Two faces are better than one …
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Saturday, December 10, 2022
Headlines
Private RNC emails reveal anger to Trump, frustration with McDaniel’s response to him
UK announces major overhaul of financial sector in attempt to spur growth
White House denies claims from Saudi Arabia and UAE that they had role in negotiating Griner prisoner swap
Report: Biden charging ‘full speed ahead’ with Title 42 end
Elon Musk and the (ahem) future of civilization
Russia installed rocket launchers at nuclear plant: Kyiv; Moscow likely getting more Iranian drones
Vanguard defects from woke ‘Net-Zero’ emissions alliance in a ‘bad day for ESG’
Musk slams Perkins Coe: ‘Attempt to corrupt a presidential election’
House hearing airs ethics allegations against Supreme Court
SpaceX, Tesla and Boring Company are likely helping Musk at Twitter, records reveal
Elon Musk reveals Twitter Files Part Two — exposes secret blacklist targeting conservatives
Sinema shakes Senate … leaves Dem party
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Friday, December 09, 2022
Discernment
Pilgrim, everyone tends to dismiss negative news about the politicians we favor … but the telling discernment is how important is this news? An exaggeration about a personal matter or a major policy screw-up? I am constantly amazed at the inability for many to make this distinction. — Fletcher
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Quotable Quote
STAND UP TO DOWNSIDES!
Headlines
Republicans have a post-election epiphany about mail voting
Manhattan renters face sticker shock with average rent at $5,200
Democrats prepare banks to ‘atone for slavery’
1,100 NYT employees to go on 24-hour strike
Warren presses regulators to probe bank ties to crypto
Used vehicles demand and prices continue to decline from record highs
Dems’ spending bill grants millions to left-wing organizations, institutions
Energy Dept touts grants to battery company operating in China
Biden administration appeals ruling against Title-42 expulsion policy
Putin says he’s prepared for a long war in Ukraine; risk of a winter ‘apocalypse’ in Kyiv, mayor warns
Gov. Youngkin to reimburse businesses fines for violating lockdown restrictions
War on Royals … Harry defies brother … Will King punish?
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Thursday, December 08, 2022
Bosch Paintings
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| Where’s Hunter? |
Those of us who are paying attention to what is being revealed from the Twitter document dump … suddenly realize what Hieronymus Bosch was trying to tell us with his paintings. — Fletcher
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| Where’s Joe? |
Afterward: How do so many people become so evil for so long … with such degenerate help?
STAND UP TO THE DARK SIDE!
Recommendation
Pilgrims, if you listen to talk radio, I would like you to try The Dan Bongino show (12-3 PM ET) for a few days. If you enjoy no-BS straight talk, I think you might get hooked.
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Powerline Chart
Notice that this is not just electricity generation. It is GLOBAL total energy usage … including cooking, building heating, transportation, construction, etc. … still, it tends to open one’s eyes.
Can I say greenies are pissing up a rope?
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Headlines
German cops arrest 25 far-right extremists for plotting coup
Consumers’s caution around holiday spending is the highest since 2013, CNBC survey shows
Rep. Andy Biggs announces challenge to Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House Speaker
Trump organization convicted in tax-fraud scheme, will pay fine
Gas supply at center of new U.S.-Britain energy pact
Mortgage demand falls again even as rates sink further
U.S. trade deficit rises to four-month high
Suicide attempt at Ted Cruz house … Daughter taken to hospital …
U.S. court dismisses suit against Saudi prince for killing
Raphael Warnock beats Trump pick Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate runoff, NBC projects
Elon Musk fires ex-FBI Counsel James Baker from Twitter after his role in Hunter Biden laptop suppression is revealed
TIME names Zelensky Person of the Year
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Wednesday, December 07, 2022
Childhood Memories
Life is funny … I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but can recall in exquisite detail what happened well over 70 years ago. Here are a malanga of things that have stuck with me through the years:
- Wringer washing machines and wood-frame curtain stretchers
- A skateboard made with metal wheels (taken off of an old pair of skates) nailed to a 2x4 scooter.
- Bing Crosby singing “The Ole Lamplighter” on a 78-rpm record (with “Bye Bye Blackbird” on the flip side)
- Drinking yeasty home-made root beer out of old ketchup bottles
- “Helping” the circus roustabouts raise their tents (for a free ducat)
- That toy that dropped darts on a corkboard containing silhouettes of enemy ships (from a cardboard box with a mirrored bombsight and “bombs away” levers)
- Live chickens in Grandpap’s coal bin
- Lowell Thomas reading the nightly news on the old Philco radio Other newscasters – John Cameron Swayze, Gabriel Heatter, Fulton Lewis Jr.
- My mother knitting a kaki sweater for the “boys overseas”
- The “Toonerville Trolley” comic strip in the Sunday papers Other comic strips – “Katzenjammer Kids”, “Notary Sojak”, “Maggie and Jiggs”, “Prince Valiant”
- “Just Plain Bill (Barber of Hartville)” on afternoon soap-opera radio (while I was staying home sick) Other soaps – “One Man’s Family”, “Stella Dallas” (and her daughter, Lolly Baby), “Portia Faces Life”, “Lorenzo Jones”
- Hand-woven plastic lanyards and elastic cotton potholders
- My sister wearing a crinoline skirt and brown & white saddle shoes
- Eating Cracker Jacks … looking for the prizes and avoiding those bitter paper-jacketed peanuts
- My father (a die-hard Republican) crying when FDR died
- “Curious George” and the “Little House” book (about how it became a city derelict until was moved back to the country and fixed up)
- Front-page newspaper maps of the ever-changing battle lines on the Korean peninsula
- Fried “city chicken” drumsticks made with ground-up veal formed around lollypop sticks
- Winter hay rides with real horses and sledges
- Viewing a hoochy koochy girl in the Mutoscope (peep show) movie machine at the penny arcade
- Building a toy frontier fort with Lincoln Logs
- Fletcher’s Castoria and paregoric (for childhood’s range of stomach distresses)
- A tin model of the “Spirit of St. Louis” in my father’s bottom dresser drawer
- My grandparent’s telephone number (1903W … a party line)
- Mom’s baked ham and home-baked beans (w/ a mixed green salad)
- “Pick-up Straws” and jacks
- Watching the McCarthy hearings on TV (I even remember “At last, Senator McCarthy have you no shame?”) “
- Dad’s Old Fashioned Root Beer
- Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club on weekday radio (“Good morning breakfast clubbers, so nice to meet you …”)
- The National Farm and Home hour (on very early Saturday morning radio out of Chicago)
- The Saturday Night Fights w/ Bill Stern (sponsored on radio by Gillette, “To look sharp and be on the ball … ”)
- Seeing an old civil war veteran (Grand Army of the Republic) in my town’s July 4th parade (in the 1940’s)
- Sunday Swiss steak and mashed potatoes “supper” at Grandma’s after church (around 1 PM)
- Having the (bleep) scared out of me by the movie, "Spellbound"
- Coloring the oleo (wartime butter substitute) by squeezing and massaging a yellow pill inside its plastic bag
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Apt Analogy
The Biden administration is like the ten plagues of Egypt … all at once! — Fletcher
Afterward:
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| From Woodsterman blog |
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(or is it on purpose?)
Compulsions
Compulsive behavior is both a blessing and bane of mankind. Even seemingly benign compulsions can sometimes be dangerous when carried to extremes … witness the consequences of much climate-change zealotry.
STAND UP FOR LIMITS!
Headlines
Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade deals
Renewables to overtake coal and become biggest source of electricity generation by 2025: IEA
Google pulls thousands of YouTube channels ‘linked’ to Brazil, Russia, China
Dhillon: I’m running for RNC chair
Arizona certifies 2022 election despite GOP complaints
Germany says borrowing more money to compete with U.S. would be a ‘threat’ to Europe
Lawmakers: Biden made secret deal with Saudi oil leaders
‘Cheers,’ ‘Star Trek’ actress Kirstin Alley dead at 72
Bolton teases presidential run, calls Trump’s statement on Constitution ‘disqualifying’
Another Russian airfield comes under suspected attack: southern Ukraine shelled ‘all night long’
Michael Avenati (remember him?) sentenced to 14 Years in prison for embezzlement
Musk faces federal probe over animal tests …
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Tuesday, December 06, 2022
Evolving Epigram
It is better to light one little candle than to curse the failed power grid …
… due to our loopy green energy policies.
Afterward … see: Battery Storage is a Fantasy
STAND UP FOR ELECTRICITY!
Rigged Elections
The only way Republicans can win in the new Democrat-rigged election process … unsolicited mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting … is to out-rig the Democrats. And, consequently, honest elections go spiraling down the drain …
They should really change their name from “Democrats” …
STAND UP FOR HONEST ELECTIONS!
Headlines
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Meta faces record European Union privacy fines
Tim Draper predicts Bitcoin will reach $250,000 next year despite FTX collapse: ‘The dam is about to burst’
Elon Musk: More smoking guns to come
California, a free state since 1859, may pay $233k/pp in reparations
Iranian state media: Construction begins on nuclear plant
iPhone maker Foxcom’s revenue slumps after COVID outbreak, unrest at China plant
DOJ watchdog urges independent probe into FTX collapse
Russians have lost over 60 warplanes, missions cut back — UK Intel
Ukraine blasts Macron for suggesting Moscow security guarantees
Oil prices rose as much as 2% on hopes of China’s reopening and as OPEC+ maintains targets
McCarthy: National Defense bill won’t move forward unless military vax mandate ends
Republican hopes fade in Georgia
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Monday, December 05, 2022
Debt Bombs
Pilgrim, many economists are concerned by the amount of debt that the world has accumulated … mostly due to very low interest rates over recent years. The following are a number of tables showing where this public and private debt poses the greatest risk. Study them all!
Public debt to GDP: World Economist data
Private debt to GDP: Trading Economics data
Change in Debt by category: Visual Capitalist data
Public debt per capita: Damond Dara
Draw your own conclusions … but, for me, as interest rates rise higher and higher, these debt bombs might start going off.
Of course, the only solution, other than default, is inflation.
Afterward: Inflation can also help private companies which are over-leveraged with longer-term fixed-rate debt.
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Today’s Posers
Do Silicon Valley tech firms still need oodles of new L-1 visas for foreign workers … considering all the tens of thousands of employees they are laying off?
And what happens to L-1 holders if they are laid off … do they have to go back home?
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Juxtaposition
The financial crisis of 2008 cost $1.5 trillion to remedy … see:The Balance for details.
The current cryptocurrency market meltdown has cost its investors $2.2 trillion … falling from $3 trillion to $800 billion.
Is the only difference, no panicked bailouts?
STAND UP TO BAILOUTS!
Headlines
The shadow race is on to succeed Feinstein
Amazon’s cloud faces cost-sensitive customers as economic fears mount
2.6 million illegals expected to cross southern border next year
GOP vows vote against spending bill unless Biden takes border action
Zelensky slams price cap on Russian oil as ‘weak’
U.S. Intel chief says Russia is using up ammunitions in Ukraine faster than it can replace it
Liberal media goes insane after Elon exposes Twitter censorship operation
Queen, suffering from cancer, was devastated by Harry and Meghan
Armed Services chair rips calls for stepped up oversight on Ukrainian aid
Netherlands defeats U.S. in Round 16 of the World Cup
Gov. DeSantis says Florida isn’t undoing repeal of Disney’s special tax district
Kamala Harris leads in Democrat primary poll absent Biden
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Sunday, December 04, 2022
Babylon Wasp
In response to Elon Musk’s spilling the beans of how Twitter suptessed the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 election … the 51 former intelligence officers (including John Brennan, James Clapper, Leon Panetta and Michael Hayden) who signed a letter saying that this “looked like Russian disinformation” now all have been given the Kennedy 2022 “Profiles in Courage” award.
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Our Media Blanket
“The media is the message.” — Marshall McLuhan
Quite the showman, Elon Musk, thought he would capture the attention of America with the shocking revelations surrounding how our government colluded with Twitter (and likely others) to influence the outcome of the 2020 election through unconstitutional censorship and misinformation. He teased Twitter tweets and dramatic delays to heighten the suspense.
Not so, Elon! You underestimate the sheer power of the rest of our media to set the news agenda!
Well, I watched some of this Sunday morning’s talking heads … and even FOXNews made not even a glancing mention of this blockbuster story. Our oppressive media, both old and new, has become complicit in throwing a blanket over what America knows or doesn’t know. To me, this is more than a little disconcerting!
Afterward: Howard Kurtz did carry this story, with a clearly biased panelist’s dismissal, on FOX’s Media Buzz.
STAND UP TO CENSORSHIP!
Headlines
The secret’s out: Pentagon reveals its newest stealth bomber
The blazing hot jobs market just put the Fed on a tightrope
Elon Musk releases files exposing Twitter’s censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story
Clinton compares women’s rights in U.S. to those in Iran, Afghanistan
Lack of infrastructure investment is leaving homeowners vulnerable
Goldman Sachs warns traders of shrinking bonus pool as Wall Street hunkers down
It never ends: LA to reinstate indoor mask mandate
Report: Stacey Abrams lobbying Biden to be next FCC nominee
Joe Biden: Bookstore poison
European Union officials set Russian oil price cap at $60 a barrel
Ukraine’s Zelensky urges lawmakers to ban Ukraine Orthodox Church citing ties to Russia
Gingrich: Biden winning …
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Saturday, December 03, 2022
Les Miserables
Just turned on a local PBS station to see them begging amid a performance of Les Miserables …
Which brought to mind an old Monty Python skit:
Two office mates were chatting over the coffee machine …
Man one: Last weekend I took my father-in-law to London to see Les Miserables.
Man two: I thought you hated your father-in-law?
Man one: I do …
STAND UP TO ANDREW LLOYD WEBER!
Today’s Poser
If, according to its official reporting, China has had virtually no COVID deaths … why is it enforcing such draconian lockdowns of its largest cities?
(Likely killing many more than its reported COVID deaths in the process.)
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Mattress Tags
How much longer can our DOJ ignore FTX, Biden family and numerous deep-state egregious crimes … while persecuting Trump and friends for removing mattress tags?
Afterward — see: Diplomad’s thoughts on this revolting mess.
After afterward: Was there anything that Trump had said that justifies this taking a steaming dump on democracy? All those directly involved in this travesty should be made to memorize the Constitution … and recite it on network TV wearing sackcloth and ashes.
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Headlines
Pennsylvania Republicans reconsider their war on mail voting
Why Silicone Valley is so hot on nuclear energy and what it means for this industry
Biden administration blames Americans for inflation
Kanye West praises Hitler on Alex Jones show
Southern Poverty Law Center sues DeSantis over Martha’s Vineyard flight
Elon Musk suspends Ye’s Twitter account after swastika post
FBI denies purging conservatives in letter to Jim Jordon
Federal Appeals Court ends Special Master review of records seized at Mar-a-Largo
Putin ‘falls down stairs’ …
Trump Organization lawyers blame ex-CFO for criminal tax fraud scheme
Ukraine embassies receive ‘bloody packages,’ Putin tells Germany’s Scholz to rethink approach
White House says they won’t stop Apple from helping CCP curb protests because they’re private company
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Friday, December 02, 2022
Quotable Quote
Learn to control your obsessions … or your obsessions will control you. — Fletcher
STAND UP TO OBSESSIONS!
Today’s Poser
Who has the biggest ego … Donald Trump or Anthony Fauci?
Afterward: Add Barack Obama.
STAND UP FOR HUMILITY!
Headlines
Biden world once ignored Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now it’s making her the face of the GOP.
Broke and down to one credit card: Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried claims he committed no fraud
House Democrats vote for Hakeem Jeffries to replace Nancy Pelosi
CA releases thousands of convicted pedophiles within a year of conviction
Biden administration prepares to end monkeypox emergency declaration
Russian oil sanctions are about to kick in. And they could disrupt markets in a big way
House passes bill to avoid rail strike
Wall St climbs 20% from lows as inflation fears ebb …
McCarthy to Jan 6 panel: Preserve your records
Tesla recalls 435,000 cars in China over rear light and will issue a software update
ADP: Job growth slowed to 127,000 in November
Gas prices plunge toward $3 a gallon …
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Thursday, December 01, 2022
Trump in 2024?
First John Hinderaker of Powerline blog went soft on The Don … now The Diplomad … which tells me that Trump won’t be the nominee in 2024 UNLESS we have a major recession next year AND Biden is the Dem’s choice … in which case Trump will be nominated … and WIN!
Meaning … DeSantis, Pompeo, Gabbard, Rubio, Haley or Noem … in the shadows?
Afterward: The Jack Smith witch hunt may also play a role. A conviction in a DC court of something other than murder might also propel Trump.
STAND UP FOR AMERICA!
On Alert!
Sadly Pilgrim, the Biden administration often has nefarious intentions … so freedom-loving Americans must be constantly on alert. — Fletcher
STAND UP FOR DILIGENCE!
Headlines
Brexit Britain trapped in the middle as U.S. and European Union go to war on trade
Mortgage rates fall for third straight week, but demand still falls further
Defense Dept: Biden’s botched Afghanistan pullout was a propaganda gift to China
Kanye West claims America run by ‘300 Zionists’
U.S. gun death rates hit highest levels in decades, study says
Apple limited crucial Airdrop feature in China just weeks before protests
Senate passes same-sex marriage bill 61-36
Mayor Eric Adams to involuntarily hospitalize mentally ill New Yorkers
‘Made in America’ fight clouds EV gains
Russia ‘planning something’ in southern Ukraine, Kyiv warns; Russians could be advancing in Donetsk
Five of Biden’s Secret Service rental cars burst into flames after he left Nantucket vacation
Curse of crypto … Third guru dies in weeks …
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