Category: Stranger than Fiction
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Torn
As I chirp this, on Monday morning, the Dow Jones has gone down another few hundred points. It is trying to recover from an opening where it was down about 1000. It will most likely be wildly swinging up and down all day and most likely closing down again. Last Thursday, and Friday the total…
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Trump Seals The Deal
Have you heard of Heard Island? Probably no one has except for maybe some Australians, until yesterday. It is an island way down south of Australia, meaning, just a bit north of the Antarctic. Well, Heard Island was one of the territories hit by Trump’s tariffs, yesterday. Thing is, the only inhabitants of this territory…
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Day To Remember
Donald Trump should’ve done his tariff announcement on April 1 instead of April 2. It would have been much more appropriate for him to do this on April Fools’ Day. The first day, let me rephrase that, the first morning after the Dow is down 1200 points and plummeting downwards. The above chart shows that…
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War
The Oxford, dictionary defiance war as follows, “a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.” Economic war has been defined as follows, “an economic strategy used by belligerent states with the goal of weakening the economy of other states.” Note the term belligerent. Donald Trump fired the…
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Revulsion
Was out for a walk on Friday when I got a call from good friend of mine. He asked me are you seeing this on TV? Fortunately, I was not, but I was prepared when I got home, and I turned on the highlights, or rather the low lights My parents, who went through Nazism…
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Measles Death
A child died, of measles, in Texas, this week. This is the first measles death, in the US, since 2015. Currently, Texas is going through its largest measles outbreak in 30 years. Right now, in West Texas, there are 124 cases of measles reported. Most of these if not all of these are for those…
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Boycott America
If my parents were alive today, they would say that they have seen this before that they have experienced this before. They went through the horrors of World War II. As the war ended, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met, in Yalta. The two western leaders essentially so without eastern Europe, including Poland to the tyranny…
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History Repeat
Back in August 1939, Germany and Russia secretly signed a non-aggression pact. A few days later, on the morning of September 1, Adolf Hitler went on German radio and claimed that Poland had attacked Germany. Germany subsequently invaded Poland and World War II began. Six years and 80 million lives later the war ended. Imagine…
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Why Not
A friend of mine posted this on her Facebook page yesterday and I decided to post it here today. Since we are into renaming places these days, I thought this was very appropriate. There could be other names such as and not limited to; Snowflake, Trumpistan, Putinland, Russerica, s#%#hole etc. You get the picture. I…