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A few days ago, I happened to come across an article which stated that a Congressman from Oklahoma by the name of Kevin Hern, just happened to work on the Congressional Health Subcommittee and just happened to dump his entire state of United Healthcare (UNH) which amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here’s a photo of him; looks like an innocent enough chap, right?
The POTUS has evidently stopped talking, and here were a few highlights, along with remarks by me:
*TRUMP: US INFLATION HAS BEEN DEFEATED – It’s lower, to be sure, but what people seem to miss is that the increased prices just……..stay high. It’s not like it reverts back to five years ago.
*TRUMP: STOCK MARKET DIP ‘PEANUTS’, STOCK MARKET WILL DOUBLE – Uh-huh.
*TRUMP: SIGNED ORDER BANNING INSTITUTIONAL HOME BUYERS – A rare time I support him, although I’m certain this is just mid-term pandering. Still: hurrah.
*TRUMP REITERATES ATTACK ON WINDMILLS – At least he’s addressing the really big issues.
*TRUMP: TREMENDOUS RESPECT FOR PEOPLE OF GREENLAND, DENMARK – Again: uh-huh.
*TRUMP: NATO, EUROPE DOESN’T APPRECIATE WORK THAT THE US DOES – He sounds like me talking to free Slope accounts.
*TRUMP: NOW I’M ASKING FOR A PIECE OF ICE, A VERY SMALL ASK – So can someone get the United States by pointing out they just want a piece of dirt?
This is a long one. But enough about me. To lay the foundation for this post, allow me to state a couple of strong beliefs that I possess. Please keep your hands and feet inside your vehicle at all times as we move through these thoughts. Here we go.
The first is that I believe people are, on the whole, born and not made. That is to say, nature constitutes a person’s personality much more than nurture. A one-hour old baby is almost identical to the same human eighty years later, except that he’s acquired a bunch of real-world knowledge along the way (plus has gone through a million different versions of his body along the way).
For example, I’m a dog person. I was born that way. It wasn’t because, unlike my own children, I was surrounded by dogs from birth (N.B. the first word out of my children’s mouths wasn’t ma-ma or da-da, but dog; I have a special pride in that). Although I had a couple of dogs during my youth, they weren’t really “mine” and I hardly remember anything about them. However, when I reached adulthood, my first instinct, shared with my girlfriend (now wife of many decades) was we have got to get a dog. I was born that way. So was she.
(more…)My wife and I stumbled upon the television series Tehran about a week ago, and we’ve been obsessively watching it ever since. It’s great stuff! Of course, Iran is very much in the news these days, and while Americuhns certainly has strong opinions about the country, they’re not so swift when it comes to the most basic information like, I dunno, where it’s even located (hint: not in the middle of the Indian Ocean).
Of all the bootlickers, none licks boots better than Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. This guy ran a huge bond trading firm, so I know his arithmetic is sharper than this, but take 53 seconds out of your life to watch himself twist into a pretzel to show how 700% price drop declarations are sensible:
