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A word about May 13

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/12/2025 10:30:00 PM

            1917:  We remember Our Lady of Fatima today..........the movie "The miracle of our Lady of Fatima" is very good.1981:  Do you remember the day that Pope John Paul II was shot?  It happened on this day in 1981.Music:   We wish a very happy birthday to Stevie Wonder who was born in Michigan on this day in 1950. "La Bamba":    Richard Steven Valenzuela (Ritchie Valens) was born on this day in 1941 in Los Angeles.  He became one of the first Mexican-American rockers and the inspiration for "La Bamba", a great movie from the 1980's.    "Motown story":    Motown had 32 # 1 hits.     Who recorded the first[...]

Happy # 75 Stevie Wonder

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/13/2025 4:10:32 AM

          (P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page.)      We wish a very happy birthday to Stevie Wonder who was born in Michigan on this day in 1950.From "Fingertips" to "My Cherie Amour" and so many others, Stevie Wonder was on the charts all of the time.It's hard to pick a song.It's not hard to pick an album."Songs in the key of life" was released in 1976 and belongs in every popular music collection. It sounds good so many years later.My favorite tune from the album was: "Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing"It's a wonderful ballad in 3 languages, although I must confess that I don't[...]

Tariffs Re-Re-Revisited

K T Cat
5/12/2025 3:13:43 PM

The market is almost back to where it was on January 1 of this year and that does both my heart and my portfolio good. What a rideI've blogged on both sides of the tariff debate and I'm still in the camp that says Trump could have gotten nearly everything he wanted just by cutting taxes, cutting regulations, reforming education and providing plentiful, reliable energy.An aside on that last topic can be found here. LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - Power failures caused delays and disruption on London's Tube network on Monday, as several of its busiest lines were suspended.The Bakerloo line was completely suspended as of 1715 local time (1615 GMT), while other services including the Jubilee, Elizabeth and Piccadilly lines were[...]

Pope Leo XIV

K T Cat
5/8/2025 4:43:54 PM

When I took up blogging, I didn't realize that as a blogger, I'm supposed to have an opinion about absolutely everything, particularly things about which I'm almost completely ignorant.Hey, I don't make the rules, man.With that in mind, here's my take on some dude I'd never heard of until today.My TakeHe's almost got to be better than Francis, just from pure probability. I mean, Francis was three standard deviations below the mean when it came to quality popery, so it would be pretty tough for this guy to be that big of an airhead.My biggest problem with Francis was that he was incoherent. His incoherence came from what appeared to be an inability to reason beyond what was needed to sustain life. Every proclamation caused[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Depopulation

W.C. Varones
3/31/2025 5:50:52 AM
I meet a lot of very cool 30-ish people who dont seem to be on the path to having kids. Huge mistake. Kids are awesome.Its the circle of life. Its meant to be. Whether you believe in God or not, nature wants you to have kids.All your ancestors had children. Youre going to end a family tradition of millions of years because its inconvenient for your current lifestyle?

Inauguration Day

W.C. Varones
1/20/2025 9:49:56 AM

 Joe Biden right now listening to Trump talk about ending government censorship and the weaponization of justice:   

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

U.S. Halts Import of Livestock from Mexico over New World Screwworm Threat 

Leslie Eastman

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins indicated the move was made in the interest of the nation's food security.The post U.S. Halts Import of Livestock from Mexico over New World Screwworm Threat first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Biden Team Pumped $100 Billion Into NGOs, Green Energy Scams After Trump Win 

Leslie Eastman

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "They basically tried to set bombs to make it hard for us to unwind the mess they'd created. "The post Biden Team Pumped $100 Billion Into NGOs, Green Energy Scams After Trump Win first appeared on Legal Insurrection.