Ten Piece Nuggets-Random

Posted on December 6, 2021 by thependulumswings staff

Ten days removed from the Thanksgiving holiday, we offer the Ten Nuggets deep-fried. They’re deep with thought and might fry your mind.

The Cuomo brothers hit the unemployment line within weeks of one another and deservedly so. They have a right to unemployment benefits, and apparently, they’re taking the Grate (on you) State of New York up on the opportunity per CNN. They’ll need 24 feet to socially distance while in line. First one brother, then six feet back is his ego, then the other brother and six feet back is his ego.
CNN did a two-segment, 15-minute dive into what went wrong with Chris Cuomo and his waning days at CNN on Sunday. It’s a self-aggrandizing network covering its self-aggrandizing show host’s downfall. Serial lier. And, now comes another sexual misconduct complaint claim against him. You’ve heard of like father, like son? This one is like brother, like brother. Our staff member that covered it is out 15 minutes of his life that he can’t get back.
Jussie Smollett and Ghislaine Maxwell are on trial for two very different crimes. Both are quite guilty and will be found so. Smollett’s fake attack/bungled plan is laughable. It was his worst acting job and he’s had a few. And, it’s quite sad that he attempted to further divide a city and country with fake race allegations. He’ll probably get a couple of years probation. He should be made to pay back the city of Chicago every dime that they spent investigating this trash.
Maxwell’s case has nothing funny about it. You have to feel sad for the numerous young victims. Kudos to four of them for having the courage to testify. Adults taking advantage of the young is the lowest of the low. She’ll get to serve some hard time that Jeffery Epstein was too much of a coward to face.
Speaking with the Washington Times last week, Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dismissed the recent smash and grab allegations of “organized retail theft” as a hoax with not much evidence to back it up. “National retail groups last month estimated the annual losses to being in the tens of billions of dollars,” reported the AP. “Respectfully, the Congresswoman has no idea what she is talking about. Both the data and stack of video evidence makes fairly clear that this is a growing problem in need of solutions,” said Jason Brewer, Retail Industry Leaders Association Senior VP. In 2020 she was reelected with nearly 72% of the votes cast in the 14th district of the still Grate State of New York. Let that sink in.
You heard it here first. Omicron will be the catalyst to turn the United States back into people who think rationally about the never-ending covid quagmire. The hysteria has peaked and alternatives are beginning to emerge. There’s way more to this than to line up like sheep and get a jab and think that’s the answer. More coming this week.
In the sports world, four is the number. The NCAA playoff committee seeded Alabama, Michigan, Georgia, and Cincinnatti one through four, for a chance to win it all. With all of the yearly fuss about who could and should get in, the results from the season and conference championship games usually work their way out. Georgia is a surprisingly high eight-point favorite over Michigan, while Alabama opened as a 14 point choice over Cincinnati in the semi-finals.
Since 2014 Nick Saban has led his Crimson Tide onto the playing field as an underdog a mere three times! In each of these contests Bama won the game by 17 points or more. Saban owns Kirby Smart too. He’s 4- 0 vs. his former assistant. Smart called Saturday’s 41-24 beatdown a “wake-up call.”
Four is the number of losses that all four division leaders in the AFC have as the season reaches the 2/3rds mark. This makes for some interesting games down the stretch starting tonight when Buffalo (7-4) tries to take the East Division lead back from New England(8-4).
In the NFC North and South, the Packers and Bucs lead their divisions by a whopping four games already. In the West, the Cardinals lead by two over the four-loss Rams who figure prominently in the wild card at a minimum. In the East, the Cowboys have four losses and lead the division. They play the suddenly hot Washington Football Team twice in the next three weeks. A sweep would put the Pokes four games up.

Get back to work now.

Serious Problem Solved

Posted on January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 by thependulumswings staff

Four days into the Joe Biden presidency and we can already feel what true leadership looks and feels like. Gone are the petty arguments this same time four years ago that were being played out by the Trump team v. the media over how many people attended his Inauguration Parade.

“We’ve got serious problems, and we need serious people,” said President Andrew Shepard in the movie The American President. He went on castigating his reelection opponent Bob Rumson, “This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.” There.

So some serious people have been weighing in on a serious problem in the last few days. The serious problem is Covid-19.

It got serious in March of 2020. By mid-October of 2020, Biden had seen enough. He tweeted, “We’re eight months into this pandemic and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan to get this virus under control. I do.”

Amongst other jewels on his platform, he promised 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days in office! Bold goal aiming for 1 million injections a day don’t you say?

His advisers advised the press that this would be a tall hill to climb but they would do everything they could to make it happen. How tall? His senior advisor Cedric Richmond spoke to CNN’s Pamela Brown on air about the Covid vaccine distribution. “The sad part is the last administration didn’t leave anything. They didn’t leave a plan.”

The funny or not so funny thing about that is America has been averaging almost that for the last 15 or so days before Biden took his oath under heavy security. It might be over a million a day if California, ranked dead last in the US in percent of vaccines administered versus shipped, could roll up more sleeves.

Now, this conflicts with another Biden tweet this past week. @JoeBiden: “There is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” Say it ain’t so, Joe? What happened to your plan?

But for some, if you follow the science, apparently the situation is getting better after nearly ten months of stay at home orders.

One believer is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer(D). She announced that her state would allow restaurants and bars to reopen for indoor service at 25% capacity starting early next week. She stated, “The science around this is settled, and if we all wear masks and wash our hands while social distancing, we will be in a strong position in a few weeks. And then we’ll even be able to do more.” Groundbreaking really.

Did she learn this while attending Biden’s inauguration while not socially distancing? Sounds like her husband can go clean his boat safely now, too.

Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser(D) found the science news refreshing as well. She announced an identical plan to Whitmer’s on the same day. The mad scientist, she is.

Both are timely, though both are a full week behind New York(D) Governor Andrew Cuomo’s pronouncement a week ago. He brilliantly blabbed that New York can’t go on like this any longer. “We must reopen,” he said. The plan floated there is to use rapid testing administered at hundreds of government locations. Of course, it is. Rapid testing has been available for about six months. Let the government help you.

So, either we have a plan or don’t. Either we reopen or not. And, we need more vaccines that we don’t administer. And then, there is our new leader who said there’s nothing we can do about the trajectory.

No wonder we need the government’s help to solve this. Surely they’ll follow the science to get us there. And, just in time we might add.

Ten Piece Nuggets-Only in America

Posted on May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 by thependulumswings staff

You’re returning to work. Your appetite is naturally increasing. We’re here to help. Our supply chain, unlike Wendy’s, never runs short. We’re here to serve. Nuggets follow.

Jailed Dallas hair salon owner Shelley Luther is free at last. One day after a judge sentenced her to 7 days in jail and 7k out of her pocket, sanity got in the way of insanity. The Texas AG, followed by the governor, quickly acted. They both suggested that there were better ways to handle a business owner solely interested in reopening. It was a bad look for the state to say the least. Maybe a quick trip to the beauty salon will help.
A Texas judicial watchdog group previously had labeled the judge as “left-leaning.” And, supposedly, people in the system have heard him say that he likes to be extra tough on people with “conservative principles.” Remember, justice is blind. In this instance, it was indeed, unfortunately, blind.
Consider the terrible irony that is a result of an overzealous government wielding it’s power from the start of the Coronavirus till now in this situation. We let criminals out of taxpayer-funded penal institutions for fear that the virus would spread like wildfire inside. We told people when they could and could not work. We told them who was essential and who wasn’t. A salon owner wanted to work, pay her employees, and stop taking money from our government. In fact, they would resume paying those same taxes. When she went in seven days early (tomorrow salons may reopen in Texas) she was arrested, jailed, fined, and sentenced. She was put in the very same place (jail) that we let criminals out early to reduce the virus’ transmission thereby increasing the chance of transmission to her, her employees, her customers, and her loved ones. Only in America.
We mentioned yesterday that a good thing happened during this bad thing. A GoFundMe page to help out Ms. Luther was created. We even speculated that it would zoom (sorry) to over 100k by nightfall yesterday. It did. It did by an additional 400k. The tally as of late last evening was nearly 500k. Only in America.
Meanwhile, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo rejected the idea of waving the state income tax levied on workers who voluntarily answered the call and flocked in from out of state to help during the worst of the worst times. The good governor said that he would like to do a lot of good things but his state was facing a 13 billion dollar budget deficit. He added that he could do some of those things if the federal government would give him some money. It sounds like he is asking for a handout, not a hand up.
New York was ill-equipped at the state level as were most. It had a few ventilators. It had a few masks. It has more than a few citizens. The federal government retro built the Javits Center into a temporary hospital. It docked one of it’s two floating hospitals in Manhatten. It retrofitted the ship to handle Coronavirus patients only at the request of Cuomo. And, now, if it gives NY some money it would be helpful. And, the national media is handing out plaudits for how “presidential” Cuomo looks, sounds, and acts as governor. Hmm. You mean they are thinking Joe Biden doesn’t? Only in America.
Does any state put any money or supplies away for a rainy day? Too few. Does any citizen? Too few. If this economic watershed moment doesn’t teach the public and private sector to live below its means, what will?
The rise in the suicide rate caused by lockdowns in Australia is predicted to exceed deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus by a factor of ten, the Australian reported Thursday. You should reread that sentence. Australia fears a 50% rise in suicides this year and predicts that the increased rate could linger for years from the fallout of the lockdown. Let’s hope their models are as inaccurate as the spike, curve, mortality rate, and infection rate models have been so far.
The Washington Post is running a series of articles about POTUS’s decision to get quotes to paint the border wall. Cost estimates range from $500 million to over $2 billion (if two coats of powder coat are applied). Trump wants to paint it black. Why? It would make scaling it in the summer months significantly harder as black absorbs the sun’s heat making the “The Wall” quite hot to the touch. Only in America if you can get here.
The Post is outraged at the cost. Wait until they see the infrastructure proposal tab. Nevermind that we just appropriated over $3 trillion to assuage the historic economic hardship and fallout from this enemy that we cannot see. There are too many government initiatives that hand out too much money. What’s another $500 million to paint a wall? Planned Parenthood gets $500 million a year and then some. Would it be better if the wall was called “Planned Immigration?”

Get back to work when we tell you. Only in America.