Daily quote:
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
– Benjamin Franklin
Everybody will raise the prices on everything and blame tariffs.
From Mark Cuban - It’s not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables ...Dang when this particular blog goes down for a couple of hours, it’s like I feel like I need an emergency backup blog. But finding a blog host that has Comments is difficult. Bugs me.
Today’s quote:
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
– Benjamin Franklin
Are we there yet? Has Trump’s Liberation Day happened yet?
Test 2. Ignore
Testing publishing. Please ignore.
Trump has a couple of minions trying to calculate the cost of taking over Greenland.
He needs to also calculate the rest of his bucket list of follies:
- Cost of taking over Canada.
- Panama Canal costs.
- Cost of war with China
- Cost of tariffs
- Cost of undoing Musk/DOGE screw ups.
- Trade war with EU.
- Costs because our NATO allies won’t buy US arms.
I like it when billionaires like Elon Musk, waste millions of their dollars and get zero in return.
Markdown is in the house. Markdown and the slow fade of the formatting fetish
I knew it was popular with blogs, I didn’t know it was infiltrating word processor formats.
Today’s quote:
English is not a language. It is three languages in a trench coat that stalks other languages into back alleys knocks them unconscious and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar.
– Anon.
DOGE announces all US Gov’t websites will now show commercial advertising, to “make them pay for themselves.” Also, billboards in national parks and painted advertising on government buildings and national monuments will be available.
The former US Dept. of Education building in Muskington DC is going to be given to Russia to open the new Putin University.
Weird dream last night that I remember fragments of. I was a student at university living in a dorm but the dorm, uni and everything were sort of out of a French New Wave film. Unfortunately, no Anna Karina.
Today’s quote:
Never vacation in a place where you are in the middle of the food chain.
Anon.
Myanmar earthquake: China and India have sent aid. US has sent no aid because Trump destroyed USAid the agency that would normally respond.
Somehow you don’t see this in the news much.
I’m still of the opinion Trump gets his orders from Putin. So when Trump makes a big complaint about Russia, it’s all theater, that is staged.
Things were starting to look too comfy between Trump and Putin so some drama had to be spun.
Daily quote:
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
– Ambrose Bierce
Before Monday night, send:
A list of five things you love about Tesla cars to HR if you want to keep your job.
No Empathy,
Elon Mush Tippy Top Leader of DOGE unless there is blame.
Daily quote:
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
– Ambrose Bierce
Tesla's are a Protected Class
Tesla cars are now a protected class. Or maybe it’s Tesla Corp? Maybe both. Anyway, Trump either has made or is th...No news on Luigi recently.
In nice friendly letters: Trump’s tariffs on Canadian lumber could result in toilet paper shortages in the U.S.
INCOMING TOILET PAPER SHORTAGES Klaxon sounds
If you think the egg supply problem is bad now, wait until Easter. Trump knows it and is sweating it out.
Headline: Musk threatens to sic the government on people ‘pushing’ Tesla ‘propaganda’ | The Verge
Elon Musk says he’s “going to go after” Tesla critics
Sounds like he’s starting to crack under the pressure. Keep going.