Little by little even the crazed, anti-science, pro-lockdown states are coming out of it, as I noted not too long ago.
New Jersey just increased capacity allowances for restaurants, gyms, and casinos. Andrew Cuomo just announced that weddings can now have up to 150 attendees.
Of course, the populations that these governors have panicked incessantly for nearly a year aren’t going to come back to rationality anytime soon, so they’re all wondering: why won’t our governors keep us safe anymore? Pathetic.
I remember thinking to myself that the most important issue of the 2020 election was this:
The blue states that destroyed themselves with so-called “science” that had zero support in the Western literature and instead came right out of the practice of the Communist Party of China cannot be bailed out. They must be made to feel the pain of their atrocities.
Why should sensible states have to pay for the insane policies and atrocious results of the ruin-everyone’s-lives states?
Just today, Chris Coons, the junior U.S. Senator from Delaware, emerged from a meeting with Joe Biden and said with regard to COVID relief, “Speaking for myself, if there is zero for state and local aid I think that’s a non-starter.”
This is what must be resisted at all costs, even though it’s hard to see how it can be blocked at this point.
These governments have to suffer.
They have to lose their tax base. They have to be viewed as places where nobody in his right mind would want to live.
Even the Karens screaming about your mask being below your nose take vacations in Florida, so on some level even they recognize how anti-human their home states are.
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No comments on Fiscal responsibility vs. COVID
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The number one single on both sides of the Atlantic today in 1965:
The number one British album today in 1967 was “The Monkees”:
The number one single on both sides of the Atlantic today in 1978:
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Today in 1959, a few hours after their concert at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson got on a Beechcraft Bonanza in Mason City, Iowa, to fly to Fargo, N.D., for a concert in Moorhead, Minn.
The trio, along with Dion and the Belmonts, were part of the Winter Dance Party Tour, a 24-city tour over three weeks, with its ridiculously scheduled tour dates connected by bus.
Said bus, whose heater broke early in the tour, froze in below-zero temperatures two nights earlier between the scheduled concert in the Duluth, Minn., National Guard Armory, and the next scheduled location, the Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay.
Holly’s drummer had to be hospitalized with frostbite in his feet, and Valens also became ill. The tour got to Green Bay, but its scheduled concert in Appleton that evening was canceled.
After the concert in Clear Lake, Holly decided to rent an airplane. Holly’s bass player, Waylon Jennings, gave his seat to the Big Bopper because he was sick, and Valens won a coin flip with Holly’s guitarist, Tommy Allsup. Dion DiMucci chose not to take a seat because the $36 cost equaled his parents’ monthly rent.
As he was leaving, Holly told Jennings, “I hope your ol’ bus freezes up,” to which Jennings replied, “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes!”
Shortly after the 12:55 a.m. takeoff, the plane crashed, instantly killing Holly, Valens, the Big Bopper and the pilot.
The scheduled concert that evening went on, with organizers recruiting a 15-year-old, Robert Velline, and his band the Shadows. Bobby Vee went on to have a good career. So did a teenager in the audience, Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., who became known a few years later as Bob Dylan.
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The number one single today in 1968:
The number one single today in 1973:
The number one album today in 1979 was the Blues Brothers’ “Briefcase Full of Blues”:
Birthdays begin with one of Dion’s Belmonts, Angelo D’Aleo:
Dennis Edwards of the Temptations:
Eric Haydock played bass for the Hollies:
Dave Davies of the Kinks:
Two-hit wonder Melanie Safka:
Tony Butler played bass for Big Country:
Lol Tolhurst played keyboards for the Cure:
Who is Richie Kotzen? You know him as Mr. Big, whose career really wasn’t, having one hit:
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First, to continue a decades-long tradition: It’s a great day for groundhogs. Unless they see their shadow and predict six more weeks of winter, in which case they should be turned into ground groundhog.
(Back when I had radio ambitions, I came up with the idea of having a live remote from Sun Prairie where Jimmy the Groundhog would see his shadow and predict six more weeks of winter, then return to the station, only to dramatically go back to Sun Prairie to breathlessly report that someone assassinated Jimmy the Groundhog. It would work with Punxsutawney Phil too.)
Today in 1959, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all appeared at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.
That would be their final concert appearance because of what happened after the concert.
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Today in 1949, RCA released the first 45-rpm record.
The seven-inch size of the 45, compared with the bigger 78, allowed the development of jukeboxes.
The number one single today in 1964:
The number one single today in 1969:
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The number one British single today in 1963:
The number one single today in 1970:
The number one British single today in 1976 replaced a single that had the title of the new number one in its lyrics:
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Today in 1917, the first jazz record was recorded:
The number one British single today in 1959:
The number one single today in 1961 was the first number one for a girl group:
Today in 1969, the Beatles held their last concert, on the roof of their Apple Records building:
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Michael Smith:
I didn’t pay much attention to the GameStop situation [Wednesday] – but oh, baby, after taking some time this morning to look, this was a massive takedown of huge hedge funds guys by a small army of internet day traders – regular folks. The hedge funds had decided to drive GameStop into the dirt and kill it while taking profits along the way and a few determined souls put a stop to it.
I was ready to mock CNN’s Chris Cillizza because he twisted the story to make it all about Trump – I think it may be a law that CNN can’t do a report without mentioning Trump in a negative way, but after reflection, he was sort of right for all the wrong reasons.
The GameStop thing has MAGA written all over it. Small, independent investors with little more than their own wits battling with hedge fund giants with banks and banks of computers and massive amounts of data – and borrowing power…and the little guys put the hedge guys in a several billion dollar hole.
Then the big guys went whining to their buddies in the government and had trading shut down.
It’s a story of the individual against the establishment.
Like I said, it has MAGA written all over it.Then Smith wrote:
I have no problem with short sellers – in theory – the problem here is that it seems the powerful short selling hedge funds got caught in a naked shorting pinch (a naked short is the practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist) and when the price started rising, they got their tits in a wringer and panicked.
Naked shorting is illegal, and it seems clear when 140% of the GameStop stock was shorted (expected to go down), some of that just might have been going on.
But it’s not about what is legal or illegal, or who made money, lost money or participated in this process, it’s about the massive hedge funds having the ability to pressure those who manage and control the exchanges to change the rules to their benefit in the middle of the game.
Imagine a college basketball game between Gonzaga, the current #1 team in the nation, and Screw U, a tiny private university that doesn’t even have scholarships. Now let’s say we are deep in the second half and Screw U is miraculously up by 40 points because they are shooting 80% from the field and throwing up nothing but 3 pointers.
With 5 minutes left, Gonzaga calls time out and confers with the refs and after the time out, the refs head over to to the Screw U bench and tell the coaches and players that Gonzaga will be allowed to keep playing, every bucket the Zag players make (no matter from where) now will count for 3 points; however, only 2 points will be awarded to Gonzaga – BUT 1 point will be DEDUCTED from Screw U’s total score for each bucket the Zags make. And to top it off, the Screw U players can’t go back on to the court until 30 seconds remain in the game.
That is the best description I can think of for how I perceive the GameStop situation has played out.
The big hedge funds were losing billions and they received favorable treatment from those who “manage” the markets that an individual investor would never get. We can talk about triggers and circuit breakers all we want but the fact is it certainly appears the stop in trading was done solely to allow the hedge funds time to stop the bleeding and cover their bets.
Of course, since this happened during the Biden administration, me bringing this up is probably misinformation, a danger to democracy and I’ll be put on a list with QAnon conspiracy theorist domestic terrorists.
Let’s not kid ourselves – the Democrats will try to spin this as wealthy Republican Wall Streeters once again taking advantage of the little guy – but the fact is, these hedge funds have become big Democrat donors.
Tom Steyer, who ran for the Dem nomination last round, made his fortune running a hedge fund. Janet Yellin, as Jen Psaki would remind us – our first woman Secretary of the Treasury, has made over $7 million in “speaking fees” from Wall Street, and Citadel, one of the largest hedge funds paid her a little over $800,000 of that.
This is just an example of the necessity of the MAGA movement created by President DJT and why it isn’t going away any time soon. Trump’s 4 years heightened America’s awareness of Swamp Dwellers trying to put one over on the little guy. People have wised up and are paying attention now, thanks to President Trump continually being proven right by the actions of Democrats, the corporate media and the Tech Oligarchy.
This biblical level David vs. Goliath stuff – and that is what MAGA is all about.Then read this (bad language and all), posted by Will Flanders …
… who adds:
If it’s true that the White House pressured Robinhood to stop allowing GameStop purchases—interfering with the free market—he should have to answer to the millions of Americans who lost a potential mortgage payment, rent, or car payment to benefit Wall Street fat cats.
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Today in 1942 premiered what now is the second longest running program in the history of radio — the BBC’s “Desert Island Discs”:
What’s the longest running program in the history of radio? The Grand Ole Opry.
Today in 1968, the Doors appeared at the Pussy Cat a Go Go in Las Vegas. After the show, Jim Morrison pretended to light up a marijuana cigarette outside. The resulting fight with a security guard concluded with Morrison’s arrest for vagancy, public drunkenness, and failure to possess identification.
The number one British single today in 1969 was its only British number one:
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Michael Smith:
I’m sure most of you have heard of “Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy”.
Munchausen syndrome is named for Baron Frieherr von Munchausen, an 18th-century German cavalry officer. The baron was known for wildly exaggerating his life experiences. He became famous after a collection of his tales was published.
I didn’t realize it, but that syndrome is now known as “factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA)”. The formerly named Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) is a mental illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring for has a physical or mental illness when the person (often a child or an infirm person) is not really sick.
Often the caretaker will do things to the subject to make them physically ill – or appear to be. The caretaker craves the attention created by caring for the sick person and feeds on the praise heaped upon the caretaker for being so noble to sacrifice in care for the sick.
I think this explains, to a large extent, the media’s insanely absurd reaction to Joe Biden despite the obvious issues with the declining cognitive ability of the man, on top of a half century career of failure.
I can’t help but remember what Obama’s former Defense Secretary, Robert Gates said about Biden:
“He’s a man of integrity, incapable of hiding what he really thinks, and one of those rare people you know you could turn to for help in a personal crisis. Still, I think he’s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
So what makes the media experience a mass orgasm at the mention of a Biden presidency?
Let’s call it “Obama Syndrome by Proxy” – a mental illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she supports is brilliant and/or successful as they believe Obama was, when that person is neither in reality.
Biden was touched by their god – the divine philosopher-king Barry Soetoro. Biden spent 8 years sitting at the right hand of the Lightbringer and as such, is a direct connection with the god-king and those halcyon times.
They are not worshiping Biden, they are worshiping Obama. Biden is merely Obama’s proxy. The media creates the constructs where Biden is alleged to be successful in order to gain attention for Obama.
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