Ni Hao, Hola, Aloha, Shalom
USA Today cautions such words are “culturally sensitive” and their use could “come off as mockery.”
When will this nonsense stop?
10 Things That Interest or Revolt me
Biden
I could bash Biden, but what good would it do? He is a dim bulb, incompetent and corrupt. Biden has a life-long problem with lying. And that is exactly what Delaware voters wanted for 30 years. Now a majority of voters support him. Who are the real dim bulbs?
He ordered a bacon cheeseburger from a local restaurant this week to celebrate over 10 million new small business applications during him presidency. Yeah, Right.
I thought Obama was bad, we went downhill from him to Trump. And now we have a doddering old fool. Are we in the basement yet?
One the locations classified docs were found is being called his Think Tank. Get it?
2024 Already
“DeSantis currently matches or beats Trump head to head in many national polls, Trumpworld predicts the Florida governor will fizzle as former Vice President Mike Pence, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Tim Scott (R-SC), former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, and others jump into the race.”
“The die-hard MAGA supporters won’t vote for anyone but Trump. Everyone else who gets in dilutes support for DeSantis”.
Same thing that happened in 2016. Trump rolled over all competition.
While my number one choice remains to draft Mike Rowe so we can have Opera and Barbershop in the WH, DeSantis seems a decent choice. If not him, then Pompeo, a man most have never heard. Or better Tom Cotton.
Ukraine
Some pin stripes at State have advanced the argument that the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO was justification for Putin to invade Ukraine. I reject that argument. I am not aware of any NATO member being a threat to Russia.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -An ally of President Vladimir Putin warned NATO on Thursday that a defeat of Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war, while the head of the Russian Orthodox Church said the world would end if the West tried to destroy Russia.
Reverse Aging
To test the theory in mammals, the team genetically engineered a mouse strain that, when given a particular drug, makes an enzyme that cuts their DNA at 20 sites in the genome, which are then faithfully repaired. The mice ended up with an epigenetic signature more like that of older animals, and their health deteriorated. Within weeks, they lost hair and pigment; within months, they showed multiple signs of frailty and tissue aging.
To see whether the epigenetic degradation was reversible, the researchers injected some of these elderly seeming mice with AAVs carrying OSK genes, which Sinclair’s group recently reported could reverse loss of vision in aging rodents. Analyses of the mice’s muscles, kidneys, and retinas suggest the cocktail reversed some of the epigenetic changes induced by the DNA breaks. The findings point to a way to drive an animal’s age “forwards and backwards at will,” Sinclair says, and support the idea of epigenome-targeting treatments for aging in humans.
I Have Chemo Brain
I have been taking a drug [It’s labeled toxic in red letters] for Leukemia for four months. I have noticed my memory is fading faster than usual. Bacall diagnosed me this week. I told someone a humorous story about a friend from our distant past last week. This week Bacall mentioned his name and I drew a blank. I asked her several questions before I was able to know who the person was. Chemo brain.
Our Age of Absurdity – Are You Tired of the Daily Yammer from Queers?
A Trans Lutheran Pastor Says Trans People Are Divine and Transphobia Is A Sin. I say they are delusional. Imaging you are the opposite sex is fine with me, but shut the fuck up about it.
There are trans dudes who are freezing tomato juice to help them mimic period symptoms. Jeffrey Marsh has become the latest man to reveal he has been paid to advertise tampons (believed to be Tampax).
This ridiculous charade is alike that there’s no gambling at Rick’s.
It’s Not Even Mardi Gras
A Minnesota state House member who is in her 2nd term is claiming that “not all students who menstruate are female”.
Inflation
Look how the blue lines at the right of the graph are twice as long s prior years. If you increase spending at this rate, you create excess demand and you get inflation. When you put on the brakes by increasing the interest rate you get a recession. Hold tight.
What to do? You might want to cut spending to minimize inflation. You look at the budget and see that 70% of it is mandatory. Only 30% is discretionary and 14% of that is military which is underfunded due to wearing out hardware in 20 years of war, abandoning equipment in Afghanistan (estimated at 85 billion) , and supplying arms to Ukraine.
Whatta you gonna do?
Extinct animals could be brought back from the dead
Victorian Times
Who blew up Nord Stream 2?
Al Gore is doing quite well
Warning the world that it is on the brink of disaster has been lucrative for Al Gore.
His wild prediction at Davos that Earth faces ‘rain bombs’ and ‘boiling oceans’ is just his latest in decades of climate alarmism.
At the same time, the former VP has been at the forefront of green technology investment that has seen his wealth balloon to an estimated $330 million.
The mission statement of the investment firm, where Gore collects $2 million in a monthly salary, is to back companies that are making strides towards going green. The firm is worth around $36 billion.
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51% overall agree – 68% of Republicans agree
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