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These are the same kind of folks who think Republicans are inflicting spending cuts if government spending on anything isn’t going up as high as it used to. If only it was true! Calvin Coolidge was the last president who actually reduced the size of the federal government by cutting spending. Even Ronald Reagan couldn’t do that much, despite the other good things he accomplished.

Only a few years ago, before liberals went loony over transgenders, laws against genital mutilation for minors would have made sense to just about everybody. Sure, a lot of teenagers have questions about their upcoming role as a man or woman, but the vast majority of them get over it by the time they grow up, and accept the gender God gave them.

In the old days, people did not want to serve in the Royal Navy because the food was terrible and discipline was brutal. Therefore to fill all crew positions, extreme measures were used, like grabbing drunks and putting them aboard ships before they could wake up and find out they were Shanghaied. When they stopped American ships and forced members of their crews to serve on British ships, it led to the War of 1812. If this business with pronouns continues, the Royal Navy may bring back the old-time kidnapping.

I hope this isn’t the Sumatran coffee made from the droppings of civet cats.

According to another FR thread, all Biden did was wander around aimlessly, like he has done other times before. This time, it seemed like he didn’t know why he was there.

There is no rule that says a presidential candidate has to pick anyone for VP. In 1840, President Martin Van Buren dumped his vice president, Richard Johnson, after it was learned that Johnson had children with his slaves, and then broke up with his slave mistress by selling her at an auction. Afterwards, the Democrats could not find a suitable replacement for Johnson, so for the 1840 election, Van Buren ran alone.

I thought Joe Cool was an alias for Snoopy, in the classic comic strip “Peanuts.” Perhaps the estate of Charles Schultz should sue.

The article called Fetterman “the senator from Transylvania.” False! Transylvania is the old name for Kentucky, before it became a state in 1792. In fact, there is a college near me that still carries the name, Transylvania University.

Wow, even Democrats are calling on Menendez to resign. So they do have a sense of shame after all?

I have lived through the administrations of thirteen presidents, starting with Eisenhower. Over the years, I assumed most of them were smarter than me, even if they were liberals; they knew how to get elected to the highest office in the land, anyway. Now Biden is the first commander in chief that I am sure is dumber. Even before he got old he was the gift that kept on giving, when it came to gaffes.

I started working on Episode #129 of the podcast in the middle of August, but was interrupted in early September by illness. Now I have recovered enough to finish the episode, so here it is. This time we visit Sumba, an island in eastern Indonesia that you probably haven’t heard of, because it is really remote and not visited much, compared with the other islands. Listen and enjoy!

https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/118846640/episode-129-sumba-the-forgotten-island/

So Martha’s Vineyard is like Walt Disney World, when they raise prices to reduce the number of people who can afford to go there.

Imagine if that had been the case in 1602, when the English first tried to establish a colony on the island. A few months ago I listened to a podcast about that.

I just got one of the Johnson & Johnson shots, on April 1, 2021, and that’s no April Fool joke.

They should have said this is the first mountaintop “meteor” crater ever found. I remember when it was common to refer to a volcano’s caldera as a “crater.”

Why is this news? Didn’t we all know that many people are inconsistent with whatever diet they are following? And then come the parties and holidays, with their special food temptations. Today is Rosh Hashanah, for instance, a Jewish holiday that calls for eating apples with honey.

This variant happened to me. During the last week of August, I caught what I thought was just another cold. But I felt so bad that I went to my doctor’s office, and when the nurses found my heart was racing out of control, they immediately called an ambulance. Thus, I spent the next five days in the hospital, and was told at the beginning of my stay that I had COVID. I am 64 years old, and for the first time in my life, I was seriously ill. Now I am on the road to recovery.

This is better than what happened to Burma in 1989, when the ruling junta changed the country’s name to Myanmar, and just about every place in it (except for Mandalay) got a new, Burmese-language name.

I have met at least one liberal who disputed every presidential election the Republicans won, all the way back to 1860.

What’s the big deal about a monkey in Orange City? Years ago, some monkeys were introduced to the town of Ocala, for a Tarzan movie being filmed at Silver Springs. This monkey is probably a descendant of them.

It’s probably stranger to see twenty feral chickens roaming around, behind the Popeye’s in Oviedo (another town not too far from Orange City and Ocala), without knowing how much danger they could be in. My guess is that once upon a time, somebody in the Popeye’s burned a batch of biscuits and threw it to the chickens outside, and since then the chickens have been coming back for more.

Nothing here should surprise anybody. In 2004 I heard that Alice Cooper was both a conservative Republican and a Christian. He continues to wear the make-up because it is part of his act.