Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Net tons through the Suez Canal in 2025 came to 0.52 billion vs. 1.41 billion in 2022, down 63%

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 Trump's 7-week Operation Rough Rider against the Houthis was a total, and expensive , failure, compounding Biden's. The pirates and...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

Trump captures Maduro on the sixth anniversary of his Soleimani assassination lol

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  ... Explosions were reported in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, at about 2 a.m. local time (0600 GMT), according to images circulating o...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel's opening riposte is so old it goes back to at least 1577 in the mouth of Luis de León, whose followers established The School of Salamanca

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   Unamuno was removed from his two university chairs by the dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1924, over the protests of other Sp...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

This is risible propaganda posing as news from The Hill, which is the same Nexstar which pulled Kimmel's show

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Is DePauw University also a subsidiary of Nexstar? And how much was this guy paid to write this?  Kimmel's Ratings in Steep Decline, ABC...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

I don't trust either of these guys as far as I can throw them

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  In 2016 J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were both conventional NeverTrumpers, and had not been particularly religious. Hegseth was for Marco ...
Monday, November 18, 2024

For a man who promotes himself as a Christian, SECDEF nominee Pete Hegseth sure has A LOT of VERY RECENT sooty baggage involving consensual sexual encounters dotting his timeline

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Trump defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth denies sexual assault allegation, acknowledges payment to accuser “In 2023, Hegseth paid the compl...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Who's going to tell them?

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 Another messaging train wreck. Milwaukee last had a Republican mayor in 1908. It ranks 25th for overall crime out of the 100 most populous...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Trump and Harris agreeing on ending the filibuster rule reminds me of McCain and Obama agreeing on something inadvisable in 2008

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  They both interrupted their campaigns to vote for TARP on October 1, 2008, which became law on Friday, October 3, but did nothing to stop...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Can you spot the year when your home became just another commodity?

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_Relief_Act_of_1997
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Before becoming publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune just over a year ago, Steve Grove worked for . . . Tim Walz!

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  In April 2023, Steve Grove became the new publisher as Michael Klingensmith stepped down. Grove was the head of the Minnesota Department o...
Friday, August 9, 2024

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are a threat to the First Amendment

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  Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) may have been a social studies teacher, but he would have failed Constitutional Law 101, especially the part about th...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Border Czar Kamala Harris

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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Wikipedia insists Kamala Harris' father Donald Harris isn't a Marxist, based on a New York Times article which says no such thing

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Wikipedia here (at least right now lol):     Harris's economic philosophy was critical of mainstream economics and questioned orthodox...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Jonathan Turley: This moment did not occur in a vacuum, it occurred in a time when our leaders long abandoned reason for rage

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  President Biden has stoked this rage rhetoric. In 2022, Biden held his controversial speech before Independence Hall where he denounced ...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Greek historian Victor Davis Hanson, born in 1953, flips his lid, laughably blames every single problem in America today on the Baby Boomers in a wildly insane rant, my favorite being . . .

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   . . . the Baby Boomers destroyed the southern border . . .. Here . Immigration policy in the United States was forever radically altered ...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Vanguard's long term Treasury fund, started in 1986, set a new all time low price record yesterday: What a coincidence

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  VUSTX fell to $7.37 yesterday, October 19, 2023. Until the bond debacle of 2022, the lowest price ever was set way back in 1987, also on O...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Abraham Lincoln started The War Between The States while under the influence of blue-mass, which gave him mercury poisoning and made him really angry

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He took the pills for depression before the war, and didn't quit them until approximately June of 1865.   Wikipedia, here , so it must b...
Monday, June 26, 2023

OPEC expects global oil demand to rise to 110 million barrels per day by 2045

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 Reported here . 2022 global production averaged 80.6 million barrels per day on one accounting. OPEC must think the 2022 figure closer to ...
Monday, March 13, 2023

You remember the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, right?

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 Chickens . . . comin' home . . . to roost!   Studies have found the Dodd–Frank Act has improved financial stability . . .   lol  
Monday, January 16, 2023

Fats Domino would just like to say that Monday's been a mess since at least 1956

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  . . . popularized in a recording by   Fats Domino   in 1956, also on Imperial (catalog # 5417), on which the songwriting credit was shared...