Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Arizona is in the process of removing around 50,000 noncitizens from their voter rolls after a lawsuit. Really curious how many of those people voted in previous elections and how they may have effected the results... Reportedly now the European Union as a whole is open to sitting down to the negotiating table to discuss fair tariffs and trade practices. Think this started by Italy and others and the EU was afraid of being left behind… Hard to believe but next year marks the 250th birthday of the US. I remember when the nation celebrated it's 200th in 1976. I feel old... Watched the Kill Tony show on Netflix and it wasn’t good (and I wanted to like it). If you wanted to go ahead and skip it I understand and you may be saving yourself 2 hours… Periodic reminder to pay no attention to political polls. The fundraisers have all the incentive in the world to portray things as close and that only your donation can close (or widen) the gap... Learn something new every day: El Salvador under President Bukele is rated Level 1 by the US State Department (meaning exercise normal cation) whereas the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands are all rated Level 2 (exercise increased caution due to terrorism and civil unrest). The tourism commercial writes itself... Funny because it could be true… Serious question but if Amazon is shown to be selling knockoff Chinese goods advertised as their American counterpoints - could all Amazon sales be hit with the same tariff levels being placed on China? This would be devastating to Amazon... Worth noting that many of the articles you see written include posts on X of video proving the storyline. In the past all these used to be YouTube clips. Feels like the torch has been passed... Think they'll be a book written about how China grew it's economy on unfair tariffs, trade practices, and IP thefts. It would be this generation's version of John F. Kennedy's book Why England Slept... Reminder that Tuesday is named after the Norse god Tyr - the god of war and justice. That’s lesser known. More commonly people remember that Wednesday is named for Oden, Thursday for Thor, and Friday for Freya (Odin’s wife). The other days are named for the Roman gods of Saturn, the Sun, and the Moon…

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