Sunday, March 23, 2025
Beer..
Game over..
Bill Maher about the Democratic Party:
"I mean, this looks like game over. And the reason why people are voting with their feet is a lot of what your book is about: taxes and regulation," Maher said. "I've certainly been screaming about it forever.
I did three years with a sign here that said, 'How long is it gonna take me to get my solar hooked up?' Three years. Talking about it on television in this state, you couldn't do
We're taxed more than any other state. People are leaving these kind of states for places where they [don't] feel the heavy breath of government on them….
It's not that hard for Democrats to understand this, but they don't. They seem to be incapable of doing anything about it.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
No Logic .
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has acknowledged his military is in a difficult position in Kursk and that he expects continued attacks from Russia as it attempts to push the remaining Ukrainian forces out of the region.
Russia's retaking of the Kursk region removes a potential bargaining chip for Ukraine just as U.S. President Donald Trump undertakes talks to end the war with Russia, which holds around a fifth of Ukraine's national lands.
Ukraine's retreat from the Kursk city of Sudzha, confirmed by Kyiv on March 16, prompted questions and deepened the public divide in Ukraine on the benefits of the incursion. Just a thought.
Fraud..
Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of the Government Accountability Office also told a House oversight subcommittee that the government was defrauded of $233 billion to $521 billion per year between 2018 and 2022.
Social welfare programs and pandemic emergency programs have proven especially prone to errors and abuses. Medicare , the health insurance program for senior citizens, racked up $54.3 billion in improper payments last year. Medicaid, the healthcare program for low-income people, improperly dispensed $31.1 billion.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Cause..
“Household and business inflation expectations have reached very high levels, and they could rise further if the Russian invasion of Ukraine causes energy prices to spike or disrupts supply chains,” wrote Goldman Sachs in a note Monday warning of higher and more persistent inflation than previously forecast.
On that knowledge, the Biden administration Placed restrictions and sanctions on the Russian energy of oil and Natural gas, in addition of cancelling the Nord Stream 2, a new pipeline ready to transfer natural gas from Russia to Europe for reduced prices.
The trucking industry itself has been facing challenges for years, mostly due to a shortage of drivers. The higher fuel costs will be passed on by trucking companies in the form of fuel surcharges. So all businesses will have to pay higher transportation costs. With already high inflation, they are likely to pass along those costs to consumers.
Billions..
Then and Now..
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday agreed on steps toward a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine and struck a narrow ceasefire that is set to take effect at once.“We agreed to an immediate Ceasefire on all Energy and Infrastructure,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post after his call with Putin, which lasted at least 90 minutes.
That agreement came “with an understanding that we will be working quickly to have a Complete Ceasefire and, ultimately, an END to this very horrible War between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump wrote.
President Joe Biden, the Leader of the free world's decided to transfer U.S. cluster munitions to Ukraine which will exacerbate a humanitarian crisis and break with a widely followed international norm. The move encourages the proliferation of weapons that have been banned by over 120 countries because they endanger civilians both during strikes and for months, years, and even decades afterward.
Cluster munitions disperse dozens or hundreds of smaller submunitions, or bomblets, across a broad area, the size of a city block. Each of these submunitions shatters into metal fragments that can tear off limbs and inflict fatal wounds. They cause civilian casualties at the time of attack because they cannot discriminate between soldiers and civilians. In addition, many do not explode on impact, lingering like landmines and posing an ongoing threat to the local population.
Cheer....
Friday, March 14, 2025
Depression..
The data showed that increasing physical activity and lowering sedentary time was helpful for conditions such as dementia and depression, and that isn’t a big surprise. Some studies have shown that exercise is as effective against depression as medications.
To understand why exercise may be so helpful, it’s important to note that some researchers are starting to think of depression as not just one condition, but a collection of subtypes with different causes.
About 25% to 30% of people with major depressive disorder may fall under the immunometabolism subtype, which is characterized by inflammation and altered metabolic function.
Exercise may help to regulate the metabolic function and lower the inflammation behind this subtype of depression.
“That could be an effective way to treat patients with this particular subtype,” Researcher indicated.
Sorry..
Since taking office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump has paused U.S. military aid to Ukraine as well as intelligence-sharing with Kyiv.
He has accused Zelenskiy of not being serious about reaching a peace agreement with Russia, which invaded Ukraine three years ago and has seized about 20% of its territory.
Comment:
Why did Biden's Administration provided weapons of destruction, cluster bombs, that Human rights opposed it due to it's impacts on civilians years after the war ends.
Why providing hundred of billions of dollars and share intelligence with the Ukraine's.?
No wonder Zelensky is not welling to end the war as he thinks the US and Europe are behind him. Just a thought.