Headlines

California public health director abruptly resigns as state manages data snafu

Airline shares surge as TSA numbers hit pandemic high, support for second bailout builds

Gas explosion destroys houses in Baltimore, killing one

National polls: Biden’s lead over Trump shrinks

Hong Kong media tycoon arrested under new security law

El-Erian says biggest threat to stock market rally is wave of corporate bankruptcies

AG Barr: Left’s ‘lust for power’ driving new form of ‘urban guerilla warfare’

California using $100 million of virus relief funds to house homeless

Puerto Rico’s primary goes off the rails

Coronavirus updates: Mnuchin says relief deal could come this week, TSA screenings return to March levels

Pro-police protesters and ANTIFA brawl in Chicago

New York gun purchases jump 121 percent in June

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Healines

Colleagues paint a mixed picture of ousted vaccine chief

Coronavirus live updates: Gottlieb sees colleges opening up in fall, EU eager to lift travel restrictions

Fed’s orders 500 million ‘injection devices’ ...

Nancy Pelosi unveils $3 trillion, 1,815-page leftist coronavirus bill

Paul Manafort released from prison due to virus concerns

Bill Miller on airlines: If you don’t own them, ‘you’re making a bet against a vaccine’

U.S. deaths 82,387 ...

Report: Grenell declassifies list of Obama officials ‘unmasking’ Flynn

Fed’s Powell: More spending from Congress ‘costly but worth it’

LabCorp CEO says the US really doesn’t need 2 million coronavirus tests per day to reopen

Talk of military takeover in Brazil grows ...

Poll: Voters ‘who dislike both candidates’ overwhelmingly back Biden

Headlines

Trump is an authoritarian weakman

Coronavirus live update: Gig workers get unemployment in Senate bill, outbreak pushes jobless claims to record

Mayor: Half of New Yorkers will get infected ...

Imam: Virus is ‘soldier of Allah’ to harm West but not Muslims

No end in sight for Europe

Coronavirus stimulus checks will come within three weeks, Mnuchin says

China bars entry to foreigners ...

Majority of NC voters think Burr should resign for coronavirus selloff

Jobless claims soar to a record 3.3 million

Senate coronavirus bill cuts pay for execs making more than $3 million at bailed out firms

Feds to take stakes in airlines in exchange for bailouts ...

NY has 15x coronavirus cases than CA  because ‘we welcome people’ [Cuomo]

Cuddly Pet Peeves

As part of my “Looking Back” blog post series, I offer one I wrote in December, 2006: Cuddly Pet Peeves. It is interesting to note how much of our world has changed in just 12+ years. Cell phones have replaced answering machines. Magazines have all but disappeared except in dentist offices.  And email spam has gotten even worse ... as have airline fibs.

Anyhow, I am still miffed by many other new things ... maybe I’ll reveal them in some future blog post?

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Gluten-free diet raises heart attack risk ...

Spending bill includes 2,500 more visas for Afghans ...

Clinton: 'I was on my way to winning' until Comey, Russia intervened

Axelrod: 'More introspection probably in order' for Hillary

Companies are holding $2.6 trillion pile of cash overseas that's still growing

Donald Trump, Vladamir Putin signal new effort to cooperate on Syria

Study: 2% of counties have 51% of U.S. murders

Outlook for Obamacare repeal turns bleak

Top immigration group  pulls Trump endorsement due to 'betrayal' on promises

Congress to airlines: Police yourselves before we have to

CNN: Refuses to run Trump ad because of 'fake news' graphic

Report: Kushner didn't disclose $1 biotin loan, investment ties to Goldman, Soros

Airline Roulette

The crash of the Egyptian airlines this morning now looks very much like it was brought down by a bomb placed aboard by Muslim terrorist(s) ... killing 66 people. Now the Paris authorities are focusing in on the service personnel at Charles de Gaulle airport as a possible source of the smuggling on of an explosive. Now, France has quite a few immigrants from Muslim countries working in its services industries there ... and, since it seems that a portion of such immigrants have ISIS leanings, the chances for more such airline bombings seem to be significant and growing.

Conclusion: flying on airlines these days seems to carry with it a non-zero probability, sometime during your flight, you will hear a large bang and realize, as your stomach moves into your throat and you see your plane disintegrating around you, that you are in for some serious pain ere you are no more. Can we call this airline roulette? Of course the chance of such a catastrophe is not one out of six like with a gun ... at least not yet. But the chances are large enough ... particularly if flying out of France, England, Germany, Belgium, Egypt, or many other countries where liberals might have convinced themselves that loving all Muslims ... and not admitting that some might be jihadis ... is the Christian thing to do.

I know that Donald Trump is xenophobic and is claimed to be a chief reason why ISIS is recruiting many new terrorists. But, on the other hand, I suspect that Josh Earnest, John Kerry, President Obummer and many more of our Washington pajama boys who insist on more Muslim immigration ... and on wearing Islam-terrorist blinders, are far more dangerous than The Donald for increasing the bad airline-roulette odds for the next time I (or you) fly.