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How is this not funny?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1442267854796062722
While conservatives were warning that excessive progressivism would inevitably lead to the problems we face today, sadly the GOP sought leadership from the wrong person.
We conservatives have an abundance of quality candidates. We need them to surface now.
When the word “surrender” becomes “evacuation”, the media has lost all sense of honesty, and truthfulness is no longer the basis of our culture
Just want to say how disappointing that the Toronto Maple Leafs once again bowed out in 1st Round of NHL playoffs; I’m a NY Rangers fan, happy with the 7-game win over the Penguins, but the Leafs have not won a Stanley Cup since 1967; good team, cannot get it done.
You’re disappointed? I wear a Maple Leaf hat, which is not going to be thrown away until they win the Cup.
As a die-hard fan for 70 years, this year was one of the most enjoyable. They played with skill and flair that made up for this loss.
They were Top-5 in the league this year and set a franchise record. Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner are world-class. The team will be back stronger next year.
1 Million Deaths Debating whether the death of elderly persons is directly due to Covid-19 or whether Covid-19 was a contributing factor is a politically motivated time-waster. The fact is that doctors have certified Covid-19 on the death certificates of one million Americans, 75% of whom are 65 years or older (see the data). To grasp the enormity of this pandemic, click on the link to the visualization at the bottom of this write-up. From the 1440 Daily Digest, one of the few sources of objective news reporting: The number of reported COVID-19 deaths in the US is expected to… Read more »
“Perfect”
Watch til the end.
Is there an unhappy face in the crowd?
Not too many views, but of my Deep House playlist (about 150 now), this is probably my favorite.
Blocks out all the noise in my life while I work.
This one is pretty close
While working and when not on the phone, I listen every day for eight hours to this kind of music. I never get distracted. My productivity level has soared.
I could say I learned this at Harvard LOL
I prefer to listen to 40 hz binaural beats when concentrating. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63980-y
If I am engaging in diffuse thinking, usually 2cellos, instrumental music, or a podcast (if I am doing completely mindless work).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUOPU2lsys
The instrumental version of “Stay for Now” is also pretty good.
A simple rhythmic tune that excites the brain waves.
It’s not noise like most pop music today, but far more than classical music, this kind of electronic dance music enables me to focus in sync with my work.
If you are having a problem falling asleep, try the one hour version of Alone by Alan Walker
One sick report from Domini Ukraine ESG considerations and sector report on healthcareDomini on the implications of Russia’s war through an ESG lensEmile Hallez and Paul Curcio discuss the highlights of ESG Clarity’s latest sector report on healthcare. They’re joined by Carole Laible, CEO at Domini Impact Investments, who offers her insights on how Russia’s war in Ukraine is affecting ESG across different sectors. For ESG promoters to discuss Ukraine at the moment is just sick. Ask Putin what he thinks about Ukraine’s Environment? What possibly is Social about a war? Governance? Ukrainians are looking to stay alive, not for accurate accounting and… Read more »
Russian losses are being reported by Ukraine but where are the Ukrainian losses?
https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1525038438617055233/photo/1
How long can Putin keep this madness going?
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1525028436611371008
The world does not want to see Russians or Ukrainians die.
Die for what other than madness?
As long as Germany keeps paying him to since the Germany “green dream” failed! Too bad biden cut off the XL pipeline and opened Nord. Didn’t putler name one of his super yachts NORD? Biden and Germany funded putler! Biden’s dork move in Afghanistan gave putler and the ccp the green light!
It looks like an aircraft carrier! Think of all the people who died and are in Russian gulags’ so putler could buy Nord! I think he has two or three more under names of family.
Putler is probably the richest man on Earth and he certainly has a larger navy than Ghana!
A new energy supply chain From the Conference Board of Canada: “It will be no small task. By 2030, more than two million passenger vehicles will be added to a stock of 27 million vehicles in Canada, according to Canada Energy Regulator. Most will be electric. That means constructing a new energy supply chain that supports urban driving and Canada’s vast rural and intercommunity road networks.” So, let the users pay for it. If there is an attractive Return On Investment, I’m sure HB&B will finance it and sell investment units to the public. But when these concepts have a… Read more »
When I talk of class warfare, heaven help me if people label me Noam Chomsky II I believe the people here see kaimu and me as free-market capitalists. We are truly apolitical because regardless of which party is elected we want the authorities to represent the interests of the majority of people with policies, laws, and regulations that matter to them and not just to the elites. That we talk of class warfare is because the people have not been well served since 2007. The rich have been getting richer and the poor are now poorer. We have identified the… Read more »
I may be conservative but I don’t believe that men have the right to control women’s bodies. I think SCOTUS is wrong.
Rather than ask Congress to codify a long-standing right, I’d like to see a federal referendum on the issue. Forget the Electoral College. Total vote counts. If the vote is within a small percentage, then have a second vote to ensure the people’s intentions on matters so personal as abortion are made into law.
I’d like to see the same thing with regard to the Fed being permanently folded into Treasury too.
The headline reads “Biden Net Approval Highest Level since March” Biden’s net rating is -9.7%, a slight bump from -11.9% one month ago. The article reads: “According to the Real Clear Politics presidential approval tracker, Biden’s net approval is now the highest since it touched net -8.8 on March 12”. Am I missing something here? How is a negative -9.7 an improvement over a negative 8.8? Figures have never been a strong suit of the Democrats. I mean, how many times have we heard Biden say million or trillion when he meant billion. At least the teleprompter could spell out… Read more »
Musk would restore Trump’s Twitter account Good idea or bad? One person’s truth is different than the next Twitter is supposed to represent free speech, so if it’s actually an original tweet, then it’s a good idea. It’s also good to re-tweet the original tweets of somebody else as a sign of agreement or support. What is wrong in my view, however, is publishing something unoriginal on Twitter without attribution and without stating that it is a personally shared view so that we know who the person is. Hiding behind a nickname in order to promote something is wrong. For… Read more »
Unsettling insights in the Russia-Ukraine war The more you keep an open mind about what’s happening in Ukraine, the greater should be your concern that there is no singular truth. I’d like to believe that Putin is wrong, but 100% wrong? This video and too many others like it that I have watched this weekend lead me to think that when the fighting stops — if that can actually happen — those of us who believe there will be a strong Ukraine with economic renewal are still believers in Santa Claus and Goldilocks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMXuKB0BoY It’s possible that Ukraine, like Afghanistan,… Read more »
At the end the narrator says, “Lots of angry dudes in black masks. What could go wrong?” Reminds me of marxist antifa and anarchy groups here in the USA.
Yes, the Oath Keepers come to mind.
As Trump was saying about the different groups of extremist protesters at Charlottesville, there are “some very fine people on both sides.”
It pretty much said that Trump was seeking that kind of help in his mission to disrupt government. He had set himself up as the people’s volunteer. He had simply gone from pirate to privateer.
Bill partly true but there were so many misquotes on that one day. Here are all the NYT corrections and other lefty media corrections, but of course they wait until a year later to admit to it like they did with Hunters laptop that the NYT now confirms is the real deal. LINK: https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/29/new-york-times-corrects-five-trump-charlottesville-reports/ Get ready for the marxist pravda media to make tons of misquotes and edit videos to make anyone who is not a democrat look like genghis kahn reincarnated for the midterms. Biden has already started by calling anyone who doesn’t vote for biden as “Ultra MAGA”!… Read more »
I agree that Biden has stepped up his anti-Trump media campaign. But how does he then explain his new press secretary’s tweets of just a couple of years ago calling the election in Georgia a fraudulent result?
Luigi Ciccarelli, Gaeta Italy In a previously unopened letter, my brother discovered that our grandfather was born and raised in Gaeta Italy, a seaside town not far north of Naples. We had always assumed he was, like our Grandmother, from Caserta, closer to Naples but to the northeast. In 1969, my brother and his wife took a year off following university to travel through Europe. While voyaging, they had their incoming mail continuously forwarded to an American Express office. At the end of their trip, they returned to Canada, and months later a letter arrived return-to-sender to our dad who… Read more »
Old age and motherhood are blessings from God
A shout-out to mothers today on Mother’s Day.
The older we get the more we understand, appreciate, and love our mothers and partners who bore our children.
Happy Mother’s Day, Grandmother’s Day, and Great Grandmother’s Day!
FB message from a friend:
The 5-star Hotel Saratoga blast killed and injured many
Cuba is in mourning. In a split second, a large number of men, women, and children were killed or injured. Apparently, a gas tanker parked outside this beautiful hotel in Old Havana ignited, causing the explosion that demolished the building.
I know the hotel well. Pat and I were living in Havana for 18 months over a two-year period as I took an extended break after encountering health problems about 5 or 6 years ago. A remarkable culture. A remarkably evil administration.
Covid-19 testing is not perfect As you may know, our son is a care provider who is required to have a daily rapid antigen test before starting work. The test is easy, but the 15-minute wait before receiving the result is a necessary burden. Several days ago, he was feeling lousy. He said his breathing was labored and he felt like someone was pressing a hand over his nose and mouth. So he informed the tester, who later said his test showed negative. The next day, he also did not feel well, and again he was surprised that the test… Read more »
There is a reason why US politics is so divided When Pres. Biden announced the appointment of the new White House press secretary, I saw only the name Karene Jean-Pierre. I looked at Pat, and said, “I’ll bet you any money she’s Haitian.” Then I googled the name and saw that she’s a lot more than Haitian. https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/karine-jean-pierre-to-be-next-white-house-press-secretary-1.5890637 I will of course be criticized for saying this but one might hope that the announced WH press secretary would have been a typical American, and by that, I mean white, heterosexual, male or female who is not a controversial activist. Somebody,… Read more »
His handlers have become more brazen as it has become more evident that he is compromised. The sophomoric and short-sighted actions across every level of policy do more to devolve us into a tribalistic, marxist/engels dystopia.
I can live with differences of opinion as long as we maintain a constitutional republic where the rule of law is sacrosanct. The recent focus on Roe vs. Wade is a distraction from inflation, the economy, and the Ukraine war (which is not going well, according to my sources).
Almost all of what we see and hear is of the death and destruction of Russian forces. So, I don’t think many of us truly know how the war in Ukraine is going. Because of the stakes involved, the public relations exercise on both sides has reached new high levels. There is clearly an entertainment aspect to all media, and most media take it to extremes as clickbait, but occasionally saner heads prevail. Recently there was a story on Twitter about a mine strapped by Russian soldiers between a Ukrainian baby and the dead mother. The story thoroughly sickened the… Read more »
Please, everybody, don’t misunderstand my opinions in my earlier blog. 1. I believe the new press secretary is qualified and is as deserving of the job as Jen Psaki or Kayleigh McEnany. 2. I hope for the country’s sake Jean-Pierre does an even better job than her predecessors. 3. My point was stated as a centrist who believes that Biden was throwing raw meat to a hungry dog when he didn’t have to. Biden has contributed to divisive politics and now after taunting them, he will blame the other side. America is on tenterhooks and clearly did not need Biden… Read more »
A friend just posted the following on FB You’re going to Inspire some people and piss off others DO IT ANYWAYS In my life, I have always tried to understand and learn from extreme opinions. Except on economics and business matters, where I am clearly right-wing, I try to take a centrist view, not to avoid pissing off people, but because my biases are pretty much middle-of-the-road. Giving any opinion (or even doing comedy) these days is going to upset a significant minority of people, which is sadly more a reflection of a lack of interest in civil debate. But… Read more »
Btw, I hope the Dems run AOC as their presidential candidate in 2024. I think she is an amazing woman. I would love to see her take the Dem’s progressive policies into the election against the right leaning GOP. It’s time that America votes for how they want their future to be.
Of course, as long as the GOP selects a competent candidate, I think you know who I would want to win.
Do companies have the right to profit during inflation?
As long as there is no monopoly, a free market resolves the issue, so I see no problem. Prices are widely promoted through an area and price gougers will lose customers.
What I don’t agree with are politicians falsely accusing companies and governments not admitting that they too are gaining on higher sales taxes on higher prices and higher income taxes on inflated incomes.
But with politicians, sadly, it’s always the employers and wealth creators at fault. Never themselves.
While Europe may be moving away from crude purchases from Russia, it is eager to buy the same oil after it is refined in India — one of the conundrums in crimping Moscow’s energy revenues. India’s exports of diesel and other refined products to Europe, where they are in short supply, reached 219,000 barrels a day, a new high, in March, before falling back in April as demand in India surged. So far, the United States has chosen not to impose tougher sanctions that may force countries like India to stop buying Russian crude. That caution may reflect worries in… Read more »
A heartwarming moment in the Blue Jay-Yankees game
Once again, proof that Canadians are nice people.
James Vasquez is the world’s latest Rambo
I started following the exploits of James Vasquez yesterday. He is an American warrior who joined the fight in Ukraine to stop the Russian invasion. What makes him different is that he is an independent soldier, not a mercenary who was paid to join the Ukrainian army. He uses Starlink technology to provide the world with incredibly clear filming of front-line fighting. Movies will be made. Hopefully, he lives long enough to play a starring role.
I follow him daily on Twitter:
James Vasquez (@jmvasquez1974)
The clarity of Starlink realtime video from the front line in Ukraine is incredible
https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1521470248142180352/video/1
https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1521469804170862593/video/1
https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1521471118888034304/video/1
https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1521471813594849283/video/1
https://twitter.com/jmvasquez1974/status/1521472529671598080/photo/1
The reality that some Financial Advisors face
It’s not as glamorous as many people think
https://financialadvisoriq.com/c/3592044/460244/claims_jpmorgan_culture_avarice_misogyny