Have an excellent weekend. See you bright and early Monday morning.
Friday, August 30, 2024
Guess Who
“You take a look at bacon and some of these products, and some people don’t eat bacon anymore, and, uh, we are going to get the energy prices down, when we get energy down, you know this was caused by their horrible energy, wind, they want wind all over the place, but when it doesn’t blow we have a little problem.” - August 30th 2024
War
The convoy had been delivering medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati-run hospital in Rafah, Palestine Country Director Sandra Rasheed said in the statement to The Washington Post, and its route was coordinated with the Israel Defense Forces.
MSNBC - 'Disgusting Pig' - Trump Resorts To Lewd Smears As Campaign Panic Sets In
With emphasis on the term, disgusting pig.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 6:53 a.m. ET DOW futures are +55, S&P futures are +17.75, and NASDAQ futures are +111.75. The market is poised to open significantly higher. Source
Thursday, August 29, 2024
'Epic 80's Vol 3'
Covers by The Hindley Street Country Club
Most cover bands do their own versions of songs. They play the basic bones of a song and generally that is enough to please audiences and dancers. These guys aim to recreate the original, and they are quite good at it. There are a few basic players, the bassist and drummer AKA the rhythm section, and they rotate in and out various other musicians to finish the sound that closes in on the original. It's quite an operation.
War
“The weaponry that we are providing to Ukraine has to have full use, and the restrictions have to be lifted in order for the Ukrainians to be able to target the places where Russia is bombing them. Otherwise, the weaponry is useless,” Borrell said.
War
The Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday that Mohamed Jaber, also known as Abu Shuja’a, was one of five militants Israeli forces killed inside a mosque in Tulkarm after “exchanges of fire.”
Indictment
Gift article available to everyone.
“Despite having lost, the Defendant — who was also the incumbent President — was determined to remain in power.” It refers to Trump as “a candidate and citizen” and to his Jan. 6, 2021, rally as a “privately-funded, privately-organized political rally.”
Sacred
Federal law prohibits election-related activities at military cemeteries, and Arlington is the most prestigious and sacred of all.
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 6:14 a.m. ET DOW futures are +194, S&P futures are +16, and NASDAQ futures are +77.5. The market is poised to open significantly higher. Source
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Debate
If she wants to put Trump away, she’ll need to demonstrate that the warmth and optimism voters heard in her acceptance speech wasn’t simply the work of good speechwriters and set designers.
'KISS'
Dea Matrona - the band is definitely evolving and it sounds like they've got some pro-producers.
Disgraceful
...Trump campaign staff pushed and verbally attacked a cemetery official who tried to stop them from taking photos and video in an area of the cemetery called Section 60, where many U.S. service members who died in recent conflicts are buried.
Slashing Homelessness In Oregon
It's not rocket science, we can end homelessness.
Good News Network: 5,000 Are Now Sleeping with Roof Over Their Head Thanks to Oregon Task Force Slashing Homelessness By Andy Corbley
Methane
Let's say Trump somehow dumps Vance and replaces him with Kennedy, then, these two, the craziest duo in American history goes on to win the presidency. Even after all that, this story right here would be worse, and is more disastrous.
Larry David - Opinion
Gift article available to everyone.
Washington Post: Opinion - Larry David: My post-birth abortion - A Trumpian fantasy brought to life. By Larry David
War
At least nine Palestinians have been killed since midnight, the Health Ministry in Ramallah said. Seven were taken to a hospital in Tubas and two to a hospital in Jenin, it said.
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 6:41 a.m. ET DOW futures are +12, S&P futures are +3, and NASDAQ futures are +13.75. The market is poised to open slightly higher. Source
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
No Comment
One image is from Trump's new NFT trading card collection, the other is real life Trump.
Can you tell which is which?
EEE In New Hampshire
Hold onto your hats. If I had to wager a guess, and it's just a guess based on reading, it's coming to New York.
Cases of EEE are circulating in neighboring states, including Massachusetts and Vermont. Some Massachusetts communities have closed parks after dusk, restricted outdoor activities and rescheduled public events.
Foreign
Washington Post: Opinion - Harris foreign policy is rooted in pro-democracy internationalism Just ask former secretary of defense Leon Panetta. By Jennifer Rubin
Panetta made clear up front that Harris is a committed internationalist. “Our warriors need a tough, coolheaded commander in chief to defend our democracy from tyrants and terrorists,” he declared. “We need Kamala Harris behind the Resolute Desk.”
Revive
Smith wrote that Cannon ignored decades of precedent when she issued her stunning decision to toss out the entire indictment, in which she said Smith was wrongfully appointed and wielded too much power for someone who was not in a Senate-confirmed position.
The Market On Tuesday
Good morning. At 6:18 a.m. ET DOW futures are -9, S&P futures are +3, and NASDAQ futures are +35.5. The market is poised to open mixed. Source
Monday, August 26, 2024
Grows
Washington Post: Harris’s lead grows in The Post’s polling average By Lenny Bronner , Luis Melgar, Diane Napolitano and Kati Perry
Vice President Kamala Harris continues to improve her position against Donald Trump nationally, where she now leads by two percentage points.
Trump Policy Initiatives
Here's Trump at a recent rally. This the kind of important policy initiatives his followers are hearing about.
Trump: “I was sort of like a hot guy. I was hot as a pistol. I think I was hotter than I am now and I became president. Okay. I don't know. I said to somebody, was I hotter before or hotter now? I don't know.”
War
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a video of Russian soldiers surrendering en masse like that,” said Dara Massicot, a senior fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Comment
I realized the other day that the tendency by many people to believe whatever they read on the internet without any type of further proof, be it something another person writes, a comment, just plain old deception, has primed people for Trump. Trump now openly and wildly exaggerates practically everything, and it is accepted by his followers without question. They are primed to accept it without question. This doesn't change in America either. There are no civic courses on how to authenticate what one reads. I would bet this tendency that we are witnessing gets worse and worse especially as AI comes more and more into prominence. Plus there's FOX. It's been said that a person is better informed if they watched nothing, no news at all, than watched FOX News. So we have these peddlers of extreme disinformation like Kennedy and Trump. We have to wonder, what kind of human being would deliberately do this type of disinformation. The conclusion always circles back to, well it would someone who is not well.
War
Ukraine celebrated independence from Russia on Saturday, and some form of Russian attack around the date had been widely expected, including in warnings from the U.S. Embassy.
Glaciers
“I was in disbelief,” Brosowsky said. “I was assuming global warming is starting to eat away at these glaciers little by little, [but the pace was] a lot faster than I expected.”
The Market On Monday
Good morning. At 5:56 a.m. ET DOW futures are +15, S&P futures are +9.25, and NASDAQ futures are +45.25. The market is poised to open moderately higher. Source
Friday, August 23, 2024
Suspends
Washington Post: RFK Jr. suspends campaign; court filing says he’ll endorse Trump
Kennedy plans to endorse former president Donald Trump, according to a new court filing in Pennsylvania.
Rejected
Washington Post: Opinion - America the Bachelorette The Bachelorette rejected her “Trumpian” suitor this week. Can America do the same in November? By Kate Cohen
And guess what? Last week on “The Bachelorette,” America sent Trump packing.
Vote
Michael Beschloss - "Women dressed in white while marching in DC for American women to be guaranteed the vote and gain other essential rights, 1913"
Normal Competence
“Our nation with this election has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles of the past, a chance to chart a new way forward,” Harris said.
In A Box
But as the campaign now moves to its next phase, the focus on him and how he (Trump) attempts to regain his balance will be as much or more of the story compared with how Harris navigates the road ahead.
Harris
But it did not take long before she launched into an extended attack on Trump, blasting him over his legal judgments, protectionist economic policies, his criticism of allies and his praise of dictators.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 6:25 a.m. ET DOW futures are +126, S&P futures are +27, and NASDAQ futures are +150.5. The market is poised to open significantly higher. Source
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Live - Day 4 Of The Democratic National Convention With Possible Surprise Appearnace
Scheduled to begin at 6 PM ET.
Loser
“Our primary focus is not to get out the vote,” he said. “It's to make sure they don't cheat, because we have all the votes you need. You can see at every house along the way, has signs: Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump-Vance, Trump-Vance.”
Comment
Bill Clinton did a great job on night three. Two of his most memorable lines for me were the one where he says, "Count the I's and not the lies." He's referring to Trump's selfish narcissistic nature, it's so dark. And at the same time he's also referencing all of Trump's boatload of lies. The other line that caught me was when Clinton goes on about how he is getting old and he doesn't know how many more conventions, if any, he'll attend in the future, meaning he will be dead. Then he says, "But I'm still younger than Trump." I loved that because he stuck it to Trump about being too old, the same tactic Trump used against Biden. All in all it was a lit night, the energy was off the charts. The Democrats have a shot at winning this one, what a turnaround from one month ago. It's unprecedented at least in our lifetime.
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