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Saturday, June 29, 2024

Darth Vader: Greatest Villain Ever!

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Caitlin Clark scores!

Easy to miss how good this is, as Clark avoids the block.

Friday, June 21, 2024

The Standing 7-Minute Workout

Click here for an article in the NYT by Tara Parker-Pope entitled "The Standing 7-Minute Workout."

Mover over, Project 2025

Click here for an op-ed in the NYT by Carlos Lozada entitled "What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump's Second Term." It's pretty frightening.

Not meant for casual reading, 'Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” is a dense 887-page outline for a conserative takeover of the federal government.

With contributions by dozens of conservative thinkers and activists under the leadership of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the book announces itself as part of a “unified effort to be ready for the next conservative administration to govern at 12:00 noon, Jan. 20, 2025.” There is much work ahead, it states, “just to undo the significant damage that will have been done during the Biden years.”

There is plenty here that one would expect from a contemporary conservative agenda: calls for lower corporate taxes and against abortion rights; criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and the “climate fanaticism” of the Biden administration; and plans to militarize the southern border and targeThe main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology.t the “administrative state,” which is depicted here as a powerful and unmanageable federal bureaucracy bent on left-wing social engineering. Yet what is most striking about the book is not the specific policy agenda it outlines but how far the authors are willing to go in pursuit of that agenda and how reckless their assumptions are about law, power and public service.

The book "calls for a relentless politicizing of the federal government, with presidential appointees overpowering career officials at every turn and agencies and offices abolished on overtly ideological grounds."

The book’s existence is an implicit admission that the Trump administration’s haphazard approach to governance was a missed opportunity. Executing a conservative president’s agenda “requires a well-conceived, coordinated, unified plan and a trained and committed cadre of personnel to implement it,” the document says on its opening page. The phrasing quickly grows militaristic: The authors wish to “assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day 1 to deconstruct the administrative state.”
There's more -- A LOT MORE -- and like I said, it's frightening.

 

 



Thursday, June 20, 2024

Going both ways.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Saving this for later ...

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Eric Trump is disgusted.

Eric says his father's opponents are the worst of the worst. "The manners, the lack of morals, in society is awful."

The Fever are starting to look like a team!

Tinker to Evers to Chance? And the leader is -- surprise, surprise -- Caitlin Clark.

Flagrant foul by Angel Reese on Caitlin Clark

I thought it was just hard, competitive basketball until I saw it from this angle.

Two minutes of Caitlin's greatest hits.

Caitlin Clark being guarded by the entire Chicago Sky team

Five on one seems about right to even the playing field.

Caitlin Clark Highlights, Fever vs. Sky

Past this into your address bar. https://twitter.com/i/status/1802412649138852205

Saturday, June 15, 2024

Republican Dirty Tricks

The second post, "Black Church in Detroit Welcomes Trump," was plastered all over Twitter; they packed the congregation with white Trump supporters. Biden among the black congregation was real.

Warren Buffett on Taxes

800 x 5 billion = 4 trillion. In 2019, for example, Americans paid $1.6 trillion in personal income taxes. I believe Buffett is saying that with all the other federal taxes -- social security taxes, estate taxes, etc. -- would total approximately $4 trillion. Some of the comments to this post on Twitter seemed to have the idea that Buffett was saying $4 trillion would cover the operating expenses of the U.S., pay off the national debt, et cetera -- he's not saying that.

Friday, June 14, 2024

So, Tom, you do your own stunts?

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Outrunning an avalanche -- with style!

Nice one, Caitlin!

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Highlights, Fever vs. Mystics

Monday, June 10, 2024

Quick as a cat?

Close shave!

Is This Real, or AI?

Neither. It's a simulator.

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Real Housewives of the Supreme Court


 


Chennedy Carter's Hip Check

The ref was less than 10 feet away, and she was only given a regular foul; on review after the game, the league bumped it up to a flagrant foul. Watch Angel Reese -- the white jersey among the four black jackets on the left end of the Chicago bench -- jump up and cheer.

A Word From George Clooney

You may need to be on Twitter to see this post; I'm not sure.