Friday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

NATO members agreed to raise their military contributions to 5% of GDP. The cynic in me wonders if this is just a way for the US (and maybe Israel or homegrown national military industries) to sell more hardware... Robert Reich is mad at billionaires. Perhaps because they all seem much taller than he is? Is he also upset with the average 6th grader too?... Good point by Mike Benz. RFK Jr. just froze all taxpayer funding for Bill Gates' GAVI vaccines. Gates is evil... Perhaps a hidden detail in the Axiom mission to deliver astronauts from India, Poland, and Hungary to the International Space Station is the fact that the vehicle was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket... The Trump DOJ is reportedly suing Minnesota and Tim Walz for providing discounted tuition for illegal aliens blatantly against the federal law. This may be in part to keep Tim Walz in the news because you just know he'll say or do something stupid... Why California is so against voter ID's and purging the voter rolls... Growing up I remember the headline Gerald Ford to NYC - Drop Dead. I can foresee the same type of headline coming from Donald Trump today. NYC may think they are too big to let fail but I venture that they're making their bed and will have to sleep in it... He's not wrong... Senator John Fetterman says NYC electing a socialist candidate for mayor is "like Christmas in July" for the Republicans. I too had the same response (but I too had a brain injury)... Even CNN has to admit the stock market is near record highs... There's no way NYC could elect someone worse than Bill de Blasio. NYC Democrats, "Hold my beer"...

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