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Happy Pi day.

Happy birthday to Albert Einstein born on this day in 1879.

We’re serving up ten eleven skinnylichious nuggets that in theory would make Einstein proud.  It’s all relative.

  1.  Warren Buffett has famously said, “you have to wait until the tide goes out to see who is swimming naked.”
  2.  Well it looks like a couple of regional banks (no longer) were skinny dipping and we’re guessing a handful more are desperately looking for their trunks today.
  3. Not to worry, the Biden Administration jumped into action and will make everyone whole.  Actions used to have consequences.  The FDIC insurance only covers the first 250k that anyone or any entity had under one roof.  No more.  No more, that is, until yesterday.  So was it a bailout?
  4. “Investors in the banks will not be protected,” Mr. Biden said. “They knowingly took a risk, and when the risk didn’t pay off, investors lose their money. That’s how capitalism works.” So, no it wasn’t.
  5. “The Fed has basically just written insurance on interest-rate risk for the whole banking system,” said Steven Kelly, senior research associate at Yale’s program on financial stability.  “I’ll call it a bailout of the system.”  So, yes it was.
  6. “During the financial crisis, there were investors and owners of systemic large banks that were bailed out,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in an interview with “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “And the reforms that have been put in place mean that we’re not going to do that again.”  So, no it wasn’t.
  7. Who has been worse at their job?  Is it Pete Buttigieg?  Or, is it Janet Yellen?  Or…..   If you answered Joe Biden, you’d be with the 84% of Americans polled last week that do not want him to run for a second term.
  8. Yellen told us 15 months ago that this inflation was transitory.  She didn’t tell us exactly how long this transition would take, however.  Yellen is the poster senior citizen for white hair privilege.  Is her salon Hair by Einstein? Pete’s tenure as Secretary of Transportation, paternity leave aside, has been one train wreck after another.
  9. Those reforms didn’t stop Donald Trump from getting blamed for this in Biden’s opening remarks yesterday about the crisis.  When in doubt, blame Trump. “During the Obama-Biden administration, we put in place tough requirements on banks, including the Dodd-Frank Law, to make sure the crisis we saw in 2008 would not happen again.   Unfortunately, the last administration rolled back some of these requirements.”
  10. There is only so much time in a day’s work for Biden to reverse Turmp’s evil doings in the first 2 plus years of office.  This is especially true when Biden has spent nearly 40% of his time in office actually not in his office.  Official documentation shows that he has been either on vacation, at his beach house in Delaware, his main house in Delaware, or at Camp David, or biking, or skiing, or….
  11. President Biden’s former press secretary Jen Psaki said her ex-boss’s Monday morning speech on the stability of the US banking system demonstrates how important the issue is to him since he normally “does nothing at 9 a.m.”  Amen.

If you wish, go ahead and splurge with a good old slice of cherry pie to celebrate the day.

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It’s been a minute.  Time to satisfy your cravings.

  1. Yesterday FBI Director Christopher Wray told  FOX Anchor Bret Baier, “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”  Potential?  It’s already past tense, isn’t it?  Incident?  Did someone accidentally leave the front door open too long?
  2. The Energy Department said as much last week.  What does the Energy Department have to do with viruses?  We have no idea. Before you know it the big lie will complete its big reveal.   The Big Guy, aka Joe Biden, will take center stage and say, “Folks, no joke, I’m serious.  The ca ca ccoronabile virus m m emanated from Iraq, excuse me, I meant you know, Whoo Hans.”
  3. Is Fauci hiding under a rock?  He needs to be.  His day is coming.  Rand Paul lies in wait.
  4. Joe’s getting a lot of air time recently.  Monday he celebrated Black History Month in a WH speech to about 400 assembled.  Pandering to the crowd as always, he said, “I’m a white boy, but I ain’t stupid.”   Some might say that he’s approximately half right.
  5. The Supreme Court heard two cases against President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan on Tuesday.  The conservative-leaning court’s questions centered around “why isn’t Congress involved in this?”  Seems like they should be.  We have a three-branch government, not a king.  Of course, Ukraine disagrees with the prior sentence.  PS.  If your loan is a private one you get no relief.  If your loan is paid off you get no refund.  Do the right thing and get a stick in the eye.
  6. Speaking of kings, Volodymyr Zelensky admonished those in the US who oppose giving him and his country more money.  He said in effect, that either you continue to give or your sons and daughters will be shedding blood in the cause.
  7. Hopefully, the first ones to volunteer will be those that are proudly flying the Ukraine flag here daily.  We wouldn’t hold our breath on that.  We’d guess a fair number of them were also moving to Canada if Trump got elected.
  8. Speaking of queens, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago has one foot out of the door as her bid for reelection went up in flames last evening.  The burn was as bright as when Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern.  Finishing third with no one achieving 50% eliminates her from the runoff.
  9. Lightfoot garnered a paltry 16% of the vote.  Stated differently, a whopping 84% of Chicagoans voted against her.  It takes great indifference and incompetence to be that bad.  She excelled at both.
  10. The torch for the worst mayor in the US now passes to Latoya Cantrell in NOLA.  A petition to recall her has sufficient signatures.  She was just reelected, but may not get to finish her second term.  One can hope.
  11. Extra, Extra!  What do Lightfoot and Cantrell’s tenures have in common? People are moving out due to runaway overall crime, record murder numbers, and a steep decline in the number of police on the force.   Crime pays.  It cost one and soon maybe the other their jobs.  Sometimes the pendulum swings take time.

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Did you stress when you had to pay more for less at the grocery store?  That said, should you have eaten less this past holiday weekend?  If that, more or less, is correct we have help on the way below.  It’s ten complimentary fat-free nuggets.

  1. The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman plan to unveil the latest stealth aircraft called the B-21 Raider at the company’s facility in Palmdale, California, this Friday.  The estimated cost to develop, purchase and operate 100 aircraft is estimated at $203 billion, or about $2 billion per plane.  That’s a lot for something that you can’t even see.
  2. Maybe they could nickname the B-21 Raider after the latest COVID variant which is also stealth.   You can’t see it.  With no symptoms, you don’t know it hit you either.   You test negative.  And, the government is spending billions fighting it.
  3. CNN dusted off Dr. Anthony Fauci this past weekend for some air time.  Fauci, amongst other comments, highly recommended that we all test for covid before going to our family gatherings and went on to say that we are still right in the middle of this pandemic.  He must not be listening to the ultimate voice on this health crisis- Joe Biden.   Biden declared the pandemic over two months ago.
  4. We’re disappointed that CNN didn’t ask if the good doctor thought that the World Cup matches, unlike the 2020 mostly peaceful protests, might be a super spreader event.
  5. China’s showing the matches but blurring the stands to prevent its citizens from seeing that 100k fans from all over the world in four venues a day are yelling, hugging, and shouting in close contact all the while maskless.  No deception there.  As Lebron taught us we should be sensitive to other cultures that we know little about.
  6. Dr. Fauci(81), Speaker Nancy(82), and Prez Joe(80) are a combined 243 years old.  America is 246 years old.  That’s some wealth of experience leading this country.
  7. Turning to crime in Gotham City, there is a NYC bill being seriously considered by city lawmakers that would strip landlords of the ability to perform criminal background checks on prospective tenants.  The legislation is known as the “Fair Chance Housing Act.”  Mayor Eric Adams supports the bill saying no one should be denied housing because they were once engaged in the criminal justice system.  Even Batman is moving to Florida.
  8. Did you know that there is a position in your govt called the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy?  Did you know that MIT grad and “openly genderfluid” Sam Brinton holds down the post?  Did you know that 34-year-old Sam was charged with a felony last month for allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage?  At least he/she has good taste. The navy blue Vera Bradley roller bag is valued at $2400.
  9. If you wondered, gender fluidity describes the experience of changing gender identity over time. They can fluctuate between any gender at any time, such as feeling more feminine or masculine, bi-gender or agender, maverique or neutrois, and demi-gender or polygender.  Full disclosure- we took this definition directly from Wikipedia, so the information like the gender of a gender-fluid person may change at any time.
  10.  And from Cali, the WSJ  noted that under Gavin Newsom, the state saw a roughly 15 percent increase in the homeless population since 2019, despite having the most significant funding increase to fight the problem.  Throwing money to homeless people or throwing money at the homeless population isn’t the answer.  Identify and attack the root problems.

 

 

 

 

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We all need to avoid any winter weight gain.  But, never at the expense of a serving of Ten Piece Nuggets.  Digestion begins below.

  1. We aren’t here to suggest that Kari Lake’s opponent cheated.  We have zero evidence of that at this point.  We are here to suggest that Arizona just promoted incompetence to a higher level in its government. Katie Hobbs’s department counted the votes.  And, it took seven days to count votes in the year 2022.
  2. If you want to get rid of election deniers, get an election process that works in a timely or even semi-timely manner.
  3. A close friend of BBR asked, “Why are all of the counties or states that take forever to count always won by Democrats?”  One answer to that comes in the form of a question.  Why are all of the highest crime-ridden cities and counties run by Democrats?  Some might call it incompetence and indifference that creates dependence and further bloats the government.
  4. One bit of good news is that the feared invasion of those pesky Russian bots interfering in the elections must not have occurred.  Our democracy was at stake we were told.  Or, at least using that as an excuse for losing some races wasn’t needed/used in 2022 after preelection concerns were raised.
  5. An estimated 27% of eligible voters aged 18-29 turned out to vote, compared to roughly 20% of young voters who typically participated in elections in the 1990s.  Not only did Gen Z show up in force, they overwhelmingly picked Democrats, by a 28-point margin.  And this was in a midterm, not a presidential ballot election.  Why so heavy a turnout?  Our guess is that they liked the free money handout promise of student loan debt relief and didn’t like the abortion ruling that returned the decision to the state level.  Note to Republican leadership, assuming that they have any leaders, find a way to appeal to the youngsters.
  6. That public health emergency that was set to expire in January of 2023 called Covid-19 must be still with us.  President Biden declared on 60 Minutes that “the pandemic is over” nearly two months ago.  But, Friday the President extended the emergency status through at least April 2023.  Once again the winter of death for the unvaxxed must be upon us.  Follow the science we were once or twice told.
  7.  The Biden/Fetterman 2024 ticket is trending on Twitter.  What is the duo’s early working tagline, you ask?  “It’s a no-brainer!”  Too soon?
  8.  The “I told you so’s” are out and loud railing on the cryptocurrency world.  A few years back some asked, ” why would I invest in something that doesn’t exist?”  “Ponzi scheme!” was another retort.  Who knows where this journey ends, or if it does?  But, one lesson is always worth repeating.  Don’t invest in something that you know nothing about.
  9.  Turning to sports, the Washington Commanders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 32-21 on MNF last evening.  Hail to the Redskins Commanders! The Eagles’ loss ensures that for at least one more year no team will run through their entire schedule undefeated since the only team that ever did so in 1972-the Miami Dolphins.   Hail to the Dolphins!
  10. The latest FBS Playoff standings will be released tonight.  And the “what if” crowd will grow louder.  What if the LSU Tigers run the table?  What if THE Ohio St. Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines play a very close, hard-fought game and each has only one loss?  Will the committee put three SEC teams in?  As Aaron Rodgers once scolded us.  R-E-L-A-X.  These things always work their way out.  Always.

Push your chair all the way in and put your plate in the dishwasher.

 

 

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It’s been a week.  Here’s a fresh ten to chew on.

  1. The 2022 United States mid-term elections will be held on Tuesday, November 8.  And, it’s a big day.  All 435 House seats and 34 of the 100 Senate seats are on the ballot. Additionally, 36 out of 50 states will elect governors.
  2. That’s 84 days or 12 weeks from today.  America will decide if it likes the course it is on, or if it wants to turn back a tad or two to the red/right.  The Senate is stymied at 50/50 while the House is 220-211, with Democrats holding that slim majority.  Divided we stand.
  3. The Twitterverse is full of copycats, but kudos to whoever was the first one last week to post, “If we have zero inflation (as our president said), then why do we need the Inflation Reduction Act?”
  4.  Democrat Rep Jamie Raskin(Maryland’s 8th Congressional District) had no answer to the question.  He was asked yesterday, “What parts of the bill do you think will be put to work on lowering inflation specifically?” He hesitated, then uttered “Next question.”   Here’s a question.  Has anyone ever heard of Raskin outside of Maryland?
  5. Where’s Joe?  The “need to know basis” and “obligatory” press only understand that he is vacationing at an undisclosed location.  Not to worry, it’s well earned.  The President has had a tough run recently.  A bike fall started it.  Then he caught covid, recovered (or not), then caught covid again.  All of that is after four puncture wounds to the left arm (2 vax, 2 boosts) in the last year as well.
  6.  Former President Trump won’t be vacationing out of the country any time soon.  The FBI saw to that.  Trump said the FBI seized three of his passports during its raid on Mar-a-Lago last week, calling the unprecedented search an “assault.”  The FBI at first denied the transgression, then admitted it along with the DOJ last evening.
  7. Norah O’Donnell, host of “CBS Evening News,” suggested the Department of Justice did not have Trump’s passports, tweeting, “According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump’s passports.”  It was a hot take until it wasn’t a hot take.  Double check your sources, and always have two a wise journalism professor once said.
  8.  The Dems have a few things working in their favor as 11/8 approaches.  They’ve handed out three trillion dollars in under 21 months to continue to create dependence.  They’ve put a lot of greenbacks in the green companies’ hands so that they can give that money back to them for campaigns.  They have an abortion, er, women’s reproductive rights hailstorm.  And, for the uneducated, they can claim credit for inflation reduction in an economy that isn’t in a recession as recessions are now redefined.
  9. They need a big trump card in their hand to play the once every two-year race card though.  Surely we’ll have one bad shooting amongst the thousands weekly between now and 11/8.  Then, the peaceful protests will start anew.
  10.  There’s a race card being played in Minnesota right now.  It won’t fit the narrative though.  An agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers union and the school district states that white teachers will be laid off before teachers of color, regardless of their seniority. “Students need educators who look like them and who they can relate to,” the document says.   Crayons aside, we thought we were teaching kids to not see color.

Get back to work now.

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Quick and easy peasy today.  We’re working remotely from the deep south, Florida coast style.  But, you’re hungry and we’re here to serve.

  1. There’s “why,” but there’s “what.”  “Why” might be/likely is/is/has to be in large part politically motivated.  Would anyone deny that?  The “what” is the purported theft of classified documents?  Please.
  2. Remember when Adam Schiff had irrefutable evidence of the Trump collusion with Russia fairytale?  We’re still waiting.
  3. “And, just like that,” as Carrie Bradshaw used to say, the country split a tad bit deeper as the deep state descended on Mar-a-Lago.  Wasn’t there a better way to extract either documents or a pound of flesh?
  4. There are growing concerns Wednesday about the safety of FBI agents, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Garland following the search of Mar-a-Lago on Monday.   Judge Kavanaugh can relate.
  5. We’d like to share what California Rep Eric Swalwell said about the dastardly Republicans encouraging violence after the raid, but pond scum deserves no attention.  MSNBC disagrees.  They let him rant and whine and lie straight into the camera for 10 minutes an evening ago.
  6. Eighty-seven thousand new/additional IRS agents (greater than the capacity of the University of Oklahoma’s football stadium) are headed your way thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act which isn’t an act that will reduce inflation.  We’ll get those billionaires to pay their “fair share” now.  Although it should be noted that there are less than 750 billionaires in the US.  Doesn’t it seem like not too long ago that Kevin Brady, Republican Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee under Trump, triumphantly tell us that the tax reform act would make millions of people eligible to file their taxes so simply that it could be mailed in on the back of a postcard?
  7. Just for perspective, NYC Mayor Eric Adams is calling for federal help because he says around 4,000 migrants have arrived in NYC in the last three months since May. Texas averages 4,000 migrants crossing its border every single day, and so far, has sent less than 200 migrants to NYC.  So much for that “sanctuary city” blabber that was popular when Trump was president.
  8. The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 to extend an existing ban on homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers last evening.  Protesters claimed the initiative would further isolate and negatively impact the homeless community and disrupted the meeting.  We can negatively impact the schools but not the homeless.   Hopefully, the protests were mostly peaceful.
  9. The torrid pace of inflation slowed in July for the first time in months, but prices remained near the highest level in 40 years.  The Labor Department said Wednesday that the consumer price index rose 8.5% in July from a year ago, below the 9.1% year-over-year surge recorded in June.  Time for a Biden victory lap.  The Great Reset remains expensive.
  10. The Major League Baseball game pitting The Chicago Cubs vs Cincinnati Reds will be played tomorrow night near Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa, a site popularized by the 1989 baseball film Field of Dreams.  It will be a great escape to simpler times for a nation that needs simpler times.  If you’d like to get lost in the corn fields we understand.

Till soon.

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This morning’s Ten(11) Piece Nuggets are so tender and tasty that they can almost replace baby formula.  Almost.  We’re delivering them to your virtual door this AM because who can afford to drive anymore?

  1. Megan Rapinoe and the U.S. Women’s National Team got what they’ve been wanting for so long.  The U.S. Soccer Federation just announced both the men’s and women’s national teams will receive equal pay.   The USWNT filed a lawsuit against the USSF shortly after winning the World Cup in 2019 accusing it of engaging in “institutionalized gender discrimination” against the team.
  2. Good for them.  Maybe the WNBA, as progressive as the NBA portends to be, will be next.  Wait until men’s soccer players who don’t make the team want to try out for the women’s team as they suddenly identify as women. We’ll see what the institution does about gender discrimination then.
  3. Be careful what you wish for.  In 2017, the USWNT played an exhibition game with FC Dallas against the club’s under-15 boys team. The famed women’s team, the winner of the 2019 Women’s World Cup, was soundly defeated in a 5-2 final.
  4.  This must be viewed as progress.  We know you’ve been hearing recently about how men can get pregnant.  The Biden administration even replaced the word “mothers” with “birthing people” in the 2022 fiscal year budget.  Now if they could replace the word “deficit” in the budget with either “balanced” or “surplus,” that would be a trick as amazing as men birthing people.
  5. Earlier this week, Los Angeles became the second metro area, joining San Francisco, with the average cost for a gallon of gasoline surpassing $6.  All of the liberal elite Hollywood types that moved to Canada when Trump was elected can be thankful that a gallon of gas was only $2 back then for their move north.
  6. Forget for a moment, if you have to, who coined the phrase.   But doesn’t the slogan MAGA- Make America Great Again sound so timely and desirous right about now?
  7. “In contrast, Russian elections are rigged,” George W Bush said yesterday. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”  Bush took a page(er, chapter) out of the Biden Gaffe book.  It was a beauty.
  8. That worthless Iraqi invasion under the Bush administration cost the U.S. about a trillion dollars and too many soldiers’ lives back when a trillion dollars was a lot of money and one life was one too many.  So far Ukraine(or Russia if you prefer) has cost us a measly 75 billion.
  9. “You know, those border communities are just getting killed down in southern Texas,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Wednesday. “Biden should be given an honorary membership in the Mexican drug cartels because nobody has done more to help the cartels than Biden with his open-border policies.”  If you think DeSantis isn’t gearing up for a presidential nomination run then you probably think men can give birth.
  10. What’s the new number one cause of death in US adults aged 18-45?  Looking at their 401k statement?  No.  Traffic accidents?  Nope.  Covid-19?  Hell no.  Fentanyl overdose? Correct.  DeSantis will have many issues to run on.  This is a big one.  It’s one that still isn’t getting the attention it deserves.
  11. It’s been suggested to anyone that wants to write a book about CNN+ that they skip the first ten chapters and start with Chapter 11.  Jimmy Failla is a good follow on Twitter.

You’ve been served.

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There is no shortage of turmoil and tumult in this tempestuous nation/world that we live in.  Hence there is no shortage of “you’re kidding me” moments, actions or misdeeds to box up a Ten Piece Nuggets weekly.  Supply chain issues we have none here.

  1. Ever played Wordle?  It’s a progressive use of only five-letter words chasing the word of the day.   Ever since The New York Times bought it 90 or so days ago, BBR’s been waiting for them to either screw it up, charge for it, or put their worldly slant on it.  This morning the NYT announced that it was removing the word “fetus” in a move to keep the game “distinct from the news.”
  2. This move put the game right into the news, which is of course exactly what they wanted.  Maybe if the word fetus is removed from our minds there will be no more fetuses?
  3. Try typing in the word “slave” next time you play.  It’s not there either.  If it helped get rid of slavery that’s a plus.  Of course, it didn’t.  But we can always change, alter, rewrite, or ignore history if need be.  And, most of all the word “slave” is offensive.
  4. Honorable Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a hunch (like renowned seer Eric Swalwell) that this Roe V Wade overturn is just the start.  “To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community—the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms,” she tweeted.  And, she had more goodwill in her next.  “We will not surrender our rights without a fight—a fight to victory!”  Just rhetoric you say?  Perhaps.  Chicago has the highest murder rate in this country.  Mostly peaceful protests are sure to follow.
  5. Two quick years ago, Chuck Schumer had it with two justices specifically.   Speaking to the pro-abortion (meaning women’s wellness) activists in front of the Supreme Court building, Schumer called out Gorsuch and Kavanaugh by name, saying: “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”  Just rhetoric you say?  Perhaps. New York, where Schumer hails from has marginally less gun violence than Chicago.
  6.  Was it rhetoric that got President Trump into trouble that lead to the January 6th insurrection?  Nope, it was a dereliction of duty some say.  Actually, it was stupidity just like the two outbursts above.  Of course, with each passing week, we are learning that the “storming” of the capitol might have had deeper planted roots.  Now that would be more than rhetoric and stupidity combined.
  7. All of the above is a win for the left.  Galvanize the base on the possible decision to return the abortion debate back to the states, but make it sound like SO much more than that.  Forget that gas prices climbed to an all-time high yesterday.  What border?  Do yourself a favor and skip peeking at your 401k.
  8. Bette Midler is encouraging women and girls to take a knee the next time “The Star-Spangled Banner” is played, in apparent protest of the U.S. Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on Roe v. Wade.  While they’re kneeling could they say a prayer to ease the baby formula shortage?  Or, is that too much to ask?
  9. Meanwhile, did you know that a majority of pro-life advocates are women?  Did you know that the US is only one of seven countries on earth that allow elective abortion through all nine months of pregnancy?
  10.  The DOJ is launching a new office.  It’s the Office of Environmental Justice.  AG Merrick Garland released a statement, “Although violations of environmental laws can happen anywhere, communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution, and climate change.”  Shakedowns are in style all over again.  Better Call Saul.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                You’ve been served.

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Please seat yourself.  Labor shortages in the restaurant biz are acute.

BBR is committed to replacing all plastic straws with paper by 2030 assuming any trees are left.

  1.  We have a quick quiz to start us off.  Q- In 2012 who said, “Life begins at conception?”  A- Joe Biden, VP.
  2. The FBI is starting an investigation into the SCOTUS leak source.  It took a dozen agents two weeks to figure out the rope in Rusty Wallace’s garage was a door opener.  BBR’s guess on the conclusion date of their Supreme Court deep dive is 11/9, or 24 hours after the midterm vote.
  3. There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that O.J. Simpson pledged a cool million to help find the leaker.
  4.  We got from “you must socially distance, wear at least one mask, stay home, and get vaxxed four times” to “don’t tell me what to do with my body” quicker than Russia could gain control in Ukraine.
  5.  And just like that everyone 2 weeks ago who was not a biologist is now a biologist.
  6. The honorable Congressman from Cali, Eric Swalwell tweeted last evening, ” The Republicans won’t stop with banning abortion.  They want to ban interracial marriage. Do you want to save that?  Well, then you should probably vote.”  He really did.  Justice Clarence Thomas is holding on line two.
  7. Do any of the fine citizens of the great states of California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Hawaii realize that the possible(probable) overturn of Roe V. Wade will have zero effect on the ability to abort in their state?  As fast as Florida, Texas, Alabama, and South Dakota ban it or limit it, the above-mentioned states will pass legislation to protect it. The SC ruling would only return the decision-making to the states.
  8. Bernie Sanders knows what to do.  “Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes,” he tweeted.  So he wants to pass a law changing a centuries-old filibuster law to pass a law that the SC said should be a state’s choice.   Why not?  Bernie “Smooth” Sanders.
  9. While more than six in 10 registered voters continue to believe the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade, the latest Fox News poll also finds over half favor banning abortions after 15 weeks.  Conflicted we are.  A state-by-state breakdown, if Roe v. Wade gets tossed, would be interesting.
  10. All 22 Trump-endorsed candidates for office in yesterday’s Ohio and Indiana won their primaries.  RINO’s will be as scarce as lanterns and pitchforks this fall.  Mitch McConnell, are you listening?

You’ve been served.

 

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Easy question.  What’s better than getting your week started with a healthy serving of Ten Piece Nuggets?

Easy Answer.  Nothing, just like the content of Kamala Harris’ responses to questions asked of her.

  1.  Today is the last day to file your 2021 tax return.  It’s 4/18 this year, not 4/15, because Friday was Emancipation Day (a legal holiday in the District of Columbia) and the IRS observed it.  If you haven’t yet be sure you do file today as every country in the world other than the United States is relying on the money.
  2.  Speaking of money, why is everyone more worried about how Elon Musk is spending his money than how the US government spends our money?
  3.  We forgot.   Nandy Pelosi lectured to us that government overspending isn’t inflationary.  So, no worries.  Joe Biden did as well, but may not remember doing so.  Thankfully, Build Back Better is on the very backburner now.  Hopefully, he forgets about that, too!
  4. Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post in 2016 for $250 million. Some of the paper’s columnists have vocally opposed Musk’s efforts. The left-leaning media outlet published a column from former CEO of Reddit Ellen K. Pao headlined, “Elon Musk’s vision of ‘free speech’ will be bad for Twitter.”  You can’t make this stuff up and sound this ignorant.  We now have visions of free speech.
  5. Do you know what Title 42 is?  On March 20, 2020, at the outset of the COVID-19 public health emergency, President Trump previewed a measure to curb “mass uncontrolled cross-border movement.”  That day, then CDC Director Robert Redfield invoked a World War II-era public health law to authorize U.S. border officials to promptly deport migrants. The law, found in Title 42 of the U.S. code, grants the government the “power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property” to stop a contagious disease from spreading in the U.S.  Now you do.
  6. To stop the contagious disease in Canada you must have had two Covid 19 vaccine doses at least 14 days prior to entering the country.  The Boston Red Sox have a series there starting next week and Manager Alex Cora said that they will be without multiple unvaccinated players.
  7. On April 1, now CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced her agency would stop authorizing Title 42 on May 23, saying the expulsions of migrants are no longer necessary to protect public health.  Here comes the next huge illegal wave.  Even a Democratic candidate for the Texas Governorship opposes the move.  “It does not make sense to end this until there is a real plan and the capacity in place to handle those and address those that come over,” Beto O’Rourke said.
  8. Beto is fence-sitting a bit, but still, he at least wants a plan.  This administration has a plan.  The plan is to flood America with immigrants legal or not.  Texas has had it.  Bus no. 4 loaded last week and hit DC yesterday.  Oh, and Beto has no shot(pun intended) in Texas.  His opposition to guns is the deal-breaker.
  9. You can finally rest easy if you’re a pregnant man. Put your feet up like your female counterparts have done for centuries. Apple’s iOS 15.4 update, rolling out to all models of the iPhone since late March, recognizes you with an emoji of a pregnant man.  There is also a gender-neutral “person with crown” to go alongside the king and queen ones.  All are available in five skin colors, too.  So, to recap you can now be a pregnant male or a gender-neutral crowned person regardless of your skin tone. Inclusive indeed.
  10. Special Counsel John Durham is a deal maker.  He’s now giving immunity to up to five key witnesses in the Clinton campaign investigation of false Russian collusion in the 2016 election and prosecution of its lawyer Michael Sussmann.  Sussmann will wind up as roadkill for the Clintons.  There is a trail of it from Arkansas to DC and back and the stench covers decades.  Will the investigation result in more carnage?

You’ve been served.