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Yesterday I saw a report that gas is down to $2.09 a gallon in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, but here in Kentucky it’s going up. At my latest fill-up it was $3.09/gallon.

Remember when Joe Biden wore ashes on his forehead for Ash Wednesday, and a BBC reporter didn’t know what that was for?

Did anyone expect Biden to be good at math?

Yes, I liked the pre-Disney Orlando, too. In those days, my parents would celebrate my birthday by taking me to an alligator farm!

Speaking of orange groves, I remember that not long after Walt Disney World opened, Sixty Minutes ran a story on how it would affect Orlando. The title of the story was, “Will Mickey Mouse eat up Orange County?” Then in 2007, after I moved away, I saw an article in National Geographic about Central Florida. It reported that of all the orange trees that used to grow in the Orlando area, only 7% of them were left. Nowadays, if you want Florida citrus, you will probably have to go to Polk or Indian River Counties to get it.

I know many citrus trees are killed whenever the winter weather is too cold, and not all of them are replaced, but most of those trees were cut down by land developers, in order to build more homes and businesses. I said, “Sixty Minutes was right, Mickey Mouse DID eat up Orange County!”

I lived in Orlando for forty years (1966-2006), and of course my family visited Walt Disney World more than once during that time. Usually we visited during the slow months, when discounts were offered to Florida residents, and the crowds weren’t so bad.

But the last time I got to go was in 1996. Now I don’t think my grandchildren will ever be able to visit, because prices are so high. But it may be just as well, with Disney’s “Woke” liberalism. I wouldn’t be surprised if the current version of the Hall of Presidents has Joe Biden talking like Einstein.

I’m sure those liberals will oppose the tariffs, just because they are Trump’s idea. If he said oxygen is good for you, some liberals would stop breathing.

I’ve never been to Newark. Now I guess I never will.

That’s easy. The story is fake news because it came from Newsweek. In 2005 Newsweek pushed a story about a Koran getting flushed down a toilet at a US prison. You knew it was fake because it’s unlikely a low-flush toilet, compliant with federal regulations, could handle a Koran-sized book. Nevertheless, the story led to riots in Afghanistan & Pakistan, in which more than 100 people died. That is why Newsweek’s magazine went out of business; they have blood on their hands, and I for one have not believed anything they have reported since then.

I will be glad to see “Turban Durbin” gone. For twenty years I have questioned his patriotism.

Does this mean the Catholic Church will finally excommunicate Catholic politicians who support abortion?

At last, I am back with another episode for the podcast! So far this has been a difficult year for me. Not only has the weather been bad enough for my state to be declared a disaster area, but I lost my wife in January. For this episode, we finish our multi-episode look at the island of Timor, by covering its history in the late twentieth century. Now what place will we visit next?

https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/144969766/Episode 137: The Divided History of Timor, Part 6/

If the cold period began in 500 A.D., it was too late to bring down the Western Roman Empire. Romulus Augustulus, the last official Western Roman Emperor, was deposed in 476. By the 500s, the last people claiming to be Western emperors were gone, except for the local king of a mini-state in western Algeria. It looks like the Eastern Roman Empire WAS badly affected by the colder weather and Justinian’s plague, but I figured we all believed in that by now.

I remember how an eclipse like this in 1977 allowed us to discover that Uranus has rings. I’m surprised the article didn’t mention that.

You know it’s a slow day for news when a poll like this makes headlines.

For years I thought the issue Democrats would fight to the death for was abortion or deviant sex.

So Chuck Hagel isn’t the first RINO from Nebraska.

Nah, just deport Friedman to a state that has coal, like Wyoming or Kentucky. He’ll think he has gone beyond the pale of civilization.

How do you ruin a Palestinian’s party?

Rescue the hostages.

I must assume Matthews considers Israel an enemy, because Trump has been good to them.

Cinco de Mayo was invented in Los Angeles, not in Mexico. The only state in Mexico that celebrates the day is Puebla, where the 1863 battle it supposedly commemorates took place. For Americans, it is mainly an excuse to drink, so I don’t think the cancelled parades will be missed much.