Factoids

 

Here are some interesting, little-known factoids:

- Joe and Jill Biden spend almost every weekend not at the White House, but  at their home in Wilmington, Delaware. 

- When his first wife died in a car accident, Joe Biden’s current wife, Jill, was the babysitter for his children.

- NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilheim Jr.

- Jeff Bezos is now worth $200 billion ... and this is after giving over $60 billion to his ex-wife.

- Dr. Anthony Fauci funded the virus research at the Wuhan, China virology lab that likely resulted in our current Covid pandemic.

- The Obamas have a SCIF (super secure room) in their Washington, DC mansion that they share with Valerie Jarrett.

- Maricpa Country, Arizona is doing a forensic audit of the paper ballots from the presidential election ... looking for forged ballots using ultraviolet light ... and mailed-in ballots which do not appear to have been folded.

- When Rudy Giuliani quarters were raided recently with a search warrant for all electronic devices, the FBI agents refused to take the 3 hard drives that Giuliani identified as Hunter Biden’s.

 - The advertised driving range of electric vehicles is reduced by 50% or more in cold weather.

- Princeton’s entering freshman class this fall will be about 14% white American males

- Malik Obama, Barack’s half-brother, calls Barack’s wife “Michael.”

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Sheeple

“[Wearing a mask] is a patriotic responsibility for God’s sake.” — Joe Biden

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Irony

 

Don’t you think it is rather ironic that Joe Biden (fully vaccinated and outdoors with a facemask) picked a dandilion that had gone to seed for his wife, Dr. Jill?

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Quotable Quote

 

“The only thing worse than a charge of racism is a false charge of racism.” — Brent Bozell

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Headlines

 

Biden just gave the most ideologically ambitious speech of any Democratic president in generations

Moderna Covid vaccine can remain stable at refrigerated temperatures for three months, company says

House Republicans ask acting inspector general to investigate John Kerry’s ties to Iran

Report: CNN caught trying to spread opposition research in Alaska

‘America is not a racist country’: Sen. Tim Scott delivers GOP response

Feds hold interest rates near zero, sees faster growth and higher inflation

Maricopa county judge denies Democrat’s request to stop election audit

Donald Trump planning to bring back MAGA rallies

Rudy under fire: Former mayor’s New York home, office raided by the Feds

India could soon have another locally developed vaccine as Covid crisis shows no sign of slowing

Emails reveal Capitol authorities had advanced warning of Jan 6th siege but refused to act

Fact check: Biden falsely claims 1994 assault weapons ban reduced gun crime

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Six Trillion Dollar Man

 

Covid relief bill                   $1.9 trillion

Infrastructure plan            $2.3 trillion

Child and family plan        $1.8 trillion

TOTAL                                  $6.0 trillion

All within the first 100 days!

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Flaws

Everything has a least one minor inconsequential flaw. — Fletcher

Afterward: Iranian (Persian) artists and rug makers purposely put flaws in their creations ... a “Persian flaw” ... under the belief that only Allah is perfect.

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Crickets

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” — Stalin

Trump was castigated for not sanctiononing Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi’s  killing. Yet China exacts genocide on Uyighurs and Falun Gongs ... and kills over 3.1 million worldwide with its Wuhan virus ... and how does the media treat Biden’s not challenging Xi on thiese horrors? 

Crickets!

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Headlines

 

Judge has doubts about voter privacy in new Arizona recount

Biden to unveil $1.8 trillion plan for children and families — here’s what’s in it

CDC says vaccinated don’t need to wear a mask outdoors

Hunter Biden to guest teach Tulane University course on ‘fake news’ this fall

Biden-aligned nonprofit launches voting rights initiative

India reports record new cases and fatalities, official Covid death toll surpasses 200,000

Former Obama advisor arrested, accused of stealing $218,000 from charter school he founded

U.K. to begin evicting failed asylum seekers from free accommodations

Capitol rioter who posed sitting in Pelosi’s office is released from D.C. jail

A ‘tidal wave’ of Chinese companies rush  into the red-hot IPO market in the U.S.

Rift over SALT deduction cap threatens Biden tax plan ahead of its release

Poll: 51% of U.S. voters have unfavorable opinion of VP Kamala Harris

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Powerline Charts

 

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Fractured Definition

 

Paradox — the widespread publication of private information about that which is airborne.

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reddit Pic

 

Governors Island ... off lower Manhattan ... where I had my Army pre-induction physical ... one test I flunked ...

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Headlines

 

U.S. to help Guatemala to train its border protection force

Why too much optimism may be the biggest wild card at this week’s Fed meeting

SCOTUS  to take up first major Second Amendment case in a decade

Poll: 82% think U.S. is divided under Biden

European Union concedes coronavirus travel rules could crumble

There is ‘substantial value’ in the two major oil producers, Morgan Stanley says

Gavin Newsom recall officially qualifies

WH refuses comment on tapes exposing John Kerry leaks to Iran

Justice Department policing probe over Breonna Taylor’s death

Biden raises minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour

German intel agency concludes Iran is trying to expand WMD program

Iranian monster: John Kerry shared info about Israeli ops in Syra

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Following the Science

Like many things in life, some scientists have been corrupted by money.— Fletcher

Afterward: Since the nature of science is that it is constantly revising itself in the light of new information and discoveries, the notion that science is ever “settled” is absolutely unscientific ... and politicians who say such nonsense should be ridiculed.

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE?

reddit Pic

 

Pat Tillman left the NFL after 9/11. Volunteered for Army. Killed in Afghanistan in 2004.

(Very unusual post for uber-left reddit.)

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Headlines

EU set to allow vaccinated U.S. travelers visit over summer, commission president says

Biden’s job approval hits 53%, broad majority support infrastructure plan

Police departments nationwide face recruiting crisis

White House: Israel won’t change U.S. stance on Iran deal

U.S. pledges medical aid for India to help combat Cvd surge

India reports record Covid cases for fifth straight day with more than 350,000 new infections

Gaza and Israel exchange fire as Jerusalem tensions intensify

Minneapolis black business owners plead for help in no-go-zone

Watch: 11 woke rants at the Oscars

Harris  says she had key role in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal decision

Democrat Manchin praises GOP infrastructure proposal, backs targeted approach

AOC says Biden has ‘definitely exceeded expectations’ of the fa-left

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Tesla’s First Quarter

Today Tesla reported 2021 first quarter profits of $438 million on revenues of $10.4 billion. However, all of these earnings likely represent emission credits paid to Tesla from other car companies. See: Bloomberg Article.

In other words, after almost 18 years, Tesla’s high-priced electric vehicles are, at best, only a marginally profitable product.  Interesting!

Afterward: The law that allows Tesla to sell emission credits to car companies is stupid. It’s like allowing Quaker Oats to sell emission credits!

After afterward: Heard today that Tesla made $100 million selling some of its Bitcoins. I don’t know if this extraordinary item made it into 1st quarter results.

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Ignorance

 

“Ignorant” means choosing to ignore what are apparent facts which disagree with one’s mindset. Thus, much of our national media, celebrities, educators, athletes and many politicians ... unfortunately mostly lefties ... are justifiably labeled as ignorant. —  Fletcher

The monkey image is one-third wrong  ... the above groups mentioned are unashamed of speaking evil.

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Reader Contribution

 

A liberal friend sent this:

In today's WSJ,  book review page A15,

Reviewing new Book titled "Settled" by Steven Koonin.

More fodder for your side.

"A top Obama scientist looks at the evidence on warming and CO2 emissions and rebuts much of the dominant political narrative."

And offers other compelling reasons to question current "consensus."

". . . As Mr Koonin illustrates, tornado frequency and severity are also not trending up; nor are the number and severity of droughts. The extent of global fires has been trending significantly downward. The rate of sea-level rise has not accelerated. Global crop yields are rising, not falling. And while global atmospheric CO2 levels are obviously higher now than two centuries ago, they’re not at any record planetary high—they’re at a low that has only been seen once before in the past 500 million years."

You might enjoy this paragraph

". . . Mr. Koonin’s science credentials are impeccable—unlike, say, those of one well-known Swedish teenager to whom the media affords great attention on climate matters. He has been a professor of physics at Caltech and served as the top scientist in Barack Obama’s Energy Department. The book is copiously referenced and relies on widely accepted government documents."

The reviewer summarizes: ". Never have so many spent so much public money on the basis of claims that are so unsettled. The prospects for a reasoned debate are not good. Good luck, Mr. Koonin."

I must monitor him carefully so that he doesn’t slit his wrists.

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Hard Sell

 

One wonders if the manic intensity with which the left tries to sell its agenda — America last, open borders, global warming, race baiting, Socialism, globalism, etc. — might be as much to keep themselves convinced as it is to try to sway their opposition. — Fletcher

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Headlines

 

Not rich? Good news: you’re probably getting a tax cut

Biden recognizes genocide against Armenians, escalating tensions with NATO and Turkey

Bill Maher to the young far-left: Your views are stupid

Merkel tells citizens to submit to ‘tough’ new lockdown restrictions

India’s crematoriums overwhelmed as virus ‘swallows people’

Two SpaceX crew spacecraft are now docked to the space station as the Crew-2 mission arrives

Newsom wants to end California oil fracking by 2024, and all oil extraction by 2045

BLM co-founder calls for ‘abolished’ criminal justice system

Turkey summons U.S. ambassador over genocide announcement

Myranmar activists slam ASEAN-junta consensus, vow to continue rioting

Maddow warns of ‘dangerous’ election audit in Arizona

Mad Max: Chauvin trial judge ‘way off track’ with appeal remarks

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Swag Bag

Tonight’s $205,000 Oscars swag bag.

See: What’s Inside

STAND UP FOR THOSE GOOD OLD MOVIES!

Short Poem

A Love Connection

Why is this loadstone in my heart

Daring us to be apart?

The magic of magnetic pairing.

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Obvious Truth

 

Dirty money vanishes into politicians’ pockets faster than cockroaches disappear into the woodwork once the kitchen lights go on.

Afterward: Perhaps we should just not pay pols a salary .... and allow them $x in dirty money a year ... confiscating any excess to pay for our military budget?

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Headlines

 U.S. military sends reinforcements ahead of Afghasitan drawdown

U.S. lifts pause on use of Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine, clearing way for states to use doses

Biden cancels fines for migrants who stay in the country illegally

MLB asking fans political affiliations to gage wokeness

Biden to make first overseas trip in June for G-7, NATO summits

Taxes and inflation will be the key theme for the market in the week ahead

Oklahoma passes law that gives legal immunity to drivers who hit rioters

House votes to transform D.C. to state, violating Constitution

The Nightly: Who can beat Andrew Yang?

India’s daily coronavirus cases climb to new record as hospitals buckle

Caitlyn Jenner files paperwork to enter California governor’s race as Republican

Migrant minors to receive Kamala’s children’s book in welcome kit

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Powerline Pic

STAND UP FOR FUDGE SWIRL!

Afterward: Being that my wife thought this was a racist comment, I need to elaborate ... it was a statement of hope that black and white could “just get along”.

Normalcy

 

The Lefty loonies claim that we are returning to “normal” after the Orangeman. Au contraire pilgrim ... if you have been awake, we are doing exactly to opposite ... accommodating the extreme tails ... the 4th sigmas on the normal distribution curve ... like “The Squad”and Antifa ... while we in the first, second and third sigmas, normalcy, are left scratching our heads.

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Headlines

 

Trump group teams with Texas in challenge to Biden immigration policies

Over $200 billion wiped from cryptocurrency market in a day as Bitcoin plunges below $50,000

Senate passes bill aimed at combatting anti-Asian hate crimes

Teenage climate activist attacks ‘capitalism’ at the climate summit

California public universities require Covid-19 vaccines

Tesla branded as ‘arrogant’ in China as pressure mounts on electric carmaker

Biden agrees to Iran’s demands for sanction relief to advance nuclear talks

Marjorie Taylor Greene: AOC agreed to debate me on Green New Deal

HUD scraps Trump proposal on transgender access to single-sex homeless shelters

New Covid variant detected at Texas A&M shows signs of antibody resistance and severe illness

NBC deceptively edits video of Columbus police shooting

America’s reopening: Jobless claims unexpectedly drop to 547,000

SYAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Today’s Poser

Why is Joe Biden the only world leader wearing a face mask on his climate change Zoom call?  

See: MSN Article.

Afterward: What’s the term, “doofus?”

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Today’s Poser

Wouldn’t it be special if all human discourse were at face value ... and there were no hidden agendas ... usually involving money ... or sex ... or drugs ... or, less often, ice cream? — Fletcher

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Today’s Poser

 

“Question everything.” — Euripides

How can so many scientists, politicians, celebrities and media types be so wrong about carbon dioxide for so long? — Fletcher

                 How dare you!

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reddit Pic

How times have changed ...

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Headlines

 

Black Democrats urge party to shift its voting rights push

Biden pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030

USPS has been quietly running a program that monitors Americans’ social media postings

NAACP president: Taser shud have been used in  Columbus police shooting

European Union preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls

A house just rented in the Hamptons for $2 million for the summer

Virginia police officer fired for donating to Kyle Rittenhouse defense fund

Chicago may soon need permission to chase suspect on foot

Israel says it struck targets in Syria after missile attack

Scientist who helped develop Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine says third shot needed as immunity wanes

While Biden ignores border surge, Arizona Democrats welcome National Guard to border

Philippines deploys ships, aircraft to South China Sea amid China threat

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Earth Day

 

In honor of Earth Day, I republish this old blog post. After reading this, think what would happen if we listened to John Kerry and St. Greta and totally eliminated CO2 from the atmosphere.

- Life on earth is carbon-based. This means that all life is comprised of vital molecules that rely on carbon atoms.

- Despite always being a very tiny portion of our Earth’s atmosphere (currently 0.04%), carbon dioxide has been the ONLY source of all this carbon in living things ... for hundreds of million years.

- The way that living things capture carbon dioxide is through plant photosynthesis ... which, on the side, produces oxygen ... which then animals use ... and they (we) also consume the plants (and each other). Animals then, through respiration, put CO2 back into the air to feed the plants. This is called a symbiotic relationship.

- However, over the eons, plants were voracious ... thought to have reduced CO2 levels ten-fold to levels close to where they are today. It was only when man invented fire and burned wood that plants didn’t starve to death. More lately, internal combustion engines and central heating helped feed plants even more carbon oxide.

- Most carbon-based deposits — oil, natural gas, coal, etc. — derive from the demise of previous carbon-containing living things (mostly plants).

- Carbon dioxide is a “greenhouse gas” and does, among other variables, contribute to the warming of our planet. As plants drove down CO2 levels to near zero, they could have contributed to our periodic ice ages ... the more dangerous temperature extreme ... as plants and animals have survived much, much higher CO2 levels during the Earth’s Carboniferous Period.

- When one sees smoke coming out of chimneys and industrial smokestacks, it is NOT carbon dioxide (which is invisible.) It is, in fact, water vapor and soot (tiny carbon particles.)  Don’t confuse them. Getting rid of the soot is OK.

- During the Obama administration, our EPA designated carbon dioxide as an air pollutant. And the current environmental activists have declared a war on “carbon” (suggesting soot to most, but implying carbon dioxide to the woke.)  These are both clear indications of a virulent and suicidal mass hysteria.

STAND UP FOR CO2!

Obvious Truth

If parents curse their children, I think we might call it a dysfunctional family ... kinda like a dysfunctional country run by a President Biden and Vice President Harris who seem to relish poor-mouthing our country. — Fletcher

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Today’s Poser

  

Why are the weekly multiple gangland shootings in Chicago, LA, St. Louis and elsewhere not reported and treated as “mass shootings” to bring out the gun grabbers?  Does the race of the shooters and victims make them non-events?

Why is this not a racist reaction on the part of the media?

STAND UP FOR THE VICTIMS

Obvious Truth

Under Obama and now Biden, America is losing its soul. —  Fletcher

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Headlines

 

 Why Boris Johnson is dropping everything for soccer

Former police officer Derek Chauvin found guilty of murder, manslaughter in the death of George Floyd

Crazy Nancy thanks George Floyd for ‘sacrificing his life for justice’

Biden: Chauvin verdict a call to fight ‘systemic racism’ in America

Ukrainian president invites Putin for talks in conflict zone

Weekly mortgage demand jumps 86% after interest rates fall to two-month low

Biden increases seasonal workers visas by 22k as nation faces 6% unemployment

Dershowitz: Maxine Waters tactics borrowed precisely from KKK

GOP senators float $600-800 billion infrastructure counteroffer

China Xi Jinping to speak at U.S.-led climate summit on Thursday

RNC sets fundraising record in March

State Dept. warns Americans not to travel to 80% of countries because of coronavirus

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Gravity

A while ago on a Zoom call, a discussion came up about gravity. I posited that gravity here on Earth may have strengthened over the millennia ... and offered the fact that huge ancient dinosaurs do no longer ... but actually could no longer walk the earth ... see: More on Gravity.

... nor that ancient flying reptiles could not get airborne today ... see: Pterosaurs (Updated).

I have also speculated elsewhere that a shortening of actual time itself may have affected our gravity. This is because gravity is a measure of acceleration (distance/time^2) ... and if time gets smaller, acceleration (gravity) gets disproportionately larger.

STAND UP FOR GRAVITY!

Jim Crow 2.0

 

Perhaps this is what President Biden really meant with his “Jim Crow 2.0” comment? He certainly doesn’t reflect any other reality ...

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Headlines

 

Europe slips in media freedom rankings amid rising violence

Procter & Gamble earning beat as consumers hang on to pandemic cleaning habits: price hikes ahead

Walter Mondale dies at 93

Trump: Looking at 2024 run ‘we’re seriously, beyond seriously’

Chauvin judge warns Waters comments may overturn trial

Amazon to open first-ever hair salon in London

Minnesota governor declares state of emergency ahead of Chauvin trial verdict

Graham: ‘Nobody in the world is afraid of Joe Biden ... that’s very dangerous for us here at home’

Officer Brian Sicknik died of strokes after the insurrection, D.C. medical examiner rules

Wall Street banks breach for digital dollars as the next big disruptive force

‘The Squad’ spends thousands on private security while pushing ‘Defund the Police’

New Jersey: Illegal aliens on hunger strike to win taxpayer-funded benefits

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Obvious Truth

Condemning your country’s history is akin to suing your parents for your DNA.  — Fletcher

STAND UP FOR HERITAGE!

Headlines

 

Siena poll: A record number of New Yorkers view Cuomo unfavorably

Chile has one of the best vaccination rates. Covid is surging there anyway

Trump slams Biden’s withdrawal deadline for Afghanistan: we can and should get out sooner

Report: Biden admin demands Israel stop ‘chatter’ on Iran bombing

Maxine Waters: Jim Jordan was mistreating Dr. Fauci, panel

‘No one was driving Tesla crash that killed two in Texas, test says

Minnesota National Guard members fired at, some sustain minor injuries

Kevin McCarthy presses Nancy Pelosi to rebuke Maxine Waters

Half of U.S. adults have now had at least 1 Covid vaccine shot

After a Bitcoin crackdown, China now calls it an ‘investment alternative’ in a significant change in tone

George W. Bush appears on CBS, complains about Trump

Never woke enough: Antifa attack pro-gay church in Portland

STAND IP FOR AMERICAN!

Quotable Quote

 

Civilization is but a pimple on the backside of the vast history of life on Earth. — Fletcher

(9,000 years vs. 900,000,000 years)

Afterward: And our sapient window (our awareness of the extent and our place in the universe) is only a little over a 100 years ... a pimple on a pimple.

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Quotable Quote

 

                                   From daily timewaster blog

”Bang bang, you’re dead! ... you bitter clingers to your guns and your Bibles.”

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