Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Seems like Tulsi Gabbard may be be RFK Jr.'s choice for VP to be formally announced today. This could prove very interesting as much of the new media will be leaning towards this ticket as no candidate had been through the podcast circuit like RFK Jr. while I fully expect traditional media to try and drag him through the mud. Biden/Harris could actually place third in this race. Could the Democratic Party recover from something like that?... New you can't use: Wall Street Bets advices to short Reddit's IPO stock only to see it rise 48%. Ouch!... No interest at all at reading mock drafts or fake trades prior to the NFL draft. Just get me real news or the results of the actual draft. Every year its proven time and time again that nobody knowns nothing... Also seems that Andrew Huberman is being the victim of a smear campaign and I fully support him without knowing any of the facts. Do know that he should punch back twice as hard but that's not who he is. Fully expect his fans and supporters to do that though... And there’s a lot of them. Take Denzel Washington’s Man on Fire as an example. That was a remake of the book after an unwatchable movie version bombed a decade earlier… Irony may be the fact that auto and tank designer Ferdinand Porsche was a high level Nazi in WW II and James Woods was one of the producers of of the movie Oppenheimer about America building the atomic bomb in the war. Woods is also one of the biggest advocates of classic Porsche cars in the US... You learn something new every day; today I learned that the Roman legionnaire who gave Jesus on the cross a sip of vinegar may not have been playing a cruel joke as I had been taught but offering a thirsty, suffering man a drink from his own supply. Many Romans felt vinegar was a better thirst quencher than water. Many today use lemon in water for the same reason... Used to be a white male would go to a medical school in Granada because he couldn't get into one in the US because of bad grades. Today white male students have go to med school in Grenada because he can't get into a school in the US because of DEI... The threat of a "suitcase bomb" is very real but nothing new. When that size of a atomic bomb needed to level a city was discussed before it was ever even invented multiple people said it only had to be the size of a pineapple... Louis L' Amour wrote that, "We who write fiction are not writing history, yet I do not believe that anybody has the right to alter history for the sake of a story. If nothing else, it betrays a lack of creative ability." Would be curious what he thought about Inglorious Basterds never mind Gemini AI... One of the unintended consequences of history is after Germany's failure in WW II in the Russian winter their economy had reached its limit and their uranium program was sacrificed. This allowed America to leapfrog the Nazi's in building a bomb. The rest is history...

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