibody infusion , for those acutely immunocompromised
• Yale researchers have reported evidence in support of "getting an annual COVID vaccine with a second dose for adults over 50 and children under 2 was linked to fewer hospitalizations, fewer deaths, and less healthcare spending each year".
• Red (GOP dominated) states are more likely to report on vaccine side effects
• Moderna reported positive results from Phase 3 trials of its new generation, improved  mRNA vaccine which may also include flu protection in an annual shot
• Anti-vaxxer misinformation is behind a Louisiana legislator's attempt to remove vaccine mandates for public  school admission

Other Notes

Rlog beadership statistics are being bloated by nefarious forces. The long-term readership pattern has been roughly 2000+ plus pageviews, about half of that recently. So this month is showing about 12K this month and counting. Twitter/X statistics remain near a multi-month low, in part due to time constraints in posting and to be honest the hot trends lately haven't been inspiring my interest.

OMG, I'm back in medical billing hell. Of course there are cases a lot worse than mine: medical bankruptcy is a real thing. But more than once I've gotten an unexpected bill. I won't get into details, but suffice it to say I had a change of insurer at the beginning of the month. I know I went over that before a doctor visit earlier this month (not what I briefly described above. In one sense, it's related because the doctor is affiliated to the same hospital.) I had a bad feeling when she gave me a script for a blood test  after my visit and it showed the former insurer in the paperwork. I did the blood test and made sure the correct insurance  information was provided again. What's also insane about this is earlier the same day I saw said physician I had also gone over insurance at the main hospital. Now I'm sure others face the same general set up: the hospital and physicians are billed separately. So I end up getting an email notification  I've got a bill from said doctor in the patient portal. Essentially the gist is I'm getting billed directly over $400 (for about a 5-minute visit) for my insurance being declimed. (It's more complicated than you may think. In essence my COBRA coverage became secondary. So the company immediately rejected new claims until they had been processed through my primary insurer since the beginning of the year. So I contacted the hospital billing department, and they were pissed: we know all about your coverage. But you're contacting the wrong party. We don't deal with physician billing. Do you think the dumbass physician's office can deal with this? Nope. I got another phone to call and got put into another queue. I was told they would call me back but never did. So I finally got the snail mail bill over the weekend. At least I have an invoice to reference. I'll probably call again and wait however long it takes to get customer support and if that doesn't work, I'll contact my primary insurer. I hate this with a passion because I know I reported my primary insurer when I checked in, and the boneheads didn't even contact me when their claim was rejected.

Well, My UH Cougars (MBA, PhD) got bounced from the Sweet 16 of March Madness basketball tournament. To be honest, UH got off to a strong 8-0 start and looked like they were going to blow Duke out of the water. But a cold streak of over 5 minutes without a point, poor foul shooting, some bad shot selections and a bad ankle injury to a key player probably doomed them in a relatively close contest. Of course, UH barely got by Texas A&M in an overtime contest where UH's double-digit lead evaporated in the closing minute plus of regulation. It reminded me how UH blew the national championship to NC State while I was a student. Of course, I had a bad feeling when UH got blown out in the Big 12 Championship finale

Post #6682 M: This State Bans Qualified Counselors from Helping Addicts; Individual vs. Bureaucratic Spending; McClanahan on Another Odd Endorsement of Donald Trump

 Quote of the Day

I am only one; but still I am one. 

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. 

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller  

This State (VA) Bans Qualified Counselors from Helping Addicts

Individual vs. Bureaucratic Spending

McClanahan on Another Odd Endorsement of Donald Trump

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Musical Interlude: Duos

"We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again ". England Dan & John Ford Coley

Post #6681 M: Federal “Infrastructure” Spending is Unconstitutional; McClanahan on The New York Times Endorses Donald Trump...Sorta

 Quote of the Day

The best minds are not in government. 

If they were, business would hire them away.

Ronald Reagan  

James Madison: Federal “Infrastructure” Spending is Unconstitutional

McClanahan on The New York Times Endorses Donald Trump...Sorta

$175 Trillion Social Security Shortfall

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Chip Bok via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos

"It's Sad to Belong", England Dan & John Ford Coley

Post #6680 M: Stossel on Squatters; Uniparty Sucks Up Another $1.2 Trillion; DOJ Takes an Anti-Trust Bite Out of Apple

 Quote of the Day

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. 

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Cicero  

Stossel on Squatters

Uniparty Sucks Up Another $1.2 Trillion

DOJ Takes an Anti-Trust Bite Out of Apple

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Henry Payne via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos

"Nights Are Forever Without You ", England Dan & John Ford Coley

Post #6679 M: Ocean Mining; Biden's Antitrust Case Against Apple Is Truly Stupid; McClanahan on Can Article V Save America?

 Quote of the Day

At the establishment of our constitutions, 

the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; 

that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. 

In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.

Thomas Jefferson  

Ocean Mining

Biden's Antitrust Case Against Apple Is Truly Stupid

McClanahan on Can Article V Save America?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Margolis & Cox via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos

England Dan & John Ford Coley, "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight"

Post #6678 M: McClanahan on Occam's Razor and Simple History; Debt Interest is 2/3 of Income Taxes; Who said it: Biden, Trump or someone from 'The Bachelor'?

Quote of the Day

For myself, losing is not coming second. 

It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. 

For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

Ian Thorpe  

McClanahan on Occam's Razor and Simple History

Debt Interest is 2/3 of Income Taxes

Who said it: Biden, Trump or someone from 'The Bachelor'?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Tom Stiglich via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duos

I transition here from duets to a conceptually related construct, duos. Note that I may start out of release sequence for personally favorite tracks. For instance, the below clip is not their highest charting hit (it only hit #23), but it's on my phone's playlist over my car's sound system. 

England Dan & John Ford Coley, "Gone Too Far"

Post #6677 M: Ryan McMaken on the History and Benefits of Secession; McClanahan on Grover the Good; Liberalism is the most successful system ever

 Quote of the Day

Treasure the love you have received above all. 

It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Og Mandino  

Ryan McMaken on the History and Benefits of Secession

McClanahan on Grover the Good

Grover is particularly relevant now as Trump attemps to become the first President since him to win nonconsecutive terms.

Liberalism is the most successful system ever

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duets

"You Are Everything", Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye

Post #6676 Social Media Digest

Twitter/X 

No, the Angry Orangle RINO Criminal actually said that dumb shit; Trump always lacked the intelligence to know when he should keep his mouth shut. It's the main reason he'll lose another election. https://t.co/9RsZqN0n8O

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 17, 2024

The dumbasses backing Trump's candidacy don't realize Trump doesn't have the constitutional power to raise tariffs, i.e., taxes on American consumers, 100% on their choice of foreign goods. No, he's fine with your taxes bribing leftist yuppie consumers to buy Elon Musk's cars.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 17, 2024

Hypocritical leftists don't see that the murders of Breanna Taylor and Ashli Babbitt had the same common factor of morally unjustifiable use of lethal force by police. Babbitt did not pose a danger to her killer cop. https://t.co/iPcMqEdduE

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2024

No, trespassing is not a capital offemse. The cop killer was not justified inusing lethal force against an unarmed woman. No, troll; McVeigh was a domestic terrorist. Babbitt, a registered libertarian, was a political protestor and a veteran; she deserved better https://t.co/iPcMqEdduE

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2024

Wow, the adorable little sister eho cheered on her beloved big sister with the impressive pipes made for one of the most compelling American Idol auditions I've ever seen

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2024

I was a principled Never Trump who believs Trump was guilty of dereliction of duty on J6. But as much as I'm repulsed by Trumpkin cultists, the leftist partisans obsessively scapegoating murdered Ashli Babbitt are even more disgusting excuses for human beings.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2024

The Four Horsemen, of course.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2024

The British invasion of American Idol continues. I have to say, though, a man who covers a Kelly Clarkson hit better have the pipes to carry it off, and he did.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2024

No, CNN, Obama was wrong. It wasn't Trump firing Busey on Celebrity Apprentice that keeps me up at night. It's the real Angry Orange RINO Criminal who decided it was good for his ratings to hire Omarosa into the White House. #sarcasm

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 18, 2024

The former Dotard in Chief has made his own Jewish version of Biden's "if you don't vote for me, you ain't black." How is it the American people are stuck with choosing between these 2 morons for POTUS?

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 19, 2024

Yeah, like why did they go listen to this loser criminal in the first place?

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 19, 2024

Navarro, like other criminals, put his personal loyalty for the Angry Orange RINO Criminal above the US Constitution. Cry me a river.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 19, 2024

As a libertarian, I can attest the new Twitter is definitely more tolerant than the old regime. I was suspended multiple times to the point I shut down my first account. It was definitely hypocritical leftists; it wasn't Trumpkins who kept calling me a Russian botl

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2024

"Big Statement By Donald Trump"

What is it? That Trump supported Obama for POTUS while he was still a registered Democrat?

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2024

Post #6675 M: Dumb BLEEP of the Week; Partisan Post-Game (Episode 1); The CCP Sucks. So Does Banning TikTok

 Quote of the Day

Life isn't about finding yourself. 

Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw  

Dumb BLEEP of the Week

Partisan Post-Game (Episode 1)

The CCP Sucks. So Does Banning TikTok

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duets

"Friends & Lovers", Carl Anderson & Gloria Loring

Post #6674 J

 Pandemic Report

The latest weekly stats from CDC:

The latest daily stats from Worldometer:

The winter COVID surge contines to wane nationally as we officially entered spring this past week. I do continue to caution your mileage may vary as people continue to get infected, hospitalized and/or die from COVID-19. I highly recommend senior Americans and/or immunocompromised to be wary of large public events and to get a second dose of last fall's booster shot.

News items of interest include but are not restricted to:

• Public policy post audits continue:
• The prolonged effects of less-effective remote learning of schoolage students had long-term effects on performance and mental health with limited public health payoff, particularly in blue states
• Limited access to  hospital/doctor access had serious opportunity costs, like thousands of missed early diagnoses of prostate cancer
• Kentucky legislators are deciding whether to prohibit vaccine mandates.
• Tecas is banning health deprtments from promoting COVID vaccines
• Some leftists argueTrump abdicated pandemic leadership in favor of state by state chaos and GOP Governors like DeSantis manipulated state data to favor of Trump's reelection
• Prosecutions of COVID relief fraud comtinue including:
• a Massachusetts businesswoman guilty of bank fraud (PPP loans, etc.)
• a NY payroll services businessman stole employee wages and engaged in pandemic fraud
• "Omaha businessman pleads guilty to selling unregistered ‘anti-microbial’ falsely marketed as effective against COVID-19"
• a Nevada woman got sentenced for over a half million in fraudulent relief loans
• Texas doctors got the FDA to concede it had interfered with medical practice including  off-label use of ivermectin
• Remember DeSantis' use of falling life expectancies during the early pandemic to argue against senior entitlement reform? Thanks to vaccines, COVID dropped to the fourth cause of death and a rise of life expectancy of about a year in  2022, still below pre-pandemic highs
• As the explosive growth of AI continues to attract investor interest
• certain AI technology has been able to diagnose COVID with uncanny accuracy from lung ultrasounds
• Google AI is showing promis in detecting respiratory diseases like COVID from coughs
• "Ultimately, with inflation taken into account, the majority of Americans are worse off financially compared with before the start of the pandemic"
• The war against vaccine misinformation continues:
• a false apples and oranges comparison of vaccinated death figures suggesting vaccines do more harm than good
• a false claom COVID vaccines cause cancer
• general categories of misinformation include "the existence and origin of the disease, purported alternative treatments and all manner of claims about the vaccine"
• Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro faked a vaccine record before a US visit

Other Notes

The blog has ongoing bloated statistics issues; for the most part this hasn't played a role in specific posts except for some weird 14-year old blog post for no clear reason. . My Twitter/X stats are down to annual lows; I have spent less time on it since Biden and Trump clinched theur rematch this fall.

Well, I've just gone through my first experience of transferring prescriptions. I've been going to the same Walmart for over 6 years even after moving maybe 10 miles away. (I also similarly get my hair cut at the same barber shop.) What motivated me is my new health insurance provider offers an even better deal on my generic prescriptions if I went to their preferred well-known pharmacy chain. I thought I had submitted 5 online but for some reason one wasn't processed, all but 1 needed to be renewed. And one was out of stock. So I dropped by the pharmacy for 3 refills Thursday. Anyway, I got called about the missing fifth prescription being out of refills. As an aside I asked about the generic still out os stock Thursday, puzzled why it was taking so long to get fulfilled. It turned out it was back in stock but nobody had processed my backorder refill. I was annoyed but they processed it at my request.

This past Monday I finally got to "ring the bell" basically ending nearly a year of weekly health visits, each Monday which involved mostly nursing care for a wound but very brief doctor checks of the relevant wound. Over the past year I had to cover a $7K deductible, plus I had maybe $2K of paying  a nursing escort on procedure days plus other unreimbursed medical supplies. I don't know how widespread the "ring the bell" custom of concluding my long course of monitoring. Besides giving me back my Mondays, I'm finally able to wear my regular footwear again. (No. I didn't have a foot/ankle issue.)

Well, 2 of my alma maters (UT and UH) are in "March madness". Texas failed to make it to the Sweet Sixteen tonight although they got to within a bucket late in the game. The Cougars face Texas A&M tomorrow night.

I finally got the warranty replacement for my failed external drive I mentioned a few posts back.

Post #6673 M: Paying for Organs; Partisan Post-Game 2; Russian Sanctions threaten the Dollar

 Quote of the Day

True religion is the life we lead, 

not the creed we profess.

Louis Nizer  

Paying for Organs 

Partisan Post-Game 2

Russian Sanctions threaten the Dollar

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duets

Phil Collins & Phillip Bailey, "Easy Lover"

Post #6672 M: McClanahan on Donald Trump v. Grover Cleveland; if Dylan Mulvaney was a woman pretending to be a man; Russian Sanctions threaten the Dollar

 Quote of the Day

No one wants to die. 

Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. 

And yet death is the destination we all share. 

No one has ever escaped it. 

And that is as it should be, 

because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. 

It is Life’s change agent. 

It clears out the old to make way for the new. 

Right now the new is you, 

but someday not too long from now, 

you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. 

Sorry to be so dramatic, 

but it is quite true. 

Your time is limited, 

so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. 

Don’t be trapped by dogma — 

which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. 

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. 

And most important, 

have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. 

They somehow already know what you truly want to become. 

Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs  

McClanahan on Donald Trump v. Grover Cleveland

if Dylan Mulvaney was a woman pretending to be a man

Russian Sanctions threaten the Dollar

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Musical Interlude: Duets

Patti LaBelle - On My Own ft. MICHAEL MCDONALD

Post #6671 M: Retail Crime is WORSE Than You Thought; McClanahan on A Victory for Texas! ; Congress wants higher Inflation

 Quote of the Day

The job of supposed intellectuals is to combat over simplification or reductionism

and to say, well actually, it's more complicated than that. 

At least that is part of the job. 

However, you must have noticed how often certain complexities are introduced as a means of obfuscation. 

Here it becomes necessary to ply with glee the celebrated razor of old Occam, 

dispose of unnecessary assumptions, 

and proclaim that actually, things are less complicated than they appear.

Christopher Hitchens  

Retail Crime is WORSE Than You Thought

McClanahan on A Victory for Texas!

Congress wants higher Inflation

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Musical Interlude: Duets

Marvin Gaye Tammi Terrell "You're All I Need To Get By" 

Post #6670 M: McClanahan on The New Affirmative Action; American Renters are Giving UP; Stossel on Covid: Don’t Let Them Off The Hook

 Quote of the Day

When I look back on all these worries, 

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed 

that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Winston Churchill  

McClanahan on The New Affirmative Action

American Renters are Giving UP

Stossel on Covid: Don’t Let Them Off The Hook

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Steve Kelley via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duets

Patti Austin & James Ingram, "Baby, Come To Me"

Post #6669 M: Japan enters Stagflation; Inside Biden's Head; Is the Clock Ticking for TikTok?

Quote of the Day

Man is so made 

that whenever anything fires his soul, 

impossibilities vanish.

Jean de la Fontaine  

Japan enters Stagflation

Inside Biden's Head

Is the Clock Ticking for TikTok?

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duets

 "The Closer I Get to You",  (Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway)

Post #6668 M: The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment; Covid: Four Years Later; Great Moments in Unintended Consequences (Vol. 15)

 Quote of the Day

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be 

and you will help them become 

what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment

Covid: Four Years Later

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences (Vol. 15)

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duets

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"

Post #6667 Social Media Digest

 Facebook

Twitter

People are speculating part of the LP wants anti-vaxxer socialist RFK Jr. to get the LP nomination. I held my nose and supported "Nazi cake" baker mandate Gary Johnson. But no way in hell I'll vote for Trump, Biden or Kennedy. Most likely, I would write-in Jacob Hornberger

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 10, 2024

No, the GOP has not been siphoning off social security, The Dems have undermined solvency of social security for decades with unpaid-for benefit increases, restrictions on trust fund investments & no actuarial reforms to accommodate increasing beneficiaries and longer retirements https://t.co/CbxucV4JtT

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 12, 2024

Second, unauthorized aliens are ineligible to file for social security benefits.https://t.co/9tRvoiT9Zp).&text=Medical%20assistance%20under%20title%20XIX%20of%20the%20Social%20Security%20Act%20%5B42%20U.S.C.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 12, 2024

Special counsel Hur's assessment on the unlikely conviction of Biden' over his crimes in the handling of classified data necessarily is subjective in nature. Obviously Trump's toxic personality makes him less of a sympathetic figure. Hur did not investigate Trump.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 12, 2024

Republicans are upset at what they see as a double standard in favor of Biden vs. Trump. Apples & oranges. NARA asked for stolen Presidential records, not classified data. Trump's returned material included classified data. This tipped USG which expanded investigations of others.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 12, 2024

Everytime I think Rand Paul, Tom Massie and Mike Lee have transitioned from pro-liberty to Trumpkin, they show flashes of principle, like opposition to the unjustifiable TikToc ban.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2024

lets himself get caught talking about cuts to entitlements, and now Biden is pulling the same BS fearmongering against Trump that Trump used against DeSantis. You can't make up this kind of stupidity.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2024

And Biden's stupidity is just as bad as Trump's on entitlements. The idea that Trump will cut social security is BS. The fact is payroll taxes no longer fund benefits but have to supplemented by limited reserves, and Biden hasn't done a thing beyond argue rich people should pay.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2024

Biden has already added $6.5T+ to the national debt, and it's ongoing. He tried to add trillions more in spending thwarted by the GOP.

Now when the GOP talks reform, they aren't talking about reducing checks to existing beneficiaries. They are talking about stretching funding.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 14, 2024

The whole Fani Willis kerfuffle puzzles me. It has nothing to do with Trump's criminal wrongdoing in trying to manipulate Georgia's fall 2020 election. I get the idea of a potential corruption allegation paying a romantic interest but it seems to me Trump is using it to delay.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2024

Even if we don't consider Trump's multiple impeachments and his numerous other crimes,his reckless insecure handling of our national security data and his diclosure of them to unvetted persons wirhout need to know disqualifies him from serving as Commander in Chief.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2024

Trump's lawyers are batshit crazy trying to argue that the classified documents he stole are his personal papers as defined in the Presidential Records Act. I don't give a damn about Trump's absurd failed excuses and delusions. Personal documents are things like health records.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2024

Didn't all the GOP primary debaters except I think Christie promis to support Trump, even if convicted of a crime? I don't blame Pence for flipping on Trump; heaven knows the Angry Orange RINO Criminal violated his oath by demanding Pence violate the Twelfth Amendment on J6.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2024

Mayor Pete Ass is incompetent in his defense of failed Bidenomics. First of all, the "record" unemployment rate defines away long-unemployed workers. Second, most workers are worse off in inflation-adjusted wages; many of those new jobs are part-time.https://t.co/iKB35157CU

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 15, 2024

Uneducated troll. Np, Quayle didn't do or say anything. Pence was dealing with a gaslighting thratening Trump and his thuggish minions, willing to go after Pence personally over perceived disloyalty. Quayle was a former Ibdiana politician and friend, also a one-term VP.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2024

I hanen't read "Karl Rove"'s column--I refuse to pay a paywall just to read a column. But all these whining leftist Biden minion bitches upset because Rove criticized the political hack and whore Biden for making the SOTU the most partisan one in US history? Cry me a river.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2024

I am a staunch supporter of Israel, especially after the morally unjustifiable Oct. 7 terrorist massacre in Israel. But I oppose foreign aid to a financially stable democracy, and I don't have an issue with Biden attacking a criminal PM victimizing civilians

"Biden Attack"

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2024

All the conspiracy theory Tumpkin minions are still pissed at Governor Kemp for upholding 2020 election results against Trump's criminal behavior. They're even more pissed Kemp's winning reelection despite Trump's specifically targeting him.

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2024

Oh, Jesus! Another economically illiterate leftist Statist troll scapegoating "deregulation". Never mind all the banking failures in the most regulated market segment. Boeing investors have taken a hit this year & these issues are bad for Boeing in the market

"United Airlines" https://t.co/KKLismwKxL

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2024

Speaking of which was my most embarrassing work moment ever. I was listening to music through wired ear buds while computer programming. Anne Murray's version of "Daydream Believer" came on, and not realizing it, I started singing along. My boss was not amused

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2024

Yes, the Angry Orange RINO Criminal is indeed a Judas to those of us who believe in the Constitution and the rule of law. https://t.co/cS74hkcu8U

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 16, 2024

Wrong, troll! Most ot Five Guys outlets are franchised.

"Prices at Five Guys vary across the country. For example, the bacon cheeseburger is $12.99 at a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, $13.09 in New York City and $14.39 in Los Angeles."https://t.co/pwf618tK96 https://t.co/kKQujDHwQC

— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 17, 2024

Post #6666 M: The state of the union is shouty; America’s Farms are getting wiped out; Hornberger on The L.P. Covid Controversy

 Quote of the Day

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind 

than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana  

The state of the union is shouty

America’s Farms are getting wiped out

Hornberger on The L.P. Covid Controversy

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Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall

Musical Interlude: Duets

Johnny Mathis Deniece Williams, "Too Much Too Little Too Late"