The Royals won their 2022 Opener, 3-1 over the Guardians (who?). Scott Barlow (who?) pitched two innings as the home town nine scored two in the bottom of the eighth to go ahead.
Top of the ninth, two on and Barlow (who is this guy?) strikes
out Straw (who?) to end the game.
Is this really baseball? Guardians, Straw, Barlow?
They’ll probably start calling balls and strikes
electronically.
Bob Gates served Presidents Bush and Obama honorably as Secretary of Defense and had compliments for both. He said that Joe Biden, on the other hand, was “on the wrong side of every major policy decision” that came before them.
We know, in the words of Forrest Gump, that Ol’ Joe “is not
a smart man.” He is a boastful non-truth teller and back when there were actual
journalists, they pointed that out and his run for the Presidency in 1988
cratered. His plagiarism spans from, at least, his law school days when he
finished 76th out of 85 at the Syracuse Law school to his 1988
campaign where he just stole stuff from others’ speeches.
He is weak. Putin is clever and strong, a back-alley fighter.
All the liberal press can do is condemn Trump (how did he get into this?) for
saying that Putin was smart and clever to use the ruse of “peacekeeping” in
Ukraine. Joe has no idea how to use the tools he has or to creatively block
Putin. How about China? They have renewed their claim to Taiwan that goes back
many years and is resisted by the rest of the world.
If he isn’t, Robert Gates should be saying, “I told you so.”
What a lovely city, amazing history and now it is in the hands of people who seem to want to destroy it.
When Linda worked in the city, it was starting—she would
walk from the train to work and had to dodge human excrement and all the
homeless, but it was minimal compared to now. But I want to talk about the
school board.
Three members of the school board were recalled in a recent
election and blamed it on “white supremacy.” Facts do not, of course, support
such a claim, but let’s see why voters really told them to hit the road:
1.
The school board was in the process of changing
the names of 44 schools named after historical and current figures who did not
meet their standards. Among them were these “inappropriate” names of schools:
a.
Paul Revere
b.
George Washington
c.
Abraham Lincoln
d.
Alamo
e.
Thomas Jefferson
f.
Daniel Webster
g.
Diane Feinstein
h.
John Muir, the environmentalist
The reasoning—fight for racial justice
2.
The premier school in the city will no longer
select students based on merit. Lowell High School will get students in a lottery
3.
San Francisco schools have been closed longer
than just about any other city
4.
Rampant anti-Asian prejudice
Was it the white supremacists? They had probably left the
city years ago, but what really happened was that the Chinese vote turned out
in record numbers and the non-citizen voters (yeah, non-citizens have voted in
San Francisco for many years…go figure) were not the dependable Democratic
voters that they have been historically. This is too weird for even them!
The black female mayor supported ouster of those goof balls.
All I’m saying is that the people in this country need to
wake up and vote. Otherwise, we will all be governed by inept, evil people like
were taken down in San Francisco with this recall election.
The next Supreme Court justice nominee will be selected on the basis of skin color and gender.
Others need not apply.
Years ago, that sort of advertisement would be considered racist. And illegal.
Merit is not a consideration.
Americans between the ages of 18 and 64 are dying at a rate 40% higher than pre-pandemic. An increase of 10% would qualify as a 1-in-200-year event.
Nobody seems to know why. More amazing, nobody seems to care! These are working-age people, not the old and frail. Why haven't we seen the NYT take up the story? The Guardian did, concluded that it was underreporting of COVID, but the actuaries who first alerted us say no. I worked with actuaries, they are really, REALLY smart folks and I would believe them.
Finding the reason is essential. Again, it doesn't seem to register with the folks in D.C. that more people died in San Francisco or fentanyl overdose than COVID. Murder rates are up across the country, as are suicide and traffic deaths. That last one is amazing as driving was curtailed in 2020.
Somebody smart needs to look into this, IMHO.
Back in August, 2021, the first post about inflation showed up on this blog. Well, it is worse than expected and it will get even worse--refer to the blog post "Clueless" that describes how current leadership is the most incompetent since Carter so we can't expect any help from that quarter.
Three things surprised me today: a Director of the CDC stated that 75% of the deaths from COVID were people who had 4 or more comorbidities. That is not the Party line, folks, she could end up getting Clintonized for such heresy. COVID politics has frightened the public (children, too, which is just infuriating) to believe "if I get it, I am going to die!" To be clear, this refers to a study of 1.2 million vaccinated people where 36 died, 28 of whom had 4 or more comorbidities. The Left has gone nuts making sure we don't think that evidence applies widely. BUT IT DOES. Another controversial statement by another medical official says that the latest Omicron variant will dwindle because "everybody who can get it will have been infected by then."
Number two: the health of your gut is critical to prevention of Alzheimer's. Evidently, if you don't eat well, the gut sends bad stuff to your brain. Makes sense. Read the articles, but in the mean time, eat a diet that avoids polyunsaturated fatty acids (found in vegetable oils, edible oils, seed oils), trans fats and plant oils. Eat high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carb ketogenic diet. Don't eat highly-processed foods (sniff, goodbye hotdogs! sniff). Also, practice moderate fasting. Oh, and apparently gluten is on the hit list, too.
Number three: The big Wall Street firms are in a bit of a contest to see who can predict the largest number of Fed rate increases. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan bank, says eight quarter-point increases over the next two years. Goldman Sachs says ten. Meanwhile, the Fed has abandoned the use of the term "transitory" in connection with this spike in inflation. If you simply sit back and think a bit, apply some history, the period of 1% interest rates is OVER! Probably not to return in the lifetimes of your kids and grandkids.
This extremely low interest period was an anomaly; get over it and adjust to high inflation and high interest rates until we can return some reasonable leadership to the issues. Have you noticed the backlash to the "Woke" phenomenon? We need to get back to something closer to traditional values, not nominating people for high-level jobs who are proponents of Communism or who accomplished the removal of the term "mother" in favor of "birthing people" in this Administration's US Federal Budget. Good grief.
Summarizing, there is some good and some bad, but in my opinion, the latest trends seem to be very positive. Higher interest rates mesh with historical periods of healthy economic growth. Maybe we can get back to immigration that helps the country rather than burdens it. The ability of the political system to frighten everybody into submission appears to be lessening. Medical research may be on to something about the connection between diet/gut health and dementia. Let's hope these create a more positive future.
Elizabeth Warren made news this week. That was her goal, apparently, because what she said made no sense:
1. She said Elon Musk did not pay his fair share of taxes. Musk paid about half a billion and seriously disputes her claim. Facts don't matter.
2. Grocery stores are responsible for the increase in prices on food. That is akin to blaming the thermometer for the temperature.
She has a net worth of about $9 million. Did that come from her Senatorial salary?
I don't know why the press pays attention to her.
