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We remember Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
4/25/2026 12:30:00 AM

      The great Ella Fitzgerald was born on this day in 1917.   She is known to many as "The First Lady of Song", a well deserved title in my opinion.Ella had lots of problems as a young woman.  She was an orphan by 15 and had trouble with the law.    Eventually, she left that and became a very successful performer.P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page. 

We remember Lew Krausse (1943-2021)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
4/24/2026 10:13:00 PM

      We say happy birthday to Lew Krausse, who was born on this day in 1943.   He died February 2021. Krausse came up with the Kansas City A's in 1961 and won 38 games between 1966-69.   Frankly, he pitched for some very bad teams. Back in 1970, The Seattle Pilots moved to Milwaukee just in time to start the season.   They barely had time to change "Pilots" for "Brewers" on their uniforms. It was Lew who started that first game against the Angels.   The home team lost 12-0 but baseball was back in Milwaukee. In 1970, he went 13-18 pitching for a second year expansion team.   He was eventually traded to Boston, St Louis and finished in Atlanta. Great trivia question:   Who[...]

The MGB Is Gone, But Not Forgotten

K T Cat
4/20/2026 6:22:58 PM

In our yard, we have low voltage lighting. Three of the lights don't work any more after only 2-3 years. I dug up the first one and found that it was tied in to the main power line with a cheap dagger connector. It's the kind that clamps on to the power cable and puts a narrow, conductive dagger through the insulation to make the connection. Water, such as it is here in the SoCal desert of San Diego, had rusted that conductive dagger to the point of dissolving.Enter my experience rewiring the MGB. I pulled out my crimp connectors and heat-shrink tubing and voila or should I say, "there you go*" and the lights were working again.    My heat shrink tubing was too narrow for the multi-wire end of the connectors so in[...]

They're Just Looting The State

K T Cat
4/19/2026 9:17:45 AM

Two more data points describing the looting of California.  IT'S OFFICIAL: HHS Sec. RFK Jr. and the Trump admin SHUT DOWN nearly 500 hospice providers for fraud in LA alone......and NOT A SINGLE ONE asked for the funds to be reinstated.Because they are FRAUDSTERS. And invented addresses."They were going and giving people in poor pic.twitter.com/BorWZ17veL Eric Daugherty (EricLDaugh) April 18, 2026     California Dems just passed the "Stop Nick Shirley Act."Instead of uncovering Waste, Fraud & Abuse Dems want to fine the journalists uncovering it by Silencing the PressTheJusticeDept, this is against the constitution and needs an injunction pic.twitter.com/3RUGoHM4UI C-Reason (CreasonJana) April 19, 2026[...]

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

India Denies Ship Made Crypto Payments to Iran for Strait of Hormuz Passage 

Leslie Eastman

After the Sanmar Herald was recently fired upon, a maritime risk management firm issued warnings about scammers pretending to represent Iranian government officials.The post India Denies Ship Made Crypto Payments to Iran for Strait of Hormuz Passage first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

DOT Pulls $73M From New York Over Failure to Revoke Thousands of Questionable CDLs 

Leslie Eastman

Prior to that move, Duffy threatened towithdraw $73 millionfrom New York after an investigation found that 53% of those with commercial drivers licenses (CDLs) were issued illegally.The post DOT Pulls $73M From New York Over Failure to Revoke Thousands of Questionable CDLs first appeared on Legal Insurrection.