Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Thursday, December 25, 2025

A Christmas of silver and gold

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  ... Spot gold was down 0.4% at $4,468.96 per ounce, after marking a record high ‌of $4,525.18 ‌earlier in the session. ... Silver prices h...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Fed Chair Jerome Powell approval at 44%, much higher than Trump's at 36%, in latest Gallup Poll

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 Gallup, here .  
Monday, December 22, 2025

Gold and silver smash nominal price records to start Christmas week 2025: Gold to $4,426.66 and silver to $69.44

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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Congress has authorized no such expenditure by the president and they've already left town for the Christmas holiday

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  Trump announces ‘warrior dividend’ of $1,776 to every U.S. soldier in primetime speech   ... “And the checks are already in the mail,” he ...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Imagine sitting in the dark to save on electricity when you make $115k

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 Reported here : ... The effort to keep up with higher prices feels relentless to Teri Kopp, who lives in Southbury, Conn., and works as a...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Jim Lovell was the greatest of Americans

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    This is a fabulous tribute to the man who kept his head while all others were losing theirs.  Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Because the BBB is a GOP Christmas tree of policy-change goodies masquerading as a reconciliation bill

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This was taken down pretty early this morning by the suck-ups at Real Clear Politics. I guess the bosses come in a little later than the hel...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The White House's Stephen Miller attacks libertarians for opposing the reconciliation bill's immigration enforcement spending

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 ... the White House deputy chief of staff — and chief architect of Trump’s immigration agenda — is taking a sledgehammer to what remains of...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Pete Hegseth reportedly has had episodes of drinking to the point of passing out

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    I get the drinking too much until you barf. I mean, that's pretty much been Freshman Life 101 forever and a day. Pete was a freshman...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

It's the National Day of Mourning for Jimmy Carter

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 Please keep it down or you'll wake the baby.  
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Ho Ho Ho

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Friday, March 29, 2024

Insurance companies got rich because of Obamacare rules, now electric utilities are poised to get rich because of Biden climate rules

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  Utilities are shutting down "dirty" capacity without adequately replacing it. The law of supply and demand means only one thing:...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Foreign affairs specialist says Christmas is a feminist holiday lol

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            Walter Russell Mead, here : Jesus is unique, and women are free and equal in God’s sight. That is what we should take away from ...
Friday, December 1, 2023

Christmas means it's time for someone to find more evidence of Chicom slave labor in a garment

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 Reported here .
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Recent inflation optimism ignores that gasoline is up 11.8% in the thirty days since Christmas

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Monday, January 16, 2023

Third Monday of January is the most depressing day of the year

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The term Blue Monday was coined by psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall, who worked out a formula to show how the third Monday in January is especia...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

I watched Die Hard on Christmas Eve

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 It was much dumber than I remember, but then so was I back in the day. It turns out that Roger Ebert's review here captured what's...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

There was nothing wrong with the coal or natural gas plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority: It was one-off wind damage and too many far-flung customers dependent on its electricity for heat

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  Cold weather pushed up electricity use in TVA's seven-state region where more than 60% of homes are heated by electricity. ... TVA Chi...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Tennessee has had plenty of much colder temperatures than this Christmas and never had to turn off the power before, but that was before they went insane

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  What we know: TVA ordered rolling blackouts for the first time in 90 years amid freezing temps Tennessee Valley Authority retired 3,370 MW...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Christmas Eve: At least 1.7 million without power in USA

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