As soon as Republicans learn to steal elections using unsolicited mail-in ballots, then this form of voting will be seriously constrained (suppressed) by the Democrats. — Fletcher
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Thursday, September 30, 2021
Quotable Quote
“I wanted the British to capture and hold West Point so that the separatists would not be encouraged by their unhinged leader, George Washington.” — Benedict Arnold
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Fractured Definition
Hoodwink— the high sign the mafia hitman gives you right before he puts two in the hat of the rat-fink he brought to the New Jersey pine barrens.
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Headlines
Biden bets it all on unlocking the Manchinema puzzle
Mortgage demand falls as rates rise to highest level since July
Military leaders contradict Biden’s narrative of Afghanistan during tense hearing
U.S. Marine who blasted hasty Afghan withdrawal in military lockup
France goes after Amazon’s book business
$80 oil is sending the market toward demand distraction, Morgan Stanley says
Treasury Sec. Yellen says Congress has until October 18 to raise debt ceiling
Gov. Kathy Hochul: Unvaccinated people ‘aren’t listening to God’
Progressives dig in as Pelosi tries to save key vote
Warren calls Fed Chief Powell a ‘dangerous man,’ says she will oppose his renomination
Durham probe reveals Nat Sec Adviser Jake Sullivan promoted fake Alta Bank story
North Carolina fires 175 workers over vaccine
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Biden Voters
Americans, both real and imaginary, who voted for Joe Biden are now in the uncomfortable position of having to defend this choice against the incompetence he has managed to display in just nine short months:
- A disaster on the Mexican border
- Another disaster in mismanaging America’s Afghanistan pullout
- Still another disaster in alienating many with his Covid vaccination and booster shot process and mandates
- Another (you know the word) in his scrapping our energy independence with multiple bonehead moves
- His unwillingness to be a moderating force (as promised) with his ultra-left enacted and proposed legislation that will destroy economic growth and is already causing the cruelest tax — inflation
- His unwillingness to push back on China for its Covid treachery, its genocides and its Taiwan provocations
- Biden, with his puerile words and deeds, continually embarrasses himself and our nation on the world stage.
And since these Biden voters, both alive and dead, are twisted into knots trying to defend their unfortunate pick, they often resolve their discomfort by hating Trump and his supporters even more (if that is possible).
But a few have had an epiphany and regret their votes … not that they would have necessarily pulled the lever for the Orangeman.
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Days of Old
Many years ago men sought the warmth of companionship with “taxi dancers,” women who would allow themselves to be held for the duration of a dance number … all for a silver dime. Rather sad in a way. This has morphed into today’s “lap dance,” a lot more intimate … and expensive.
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Today’s Poser
Why is it OK to make gun owners jump through numerous required legal hoops (fingerprints, photo IDs, mandated classes, home safes, etc.) in order to exercise their Consstitutional-enumerated right to keep and bear arms … whereas there are far fewer such constraints against exercising our equivalent right to vote or attend church or claim to be a news reporter?
Would we tolerate making sure voters are literate English speakers before they can enter the voting booth … or could answer questions about the Bible before they could enter church or shul? I don’t think so …
(Thanks to Toby Leary of Cape Gun Works for this thought.)
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Quotable Quote
Sanctimony is the response when our ruling class is accused of anti-American policies. — Fletcher
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Headlines
Dems may drop debt fight to avoid shutdown
Fed Chair Powell to warn Congress that inflation pressures could last longer than expected
Biden admin unveils revamp of DACA
Senate Republicans block government funding, debt ceiling bill
North Korea fires possible ballistic missile into sea
Unvaccinated Americans say booster shots proves Covid vaccines don’t work, Kaiser survey shows
Biden says his $3.5 trillion spending bill ‘costs zero dollars’
Gov. Gavin Newsom makes universal vote-by-mail permanent in California
DeSantis pushes election officials to investigate Facebook
Pfizer submits data to FDA for Covid-19 vaccines in younger children
FBI statistics: Homicides surged 30% in 2020 amid Defund the Police movement
Blue states ask Americans to fund housing for Afghans
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Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Obvious Truth
Unless there is a way of reconnecting mail-in ballot with the envelopes they arrived in (which violates the sacred notion of a secret ballot), then after-the-fact realizations that some envelopes contained illegal ballots, these ballots cannot be found and invalidated … and, consequentialy, such voter fraud cannot be remedied.
And, as we have seen in the Maricopa County, Arizona election audit, the number of such invalidations could easily have swung that election.
This is a hole in the mail-in voting process anyone of evil intent could drive an 18-wheeler through.
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Heavy Stuff
Dinosaur femur
While I was waiting for a PET scan (with radioactive fluoride tracer), I kept ruminating over why and how our gravity might have changed over the millennia, First, kind reader, dwell on the fact that enormous dinosaurs roamed the Earth hundreds of million years ago. Then they disappeared in a relatively short period of time (maybe even tens of thousands of years … overnight in the span of history). Why?
Yes, I understand and believe the asteroid impact die-off theory … the K-T event … see: Wikipedia Entry. But I also believe that dinosaurs might have been seriously stressed by increased gravity for even millions of years before this event … otherwise why was it that only much smaller animals eventually replaced them?
Which takes us to the:
Postulate: the Earths gravity has gotten stronger over the last few hundred million years.
This postulate would totally explain the disappearance of those huge dinosaurs … but not the small ones like the velociraptors. I can only surmise that these smaller ones were totally dependent on their larger brethren for carrion … like today’s vultures … and when they went away, so did most of their smaller cousins.
This of course leaves the difficult question — how did gravity get stronger over hundreds of million years? I have two Lemmae:
Lemma 1: Sentists have speculated that there might be an undiscovered elimentary particle dubbed a “graviton.” I myself have surmised that, after the Big Bang, gravitons attached themselves to matter to create our now-known world. However, excess gravitons (dark matter?) still exist in abundance … and are still increasing matters’ gravity throughout the universe … uniformly.
Lemma 2: Gravity is a measure of acceleration (distance/time^2) … which means that any decrease in the time unit, means that gravity increases exponentially. Science has been trying to discover if the time metric has changed over the millennia … but so far, no dice. (Admittedly, an extremely difficult thing to discern.)
To me, one of these two Lemmae or both, might well be true … thus no more dinosaurs.
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Obvious Truth
When Jamie Dimon and Elon Musk bow down to China because of its 1.4 billion potential customers … you suddenly realize that free-marker capitalism may have a fatal flaw. — Fletcher
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Headlines
Facing a heap of defeat, progressives stake hopes on spending bills
Social Democrats narrowly defeat Angela Merkel’s alliance in historic German election
Panel of scientists investigating origins of Covid disbands over links to Chinese lab
Mayorkas: Approximately 12,000 Haitian migrants released into U.S.
Abbott says Texas vote audits aren’t about Trump
Pfizer CEO says normal life will return within a year, and adds we may need annual Covid shots
Only 46% of 2020 voters say that they would vote for Biden today
Exclusive — Michael Savage: We’ll never recover from border assault
Turkish president defiant about turning to Russia for defense needs
Major crypto exchanges stop letting Chinese users sign up as Beijing renewed crackdown
50 HouseDems will oppose ‘bipartisan’ infrastructure bill
‘War criminal’ — Crowds heckle Hillary Clinton in Northern Ireland
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Monday, September 27, 2021
Metal Anguish
As usual, John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog once again pulls back the curtain on the mega-trends … this time that China already dominates the world in the production of metals … a key component of future economic expansion. See: Powerline blog entry. (Contains some revealing visuals.)
And we all have seen the hollowing out of our previously-proud manufacturing sector to the cheap-labor elesewhere-world.
The obvious pushback from the United States has been our dominance in the technology and energy production sectors … both of which we seem to be ceding elsewhere. May I be so impertinent to ask why? Perhaps we are more interested in societal fluff and self-congratulatory ceremonies?
Alas! Even our once-proud education system is being subverted by the woke police.
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Headlines
The Republicans helped craft the infrastructure bill. They might not vote for it
Tesla drivers can request full Self-driving Beta with the press of a button
House Republicans take aim at Biden’s federal vaccine mandates
Black Lives Matter leader: Vaccine mandates ‘racist,’ vows ‘uprising’
Merkel warns Germany’s ‘future is at stake’ as voters swing to the left
Three killed in Amtrak train derailment in Montana
George Soros’ role in Russia hoax revealed
Patel: Length of Sussman indictment indicates more indictments
FBI agents question Afghan rescue groups
China welcomes Haiwei executive home, Trudeau hugs Canadians freed by Beijing
Dems are trying to abolish Space Force
Taiwan deploys ‘anti-aircraft missiles’ against Chinese PLA
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Sunday, September 26, 2021
Today’s Poser
Instead of being self-taught, what kind of a lawyer … or president for that matter … would Abe Lincoln have been if he had he gone to Yale Law School?
“College makes you stupid.” — John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog
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Obvious Truth
Times of crisis, like now, have a way of stripping the pretensions from people … letting their true selves be exposed … and sometimes it’s not very pretty. — Fletcher
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Headlines
As Dems race forwarrd, Manchin pumps break: ‘There’s no timeline’
Costco, Nike and FedEx are warning there’s more inflation set to hit
Arizona audit flags thousands of suspect ballots
Biden tells Indian prime minister not to answer questions from U.S. press
Jan. 6 committee seeks testimony from riot defendants who pleaded guilty
U.S., Pakistan face each other again on Afghanistan threats
Biden says he’s going to tax nonexistent trillionaires
Male Afghan refugees assault female soldier at Ft. Bliss
The ‘View’ hosts test positive for Covid before Harris interview
Ron Isana: China may be the first to ban Bitcoin, but it won’t be the last
Secret Service buys Chinese drones flagged as CCP spy tools
Joe Biden blames his failures on ‘what I inherited’ from Donald Trump
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Saturday, September 25, 2021
The Big Texas Freeze
Because of that hobgoblin, carbon dioxide, we may have not lost our way in terms of supplying energy to ourselves … but we certainly are well on our way to losing it. A perfect example was last spring’s big Texas freeze. See: Comon Cents blog
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Recount vs. Audit (Updated)
The much-awaited final Maricopa County 2020 presidential election forensic audit has revealed some disturbing results — among them, 57,000 questionable ballots:
(Please note all the ‘N/A’ holes in these results due to the non-cooperation of this county’s election officials.)
See: Final Maricopa County Audit Report.
These results show alarming holes in Maricopa’s voting process … evidence if you will … which need to be viewed in the light that Trump only “lost” the state of Arizona by 10,457 votes.
Now to the hand recount … which did not adjust for or eliminate the above obvious chicanery … and which is the headline that most media outlets banner, the simple hand recount of all the ballots shows Biden actually picked up 360 votes … see: CNN Report.
Now, kind pilgrim, depending on your political bias, which result do you agree with … the forensic audit or the paper-ballot recount?
My own take, for what it’s worth, is that those who are out to sway an election with unsolicited mail-in ballots, sloppy ballot verification administration and electronic voting-tally technology have made paper ballot electronic-assisted recounts meaningless. The more complex is made the ballot process, the easier it is to cheat.
Afterward: Hate to inject common sense into this issue … but why not subtract the voting irregularities favoring Trump from those favoring Biden … and, assuming this is a positive number, subtract this from Biden’s winning margin? It this result goes big negative, then the Arizona Senate should decertify the election. QED!
After afterward: Just discovered that most of these mail-in ballot discrepancies were discovered with the envelopes and not the ballots which were no longer associated with their envelopes. That, apparently, is why the above reconciliation cannot be done. Now we know.
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Complexity
Life is getting overly complex with the ins and outs of tax law, drug names and side effects, medical insurance coverage, internet navigation, vaccination risks, political infighting, trust accounting, daily scheduling, password security control, etc., etc. … that it seems clear that these mare’s nests are all designed to confound the uninitiated.
And, pilgrim, if you think this is true, try keeping on top of things with poor eyesight and the other exigencies of old age …
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Headlines
McConnell warms to Hershel Walker as primary war with Trump fizzles
CDC chief overrules panel in clearing Pfizer Covid booster shots for front-line workers
Democrats say they have reached a deal on tax increases
Dr. Frankenstein defends funding Wuhan lab …
Biden picks up the tab for Florida school leaders fined by DeSantis
Bitcoin and ethereum sink as China intensifies crackdown on cryptocurrencies
Report: Biden owes up to $500k in back taxes
Fauci defends NIH funding Wuhan lab: ‘Only regret’ is it’s a distraction
Vilsack: Mini deals with EU more realistic than full trade pact
Maricopa County: Draft of Cyber Ninjas election review says Biden won
New emails reveal Hunter Biden wanted $2 million to help Libya unfreeze assets while Joe was VP
Obama-appointed judge: Florida ‘discriminatory’ ban on sanctuary cities is unconstitutional
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Friday, September 24, 2021
CURIOUS!
Over-65 Biden and Fauci still haven’t gotten their Covid booster jabs …
Afterward: How long will it be before at least the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are vilified as the “Trump death jabs?” (Not the “Biden murder mandates?”)
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Headlines
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12 former security officials who warned against antitrust crackdown have tech ties
Chip shortage expected to cost auto industry $210 billion in revenue in 2021
DHS Secretary says the border is not open as illegals crossings hit record highs
Afghans brought to U.S. charged with child sex crimes, strangling wives
Distrust in the healthcare system dissuades clinical trial participation
Norway hikes rates, becoming first central bank in developed world to do so
Revealed: Peter Doszak admitted Fauci funded Chinese coronavirus research
Texas forms miles-long border barrier from state trooper vehicles
House Democrats introduce $1 billion funding bill for Israel’s Iron Dome
Average daily U.S. Covid deaths climb above 2,000 for the first time since March
Maxine Waters: Border patrol’s treatment of illegals ‘worse than slavery’
Gates when asked about lessons learned from Epstein mistake: He’s dead
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Carnac
The Answer: Goliath, Andre the Giant and Joe Biden
The Question: Who are three “big guys?”
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Thursday, September 23, 2021
Nature
The only trouble with communing with nature is that, sometimes, she talks back. — Fletcher
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Viruses
There are over one million animal viruses in the world … see: Virology blog. If the Fauci-Daszak “logic” holds and we must apply gain-of-function engineering to all those viruses that may someday produce a pandemic so that we might pre-develop vaccines for them … then, kind readers, by following this lunacy, we are facing an impossibly Herculean task.
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Headlines
Biden slips into political quicksand amid Haitian migration buildup
Stronger mortgage demand points to September surge in home sales
As Americans remained stranded, Biden says U.S. has ‘turned the page’ on Afghanistan
GOP slams Democrats for defunding Israel’s Iron Dome
Trump sues niece, NYT over 2018 tax records investigation
Jamie Dimon warns its possible the Fed could be forced into sharp move next year
The border crisis is so bad that even CNN is describing it as such
Dems face ‘perfect storm’ with redistricting map in 2022
Officials: Many Haitian migrants are being released in U.S.
Iranian President Raisi lambasts U.S. at first UN speech, Biden proposes compliance to nuclear deal
Biden’s approval craters in battleground states — faces 62% disapproval in Iowa
Democrats seek to spend billions on welfare, medical costs for Afghans
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021
This I Belirve
Trump’s pullout of Afghanistan would not have been an embarrassment
The 2020 presidential election was actually won by Trump in a landslide
Most Big Tech companies are dangerous monopolies
Jan. 6 was not an insurrection at the Capitol
The Clinton Foundation was a pay-for-play scam
Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Strzok and many others involved in Russiagate belong behind bars
Jeffery Epstein’s clients are rife with celebrities, business leaders and politicians
Naked males with their equipment exposed should not be allowed in female dressing rooms
Much of American media are propagandists, not journalists
America is not fundamentally racist
Inflation is going much higher and will last for years
The political left are crypto-Socialists
Trump is a patriot … Biden isn’t
Tyranny is slowly creeping into our federal and state governance
American’s education system is broken
Many abortions are murder
Gender transition surgery and drugs should be forbidden before the age of 21
China will continue to flex its muscles … dangerously
Covid vaccines are more dangerous than admitted to
Democrats are the party of anti-Semitism
Trump, as president, did most policy things right … his personality, not so much
Russia could be a strategic partner against China and radical Islam
As a result of Biden’s lax immigration policies, we will see another spate of terrorist attacks
Fauci abetted the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab with money and expertise
Covid originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
China purposely infected the world with Covid
Hunter Biden is a criminal reprobate
Global warming is not a crisis
Drugs are killing over a hundred thousand Americans a year … with little attention
Biological males should not be allowed to compete in female sports
Iran will announce before the end of the year that it has the A-Bomb
Joe Biden is in serious cognitive decline and isn’t running things
Our Mexican border is as open as it has ever been … on purpose
General Milley is a traitor
Batterie power will never replace most hydrocarbon-powered equipment
America has been suckered into being the free policemen for the world
There are still hundreds of American citizens behind enemy lines in Afghanistan
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Today’s Posers
Why does everyone get smaller as we get older? Perhaps we are preparing to disappear?
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Obvious Truth
There are few things more dangerous to the world than when stupid pig-headed people (not naming names) attain positions of great power. — Fletcher
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Fractured Definition
Giant Weta from New Zealand
Bugaboo— Frightened by a huge harmless insect.
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Headlines
What Trudeau’s win means for Canada-U.S. relations
Democrats will put a debt limit suspension in bill that aims to prevent government shutdown
SCOTUS to hear arguments in abortion case challenging Roe v. Wade on December 1
WH: Migrants crossing border do not need proof of vaccination
‘Extremely troubling’: Investigation launched into border agents on horseback seen chasing immigrants
Covid is officially America’s deadliest pandemic as U.S. fatalities surpass 1918 flu estimate
Poll: Fewer than half of Americans believe that Biden is mentally stable
CDC: Some Afghans arriving in U.S. have measles, malaria, tuberculosis
CDC recommends waiting period for Afghan flights to the U.S. after measles cases
China likely won’t bail out Evergrande directly unless there’s ‘far-reaching contagion,‘ S&P says
U.S. has funded over 250 studies for Chinese Communist military researchers
Joe Biden plans to bring 10x as many refugees to U.S. next year
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Today’s Poser
Why hasn’t Dr. Fauci taken his booster shot yet … he’s clearly eligible at 80 … does he know something we don’t?
Or, for that matter, Sleepy Joe too? He’s eligible!
I’ve decided that my booster shot will await these two birds going first.
Afterward: See also CDC’s latest VAERS Covid update. (Is someone trying to tell us something?)
After afterward:
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Apt Analogy
For all you climate zealots — getting rid of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would be the equivalent of eliminating the vowels from our alphabet or the salt from our oceans … impossible! — Fletcher
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Obvious Truth
Those who consider themselves elite Americans … or our ruling class … generally despise Donald Trump on a visceral level … and even excuse the treachery that their like-minded countrymen have leveled against him. Otherwise-Americans … and we are rife … are angry, disheartened and quite worried by the likely calamitous consequence of such a disconnect … and what it might take to return to the America we all loved. … or even, if we can return. — Fletcher
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reddit Pic
The Eye of God natural arch at Monument Valley … a Navajo tribal park on the Utah-Arizona border
(with people as eyelashes)
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Headlines
SPD in pole position as German campaign enters final week
Pfizer says it’s vaccine is safe and generates robust immune response in kids ages 5 to 11
Sen. Manchin wants Dems to delay voting on Biden’s spending package until 2022
Senate parliamentarian crushes Democrat attempt at amnesty for illegal immigrants
U.S. launches mass expulsion of Haitians from Texas
Elon Musk mocks President Biden as SpaceX completes first all-civilian mission
Biden admin to release family units in Del Rio border crisis into U.S.
Emmys: Hollywood celebrities go maskless around face covered staff
European Union-Australia trade deal runs aground over submarine furor
Evergrande collapse could have ‘domino effect’ on China’s property sector, AllianceBerstein says
FBI says human remains found in Wyoming likely Gabby Petito
More ‘F**K’ Joe Biden chants erupt at college football games
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Monday, September 20, 2021
Tongue Lashing
“You’re a dog-faced pony soldier!”
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Elaine’s
To pair with my recent blog post on Tinker’s … see: Tinker’s … here is a repost of a story about another bygone bar: Elaine’s. I had originally published it here ten years ago.
Another Closing, Another Show
There is a bit of nostalgic news today that once touched my life ... that famous celebrity bistro, Elaine's, is soon closing ... after Elaine (Kaufman) herself died this past December. See: Elaine's Closing.
Now for the nostalgia -- back when I was single in New York City, I was a bit of a regular at a bar called Tinker's at 74th Street and Second Avenue. One evening in 1964 at around nine in the evening, a rather heavy-set Jewish woman with horn-rimmed glasses came into this bar and started chit-chatting Tinker (Ward). They appeared to be close friends.
After a bit, both she and Tinker told most of us bar regulars that we were all invited to go to another bar further uptown ... a bar that this imposing woman was just opening. We all piled in a few cabs and tumbled out somewhere in the high eighties. We then previewed what appeared to be another nondescript bar that was about twice the size of Tinkers. I say “previewed,” because, there were just a few other people in the bar arranging tables and getting ready for the real opening in a day or two. I took no real notice of the bar’s name. We were all treated to a few drinks ... I can’t remember who bought, Tinker or this woman ... and then filtered back to Tinker’s to finish our evenings in our usual libertine manner.
I found out much later, after this new bar had become quite famous, that what we had previewed was “Elaine’s.” Maybe it was my imagination, but I always felt that the few times I went into Elaine’s thereafter, Elaine would look at me sideways ... like she was trying to remember who I was. I never told her.
STAND UP FOR ELAINE (RIP)!
Obvious Truth
The general consensus isn’t always right … particularly when it is being suspiciously hyped hard by the media …
STAND UP AGAINST GROUPTHINK!
Hard-hearted
I must be hard-hearted because I am increasingly cynical of the spate of sympathy scammers who use hungry old people, disabled veterans, dirty-faced children and mange-ridden dogs to extract money from a gullible public .. . very little of which usually ends up solving the misery depicted in their exploitive TV commercials.
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Headlines
Confusion over Biden’s booster plan riles governors
SpaceX’s private International4 mission splashes down safely in Atlantic Ocean
Biden heads to his beach home [in Delaware] for weekend amid mounting crises
Farage: I ‘won’t obey’ any new lockdowns
Australia to France: You knew we had doubts about submarine deal
Small crowd gathers near Capitol to protest arrests of Jan. 6 rioters
Capitol police reportedly detain undercover cop at Justice for J6 rally
By withholding Regeneron, Biden could hurt black people
Poll: McAuliffe and Youngkin in tight race for Virginia Governor
California firefighters wrap base of world’s largest tree in fireproof blankets as blaze approaches
Pennsylvania voting reform bill reintroduced after governor’s veto
MN Supreme Court: Voters may scrap police department
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